It's probably better just to be careful of what you said. And leave it on. Leave it down. Don't talk. Go, go, go. Did you tap it? Did you tap it? Did you tap it? Yep. Is it on? Is it on? Yes. Hello? Yep. Is it towards you now? Sorry, sorry, sorry. Opening ceremony is open session for board meeting May 22nd. Is there any public comments on closed session? I mean, open session. Where is it? Yeah. Okay. So we're going to be discussing in closed session 2.1 Certificated Public Employee Appointment. Government Code Section 54957. Classified Public Employee Employment Employment. Government Code 54957 again. 2.3 Negotiations Update. 2.4 Public Employee Discipline Dismissal Release. 2.5 Claims for Damage. 2.6 Existing Pending Anticipate about Litigation. 2.7 is Final Settlement Agreement and Release for One Special Education Student. Welcome. Bienvenidos. So welcome to our board meeting on May 22nd. And thank you so much for today. Gracias a todos que ustedes pueden estar con nosotros hoy. Bienvenidos y welcome. Good day, ladies and gentlemen. In the 2.3 Public Employees Union, one nation under God, indivisible with the liberty of Texas's property. You know, the Tretty, the Chief, the Virginia, that side, outside the jails. Bueno, tenemos un trator que no está donde estamos hoy en mente. Creo que ella está fuera. And if anyone wants to speak to an item on the agenda, if you could please fill out the form on the agenda. And if anyone wants to speak to an item on the agenda, please fill out the form on the agenda. If anyone wants to speak to an item on the agenda, if you could please fill out these yellow cards and give them to Ella. And she will give them to us. And the yellow cards are way outside. They're outside. If anyone wants to speak to an item on the agenda, if you could please fill out the form on the agenda, and you will have two minutes to speak. Dr. Rodriguez, super intended comments. Yeah, thank you. So we've had some exciting events over the last several weeks. I want to say happy classified employee week, so it actually started on Sunday. We couldn't do it without you. We also held our second annual college signing day. Over 200 of our PVUSD students representing 58 different universities were invited to attend our signing day. It's the most popular colleges our students plan to attend include California State, Monterey Bay, Sacramento State, San Jose State, UC Davis, representing the most popular university in the University of California system. So we've had some exciting events over the last few weeks. I want to say thank you to all the classified employees, because that week was a special week. We couldn't do it without you. We also held our second annual annual university signing day. Over 200 students from our district representing 58 different universities were invited to attend our signing day. The most popular universities in which our students plan to attend include Los Quellales. And we have our graduation before our next board meeting. I want to recognize all of our students' hard work and wish them the best as they move forward towards post-secondary experiences, career, or military. We are proud of you. We hope that you come back and give back to your community. Please remember due to construction at Cabrillo College, our graduation ceremonies for Pajaro Valley High School, and Aftab High School will be at the fairgrounds this year. So we will have our graduation before our next board meeting. So I want to recognize all of our students' hard work and wish them the best as they move forward towards post-secondary experiences, career, or military. We are proud of you. We hope that you come back and give back to your community. Please remember due to construction at Cabrillo College, our graduation ceremonies for Pajaro Valley High School and Aftab High School will be at the fairgrounds this year. Thank you. Do you have any governing board comments? Do you want to still start with Georgia? We're on. Thank you. Hello, good evening. Welcome, everyone. I just have a few comments that I wanted to say that I am very excited to hear about Cal State University, Monterey Bay, and Cabrillo College's MOU for the 2x2 program, which ensures students and those in our community who are seeking and looking to continue their higher education the opportunity to get an associate's degree within two years and continue on to CSUMB and complete their bachelor's degree program within two years. I know this was quite a struggle between the university and the college for some years to get to here, so I am very excited to hear about this. Also, just recently, I attended with a few of my colleagues and the superintendent and some other cabinet members. My class, 40th year, they're celebrating their 40th year and they had their annual branch at the Quitty School, and we got to hear two great stories about students within our schools within Pajaro Valley from Dr. Rodriguez who are benefiting from this program out of the 2,500 students who are serviced through this program. Also, one last thing I just wanted to note was my family and I attended the Pajaro Valley Shelter Services Mother's Day run, and it was really quite rewarding to hear the story of a former student of our school at the School District who was there. She and her mother spent two years in the shelter and then after that we transitioned for two years into another living unit. It just reminds us to reflect that homelessness is not just a city or a county or state issue. It affects us here as well at the School District. It's a community-wide issue and it has a real face, so it was great to be able to be there and be supportive of it and see so many community leaders that were there not just sponsoring it but actually doing the race and supporting the events. So thank you to all of them as well. And to Pajaro Valley Shelter Services for their work. Thank you. Good for you. Do you want to quickly do something? Can you hear me? Sorry I'm late. I was at my daughter's spoofed house at Watsonville Charter School in the arts. This week, through the past two weeks, I've been a little bit more political than usual. I have talked with fellow Board Member Danny Gatt. I've also talked with our lovely Mayor, Francisco Paco Estrada, and we've been talking about trying to keep the needle program from coming into Watsonville and doing what we can to do that. Chief Honda also sent out a letter in support of not having this program in. So we are doing our best to keep the needle giveaway without giving clean needles out of Watsonville. I've also heard from teachers and I know that we're working hard to sunshine the deal and that should hopefully be happening soon. So I hear you. I've gotten your emails and I understand. I have also received some information and emails about some issues that parents have had with SELPA and we will be addressing that and I have a meeting coming up with Dr. Rodriguez. So rest assured that we hear your concerns and we are doing our best to help. Thank you. It's definitely been an open house for a lot of places. I attended the Rio de Mar elementary open house and I really enjoyed seeing the classrooms and watching all of the projects and all of our students are working and sharing with their families and community. I also attended the PVSD called Signing Day and I'd like to wish all of our graduating seniors the very best in the next chapter of their stories. Later that day, I did a walkthrough throughout class high and talking to the principal and the vice principal slider. I appreciate hearing about the various programs and the chance to speak with faculty and staff and students themselves. Lastly, I also attended the Life Lab celebration and I'll just in the interest of time just echo with what Georgia said is a pretty remarkable program. It's inspiring to see what students and the community was getting out of this project. Good evening everyone. It was a pleasure serving in a daylight committee this past year. Yesterday was our last meeting and we accomplished a great deal this past year from addressing traffic and student safety concerns at PV High School to develop a plan to ensure our families have access to and understand their student math scores to creating a one-year world of prevent initiatives currently at our elementary and secondary schools along other things. A huge thank you to our parent leaders for voicing their concerns and for their advocacy on behalf of our students. I attended the PVOS Designing Day. I'm very well-attended and very exciting. Congratulations to our seniors as they work on their new journey towards higher education. And lastly, I attended the Labor Management Initiative. I am excited about the possibilities of this initiative and future collaborations with both CSEA and PVOT leadership. Thank you. Thanks for coming. I too attended the PVOS Designing Day. My daughter is a graduating senior and she is going to the University of New Mexico next year. So I'm super excited for her. She was the only student in the whole place, I think, going to the University of New Mexico. There was not a pennant for her to hold up. But she's super excited and so am I. I did attend the PV PSA, which is our standover nonprofit that's dedicated for mental health service to our school district. I was at the board meeting there yesterday. And I also worked to encourage our county board of supervisors to pass a ban on flavored tobacco, which they did unanimously on Tuesday. And as of January 1st, there will be no more flavored tobacco for baby. You don't like those jewels? It's been outlined in the county, or banned in the county. We're hoping that Watsonville will follow. The City of Santa Cruz has already done it. We need board of supervisors in next year to come. We want some of those. So I'm hoping everybody will support that restriction on flavored tobacco so our kids don't hurt themselves by leaving. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. It's good to have a meeting here. I attended school here. He had a long time ago. Just wanted to touch up. I also attended the Life Advocacy. I think it was a good event. It ranked early in the morning, but by 12, it was... Sun was up. It was a great event. I'm working on trying to see if Meany White, one day, had a life lab and had a garden. I think that was pretty nice for the community. Yesterday I attended the Watsonville High Scholarship, where all the organizations around this area handed out scholarships. I saw the Knights of Columbus, Penocephal scholarships, all those organizations. It was great to see an alumni come out and make money back to children in our community. I was going to talk about the needle program, too. I totally disagree with needles coming into the city of Watsonville. They wanted to set up shop at the Salvation Army on Union Street. I was totally opposed to that because all of those needles are within one to two metal radius within these schools. Meany White, Needle Hall, Watsonville High Radcliffe, the youth center. I thought it was a terrible idea to find out needles with any kind of ability and hoping we'd come back. So I'm glad that all of us wrote letters, the public wrote letters. Thank you, Mayor Chupanda. I'm glad that didn't come. I also like to thank Ms. Susan Gallagher who retired today. She was my teacher here a long time ago. I'd like to say thank you, Ms. Gallagher, for letting me retire. Okay. Quickly, I'll try to be quick. I also went to the Labor Management Initiative that we had and we decided for one thing that we're going to focus together on attendance. We came up with all these great ideas of how we would work on it to do it together. All of us. It was great. I also went to the D-Lite meeting with Maria. I also went to the Hall District Open House and I just wanted to say how excited I was to be there because they had a band. And so the food section came up and played and then the section with Clarence Trombone's Trumpets. I think Clarence Trombone's Trumpets. They played and then they had another quartet that played that had a kind of I think a base too I think that's what it was with them. So it was so cool to know that there's a band in elementary school. And you should kind of clap for about that. Clap for about that. And I also went to the retirees celebration just before this. And they gave out celebration to the employees that have been here 40 years and there was a couple of them that they didn't celebrate because they've been here longer than 40 years like 43 or 44 believe it or not. And that was so great and Jennifer Holm is there too, she better say that. And it was so great to hear about I mean somebody got up and talked about each of these retirees and it was so beautiful one to hear about all these incredible people that were now losing. But how all the wonderful things they did while they were teachers or classified employees was great. I'm going to do high school student representatives report and I'm hearing there is just students from New School here, is that correct? Here's the podium right there. New School, you come up to the podium. I'm Christopher Lopez and today I will be representing New School. So recently we went on a catamaran. We witnessed comeback wells and I was actually the one who took these pictures here and the map was our driver on the phone. We also had a field trip to Meet Earth which introduced us about how humans impact the environment and they were explaining how we should start using more like the great global potentials like plates, balloons and straws, etc. We were also talking about waterfills and the picture on the bottom left is a demonstration on how our products such as plastic and like waste go down the mountains and actually into our oceans and they were explaining how we could protect it by using reusable containers and after that we went to the beach and we decided to leave non-native plants which were covered with guts. We were able to I guess I think it was a thousand like leaves that we pulled out and we also had prom which I believe was a success and the tickets were $10 which was affordable for every student to go. The food was in Chilabas and the transportation was the bus, the location was Boralitos Women's Club. We also had the American Dream scholarship and there was four students selected there was Denise, Brett C. Rene and me as well. We each received $500. We had an opportunity to have Chef Jane from Smith come to our cafeteria and we were making tofu with stir-fried and another Friday we made chicken and potato with cauliflower purée. Our end of year field trips is Growing Up Wild which I believe is next week on Tuesday. It's the end of the program celebration. We're going to have a barbecue and we're going to have community projects and our very last one is on Thursday and that's two of our trips. We're going to take a boat right there and we're actually able to take our phones to take photos. Our last week of school on Monday Tuesday we're going to have the white soccer tournaments at the soccer center. Thursday is June 6th we're going to have field day and on the last day of school we're going to be like playing around. And the last day of school we're going to have our staff cook for us breakfast. You know what? I'm going to come back to that. For the soccer we're going to have that end of the year tournament and on Thursday first we're going to have all stars versus coaches. For graduation at 3 p.m. it's going to be in the middle center. I would hand, actually already a right, the woman where white gown and the woman where I'm going to go. Our diplomas were ordered and are also scholarship for giving out. Here's the rotary student here's my friend Matthew and I'm on the left as you can see. So thank you. We're going to have students come in. The first one is from the Pacific Coast Charter School. Sean Manning, Major. My same grade. Thank you so much. My name is Bruce Singleton and I'm the principal of the Pacific Coast Charter School. I want to say thank you for giving us a minute to recognize Sean Manning and my parents. We may have to get up. There you go. You up here too. Sean is a great student. He is brilliant. He's hard working. He's dedicated. Always curious and he's extremely creative. But on top of that Sean is also very kind. He's very kind. He's very caring. He's always friendly to everybody.  He is more than just a student. He's more than just a hard working student. He's also an excellent human being and he's exactly what he wants when you're looking for a student of the year. So I would like to turn this over to Sean. A freshman four years ago he came up to the district in traditional public schools and then he decided to come to our school to the high school years and it's been very successful. He took classes at Cabrillo and as June said he's a motivated student but also a genuine human being and so we're very proud to have him as our student of the year and he will be at Cabrillo in the fall and his plan is to meet you in the back. That's great. Congratulations Sean. Congratulations Sean. It is my great and humble honor to be here tonight. I would like to say the Pacific Coast Charity School is a truly unique institution. The love and support from the students and faculty is unprecedented because of the Pacific Coast Charity School is one of the main reasons I'm a strong supporter of both alternative schooling and school choices. The Pacific Coast Charity School and schools like it provide opportunities for students that perhaps will ever achieve or be bullied at public schools to succeed. Everybody I know at the Pacific Coast Charity School is just a wonderful person to be around. I would especially like to thank Michelle and her teachers and I would also like to thank God I know what happened without this guidance I would not be a successful student but I just thank you very much for taking care of my kids. Congratulations. Congratulations on your graduation. Congratulations to the boy of Cabrillo and to you when you're gone. I remember that two by two program and I was talking about your interest in the CSUNB. Congratulations. Thank you very much. The Watsonville Charter School of the Arts Misael Hermann Cruz Helt. It's really strange because I've known him since he was before he entered kindergarten.  He's been at the Watsonville Charter School of the Arts since kindergarten. Most of the years have stated that he is polite, friendly, inquisitive and proactive. He has taken charge of his own education and what he needs to do to progress in the world. He is a strong participant in the class he stands up for others and checks in when he needs guidance. Misael has some incredible memories of the Watsonville Charter School of the Arts which is attending his eighth grade trip to New York and D.C. Making friendships that will last his lifetime and get him to be a seventh grade intern for a drama class. He got to do a scene in front of the second graders without words and when done he obtained true laughter that he considers priceless. Misael would like to thank all of his teachers for having a positive philosophy of educating students being unique and caring for all the students at WCSA. He plans on attending Watsonville High School and Cal State University in Monterey Bay for college he hopes to become an architect in the future and design roller coasters. Misael's favorite quote is by Martin Luther King when he says don't judge a person by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  I grew up with my teachers I've grown up with them so me being who I am is partially important to what they have helped me and being so close to all my teachers my current teacher Mr. Cruz is very wise inspiring me to be a very wise man and want to be a wise child right now. Trueville 8th board meeting minutes can I have a motion? public hearing the Watsonville Charter School of the Arts Charter renewal by Amy Thomas it was just up here. We come before you today to present our Charter renewal petition for the next five year term. WCSA has come a long way in the last 18 years we are determined to provide student plus students a high quality education with an intense arts inclusion WCSA has celebrated many wins fully enrolled K-8 Charter School implementation of a STEAM program with participation in the state and national invention convention solid three year NWA growth data with data driven instruction a groundbreaking gate program with after school seminars and teacher training an honor marimba land with several community days collaboration with many neighborhood schools for SEC partnership and a great internship reading groups recipient of the NOAA ocean marketing grant three years in a row and thanks to all of you we have many facility upgrades such as a new playground a shade structure where the children can need and new and upgraded classrooms and we proud of the academic program that is offered at WCSA we believe that our small school culture covers creativity and celebrates intellectual curiosity all while the many 21st century learning have a common core state standards our students are immersed in the arts and STEM education differentiated instruction readers and writers workshop and now steps for our students in kindergarten through fourth grade while teachers already teach the basics of socio-emotional learning we hope to implement schoolwide SEL curriculum in the next school year within the last five years we have been fortunate enough to add eighth grade class an avid program in the middle school one-to-one technology in all of the classrooms several new classrooms 21st century learning programs an invention convention for students in grades four to six where we have sent students to the national level three years in a row NWP being map testing with three years of solid growth data develop new branding with the change in school mascots we're now the chameleons and beginning stages of PDIS and MTSS school-wide implementation teachers are provided with targeted research based professional development that begins with a needs assessment, personal survey and map data analysis from this information we created a year-long professional development calendar as well as support teachers with their own learning by sending them to conferences and other learning institutes WCSA has increased enrollment in the last five years we have gone from 325 students five years ago to 387 today next year we'll have 426 with a head with a we'll be at full capacity with a hefty waiting list and upgrades in lower grades at five years we have dramatically increased our exposure to technology at WCSA we have provided each student with a promo for the classroom or to take home in the middle school we have two carts full of iPads, two 3D printers classroom robots coding electives and just began exploring the world of developing environments with virtual reality a few months ago I was approached by the Charter School Association to see if I would like to obtain a performance review for this charter renewal as a person who's always open to feedback and advice on how to make our school even better than it is of course I said yes throughout the process we need available all of our school data answers the numerous questions they ask as well as providing them with our charter petition and I am proud to announce that they are more determined that WCSA has met the academic threshold for their support on our charter renewal WCSA is determined to close our achievement gap as you can see from our comparison which compares WCSA to the light demographic schools WCSA saw a different cast scores in 2017 but rebounded in 2018 and has shown positive growth in the last three years we are proud of how we rank in TVUSD and hope to improve our scores in the third and sixth grade by the end of this school year we plan to address some of our shortcomings by implementing SIPs with school-wide fidelity in the 2019-20 school year pilot a new math program for K-8 adjust the middle school schedule for sixth grade and disband our four or five combination class creating two fourth and two fifth grade classrooms the future of WCSA is strong and we have a plan that addresses our academic shortcomings we are extremely hopeful for the future of WCSA while we know we are not perfect or aware we would like to be academically yet we have no doubt we will be able to get there I wholeheartedly believe that WCSA is one of the best schools on the planet our school motto is where creativity takes courage I welcome you to WCSA any time you see this in action we have happy and engaged children happy and dedicated teachers and staff and happy and extremely helpful parents an active home and school parent organization and a principal who is excited to come to work every day small plug next Thursday is Shrek musical it's amazing I may or may not be in it thank you for allowing us to submit this charter petition to you all as well as collaborate and innovate with the Pajaro Valley Unified School District we look forward to our partnership in the next five years thank you for your time first class we have Javier I'm a student at Watsonville Charter School here and I work hard for this school because it's a small community so everybody knows each other and the teachers are very kind and they try to use art with everything and also they were very good at preparing us for the invention convention because I'm actually one of the students that's going to be going to the national I attended Watsonville Charter School for six years it was incredible all my teachers were loving and kind and they taught me so many things that I need to know and before I went to Watsonville Charter School I didn't really have anything I was searching for something I loved art, I loved to paint and I wanted that community but I couldn't find it and when I attended Watsonville Charter School it just changed my life and it was so incredible and with all these teachers like Ms. Long, Ms. B and Ms. Yeo they were all incredible and actually some of the meetings I went to I wanted to read by one of them was Ms. Long but all the teachers taught me so many different things about theater it's art and science and you should definitely renew a charter because it's so incredible it's so incredible for all the kids and it's just so fun to watch things like in the community with all the teachers and it definitely changed my life as a person thank you thanks a lot I have a question for Megan Megan if you don't mind you were the student of the year last year for Watsonville Charter School the arts reunion two years ago and Megan congratulations congratulations share what a special place it is for my children and for so many of the children I have had the honor of working with in the classroom and being a part of the community with them and their families the school has really shown just this incredible capacity for bringing out the best in the families and especially the students that are involved in it I really believe that the art inclusion in the lessons teaches to the whole child because as we all know everyone has different strengths which are not always recognized in just a mainstream form and I really, really appreciate that for our school I look forward to future continuation I'm super happy that it now has an old school which a couple of years ago wasn't an option that we had and yeah I just love it with all my heart and it's such a special special place we all get to bring our kids there and feel like they are loved and proud of their thank you we have Joanne Hernandez she's Klein a beautiful place and all the teachers are kind we share a spet children learn and do lots of stuff that they are capable to do and very intelligent next we have Grave Coyle a private boarding school planning on going to Yale but my art teacher he inspired me to attend an art school instead so I went to Pratt Institute in New York from that background I am very appreciative of the arts as a key form of education in addition to the regular academic parts and I have to say with two children in this school I worked on very well there academically and one is is also going to the Invention Convention Nationals I'm also an inventor I've got several patents and I design bicycles and have a small bicycle company here in Watsonville with 25 employees so I've had some success with invention and I credit that success with my arts education I find it rare to find, to see arts education featured in a school and that's why we chose Watsonville Charter School for the Arts to send our charter to so I encourage you to please renew this charter from an academic point of view I am impressed and I come from a place where academic rigor is important and I really appreciate the fact that this school exists and I'm really happy to participate on the advisory board for the school and I do quite a lot of volunteer work so with that said you have my endorsement and I really hope everything goes smoothly with lots of great funding for more facilities Thank you very much Next we have Tyler and Amber Barber This is our first year at the Charter School we'll cry if we try not to but we're in public school and we have a great school and a great principal here somewhere but Tyler really had a hard time from struggling and I kind of tormented poor Miss Thomas begging her to let us come to the school and she finally came she had a spot for him and it's been amazing what I've seen happen in this school Artistic life got to shine even though she's shy his shoulders are big he walks in there every morning Miss Thomas welcomes them into school with a ham shake with a hug it's amazing and thankfully I am so thankful for this school and for growing and I would love to see my voice continue and finish up the school in the beginning of the school year Kyle struggled because he enjoyed the fringes so much the fringes that he didn't have that he now had his grades were struggling and now it's the last report card all A's and B's all A's I hear to you they both love the school and I appreciate your time especially listening to you for my tears next time we have Reina I have a song that discovered the love for Sony and seeing a boy so it's just amazing because I never thought one of my kids would actually love it so he tells me he wants to be a surgeon and the reason why he loves to go into sewing classes because he wants to perfect his sewing skills so he doesn't pretend like she was a child that was very shy she never had any friends she didn't know she had a voice and she hated going to school this school actually brought her voice I agree with this other parent that her shoulders are up she has a voice she has an opinion and I don't think she will ever be able to do that without being on this school this school accepts every student every teacher is so nice and is just willing to help every student in any way I'm a partner that is also part of the leadership and I just wanted to be part of the leadership because I wanted my voice to be heard and Miss Thomas has just been amazing every issue we have and I have brother she always listens to you and she always tries to find a way to solve any issues I told my co-workers how my principal is every day playing a child in the front parking lot welcoming every student welcoming everybody wanting to hear your concerns wanting to hear what is going good or bad in your life and I just wanted to let you know we have amazing teachers and I have two kids I went that way this year and I'm sad, but I still have one left and I usually wait until I go to high school because it was hard to be in this school but I have one new year here and I really hope you guys can bring yours next we have Lisa Kwan she is a Watsonville Charter School of the Arts and we can't have the great fortune to be there before I actually did my training as a teacher to be a bilingual teacher I moved to Mexico I taught at the universities there and I came back with the idea that I would do a minor ed and I started working at Alianza and I absolutely loved it and when this whole moved I was basically a choice to go into bilingual ed and continue that path which is widening education or to look elsewhere and I was at the county fair and saw a display board for the Watsonville Charter School of the Arts saw the beautiful art that they were producing that was integrating learning with art and was very happily surprised that this was something that was around me and I ended up meeting Sue Forsen who was the founder who encouraged me to apply I never thought that I would leave bilingual ed I actually moved to Mexico where I was working on Spanish to become a bilingual teacher but arts had a huge part in my own life I was classically trained as a musician I was a dancer a lot of the things that meant a lot to me had to do with art so when I thought about myself as a learner and what meant for most of me it was the arts so having the opportunity to teach and integrate and use art and use science and use the experience to make learning more bilingual was a very powerful opportunity and it has been a very wonderful opportunity to be able to work with kids and to see them really light up you see that smile and the dancing when they're creating and see them going to that creative part of their mind and see them apply it to solving solving and critical thinking I'm a huge proponent of the arts I think it helps you to develop your soul and I think that we're also doing a lot of great work to continue to grow them academically so that they'll be successful wherever they are I'm very proud of our school and I hope that you'll consider us I'm renewing our charter to continue to grow artists and continue to light up these beautiful kids with these that are interesting to them and meaningful to them and make the learning be something that integrates things that they hear seeing movies that theater isn't just a part of something you see on a TV but it's something that helps you interpersonal skills seeing the dancing isn't just something you see on a TV show it's not something that's just important but it's something that's going to really help you to control your body and space and to learn how to work with other people and communicate with other people I think the arts are so powerful and it's such a rare opportunity to grow in lots of different ways I'm very proud of our school very proud of our students and I want to thank you for your time and I'll encourage you to renew our charter Thank you so much In 2013 I was offered to stretch my leadership skills and what turned out to be a life-changing pedagogical experience as an induction program mentor with the Santa Cruz Silicon Valley T2 project By the end of those three years I worked closely with over 50 teachers at 20 different schools Each school had its own unique character and I apparently learned a lot about how different leadership styles impacted their staff and students My role allowed me to leverage my ability and perspective about our community of school cultures in our district and the differences of how each contributed to helping their staff and students alongside a growth trajectory The first time I set foot on WCSA a middle school student I had never met before walked by me looked at me in the eyes smiled and said hello, how's your day going? It comes all struck at the confidence of the student body and the pride she created for each simple interaction I knew that it was a school I wanted to know more about and it immediately felt like a place would allow me a path towards continued growth In my three years teaching 4th grade at WCSA I've been continuously blown away by the agency and empowerment that's fostered at our school School-wide student conferences in which students hold ownership over their learning and communicate directly and see teachers about their strengths areas for growth and their next steps Empowerment Middle school intern program in which 7th graders learn how to write resumes and color letters to apply to help out other teachers on a weekly basis Empowerment 3rd through 5th graders who have become trailblazers as they started their own GSA juniors because they recognize their own responsibility to stand up to exclusion, prejudice and injustice Empowerment Teachers who have utmost support from our tenacious administrators to pursue professional development that aligns with our own interests and growth goals Empowerment My time is truncated here but the impact that is happening at our school is extensive Amy shared snapshots of the empirical elements that supports it and may our authentic voices also offer a glimpse of all that is amazing at our school Thank you for welcoming our perspectives and voices and time Today I'm here for the City Council of the City of Washington District 2 but I'm also a ability coaching manager I'm actually really proud to say that I've had a lot of experience with my students and they're very well-rounded individuals and I take any of the students from Oswald Charter School to be on my baseball team and just for the purposes they are well-known and I did have Benjamin in my team but anyways we do have a lot of students from Oswald Charter and they are really amazing kids from Oswald Charter Government All the comments from especially the young people the teachers thank you So is there any discussion from the board? The arts are very important I've learned when I was younger I used to paint murals all this time and I learned that painting, art painting, drawing, singing, dancing is another form of language and thank you so much for these presentations Thank you My daughter went there too and Jennifer you go ahead your children go there too The arts is in first grade and anyone who knows me personally knows my daughter working with parents children that do have some special needs and they really put those children first and we want to give them a chance to learn their voices and share our voices Thank you Any more comments? Yeah My daughter loved going there too Alright so this is not an action item until next time Okay many of you do you want to say something to her? Questions about data? Do you mind if I share? So can you tell us a little bit about the nitty-gritty of some of your data points and with regard to any of the standardized testing? Can you clarify what data points you would like me to address? Just to cast the cards and if you have a good idea Anything that would give this board an indication that the kids are making the achievement that we hope Well like you can see from the presentation that in our charter petition we are in the top 5 of the schools in the whole district in that growth so our students are growing above the growth conditional index to a positive rather than a negative so that's what we want to see them growing We're not all the way perfect yet but we our students are showing growth at every grade level except for 3rd and 6th this year which is why we're working so hard in 3rd and 6th this year And is that why you've placed the AVID program? We started the AVID program last summer because we wanted to send our students to high school with the tools that they needed to be successful and we're not using it as an elective program we're using it as a program for all the teachers to use with all of the students in middle school. Thank you. And so how are they doing stuff like language arts and all those things I'm sure I know you're way up there My teachers are teaching everything that the Common Core Standards say they say that they need to teach with an arts infusion So they're teaching it all I know you have arts infusion It's pretty cool And we teach language arts What's that? You can speak to any opportunities places that you'd like to grow or improve I have a rough mindset I feel that there's always room for improvement and I'm open and willing to hear feedback from anyone I think that the biggest concern for our community right now is our facilities So we've improved so much in the last five years but we have some room to grow it in that area as well I would love to see a foreign language talk at our school That comes with having extra facilities and extra staff members to do so But I think that our kids are ready for high school and beyond which is the most important to me I'm Georgia So as some concerns that as the Residing Trustee over your school area some concerns that have brought to my attention and this is usually a plus sign as a charter school you have high rental involvement specifically in your school which is great As many board members we wish we could get that across the board at all of our schools but we do know that it typically tends to be something unique and special to charter schools and particularly yours but then when you also have that it raises issues of conflicts So what are you doing to monitor and actively address rental conflicts amongst parents in your school so it is not inflicted upon the students at your school Are you talking about parent-to-parent arguments like fights or whatever good conflict into one big nutshell I haven't seen a whole lot of conflict in the 12 years that I've been there I know that we've had to have a couple of mediated meetings with parents together but my door is always open so anyone knows if they can come and talk to me at any time and they know that I'm going to do something about it We do have a lot of parents on our campus and we work with the parents on the proper etiquette of how to behave when they're on campus and parents come to me all the time finding out what they can do if they're not comfortable being on campus and we have plenty of opportunities for them to help out off campus Maybe it might be something of interest to even ask our charter schools when they're coming back for their charter panels to sort of do a sort of a swat analysis of what's going on in their schools what are their strengths, what are their weaknesses what are their opportunities, what are their strengths because that exists with any for-profit, non-profit, any institution that exists that is real that forces you in to have to analyze things that maybe you aren't otherwise maybe and I don't mean you personally I'm just saying we wouldn't otherwise not be wanting to be addressed by an administration body and those are important factors look at your strengths look at your weaknesses look at your opportunities as as you're going to address tonight here and those are areas for improvement all around we can build on those strengths those opportunities but how we can address those weaknesses and threats and I think that's just really important not just a view but you know I'm giving this feedback to administration but for all our charter schools when they're coming back for a review of their charter thank you no no we can't do that so thank you I had to tour the school all back it was amazing I think you just turned your microphone off there you go so I was really impressed in the way that the teacher engaged students and just their ability to follow instructions immediately from one activity to the next so it was a really neat experience I have a question regarding your population of students so what percentage of the population are special ed and then English and English learners I'm going to regurgitate some numbers and I might get it wrong it is in my charter petition it's not memorized but I believe we have 17% EL students and 23% special ed students and as far as the services are you providing we have a full time RSP teacher so all of our students that have ITs their minutes in service is followed by the IEP we have an intervention program after school or before school for English learners that can come and work on their foundational English skills and we immerse all of the kids in the arts and our students are by the time they're in fourth or fifth grade okay thank you so much and thank you all of you that came up to speak thank you okay now we're having visitor non-agenda items number 7 so I guess we have to do that first off we have Alondra Mora I'm sitting here watching a high school and it's hard to see each year um how teachers speak and is there and for the reason that they don't have the thing that they deserve I have to talk about I've had so many more than teachers speak so much I can thank them for the hard work and the appreciation that they've inspired me for having those teachers that I've had I'm going to be able to see them again because of the lab the reason for this is because of the lack of any intervention the teachers I've had have been like home to me because they have just close relationship with us and it's very hard to see go every year it's been hard every year seeing my community go down because of this it does not only affect your students but it affects the art community as well I believe that the old solution for art teachers to actually say is to have them benefit and if they give a better opinion I think we can they can give us a better action and I know it's very hard for just to survive and count the community Santa Cruz is a very expensive place to live I've had many wonderful teachers every year who have been inspiring and have pushed me in so many ways and if you work with them I probably wouldn't have created this cat project where I speak out towards my college teachers I have had and I would have not been here to talk to you about this issue that's going on in our school Thank you Thank you Madam President Dr. Reed's board I'm here to talk about a subject I talked to you about six months ago and a year ago the health benefits program presently it's 15% of our budget in 12 years that the amount of money we spend on health benefits will double that's creating and already has created a clouding out of the budget so we have less and less money that we can give to our teachers and our classified employees so 12 years from now you'll actually have to cut the wages of our teachers and classified because our health benefits will be sucking up too much of our money so I've asked in the past that we should be having a review 40 million dollars we spend on health benefits we've never had a review does anybody know how much is being spent on claims about that 40 million and why don't we know because we've never had a review so my suggestion is put it on the agenda let's have a review let's see what's going on with our health benefits I have no idea because we've never reviewed okay second subject I want to compliment the district it's a wonderful idea to have here it's a a ploy in negotiating with the unions because it's cold in here and you know I have my coat on I didn't wear it up but by showing that we don't have enough money to keep the building our budgets are too tight so way to go nice ploy thank you very much next up we have Stacy Anderson what are your concerns about our staffing what are you guys going to be doing about work permit for getting us some more teachers I have two kids in the self apartment we've had kids that have had such a few teachers for the last year they haven't had a lot of teachers we don't have enough continuing education our gen ed teachers that are wanting to deal with the staff and the kids that have autism for example and so many of our kids are in general education now they've been in the least restrictive environment gallery and unfortunately these gen ed teachers don't know how to handle these behaviors so how are we as a district going to support our staff in teaching these gen ed teachers how to handle them I'm here to ask for help for our teachers our kids because they need it I see a lot of support for the charter school which is great they're doing fantastic things and they have a lot of new fancy things we have a lot of schools that don't have them I have a kid that's doing APE in a hallway that's really I don't think beneficial I personally think that we really need to reevaluate our priorities and start putting our best work forward get our teachers something good continuing education so they know how to handle our kids so they can help us and help support them better instead of just sending them to the principal's office because they're misbehaving and that's not fair to them we have Tammy then after thank you all for your service it's an important job and not always fun so I have something to share I'm sure you all know that research demonstrates that meaningful engagement of families in their children's education positively impacts school readiness and later academic success there's higher academic achievement they enroll in more challenging academic programs they have better attendance at school they have improved behavior at home and at school and they have better social skills and adjustment to school and we want those outcomes for all of our students what my personal goal is to have a teacher and soldier my personal goal is to have one adult from every family offered as a volunteer to be able to help out in the classroom to be able to attend field trips and so on however the procedure for becoming an authorized volunteer is very simple and so I would like to see us as a school district make it as convenient as possible for families to become volunteers I totally support the safety concerns for wanting them to be authorized I spoke with one of my colleagues and she said I asked her today can you think I should go to the board meeting and share this and she said I did a few years ago the same exact thing that you want to do tonight I proposed the same exact thing and what I would like to see happen is I would like to see the school district provide medical professionals to go to the schools and do T.V. testing and then also go back to read the T.V. tests so the families don't have to take two trips to the doctor and then also to have a mobile life scan program where the school district can come out to schools and do the fingerprinting so that the families don't have to take two trips to the doctor at least one trip to HR that's burdens them to some families, especially the families whose students are at the most risk that's the most burdens them for those families so anyway that's my idea and it's something I feel very passionate about and I am a more effective teacher when I have more adults in my classroom especially T.K. hardly anybody comes in with their children with their parents already authorized as a volunteer I get a few, but not very many so that burden comes on me to try to make sure the parents are authorized and please make my dream a reality thank you I have something here and I think you're going to go but I want to give you the commending on this in the last two years the previous governing board at the direction of trustee we did change to my recollection and please trust me to serve my analysis and help me on this how we do our TB testing that we are now we are providing that at a fee free service so we have moved in some positive direction over the last two years so to say that we haven't done anything in the last two years is really incorrect I do hear what you're asking about and wow that would be nice to have the ability to have satellite locations come on site but I do want to recognize the previous governing board which four of us were a part of and particularly trustee we're having written in the TB testing screening issue upfront and that was addressed over the last two years so thank you trustee it's thank you it's Sophia my name is Sophia Elizondo and I'm currently a senior at Watsonville High over my years at WHS I have been given many opportunities to excel my teachers have gone above and beyond for both myself and my peers I will be forever grateful to the WHS teachers that have defined my high school experience and put me to succeed I'm dying support encouragement that I have been able to make it as far as I can I cannot say in full confidence that I can work from the district every year I am forced to say goodbye to teachers simply because they can no longer afford to live in the area these teachers did not want to leave instead they were forced to make the decision between staying with QQSD or fulfilling their own personal goals whether it is starting a family in a place they could afford to wanting the option to retire earlier or wanting to not have to take on supplemental jobs I do not blame them for their decisions exceptional teachers is a symptom of a larger problem that QQSD contributes to the teacher paying help team is the percent by which public school teachers are paying less than comfortable work teachers wages have stagnated since the mid 90s reaching a wage penalty of 18.7% in 2017 this gap only continues to grow larger improvements to benefits for teachers compared to professionals have not been enough to offset the growing wage penalty these are facts backed up by a recent study completed by the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley and the Economic Policy Institute no incentive outside our chosen for college graduates to choose a career in teaching the shortage of teachers we face is a result of this reality if we want our children to succeed we must ensure that effective teachers are at our school compensation is a major component to the retention of experienced teachers in the recruitment of qualified individuals we should strive for a teacher where teaching is a highly sought out profession where preparing our youth to be the future leaders of our country is a point of pride when I come back to Watsa Wuhai I want to see it thriving I do not want this exodus of great teachers to continue this is why I urge the district to invest in our students by prioritizing fair teacher compensation when deciding the allocation of funds in the school years to come thank you we have Alissa Wagner and then we have Banki Strangbrunner and Sean Schwung come up good evening my name is Alissa Wagner retired from Imperial College when I taught English and environmental actress I'm also now a volunteer and resident with the Watsa Wuhai and I am also a member of the Friends of the Swallows at Pahalo Valley High School the Cliff Swallows at Pahalo Valley High School are widens who make the long trek all the way from Argentina every year affording this high school with its mandate to be environmentally oriented a unique opportunity to educate and thanks to Joe D. Mingus's advocacy for the swallows students at the high school are able both to learn and to teach about these amazing birds to coexist with nature not dominate or destroy it we are all very fortunate that Mr. Domingues has set a stellar example by giving a voice to the swallows reminding us to be good stewards of the earth our one precious planet thank you my name is Becky Steinbrenner I am also one of the Friends of the Cliff Swallows at Pahalo Valley High School a year ago I made a point when I was talking with some ladies at the high school and it was not going well and those were being knocked down the staff were upset, the students were upset and the birds were very upset and they were fighting and I met Joe D. Mingus at the campus and we walked around and talked and he looked at me and said you're right, we can do better and that was the best name I've ever had it's a true honor to come across the person like Mr. Domingues that I consider a hero he's turned things around to the school he's taken a risk he's been willing to work with and now things are much better it has cost some money that it cost a whole lot more before trying to keep the birds from messing I really want to thank Joe D. Mingus and I really want to thank the staff and the students who are making this story a success because these birds, as Arisa said come from Argentina every year to raise their young they don't raise young in Argentina they come here to raise their young it's a great story for what's going on in Watsonville and the Paro Valley it's a great learning tool and thanks to Joe D. Mingus Paro Valley High School is supporting it enriching the experience and educating our students and their families and staff and community and we really want to thank him we have a little presentation here from him Joe we can't thank you enough what we're giving Joe here a photo that was in the register of Paro Valley highlighting a work day last fall that he came to and you came to and students and staff came to and it really was a great event and it is signed by staff students, some of the Watsonville wetlands steward who are now going out and educating themselves to go out and teach other students about what's going on with these swaths thank you Joe, we really really appreciate it next we have Sean Schrupp can I say one more thing I want to hear about the flower students in the circle but for the support because it always helps to have support from other places and we're very grateful I also want to give copies to the board of a choir that our group created to hand out to others and I'll leave this a couple of the laminated educational sign that is put out around the campus so that kids and staff and parents understand what's going on and one last thing I wanted to really recognize the vet Hayden who works at the school and has really been the heart and soul of the efforts there and to a Lisa Wacker for the Watsonville wetlands community they really have a huge difference and I can't thank them all for but thank you thank you good evening my name is Sean Schrupp and I'm a shared adventures volunteer shared adventures is a non-profit that supports your special needs and disabled students by offering free outdoor activities like gardening and indoor learnings like party parties, dances, bowling and arts on June 13th and I have a single signature with that day on the beach the event is open to the public free and we'll have activities and local music and food double kayak and outlinger canoe rides are free for anyone of any age with a disability all they have to do is register online at sharedadventures.org volunteers and the carpenters will build accessible rock rails to make it easier to get close to the water a covered dining area and if you're self-getting into a wet suit and cloak we can help them into the game Registration will be open a couple of weeks before the June 13th event at sharedadventures.org Shared adventures is 30 years old and I started volunteering about 16 years ago over the years I've met many of the U.S.D. special ed teachers and district nurses who've asked for shared adventures to include South County in our big event and in year-round activities I met some at the Vision Center and the county meetings who asked me to tell you about the online vision survey which was a new way for South County to represent its needs publicly after that announcement in a short amount of time the mailing list grew about 13% due to the participation of the Watsonville community and the number one action will be returned in the surveys from South County as justice Shared adventures thanks to the U.S.D. educators, nurses and staff are speaking up for the needs of special education students for all your students, educators and schools needs. Tonight I'm here to invite Watsonville and all the South County to share adventures in the June 13th at Calis Beach Join the event come just to see what we're doing or volunteer and support your special needs and disabled communities and your adaptive ethics. Have a good night. Thank you. I'm going to be sitting in the same residence three minutes while I'm trying to work here. I've been working here for over 25 years and my teacher needs now that we're going to have three schools in this area right now we're two and I have witnessed the traffic growth, the incidents so I'm going to have a new school that's coming here I'm asking people to please keep an eye and monitor the traffic because I have witnessed incidents where people have gotten hit children getting close to getting hit different situations people thought were parking and now to the end for some other residents around here it's getting to be no longer because of the amount of traffic and so hopefully we can work with the city of Watsonville and with the school district to monitor and to also keep it a safe area from California right here in this area to Burlington because right now we already have quite a bit of problems especially in Burlington coming down here the speedy sometimes I'll stand and make sure that the kids are able to close safely and that's not including my own children, my own family members so area of concern is the traffic and hopefully we'll not be at night there so maybe the first month we can have some articulation with the city or we can have a policeman or someone visible that can control and the traffic and help us with children being able to cross the street safely thank you for your time thank you I'm also on the board for the Salvation Army and we do do not want it in the Salvation Army area so I'll make sure as long as I'm on that board that's cool with the standing fake on it the other thing is I'd like to invite you to Music at the Park September 19th it's a good event that's going to happen the public value of the school district is going to be collaborating with Santa Cruz Symphony and hopefully we'll be having some young artists musicians playing on the first half of Music at the Park on September 19th and then the other half we'll have the Santa Cruz Symphony doing a performance and this is the project that I took upon myself and it's fulfilling so it's going to be a good event and I hope to see you all out there the other thing is on the 25th of May and the 26th of May is the Bureau of the Metro Center and I don't know if any of you know what the art is for here but we do need volunteers who got to throw some brushes out from that Bureau I also on that one I took that project on I said on the Metro Board and I thought it was important for a community to maintain that Bureau it's a historical Bureau and so with that I was able to get funding for it and that's going to go on and there's also going to be another new Bureau added on to the Metro so there's going to be a community input and so I'd really like to see the problem that we'll fight for the district of teachers and artists and everybody out there and getting involved like that okay? Thank you I think that's it Trustees, my name is Robert Lachman I'm a science teacher here at books I'm currently using are outdated and so good worn out they are not aligned with the new science standards and the years of use have left them torn and more I've made my request known from the district office but they insist that a digital curriculum can adequately eliminate the need for textbooks I respectfully disagree with this assessment for the following reasons number one, while we clearly want our students to be able to use 21st century technology, they are not treating any past computer science or data process I pilot a program in the fall and my students clearly require instruction in the fundamental data process website navigation and basic teamwork are foreign and classroom times consume continued machine technology besides curriculum secondary to tasks as simple as determining where the assignment was located on a website and how to submit that assignment once it was completed written responses were agonizing and slow because the students had not been trained in touch typing they simply hunt and pet which is a very bad habit for them to develop clearly the doctrine of the digital only curriculum will bog down science instruction by forcing instructors to teach data processing in lieu of the science curriculum number two, purchasing textbooks does not mean abandoning technology all textbook publishers include a digital component in their curriculum they provide websites that include a variety of digital text and activities the choices in our copy of digital provides greater flexibility in short, if you buy textbooks, you can get both number three, California Ed Code section 60119 requires that schools provide sufficient textbooks aligned with current standards purchase of NGSSS next generation science standards aligned textbooks that include a digital component would clearly satisfy this regulation compliance with these familiar williams regulations can best be assured by purchasing new textbooks finding things in the search for a perfect digital platform is never in need the district office has been experimenting with various web-based curricula and proposing assorted pilot programs for several years now as a matter of fact I'm going to another symposium this summer where we're going to review four more digital curricula one must wonder if there is an incentive to ever resolve this issue I have a request that Mr. Purchase enough textbooks for our students we need three sets of integrated science textbooks aligned with the next generation science standards Mr. Hump I'm sorry I'll skip to this skip to this point basically there's a matching you cannot read to learn until you learn to read you can use the same match the students cannot use computers to learn until they learn if we're going to go all digital we need to we need to teach them how to read you can't just give a 10 year old a PC I expect you know what to do with it I'm sorry I'm going over my time okay we have the employees organizations final valley federation teachers do we have somebody here okay good evening Dr. Rodriguez my name is Laura Zucker I'm a member of the final valley federation teachers also the negotiations team and a site special education and vice president of local education for local education I'm only here with so many of the young members of the final valley federation teachers including Francisco our president and Sarah and now our chief negotiator are in Sacramento with thousands of other teachers right lobbying to get some very good bills passed that will better fund our schools and make the the process of approving or not approving charter schools much more democratic so as you know we've been in support of these charter school laws to bring central charter school law reform into being and today good news today in Sacramento I got this update AB 1505 which some of us went back where it went to Sacramento the law before a couple weeks ago we see the necessary votes to get out of the assembly AB 1505 will bring back local control oops to the school boards so that when the school board denies the charter or approves the charter our decision stands yay yay I'm talking about private charters of course we love our charter schools that are democratically run and accountable to the public we just want to build charter schools we are in some kind of center okay now the bill still has a way to go so we will continue to request your support continue to request your support and that as the public also to ensure that charter school law reform second point and I'll be done with the other PDFT respectfully expects to be full and equal participant in the implementation which is coming up of full day kindergarten classes the English language master plan which we'll be talking about tonight and the implementation of dual learning centers the special ed plan for learning centers at every site we'll be glad to be able to work with you all in the implementation of these three important things okay thank you very much y'all good night thank you good evening Dr. Rodriguez has been Karen Osmondson and board of trustees today I was happy to award our first robber Bobby Salazar Scholeschen and at us high school thank you Dr. Rodriguez for all your love and support for the Salazar family we truly appreciate it I'm looking forward to our upcoming negotiations I also met with Kristen Salazar earlier this week in regards to wants a mobility for life so she's guaranteeing your support but we're going to try really hard I'm looking forward to the end of this year and the beginning of the new one with lots of success thank you very much and CWA communication workers of America okay at number nine our action items this one's a very important action item it's about the master plan for English learners nine point he's going to do it director of equity and state figure so they can't really remember the board Dr. Rodriguez I have to tell you I apologize I miss read how much time I had so this presentation is longer than the minutes a lot of time both quickly I do want to say that you see me a lot this year for some good stuff this is the highlight for me this is some really good stuff and I take no credit in this other than being part of the team the team started before I got involved for the last two years they've been working hard to update the prior plan and then dramatically add to it in a visionary piece and that's kind of what I want to talk mostly about quickly the plan that we had was very compliance based to talk about the things that we needed to have in a master plan and the services and procedures that we need to have for English learners little context global 2030 calls for by the year 2030 half of our graduating seniors to be bilingual and biliterate those students are in first grade right now so this is something that is current and it's in our schools and we are as we talked about last time we are increasing the number of students graduating with a seal of biliteracy we need to continue that progress also in the context of a road map that we'll be talking about in the next item it calls for four principles to actualize the Prop 58 first two assets oriented in these response in schools and intellectual quality instruction and meaningful access those are the key priorities the next two are really about the systems conditions and alignment that we have throughout our district and county to support those first two that is another piece of context is we know that our students can't achieve there's a lot of research coming out including the opportunity that says when we provide these particular things our students regardless of their language their background they can't achieve we need to make sure that we're providing that and this encourages the asset base mindset so this new master plan for English learning success is built on the revisions of the previous one but also on research best practices and legislation it's driven by the vision that the team created followed by the theory of action and the steps required to achieve the goals established it's broken up into three key component parts the language development approach called the LDA is what we want to see in every classroom the core educator capacities are what we want all of our educators administrators teachers everyone the skills and understandings that we all want to possess in order to achieve the LDA that we want to see in our classroom and provide our students with the greatest opportunity to succeed and the instructional models that we currently have and also with language about where we want to see them go and which ones are endorsed by research I'm going to skip through most of these I do want to remove the vision statement because I think it's powerful we honor and develop the cultural and linguistic assets of all students by providing rigorous and equitable academic opportunities enabling all English learners to graduate with multiple post-secondary options I believe that comes from the target of success the mission and vision of the district and really crystallizes what the intent of this document is about one thing that we've been sharing and talking a lot about with all the teams that we've been taking this to is we have a lot of great things happening in our district a lot of initiatives and rather than viewing as district we see with this the Yellow Road map and the master plan as a larger lens we see the opportunities for great alignment and we're really seeing the more that we develop this and the more that we see what else is going on the more we see those places where we can really bring everything together and make sure that when we're talking about PBIS or science or foundation literacy that's what we are talking about that's practices for English learners as well I'm going to skip through some of the some of the text one thing that's really highlighted is that we need to make sure that we build a great ability into all that we do we need to make sure that we have academic language in all that we do not just the designated ability at the time so this is just a quick graphic to show most of the day needs to have academic language in it these are the core capacities that we have starting with administration and coaches and ELSs we're going to be developing these modules professional development modules that will provide interrelated these are interrelated concepts and skills our goal is to build these modules so that they build upon each other so that within the next five years all of our current staff will have the skills and understandings in order to provide for our students quick timeline it's already outdated but really what it shows is that it's probably going to take each individual three to four years to go through the sequence of 10 modules and it has entry points for any new employees as they come it does talk about our instructional models I'm imagining that this is a place that there's going to be a lot of conversation and shout outs to what is changing in this notice number one is the academic language and literacy the all program currently we have SEIs we have EO and we have PLM all in one classroom that's where English is the predominant language or the only language being instructed what this does is it establishes the language development approach that we have as the core of what that program is it's the core of all of our programs the dual language program the goal at the end of K5 is literacy and then the early exit transitional model it is still a current model but we do call out explicitly that it's not supported by research as indicated in this graph I know that my time's up I can keep going or you guys can ask questions I'm pretty sure there's any questions going to that do this slide, please ask me to do this slide basically this is all term data on students in different programs so if you see the NCI program that start that's a program that has a lot of English the English immersion it starts off with greater academic progress but in the long run those students perform more academic indicators than the students of the other enrolled in the other programs the next one that starts up higher and it ends up lower that's a program that I called out late exit is a model currently in two of our elementary schools and then there's a dual language model which we are trying to build and increase and improve throughout our district with more school the theory of action followed by the step-by-step process that we need to go through to achieve our goals and then the next question I really appreciate especially the strategic goals and the families and community I have two questions one is regarding the dual language to an instructional model and you tell us how this method of supporting our English learners is also beneficial to the native English speakers in the classroom it's beneficial to both the native English speakers as a student who's primary language other than English there's strong research for a strong development of critical thinking cognitive skills as well as general brain development obviously there's the second language skills that are developed and this is cited in the next item that we have the ability to participate in a multi-lingual 21st century economy also the intercultural competencies that are built into that that's actually a piece of our LDA as well it's also linked to additional long-term advantages and benefits like improved attendance lower dropout rates and like it says what's that high graduation rates and also overall test scores my other question was there was a component about adequate position to support the director of equity services and the district has been criticized for having a lot of administrative positions how do you envision this position being hold out so this initially was a recommendation from the team before I came on board and through the discussions towards the end of the development this once we had this pretty solidified we re-engaged the team with the conversation they had two recommendations characteristics that they wanted to see from this explicitly that they wanted an administrator they actually wanted two coordinators out of this job specifically a leader capable of providing direction to administration having courageous conversations overseeing and monitoring and supporting both the development and expansion of the dual language models which is a big scope job and also the improvement and better the deployment of our integrated and designated ELD throughout the district they also wanted just to have the general administrative influence and the idea was that it would kind of be an instructional leader and a model of our coordinator of early literacy the way that Linda paid is rolling out the SIPPS program we've seen great effects from that and we ideally need a model of that position we mentioned the new employee but new employee is at an entry point how would that look like for that's a good question it kind of depends on the timing of when that I would love to create an onboarding version for long term subs I don't know what the dynamics of that would be look like but I would welcome it the idea is that once we have the modules built it's not going to be the northern or just the coordinator going out and doing the PD the idea is to have the team that built it start doing the professional development start doing administrators and then as certain individuals gain proficiency and confidence with those pieces of it maybe they take one module on maybe they take all the modules on but the idea is to build the capacity within the district because we have a lot of talent skill in our district it would be to disseminate that not only the skills to implement but also the skills to train it and make it a systematic piece of what we do of business as usual in our district so through Alice and Izawa our Director of Certificate she is going to already be doing a support session during SVC days with all of our substitutes so she currently has a plan in place during the SVC days in order to be able to do that and she will be working they're doing the meat of the program right now a lot of it is compliance but also directed towards effective instruction for our students and so I'm sure that they will partner together to be able to look at those modules and do pieces of those modules as we move forward with it but that will start occurring at the beginning of next year during the SVC days which are days in which we provide professional development to all of our permanent and temporary teachers and there are no students present so it's the perfect time to do so I just want to make sure that I get to address because I know I've been at three of my mentors and we have some issues with subs and I just want to make sure that and part of the theory of action and action steps calls for a lot of work between our department and human resources to ensure that if we are going to grow our programs we need to make sure that we're hiring credentialed teachers, B-class teachers to fill those roles and then as far as the programs on behalf currently in place I think we're all over the place right so are we looking as far as is it really just one model for all schools that run our medical programs or what's the plan? So one of the things that the plan calls for is the development of two teams one of them is the the leadership council which is a monitoring body the idea is that there will be teachers and administrators and if possible community members and parents involved and that is the monitoring body that will establish benchmarks and timelines that we have and help us stay on track and if we get on track help support us as a district to get back on track. The other team is called it was called the BL team but everybody laughs about that one it's the dual language leadership team and that team again, consisting of teachers, administrators that have a passion for and knowledge of dual language programs they get together to do some intensive training and they will be the guides to support sites when parents and staff say hey we really want to move towards these programs help us get there, we will have a body in place to do that and it's based on parent it's parent preference it's based on capacity it's also based on what the community the local community does for example as you see in number two we have a lot of different kinds of dual language programs they would have that community we decide what's best for them and is there a process that we're currently working on to ensure that parents are aware of how they can voice their opinion as far as what program they would see at their schools or advocate on their child's behalf if there's currently a program there? we just went through FPM and that was one of the items that they looked at and we did need compliance on that but I'll contest it we do need to go the next step to actually say rather than just do you want an alternative program if you could what would that program be? we have a couple sites that we are piloting a different kind of questionnaire and we're in the early phases of that but the intention is to get more accurate a more accurate understanding of what parents want in each thing great and I hope that's part of that process we go away with this trend of discouraging parents decide on their kids into other programs so that's my opinion the goal is to provide every opportunity possible to have students in the programs that their parents would like thank you to continue to respond to your question is going back to the graphic which shows which are programs that actually have the highest impact on students we are supporting the programs and we're encouraging transition to the programs that provide the highest level of results so as you can see from here the early exit has significantly less results than late exit and dual language and so we are in the process it's not a force at this point but we are in the process of encouraging people to look at the data and we know significantly that early exit does not provide as good of supports for our students as possible late exit and dual language specific and our hope is that with the all model even that the SEI line will be raised because of the practices that are employed by the teachers in those classes as well so I just want to say we have to really work super hard to be able to recruit teachers that have B-clad or that they can get B-clad to be able to move on to this more late exit or dual language programs and I would imagine we would be looking at having more schools and obviously with parent involvement become dual language schools I mean right now we have alliance of course and we're working with freedom right and I would imagine that we would be looking towards having other schools besides just freedom become dual language schools and I'm not sure what is the going to be the next steps in terms of looking towards doing that in other schools that would be the next steps you can tell them that you can either be I was thinking about so a couple of examples Starlight and Hyde have different programs Hyde is looking to freedom as a leader school to emulate what they're doing and so they're starting their planning year next year where they're going to really dive in with their bilingual team and see what the specifics of their program are they're already K5 school Starlight is a 50-50 school and they're pretty well established and they're going to use this and Jack and Erin are both members of the team that develop this plan and so they're going to build on their understanding of the team we've also been talking to other schools that are K3 that are early kids that are really passionate about it and those are some of the schools that I mentioned about piloting what would it look like for those sites to go K5 now that they're K3 but strong K3 and then take it K5 and again the process goes back to establishing that DLL team and having that team working with the teachers and administrators on identifying what the best version of the model would look like at that site Thank you Any more questions? One thing I wanted to add about the staffing the plan also called out for working with local institutions and community members and trying to support IAS becoming teachers getting V-clads of teachers who are currently class teachers becoming V-clads trying to find as many ways into providing the teachers we need who are passionate about the programs Thank you Well you're on our next one too So 9.2 Thank you Oh here we are This is an action I know Okay I'm going to call for a motion We have a second Okay All those in favor Aye All those opposed So 9.2 is the proof the resolution 58 and the State Board of Education's EL roadmap and the report Thank you Yeah I really appreciate the last few resolutions that have been translated so I thought I would read a few of the highlights in both English and Spanish if that's cool Again this resolution is in support of Proposition 58 which is the global edge and also the State Board of Education's EL roadmap both guides of the plan that we just discussed whereas Proposition 58 Education for Global Economy passed by over 70% majority on November 8, 2016 reflecting California's strong support for preparing all students for college careers in a multi-lingual 21st century economy Considering that 42% of students in the district are actually learning English as a language and have the opportunity to learn both in English and in native language to increase their possibilities of high-end in the school which leads to higher education Whereas the district is committed to providing opportunities for Spanish-speaking students starting in ECE to be constructed to achieve proficiency in a second language so that they will be better prepared to compete in the global workforce as multilingual speakers whereas the district is committed to reminding all of its programs and services for EL students with the State Board's EL roadmap and is committed to providing all parents various language acquisition program options starting in ECE as a result of which Power Value in the School District is committed to developing and strengthening the program options of language acquisition for district students which include programs of double immersion, bilingual and language acquisition in the world Result of Power Value in the School District is committed to evaluating current programs and services for district EL students in order to determine what changes may be needed in order to ensure alignment with the State Board's EL roadmap I'll make a motion to approve this resolution Can I have a vote? All those in favor? Thank you Through three approved partnership agreement services agreement PSA 19 016 with UCSC for gear up that's correct so in October Right Christian, chef Christian chef In October the Board went through a partnership with the University of Santa Cruz the educational partnership with the Eurogram really focusing on making sure that all of our students have the opportunity to really see that college is an option for them as well As a result we need to mention that the MOC was in place to govern that work and still use verbal laws and regulations in regards to data in addition to fingerprinting laws, etc the MLU put forth governs this work for the next five years and is a seven year grant so we'll be bringing that back at that point to stay with it in our boundaries of MLUs as we've done in the district so although for five years we'll come back to the Board to extend those two years but it is a seven year process and partnership that we're looking at and it's a process piece that we're lending and approval of the MLU so that that work can continue Alright, any questions? Yes I noticed a bit earlier about the British School having this in any way to be emphasized as far as teaching pathways in America No, in fact as we've been talking about pathway computers and working with both students and so we already a lot of that is making sure that our students are graduating with both options so we can give our students options so that they can kind of decide what that works like and the guy has to make that decision as well The partnership has also blended itself to us and many, the Naviance program as well so that vertical alignment that you've seen moved down to middle school as well as high school Giro is involved in that work as well so we're really looking at at the end of the seven years we're doing these pieces that are very sustainable to our sites as well which will help kind of carry that work forward in high school with an entire student portfolio and options and career inspirations as well as colleges that will fit what they're looking for as individuals I just want to ask you exactly how they work gear up with all of our students in those high schools I mean what is the way that they, you know go out there with students and how to do Sure, so it actually is a significant partnership which is incredibly flexible to the district as well so part of that work is that we've done on the backside of that it's just a down time of numerous conversations but essentially what it looks like is the number of staff that they also support so they do family outreach, parent education the Naviance scope and sequence they're working on but they're also looking at the embedding of the pieces that we already have in place so as we talk about EIS as we talk about MTSS, what are those roles and functions that they can help serve so that it really becomes a seamless system of them integrating into our systems rather than becoming a silo effect or another plate piece where people can't engage, how do I do that and how do I put it together so you definitely see an increase in the number of staff doing trainings not only to our staff but also in the inclusion of our site leaders so our site leaders have been super integral and involved in the workshops that they're providing, we just have more of our rules and principles and we're in the meetings to really explore the depth of their understanding and all of the impacts of this will have for our kids so these are, and I think Gearup is specifically right now working at the middle schools they might work with the high schools but they're specifically working with the middle schools so they are committed to both our middle and high school students to make sure so they're working with the middle school students and moving them into the high school hopefully and helping them go through that process as well no questions I'll make a motion to approve can I have a vote of those opposed 7-0 okay 9.4 CCAP agreement educational purposes courses and this is going to be presented by you Dr. Rodriguez so as we've been mentioning before our goal, one of our goals for our CTE pathways is that during that third year so the third course that it ends in one of three ways right so we want it either to end in internship, certification or we want it to end in dual enrollment so this you will see is the first step towards making that a reality so Cabrillo College worked with us as one of the first school districts in the county in order to develop this MOU it also is based off of AB 288 so it's a statewide effort to make this happen but what basically happens is children within high school have the ability to take a college level course that they get college level credit for that they can be transferred once they graduate from high school so they can come into college with already having credits on the books in this case there's two different courses that you'll see one is MA 70 which is a health careers and medical technology course that is going to be supporting about a total of 340 students in that pathway and then the second one is DM 4 and that is a digital graphic design pathway we purposely wanted to make sure that there was parity so you may remember before when I talked about articulation courses that there wasn't parity meaning that each high school had a different criteria for completion this ensures that we not only have parity across the three but we also have one that is based out of the north zone and one that is based out of the south all both courses are available to all students but we felt it was very important that the physical location that there was one in each location just to ensure our dedication that all of our students have access to dual enrollment courses this will of course grow over time part of these MOUs requires that we specifically state not only what courses they are but also the locations and how many possible students and so this will is a first two courses we will bring additional courses forward as we move forward and they do additional dual enrollment I think that's really important that our students and Bob Coney have the ability to do these pathways and get ahead and start with their college education and get it different so I am a Cabrera college employee and my program would be a direct beneficiary so I would be abstaining from the vote but I won't speak in support of it and the nursing program would recognize a strong need for our healthcare workforce to reflect the demographics of our community and these types of programs really have a great way to bring in communities that have traditionally underrepresented so I support it, I just would abstain from the vote OK, because you are too close involved OK, how were the three schools selected? So we did it for our comprehensive high schools so in this case it's all three comprehensive high schools Aptos, Waterville and Pajaro Valley High School at this time Any other comments? Approval? Abstentions, I forgot new abstentions are different That's right So 9.5 is also Dr. Rodriguez We are going to have a second reading board policy 42.56 2 awards in recognition we know about that report will be presented in regards to the innovator of the year OK, go ahead So yes, on June 3rd at this is approved on June 3rd at 6pm we will be having our first innovator in the year award we will be providing eight employees for certificate in and for classified they know that they were awarded at the site level they do not know and will not know until the night of but who will receive the monetary award this specifically limits us to the innovator of the year award so we cannot give monetary awards to any other function over 200 that's an end code but this would allow us to provide $250 to each one of those eight employees and we hope that the board approves the new board policy so that we can follow through and do that recognition for our employees This is through understanding when our previous governing body adopted and brought in the foundation was that that foundation is going to be 100% self funding not reliant on this district to be funding it so why are we at this structure where now the school district is funding this foundation has the foundation not raised the funds to be able to self fund this why are we at this structure at this point so it's exactly that so what we have dedicated to do within the foundation is that for the first event we said that the district would sponsor that event because at this current point we have not made sufficient contributions what we do feel and it was mentioned last time what we do feel is that with this event that there will be more publicity and support for it when we brought it to the foundation and specifically with the support of the certificated teacher that is now on our board she felt and the rest of the board felt that a monetary award would support people with really thinking that the innovative year award was a contribution so what we had said as a group was that what would be the max that we would want to put district funding for so we came up with 250 would be that maximum so although it is a contribution from the district of $2,000 we feel that it's a good contribution and will eventually bring in much more hopefully the foundation will be self sustaining in the near future but we feel it needs to have an impact on how important you are to draw significant employee and community support for me I was a city governing board member when we adopted this and approved it that was not the intent of it and my understanding at that time and I voted yes to support approving the foundation so I feel this completely derailed from that to me as a city trustee who voted to approve it with the understanding that that foundation will be fully self supporting it's clearly not, I do hear what you're saying it's kind of like to try to kick it off and hope that it's successful but it's like any business venture if it can't be successful on its own then maybe it's not meant to be as sad as that is to hear that's just the reality of the real world so I will be voting no against this tonight because this is not in my understanding of what I voted yes for with the previous governing board to support the foundation that was from tentative purpose was to be completely self-funding not alive to come to this district I just want to say that you can't support a nonprofit foundation with no staff in the foundation to write grants to bring in the money to do the marketing to do everything that it takes to make it sustainable so I would like to ask us to bring this back as maybe an item that we can discuss with a plan about how we are going to make it self sustaining I think the district will have to make initial investment potentially even in a .5 position to start bringing in the dollars that we now are out there to support these very deserving students in our district so I would like to see us actually as a district fund a staff person so that we can get this thing off the ground the other thing that would really help is if the board members that are sitting up here have not made an appointment to the board I think you should all look at that very closely every one of you should be have appointed somebody to the board if you haven't done that yet two more board members if they feel that they could as you would say there are room for two but really what we really need are people who are movers and shakers who can bring in the phone for peace like in my case I wanted to be on the board because I am a grant writer but I chose somebody else who works at Grand Rock very high up and some good big ideas so I sort of self-sacrifice myself to put somebody else on the board that I thought would be more beneficial than myself so I wish that other people could do that too but we really need to look at to building it it's going to take some investment and really support our district investing in it so that's what I have to say so with that if there are no other comments I will make a motion to support this tonight I would actually just like to piggyback trust me to surface comments some of her points I really really agree with and it would be nice to see this continue to exist to exist in what I believe how it was presented to the previous seven member governing body which more of us are still sitting here that it was going to be completely self-sustaining I understand the difficulties of a non-profit getting it up and running especially non-staffed I also think a perceived perception by some of us and particularly me and maybe you other three did not have this was that it was going to be those board members that were going to help raise these funds and get it up and self-sustaining and self-running and it's just if it's not there then why are we doing this right now why not wait till it is there where it could be self-sustaining and two I agree with the trustee to serve but we need to bring this back to this board because if it can't get moved into the direction to be completely self-sustaining as hard as it is and it may sound harsh we need to consider the options of dispensing with it because it's not something else that the district needs to take on as another responsibility and liability and I'll still continue to hold my position on voting no on it tonight with agreement to submit your points that the board needs to just keep in mind that this is a fairly new no-profit and it was voted on just last year and we've never really had a full board right and partially because one board members had not designated a member to circle that board so obviously a two board member body can not do all the work so the first year was dedicated solely to getting our bylaws up to it and having at least three board members that we needed to actually call it a non-profit and extra foundation so I think I hear what we're saying I think it does need to be self-sustained but at the same time I think if we're really committed to making this work then we gotta make sure that we have the correct people on our board and not wait a year two years, 12 points on walking to those positions and so with that I would like to I would like to second that motion and we'll leave this over and I would just like to further reiterate that moment that's why I'm suggesting maybe now this year because you did comment on it it is new so maybe now it's not the time to be like this just food for thought you're all gonna vote how you're gonna vote I mean I know what how this was presented to me as a sitting governing board member and this is not what it was so I'm not okay with it and that would be my last statement thanks I just wanted to add I just wanted to add to that as maybe as new board members who haven't appointed someone to take our place that the next meeting can have an appointee already to bring to the board's attention or let them know if we want to sit on the foundation ourselves I'm going to support this but I think we should listen to this trustee across those words and take a look at this again we'll be a bit closer we'll move on talking about our city councilmen our summer in the city internship program and this is going to be presented by Kiro Tis director of extended reserve good evening President Osmondson, Dr. Rodriguez this Emily is just an extension of what we did last year that you will approve and we established our pilot internship program at the city of Watsonville we had our first two meetings with the city actually earlier today the two teachers who taught the program last year were very excited and are coming back and have great ideas of improving on the program this year and getting our students excited and ready to go I would like to also let you know that the last day of the program which is July 5th is the graduation and the student presentations and I hope you're all able to attend as well July 5th discussion about this great program and I'll be supporting it fully so I'll make a motion so there's going to be is there 21 students that are going to come yes actually I'm glad you asked that today one student that the teachers were very hesitant to let go of all the applications they've received the great applications so we're able to squeeze in one more so it's actually going to be 22 okay no motion and we have a second to move okay I'm all those in favor aye aye and it's 61 it's not here thank you great okay 9.7 and this is the approved memorandum of understanding between Pacific Oaks College and part of Alley and Fettsville district with Shona Keating Dr. Shona Keating and Ms. Allison thank you thank you thank you thank you this action item along with item 9.8 is part of a growing number of multiple annual contracts and memorandum of understandings with colleges and universities that include Cal State University which we already have as well as the University of California campuses nationwide teacher recruitment continues to be a challenge for many school districts and thanks to our board and our superintendent of your support for previous action items for mentoring and continuing collaboration with PDFT and TPN colleges we are building a much more robust mentor program so our interns can continue to thrive and grow interns are partnered with our seasoned teachers within the district who provide guidance on district initiatives and instruction practices as well as the interns can improve their educational success and fall in love with the communities and the students that we serve they become more reliable and motivated source for new hires to develop vacancies this particular memorandum of understandings with Pacific Oaks College a nonprofit institution located in Pasadena California will form a partnership in providing and coordinating services as part of the college intern program serving multiple subject and mild moderate special education interns any public speakers I received and any discussion for the board I mean so can I have a motion I'll make a motion but I how much does this cost your district for every employee who goes into the broad for employee when we hired interns they are hired as teachers because there's a way of credentials so we pay for the interns and that that potential is that potential waiver meets the requirements of the students that you know to be able to teach in a classroom they're reversing us the universities have liability insurance plus they also give a second to the master teachers that comes out of the classroom but are we paying this a bit support the teachers in the classrooms and build their requirements understanding between the two parties that they're going to release and provide internship credentials and that the internal support for the classroom they will match the teacher and fill that out in the future that they're so they're paying their tuition this is not the program where we are bringing people up and paying tuition the second hit all those in favor next one 9.8 is by Dr. Chonachaline and also this one is with brand brand of mud university thank you President Nausman Sen for trustee Dr. Rodriguez this action item is with Brandon University a similar internship program as 9.7 this is in regard to just psychology though right so the memorandum of understanding with Brandon will form a partnership in providing supervised teacher field education work in school psychology with a student population that is diverse in ethnicity culture language and social economics and special needs okay we have a motion all those in favor 9.9 new class description your duty supervisor report also by Dr. Chonachaline and I know that they're going to be now part of CSEA yes thank you President Nausman Sen for trustee Dr. Rodriguez this action item is to make sure that we are in compliance with a new state statute that took effect in this calendar year due to the new law assembly bill 2160 yard duty supervisor employees are part of the class service in Merrick Districts effective January 1, 2019 in order to comply with the new law and approve for these important positions a new class description was drafted and is being presented for your review and approval per state law the positions are paid at the current rate of $12 an hour and the class description will also be taken to the personnel commission at their meeting yes it's associated with these positions not yet we are going to have to work with CSEA to negotiate that they are part of the class of bike service but we have an memorandum of understanding with CSEA that at a later date we will negotiate their entry into the department and are these positions essentially just used over the lunch hour or are they used at other times at campuses just for clarification this position does it qualify to be part of the bargaining unit because these typically part time staffers that are kept outside because they work such few hours these are positions that in other district they are qualified under the bargaining unit but we as I had indicated earlier we have an memorandum of understanding with CSEA to negotiate their membership into the bargaining unit so what is the typical amount of hours a day that this position would work some of them are tied in with other positions so they do some food service work as well as you are doing so some of those positions are already in the bargaining unit but the standard of our doing ones are probably a change of 4 to 5 hours and so they will be benefitted that would be that would be dependent on what we negotiate with CSEA if they are under 4 hours these are not positions that will receive help in long period of time and you are taking that equation on a daily basis so I mean 4 hours of 5 days a week is 20 hours and what if one day worked 5 hours and then 4 days they worked 4 hours we will cost those hours out before we go into negotiations okay, no motion all those in favor all those opposed 7-0 okay 9.10 resolution full day kindergarten facilities grant program application resolution by Joe Dominguez, CBL good evening board president members of the board this item is to adopt a resolution so that PVSD can apply for the full day kindergarten facilities grant application it is a comparative grant process there is approximately $60 million state life and Governor Newsom made some adjustments for this funding round previous Governor Brown and Newsom through the transition this funding was available for districts who wanted to expand or implement grant before the AK and what the the state of California realizes that they had a tremendous amount of districts that applied to enhance or expand and were to modernize current classroom facilities and the spirit and intent of the original funding was to start grant new for districts like PVSD so if we currently do not have full AK this will allow us to potentially go after funding to implement facilities throughout our district we have in the process right now once the board approves this resolution we will prioritize our elementary school sites because once I as I mentioned it's a competitive process and we're trying to get as much funding as we can but one of for example out of the say 20 sites we want to make sure at least the top five get funding and we'll prioritize that and work with the state but this resolution allows us to apply for the grant okay no decision before right now I'm using full support and I've been pushing that for a while this is my now nice to see others actually finding that we can go after to implement full take care with that motion yes that is the motion second grant okay all those in favor aye thank you all those in favor okay 10.1 joint facility use initiative and this is by Joe Dominguez two procedures on facility use for for our district properties that's requested by the board this evening a short presentation on how we provide an update on our facility joint use agreement and then also how nonprofits or community based organizations sports leagues get access to our facilities so here you have what are our facility joint use agreements it's basically where districts for government entities like city entities and other agencies lack resources to provide facilities after school hours or in case in our example some of those concerns range from vandalism the cost of operating after school hours on the weekends both for labor and then also liability issues damage to the property for injuries during sporting events or community events joint use agreements are also called shared use or community use agreements so that term is used throughout the state of California what this does allow though for our facilities and nonprofits and other agencies to partner up and share resources so the joint facility use agreement allows us to come together as various entities and see how we can work together to provide the resources not only for our students but for our community after hours or in the weekends so for us we've been successful with Aptos Little League at Aptos Junior and there you have when they came to the board previously the board league agreement and then providing the team they're at Aptos Junior and they won the California District 39 champions that agreement where for a sample is that they provide an updated score board the maintenance of the sports fields the baseball fields and install a water fountain and are enhancing the snack shop and restaurant facilities and we're also in the special PD Sports Foundation at Freedom that's a similar agreement that's kind of being molded after Aptos Little League where they're going to make some capital outlay contributions to Freedom School their negotiations are still pending we're just in discussion phase right now but it does seem promising one of the items that they're willing to do is re-establish the old field provide three middle to high school soccer fields and one can be soccer field so that's another example and they're also talking about sport lighting and then also looking at restaurant facilities and also fencing to separate their fields from the campus so that's another option and then another one is the YMCA we are currently in discussion and this one sparked from the San Francisco 49ers and the NFL and we have to have a partner when we're developing sports fields and so YMCA is a good partner because they have those types of programs throughout our community and so we're in discussion as we speak and those will be searching other opportunities so first and foremost we have a positive working relationship with the City of Watsonville Parks and Rec and I have been meeting with the Parks and Rec Director right now and we brainstormed and looked at all our resources throughout the district and we completed let's say over 20-25 site visits and out of those site visits we came to about five school sites that would be in alignment with the City with their Parks and Recreation Master Plan throughout the community and so I'm going to look at those real quickly but Ann Solgo was one of them and we have the pros and the cons of the site and as you can see it's good site control there's irrigation we have a current existing joint use agreement that's expiring but we need to reestablish it some of the concerns I don't need to work on is the field needs to be level mainly bringing additional restaurants is also a concern and we have cofers and you'll see cofers throughout our on these slides but this one is very promising and we're making sure that it's a win-win whereas the City Parks and Rec has access they run it as a park but they also maintain the field they cut the grass the maintenance and the upkeep and so it kind of relieves and helps our general fund but at the same time it also is a resource to the community and that's kind of the spirit of all of them E8 Hall we looked at as a benefit for soccer league and middle league and those are the positives and then once again the field needs to be re-leveled and then another we're working on cost estimates right now to update the fields as a whole there's a potential for a concession stand and we're also looking at that as well one of the items that came up here was they have two gymnasiums but we need to make sure access points to the campus so that was one of the concerns as well another one was Cesar Chavez great for gymnasium indoor sports central location and it does align perfectly with their parks and rec plan so they were really excited about this one one of the things is for site control are access points and so we're going to work on that of how can we limit if we do open it up to the community and adults how do we limit the access and control of the site and one of the other items that we did mention similar to Watsonville high school softball field is we're going to need netting or additional fencing because parking lot or into the street and so that was a concern that we have for Cesar Chavez Cesar Chavez or Watsonville Cesar Chavez Starlight here is the pros and cons for Starlight they're actually looking at this one where it has a park space so we're also looking at researching that and there is some joint park grounds that are kind of reviewing right now so what would it look like if we after school hours open it up as a park so those are just preliminary discussions hey Jai was another one that they really liked as far as the space that was out there this one has a lot of potential the only challenge and we're getting cost estimates right now there's no irrigation on the large fields at all I was kind of surprised about that so I understand now why it's in the condition that it is so we're getting those cost estimates right now and the conversation also has to start like who's making that investment putting in irrigation to the field is that 50-50 is it the city, is it the district, is that the city so those are items that will be searching but I just wanted to share the top five in the facility use permit process and I know this was brought up we had some of the soccer leagues here but they meant to family commitments but I did meet with the two soccer leagues that came previous to the board and one of them did acquire liability insurance and they're following this process and so we have an online process which we go to our facilities use web page and then it outlines the process for Boy Scout soccer leagues they need to provide a certificate of liability of insurance and then a whole harmless identification agreement and that's very critical for the district because if there is a severe sports injury or a severe injury or an incident of the event and it could be it doesn't just have to be a sports event it could be a community event and if anything happens or anyone's injured it could be held liable and so this protects the district which allows that's our ability to open up our facilities to the community or nonprofits but there's some items that they have to have coverage for and one of the other items that I wanted to mention was we updated from the previous board presentation from the beginning of last year is the group classification and the facility use fees and they're broken in three categories class one, class two and class three class one is your PTA is for small scouts and majority of the students or our students and recreation and educational purposes the organizations need to provide a copy of their IRS exemption status letter making sure that they are a non-profit and then class two is for organizations that have a fee that's charged it's either a community wide or memberships are sold and they use it as a fundraiser or there's a profit within the group or event and then class three is for commercial and profit making organizations so traveling road shows car shows the different sports leagues that are actually tournament style that's where it would fall where there's actually a competitive profit and we can click on that in the link so here you have the facilities looking page and from my meetings with the soccer league representatives the first thing I noticed that this is all in English and so I have to make it user friendly and so now if we click on there we have it in Spanish and so we're working with that and making sure that it's easy to use and accessible and easy to understand for all our parents and community members so we're definitely moving forward with that and we can go back to the powerful and I'm just going to be real brief here but you log on and you register and you log in and you provide yourself and you can put your email and you have your own account number and as you go through this you're registering the system and this is all online and then you also have staff at our maintenance department that also assists nonprofits and community groups fill this out because it is somewhere intubated by the online process but we have staff to help out and then you submit the request the request you have a normal schedule a reoccurring schedule and a regular schedule and this is all online and you have the ability to have either it's a single day single event and then it's smart it's submitted to the school site so then the school site console reviews their school calendar and making sure it doesn't conflict with that the school program or any other school event a reoccurring is either daily, weekly, monthly and then a regular schedule is multiple dates but doesn't reoccur and this goes for not only just sports field but also classroom space cafeteria and other items like that are facilities throughout our district once they do that we have the ability to have a master calendar in our system and we get to see this is a sample this is not a real calendar but here you have the after school care and you have classes on Thursdays every Thursday and so that outlines that there and your organization can see this and so they have access to that and they also have access to see when it's approved or disapproved or declined moving forward finalized facility joint use agreements, City of Watsonville, Parks and Rec the PV Sports Foundation and YMCA and then complete the cost estimates for end solver I think the end solver one will be the one will be assumed to the board or in the process of wrapping that up as I mentioned continue to enhance the school dude online portal which is the software that we're using on the facility use permit we have a transition deal with the school dude representative schedule review the work order system on sports facilities, playgrounds and play field maintenance what I heard from Little League both Aptos, Watsonville and our soccer league is we definitely have a lot of proposals and I'm about to play field so making sure that those work orders are submitted and we get those completed and then complete this translation of the facilities permit documents which we have completed and we're just going to make those accessible and then continue developing community partnerships so right now we're working one of the golden state orders has a grant or an opportunity for machine space and then center crews warriors also has community grants as well so we're looking at that the NFL San Francisco 49ers has a grant out there right now for football field or sports field usage preferably football but we'd like to see if we can get that a multi-use so we're also looking at that and then the Watsonville Rotary I'm a member of the Watsonville Rotary and we are in conversation right now what would it look like to adopt a field and so we're working on that as well and overall review and reviews and facility agreements and making sure we provide the space to build champions and that's 2017 and to build Wildcats oh right thank you Joe you're welcome question what is the way to review requests that get submitted for the online program we're trying to give the sites at least two weeks notice so that they have that in advance and my other question have you tried to contact the San Jose also for the soccer program they have worked before in the past with the Sheriff's Activities League and the Sheriff's Activities League no longer does with summer program so who has anyone reached out to them we will one of the items of the community partnerships is rules so that was one that we're also looking to and then the sharks perfect thank you also concern brought forward last time was these the teams using facilities but then leaving a lot of trash and things behind including groups like the Girl Scouts or the Boy Scouts or other Bible ones that want to use do we have a plan in place they need to leave the field they got it yes but on the facilities booking page on our website we have our rules and regulations when the agency's user fields and we go to the English one and we have the rules, regulations and fee policy on our website and on the top of the page and so we have that available and so it also has the fees associated but then the restrictions on no alcohol, tobacco smoking, etc and then if the facility is damaged or you leave garbage behind you're held accountable for that and you may lose your permit for the next event and this may sound like a silly question but how do you plan on dealing with the gopers versus are you thinking of trying to poison them or are you trying to think of importing some gopers snakes but I know that issue with poisoning them is a wild life such as our birds of prey which is a big concern for the area that we live in so right now we're doing an assessment right now of what fields are in the condition they're in and then I will give you an update as we find out but I will make sure to provide an update on the next step thank you thank you okay so Jo as usual I'm very impressed with your work on this and what you presented here tonight so I have a couple of questions the five schools that you've been looking at with the city of Pottsville if one school let's say like HAI doesn't work out we're going to go there does that mean now we're going to just automatically do a total of four schools or will we look at another school within the city limits as an alternative for that it's a mutual I would just have to say to stress it should be the joint facility use agreement should be a mutual win so we would have to like for example HAI does not work is there another site they would consider and does it fit their master park plan and is it a win for us too is it accessible to the community but also able to limit access to the campus but also provide that maintenance in the field case so I think that answers that what is the time frame that you're expecting to hear about it sounds like on solo you're expecting to hear about more recent sooner than later what about the other four schools I mean are we talking six months a year or 18 months like what kind of time frame are you thinking in reality given to schools what you know I think with ANSOFA we're probably within the next 30 days we'll wrap that up we're just going through some finer details the other sites we still need a little bit of work on the cost estimates and the city is also requesting like the condition of the field so those going to get it into the condition needs to be into play or use and so that's the conversation where we're at so we're trying to get the number where we need to meet at and once again it'd be similar frame as Aptos Little League whereas the facility fee would be weighted because they're also making an investment so we also need a cost estimate that happens so I would probably need I would say six months approximately because each one has its own dynamic but I would say six months and then making sure that it lines with their part master plan but they selected the sites and now we're in conversation of what does that look like will you be bringing those back to the board one by one or an official sort of approval if you will yes we'll bring them one by one one by one and then the the booking so that's being managed by each site independently not by the DL because I do to see I mean I understand that the school sites probably have their own reports going on there but I also think that information should be communicated off to the district office level I just see that we do have a PIO and I would think the major part o