Hi, everybody. I'm going to call this to order if the board of trustees could please have a seat. Thank you. I apologize that we are late. We had quite a full closed session agenda tonight. So thank you for your patience. I'd like to start this meeting with item 3.1, which is the Pledge of Allegiance. And I will ask Trustee Ursino to lead us. Please stand. Pledge of Allegiance to flag the United States of America and to avoid for which it stands, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. Thank you. OK, again, I just wanted to welcome everybody to our meeting. We're glad that you're here. If anybody would like translation services, we do have our translator right over here in this booth. If you would like to go and see her, she'll equip you with a headset. So you can hear the meeting translated. Buenas tardes. Só lo queríamos informarles si ocupan traducción. Tenemos a la señora Virginia que puede ayudarles con eso. Ella tiene también los aparatos que pueden usar. Está acá al lado. OK, item 3.3, Superintendent Comments. Is it ready? OK, yeah. So are you going to loop them? OK. OK, no problem. So this day was a real historic day, I believe, in our local education institutions, being March 14th, one month after the horrific shooting in Florida at the high school. And as you all probably know, there were activities planned at schools all across the United States to show support for safety in schools, to show support for students and their peers, support for just the safety of everybody in all of our communities. And so this morning I went to PV High because I wanted to see what they were doing. And it was really an amazing experience. I have to tell you, Lizette, the ASB president, I think she pretty much ran that by herself. You can go ahead and advance. So this is before the kids came. Every one of the schools, I believe every one of the schools, had voter registration tables. The county clerk's office was there, allowed students to fill out their pre-registration forms, which, by the way, I found out today, students can do at the age of 16. And that way when they turn 18, they are registered and they don't have to go and register to vote again. They were really doing a great job educating students on the voting process, so that was great. They had all different tables that students could go and visit in the gym. And this is all in 17 minutes, by the way. So they put together this whole event to last 17 minutes, and it was amazing. They had a table called Let It Go, where if they had something on their mind that was bothering them, they could just write it down and put it in a box and let it go. Go ahead and go to the next one. And then they had these little booths where you could take pictures. That's our principal and our assistant superintendent, Lisa and myself. Go ahead and go to the next one, next one. The students, as they were entering the gym, I mean, hundreds and hundreds of students, and you wouldn't have believed the decorum those kids showed. It was really amazing. So go ahead. I'm going to try to go fast. And then there was just some leaflets that they had pre-registered to vote. Go ahead to the next one. Here are students who came to the voter registration table. And they were all over the place filling them out. They were so enthusiastic. And here's the table where the students gathered around. Go ahead. And then they had a frame that students, they could take their photo and then put it on social media. And yes, I asked the student's permission if I could bring it to the board meeting tonight. So she was very agreeable. Go ahead. And then as the gym was clearing out, I noticed there was still a huge crowd around the registration table. That was really great. Go ahead. And I think that's it online. So that was PV High. That was just the school I was at. But I know that every other school did amazing things. Watsonville High was on KSBW. If you missed it, it's probably on right now, but it is on their website. I got to watch that today. Aptos High, middle schools. I just want to commend everybody for a phenomenal job and the respect and decorum that every student showed. We should be very, very proud of our students, and we are. And you should be, too, as I'm sure you are. Thank you. So last Friday, all of our fourth grade students visited Cabrillo College to see firsthand what it's like to be a college student. And it was fun to see the students engaged with the Honor Society, basketball, and football teams and various clubs. We want students to see college in their future starting in the elementary school. So last Friday, all of our fourth grade students visited Cabrillo College to see, personally, how to be a university student. It was fun to see all of the students interact with the Honor Society, basketball teams, and football teams, and various clubs. We want students to see college in their future starting in the elementary school. So today, the majority of our secondary students, and these up here are Watsonville high students, participated in the March 14th events. And I am proud of the meaningful student-led activities that they created that allowed them to share a productive and safe engagement. We're supporting not only leaders of the future, but also leaders of today. So hoy, la mayoría de nuestros estudiantes de las escuelas secundarias participaron en los eventos del 14 de marzo. Estoy orgullosa de todos los significantes actividades creadas y dirigidas por los estudiantes que les permitieron compartir este compromiso de una manera productiva y segura. Apoyamos no solamente los líderes de futuro, sino los líderes de hoy. And on Friday, we have a little switch of events, and I will have a group of students who I visited during one of my day in the life of, being, spending students from Rio del Mar, spending a day in the life of a superintendent with me. So together, we will visit adult education classrooms in the district office, and also visit various departments throughout the district, and so I look forward to a great day with them. So tenemos un cambio de horario y este viernes, un grupo de estudiantes de la escuela Rio del Mar, con quien participaron con ellos cuando yo hice un día, un día en la vida, van a participar conmigo en un día de la vida de una superintendente. So juntos, vamos a visitar salones de educación para adultos del distrito, y vamos a visitar varios departamentos en las oficinas del distrito. So espero disfrutar un gran día con ellos. So thank you very much. So item 3.4 is one of our favorite items that we love to do, and this is student recognition. When I call the student and school's name, if the student and anybody who is here to support them, including family, friends, fellow students, teachers, please come up with that student to show support, and then when we're finished, we'll do a group photo over here. So our first student is from Amesti Elementary, and it's Elina Pulido. Come on up. Son bien muchos. Good evening, President Debrose, Superintendent Rodriguez, board members. I'm Erin Haley, the principal at Amesti, and I would like to introduce our fifth grade teacher, Ms. Nayeli Vacasotelo, to introduce our student. Good evening. My name is Nayeli Vacasotelo, and I am the proud teacher of Elina Pulido. And just like Elina, I also receive my elementary education right here in PVUSD. I first met Elina last year. I caught her sneaking a peek of my class dancing folklorico. She and her friends would tell me about how they pictured themselves, wearing the long colorful dresses, and pretended to wave their skirts in a way that was so perfect that the skirts look like actual beach waves, all with different curves, but synchronized, always synchronized. Fast forward a few months later, and you can find Elina in the cafeteria, wearing her long skirt, perfecting that beach wave. Elina enjoys learning dances from the Mexican states of Michoacán, Baja California, and Jalisco, especially Jalisco. Elina comes from a family with a love and appreciation of traditional Mexican folkloric dance, and it warms my heart to see that love and tradition continue with Elina. Dance is not the only thing Elina's family has instilled in her. She is kind, caring, and respectful. I have seen Elina working and communicating with students of diverse backgrounds. She is more than a good listener. She is a leader. Elina has many friends, and you can always find her encouraging and supporting her classmates. It is no surprise that she is student council president. I would like to thank Elina's parents, Veronica and Ruben, and Elina's sisters for being actively involved in her education. The Pulido Ortiz family has shown nothing but support for their little Elie. I know Elina will grow up to do amazing things. She is already a great social justice advocate, and knows the meaning of not just girl power, but woman power. Elina, thank you for trusting me with your education, as well as your dreams for the future. May you never lose your free spirit and may you always continue making newer, bigger beach waves. I always want to thank my parents, Veronica and Ruben, for always supporting me. I am happy I have made you proud. I also want to thank my sisters for showing up to every performance I've ever had. I would like to thank my older sister, Emily, for making sure I get everywhere I need to be, even if it means giving up personal time. I would especially like to thank my teacher, Ms. Vaca Sotelo, for helping me and taking time after class to help me. I have a few academic goals that I would like to accomplish. One of them is passing fifth grade, but I think I'm already on the right track for that. I would also like to receive passing grades for the years to come. Additionally, I would like to continue dancing for Kodako and get better at it. Receiving this award makes me feel very accomplished and proud after all, that everyone makes the newspaper. I also want to take advantage that I'm here and tell you how important all of my teachers are to me. My family and my community. I'm here because my teacher showed me the way. In class, my teacher makes sure we know our voices are heard. She does this way by showing us she cares. She shows us she cares by treating us with respect, integrity and money. Literally, we have a class money system. We even get bonuses for extra work. It's time you start treating teachers how my teacher and many others treats us. Show us hard work does even pay even for adults too. Okay, hold on just one second. We have something for you. And on behalf of the district, I will want to present with my future ahead of you. I hope that you continue to far right now share those values with whoever comes. Congratulations again, Elina, good work. Okay. And next we have our student of the year from Starlight Elementary.  Good evening, President DeRose, Dr. Rodriguez and Board Trustees. I'm Jackie Medina, the proud principal of Starlight. And thank you for having us to share about this wonderful young lady and to recognize her achievements and her family, with her family. We have Georgia Tyrell, her teacher, going to share some more. Thank you. Good evening everybody, buenas tardes a todos. Yo tengo honor y el privilegio de ser la maestra de Ariana. I have the honor and the privilege to be Ariana's teacher. She excels in all academic and social aspect. Tiene éxito en todo académico y también en el social. Some of the things that she has accomplished this year are being in the after school program, being in the inventors club and making her own inventions out of found objects. She also participates in the art projects that we do in after school. She excels in all the academic fields, writing, reading, and math, and that's all bilingual. Ella, algunas de las cosas que ha hecho este año es ser inventor en la programa de su escuela, también ser parte de los artes después de escuela. Y tiene éxito en todas las materias, en las ciencias, en el arte, en matemáticas, lectura, escritura, y es todo en los dos idiomas inglés y español.  Ella toma ventaje de todas las oportunidades que PVUSD y también las escuelas a detienen. Apart from all that, she is one of the most caring people I know. Aparte de eso es una de las más cariñosas personas que yo he conocido. Yo también tenía el honor de ser el maestro de su hermano, so su familia es una familia muy fuerte y toda la área de Watsonville tiene mucha suerte de tener esa familia en nuestra comunidad. I was also honored to be her older brother's teacher years ago and this family is one of the best families that Watsonville has to offer and we are all very lucky to have them in our community. Thank you. I would like to thank my parents and my teacher, the school board and my principal for recognizing me in this special whole time and place. I never would have accomplished this without my parents, my brother, my teacher, my principal and everybody who has supported me. I would have never made it this far. I would have just quit if I never got support. I appreciate them so much and I truly thank every single one of them. This to you on behalf of the school board in recognition of your hard work and you have a long ways to go back already. We know it takes a village to help students be successful and you're very lucky and I think that what your parents said about being, good luck to you in the future, that is for you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Hey, thank you again to the families that came out and congratulations to the kids for doing such great work. We're gonna move on now to item 3.5 as comments by the governing board on reports on standing committee meetings and activities. I'll go ahead and, would you like to say something, Perla? Hi everyone, I'm Perla, I'm the student trustee. I'm a senior at Watsonville High School and I just wanted to share about my experience today being part of the walkout. So at Watsonville High School, we organized a student walkout in protest for school safety and we walked out to East Beach Street and it was just so powerful to see so many students walk out and have all of us be united for this cause. It was really empowering to see so many people with their posters and so many people chanting. It really felt like we were speaking our voice so I wanna thank everyone for supporting us and it was just a really, really powerful moment today. I thought it was historic. Yeah. Can I go trustee address? First, I want to tell you and I meant to tell you before, I have a fourth grader at Real Del Mar and he came home after going to Cabrillo College and told me that he wants to go to Cabrillo College so he was very excited about it. So thank you. We talk about college all the time at home and for us, you just reinforce that message. So thank you to Leslie and thank you to Cabrillo College. I got the chance last week to talk to the parent site council at Renaissance High School. I showed up for the meet and I didn't realize I was the one that's gonna stand up and talk for an hour. So after I board them for an hour with my opinions with my opinions on school district and policy and procedure, it really struck me all the great things that are happening at Renaissance High School. We often, as trustees, we do our best to go to schools, talk to parents, talk to students, talk to teachers and administrators and I'm always struck by the great things that are happening at Pajaro Valley across the board but I was really excited by what I saw at Renaissance High School. The parents were absolutely engaged. They really wanted the best for their students. There was teacher representatives, administrative representatives, parents and some students. Really, again, engaged. They wanted to be there. They were so excited that the agenda committee is gonna give them the opportunity to discuss the great things that are going on at Renaissance. And so I really wanna say publicly how much I appreciated them, let me speak to them, let me come and talk and seeing the excitement.  So thank you, Renaissance, wherever you may be. Thank you. Yes, I just wanted to say it was my honor and my privilege on March 2nd to join the venture between the Santa Cruz County Office of Ed and their annual Your Future is Our Business, 17th annual luncheon with Mark Hodge as the senior director and Jim House as the assistant CTE director. I had the honor and privilege to sit at a table with Mike Roberto and three students from PB High. He is the music production and recording arts teacher there. Earlier in the day prior to that event, we got to tour PB High and see the CTE programs that they have in place, everything from early childhood education to web design, graphic design, the bike mechanic tech class to criminal justice and it was just amazing to see these students, how excited and loved and enthralled they were with the CTE program that we have in conjunction with the Santa Cruz County Office of Ed. Glad we're keeping that. And then leaping off from that, this last Saturday I was privileged to attend Pajaro, excuse me, the register Pajaronian's 150th celebration for their presence in our community for 150 years.  That was a huge commitment to them. As well I got to meet plenty of student interns that are there that are student interns at the register Pajaronian. So the register Pajaronian is taking students who are in journalism in our community and really bringing to the real life world experience to them by being student interns and publishing articles in the RP. So just a huge commitment to them for 150 years in our community and their presence and commitment to the students in our community. And then lastly today, myself, Karen, my colleague and some also school administration attended the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau's annual ag luncheon. And I want to just recognize three students that did receive honorable recognition from our school district. Adan Fernandez, a third grader at Watsonville Charter School of the Arts. Isaiah Villalobos, a third grader at Watsonville Charter School of the Arts. And Jimena Molina, another third grader at Watsonville Charter School of the Arts who all received honorable recognition in the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau's annual poster contest. So congrats to them. I just want to say how proud I am, all of our high school students that really, that walked out today and all their support. They were also supporting gun control, obviously. That was one of the things that they were supporting today. And I'm also incredibly proud of the students from the Florida school that have made all these things possible, really, around the country.  They're gonna have a bigger, huger march on the 24th in Washington, D.C. I'm just so proud of all the work that they've done. I mean, we've never seen this kind of, they actually got their Florida legislators, which are all Republicans, supported by the NRA in most cases, to actually pass legislation on gun control, which is pretty amazing, really, pretty amazing. So yeah, I'm very proud of them and I'm proud of the students all over the country that have done what they did today. Yeah, the only thing I can say is that I went to, like she said, the agricultural lynching. And I loved it too, just because the president of the Farm Bureau is also in an organic farmer. He's an organic farmer, which is pretty cool. And the keynote speaker was on on all of our community farmers markets, which are so important and all the work he's done to, and their organization has done to sort of teach community members about food and where their food comes from, which is really important, I think. So thank you. Thanks, Leslie. I'll just echo what everybody else up here has said about how proud I am of the students here in our district and nationwide, exercising their right to civil action and civil disobedience that serves such a critical purpose in our society's history. I want to thank all of our teachers and our staff, our counseling staff, for tackling these sensitive issues in your classrooms. The discourse about safety and being scared and what's happening across our nation is not an easy topic. And as a parent and as a school board member, I just want to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart for helping to manage kids' feelings and your own feelings about this. My own daughter is a 16-year-old at Aptos High and she woke up with a pretty severe nightmare last week. And I did not send her to her first-period class because she was pretty distraught. So this, I think, affects students more than we realize even in their subconscious. And so I just want to say thank you again to all of our teachers and staff. Again, I'd like to echo Leslie Sentiment's to Gail Pellerin's office, our county clerk for organizing and bringing in an entire giant room full of like 50, I think mostly women, volunteers who deployed out across our county to register kids to vote. It was an awesome feat and I want to thank our administration, Aptos High, PV High, Watsonville High, and I don't, were they at renaissance? I wasn't sure if they were at renaissance or not, but I just want to thank all the schools for embracing the county clerk's office so that we could get more kids registered so they have a voice at the polls. I did, this last week, attend the Aptos High Booster Club auction and dinner and we had a great time and raised a bunch of money to help improve the lower quad at Aptos High. So I want to thank all the parents and staff who put that on. Thanks. Thank you. So for the past couple months, students have been very busy with college applications and so forth and I think at this point, they're beginning to hear back, but part of, also part of that goes financial aid. So over the course of the past couple months, I've attended multiple Cash for College events and I've had multiple high school sites, both at Aptos High School, PB High and Watsonville High and there's always a misconception that college is not affordable for our low income families, but it is and it's just a matter of reaching out to those families, provide the resources available, open those doors and really provide the information they need to make the right choice. When I go to visit the school sites, that's the number one concern that I hear from most parents. Well, we can't pay for it.  And so it's good to provide that information to all parents so that they have the resources available to them to make informed decisions for themselves and their students. And lastly, I am looking forward to attending the D-Lag meeting that will be this upcoming Tuesday. Thank you. So although I already made my comments, I just wanted to mention Monday evening, I was very honored to be invited out to present to parents at Calabasas Elementary and I believe Michelle's gonna be there too. And what they asked me to present on is what is the role of a school board member and superintendent is gonna do the same for superintendent and administration. I think that's really important. When we camp, at least as my experience campaigning, every four years I can say, because I've been here now three terms, knocking on doors and making phone calls is my favorite thing to do, but it's always very noticeable about how few people know that a school board is elected to represent their voices. And so I like to share that information at those times, but every four years isn't often enough. So I like to take the opportunity to speak with parents in the community about yeah, you can call me, you can email me and I do try to return every phone call and every email. Although sometimes I do skip some. But I am looking forward to that and I just wanted to thank Calabasas for the invitation. So, and I believe that is all my comments, thank you. Okay, so item 4.0 is approval of the agenda and whoever makes the motion, I wanted to ask for a change. So can I have a motion and a second and then I'll ask for the change. I'd like to make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. I'll second that motion. Okay, and then the item that I'd like to move forward and this is because it's an action item and it's the approval of the contract for employment for our new chief business officer, Joe Dominguez and the reason why I wanna move it up because I feel it's important for the community to meet this new person because this new person will be holding a position that is extremely important to our district. They oversee the financials of our district. They also oversee all of the facilities and contracts and things like that. So it's hugely important and I just would really like to introduce this person to the community. So I will amend my motion to move up Mr. Dominguez's contract. I'll second. Okay, so all those in favor. Oh, I'm sorry, thank you, I did not say that. To let's go after high school student board representatives report. So after item six, thank you, Georgia. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 601 with trustee, the hero absent. Thank you. Okay. Number five is approval of the minutes from our February 28th meeting. Move approval. I will second. Okay, so Kim and Maria. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 601. And we are at 6.0, our high school board representatives report. Do we have representatives from the high schools tonight? Okay. If you could come up please and give us your report and state your name and thank you for coming. Good evening members of the board. My name is David Gonzalez and I'm here to represent Pacific Coast Charter. Some events that are gonna be happening over the couple of months are, we're going to have a college and career fair that will be happening after May, after testing is done. Also an important event that took place in our school was senior pictures which were taken on site. Another event that will be coming up in May 10th is annual barbecue with an open house. And there will also be an award ceremony. There will also be a demonstration of a gun ball dispenser that was created by a 3D printer. Cool. Few trips that will be happening for middle schoolers will be to the Young Museum, Botanic Gardens, Henry Cowell Park and Cal State Monterey Bay. High school field trips that will be coming up are to Cabrillo, San Francisco Exploratorium which I would be going. Also San Jose State University which I'm also looking forward to that one. What's happening right now is basketball so there are many playing off every Friday against other local charter schools. And once basketball is over, soccer will be coming up soon, yes. As far as concerns, right now there's none but I would like to report that the ant issue that we were having lately has reduced greatly so yes, that's a good news. Did you say that again? Yes. Oh, ants. We had a major ant problem around the school. There was many homes of ants and they were just coming inside of the buildings and yes, they couldn't smell food or anything because they would just, yes, come in. I would say thank you and thank you for your time. Thank you. Good evening President DeRose, Board of Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Thank you for inviting me back. My name again is Jasmine Samora and I am from Diamond Technology Institute. So the beginning of second semester went really well as our students participated in day one sessions. Day one sessions are student led and focused on academic goal setting and career exploration. Through career exploration data, we learned that the students who attend Diamond Tech are primarily tactile learners which didn't really surprise our teachers. After our winner map testing, our principal reviewed the results with the entire student body. Our school showed growth in both math and English and apparently we did really well since our principal was really excited and as a reward, scheduled a team building event using the breakout activity provided through the technology department. In February, our entire school visited the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco. We are also scheduled to visit KSBW New Station next week and Harnell College in April. Diamond Tech will end our co-curricular activities in May at the Monterey Bay Exploration Center in Santa Cruz where we will help them build curriculum and be their first students to complete a plankton testing activity. Our 10th grade class will be finishing their mentorship program in April where they have a local industry partner as a mentor. Next year we will be adding our one-on-one 11th grade mentor program. Our school is looking to fill approximately 30 volunteer membership positions so if you know anyone who would be interested in volunteering, please visit our school website and click on industry partners and fill out an interest form. Our school has one of our biggest fundraisers coming up again on April 21st on Saturday, which is our flea market, where people come and buy vendor spaces for $20 and all the fees go to our student leadership for activities put on throughout the year. So if you're interested in buying a vendor space, you can contact Diamond Tech's office or go to our website and fill out the form. Our signature academic event will take place on April 11th in the mellow center. Our juniors and seniors will be presenting their capstone business projects to a panel of judges. Last year our top team won first place in the San Jose competition, over 400 other projects in the Bay Area. We would like to formally invite all the board members to attend and district administration to attend. The event is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the mellow center on April 11th. Thank you again for the opportunity to share what has been going on at Diamond Tech. And if you would like to know more about what our school is doing, please stop by our open house on May 16th from 6 to 7 p.m. for our student showcase. Thank you. Yeah. Hey, thank you very much for coming. I really appreciate it. We all appreciate hearing what's going on out in the school, so thank you very much. So now we will move to item 9.5, which we just moved forward. And this report is by Chona Colleen, our assistant superintendent of HR. Yes, President DeRose, board trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. Our district administration is pleased to present a contract of employment for Mr. Joe Dominguez for our board's consideration as our chief business officer. Mr. Dominguez has extensive experience in health services, facilities planning and bond development, as well as business services. He has been a regional manager for HealthNet and Blue Cross, deputy chief overseeing facilities and planning and chief business officials in Southern California school districts, and received many excellent recommendations from his supervisors, as well as union representatives in his prior employment. As an English learner and undergoing socioeconomic challenges himself, Mr. Dominguez was very impressed with PVUSD's many outstanding programs to help our students be college and career ready, and he really wants to be a part of our PVUSD family. Mr. Dominguez, would you like to come up and say, I'm sorry, and then. Well, good evening, and I'd like to first thank Dr. Rodriguez for her support and for the interview committee and a very thorough process that included various directors, union leadership, and district staff, and also like to thank the board for your confidence and your support. I look forward to working very hard every day on behalf of our students, our children, and our community for PVUSD, and making sure we maximize all our funding and support our students throughout our district. So thank you. So just to clarify, we're gonna vote now, but that was not part of the interview, so don't worry. Okay, thank you. Are we not having a discussion part of this? We are right now, that's what we're doing right now. But we do not have any public comments, so now back to the board. Okay, so board comments, questions. Jeff. Mr. Dominguez, in reviewing your resume and reviewing your letters of recommendation, really, really impressive. If it doesn't work out for you in the school district, I have a job for you, believe me. But something that is stuck out to me and as I think we hire our leadership in the district, I'm really looking for people who wanna be here, who are excited to come to the district, and so you were talking about, or I heard someone talk about, not necessarily you, that you really wanted to come to PVUSD, that you feel that you like the programs, you have something to bring to the table, to it. What are the programs you're looking for? What are we doing that you like? What excites you? I think one of the things that really excites me is that the humble beginnings within our community, and I have that similar background. Real brief tell you about our instructional methods in the classroom. It's also an opportunity to provide professional development for our classified employees, and giving them opportunities to move within the organization, but also stress on financial or fiscal stability and implementing a very conservative approach and making sure that we, and in my research of the district's finances, I also understand deficit spending, and then how to put in internal checks and balances to making sure that we stay within our budgets and within our means. I'm a certified chief business official with FICMAT and school services, and so using some of those guidelines and implementing best practices within our district is what I'm excited to bring to the table, but I think more so is working in partnership in a collaborative management style, and I'm excited to do that. What I heard you say that really stuck out to me was, you're a product of a community that's much like Watsonville, and you're very proud of your community, but you hold yourself up as an example of what comes out of these type of communities. Is that fair to say? Yes. Now you're living in Oakland, and you're in that area, I'm assuming you'll be relocating down to this area? Yes, I've looked at some places this morning and tomorrow as well. I have some, okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Next. Mr. Dominguez, thank you for being here this evening. Yes, it is. I actually don't have any questions for you. I have, in total respect to our persons, I agree you seem to be a very good candidate for this job. I have just a couple questions and differences between the contracts between what's being offered to him as the proposed new CBO and the former CBO, and some of the language and even the financial components that concerned me. In the former CBO's contract, she was qualified as Management Confidential Salary Schedule 51. He is being qualified as a cabinet salary schedule range 51 with a specified salary amount. It seems that there's a discrepancy here because the current salary schedule only goes up for management confidential and goes up to 26. So I'm not sure where or when the change may have happened there and does that indicate a change in that salary schedule? So in other words, when the former CBO was hired in her initial year, was she being paid more or less than what is being currently offered now? She was being paid significantly more than is being offered currently. And then do you know what that amount was that she was offered on her initial year? Yes, not her initial year. Her last year was 185,000. Well, but that doesn't compare because that wasn't her first year here. We're talking about someone who's just starting. The other concerning thing that I had was noting that there is a 500 stipend monthly stipend for vehicle allowance, but that was not in the former CBO's contract. Actually, she did receive, she received $600 a month. Okay, so that wasn't in the contract. Well, that part like from seven through nine are missing in her contract, at least which was given to me. And so we have documentation that I can provide to you of what she received. She received both masters and the car stipend. The other thing that concerns me with the contract, there's nothing that's outlining health and welfare for this position. It actually is in there and it specifies that health and welfare is included in the 166,000. So Mr. Dominguez will be paying for his health and welfare. Okay. I'm not comfortable with the things that I'm not seeing clearly outlined. And I asked this from staff to yesterday, today and what I received doesn't show what you're saying and even, sorry, President DeRose, what you're saying. So my position on this at this point is gonna have to be no and that's no personal reflection to you, sir, at all, please. Thank you. So I was very impressed with your resume. And I'm also incredibly impressed too that I think you're making a little bit less than you were making and you're doing it because you love this working in our community which is very impressive and that you come from a similar background that many of our students come from which is, you know, very impressive too really that you come from an economically disadvantaged family. I think you were an English language learner, correct?   Thank you. Hi. Very excited that you applied for the position. I wanna thank you for your interest in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District. We have a very needy and vulnerable population that deserves to have excellence in every aspect at every level. And so I wanna thank you for your interest. Thank you for applying and hopefully we'll welcome you aboard here in a minute. Congratulations. Yeah, so I'm actually really excited about this position. Thank you for applying. So just, I just wanted to highlight a couple of things that stood out to me. So here we say that you have over 25 years of experience even as a school board member. So you know how it works. You know the tough decisions that have to be made as a board. So I like that you share that perspective and understand things that may arise that may be difficult. In addition to that, I like the fact that you have experience in developing successful community partnerships. You mentioned that throughout your resume. And that's really important to us. I don't think that's always been the case. And I think up to now I think we're doing better at building that trust within community partnerships with our employees and students really. And then the other thing is it's something that stood out was the servant leadership management style. I think oftentimes when it comes to management positions we are often looked as top down, right? Top down management. And for me that stood out because I'm very about being inclusive of everyone really from down to the parent, down to the student all the way to management level. So I'm really excited to have you on board for those reasons and many others including serving as a role model for our first generation students that may be going off to college and future college students as well. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you also for me. I'm really glad that I feel like you chose us because you applied and we got really good reports on the many interviews that you went through with many people within the district. So the public knows there is a whole process that includes the bargaining units, administration. I don't know if there's instructors or teachers or how broad that goes, but there is at least 11 I believe on the selection committee so and everything turned out very positive. I appreciate that there is discussion and really looking deeply at the contract and that's something that as you know as a former school board member that we are obligated to do. We're obligated to look at that. But I would just say that this contract I believe came out with the board packet on Sunday and every trustee has the ability to meet ahead of time with the superintendent to express those concerns and then those concerns can be brought to the board but they could also, they could be brought to the board meeting but they could be answered in public which I feel like is really important that those concerns be answered in public. So I would just hope that in the future board members will take advantage of that so we can get not only the concerns but the answers out in the public. So with that I'm gonna ask for a motion to approve this contract. Also move. And a second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Motion passes 511. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Where'd you go? Oh there you are. Well thank you and we'll get ready to work. Appreciate it. Great, thank you. Tomorrow right eight o'clock, no I'm kidding. Okay, so we are at item 7.1 and that's visitor non-agenda items. Do we have speakers? We do. So we're gonna start off with Tiffani Romero followed by David Patino followed by Nancy Lidbeck. While we're waiting for the approach to the podium families are welcome to stay and see how board meetings run or if you do have to go home we completely understand you have children that need to go to bed. Teachers that have to prepare and administrators as well. So thank you for coming and we're glad that you got to see our new cabinet member as well. Thank you. Wait, did they have a video coming up? So I'm gonna call the names again. We have Tiffani Romero followed by David Patino followed by Nancy Lidbeck. Hello board members. I just wanted to be here today as a parent because it is my duty to support all teachers. My child attends an amazing preschool run by the most amazing teachers. All these teachers are molding the future. So they should be given the proper supplies and be properly compensated for helping our children to succeed. It truly takes a village to raise our children and without teachers we will have chaos. So here I stand united with teachers to help our children succeed. Thank you. David. Good evening school board members and Dr. Rodriguez. My name is David Patino. I'm an eighth year teacher here in the PVUSD Renaissance High School. I am really hopeful that our impasse negotiations will yield an equitable solution. I am continually not surprised by the extremely so slow process of the negotiations year after year. I would not be surprised if we ended up moving to fact-finding, not surprised. Or even after fact-finding to a strike. Let me be clear, I am not looking forward to more drawn out financial obfuscation by the PVUSD and impasse and I'm not looking forward to the fact-finding and I'm not looking forward to the potential strike. But just to be clear, I will vote to strike and I will strike if it comes to that. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Hi, my name is Nancy Litvak. I'm here to support the community. I was a teacher in Pajaro Valley Unified School District starting in 2000, right, in 1980. Some of you weren't born. And I moved from Pajaro to Santa Cruz City Schools in 1987. I received a higher salary then and I received better medical benefits. I raised my two children in Pajaro Valley Schools, both graduated and went on to college and are now well employed. They were very well prepared for college by the education they received in Pajaro Valley Schools. I think part of the good preparation was the very good curriculum developed in their elementary schools, middle and high school level because it was a group of teachers who worked so well together and were so dedicated to one another. A few years ago, our community passed a bond measure. I don't remember the exact year. It's because parents in this community really do support the schools. However, when you see turnover after turnover in the school system and among the teachers, you lose faith in your school system.  We have to work harder to give our teachers a working wage so they can live, afford to live here. It's just not gonna work for our kids the same way. If the teachers can't work together and build curriculum, school spirit, and good discipline programs by working together. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so next we have Laura Sucker, followed by Rachel Spaulding, followed by Carlos Castro. Hello, hello, board, hello, Dr. Rodriguez and cabinet. Nice to see you all. I'm here again to urge the board to, I'm a teacher, speech language pathologist. I'm here to urge the board to again, to support a retroactive salary scale. Let's do this again. A raise on the salary scale retroactive to 1617. Last time I was here, I urged you all to vote to take the 3% out of the reserve because you have 6% in the reserve right now. And the governor's mandated cap is 3%. And I realize that you are allowed to have 6% in the reserve. But 3% would still be well within the law and is optional the other 3% that you have in the reserve. And that could be used for raises. I'm back because I see you haven't done it yet. I'm hoping that you will consider it. And we're still hearing that the district cannot afford to better compensate teachers. But again, I'm seeing again, lots of money still going to consultants. I went over the last few board meetings, the attachments last few board meetings consent agenda back to December 17. And I saw a few things. A consultant for a principal to the tune of $12,500. I still don't know why a principal can't get help from someone here. We have really experienced management that could help that principal. A consultant to make the EL master plan. I'm not sure if we had a consultant last time, but we're all about ELD. There's plenty of people who know about ELD to write a master plan. That was 28,000. A consultant to look at workforce housing. The idea of having work building or something or other workforce housing for teachers, that's 81,000 for that consultant. And I still don't know why we'd need a consultant to talk about that. A consultant for some kind of tutoring system in the middle school, that's 25,000. And there was a consultant to make a brochure about the district. That would be 3,000. It comes out to just about a little over 150,000. And that was just the last few board meetings. And if we are really so poor or trying to be so careful, I do wonder why we continue with all the expertise in this large, large district, why we continue to need to get consultants or to be so kind of blithe about hiring consultants. I wish we would kind of go cold turkey on the consultant business at any rate. No, really, just think, let's look at us. I mean, we have a lot of people here. We have so much expertise. Anyway, I will be quick, I promise. How do you know what my time is? The other thing is, I'm looking today, I was printing out stuff about our very robust California budget. The mercury, but this is from actually, mercury isn't talking about it. This is from January 9th, actually, not so long ago from Ed Source. And it says here, this Governor Brown proposes ambitious education agenda. Oh, sorry, one minute, right? Or am I out? Oh, in his final state budget. So ambitious education agenda. It says Brown proposes a sizable spending to fix the shortage of special ed teachers, which we've talked about too. So if he's spending, we're acknowledging there's a shortage, right? And if he's gonna spend money to recruit and retain and train the special ed teachers, the thing that we can do is put a raise on the salary schedule that would retain and recruit special ed teachers and other teachers because we really do have a problem. And as I've mentioned before, we have a growing population of kids with special needs and we are not keeping our teachers very well, despite the best work of our wonderful administration and us trying to beg them to stay. They do go elsewhere because they can. And we got the money and the Governor's giving us money. Let's go for it. Thank you. So we had Rachel followed by Carlos. Good evening, board. My name is Rachel Spaulding and I am here in support of our teachers in the Parro Valley Unified School District. I have been a parent in this district since 2005. My daughter, Galen, is a senior. She's graduating this year. In fact, her self-portrait is right outside these chamber doors on the wall. My second child is 15 years old, Shelby Anderson, both from Aptos High. And my youngest child, Liam Anderson, is in the third grade at Valencia. So I've got a ways to go. I'm finishing up one journey but I got two more coming up behind me. I would like to say that, again, I'm just here in support of our teachers and a fair salary increase. I have volunteered with the district for years. In fact, I actually was a temporary employee for a small amount of time in the 90s when I just moved here. But I have to say I've worked with so many parents and teachers, teachers as a volunteer. And I have just seen the hard work that they do. And my first two kids, they were 4.0 students. Pretty easy. My little nine-year-old, he has ADHD so it's a little harder. I can see that it's a little bit more stress for a teacher to have a child like that in the classroom. I'm learning. I've been through both roads now. So I want also to say that this is, of course, a big community effort with all of us. And I do see our teachers leaving. I know a principal, I'm sorry, I know a science teacher, AP science teacher from Aptos High. He went on to Los Altos because the wages were substantially higher. Fantastic teacher. My daughter, Galen, one of her teachers at Aptos High School who she bonded with actually shared some issues that she knew that other students were going through. She moved back to Texas last year. And she's like, mom, my God, my favorite teacher is gone. There's a teacher that Valencia has moved on. She could not afford to live in this area. These are some really fantastic people. And there's also parents that are, that have the extra money that are hesitating to send their children to our public schools because they don't feel that we are, you don't have the necessary funds to keep high quality staff. So here I am, but just really, like I said too, I'm here to support the teachers and hopefully we can negotiate a fair living wage for them. Thank you so much. Good evening. Thank you. Buenas tardes. Todo el personal. Mi nombre es Carlos Castro y bueno, cuando me pide un apoyo, perdón, si les hablo en español y espero que me entiendan. Guilfe, puede esperar un momento porque le va a traducir la señal. Ah, okay. Guilfe, ¿no? Sí, seré breve. I'm going to be brief. Mi nombre es Carlos Castro y cuando me dijeron si podía hablar para apoyar un poco a los maestros, lo pensé y dije, bueno, pero yo, ¿por qué? Si mis hijos ya están grandes, ya uno está estudiando en la universidad, otro ya terminó su universidad y está trabajando. My name is Carlos Castro and I was invited to speak here and I didn't understand. I was invited to speak here and I couldn't understand why because my children are in the university. Sí. Sí, y bueno, dije, pues, ya que me interesa a mí, sí, totalmente ya pasaron por todo esto, pero después me puse a pensar y dije, bueno, pero yo pienso que un poquito de apoyo no está mal. I thought it really didn't interest me because my children are longer here, but I thought a little bit of support would be good. Y esto lo digo porque, bueno, mi esposa trabaja también para el distrito, ella es maestra de niños.  Y esto lo digo porque yo no tengo una profesión como, digamos, los maestros que estuvieron en la universidad y todo eso. My wife works for the district, she's a teacher. I asked her what her wages were and she told me, and I am not a professional. Pero bueno, voy al punto, el detalle es que yo le dije, bueno, y cuánto ganas, no, pues, ya me dice tanto. Y me puse a sacar cuentas, ya.  Yes, I asked her how much she earned, and when I compared it to my earnings, I am not a professional, but I earn a lot more than she does. The teachers work eight hours, but they also work at home. Y bueno, por eso decidí decir estas palabras y más que nada en apoyo a los maestros porque pues aparte de maestros ellos son consejeros, son personas que son de la comunidad y a veces siento yo que es una falta de respeto para ellos en realidad lo que están ganando porque de veras que no sé ni qué decir porque yo mismo me da pena porque tengo 30 años viviendo en la comunidad, yo los conozco a ellos y sé cuánto batallan para lograr lo que hacen. Y yo quisiera pues que tomaran en cuenta todo el esfuerzo que hacen porque gracias a ellos, nuestros hijos salen adelante. Muchas gracias y espero que lo tomen en cuenta. Yes, I'm here to support the teachers because they work hard, they're not only teachers, they're also counselors and so on. And so I'm here to support them and I want to thank you. Muchas gracias. Gracias. Have Jennifer Cruz followed by Felipe Hernandez, followed by Antonio Viball. Good evening. Let's see Georgia, thank you for what I feel is doing your job and questioning contract. That's what I know that the board is supposed to do. And it strikes me as funny that the teachers have been trying to negotiate a contract from 2016 to 2017 for two years just to try to get an increase in the pay scale for two years and that's still being negotiated but where did he go, where's Joe? But Joe's contract gets approved right away and that's really sad. So I just felt compelled to come up here. I'm just a member of the community, I'm not a teacher, I've never been a teacher other than teaching swim lessons. Doesn't really compare what these guys do. But what gives, what's taken so long? I mean, I've had friends move away, I've come and spoke to you before about my friends who've had to move away. These are, this is a family, part of our community. There is no community without our teachers. They have to have a living wage. They can't afford to live here with the salary that is presented to them. Jeffrey Bre, Phillip says hello. She can be here tonight, I work with her. So, community, we know each other. Thank you, please increase the teacher's contract. Thank you. Funny being on this side, my name is Phillip Hernandez, a council member, Trustee Chair and Superintendent. I'm here to make an announcement about our city council's strategic plan. We have a survey out in the back of the table over here on this side table to quick survey for our strategic plan. If anyone in the, both the crowd and the trustees would like to fill one out, it's very quick two-minute survey. This will be the direction for the city of Watsonville for the next two years. The city council's gone through this long two-day process and now we're opening it up for the public to discuss or to have a survey about our priorities for the next two years. And the other thing I have is Watsonville's 150th birthday party that's coming up Friday, March 30th. It's gonna happen at, it's gonna begin at 5.30 here at the Watsonville City Plaza. And we're gonna have a lead singer that's here locally, Andy Vargas from lead singer for Santana that's gonna be performing with his local, with his band from LA and they're gonna be performing here in the plaza. Thank you. We'll have these fires back here and we'll have these surveys back here too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. San Antonio Vivo. Buenas noches, good evening, superintendente. So first of all, I'm here as a teacher, I've come here as a parent, I'm coming here I guess as a mixed hat, so to speak. First of all, as a teacher, I am very disappointed at the level of substitutes that we have in our district. And I'm not talking about a substitute that shows up and doesn't teach our lesson. I'm talking about a substitute that comes in and spends the first 20 minutes talking about the rules. The next 10 minutes, kids removing their hoods. Trustees, please take note of this. We don't have subs here because they're not being paid well. Straight up, long-term sub over the hill, $438 a day. How much are they paid over here, $110, $120, come on. And what does that go to the teachers? What does that say to the teachers? Or the teachers pay itself? I wanna point something out as well. Now as a, on my hat as a father, I have a seventh, I have an eighth grader now who attends a junior high who's got a long-term sub, great guy teaching science and never once had a credential in science. Is that fair, Mr. Rodriguez, to my daughter's education, going into high school? Is it fair? As an educator, I don't think it is. And I think you'd agree. Make a change. Let's pay our subs and let's start with our teachers and work it through. As far as these contracts that I'm seeing, gosh, $166,000 towards Mr. Dominguez versus $180,000. Versus $180,000? I mean, seriously? We have a contract here for $1,000,000 after five years. How much am I getting after five years? Look me up, Antonio V. Vol. Let's look up my salary schedule. There's no equity here. We have a top-down administration and I wish Mr. Yajito was here to hear this. That pays no attention to our workers. Look at your own report card.  And your argument is that we have great insurance, bull. We also have high rent, high gas, and we live in an area that is beyond the comparison of other places outside of here. I'm gonna also point out something. When we talk about elementary school teachers' equity for them, my wife, who is an elementary school teacher, has no prep time compared to a high school teacher. She teaches six subjects a day. Oh, five, I guess.  Come to my house on the weekend and see what that's like. And is she getting paid for that? No, but she is sacrificing her time, our family for this district, for the betterment of our community. We're not here wasting our time because we have nothing else to do. Don't waste our time. It's long enough. Settle the score now. Mr. Rodriguez, DeRose, Orozco, DeSerpa, Osmondson, Ersino, Acosta, Superintendents, assistants. We're not paid well here. And if you have $60 million in the bank, let's make it straight. Let's put it back to the taxpayers' worth for their children's education. And I happen to be one of those recipients. I appreciate your time. And one more thing. We already had an AHS counselor leaving another job posting. And we know that there's another English teacher in the AHS English department leaving as well. Thank you. Thank you. And now our last speaker is Dan King. Good evening, Superintendent, Member of the Board. Buenas noches, mimos del consejo. Superentente. Me llamo Daniel King. Soy maestro del español en Aptos High. Dan King. I'm a Spanish teacher here at Aptos High. I have to ask your forgiveness for talking about my own life story, a trifle, but I do this to illustrate a dilemma that I face and that I think many of my companions face, my colleagues face. I had three years. This is my first year working in Power Valley Unified. I came here from Soledad Unified, where I was teaching for the three years previously. It was a bit of an emotional decision to make that change of school. I have colleagues that I miss badly down in Soledad. There are great things happening at Soledad High School. It's a wonderful community. In many ways, similar to what we see in Southern Santa Cruz County. But I have family here. And my family has roots in this county going back to the 1920s. My grandfather told me stories before he died of when he worked in broccoli packing plants in Watsonville in the 1930s. He had studied Spanish in the early 1900s in an academic sense, but he said that this was his really first, properly practical use of his language. We've got three generations in my family where we kind of have a conscious cultural project of building, maintaining bridges between the English language and Spanish language communities of California. This is something that I take a lot of pride in. One of the reasons I'm here is because I have a brother who's teaching in the post-secondary system here, and he looks at his opportunities to pull together students from all parts of Santa Cruz County so that we can build the future of California that we'd like to see. But this is not the only part of the Pacific Coast where I have family. And I did say that was an emotional decision for me to move from Soledad to here. I didn't really look at it until as I was already making the jump that, wow, I'm taking a $6,000 pay cut by moving from one county to the next. And it's by luck that I have friends who are willing to rent to me below market rate that I can actually afford to keep working this job. I received three notices of job openings in Oregon in the last week. I would like to stay here. There are a lot of great things here. I really like being part of California as it is now and how I would like to see it. But again, I have family in Oregon and there are jobs up there and it's a dilemma.  But I think they've had to hear that from other colleagues and we don't like to have to make those choices. So please help us to stay. Thank you. Okay, thank you to everyone who came out to speak. We're on item 8.0 right now and that's employee organization comments. And 8.1 is PVFT. We have somebody from PVFT. Frances goes here. Thank you. Good evening to everybody. First of all, I just wanna congratulate the students on their demands for more or safety around the schools and acknowledge what Trustee Osmondson said that this began as something about gun control. And that's what we need to have safer schools, safety communities. And let's not forget that this is about gun control. The other thing is, I hope Mr. Dominguez feels welcome here and ready to work on behalf of students, teachers and our community. And that takes me to an item on your agenda, the interim report. You have, you again are being asked to recommend the county and you will likely receive a positive certification again. That's the highest priority, the highest rating, sorry, that you can possibly get from the county office of education. You will have over $40 million in reserves, third year out. The LCFF, the local control funding formula, is being funded two years in advance. It's about 465 something additional. Well, you've heard the numbers, 8 million something more. The state rainy fund day has been filled. Any additional monies are going to go elsewhere. State reserves are full. You have higher than average reserves compared to other districts. Unfortunately, the total compensation of your teachers and other certificated personnel is well below the average. You've heard comments about that, not just tonight. You've heard that for over a year and a half now. In your first interim report, because your reserves are so high, you have to state a reason. And part of that reason reads, that the additional funds for 18, 19 and 19, 20 are from the governor's budget and that they're one time monies. But the next sentence reads that the board will determine how those funds will be used, the priority for those funds. You have an opportunity to end the problem that we have in labor negotiations. You have the money, you have the authority, you have the ability to do it. So we ask you to please take that action. Thank you. Okay, next is CSEA. Do we have anybody here? Okay, PAVAM, number 8.3. We're back. The dynamic elementary duo. Good evening again and thank you. We are doing wonderful things in the elementary schools here in Pajaro Valley. And we wanted you to know that right now, the teachers are working very hard on their report cards, finishing them and principals reviewing them. At Amesti, Calabasas, and McQuitty, there's a program called the SIPPS pilot, Systematic Instruction in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and SiteWords. And it is going very well. We have seen a great deal of success and students are growing on their mastery tests and they're really reading in English and we're very excited about it. So excited that there are six more elementary schools coming on board next year. Amesti and Starlight are using the Estreitas program, which is a Spanish primary language instruction program of Phonemic Awareness and Phonics as well. At Amesti recently, we've dedicated two new murals in our cafeteria. We will be having an ELD production tomorrow, a family dance on Friday. Next week we'll have a dance performance and I think you've all been invited to the Book Nook, which is a joint project between Alianza, CCMS and Amesti, including art, technology and literacy. And we're very excited about that and I hope some of you will be able to attend. At McQuitty, tonight they're hosting and the after-school program is hosting a family art night and they also started Pennies for Patience, which is a fundraising drive and their goal is to beat the $2,000 they raised last year. And at Starlight, okay. So there's lots of great things going on. At Starlight, we're celebrating students who met their growth goals with the maps testing that's been a really pleasurable activity for the administration, going around and visiting the students and celebrating. And the kids, yeah, some of the kids lighting up because they've never been recognized in that way since it focuses on growth. Pacific Coast Charter wants to share that they're working on their renewal, which is quite a big task. Also at Starlight, we're really pleased on how our super Saturday school's going. We've been able to combine enrichment with academics in a really nice way, as well as highlight activities like we're doing the pulga, the flea market, come on, say pulga. We're doing a flea market. We're doing a campus beautification day. So it's really been a nice way to bring parents and students together and through an academic lens and do great things for our school. And there are many other great things going on, but this is what we were brought to share with you today. Thank you. Thank you. And do we have anyone from CWA, Communication Workers of America? Oh, okay. So we will go ahead and move on to action items. My scroll thing working here. Item 9.1 is our second interim report. And that's a report by Helen Bilanzi, our director of finance. Thank you, Helen. Good evening, President DeRose, Dr. Rodriguez, board members, cabinet members, and the public. I'm here to present the second interim report to you. I'm trying to figure this out. Would you move the microphone closer to us? Sorry. So I'm here to present the second interim report to you tonight. What I'll be doing is giving you an overview of the second interim report, giving you the assumptions, the an updated multi-year look, and also a variance report with next steps. So the next couple of slides are ones that we do each time to kind of explain what the qualifications are for the various reports and when things are due. So we are bringing the second interim report, which is for July 1 through January 1, actual activity and any major activity that we've, financial activity that we've projected. And we will submit it to the county office of Ed for their positive, qualified, or negative certification. And they will make their decision if they are going to go with what we self-certify or they find changes that need to change. And all the years I've been doing this, they've never, they've gone with our certification. Then for the reporting schedule, we're currently at second interim. The next report that we'll bring to you will be the July adoption and our estimated actuals in June. We're not required to do a third interim report because we are positive at this point. So our major assumptions are pretty much the same. We take our LCFF based on the governor's January proposal, which as you heard Francisco say that he is recommending that we will be fully funded for our LCFF two years earlier in 1819 versus 2021. Our average daily attendance is about 17,400. And then for expenses, we have the regular step-in columns, STRS-PERS increases, health and welfare increases. And in your packet, there's a full list of those assumptions. One thing that we've been bringing to you is when we were requested by a board member to bring this was the STRS and PERS increases. And as you see, we have increases every year. The district pays, has these increases, the employees also are paying a portion of their PERS and STRS, the certificated pay 10.25% and classified, depending on if they're a classic or a new PERS pay six or 7%. Their rates are stable at that at this moment, but our district rates continue to go up. So on our multi-year projection, this is our unrestricted side. And as you will see in our revenues, I'm not gonna go over every number, I'm just gonna point out some important ones. Our revenues do go up about $14 million next year. And the majority of that is LCFF being fully funded. And we're also getting a one-time, some additional one-time money at the amount of 295 per ADA, which is approximately $5 million. We are continuing to deficit spend. The expenditures are fairly flat for this year and next year, but what we have included in this year is the CSEA settlement and part of their settlement was the vacation to reduce the vacation liability, and that's in there. This will go up once we can settle with PVFT. And I have another, that was it on this one. And then for the restricted, the numbers are fairly stable. We do have this year's a little bit higher in that we have carryover listed in there, which we've met with sites and departments and they are spending that down. And the combined here, you'll see where we are, deficit spending 11.4 million, and that's the combined of federal and state, restricted and unrestricted. And that this was similar, is very similar to where we were at first interim and prior interim. So I just wanna draw your attention to this slide and really compliment Helen and everything that she's done with her team. So as you'll remember in years prior and last year as well, we saw a significant change between when we came to first interim and then when we came to second interim and then even when we came in June, we had many inaccuracies. This year, last year at the very end, we wound up having a very large swing between when we brought it in the beginning and at the very end. This year, we are a little bit over a million dollars of a variance, which is less than 1%. Remember, we're working with $230 million budget. And so to have a variance of a little over a million is really great because it's a less than a half a percent. So I do wanna just compliment Helen and all the work that the staff has done because they've really put in the work to make sure that we know where we are and that we're not seeing these large swings that we have seen in the past. Thank you. Okay, so we'll go on to contributions and we have various contributions to restricted programs and which are the special ed, routine restricted maintenance. And we also include the other miscellaneous is for new teacher project. We wanted to highlight also because we do have a contribution for transportation and but it's within the unrestricted side so you don't really see it. But we only get about 2.6 million of funding when we spend over 7.2 million. So that's another four and a half million. This slide, we, oh, I didn't know how this went like that. This slide is one we borrowed from school services and it shows the LCFF growth year over year and the expenditures at an average school district. One thing we added on this too is the transportation costs because that is something that we have that continues to increase that most other districts don't have. On the variance report, as Michelle said, we have very little differences between first and second interim for the current year. There was a small prior year adjustment for LCFF. It was less than, it was around a 500,000. And other changes were minor. So I'm gonna kind of skip over this unless you have any questions at the end. If I can just note, so these variances were actually a positive in that they came from our grant writer, right? So these were ones that have come in since in the last couple of months where we have received these funds in order for us to be able to do programs for students. And so although it is a variance, it is a positive variance and we'll continue to see those as we continue to bring in money from grants. Thank you. So our next steps, as I said, the COE will review our report and send you a letter with their certification. We are beginning to review for the 18-19 budget year. HR and finance have had staffing meetings with all the sites and several departments. And we have a couple more that we're scheduling. The finance department myself and my staff accounts have met with almost all the sites. We have two more meetings tomorrow to discuss where they are and they're spending for 17-18 and what they have for 18-19 and giving them some guidelines as to how they could spend that money and plan that money for next year. And so the next step after that is we'll bring the estimated actuals and July adoption to you guys in June. So at this time, I'd like to recommend that you approve our second intern with a positive certification. And I'd like to thank you for your time. Thank you, Helen. Do we have any speakers to decide on? We do not. Where is it gonna stop? And, or is this it at 18.13%? No, it goes for another, is it two more years? Two more years. That was more than that. And we're heading up to what dollar amount? It's over 20%. Or 20%, okay. Over 20%. Over 20%. I don't remember off the top of my head and I didn't bring that with me, sorry. Okay. And before this 16, 17 year, how much was our contribution? It's been going up. You don't have to be. Yeah. I believe it, I know at one year it was 11 something and it's, I don't know the lowest it's been. But it's, I guess my point is it's a significant expenditure for the district. Yes, it's been increasing. And I can get those and I can provide that to Michelle to send out to you what the rates have been and where they're going. I think that would be helpful for the board members to see what the STRS and PERS, like what the actual dollar amount in terms of increased contribution is every year and then the total that it might be, you know, at the end of that five years. And then you mentioned that transportation costs continue to go up. And I know we just entered into a contract with the biodiesel people, which I thought was going to eventually bring down the cost of transportation. Yeah, they haven't implemented completely yet because they're just still doing testing is my understanding on that. We haven't even started the program yet. Is that correct? Michelle probably knows more than I do on that. So unfortunately with their first test, it did not work on the vehicles. So they had to reformulate the formula and that did not work either. And so we are now, they are now formulating the third formula. So at this time, we don't have any buses using that. Okay, so that might not work. It might not be a viable idea. Yeah, I did. Okay, got it. So, you know, we're looking at, Hi Helen, how are you? So as we look at the STRS and PERS increases, we're looking at, you know, 20 million this year, 22 million the next year, 25 million the year after that. How are we paying for these increases? I mean, this is a significant increase every year. On top of that, and I talked to this about, I talked to this to Melody a lot and I can't wait to get my hands on the new CEOs, the CEOs so I can talk to them too. We're looking at a Cadillac tax on benefits, which is going to be between $3 and $5 million ongoing every year. So how are we absorbing these increases? Well, fortunately, we've had the LCFF being implemented and so we've been getting large increases in that every year and that's really helped with that, but it's not going to be sustainable because we're fully funded next year and yet we, as you can see by, saw by the school services when the revenues do not outweigh the expenditures. So we're just eating out a general fund. So money that could be going to salaries or facilities or whatever are going to. Well, we're required by law to do person search. No, I understand that. But money that could be directed somewhere else is going here. You know, that's 25 million in two years. Okay, thank you. Yes, so my concern with this budget is just looking at the past history of the school district and the history of the school district shows the gross underestimation with its ending reserve balance. And, you know, and President DeRose, you know, no disrespect to you, but to thwart off your end comment, I don't need a personal one-on-one meeting undisclosed in private with the superintendent to inform me of the history of this school district when I've lived in this community for over 30 years and the history of that. Now it's not the appropriate time for that comment. Well, we can talk about that. But my position on this will be to vote no, because again, I have a high concern of this district's history of underestimating the ending reserve balance. Karen, do you have any comments? Well, I mean, on the stirs and perils, I just think it's something that CSBA needs to really focus on because they've been focused on all these other things that they're gonna make sure that, you know, they get a better deal on and they're not really focusing enough on these two issues. I would think, you know what I'm saying? And on the state level to make, you know, a difference for our school district across the state on these two issues. Oh, they really need to work on it. And I was gonna ask you, so our transportation budget is higher because we have more rural areas to go or because you said that our transportation is higher than most other districts? Well, and a lot of districts in 0708 when transportation money was rolled into the LCFF funding, some of them discontinued transportation. And we, as a district, did not want to. We did try and I know that you guys probably remember real well having all the parents come in that were upset when we cut routes. Oh, absolutely. And that was a way to try to reduce cost and it's just not safe for our kids not to have those routes out there. No, I absolutely know that. I mean, there was parents saying that they're not gonna take their children to school if we didn't have routes for them. I mean, I remember that evening was packed with parents saying. Multiple evenings. Yeah, they were, you know, it was like, ooh. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want to do that to parents either. I mean, I wouldn't want to say to them that we're not gonna provide them transportation. That doesn't make any sense. I would like to say though that our transportation department has worked very hard to maintain and keep that cost down as much as possible, which is a real plus to their department. Yeah, no, I've heard, I know that they are. The costs go up that we have really no control over but they still try to maintain it and look for options to minimize. Has it there been bills by the legislation in Sacramento in regards to transportation, like increasing transportation costs? I thought there has been, but maybe I'm wrong about that. I haven't heard anything that's gone through to fully fund or to even increase the amount for transportation. We are in essence frozen at the 0708 level and we've gotten no colas on it or anything. Yeah, exactly, that's what I'm saying. We have to maintain the same level that we did back then. Exactly, I know we do. Yeah, that transportation issue is hard one. I mean, I know we have other issues that are hard too, special education, which we have so many more children that need it and that's, you know, those two transportation and special letter difficult ones, yeah. All right, you got comments, Maria? Questions? Yeah, I have a couple questions. So to piggyback on what Karen just said, so I know that we brought in an outside consultant to do a transportation study and there were lots of findings with recommendations on things that we as a district could implement to reduce the cost. You did mention that some of those have already been implemented, so I'm wondering what the cost has, the reduction in cost for transportation has been over the course of, I mean, that was a couple of years ago. I'd have to get back to you on the exact cost on that, but I could get that, you know, like on a Friday update. Yeah, so that would be great. In fact, I think I would like to agendize that item for a future meeting. I think it's good for the board to be aware of the changes that we are implementing to save money. And the ending fund balance, does that include what our current proposal is for PVFT? No, since nothing's been settled, we aren't allowed to put that in here yet. Okay, for CSEA that has been incorporated, okay. So really that ending fund balance is probably gonna look a lot lower. Yes, it will go down. Once we hopefully are able to reach an agreement. Okay, thank you. Could you actually know this is the slide I want? Thank you. So on the increase and decrease, I think on 18, 19, that's the first year I've not seen a deficit there in a long time, I believe. Is that because of the additional LC-SF funding? Yes, the LC-SF again. Because then it goes back up again? Yes, we get about almost 10 million in LC-SF funding and we get almost 5 million in one-time money. And so the unappropriate fund balance reflects in essence the one-time money that we're getting that has not been allocated out to anything. LC-SF has kind of all the money that we, all the expenditures that we had to roll with the increases in step and column, health and welfare, stirs and purrs have all been calculated, leaving us the ending fund balance of 5 million. Before I go any further, I just, I want to say we recognize all the work that you've done over the last year, year and a half on really scrubbing this budget and looking really at every dollar to make sure that we're accurate. So- I continue to do that too. I know, and that's appreciated. And we can see the difference, so thank you. We can ask questions, but we don't know what we don't know, right? A question about the stirs and purrs. And this is to follow up on Jeff's. So it's gonna go, right now we're making up for the additional expenditures with additional LC-SF funds as well. That's not gonna last forever. So what do we have planned out in the future in order to make those commitments? We'll probably have to look at, we've budgeted in all the future years at the current new rates. So we will have to make adjustments in the budget somehow to cover them if we're not able to with money. You know, what we've heard from the state is that this is probably the first time that the governor's proposal may follow through and may even give us more money and one-time money. That's what we're hoping and that's what we've heard. So if, as long as the revenues continue to come into the state and depending on the new governor also, that's kind of a, hoping they will want to fund education as much as Governor Brown has and we're hoping but other than that we may have to make concessions in the future years. So one of the things that I've been wanting to see and I don't know how you do this because this would be a complete change but I wish we could look at the whole picture of economics and the recessions, the ups and the downs and it's cyclical and we know we're gonna have it. So I wish in up years, well, this is what Jerry Brown just did. He's got a huge rainy day fund. I want our district to get there to where we, and I know that additional reserve is a little bit of that but that's only two months of payroll. The additional 3% total of six. We need to get a rainy day fund because when we go into that recession it's gonna mean we're laying off or we're not laying off. That's my long-term goal is to remain healthy through those times when we know it's coming. We can't say exactly when but we know it's coming so a long-term goal of mine would like to see us get to a place where and we can plan for that and we can plan for how we're gonna address these ever-increasing costs. And I also want, I just wanna point out I think it's important that people realize the contribution to STERS and PERS as employee retirement benefits. So this is going directly to the employees or eventually will. I think it's important that people recognize that. Thank you. I think that was all my comments. So, Jeff, go ahead. It's awesome and you're right. It is an employee benefit I guess for lack of a better word but the employees are also contributing. And I'm assuming, and if you mentioned this and I missed it, please let me know, their rates are also increasing. So as our rates are increasing, so are theirs to make up for the shortfall. They did increase. STERS used to be 8% and they've increased to 10.25 right now. For the out years they will be at 10.25 unless something else changes at the state. So they're going up too. Right. PERS members have always been at 7% and then with the pension reform, now we're kind of split where we have new PERS members and classic PERS members and the new members are paying 6% instead of 7%. They're paying less? They're paying less, yes. But their benefits are going to be less when they retire. So that's all within the pension reform. More really, right? Right. Okay, so it's shocking but by the same token, these are commitments that were made by people that sat in these seats years ago and now we need to make good on those commitments. Okay, thank you. Any other comments? So they are recommending that we we pass this with a positive certification. So if somebody would like to make a motion. I'd like to make one more comment. This is the state that shifted the burden of the STERS PERS onto this district, onto all districts. So it wasn't the people who sat in these seats, Jeff, it was the state that shifted. The state used to pay for this and now we're paying for it. So it was like, and we didn't realize we were going to be responsible for this giant amount of money, yeah. Let me clarify, and I'm sorry if I mispronounce, I don't mean people in the court of the district. I meant elected officials, that's what I meant. Well, yeah. Okay, I'd like to make a motion to pass this positive budget. Okay, any second? All second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Motion passes 5-1-1. Thank you very much, Helen. I know you're here late at night a lot. Okay. So we're on item 9-2 and one of the things that I had asked the superintendent to do is start bringing board policies back. We haven't updated in quite some time. And CSBA, who were a member of, they provide updated policies for us to adopt, sometimes inserting our own language, but there's changes to ed code here and there that we have to incorporate. And we hadn't done it in a while. So we're gonna start bringing one to two policies per board meeting. And we're gonna start this evening with the first reading on a board policy on management and confidential post-retirement benefits. Thank you very much. So when we do the board policies, it will almost always be a two-part process. So the first one is a first reading, which actually doesn't require an action. We had a conversation of whether we should put this in report and discussion or if we should do action.  What that allows is it allows us to have a conversation about it. And if needed make any changes to that board policy and then move it forward. So this is actually a new board policy. So what has happened in the past and we've been working through this since my arrival, but a lot of things were done by past practice and not necessarily board policy or anything that was articulated in writing. So for several years, for many years, both classified and certificated managers and confidential employees received post-retirement benefits. If they had certain stipulations, the challenge is that for the PVFT contract, it specifically states to receive this that you have to retire not only from the district, but also retire from STERS at the same time in order to receive this benefit. So this is a benefit that is available to all certificated staff as long as they're between the ages of 55 and 65 and have been in the district for 10 continuous years, then they can actually retire and then continue to receive our health benefits at no cost to them. The CSEA contract specifically talks about retiring, but it doesn't say one way or the other what it is. We believe our interpretation is that retirement means retirement. If you're not just retiring from the school district, but that you're retiring from PERS as well. So this policy would make it explicit and actually so that classified, certificated managers and confidential employees have been writing what those are, and there is no complications of what one contract means and what the other. The other thing I would point out is technically classified management is not governed by or is not supported by the CSEA contract and certificated managers are not supported by PVFT. And so because of that, this is in an effort to provide clarity to what is available to them. So it's not necessarily more or less retirement benefits for them, but rather it's a clarification so that everyone is clear. Any speakers to the side of? We know. Okay, any questions? Kim. So I work in for a nonprofit, but for essentially a corporation that has 60,000 employees. This particular policy by anyone's stretch of the imagination is unbelievably generous that people could retire at 55 and then stay on the district's dole essentially paying for very, very expensive and Cadillac benefits for 10 years until their Medicare eligible is unbelievably generous. This is like a benefit that people dream about. People don't do this anymore. So you are providing clarity for us, but I'm guessing that this was something that was negotiated. So even if we don't agree with this, we can't change it because it's something that needs to be negotiated. Well, we have not negotiated this with management. It is negotiated with our bargaining units. Yes, what we're trying to do is we're trying to make it explicit the fact that retirement means retirement, meaning that you must retire from CSEA and PVFT, I mean, sorry, and STERS and PERS, you must retire from STERS and PERS in order to get it because otherwise what happens is you have people that are choosing to go to another school district. We still are paying for their benefits and we do talk about it and it's true. Most school districts don't pay 100% of benefits and we do. And so we want people to be very aware that if they are going to receive this benefit, that that means that they are officially retiring and not the interpretation of I'm retiring from the district, but if I retire, I retire. So I retire from the system. So this is sort of in an effort to clarify and prevent people from leaving our district, jumping the hill and going to a higher paid district, but getting their benefits continued to be paid for by this district. So that's what the clarity is in this particular policy. Right, because the two contracts aren't, the two contracts, which actually they're not covered under, but the two contracts that were used for past practice are not congruent. And this will make them. Well, this will provide clarity that retirement means retirement. Done for now. Thanks. And Karen and then Jeff. I was just wondering how do we know that they're really retiring or that they might leave? I mean, how can we guarantee that they're not, that they're not gaining benefits and leaving to another place? I mean, how do we make sure that that can't happen really? Well, through STRS and PERS they're in the system or they're not in the system, right? So they're contributing, just like we just mentioned through our budget, if they have a school district that's contributing to their STRS or their PERS and they're contributing, then there's an assumption that they are in fact, not retired. And we would know that, right? There is very few people actually in the school district that have access to that system, not one of them, but the proper people and human resources and payroll do have access to those systems, yes. And they would be signing, stating that they were in fact retiring, not only from the district, but from the system. In order to be eligible. In order to be eligible for the benefits, yes. I think it's important to know, well, before I make my comment, I better make sure I'm right. When do we know when this was written, when this was negotiated? I don't know exactly, but I know that we have examples of this from nine years past. Because my assumption is, is that this was, there was a point where this was the norm, where people, these were the kind of offerings that organizations made to their employees, both public and private. And so it's not, just most organizations have moved beyond this as health costs have went up, as retirement costs have went up, as people have lived longer and longer and healthier lives. So this is, for lack of a better word, this is more of a dinosaur, I'm guessing, that other districts have moved beyond. Is that fair to say, Chun, would that be your experience? I've never seen a school district actually have this even as past practice, but... Any of the school districts I've been, this is as Trustee Disciples said, is very generous. And I've never seen it in any school district where I've been. But it's interesting you say that, because when I came to the school district as a Trustee 70 years ago now, there were some things in the, and I remember Kim and I, you and I talked about this. There were things written into the benefit program, those from 1971. And so I'm wondering if this is really just things that we haven't looked at and from that era when people weren't living as long, it wasn't, this was more common in the general, in the... Well I would say at this point, all non-management staff have this benefit. And so really to be fair to management, they should probably receive it too. If there was a change, and I'm not saying that I'm encouraging the change at this point, but if there was a change, then I would say that we would do an equal change to management. You know, I do agree that it is generous. I think I'm trying to reign it in a little bit to make sure that at least people are not taking advantage of us by leaving us and then having us pay for the next 10 years for their benefits while they work someone else, yeah. So I guess my question is, so could you elaborate a bit more, I mean what is this district's direct benefit from doing this for this district? Well, so the direct benefit is that there's clarity with the management staff of what is actually going to be allowed because right now, past practice has been fairly vague and inconsistently applied, so that's one. Two, I think we want to make sure that our administrators have equal benefits to the rest of our staff. And then my only next question is other than what I heard President DeRose say that she's asked to have some of these policy issues brought forward, what other reason is behind why this is being brought to us now at this current point in time? Because, and we just discussed another one that we came up today because prior to my arrival, there was a lot that was based on past practice and not in writing. And when you have that, then you have a lot of concerns. So what I am trying to do is as I'm coming across and I have staff that says to me, well, we've always done this in the past, this is past practice and I say, where, right? Then they say, we've been doing it for over a decade and I say, well, why have we been doing it over a decade and the answer is, well, because, and they link it to something. But it's, in this case, it was linked to a non-management contracts is what it was linked to. And so I'm trying to, just like I've done before I got here, most MOUs did not come to the board to be brought in for, really, and randomized. And so we constantly are coming across because it's not in our files, it's not solidified. We're finding, we have people that hand us MOUs constantly and say, you can't do that. Here's our MOU that you signed. And because it didn't go to the board, there's no, it's not memorialized anywhere. So I'm trying to, and we'll be having more and more of these, some of them will be new in revisions or some will be new and some will be revisions. But really what I'm trying to do is just get clarity so that we stop doing things on just past practice and we actually have approvals from the board because also in some cases the board was unaware that these things were happening and how I work. I want you guys to, when these things are happening, I want it to be under your purview so that we are following board policy and not just doing our interpretation of what we think you would want us to do. And just to clarify, so tonight this is not an action item because it is the first reading. You'll be bringing it back as a second reading as an action item. When are you first seeing that that might be? It would be in this next board meeting unless there was concerns that was brought up that we felt that I couldn't massage the language enough in order to do it. So generally it's a very next board meeting unless there's significant concerns in particular wording that I can't do, that I can't fix within two weeks. So thank you. I think this is why we hired you. There's some cleanup to do in the district and I'm happy that we're doing this and I think this will be one more little piece of helping us keep our budget under control and that is done through policy. I do agree that this is very generous but my next question is, and this is related, making this change, you said this was negotiated. So does this change have to be negotiated? Well, no, it's negotiated for our bargaining units. So it's negotiated for CNCA and PVST. This is modeled after that. It is, so that it's consistent with what or other. Yeah, so we couldn't unilaterally change what we're doing with PVST and CSCA. We could not implement this. I just feel that there would be some equity issues. I think this will safeguard us from, frankly, having some cost out that we shouldn't have out. All right, thank you.  I was just gonna ask, so do we know, for example, in terms of putting money in other places, I mean, I guess this is a benefit and people love it, I mean, do we know how much money we spend per year on employees, or maybe per year, maybe for, I don't know if I should say per year, on employees that receive this huge generous, I mean, this big benefit, do we know how much money we spend? Yes, we went over that previously and I can provide it to you again. Yeah, that'd be kind of interesting to know what that is. Okay, so again, that was first reading. That will be brought back. It sounds like there's no significant changes. Okay, that's good. Item 9.3, as a comprehensive school safety plans. That's little me again. Okay, so this actually, most of this work has been, almost all of this work has been done by our new manager of risk and safety, Sheila Shanahan, who's been doing a really great job. We always tease her, because she is our manager of risk and safety and she came in on September 11th, so it's a little poetic there. So one thing that we have to do is before March 1st, all the school sites have to work with their school site council in order to be able to do a revised plan. So we have not done this in the past and we have not provided you as we were legally required to with all of the plans. So you will see this is the first time that this has happened, but we do have the list, all the plans actually attached. So if you wanted to see them, you would be able to do it. So there technically are two components of this plan. The one, the part that you're really looking at is the school safety plan. There is the emergency operations plan. If you go into the plans, you'll see that there's a statement that speaks to the confidentiality. And so there is a Santa Cruz group that works with law enforcement that is part of a task force and this is really happening all throughout the state of California. That information is no longer provided to the public and it is only available to the necessary people that have it. And I hate to bring up bad examples, but it's very similar to what had happened in Florida because that child was aware of the policies and procedures because he was aware of what would happen if he pulled the fire alarm, he knew what was gonna happen. He knew students where they were gonna line up. He also knew what the code was for an active shooter and that's how he was able to then recognize that they knew he was there and walk out with the rest of the students. And so because of that, there is the disclaimer in there where that information is not provided and it's really not provided throughout the nation now just because there's a high sensitivity to that to the information. What you will see in here that I think is really important is you will see a data analysis. So they actually take a whole bunch of data whether it's neighborhood crime data, there are healthy kids, their CHIC survey which is their healthy kids survey. They take parent survey data, suspension expulsion rates and then they develop goals off of that. So when we're talking about school safety it does include things like when is your monthly fire and earthquake drills but it also really is looking at data and then making goals. So each and every school site is fairly different in that because it's based on what their data says not only their data within their school site but also what is happening around their school site in terms of crime data and then they're required to do strategies and activities. They also within their plan they talk about how they're gonna communicate that information so each school site is required to do that. I think we've made some really great strides in this area and one thing that we have done and we actually unfortunately had to start using it last year but we were part of the Santa Cruz county wide threat assessment plans we were part of a county wide group. We do follow that assessment plan and unfortunately we have had to use the train group that in threat assessment to go in and do some assessments of threats that we had just finished it and then we literally had to do it at one of our high schools last year. So we actually have already implemented this threat assessment. We also did it, I don't wanna be too specific but regarding the incident that you guys are aware of we brought in the threat assessment team to that school as well in order to do it so the threat assessment team includes local law enforcement as well as some of our counselors and our administrators that are trained on that. Where we're going next is really providing follow up training to all the sites so that they are aware because there's a checklist that they can use in order to identify what type of threat that it is and the level of threat that they need to do. As well as our manager risk and safety is already meeting with the Watsonville Police Department and really looking at conducting lockdown drills at all the locations. So after the Florida event, many principals individually were calling Watsonville PD and asking for support with conducting lockdown drills and making sure that those lockdown drills were well done. That was a little voluminous for Watsonville PD because we have 32 principals and so there's a lot of calls. So we decided to coordinate that through She-Lis office. So that does two things. One, it makes sure that each school site is actually able to get that support and then two, it helps Watsonville PD to where they don't have all these one-off requests coming in. And lastly, from that, I know that you saw it, but I sent out information not only to the parents but also the teachers regarding safety after the Florida event. One of the things that we found from me sending it out is that not everyone had their emergency supplies backpack. And in the past, there was conversation about, well, we don't have the funds for that. So we said, well, if anything, we probably should have the funds for that. Also when we looked at it, 2008 is when those were purchased. Most of that food, water is probably rancid by now because remember much of what we're preparing for, the, I mean, hopefully nothing will happen, but the likelihood that we have a natural disaster is pretty significantly higher than something else, another tragedy. So we wanna make sure that the food and water in those backpacks are actually drinkable and eatable. And so right now, all the sites have been asked for to inventory what they have and provide us a listing by this Friday. So that went out a while ago, but this Friday, so that we can select a vendor and ensure that our teachers and students have the emergency supplies that they need. And I will recognize that the safety committee, members of the safety committee that were teachers and staff did request this previously. Unfortunately, it wasn't brought to my attention that it was requested and denied. And so I guess the good part about me emailing staff directly is they email me back directly. And so we were able to find that. So if I can just let you know, when I was at the, I think those safety backpacks are hugely important word due for another big earthquake. I mean, and I was here, I'm sure most of us were here during the 89 earthquake. And that is not only devastating physically to our community, but emotional. It was hard to get through. Not having supplies makes it that much harder. I, we need to fund those. And I met a vendor at the CSBA conference that actually has those. And they, it's a contract, but they actually are under contract to make sure those are constantly replenished. There's always safe food there. And even the battery operated things, they make sure they come through and they change everything out when it needs to be changed out. I don't think it was that expensive, but we could find that vendor using the CSBA conference folder, cause they're all listed in there. I was really impressed with their service. Well, because of the cost, most likely it will have to go out for bid. So we'll be bringing it back to the board and you'll be able to see which, which of the bidders was the top bid. We won't know if it will be over the bid amount until we know how many backpacks that we need. But I'm encouraging us to really look at the contents of that backpack because any food and water is probably not usable at this point after 10 years. Right, so, and I would encourage that high school principals at least have participation in that process of knowing what exactly it is that they need at their sites. I think that would be really important. I mean, we don't, we're not in the classroom. We'll involve, once we have the number of amount we'll make sure and involve people. We'll involve our, our, our certificate and classified staff as well through the safety committee. Any other questions? Okay. Covered it all. Is that a yes, Kim? I have a comment. Go ahead. After the Columbine shootings, just for the public's knowledge, and Willie brought it up a while ago, but we rekeyed every single lock in this district and that, that expenditure came out of Measure L and it was an expenditure that we had not really even thought about or bargained for. So, unfortunately it was very expensive endeavor. And, but every single lock now in all the classrooms can be locked from the inside so that teachers can keep kids safe. Yeah, no, no, I know that was. Okay, so this is an action item. So, I'm looking for a motion to accept the school safety plans. Move approval. Second. That was Maria and Kim. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 601. The next one is 9.4. This is a resolution and support of public schools and oops, I clicked away. And this was, I believe, first drafted by PVFT. Is that correct? And was sent to Maria and Maria shared it with me and we worked together to, I'm gonna open this again, sorry, finalize this resolution. And I would like to read a couple of warehouses and then can I turn that over to you? Sure. Okay, let's see, sorry, I didn't really prepare for this. Okay, so resolution number 17, 1827, PVSD supports public schools, whereas free public schools available to every child regardless of income, ability, need, English language proficiency or racial and ethnic identity or keystones in the foundation of our American democracy and whereas our public schools prepare the nation's young people, rich, poor, native and foreign born and of all abilities to contribute to our nation's society, economy and civic life and whereas all of our students deserve high quality public schools that teach the whole child providing enrichment and addressing social and emotional needs in addition to core academic subjects and whereas residents of the Parho Valley Unified School District expect their elected leaders and policymakers regardless of political party affiliation to value and support this vision for a strong and inclusive public education system. So if you wanna do the next few, I can do the, be it resolved, is that okay? Sure, yeah. Whereas local accountability for our public schools is necessary to ensure that schools are responsive to the needs of their communities and whereas 90% of all American children attend and depend on public schools for their chance to succeed and achieve the American dream and whereas education policies such as those that promote the use of public funds for private schooling undermine the resources needed by traditional public schools to provide the safe and nurturing learning environment that all students deserve in an education system offering fairness and opportunity for all children and whereas dependent community charter schools, I'm sorry, whereas dependent community charter schools are fully participating the district's public accountability process can offer differentiated learning experiences that benefit our students. Now therefore, for these reasons and many others, be it? Thank you, resolved that the Parho Valley Unified School District supports public education in our community that is high quality, inclusive and supported with resources that are adequate for its essential responsibility of helping all children achieve, succeed and mature into good citizens who contribute to America's economy, social wellbeing and the civic life of our democracy and be it resolved that the Parho Valley Unified School District rejects policies that lead to separate and unequal education opportunities for our students or that privatized school operations and undermine local control and accountability for our publicly funded schools. Be it resolved by the governing board of the Parho Valley Unified School District urges the state legislature to fund California public schools at the national average or higher by the year 2020 and at a level that is equal to or above the average of the top 10 states nationally by 2025 and to maintain at a minimum this level of funding until otherwise decreed. And so with that, I'm looking for a motion to have the resolution be approved. I will make the motion. Second. Oh, go ahead, Karen. Okay, Karen's the second. All those in approval? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 502 with Trustee Acosta stepped away. Thank you. Okay. At 9.5, we had already addressed and we have a report and discussion item on Super Saturdays and my guess is this is Mark Brewer our assistant superintendent of secondary. Good evening, President DeRose, Dr. Rodriguez, members of the board. I'm Mark Brewer, assistant superintendent for secondary schools and I'm happy to present a report on the progress of Super Saturdays. We're about two and a half years into the program. The big plus is right now is that we've had over 27,000 students attend. That's a big number. Obviously we have kids that go more than once because that's more than our district population by quite a bit. Out of that, we've recovered over 17,000 absences. We've been able to extend learning opportunities for students and prove absenteeism rates, supported school site culture and built deeper relationships with students, parents and community. So overall the program has been incredibly successful and very good for our students. The next slide gives you a detailed printout of 1718 and it shows you in this spreadsheet it'll give you access to every single site and it breaks it down by the grade level of the students, the site that hosted the ADA. We were able to recover the number of students who attended that we didn't recover on because it's fine. It's fine that we don't recover on every student. We wanna encourage more students to participate and it's open to all students. So it gives you a good summary in the net totals on the bottom and yellow. So you can read through each site and see, and I'm sorry, if you're looking at the PowerPoint that this chart was so big it was really hard for me to get it to be visible. We can open it on our board docs. Excellent, yeah, open that version and you'll be able to read that. This one, sorry for this one, it's a struggle to read. That gives you detailed information and there's things you can point to if you have questions on and I'll go back and speak to that. The next slide is 1617. I've been asked, well, how's this program disseminated out through sites? This gives you basically for a year, previous year's efforts. It gives you net recovery by site. We do 60-40 split. It gives you the amount of money that goes directly back to each site. There are 40% that goes into their discretionary fund to spend on supplies, student needs, things for the school and then it gives you an overall total of the net revenue that was brought in and the amount that was given out to the sites for the 1617 school year. We also get this date at the end, we'll get the same date at the end of the 1718 school year and then we dispense the money in August to the sites and they're allowed to use it to do things around their school to improve different things. A lot of sites target it too to support the teachers who work super Saturdays and come in on the weekends and support our students. They get them extra supplies and things for their classrooms which is a good way to thank the teachers for doing it. Teachers are paid and remember this is net recovery after the program is done for the year and we've paid everybody to work Saturdays and security coverage and all that. Our net revenue back to the general fund was 193,000 and then you add the 79 that went back to the sites. So it benefits student learning and it also benefits our district because we recover ADA which is important and students get to make up an absence. So it also helps our overall absenteeism rate for the year so we get our goals to be above 96% attendance rate at every site. This helps us reach that goal. In the next and last slide just shows you Super Saturday three year summary and gives you some detail of what's happened basically since we started the program. On there, if you go down to the bottom, let me open it up on mine where I can actually read it. The blue is number of students attended and the green is number of students recovered. So it's attendance versus recovery. So it's not only open to students looking to recover credits, students can voluntarily go. Absolutely. And blue is voluntary. Yep and anyone who shows up that has an absence we recover that absence. They get it back on their books as an attended day and we recover the ADA. So and it's the bars are smaller in the current year because we're not to the end of the year yet. So it should go up some more. We're continually expanding, Lisa's working. We're trying to get more sites to do that. We have to have teachers willing to host. So we'll continue to pursue that and work on that as we go out in the next year to try to recruit more people to participate in the program, get more teachers involved. And so I'll open it up to questions. Are there speakers to this? None. And I know Karen had a comment. I just want to make sure. So when you said that, for example I saw, I think you don't have it there where I saw it, but you had 193,000 on there, right? Yes, back, if you go to 1617 summary page. Is the 79,000 taken out of the 193 sets? No, it's in addition to, and we do a 6040 spread. So that's 193,000 and additional to that is the 79,000 that goes to the schools. So a total recovery of about $280,000. Yeah, so the recovery is actually that much. Yeah, total. And then that's how it's dispersed between site and district general fund. Yeah, okay, I get it. So you would add the 193 to the 79 to get the net total recovery of ADA for that calendar year. Right, Jeff, and then Maria, did you have, okay. Jeff and then Maria. I think this is a great program. It's a great program, I heard a lot of great things about it when I first rolled out. But as I'm looking at these numbers, there's a variance in some sites doing much better with it. Some sites aren't doing better with it. Are, how are we advertising this? How are we getting the message out that kids can recover at their time? Parents and community are fully aware of it. The issue that we have is I have to get a teacher at those sites willing to work on Saturday. They get compensated. They make about $185 for their time net. So they do get compensated, but it's purely up to them. They have to volunteer to do that. And some sites have just been better at getting a coordinator to run it and recruiting teachers to do it. And that varies year to year. We've had some sites come on board and not repeat this year because their coordinator decided this year that they just didn't wanna do it right now. Doesn't mean they might not come back. But I continue, and Lisa continues to push really hard to add more sites. You can see we have schools that don't even participate. So we're constantly trying to do that. And then the ones that do, we're trying to grow their program. Sometimes it's only one teacher that will do it at a site. So they're bringing in good numbers of students over the course of the year, but it's only one or two faculty members that are offering the enrichment. Well, because Wattsville High is great, is fantastic. Aptos High is great. I don't see Rio here. Or Aptos Junior. If they're not listed, they're not participating. It's because we've not, literally have not been able to get a staff member willing to do it at this point. But I'm pretty persistent. I'm positively persistent. I've talked to principals a lot. I'm a big advocate of the program because of the expanded learning opportunities. And it also is not, it's a program to enrich things for students, not punishment. So the more we can get kids involved and the more parents see the positive side of it, we have more demand. And it's great for kids. It gives them something to do. And it's a great, well-rounded educational opportunity. Well, you know, it's interesting as you look at the student to teacher ratios, as it gets later it's harder to talk. Yes. But Aptos High is at 42. Yes. I'm guessing they have a lot less teachers. Yes, yep. So fewer teachers, larger, they serve more kids. There is no cap on a Super Saturday, right? It's not a contractual class. So we'll have PE teachers that might serve 70 kids together on a Saturday morning. They keep working with teachers. Yes, keep promoting the program and keep, because the more we can get teachers involved that are willing to run something on a Saturday, whatever enrichment they want to do, the more participation we'll get because each teacher invites students. They say, I'm going to do this this Saturday. They advertise it to kids on campus and students in their class. And then kids say, yeah, I'll come Saturday and participate. They're fed lunch. They have to be there for four hours. The state requires, in order for attendance to be counted, they need to be there for four hours. So we provide them lunch as well and a break during that four-hour period. But the students really enjoy it. The schools that are doing it are doing a really good job and the kids are thriving. We just would like to continue to grow the program. Okay, Maria? Yeah, so I was just comparing the net revenues from year to year and also the number of school site sessions that were offered from year to year. So what has contributed to that increase? For more people participating?  So the first year was 122, then it went up to 172, then down to 94 and then now up to 388. Yeah, and again, it depends on, it's all dependent on who, we set a calendar for the year ahead of time so teachers know what Saturdays are offered. We steer clear of three-day weekends and holidays so that they're free Saturdays for all of us, in essence. And then it can vary in that count based on how many teachers fill those Saturday slots. So a site might have two teachers one Saturday, six teachers the next, 10 the next, and none the next. They might have a Saturday, they just don't participate. So you see that variance based on that. Thank you. And I just have one last comment. You finish and then Georgia and then Karen. So I have two nieces and a nephew attending freedom elementary school. And I visit often and when this first kicked off, they came up to me and they said, well, no, I told them, well, why are you going to sleep so early? It's Friday, right? You get to stay up late. And they said, no, we have school tomorrow. And so it was part of the Super Saturday. So they were ecstatic about it and they continued to participate because they enjoy it so much. So they don't necessarily view it as an additional day at school. It's more recreational and fun for them. Yes. They're working, right? So Karen, thank you. Are you done, sir? Mm-hmm. I used to hate it. I said we need to do something different, but we used to do Saturday schools for disciplinary reasons. And we actually had that they had to come on Saturday. It was for disciplinary reasons. Yes. And I was telling them, we've got to do something different than this. No, I don't think this is such a good idea. But anyways, so I'm really glad that Super Saturdays are for fun and enrichment and recreational now. Yeah. I am super glad. Good, yes, it's a way better approach. And there are school sites that will bring in students that are struggling with certain issues, but they do things with them that help them grow, social, emotional growth, and helps them make better decisions versus a punitive day of its punishment. So in essence, we're creating an environment where we support kids to make better decisions instead of being just punitive with them. Exactly. And then they can feel that they are, well, I was just trying to think of how to explain this. Well, students can feel like that they have a place where they can be with other students and have fun with other students and do things together with other students. And you know what I'm saying? So you even have lonely students or alienated students actually feel less alienated and less lonely going to the Saturday school. Well, we have many parents that work on Saturdays and it's a great place for their students to be, their children to be on a Saturday morning. Absolutely. Georgia. Yes, Mark, I just wanted to say thank you to you and Lisa too for what you're doing for our students with this and also for the district as a whole. And perhaps maybe in June, when you could get that compiled report, maybe in late June or even if it's July, you could bring back that report and update us so then we know what that actually looks like. Sure, be glad to do that. Thank you. Mr. Brewer, I think I just sent you guys an email about ACT, ACT and SAT testing. So what is going on at the three comprehensives to get kids ready for ACT and SAT at Saturday school? Is there anything? They offer test prep sessions. They'll get teachers that'll set that up specifically and invite students in to do test prep. We think or we absolutely are sure. We're sure. And which curriculum is being used. I can check with them, but I'm sure at some sites, others not so much, but I definitely know advanced placement teachers definitely utilize the time because they're gonna test in May. So that's why you'll see a bit of an increase between now and then because a lot of these sites will start bringing students in on Saturday to give them extra time to prepare for those examinations. Do we have any ability, and maybe this is a better question for Dr. Rodriguez, do we have any ability to get extra money to provide a higher stipend to some of the AP teachers or some really excellent teachers to do the test prep classes? I'm just trying to think of how we can improve our kids' test scores because I don't think they're that stellar on the ACT and the SAT, particularly in math. Well, I mean, we can work on all stipends and anything that has to do with wages and compensation generally goes through the contract. And so we can, if that's the direction that the board wants to go, we can look at that. It would probably be through a stipend type process. But Chona and I can get our minds together to figure out what it is. Generally, our AP teachers are very, very dedicated teachers that really want their kids to do great on the AP exams. And so they do every effort in order to make sure that the kids are as successful as they can. I will say that now that we're doing the PSAT with all students, and it did just start this year, but now that we're doing the PSAT with all students, it gives us a measurement to know where they're lacking that we didn't have prior to this year, right? So prior to this year, we didn't have a baseline for a lot of students, and now we do. And so that's the great thing about the ACT suite, so to speak of what they call it, is that you can really then link into Khan Academy and other things as well in order to get them to do better on the ACT. And so that was something that the district put forth for all students this year. Which was great. It's a great idea. Just trying to get a bigger bang out of the Saturday school. Yeah, and I can all continue to work with principals about finding teachers and staff that are willing to do that and just try to recruit more teachers. Because they're the drivers of this. That's great, and I just wonder, do we have a specific curriculum that we offer to those teachers to actually help with this test prep? Or is it just a problem? If there's test prep, we would access the SAT and ACT tools and curriculum. And most sites in the library have CDs and study guides and resources already available to students. So teachers can access that and use it if they have an organized class. Okay, and then I would love to see Saturday school marching band practice at some point. We're working on that. Where I came from, we had marching band and they attended Super Saturdays and it was really good, yeah. So I'm looking forward to that day. I have to get my little plug-in for music. Every single birth meeting. If you get a chance, sometime during the day, go by Cesar Chavez Middle School and ask to go visit the band teacher there. He's doing a fabulous job. I believe they have three or four sections that are completely full and the students are playing legitimate music as a group. He's doing a phenomenal job, so it's really exciting to see. So you will be happy because in April when we bring you the VAPA plan, you will see that the comprehensive high schools offered, all the comprehensive high schools offered this next school year for either beginning band or drumline or a combination of the two. And so it's coming down the pike. That's great. So it looks like we have 12 schools participating in Super Saturday about. Yes, that's about what we have this