December 12, 2018. Again, I'd like to welcome everybody, and until we get situated here, we'll go ahead and do the Pledge of Allegiance. And we're going to ask everybody to stand. Okay, so I'm going to ask everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, and the visible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. So now we're going to go to item 2.1, and Michelle is going to lead us in this. So thank you. So I get to do the honor of celebrating the three outgoing board members, and then as it's customary, we always also recognize. So first, I'm going to go in here. So I'm going to start with Willie Akito. And Willie, as many of you know, has, is a cornerstone of our community. He's been on the board for over 28 years and dedicated much time and attention. Him and his wife were significantly involved in the community, and he continues to be involved in every aspect. He is one of the only board members I know that regularly, almost on a monthly basis goes to a school site council meeting of one of his schools. And so he has, he has done a great commitment, and we are so appreciative of all the work that he has done. And so in recognition of him, then we not only have this atrarium for him, which we, for all of you, only needs to be watered once a month. So, so low maintenance and also can go in any location that he wants. So we have this in recognition of him. And I know some board members want to say a few things. And then we actually are also have a surprise from our mayor as well. And so if we're a fellow board members would like to say a few words to Willie. Hi, Willie.  You've been, you've made a very important and special difference in the lives of so many students and families here in the Pajaro Valley. I want to thank you for your many years, your 28 years of leadership on this board in times that were very, very difficult, and in times that were wonderful and great. You've overseen the building of many schools, and you were able to finish your dream of building out Pajaro Valley high. And I want to thank you very, very much. And from my heart to yours, I'm going to really miss you. I really appreciate in particular the historical feel you bring here, the historical perspective that you've always brought to our decision making. And that's going to be missed. Thank you for your service. And Willie, I wanted to thank you especially because when I, well, not for everything, but I'll never forget when I first ran for the school board. We campaigned together and you really shared, again, your historical knowledge with me and really mentored me. You're a wonderful mentor. And as Kim said, it is so appreciated when this board has had really tough decisions to make that may have consequences that we wouldn't have recognized. But you brought your history on the board and helped us, really helped a lot in us making good decisions for these students. You're going to be missed. And yes, I know many people who you taught as well, including my ex-husband. He remembers you. So thank you so much. And we're not going to lose touch. So my history with Willie goes back back to the 1989 earthquake. You may or may not know this, but my wife went in the 89 earthquake. My wife and Willie Yeharro's daughter, Joy, were in the building, the two of them together when the earthquake hit. And the first time I heard about Willie Yeharro, I was told the story how Willie came and took my wife and drove a 16-year-old girl he'd never met and drove two hours away from his family to make sure she got home safe and sound. That's integrity. That is doing the right thing. Willie, that's your life story right there. That's your life story right there. So congratulations on the next chapter. Right. So Lola, if you would like to come up to present. So bear with me. Good evening, board members. Lola Hearst here, former mayor of Watsonville. And we have Paco Estrada, the current mayor right here. If he would come up here, we'll see how he pronounces all these words. Do. I'm going to read all of this, okay? Whereas Willie Yeharro served the Power Road Valley School District community as a trustee for Area 4. That's 4, right? I'm not up to my remormon numerals all the time. Area 4 for 28 years since 1990, representing all students including his son, Jeff, and daughter, Joy, who attended PBUSD schools. Staff and families lead the board as president, led the board as president in 94, 96, 2011, and 2013. That's more times than I've been mayor. Whereas trustee Yeharro's commitment to the district began after having dedicated 12 years as a teacher and athletic coach at Watsonville High School. In 1988, he helped organize the first grad night to promote sober and safe graduation nights. Upon leaving his teaching career, Mr. Yeharro was inspired to run for the board of trustees with the purpose of improving academic achievement as well as financial stability. He supported the district through recessions. I remember that one. Bankruptcy, budget uncertainties, consistently reassuring the community that all decisions were made for the benefit of students and the ongoing operational health of the district. Whereas trustee Yeharro has been instrumental in securing community support for the addition of 15 schools since the beginning of his tenure as trustee, including Pajaro Valley High School, effectively relieving overcrowding and PBUSD schools. He was a strong supporter of Measure J in 2002 that allowed for upgrades and expansions to Watsonville and Aptos High School. And of Measure L in 2012, a $150 million bond to upgrade, repair, modernize and improve facilities and improve technology in all schools. And whereas trustee Yeharro has been a champion supporting increased graduation rates, decreased student dropout rates, effective career technical education pathways, and consistent improvement in student achievement. His commitment to students and staff has been evident through each and every negotiation session. Remaining loyal to maintaining a sustainable district budget that is reflected in his appreciation for staff and student-centered priorities. Whereas trustee Yeharro has consistently demonstrated unswerving advocacy for parental involvement, encouraging parental engagement through participation in school events, and promoting dialogue with their students, teachers, staff and administration. Through almost three decades, trustee Yeharro maintained close ties to his community, welcoming opportunities for open communication with students, family and staff, attending school, community and other key agencies. And whereas trustee Yeharro ensured that his voice at the board meetings through his 28-year tenure consistently expressed his support and appreciation for students, teachers, classified staff, administration and his constituents, establishing positive relationships through the district and the community. Whereas trustee Yeharro understands the importance and favoritly supported a well-rounded experience for every student that includes access to athletics, arts and music, relevant college and career pathways, and access to social-emotional support. Through his involvement in the district and community committees as a PVUSD trustee representative, including intergovernmental safety, drop-out benefits, Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance, and site and facilities communities, Mr. Yeharro ensured that PVUSD students' best interests were at the heart of all decisions. And whereas Mr. Yeharro has been a solid advocate for positive discipline through preventative and intervention services, effectively reducing student expulsion and suspension rates and offering access to alternative in-school learning and enrichment opportunities. Whereas trustee Yeharro worked closely with Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez in developing a plan to effectively address contact from immigration officials thereby ensuring the safety and protection of our most vulnerable students and family rights. And whereas recognizing bullying as an important, as a matter that negatively impacts all students for experience, Mr. Yeharro supported having guidelines in place to create positive school environments for both physical and emotional safety and for as trustee Yeharro dedicated endless hours to ensure understanding of items brought before the board thereby making informed decisions that kept his commitment to students and staff at the center for this he has commended. And therefore, I, Lowell Hurst, former mayor of the city of Watsonville in the state of California, do hereby commend Yeharro for his many accomplishments and wish him much success in all future endeavors. I therefore set my hand and caused the seal of the city of Watsonville to a fix on this 12th day of December 2018 and it's signed by Paco Estrada. So this is the collector's item. Commendations, will the commendations? Well, I just wanted to thank everybody for the honor of being able to represent Area 4 over the years. It is really an honor to have been elected and the area elections work and I just want to offer my praise to Daniel Dodge for winning this. Daniel, are you here? Right there. All right, Daniel. Thank you. And I just want to say this about his grandfather that I thought was pretty funny. Over the years, his grandfather was really a outstanding basketball coach, baseball coach. And it seemed like baseball, the guy kept beating us every year and I'm getting tired of these dodges beating me all the time. It's got to stop. Right, Daniel. All right, Daniel. And my wife Joanne used to always say that I was the luckiest guy because I have my family, family, I have my church family, I have my office family, and I have my school family. Things got rough and tough. I always could rely on somebody and so that my office family is here tonight. Blanca and Jose Medrano, please write. And Blanca is going to take over my office. We were hoping January is probably going to be April or so Blanca, but she has been with me 20, 27 years and three more years she'll be a permanent employee of mine. I have a longer waiting period. I'm not sure if she's going to work out or not, but three more years she'll be fine. So I just want to thank everybody for the honor. We have an outstanding district, really wonderful people. We have gone through some really rough times together, made it, brought us back. We have had wonderful superintendents. So I've been able to work with Mary Ann Mays, John Casey, and and Dorma Baker, who brought us through the last recession very, very well. And I've been honored to also work with some really outstanding people that people that are up on the board takes all of us to work together. And I just want to just point out one little thing, one more thing, the EA Hall track and field that is going to be built. One of these days happened because the Aptos board members came out to EA Hall, walked the field and said, we support this. We support this. The other night at the Aptos High School football game, I was honored to be there. And I said to myself, I'm just a little piece of this whole thing, but they have a beautiful school because of the because everybody working together. And that's the whole key to it. You cannot have a board that's going to split apart. And we have to continue to work with each other, support the superintendent who is who is just bringing in some wonderful things together. And so once again, I just want to thank all of you very, very much for the honor. And I never had one of these before, Michelle. But thank you. Usually flowers or something. Is that going to grow out of this? It's going to grow. Not flowers. Thank you. Thank all of you again. Okay. So now I'd like to recognize Leslie DeRoz who has supported our district for 12 years, for over 12 years. I think what I always appreciated about Leslie was she brought a three try perspective to to her position on the board. So she was a board member to also works at Cabrillo College with CTE. And so she brings that richness and then also as a parent in helping with her with her grand-nephew now as he's going through our school. So I appreciate all the work that you always did and our weekly meeting. So Leslie, as she was president met with me every single week to no avail. So I always appreciated that commitment and always wanting to make sure that you were there to know what was happening and make sure and give support along the way. So thank you so much. And we have a token for you as well. If anybody would like to come in, please come in. So I've served on the board eight years with Leslie and you were a senior member of the board, I think, when I took my seat. I was always very impressed. Leslie, even before I got on the board, I used to sit out in the audience and attend board meetings prior to my to the election. And I was just so impressed with your calm demeanor, your sense of integrity, and you have beautiful style. You always look like a million bucks. You do, always. You're a very impressive human being. You have a lot to offer this community. And I want to welcome you to civilian life because I think you're going to go on to do great things. And I want to thank you very much for all the hard work that we put in with getting Measure L passed with the very lengthy night sometimes discussing board business. When you're a board member, it's Sam Farr once told me that it's Sam Farr and Joe Seminian both have told me personally that it's the hardest elected position there is. And for the new board members, I'm sorry to tell you that now. It is the hardest position there is. They both said there's nothing harder, not being a congressman, not being on city council, county board of supervisors.  And so for all of the sacrifices that you've made for all the heart, heart eight and the difficult decisions that you had to make to preserve the solvency of this district and always keeping your mind and your heart really on what was best for kids. I just want to say thank you because it's sort of a thankless job and you did you you did it beautifully and we're really really going to miss you. Thank you. I'll try and read fast. Congratulations. You have a lengthy proclamation here as well from the city of Watsonville. And it starts out like whereas Leslie DeRose has served the Power Road Valley Unified School District as trustee for the area five for 12 years since 2006, exceptionally representing all students, including her son, Jake and daughter, Becca and grandnephew Travis staff and families and definitely led the board is present in 2009 2012 and 2018. Whereas trustee DeRose's voice at board meetings through her 12 year tenure consistently expressed her support and appreciation for students, teachers, classified staff, administration and their constituents establishing a positive relationship throughout the district and community. She has maintained close ties to her community, welcoming opportunities for open communication with students, families and attending school events, community events and other key agency events. And whereas trustee DeRose has efficiently guided the district to the devastating $18.5 million reduction to the budget in 2008. I remember that one in a responsible, compassionate and sensible manner. When the budget outcomes improved, Mr. Rose worked every day to reinstate the most beneficial programs and positions first, including arts and music intervention and release teachers, health assistance, clerical support, keeping districts financially distantly solvent. Whereas trustee DeRose's commitment to students and staff has been evident through each and every negotiation sessions, remaining loyal to her appreciation for staff and keeping her priority student centers. She understands the importance of passionately and passionately supports a well rounded experience for every student that includes access to arts and music in the school's relevant college and career pathways and access to social emotional support. And whereas trustee DeRose reverently advocates for college readiness, including her participation in the establishment in 2012 of the Santa Cruz County College Commitment, the S4C. That brings together all county school districts to work together with leaders at the college level to better prepare students for transition to college. Whereas Mr. Rose is a strong advocate of Measure L, a $150 million bond, purpose to meet the need of aging and deteriorating facilities, ensuring adequate citizen oversight and consistent reporting to the board. She was a strong supporter of the completion of Pajaro Valley High School and relayed a sense of urgency in finalizing the high school to ensure a full experience for PVHS students. And whereas trustee DeRose is a founding board member of the Pajaro Valley Educational Foundation and is currently secretary for the Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance. Through her involvement in the district and community, committees such as PV, USD, trustee representatives including Intergovernmental, Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance, Arts, Sight and Facilities Committees, she's ensured that PV USD students best interests are at the center of all decisions. Whereas Mr. Rose has been a firm advocate of positive disciplines to preventative and intervention services, reducing student expulsion and suspension rates, and offering access to alternatives in school learning and enrichment opportunities. Recognizing bullying as a matter that negatively impacts a student's experience, Mr. Rose has diligently supported schools' anti-bullying guidelines that offer students both physical and emotional safety. And whereas, Leslie DeRose worked closely with Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez and developed a plan to effectively address contact from immigration officials thereby assuring the safety and protection of our most vulnerable students and family rights. Whereas trustee DeRose's productive work on the PV USD board earned her the Woman of the Year award from the Aptal Chamber of Commerce in 2011, she dedicated endless hours to ensure understanding of items brought before the board thereby making informed decisions that kept her commitment to students and staff at the center, and for this she is commended. Now therefore, I Lowell Hurst, former mayor of the city of Watsonville in the state of California, do hereby commend Leslie DeRose for her many accomplishments and wish her much success in all future endeavors. Congratulations. Is it my turn? Okay. Thank you. That was really meaningful. Thank you very much. So this is kind of bittersweet. Obviously, I didn't want to be leaving the board, but as I reflect on what's next, I'm very excited about spending more time with my family who's been very, very supportive through my life, but especially in the last 12 years. So I want to thank my sister, Greer, and Travis, my grand-nephew who is getting famous tonight, I think. So they've both been tremendous support. I'm really proud of the work that I have done along with other board members, and I feel like I'm leaving this district better off than when I came. So I'll carry that with me. And I just want to say to the new trustees, congratulations. There are going to be times that, as you heard, are going to be really tough, but there's going to be times that are going to be really, really wonderful as well. The opportunities for debate with other board members, that there may be disagreements, that debate can be very, very healthy, and it's meant for you to come to a decision to consensus on what's best for kids. So embrace it. I've enjoyed it. It's been great working with people of differing opinions. It's eye-opening, and I believe that it just adds something to each of us because we've listened to each other and learned from each other and sometimes changed our minds because of what we're hearing. And I think that's important, and I think that was our job, and I think that we did it well. So I'm going to miss everybody, and I just want to say thank you to everybody, students, staff, administration, our community partners, our city, everybody that I've worked with on committees for the better of the community as a whole. So thank you very, very much. So next I get an honor, Jeff Versino, who has been on the board for eight years and is extremely active in the community. I think one thing I always appreciate about Jeff is people definitely think that he is a good listener or no, he is a good listener because he frequently brings to me parent concern. So parents, community members know that they can go to him. They feel comfortable enough to say their concerns and know that he'll listen without judgment and then also act upon it. And so I always appreciate about that. Also he always, a lot of times makes us smile with his wit because he'll take credit for the best performing elementary school and say that it's all him. My kids actually. So we thank so much Jeff for all that you have done for us and we hope that we can continue to get your support through the PV education foundation. So thank you. So Jeff, I just want to say it's been great working with you. I think that you and I probably had the most differing opinions on this board and it's been probably one of the best relationships that I've had on the board over the last 12 years. I think you know how much I respect you and respect the fact that, you know, you are very open to other opinions as what I was talking about before. You're the one that really comes to mind. And I think that we developed a really, really good working relationship and we did some great work together and you'll be missed. Are you saying you enjoy arguing with me? Yes. Very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. I am really going to miss you as my partner for the Aptos School. Choken up a little bit. When Jeff and I first took our seats, the representation for North Zone while we had wonderful board members who preceded us for some political reasons and some funding reasons, the Aptos schools really didn't get their fair share of funding at all. And so Jeff and I set forward to rectify that and we had a wonderful CBO at the time who helped us do that along with the superintendent. And I can say today that the work that we did together provided computer and network access to the Aptos schools where there was none before we started. So for that and for a million other things, including your fantastic sense of humor that you just let loose at the perfect time to sort of, you know, bring a lighter note to difficult conversations. I'm really, really going to miss you and I wish you all the best. I know that you're destined for bigger and better things too and you always have my support. I may call you on that. And I just want to say one last thing, Jeff, is that one of the things I really appreciate actually about all three of you board members is that you show up and you don't leave when the going gets tough. You are always here at the meetings, you're always here for close session and you're always here late in the night, you know, sometimes until midnight when we have really important district business to do. So anyway, thank you. Can I ask you a word? Thank you. Thank you. Here we go. Whereas another proclamation. Whereas Jeffrey Asino served the Power Road Valley Unified School District Community as a trustee for areas seven for eight years since 2010, representing all students, including his wife, Jennifer, who is a PBUSD teacher, staff, families, and lead as the board president in 2015. Whereas Trustee Asino's voice at board meetings through his eight year tenure consistently expressed his support and appreciation of students, teachers, classified staff, administration, and his constituents establishing positive relationships throughout the district and community. He has maintained close ties to his community, welcoming opportunities for open communication with students and families, attending school events, community events, and other key agencies. And whereas Trustee Asino prudently and sensibly guided administration through the devastating $18.5 million budget reduction in 2008, carefully reviewing finances in the best way to protect the district from unexpected financial downfall. In challenging and healthy economic times, he has commended the work of teachers, classified staff, administrators, students as they helped, as they adapted to the ever changing learning environments and continued to deliver key services and programs to students. Trustee Asino's commitment to students and staff has been evident through each and every negotiation session, remaining loyal to maintaining a healthy district budget that reflected his appreciation for staff and student center priorities. And whereas Trustee Asino admirably advocated for parent involvement, expressing his appreciation for parents' participation in school events, for their engagement with the students, teachers, staff, and administration, highlighting the positive impact that a involved parent can contribute to their child and the teacher and the district and Mr. Asino was a strong advocate of Measure L, a $150 million bond purpose to meet the needs of aging and deteriorating facilities, publicly sharing that funds would support upgrades to classrooms, libraries, science labs, and computer systems that keep pace with technology and the 24th century skills. Whereas Trustee Asino understands the importance and the passionately supports a well-rounded experience for every student that includes access to arts, music in the schools, relevant college and career pathways, and access to social, emotional support. Whereas through his involvement in district and community committees as a PVSD trustee representative, including intergovernmental and the arts committees, Mr. Asino ensured that PVSD students' best interests were at the center of all decisions. Whereas Mr. Asino has been a firm advocate for positive discipline through prevention and intervention services, reducing student expulsion and suspension rates, and offering access to alternative in-school learning and enrichment opportunities. Recognizing bullying as a matter that negatively impacts the student's experience, Mr. Asino also has supported having guidelines in place to create a positive school environment for both physical and emotional safety. Whereas Trustee Asino worked closely with Superintendent Dr. Michal Rodriguez in developing a plan to ensure the safety and protection of our most vulnerable students and family rights. And whereas Trustee Asino dedicated endless hours to ensuring understanding of items brought before the board, thereby making informed decisions that kept his commitment to students and staff at the center, and for this he is commended. Now, therefore, I, Lowell Hurst, former mayor of the city of Watsonville in the state of California, do hereby commend Dr. Asino for his many accomplishments and wish him success in his further future endeavors. Congratulations. And command commendations. This will probably be the last time Paco and I are invited back since we've sucked up the whole evening. But we wanted to share that partnership with you and we want to continue that partnership and we're going to march forward together and I always thank this board and every board for their support of my education. You know, if I hadn't been a teacher here and the advocacy of the Farrill Valley Federation of Teachers and the support that the district has provided me, I wouldn't be where I'm at today. And that's retired. Thank you very much. I too would just like to echo what Lowell just said and I want to thank each of you, all the teachers that are here. I'm a product of the school district, so all of your work has paid off. So keep up the great work. So lastly, we always recognize our out. I can do it in three minutes. You know, this is my last time at this microphone after eight years. And so I wanted to say a few words about. I want to say a few thank yous really I first I want to thank the administrators, the teachers and the trustees. It is a lot of work to educate the youth of this community. And I have seen firsthand each and every one of you throughout the district working hard to make sure that gets done. So as a parent of three kids who are who have moved through the district as the white as the husband of a teacher at Rio. And as a trustee, I say thank you so much. Words do not cannot express my appreciation. So thank you very much. I also want to say thank you to the constituents as I was telling Jennifer my replacement. I have been stopped at the grocery store. I've been stopped in church little league at the gas station with people concerned wanted to talk about what's going on the district. And I've appreciated each and every one of them because what that tells me is good, bad or indifferent. They care. You want to know it makes a great community. It's people who care. And so I really want to thank the constituents of Aptos and really the entire community for what they've done for blessing you with this opportunity and for trusting me. I hope I lived up to their expectations. I want to thank my wife and kids being a trustee is a three or four night a week job. And my family has never complained. They've just said we'll see you tonight. We'll try to wait up for you. And I my wife is home right now with my son who has a fever. I appreciate that so much. So if you're watching, I appreciate it. Thank you. And finally, I really want to say congratulations to the incoming board members. I am so excited about where this district is this district is going. There are some big things coming our way. And I really do feel that we have the bench straight at this table and at our schools to really make some positive change. Congratulations to all of you. We're all rooting for you. Best of luck. Thank you. So we do have a speaker to this item. So I'm going to be calling up for your Barnes. Pretty much everything I was going to say about all the outgoing trustees. A wonderful city folks have said it all with the proclamations. And so I appreciate that. But I just want to let you know that I appreciate my sister's strength through these last 12 years. Really speaking up to the subjects that mean the most to her, which is student achievement. Making sure that every student has an opportunity to be their best, whatever that might be at, whether it's college or career. You know, I'm just I'm blown away by what she has accomplished. And I'm really looking forward to continuing that. She and I are both, you know, constituents now. And we're looking forward to seeing the district grow and continue with the programs that she started and helped start. Just making sure that the incoming trustees focus on what's best for the students. Listen to all sides when they are making decisions. Pay attention, most importantly, and, you know, just make sure that you're balancing your decisions. Looking at each side, whether it's the employees of the district or the students or the constituents, you know, the taxpayers money. You know, you have to handle that with kid gloves sometimes. So just, you know, take Leslie's advice. She's been a really great leader, and I think you can learn a lot from her. Thank you, Leslie. Looking forward to a couple more Wednesday nights together. So we do have multiple speakers to this item. So we have Ariel Benson, followed by Cyril Hane. Hi, good evening. How many minutes do I have? Oh my God. Okay, Willie as a resident of Area 4, I want to say that your commitment to the district is remarkable. Every year I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day. And when I go to vote, I'm like, what? Again, you are just, you have so much stamina. It's really amazing. And I wish you the best of luck in what is obviously a new phase in your life. So thank you for being a pillar in our community. And I know I'll see you around because you're out and about. And then I wanted to say also hi to the new assistant superintendent. I didn't make it to your breakfast, but I look forward to meeting you personally. Susan can tell you everything about me. But welcome, welcome. I wanted to say to the incoming trustees that I was very impressed with what I heard at the forum. And I'm very happy that you made it this far and look forward to working with you as a teacher and community member. I really appreciate the time that obviously they both spoke into. It takes, and I can see that it is quite a thankless job at times. I know we teachers have a way of giving you a hard time when we need to. But I want you to know that we really appreciate your hard work. And I just hope that, and I know that you will do your best to take care of our students, families and employees. So good luck. Good evening. Everybody please take care of my child who's running around. She's on the loose. So I want to say thank you. You worked hard to be in a position that is really thankless in a lot of ways. There's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes that we don't know about. And I've never, I've been up here during tough times with all of you, but I've never questioned your dedication and your love for our families and our students. That is clear. And Leslie, I know we often haven't agreed in our positions, but I can tell how much you value the voices of the teachers and the families. And you've always tried to do the best given the information that you have. And I don't doubt that you will take that wherever you go from now on and be an advocate in the way that you feel is the best. So thank you. Willie, you are so loved in this community and we also have not agreed. But, you know, my parents were, have been sick. My dad's still around, but my, my mom passed away about a year and a half ago.  And you offered to drive me to Bakersfield. You did that for me. And I know you because I stand at the podium and tell you what we want you to do.  And so I can see why the community really values who you are. So thank you. And the first, the first thing that I found out about Jeff was that we both had a love of the band, the Smiths. And I was like, maybe this guy's okay. And then I was like, well, maybe no, no, he's good. He's good. And, you know, we also have not always agreed, but I feel like you are sometimes a surprise and in a good way. And you're an independent thinker and I appreciate that. And some of my best memories of Jeff are when he worked next to the building that our union office was in and he would come in. He said he came into chat, but I think it was there was a little spy spying going on. I'm not sure what do we have on the walls? What are we scheming to do in the union office? But it was nice to chat with you and try to make that connection. And I think we did. And so I really appreciate and I and Risa is not here. I'm surprised.  Right, Risa? Where are you? But anyway, I just want to say thank you and I appreciate all of your service. And I'm really excited about the incoming group. I have a lot of hope and you I just want you all to know that the teachers are your natural allies. And we want to share the responsibility with you of moving forward in the most positive and productive way. So thank you. All right. So we have a couple more speakers. We have Laura Sucker, followed by Nellie Vaquera, Tonya Quintero and Manuel Serrano. I thought we were speaking under 2.7, but now we changed it. Okay. You know, we said a lot of things about appreciating people who are on the board and we do appreciate your work here. And also when you've been gracious, you know, I was telling Jeff, I appreciate he was always very gracious and which was nice because we haven't always agreed. I was just what I was going to say is we're really happy to have another new board to have three new people on the board. That would be exciting. And I learned something when we were walking a lot of precincts. We went to a lot of doors and we had a lot of nice conversations with people in the community, family members and parents. And the one thing that people always said is that they wanted the resources to go to the classroom. They were really supportive of us as teachers. It's really gratifying to walk around Watsonville because no one, frankly, is saying teachers are overpaid. We don't hear that. And you know, the first thing I always opened it with, when we knocked on the door, one of the things I wanted to say was, you know, we just got a raise but our classified cannot afford to live here. Our classified brothers and sisters and we think that we can do better on that. So it was really great to go and meet so many people and to have them and to talk to them about these issues and have them say what they wanted from this board and what they wanted and why they voted for the people they voted for. They wanted the candidates who were saying, hey, we're going to do everything we can to put the resources in the classroom to support the kids. We're going to do everything we can to be democratic, to listen to what the parents in the community want, which as I just said is more, is the money going to the classroom. We're going to do everything we can. We want candidates who are going to be, you know, we're going to want a board that's going to be transparent and tell us how the money's being spent and ask questions of the community. And that's what these, our new candidates ran on and I just really look forward to a time when, you know, some process whereby the community and the parents and the teachers and all the staff is listened to and we try really, really hard to have a democratic, well-functioning district where the kids, the students are the absolute priority because that is what we heard overwhelmingly during the election campaign. So have fun, you guys. It'll be fun to work it out. Thank you very much. So just to clarify, so the last three names I called is it for item 2.7 or is it for the current item? I'm just coming up here to talk. Nellie? Okay. Yeah. I am a classroom teacher, but I'm also the chief negotiator for PBFT. And so thank you for having me come up here. And thank you for the service that you put in for all the years that you were sitting on the board. I raised my children in the area four district, area four here in Watsonville. And so I have two children who have gone through our school and I've also worked in area four schools. So thank you for being representatives. Welcome to our new trustees coming in. And I hope that as we move forward in negotiations that we are all able to ask questions and there be transparency and there be an understanding that in order to staff a school with teachers, we also need to make sure that our teachers can afford to live here. So yeah, it's a lot of times it is about money, but it's always ultimately about our students because we are all connected to our students. And we see that their lives and their futures are important because I know that my children are my future, so I want to make sure that they receive the best education that they can, their foundational skills. So thank you. Hi, my name is Manuel Serrano. I'm the size supervisor for the Briley State School and also I'm the unit rep from the early childhood educators. And I totally understand everybody the democratic process because I remember when my work is the vote for me, 27 of them, they vote for me to become the rep and it's not easy, it's not fun sometimes, but here I am. I'm so happy that we live in a wonderful democratic society. But I want to give you the face of the teacher also for the classroom in Briley. I teach every day to 44 students and I had the streams, a student from Sweden, the students that are homeless and everything between. And I'm very happy that also we have four students that are having services in the Duncan Holberg and early intervention, I think it's something wonderful. But I want to say this because you guys, thank you so much because of the services that we provide, we give to the communities because everybody here is from teachers, board members, superintendents, everybody. Thank you so much. And also I want to say thank you so much for the support for the early childhood education department, my director here, Kathy Laitrow and she's always doing some incredible stuff and giving us more and more tools to be able to work with our students. And thank you so much and I really appreciate that. And I hope my coworkers are happy about what I said because I didn't prepare anything. I'm thinking in Spanish and I can't speak in English and it's not easy. But thank you so much. Okay, thank you. Hi, my name is Sonny Cintero. I've never really spoke here before but I just wanted to thank all of you for all your years of service of working here with the community. But I work at Calabasas School. I'm a teacher, new union rep. And I just wanted to let you know that my kids have gone here through all of this, all the different schools here, Minty White, Aptos High and... Oh, sorry. But I just wanted to thank you for all your years of service and working here in the community. I know it's not, hasn't always been easy. And the decisions that you make are really hard. But we all, I think, are in this together about, you know, thinking about the children because this isn't our main goal is working with the children, for the children supporting them. I do also want to welcome the new trustees that are going to be coming in as they are going to have a big job and we are all going to try to just come together and just think about what our main goal is. And looking forward to their future input to see if we could all make these decisions that will benefit our students. And thank you very much for your commitment and I wish you the best. Thank you. So lastly, we always provide a little token of appreciation to also our outgoing president and vice president. So president has already been taken care of. So I want to thank Maria for being our great vice president and always ensuring that we are listening to all perspectives. So she is well when we meet has at least three or four parent concerns that she talks to me about and make sure that we're following up with our constituents and in doing what's best for students. So thank you, Maria. Thank you. So now we are going to be moving to item 2.2 in our agenda, which is the serenity of our newly elected and appointed members to the board. So with that, I will be asking our outgoing board members to take a seat and our three newly elected members of the board, Daniel Dodge Jr., Jennifer Holm and Jennifer Shocker will be sworn in by Judge Kim Baskett. If one of the new member wishes to select someone else to square them in, Judge Baskett will square in the selected person who will in turn square in the new board member. And so with that, I want to welcome all the new elected board members up here to the podium for the swearing and ceremony. Thank you. The three-time mayor was, and I'll actually end it. So Jennifer has asked me to square her in. Go. Jennifer Shocker. Am I doing this right? You know, someone asked me if I had a robe, but I did check in the bathroom, and I did have one, but I wasn't going to wear it here. Thank you very much. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Jennifer Shocker, do solemnly swear that I will defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California. And I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties that am I about to enter? You've been duly sworn in. So we did forget to mention Kim, but she was appointed in lieu of an election this time around. I'm going to be swearing in Kimberly D. The Serpa. And so Kimberly D. Serpa is a friend of my colleague, Judge Guy, I'm honored to be swearing you in. I didn't know I was going to be swearing you in. I'm going to swear you in first, and that's when we're going to ask you to raise your right hand and be sworn in. Repeat after me. I, Jennifer Holmes. I, Jennifer Holmes. Do solemnly swear or affirm that I will defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. Now, this is not the formal certificate, so you need to pay attention to the young woman who spoke to me, that woman. She's going to make arrangements to get me to sign the original certificate, so it will be signed by a superior court judge. My pleasure, my pleasure. Kimberly DeSerpa. Hi, Kimberly DeSerpa. Do solemnly swear or affirm. Do solemnly swear or affirm. That I will defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California, against all enemies, foreign or domestic, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California. That I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. There you go. Thank you. Okay, so with that, welcome. New elected board members, you get to take your seat. Sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry, Danny. Don't repeat after me, raise your right hand. Hi, Daniel Dodge Jr. Hi, Daniel Dodge Jr. Do solemnly swear or affirm. Do solemnly swear or affirm. That I will defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California. I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. So you are sworn in. Congratulations. So now I want to invite all new board members to come and take your seat, please. Come right along. Everyone up here. Okay. So item 2.3 election of officers of the board. At this time, we are going to start with the president position. So I wanted to open up to anyone who's interested in the president position. So first, Danny, so that we know that how it runs, right? So if we ask any board member interested to show interest, then we allow that board member to provide a statement. And then after we do that, we ask for nominations. I'm interested. I've been on the board 14 years, and I actually have never been president. I have been very active, active, active board members. I'm on many parent committees. I've been on, and I've been on the same parent committees for 14 years, because once I'm on them, I'm dedicated to the committee. I, you know, I want to be able to provide new things for the school district. I mean, I'm working on trying to get our buses running if I can with alcohol. And I'm trying to get to see if we can have all of our schools be solar. And I've worked on lots of other things with the school board. So after all these years, I'm thinking that it might be good for me because I don't know how much longer I will be on the school board. Because when I'm ready to run again, I'll be here 16 years to figure out whether I'm going to go ahead and run again. But I've loved working with all the teachers, and I've loved, loved working with all the students that I have. I've come and done readings with students in their classrooms many, many years. And I have always been supported by the teachers. I think the teachers think I'm a pretty good board member. Pretty sure about that. And so I'm now going to see if it's a possibility to be president. Thank you. So I also like to express my interest in the position as a successful product of our local public schools. And now at PVUSD, parent to a student, I have a devoted interest in ensuring the safety, the well-being and academic success of every student in the Parle Valley Unified School District. As a board trustee, I have supported policies that have increased academic readiness, emotional support and counselors at our school sites, promoted parent involvement through the broadcasting of our board meetings, and their participation on our LCAP process and the hiring of our superintendent. That had never been done in the past. And we took that in to ensure that their voice was present in the hiring process of our new superintendent. I have also advocated for the safer students and staff in collaboration with PVFT by adopting a resolution calling to increase the health protective zones around schools with hazardous pesticides are applied and banding roundup from our school sites. In addition to our anti-bullying campaign, our resolution and revisions to our bullying policies at the school site level. I have also supported salary increases, proper resources and professional development to not only retain but attract the most qualified teachers and staff to help our students succeed. And more recently, I actively participated in the development of our three year readiness roadmap to improve systems, practice and policies in PVUSD which will support reaching our goal of all students being college and career ready. With your support, I hope we as a team can continue to move our district forward. If selected as your board president, my priorities will include running efficient and effective meetings, continue to focus on early academic readiness by exploring full day kinder where possible, addressing the concern over how long it takes for our IEPs currently to be reviewed and processed, increasing parent involvement through student-led conferences, workforce housing and teacherships to cover classroom materials, expanding future project collaborations with the City of Watsonville and our Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. I have also actively participated in our first ever Labor Management Institute and one of the things I really want to highlight is to host a board retreat where we as a board can determine our board priorities, our guidelines and protocols. And so tonight I am asking for the board support for the president position. And so with that, I will now open up four nominations by Danny. I would like to nominate Karen Ausmussen for president. I think I was speaking first. There's an order. I'd like to nominate Ms. Maria Roscoe for the presidency. I'll just leave it there for now, but I have better comments. Okay, so now we're going to call it for a vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you for your support. Is it in position? Again, I am open it up for the board members to show their interest. I think you need to call a roll call on that because I think there was some confusion and I did not hear Ausmussen throw a vote for you. So please do a roll call. Okay. And please be explicit that you're calling for the nomination for yourself. Correct. Okay. Acting president, can you please state that? Yes. Okay. So let's do this again. So we have a motion on the floor. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Now can we do a roll call vote, please? And this is on the vote for Maria Roscoe. Maria Roscoe. Yes. Trustee Daniel Dodge, your vote. No. Trustee Acosta. No. Trustee Ausmussen. Can you repeat, please? Trustee D'Serpa. Yes. Trustee Shocker. No. Trustee Orozco. Yes. Trustee Holm. Yes. So roll call, please. No. I think there was a first. So if there was a second. Trustee Dodge, your vote. Yeah. Or Karen Ausmussen. Trustee Acosta. Aye. Trustee Ausmussen. Yes. Trustee D'Serpa. Karen, with all due respect, I'm going to have to abstain from this vote. Information was brought to the district that there's been a Brown Act violation of the three new board members, yourself and Trustee Acosta. Meeting together to discuss board business, including this election. And regretfully, I will be abstaining from this vote. Trustee Shocker. Aye. Vote yes. Trustee Orozco. I'll abstain. Trustee Holm. No. So Karen has the four votes that she needs to congratulate the board. No. No. So Karen has the four votes that she needs to congratulate the board. No. So Karen has the four votes that she needs to congratulate Karen. You are now the president of the PVUSD board. So now, moving on to the next position. I think you need to pass the gavel. Oh, I'm sorry. You want to come on over? Do you want me to just pass you the gavel? Okay. Okay. We're going to do nominations for vice president. I'd like to dominate Danny Dodge. So they're interested in the position, you just go ahead and ask them to voice their interest in the position. So if there's any people who are interested, if you want to talk about your interest, you need to speak in the microphone. If you want to volunteer, if you will, be in position of vice president, you can talk about your interest. Are you going to express your interest? Okay. So I am interested in the vice president position for the aforementioned reasons. Go ahead. I already went through my speech. Yeah. So I don't have to do it again. I think I heard my stance on what I want to do and get accomplished. And I think overall Karen and I would make an excellent team in continuing the right direction, the forward direction of the district. We'll nominate. So there's a nomination on the floor already. Correct. And now you need a second. I'll second it. Do the roll call. Roll call. Roll call for vice president. Trustee Dodge. Yes. Trustee Acosta. Yes. President Osmondson. Yes. Trustee D'Sirpa. Vice president. For Maria. For Maria. That was a nomination on the floor for Daniel Dodge by Shocker. It was seconded by me. That's why I wanted to. Daniel Dodge as vice chair. I don't think you all heard him. I'm sitting right next to him so I'm not speaking on his behalf. I heard him. He said that he didn't want to speak. He wanted to move it to the nominations. Shocker had already made the nomination. I have seconded it. He has voted yes for himself, I believe. Yes. I am voted yes for Daniel Dodge as vice chair of this governing board. I'll call the vote again for vice chair for Daniel Dodge. Trustee Dodge. Trustee Acosta. Yes. President Osmondson. That's who to vote for. We're voting for Daniel. We're voting for Daniel. Yes or no. I don't know what to do. I voted for Maria. There has been no vote for Maria. There's not a nomination on the floor for her yet. Okay. Okay. Yes. Trustee D'Sirpa. I'm abstaining for the reasons that I mentioned earlier. Trustee Shocker. Yes. Trustee Orozco. I'll be abstaining. Trustee Holm. Well, there's it passed. Correct. It passed forward. Okay. Congratulations, Daniel. Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I had turned in a card earlier and I wanted to speak to the incoming before you go to break. Before you go to the break. Deep breaths, everybody. Good evening. I wanted to take a moment because I have to take my granddaughter home. I'm Daniel Dodg Sr. And I wanted to be able to address the board here at the Parval Unified School District. My name is Daniel Dodg Sr. And I wanted to speak as a proud father this evening. I'm really proud of you, son. I'm proud for our family. I'm proud for our people. I'm proud for our community. And I'm so honored that my granddaughter here is present to be able to see you being sworn in. And as creators blessed us for her to witness being sworn in as mayor and city councilman and for you as a school board member, I'm really excited about that. I know you've been precinct walking since you were a child. I tell everybody, but then I have to report how young you really were and you weren't in school and everything like that. And for the UFW marches, your grandfather was very active in the UFW. And I know that he'd be very proud if he was here. We're a dysfunctional family, seen as my father was a teacher and his generational like that.  And I'm really proud that we've gone to district elections because there was a time that this board, that the Chicano Mexican-American community had no access to this board of trustees. So we went to district elections. Now this is the product of all of it. So I want to thank my good friend Joaquin Avila for being part and allowing me to be part of that district election switch. And Joaquin said, you know, he opened the door for both of us to be able to have this accessibility in this role. I want to thank my brothers and sisters in the labor movement, the union, the California Federation of Teachers, because as labor, you know, Democrats endorse candidates, labor, we elect them. And we did all the work that was necessary to be able to elect this new board. And I'm really excited to see that. I wish you all the best of luck. I want you to be, I would ask that you be more accessible to the community and not let these meetings run until midnight, one o'clock in the morning when somebody who works is not able to be able to come and to address this podium into this microphone. I want to thank Maria for all the years of service that she's been giving us and continues to give us. She was the youngest elected official in the county when she was first elected to this office. And I still believe she's one of the youngest. I don't know.  You supported me way back then. And the Canary workers strike. And we're members of the Teamsters of the Democratic Union. And it's really an honor to be able to see you actually have the opportunity to do this role. And good luck to you. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Stay strong. Stay healthy. And I just wanted to say those kind of things. Cease the weather. Cease the weather. We are going to a break. I want to thank this board for continuing to increase its support of music. I want to encourage them to continue to stretch farther and go deeper rates to expand the offerings that some students have and others do not. I hope that someday stand on one side, fellow music records from PB High and Washingtonville High. And I was hearing today that there are scribes being taken to regain choir at Washingtonville High. I'm very excited to hear that.  Just keep going. So I want to just look up every month and say, this district is just looking better when you take it. Keep going. I'm looking for this choir. I wanted to try to start to have graduated from this choral program. John Dufek is a 2015 graduate of Aftas High School. He's currently an honors program student at Corio College. The song is, I will see him change a song of hope. It demonstrates that we don't have any difficulties in our world and as people. And then we're always moving forward. I've been interested in so many new and amazing things that not only further my education, but further my love to music.  I know I do this. But giving kids every opportunity we possibly can open their hearts and minds to something that brings joy to themselves. We are just so important to me and everybody else here. Okay. All right. So thank you very much. So we have attached for the board review. We have the proposed 2019 board meeting schedule. It does follow very much the same format that we had for the 2018. We did try to already include two of the special board study sessions that we had used last year in an effort to try to ensure that all board members were able to see those special board study sessions ahead of time. You'll see that there are some variations that we had last year as well that coincide with the school schedule. So for instance, in January, we skip one of our meetings and we have the 23rd. I do want to mention there are two board study sessions that are noted. One is the April board study session. There had been a request that we do a K-12 academic data board study session last year so that we could really dive into all the data. And then also we have done for the last two years a special board meeting closed session regarding my evaluation as closed session because it's only an hour generally doesn't give us enough time for me to do the presentation. So I bring it to the board for your approval and recommendations. I have a question. On the April 10th, one you say it's a study session K-12 academic. Is that a special study session? Yes, that would be on the April 10th. We actually only have normally have one in April. So it would put a second meeting in April. We try to put our special board study sessions on months where we only have one board meeting. Since it's just a draft, could you just add the word special study session, special in front of that? Certainly. Thank you. So I'll make an emotion to approve it with the amendment of the April 10th board meeting having the word special added in front of the word study. I second it. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. No opposition, I don't think. Right? All right. It's approved. Seven-zero. Okay. And now we're going to talk about our community committees. And I'm just saying I'm hoping everyone is it. I'm just saying I'm hoping everyone is in at least one committee. That's what I'd like. And Michelle. All right. Thank you very much. So this past week, we provided you with the Excel that is also attached so that you would be able to see how often with what frequency that the board and the community meetings meet and also the proposed dates. I would like to ask that we add a number 13, which is the, which is the adult education. So we do not have that on there, but it is a committee in which we do have board representation. And so we are asking that that also be considered as a formal committee. And that's the. That's the adult education advisory committee, which is not every month. No, they meet three times a year. They need three times a year. So. So if I may, I would like to express my interest in serving in the DLA committee, the intergovernmental committee and also the Paro Valley Education Foundation committee. Jen. I would like to express my interest in the Selpa committee, intergovernmental inspector. Jennifer. Sock. Yeah. Jennifer. I'd like to express my interest in the intergovernmental and the adult education. Okay. I'd like to express my interest in the migrant head start committee. I'd like to express my interest in the CTE advisory board and the intergovernmental relations committee. So how many are on the intergovernmental? Just want to make sure about that. You are by default. So we would need to reduce one. Yeah. So you are by default as president. No, I don't think I'm am I by default on it? No, I don't think so. You don't have to be. I mean, I was going to say maybe this time I'm never using on it. I would be interested in this time, but that would mean five. That wouldn't work. Yeah. So does anybody want to be on another committee and not the intergovernmental committee? Anybody? Yeah. Well, I think, you know, Maria, you've been on it in the past. So maybe you and I could, you know, remove ourselves from that and pass the baton on to our new board members. I think we have good momentum going. And so I still would like to express my interest in serving in that committee. So are you on it, Jen, to Jen Holmes? I expressed my interest, but so who is interested? It's one, two, three, I think four. So current. So currently have Maria Jennifer home, Jennifer shocker, and Georgia at this point, which is four and we can only have three. Well, considering some things that are going and I don't know how much about the good momentum has really gone on because this meeting hasn't met regularly in the past two years, but I would still be willing to step back from it. And I would suggest that we let one of our new people be in it. And I would considering that some of the developments that the city of Watsonville is looking at and that they directly affect trustee shockers area, I would suggest that she would be a same fit to cover the interest of those constituents in that area. So I'll remove myself at home or Osmondson. One of them will move themselves as well that shocker. Well, you three can. I mean, I don't have to get. Can be on it. You know, I was interested, but that's okay. Yeah. Thank you, Karen. Okay. Kim. Thank you, Karen. I would like to remain on the. Selpa, the PVP SA board. And I, I'm also in the future interested in being on intergovernmental that will defer this time. I've never been on it. And there was one other one in the past. You have been on spectra on the right. I have been on spectra. I don't know if anybody else here is a champion of the arts, but that's a great committee to be on. And I didn't hear a lot of interest in that. Oh, I know. I would like to be on the dropout committee. Sorry for the delay. Okay. And I'm on the same committees I've been on for 14 years. But, um, oh, but I'm going to be a better Selpa member. And I'm on the D lack. And I'm on migrant headstart. And I go to another one that's, I'd like to go to another one that's not on here is the migrant parent advisory committee, which is not on here. Yeah. It's not on the committees, but I go to that one. How come it's not on the committees? Karen, if I may, um, I also want to express my interest in serving as part of the agenda setting committee. Okay. So I think. So that's usually the vice president, the president. And then you have the option of appointing what other member to the agenda setting committee. So I am interested in serving on that committee. Okay. The only thing we do, we don't have an Aptos member on it, but I guess that's okay. That would be, that would be kind of good to have an Aptos member on it too, but oh well. That's okay, Karen. I differ placement to Maria. Um, I think you need somebody with good experience on there. And I think she'll bring a lot to help you get the agendas ready. Okay. I would chime that having Maria being the outgoing vice chair and a passport present that she would be a right fit for the agenda setting committee. Okay. Thank you. So we're not going to do closed session, correct? Yes. We need to make a motion, um, to change the agenda. Yes. I'd like to, are we at agenda approval then? Kind of sort of. Kind of sort of. Okay. We're in interest of the, this evening of how long the beginning of our meeting went and having students here to perform. We are making a decision to move some items around on our agenda. So we're going to move actually to 5.1 right now for approval agenda. I'm going to make a motion to approve the agenda with the following amendments to it. Um, all of action, excuse me, all of report and discussion items in 10 are going to be deferred, um, possibly to our next January meeting. They may have to be broken up between January and February, giving what we have on the January meeting as well. Um, we are also going to move, um, well item as referred, referring to closed session item three, we are going to move closed session to, um, item 13. Uh, we will go into closed session after we are finished with the regular open session. And in doing so we are also, uh, item 3.2 has been removed from the closed session for tonight already. So if my motion is clear, if I could get a second. If anybody needs clarification. I'd like to go ahead and make a second. Okay. Is there any board discussions on that? Is there any board discussion? No. Okay. All those in favor of what she has said, she has made a motion for. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. that's really very cool that we've got so many people here today and I'm really excited about working with all of you and I hope that our board meetings are going to be not as long so more of you can be here and have you know more input into what's going on into the board meeting we're going to try to move our board meetings a little bit faster so we're not out at the 11 or 12 o'clock time so I'm looking forward to working on doing that as well so thank you and superintendent comments thank you okay so next week we will begin our winter break so our students last day for the calendar year is Thursday December 20th so on Friday December 21st there won't be any school for students as we will have a staff workday so students and families make sure that you're ready to be back at school on Tuesday January 15th because every day of school is important so be back on time so la la próxima semana vamos a comenzar nuestras vacaciones de invierno el último día de nuestros estudiantes para este año es el jueves 20 de diciembre el viernes 21 de diciembre no habrá clases porque vamos a tener un día de trabajo para el personal familias y estudiantes por favor de seguridad que están listos para regresar en martes 15 de enero porque todos los días de clases son importantes así que regresan a tiempo so I wish everyone a restful and safe winter break and I encourage every student even the older ones over there to continue to read 30 minutes each day or spend that time on one of our digital applications that you can access from home including Paso a Paso lexia este math Alex or achieve 3000 so les deseo a todos un descanso de invierno tranquilo y seguro recomiendo a todos los estudiantes estudiantes aunque los más grandes que están leyendo 30 minutos diario y o dedica en este tiempo a una de nuestras aplicaciones digitales que incluye paso a paso lexia este math Alex or achieve 3000 so have a great break thank you and now for governing board comments Kim do you have any comments I want to congratulate the at toss high football team for going to state championships lost in their last game but they they were a very very talented team and we're very proud of them and this last couple of weeks I also attended the aptos l cup cluster meeting and heard the presentation from our assistant superintendent Susan prez and our superintendent Michelle Rodriguez and was very impressed with the forward motion that we're all making together and got to sit with and talk to some principles and parents and so thanks for all that hard work first of all thank you for the warm welcome the previous couple of weeks even before swearing in with a quite busy I attended the California school boards association conference and I intended learning sessions on new board member orientation session on pure politics with the political landscape looks like after the last election equity access and opportunity our retirement funding for purrs and stirs computer science for california union management partnerships and I'm happy to speak with anybody and share further detail I also attended the l-cap input meeting at a toss high it was a great opportunity for stakeholders to see what the district is doing and to have a voice and guiding direction and I I hope that we can continue to generate community attendance at those events I also attended the dream el sueño benefit concert and it was wonderful to see any Vargas reach back to support the community came from and the community in turn celebrate his success and it's been a full couple of weeks thank you your turn just want to say thank you for the lovely welcome from all of you I'm honored to be here we attended some Watsonville City events we went and saw Santa Claus in Watsonville and got to participate in their snow day I got to meet with lots of different parents who are expressing ideas and excited about a new school board so I would love to hear more community input and what do you think is important and what you'd like to see accomplished by your school board and also we had some lovely concerts at Watsonville Charter School of the Arts that the kids were doing so I was able to attend those two thank you I just want to say again welcome to our new board members I look forward to the next two years and working with you it's I think it's a really exciting time in our community as well as last night four of the City Council members that were sworn in were all they're either current or past educators with one being our own very own Ari Parker who has been a teacher for Pajaro Valley for over 30 years and congratulations to her on her accomplishment and all of you for earning that I went to so many things that I was going to write them down and write them all down but I forgot to do that so I'm going to try to remember so I went to a D-LAC meeting on district English language advisory committee is what it's called I went to the migrant head start policy committee meeting it's a smaller meeting now it's the executive board because migrant head start workers are now not migrant head start has finished its program that it does up until November but they still have some policy committee means I went to their policy committee meeting and at the D-LAC meeting we talked about L-CAP and we split up into groups and each talked about it as a part of L-CAP that people in each person presented what they'd like to see different what they'd like to see new and then we had in you know at the end we talked about you know what everybody thought about it and I went to the school board conference and I'm not going to go through all the stuff I did there because it's gonna take too long but I went to a really wonderful one on the environment it was environmental group and they have quite a few teachers that have zero waste I mean zero waste in other words they don't they they at the end of the time they well they they had they had this much waste it was this small so they're they're these zero waste classrooms so they it's really incredible what they've been able to do and I loved learning about what they've accomplished in terms of being much more environmentally conscious their school district and so but I'll go on to the next one as well so I also went to well I went to the El Suenio concert which was really fabulous I mean Andy Vargas is like whoa and his father was there as well and his father has a mariachi band which was really great and then we also had about ballet folklorico there as well from Esperanza del Valle and the groups that they have actually taught were there too to dance that was really great I'm trying to think what else oh I also went to the I went to the adult education 90th birthday 90th birthday 90th adult education has been around since 1928 1928 incredible so they talked about how adult schools started and they started as night schools because they realized that a lot of people in the United States at that time were illiterate actually at in 1928 so they wanted to be able to start a school where more adults and younger people as well could attend but it was really great it was a for me it was the greatest session I've been to since the state of the district that we had with Michelle the 90th birthday of adult education was super wonderful the speeches by students that that were really great our congressman Panetta was there and he spoke he had a really great speech to us and just everything that was about really hard was great because she talked about what she was doing in 1928 because she's 96 I think years old now so she was definitely around in 1928 Michelle was there it's great I loved it I can't think of any more places I've been but maybe more but I can't remember any more thank you I just like to thank everybody Daniel Dodge junior my race barely recently finished I won by 50 votes and that just shows to you that if everything your vote doesn't count it does you know a lot of people who didn't regularly leave vote voted for me and I like to thank them the Andy Vargas show at the high school was really great it was really supported by a lot of people the community and I look forward to attending an event at many white this Friday so thank you very much thank you going to have now high school students board representatives report I'll say your name and where you're from hello my name is Diana Chavez and I represent Watsonville High School my name is Eileen Lomeli and I represent Diamond Technology Institute great so start with Watsonville High and go to Diamond Technology hello everyone my name again is Diana Chavez and I will be reporting on recent events that have happened within the last month okay so first we have winter spirit and we had we have the students dress up as different things on each day so Monday was pajama day Tuesday was flannel day Wednesday was I'm sorry Tuesday was headwear and holiday headwear and socks day and then Wednesday was flannel day etc we also had an academic rally where we got students pumped up for finals this next week there will also be a cocoa cram on the 17 to provide there will be there after school to make sure that students are ready and prepared for their finals make sure that they're there to study during the rally we had the we had a beat ceremony where each student that applied to a UC CSU private or community college would be given a bead necklace we also had the canned food drive where we where the academies collected canned food for the second food harvest and it will be ending on the 14th on February 7th and 8th we will have career day for grades 12 through 10 to 12 sorry we would like people to come people from all different types of career paths people that we you might not normally think of when you think of careers we would like for there to be around 50 to 70 speakers and we would like to announce that we would that we need help with we need people to speak there we need people from all different types of career paths so if anyone has any people that they would recommend we would be grateful as well as there would be recruitment for grade nine which is when the freshmen will be visiting a different pathway for career paths that they might have an interest in as well as they will also be visiting the city offices and to gain knowledge on city government there was also the Watsonville empowered leadership Institute where there was a center ceremony and workshops one of the keynote speakers was boxing champ Karina Moreno and a student for the students that attended there was community hours and Saturday school were given out breakfast and lunch was provided and over 100 students attended here are some pictures from the Andy Vargas benefit dream concerts for those that don't know what it is the benefit concert was to raise money for music education yes and then going back to the court there was a battle of the court game between Watsonville High School and Paul Hurl Valley there was a huge crowd and Watsonville High School one with 51 to 44 and that is all thank you and I also heard there was somebody from Aptos here there you are okay so we'll have you up after after the diamond technology after diamond technology okay go ahead good evening Board of Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez again my name is Eileen and I am from Diamond Technology Institute since I last spoke our school has been extremely busy our new GSA club did an amazing job promoting the PVUSD anti-bullying campaign of being a kinder more empathetic you during our school wide assembly the GSA team explored the concept the concept of negative labels that we give each other's and ourselves and we learned how to create more positive and empowering labels for ourselves all students at our school had a visit to UC Merced to view the campus and programs and majors that are available it was a long drive but it was a fun day we also had a college and career day where several colleges and businesses came to share what they do our school garden club has been busy planning planning starts and is ready preparing for the spring we also have four students competing in the US Santa Cruz ethics debates in January 12th they have been working with a college mentor from you UC Santa Cruz philosophy department and they are ready to debate a series of ethical scenarios we also had a great day where Alianza Lin Scott and Watsonville Charter School of Arts eighth graders visited visited diamond technology for a hands-on career technical pathway experience fair this will be our fourth year visit inviting the middle school charters to come and learn what career technology pathways are all about during this time our school identifies one or two families in need for a community and asks our donations for the families and for the holidays this is our fourth year of adopt a family if you're interested in donating to this cause you could drop items off at our school or cause someone that could come pick them up we are heading to finals next week and we're looking forward for our break thank you for opportunity to share what we're doing at Diamond Tech and see you next year thank you okay so the pre-ACT scores are in and students that took it at aptos high have been receiving their scores back this week along with that the pre-sat that was for all students at aptos high they are also receiving their scores back they can go on to the College Board website and get them and then teachers and students are preparing for the end of the semester finals that are next week many teachers are holding study sessions at Saturday school this weekend to help further prepare students for the arts a variety of holiday themed songs and this weekend December 15th dance team will perform and their eighth annual showcase and those performances will be at 1 and 5 p.m. and it's going to be an aptos high performing arts center and tickets are available online on our website and also be sold at the door for anyone who's interested in going so last Friday we put on a pep rally to pump up the people at aptos high for the CCS football championship game and we ended up having about 500 people at the game this week is the last week for us to donate per second harvest food bank and the students are still doing great donating money in their history classes this is also last week we are selling winter ball bids before a winter break you'll still continue to sell them once we get back for athletics our football team won CCS and for the first time ever in after size history we played in state playoffs however we unfortunately lost the Cummins and the score was 20 to 28 it was a very disappointing loss but it was really good game girls basketball is off to really strong start and they will play the number one team in the nation soon which is really exciting boys basketball is unfortunately losing two to four however some of the football players are now playing basketball because their season's over so hopefully that will help them girl soccer is winning three to one and boys soccer is winning two to one and varsity wrestling has a tournament this Saturday which they're really excited thank you we're doing so we are doing a student recognition but I don't have a name where's their names we don't have to think we're kind of late on doing this because we did so much before oh who is Calabasas okay we're doing Calabasas elementary Carlos Emmanuel Vega Carlos and his whole family needs to come up I got it it's so that's your family at times yeah so it was important to have Carlos's whole family up here as well as teacher so board president osmos and then our board members superintendent Rodriguez pleased and happy to honor Carlos Vega from Calabasas elementary school as our student of the year I am happy his entire family came because I know a big part of Carlos's life as his family I'll get to that in a second I want to first hit on a little bit of data because it's important to realize where Carlos has come from Carlos begin Calabasas as a second language learner I checked his cell scores he was a one he had very little English at all in kindergarten by second grade he was advanced in his English in two years he acquired English to an advanced level at this point on the S on the S back this big state test he has exceeded standard every year he's taken it third grade fourth grade fifth grade and his reading he reads at a eighth grade level and his scores on the map test his reading scores usually range somewhere between a eighth grade level so for a student who came from you know very little English in kindergarten to get where he is now in sixth grade is amazing a big part of that is his family he did when I asked them last week I said hey Carlos I'll see you at the board meeting he said I don't know I said what do you mean he said well my family's got to go to church is an important day and family's important to me and I think that says a lot for Carlos and his maturity for a sixth grader he even mentioned that when he was growing up he always had wanted to be an astronaut but now that he realizes how far away astronauts go it's a little too far from his family so he's thinking about changing a change in that occupation he's a huge fan of art you know he says it doesn't matter what university he goes to as long as they have a great arts program sports and he has things to challenge him he says every year people try to challenge him but it's not enough he needs more challenges and he said he's not talking about tests he's talking about real challenges you know and in closing he's he's a special kid he's super kind he's a joy to have at school you always see him with a smile no matter what he's doing and when I asked him hey Carlos what do you like to do on the weekends each week I put a little quote in our weekly bulletin and I think I'm gonna use Carlos this is a quote this week for our teachers because he thought about it for a second he said I basically I enjoy life I enjoy doing whatever is possible and then sometimes I like to try something that seems impossible I thought that was a great statement it says a lot about him so congratulations Carlos good evening board president dr. Michelle Rodriguez good evening members of the board so on behalf of teacher Marty wait I would like to present the San Fernandez as our student of the year for Hall District Elementary and here are a couple words that his teacher wrote on about the son it says the son is a student who engages in the world around him with curiosity in the classroom he strives to express his understanding in a new and interesting way he's eager to share his ideas and the students around him show affection and support knowing they will always learn something new as his principal and on behalf of Hall District we are proud of the son Fernandez and I know he would like to share a few words too I would like to thank now my principal miss Fernandez my teacher miss wait and my parents for helping me get to this achievement it's a wonderful thing to be and I know you're gonna go far in your life and I'm so glad that you are doing so well right now you'll continue to do thank you next one is I tried to get Banny to do it but because he's right by here but the next one is from Radcliffe and Hennesseese Hernandez good evening everyone I'm very proud to present Hennessees Hernandez and her lovely family we've known the family for a long time their oldest son Jose was with us as well and Hennessees began also in kindergarten with very little English and she has been working at grade level for the last three years she actually began fifth grade reading above grade level and she's continued to set goals and push herself hard she's a wonderful math student who incorporates multiple strategies into her thinking deciding which one is appropriate and when to use which one she gets along well with her classmates she contributes to whole-class discussions and without ever taking over when you see her in the class she's kind of quiet and unassuming but when you call on her she always has something really wonderful to contribute to take the ownership of her learning she doesn't let others decide for her she's a creative learner who has already designed two or three different Christmas ornaments on the 3d printer her ability to build a snowman from nothing showed her classmates what was possible and help push them challenge push them to challenge themselves it's a pleasure to be around Hennessees and we really want to thank the family that has been super supportive and even her preschool teacher Manuel is here who saw us come on up he saw us in the hallway and he wanted to leave and when he realized that she was being recognized tonight he said I'm gonna stay so thank you so much to the whole family felicidades a total a family I'm very proud of you thank you so much Hennessees I remember when you pulled more white hair from my hair thank you and I had another student here they also want to talk to you and I'm very proud of you guys thank you so much for being wonderful students thank you for all that you've accomplished and you've been taking and taking your confidence in your life all very proud of you thank you so much for doing and hope you're doing good thank you thank you Starlight Elementary Ricardo Vidal Perez good evening President Smunson I need to learn how I need to learn how to say that correctly good evening President Austin and congratulations to all of our new members good evening Dr. Rodriguez and our other district leaders I'm Jackie Medina the principal at Starlight and I'm really thrilled to have our student of the year I'm going to have one of our fifth grade teachers talk about Ricardo Vidal Perez tonight but first I want to I want to appreciate your family and I want to congratulate all of you for all of your support and success good evening I'm very excited to present Ricardo as Starlight student of the year Ricardo has attended Starlight since kindergarten and all of his teachers agree that he's very deserving for this recognition he's a really focused student and successful and a very positive leader among his peers I want to share with you some of his accomplishments at Starlight for the past two years he's participated in the REACH program for our gifted and talented students and in the REACH program students are able to identify a problem and make an invention to solve the problem last year he invented a special chair that is compact and collapsible as a space-saving solution in classrooms he's currently brainstorming another invention for this year so we're excited to see what he comes up with he's also been a participant in the youth cinema project for two years as a fourth grader his script was chosen by his peers and produced into a short film in addition to being the writer he was also the director as well as an actor you'll find him back on that board over there in a few places this year he will be the director of photography for the film that his group will produce and also a camera person and that will be produced this spring his film is called The End you can look for that finally I want to talk about character a little bit at Starlight we recognize students about every six weeks for different character traits so far this year we have focused on initiative, caring and integrity Ricardo's a student that I could definitely pick for any of our character traits he really is, he shows empathy, he's always doing the right thing whether someone's looking or not and he's a kid that everyone just gets along with all the time so thank you very much to your family and excellent job, well done good evening, good evening I want to begin by thanking my parents for helping me be responsible and do well in school, whenever I need help they are there for me I also want to recognize the teachers from Starlight and the Principal who have taught me for the past six years Starlight is a place where I always feel safe and treated fairly one of my favorite parts of school at Starlight have been film class for the past two years another part of school that I enjoy is math one of my goals in the future is to become a police officer I want to be a police officer so I can help people I want to say thank you to the board members for recognizing me having this recognition makes me feel good about myself, thank you the student board reports are pretty good too anyways we're going to do an approval of the agenda we approved the agenda? okay so how do we approve the November 14th meetings? I'll make a motion to approve the November 14th minutes second a motion for those who are here so the three new board members will just abstain, thank you okay all those in favor that are here hi there is four of us so please ask for abstentions okay oh yeah those who have to abstain I will be abstaining abstaining three abstentions approval November 28th we have to approve also the November 28th minutes I would like to move approval of the November 28th 2018 minutes a second all those in favor aye all those abstentions hi we're going to have the unions to come up now with first one being the Prado Valley if I may point of order 7.1 we have public comment okay have any public comment are these all the new ones? so to call the people that are going to call the public you need to do it I mean whoever did it first okay 7.1 I just have Maximus the Pajaronia calls me Maximus so tonight I'm not here as an education advocate but I'm here as your village priest yes my voice is a little weak from all the infighting you have taken vows as trustees and as your village priest I need to remind you that your primary obligation is to the students and not to any backers that you may have why do I remind you of this moral obligation? four years ago this district was rated at 12 percentile in the state the state that was rated at 44 percentile in the country if I took the Aptos schools out of those numbers our local schools would be in the bottom 10 percentile two years ago there began to change and we're seeing the beginnings of significant improvement I would hope that you will become part of this reformation metamorphosis that is taking place if you do not then you are dooming our children for some time to come because when you're that low we need to do something some of you are elected with a goal to improve teachers' pay most of you do not know the whole story our teachers' wages have been increased 18 percent over the last five years and are the second highest in the area their total compensation, wages plus benefit are better than 85 percent of the teachers in this state so why can't they be paid more? well the present health plan is equivalent to the platinum plus in Obamacare or ACA less than 5 percent of the people in California afford a platinum plan so how can we afford a platinum plan? PVFT has been unwilling to allow the teachers to have options on their health care so that the teachers can do tradeoffs between wages and health coverage this is a question you should address before charging ahead for wage increases secondly as PVFT found out this year with their demands the Office of Education will reject their demands because it's financially reckless and endangers the district this occurred in the 90s in a similar situation and the state had to take over this district it was terrible do not repeat history learn the facts act accordingly you're capable of that give the teachers the options to choose rather than back a monolithic approach by PVFT thank you for your time and God bless you for serving thank you Maximus so I got starlight students Ricardo Vidal, Miles Levy Aurelie Martinez Jackie Alvarez Jocelyn Nunez hi my name is Jocelyn Nunez and I'm in fifth grade my name is Aurelie Martinez and I'm in fifth grade hi my name is Jackie Alvarez and my name is Miles Levy and I'm in third grade hi my name is Ricardo and I'm in fifth grade this year our school is working toward becoming an ocean garden school that means we will do things to take care take care of our our planet starting with our with our school yard to start we counted how many pieces of trash we could pick up in 10 minutes 5 classes picked up over 1,500 pieces of trash and they weigh over 7 pounds that is a lot of trash that did not get washed into the bay during the recent rain now we have each grade level picking up litter after every race has one day a week classes are also volunteering to do a monthly cleanup we are using money for the ocean garden grant to buy trash we are also buying gold water balls so we can reduce the amount of single use plastic bottles on campus later this year we are hoping to install a water filtration system for refilling these bottles with clean filtered water we hope to be back in the spring to let you know our progress we are excited to be ocean garden thank you guys very much next we have Erin Levy Levy thank you very much welcome welcome new board members Jennifer Schocker I know you are my trustee for my area and I want to congratulate all of you and your nomination last minute was a surprise Daniel Dodge my name is Erin Levy and I am a second grade bilingual teacher at Starlight Elementary on behalf of CABE the bilingual teachers association as well as parents and I'm here to announce a really exciting concert that's happening in January and it's a fundraiser for giving out scholarships to high school students last year we gave out five scholarships of $250 to five bilingual candidates that applied and everybody had to apply and there was a big process of getting them trying to figure out and this year Jose Luis Orozco is going to be coming back for our second annual we're going to try to make it an annual event and I'm in charge of promoting it and I'm having a little bit of a hard time getting into the peach jar so I'm trying to get everybody's help and trying to push that through before winter vacation so we can get it out to our audience and try to get as many people into the mellow center which will be January 19th Saturday and I want to solve the market on the calendars and I want to try to get into the peach jar as soon as possible it's been really hard for me as a teacher to get into the peach jar so I do have flyers here if I'm allowed to give those out I'd like to do so but I'd like to give them out at the school and make sure they get published throughout the PVSD community for all parents and students to enjoy this concert and it is going to be from 5 to 6.30 January 19th at the mellow center and Ruby Vasquez and Estrella de Esperanza will be also performing by Le Focalorico afterwards so it'll be an hour and a half of really awesome cultural song and dance so I'm hoping everybody can come Hola me llamo Erin Levi y una maestra bilingüe aquí en la comunidad continue en charlite continue en charlite 16 años quiero invitar todos ustedes que están presentes de venir a nuestro concierto bilingüe con José Luis Orozco que va a cantar el está ofreciendo nuestro segundo anual concierto para beneficiar becas alumnos de las escuelas secundarias estamos regalando becas según la existencia entonces queremos invitar mucha gente y ganar el centro mellow para que podemos regalar más becas este año que viene entonces quiero su apoyo y tengo los volantes hoy pero también estoy buscando ayuda del distrito para que ponemos en el teacher para que todos saben en el distrito escolar es parte de nuestro concierto entonces será el 19 de enero justo después de regresar de vacaciones por eso tengo prisa de anunciar hoy y comenzará a las cinco y va a terminar a las seis media entonces una hora y media vamos a tener baile folclórico con Ruby Vasquez y las tres de esperanza gracias I have a quick question peach jar who is in charge of that that's a really good so any outside organization we actually have board policy around it it all goes through through business services so I just went to make sure that that Joe was aware and it goes through Kathy Fuentes and so it just is a process there's a form that outside organizations have to fill out in order for us to follow board policy it's a great program okay comments are dead so now we're going to start with the employee organizations unions PBFT hi thank you Francisco Rodriguez first I'd like to welcome all the trustees and welcome you as a board everybody well the seven of you as a new board over the last few months as you know we've had some very intense negotiations that ended in a tentative agreement later in the meeting you will be asked to approve the first interim report and it is recommended that you give yourself a positive certification I know administration will give you details as to what exactly that means but in general what it means is that you did the right thing in approving the tentative agreement last year positive certification means that for the next three years you're going to be doing well financially and yes we will all have to be mindful and careful of budgets of revenues of expenses but the board did the right thing in not cutting benefits in not implementing a cap in working with the unions in improving wages and working conditions in providing stipends for those teachers that have specific qualifications or specific skills and over the next year or the next few months we're hoping less than six months we will again be negotiating with you with the administration for the same things that we were negotiating before a way to attract and retain qualified teachers ways to improve our facilities ways to improve working conditions because those same working conditions that teachers face are the students learning conditions it was mentioned to you that we have some challenges in academic achievement and even worse challenges if you pull out the Aptos schools however left out of the equation is the fact that the same teachers and Aptos work under the same contract are represented by the same organization as teachers in Watsonville it was also not mentioned to you that Aptos has a different zip code than Watsonville schools so there is a lot more to academic achievement than the test scores there's a lot more to academic achievement and to a good education than just putting out numbers and making statements that do not follow good practices and do not follow a good collaborative approach to improving both the lives of the employees of the district and the achievement of students thank you good evening members of the board and Dr. Rodriguez first of all CSEA on behalf of the classified employees would like to welcome the new board members to the Pajaro Valley family we're excited to have you and knowing that you're educated and parent and leaders in your workplace is refreshing to know that our board will continue to be active in listening to the community and in listening to all the different stakeholders that make up the Pajaro Valley family I do apologize some of our member leaders have to wake up really early tomorrow to go with Dr. Rodriguez to Sacramento so they couldn't be here with me tonight but I did want to say two things I definitely want to second what Francisco said and just add one fact because we represent the classified employees and it's the fact that a lot of our members live paycheck to paycheck that's the reality especially living here in Santa Cruz and just as an example having health insurance is the difference between making a decision of working for the district or having to look for a job somewhere else so when we're looking at the facts about what constitutes all the expenses that we have to pay let's also look at how what we have here in Pajaro is special and it allows a lot of our members a lot of community members that live in this community to be able to work for the district to be able to serve the students and to continue to be part of the Pajaro family now the other thing that I wanted to mention is something that you're going to be seeing on tonight which is an MOU that we've signed with the district it's A-V-18-O-A and pretty much what that is is the state of California in June decided to give $50 million for classified employees across the state in order to help specifically our 10th our members that work don't work the full year and do defer payment for the year the state of California decided to do this program for one year where if an employee puts for example $3,000 in defer payment the state of California is going to match that by $3,000 and the reason why they decided to do this is because those are usually the employees that get paid the least when we're talking about the pay structure and the intent of this law was to give as a token of appreciation to those employees and as an incentive for them to continue to work in education and so CSCA hopes that the board will ratify this MOU and allow more than 600 of our employees to be able to benefit from this program so thank you I welcome everyone I think it's going to be an exciting new year have a good night okay is there anybody from PAVAM oh there's another one good for you good evening President Osmondson Superintendent Rodriguez members of the school board and members of cabinet I'm Carol Ortiz I'm director of extended learning department here in the Parvo Valley Unified School District as a representing PAVAM who's a Parvo Valley Association of Managers a non unionized organization that gathers money for scholarships and supporting students throughout the school year I just wanted to welcome all of the new board members we look forward to working together with you and welcoming you to our schools and to our departments so you can see all of the great work that we're doing as administrators here in the district collaborating with teachers and classified staff to make sure our students are getting what they need so welcome our communication workers of America so we are going to do the action items we're not going to do the report and discussion but we are going to do action items are very important so we're starting with 9.1 first interim report and that's with Helen and Joe alright good evening President Osmondson Vice President Dodge Jr newly elected members of the board Superintendent Rodriguez and members of the public joining me this evening would be our Director of Finance and we have our point of the PowerPoint to give an overview of our first interim report in your board packet you have the first interim report with supporting financial documents and the PowerPoint is a summary to collect all that information and provide that in a more user friendly format with that being said we're going to go over an overview of the budget cycle and reports our assumptions within our first interim updated multi-year outlook variance report and the next steps for our district and districts in California we are structured around various code and requirements that we must submit to the state and to here at the local county level and so here you have an outline as we approach our fiscal year by July 1 as a district we need to adopt our budget by September 15th is our unaudited actuals we have an independent audit that is separate from the district and it's a third party that come in and they do full transparency they go through our district finances line item by line item they go through various departments and they review our budgets our expenditures our revenues they go through all the books and we have a positive report coming later on in the next month or so there was no audit findings for this current past year but that takes place in February by February mid-February December is the first interim and then March 15th is the third interim and I hope we never have to do a third interim and the reason is is because districts that do a third interim those are the districts that are fiscally insolvent and cannot meet their two year fiscal outlook and so hopefully we're never in that position but a third interim is required for districts that are fiscally insolvent and it's mandated by the county and eventually goes up to the state so as I mentioned by required by EdCode the district needs to accomplish the following one thing for community stakeholder input both union leadership parents teachers staff community stakeholders as a whole is their opportunity to provide input and question and or have discussion about our budget our priorities our commitments our revenues our expenses so that public hearing is held during that point in time once the hearing is complete and then public input is taken in then the board reviews the a budget with that input and adopts a budget no later than five days after that and or before July 1st whichever occurs first which need to file with the county superintendent of Santa Cruz County this is all pending with the information we have in point in time and so the governor now we have a newly elected governor Governor Newsom once he proposes and finalizes his budget through the legislature it's not confirmed until he signs off and once we have a signature on that budget then we as a district potentially have to make further adjustments because he has a proposed budget that he has to work with in his legislature and then what is the outcome of that so once it becomes final he signs off then districts throughout California need to implement and that can be positive or it can be negative and it fluctuates but as a district we have 45 days if it's major to make any adjustments to our district budget the first input report is a snapshot in time and it's really in our fiscal roadmap it's kind of like an opportunity for us to pull over and take a look at where we're at and based on our annual budget our assumptions and what we've had projected in our revenue and expenses where we are and so it captures October 31st and we provide it in December and then the second interim captures from January 31st and that is brought to you in March so we have two opportunities to kind of do a time a point in time review of our budget revenue and expenditures and how we align to our adopted budget and also an opportunity to make adjustments and we'll talk about that later in the presentation that can range from state funding or local whether that's enrollment expanding a program or making any kind of adjustment that impacts our budget one of the things I'd like to point out in 42130 our ed code is as a board and as a district we have to approve our various first interim and second interim reports the breakdown between the first interim and the second interim report there's three qualifications positive, qualified and negative I am pleased and very proud to stand in front of you this evening we're recommending and we have a positive certification and what does that mean we will meet our financial obligations for the current in two outgoing years so for the next the two years to come in our current year we're able to meet our financial obligations and that's with current revenue and current expenditure so we're fiscally healthy a qualified certification you may not meet our financial obligations for the current and so when we hit a qualified certification I get that's actually a very bad thing because that's where myself and Helen the superintendent the board we have to come together with the plan and meet with the county and actually come up with a plan to meet our current plan for that current fiscal year and to stay in the black and so I mention that because then a negative certification actually kicks into a fiscal recovery plan where it's actually mandated to make certain adjustments within our budget so that we can meet our obligations for the current year but also the two out years and so if you think about it a three year window positive certification is meaning that we can meet our current need for two years qualified is may not meet our current year and may not meet the two and the negatives we're not going to meet our current budget and outgoing budget so we just want to make sure that we always stay in positive certification and we continue to do so so we have that it's provided to the county and it provides an opportunity as I mentioned to your projections from expenditures, revenues enrollment and other fiscal activities it's also another key piece to point out that the budget presented it also reflects a prior year unaudited action so we have audited actual and unaudited action and the easiest way to explain that is if we're stating in our budget we're going to spend $100 on fuel $100 or does it come in at $80 or is it at $125 so comparing our actuals to unaudited actuals of what we have budgeted it's kind of the thermometer to see where we're at but at a very large scale so in our first interim assumptions, our revenue we have our local control funding formula based on the Governor Brown's July budget proposal and we are using the FICMAT in school services calculator another key thing that I wanted to point out is Governor Brown was successful in fully funding LCFF and for those that kept abreast on the state economy he was actually able to accomplish this and the legislature two years earlier than anticipated so we as public school districts throughout California get to benefit from that our average daily attendance is a little bit over $17,259 for the current year our expenses include employee step and column for our staff and also includes our STERS and PERS rate increases in our multi-year and then also captures our health and welfare contributions and increases it does capture negotiated agreements from bargaining units from the prior year but it does not include any future negotiated agreements fiscal outlook so we in the finance and fiscal part of the district try we do our best to keep a pulse on the economy our state different funding initiatives that are taking place one of them that I'm pretty nervous about and Paul and I have talked about this and our superintendent is the Cadillac tax and we're pleased to say that it's been postponed to 2022 that was recently done what the Cadillac tax is for public school districts it's a 40% tax on employer plans exceeding $10,200 on premiums per year for individuals and anything above $27,500 for families and so there's going to be a tax that potential districts may have to pay in addition of another concern that we have and we are feeling the impact directly as a district and I know other businesses and entities are feeling the same is the tariffs and cost of materials so in our facilities division and we are seeing a lot of progress with our measure L bond program and also our deferred maintenance projects but we have as a state but in the nation we have because of the tariffs there's a 13% increase in steel 20% increase in aluminum and lumber and plywood is about 18% increase and that's not counting appliances for our kitchen throughout our district so any appliances that we have to replace so I just put that in perspective that we're also keeping a pulse on that as well I just want to ask is that because of tariffs the tariffs that or global level that global the administration is putting on correct so exports and imports and what that impact is to us at the local level another component that we just recently confirmed last Friday through our cow pads report is we saw a slight decline in our enrollment of 172 students we are keeping a very thorough eye on that and making sure what does that look like moving forward we do also understand there's about seven city housing developments that have been approved underway what we're also working with is a demographer and looking at projections to kind of put and working with the city to see how many of these developments, how much enrollment that potentially can bring in and then what parts of the district so we're also working on that rising health care costs and that's ongoing we are part of a group pool, there's about 300 districts in our CISC pool and so we are I think the benefit that we've seen is our costs of benefits haven't increased as much as the private sector or other entities but they still are increasing and then last is the state economy as I mentioned Governor Brown got us two years earlier on LCFF funding before he left office he was unsuccessful but he did a good try on getting an extension of the LCFF and additional funding we will see what Governor Newsom provides with his annual budget that's coming up very soon and how that impacts public education but we do see when we do know of strurs and purrs increases that we are faced as a district for example our strurs percentage in 1819 was 16.2 and for purrs it was 18% and that is going to be projected 1920 our strurs is going up to 19.1 and for 2020 it's going up to 23.5% Michelle has something to say very quick in the 172 student decline you're not going to really see the impacts of that on this budget because of the 7 housing developments but I did want to mention if we did not have those housing developments that would have equated to about a 1.7 million lost in funding so 172 students is not a slight amount it is actually a significant amount of money because if you remember those students don't come from just one classroom or one school but it's spread out throughout the district and so because of that it's not directly oh we lost 172 students so that means that we can reduce staffing and then recoup our cost it actually is pretty close to just a 1.7 million lost so I just mentioned that because it's a good thing that we have the 7 developments we're anticipating to recoup that money but we do have school districts throughout the area that are losing ADA and it is a significant challenge if we ever get in the point where we are declining enrollment one of the pieces to follow up on that is that regarding our LCFF revenue is one of the things that we were able to accomplish as a district and it's kind of like a net wash is that we're able to increase our unduplicated count and that was able to get accomplished for those that qualify for free and reduced English language learners or foster youth so we're able to increase that from 78% to a little bit over 81% so that also increased our LCFF funding and kind of helps us as our superintendent stated the loss of enrollment is very significant but we have a one year lag of that impact and potentially we have the development and then we also have our unduplicated count rising as well and we'll talk about some other items that we're working on as well on this slide just wanted to look at unrestricted our funds for 1819 and one of the components I wanted to point out is our contributions are down at 34.6 and if you go to the right for 1920 at 35.3 and 2021 it's at 36 a little bit over 36 and that contribution is to cover our SELPA and then also our routine restricted maintenance and within that that's our custodians our maintenance workers and grounds personnel so from an unrestricted budget into our restricted budget and you'll see the correlation of the next slide and then it also covers some of our programs that are not fully funded by other agencies also you also see on the row below that the increase and decrease we have a deficit in our multi-year for 1819 all the way to 21 the deficit is going down from 7.68 all the way to the far right that's a little bit over 6 our ending balance I think this is also making sure that we are spending our dollars now and is going from the 33.82 on the top left corner and you're going to your ending balance in 2021 at 12.5 so we're using our funds accordingly the weather component that we get questions on is what is the committed fund balance and so we really try to be more transparent and put the footnotes on the bottom of our slides but that committed fund balance is a board initiative and direction to help us move forward a PV high school football field project and so that was a set aside for that project so that we can move forward and be successful getting that done for our community I just have a quick question is there any signs of us losing any students because I know in certain parts of San Jose they've seen it losing students at elementary schools is there anything indicating that that can happen to us we're currently reviewing the data we're working with a third party right now to review and kind of look at what we look at the census data birth trends development and all the components and we'll come back at a later point in time to kind of give the answer but the answer is yes we lost this year a loan 350 elementary school students the reason why we didn't have a net deficit of 172 is because we increased at the secondary level but we for the second year in a row have seen decreases in elementary students looks like there might be another trend thank you so I have a quick question Mr. President Altamson so what have we seen contributing to that decrease the 350 students is the students option now to go to a private or an independent charter school or is it that our students are moving how we had a chance to look at that information yeah so the majority of it is students that are leaving the area they're not necessarily doing transfer requests to either private schools or charter schools at this point of course tomorrow we do have a group of CSEA and PVFT members that are leaving with me at 5.30 in the morning here to go up to speak against navigator charter school if that does happen then we are guaranteed a loss of about four million dollars so that is significant for us so that but housing has been cited I know there was an article that spoke to the entire county that there was a trend in the entire county of lower elementary numbers there's some speculation that people are not able to sell their homes and so what's happening is they're aging out so their children they're staying there and their children are getting older and older and so that's why we have fewer elementary students so I think it's multiple factors a lot of people are going to different parts of California that are cheaper or they are going out of state so we're seeing a lot of people going to Arizona and Washington thank you the other piece I wanted to point out is a positive certification if you look at the middle of the chart you see 3% reserve we maintain our 3% reserve that's a state requirement and we make sure that we met that now if you go two rows down committed additional 3% reserve that was a board resolution that the board passed to have a 3% on top of the state mandated 3% and I'm worried because in the 2021 we're able the first two years current and out year we're able to maintain that 3% but if you look at 2021 we have to dip into that 3% and so bring it down to 0.39 and so this is probably the leanest budget that we've worked on as a district we'll touch on our variance and I'll explain what that is but our numbers are pretty spot on and but I would believe that just looking at where we're at I'm concerned about 2021 knowing that we have to use the additional 3% reserve for our financial obligations so our general fund restricted we are spending down our restricted funds on program requirements and this is actually commend the board and our superintendent we're taking the initiative we're making sure to use the current funds on current students and so you see the beginning balance as it's leveling down and making sure that we're investing that into our school sites and so the compass in these funds is our Prop 39 Energy California Clean Energy Act funds and that is throughout the district and that's used for solar it could be used for LED lighting to enhance our utilities and the other component that we're required to spend is in our special ed mental health based on the need so this is moving forward as accordingly and commend the district so here we have both the combined unrestricted and restricted one of the things I wanted to point out is if you go to the top left corner, your beginning balance at 39.96 you have your revenues, your expenditures we are deficit spending at 10.9 and then you have your ending balance of 28.98 and our ending balance now becomes your beginning balance for 1920 so now we have a beginning balance of 28.98 for 1920 and then we have the revenues that come in our expenditures we're deficit spending 8.6 and then our ending balance is 20.31 now that becomes your beginning balance in 2021 you have a revenues of 255.91 expenditures of 262.11 and a deficit of 6.2 so I also like to commend our team that we are reducing our deficit and we're working very hard on that we still got more work to do but we are doing all implementing best practices as much as we can the other component that I commend and why I'm recommending a positive certification is you look at all the outgoing years your 3% reserve is met and then once again caution though that we had to dip into our additional 3% reserve in 2021 so Joe before you go on please explain why the revenues go up over the years so we have as I mentioned before we have an increase now that LCFF is fully funded but that is a direct correlation to LCFF new one fully funded our unduplicated count increasing with that that contributes to our revenues increasing and so you also have that plus you see the total of your beginning balance being rolled into the following year and that also contributes to that component as well and also included in that which we currently have right now as I mentioned using FICMAT and school services calculator COLA is also built in with that and that's all we have and as I mentioned in this point in time this is what we have I hope things change with the new governor and we'll see as the state budget gets developed okay so I also want to have direct your attention to the assigned fund balance and the committed fund balance so in addition the reason why that's going up so if you think okay so we're getting more money each year what's happening is we're actually using that one time committed funds so in you look at the third row from the bottom that says committed fund balance which is for the which is for the approved committed funds so pvhs as you all know we're moving forward on that finally so that is that 4 million that is sitting there is going up into the reserves so it's and then when you look at the assigned fund balance it goes down it goes down as well and so I mentioned that because we I don't want people to look and say okay we have 11 million dollars more of revenue within the span it's actually what's happening is we're taking it out of our reserves and our fund balance our committed fund balances and we're using it and so I just wanted to mention that because otherwise you might think that we have quite a bit of flux of additional funds which we don't have and we're currently you know in bid process with pvh school right now on the project it's moving forward and so we'll get hopefully in the next couple weeks we'll get confirmation of the pricing from the various contractors working on that so that's what the 4.18 is to help us make sure that project moves forward and as you see it's not in the outgoing year and now our contributions that I mentioned previously and I wanted just to show that from our unrestricted transferring to our restricted programs and the two main restricted programs is our SELPA and then our routine restricted maintenance SELPA we're tr