 Coral Valley Unified School District Board Meeting for Wednesday, March 11th, 2020. I will now go to agenda item 1.2, public comments on closed session agenda. Are there any public comments to closed session items? Yes, we have five public speakers. So I'll call the first three if you can line up. So is it Tase Higuchi? Tase Higuchi, my apologies. Abel Mejia and Carlos Petino. We're positive. I have them from year two. I was unable to get ahold of my evaluations from year one. I'm equity focused. It can be easy to sacrifice equity in pursuit of higher test scores. I have made equity a focus of my practice. I have given only four referrals all year. I believe in connection over correction and I can handle my own discipline. Two, I specifically requested to be part of the special and inclusion co-teaching team. Deliberately taking in a larger caseload of students with higher needs. My DNF rates are the lowest in the Math 1 team as referenced by the letter of recommendation from my department chair. I do everything to ensure that Math 1 will not be the reason that one of my students does not graduate from Watsonville High School. I advocate for my students and for my colleagues. I brought an email chain where I'm advocating for the well-being of my students. I do speak up when I think something is wrong or detrimental even if it angers someone in power. Right now, there are five teachers that will no longer be here next year. Two have submitted their resignations and accepted offers at other schools. One is retiring. One lost his internship credential. He was not fully qualified halfway through the year and had to vacate the position. The last, I think I already said was retiring and then the last one is me. There will be five positions next year that need to be filled. The district struggles every single year to staff math classrooms. This past year, there were two positions that needed to be filled. You could not fill one out of two positions with a credentialed math teacher. It is a choice between me and an empty classroom. It is a choice between me and a series of long-term subs or even short-term subs. I have multiple letters of recommendation. I have multiple letters of recommendation which I can provide to you. Thank you for your time. Hi, my name is Carlos Petino from Watsonville High School. I'm a class of 2000 Watsonville High School graduate. I got my credential and masters and came back and have been teaching at Watsonville High School for 15 years. I have lost track of how many teachers come and go. I've lost track how administration and the district just lets a long-term sub be in classrooms and no significant learning is getting done in those classrooms. I was teaching today two sophomores and they don't know what a radius or a diameter is. You know, that's a fourth or fifth grade standard. Somewhere around there. And you know what they tell me? We had a long-term sub and I said, I'm sorry, guys. I want to do the best that I can to raise the level of your education. When we cannot keep fully credentialed teachers at our high school, we're giving them a subpar education. It's not fair to them. All right, we're gonna say this, that and the other. We can make a difference. We could keep a teacher today. That's fully credentialed. That's capable. That's an asset to our department. I love every time Tase has to say something on a term because I'm like, hmm, I didn't see it that way. Or that's a good point. We're gonna lose a valuable asset. Like Tase said, there's five people in our department leaving. How many long-term subs are we gonna be okay with keeping in the math department? My classes will be full. My tutorials will be full. I'm okay with that. But I'm only one person. I've been here 15 years. And if we're gonna give up on the young teachers that wanna be here, how are we gonna keep the teachers, how are we gonna get anybody to be here? We're losing two teachers and they're getting paid more in another district and they're not looking back twice. It's been a rough year. I've gone to school. I didn't even know what I was teaching some days because our schedule is so bad. I don't blame the new teachers for leaving. Hi, Abel Mejia, graduate of Watsonville High School, class of 88. Been at Watsonville High since 2001 and seen a revolving door of unqualified teachers coming to our school and some getting tenure. And then I've seen highly qualified, excellent teachers not get reelected to come back and get their tenure. Taste happens to be one of those that would be a shame if we were to lose her. My students are very honest and they'll tell me when they know of a bad teacher, a bad sub, they just feel comfortable telling me things because we share that experience of I'm a wildcat. They're wildcats. They want what's best for our school. I want what's best for our school and taste is one of those things that we need in our school. You may say things that are unpopular, but that's okay, that's what a democracy is about. We have to have a diversity of opinion, a diversity of perspective if we're gonna hold on to this thing called success. We need her and I hope that you support her as well. Thank you. Next we have Viviana Gonzalez and Pablo Beric. So my name is Viviana Gonzalez. I've been teaching at Watsonville High School. This is going on my 16th year. I also graduated from Watsonville High School. I am not someone who usually comes to the front of the board and speak. If I am here, it's because I highly believe in taste and I am impressed that she mentioned that last year our NWA scores went up higher than any other year. And if you guys have seen NWA scores here, you know that math went up higher than any other subject. And she is part of the Math One group. I honestly think that a huge part of it was her contribution. I have first period prep and she had first period prep and I'm constantly seeing her come up with these amazing lessons. I currently teach math too and I'm not interested right on teaching Math One, but I would love to work with her and there's also another colleague there that's also amazing because of their hands-on, collaborative lessons that I think are amazing. I also think she's amazing at working with at-risk students since the beginning of the year. I mean, sometimes we just say hi, bye, because we're not teaching the same course, but since our conversation, most of our conversations have been with her coming into my classroom and saying how is such and such as Edwin doing? Totally at-risk student and I am just impressed how she's able to connect, yes, she's able to connect with students who are not at risk, but especially her strength I think is to be able to connect with our at-risk students. Like I am not 99, if not 100% sure that the students that she's always checking that she's constantly checking in to ask about in my classroom would not be where they're at if it wasn't for her and her belief in them. I know and I asked her like, how did you do it? How did you get them involved? She said she would have them in, I don't know how she got them into after-school tutorial, but she would stay after-school to help them. Thank you. Hello, my name's Paolo Barrett, class of 84 from Watsonville High School. This is ridiculous, this is absolutely ridiculous. A second year teacher with good evals not being asked back and it really is questioned that the rest of us, well, what if we didn't have our tenure? What if we were not, if we are second year teachers and we happen to maybe say something that made management uncomfortable and the response is, well, we'll get somebody else to replace them. There is nobody else to replace them. We are losing a first year teacher. She's getting five years of credit at the school that she's going to because they cannot find a qualified, certificated mathematics teacher at that school. First year, she's getting five years credit. It's unheard of because they want to make sure that they retain her. These folks have said it and I have worked personally with TACE. Last year I was on with the Math 1 team. They came over to my house so we could plan and study and get ready for the Math 1. It was their first year. I'd never seen so much excitement, so much adeptness at technology. Quite frankly, I couldn't keep up. I was really impressed. She and Tish, who was her roommate, who wrote you a letter about her, knows her more intimately than any of us. Does it all, really? I mean, I don't know what the logic is. Maybe again, this is just over my pay grade, right? But there's an ancient saying, thousands of years old, iron sharpens iron. And we've learned that in our department that we might not have the same opinion, but we know how to work together. And it seems short-sighted that if you're the person who's overseeing these folks and you can't figure out a way to maybe find one little thing to fix instead of just throwing the baby out with a bathwater, that's curious at best. I think maybe not just us being evaluated, but maybe management being evaluated should be taken more seriously. Thank you for your time. We appreciate your looking into this at a second time. Thank you very much. No more problems? Next up, when we go into closed session, we were talking about agenda item 2.1, which is Certificated Public Employee Appointment, Employment, Government Code Section 54957, 2.2, Classified Public Employee Appointment, Appointment, Appointment, Government Code Section 54957, 2.3, Negotiations Update, 2.4, Public Employee Discipline, Dismissal Release Leaves, 2.5, Resolution Number 19-20-32, Notice of Non-Relection of Certain Probationary Certificate Employees. Agenda item 2.6, Approved Settlement for Keenan Claim, Number 553165, 2.7, Anticipated Litigation, and One Case. Thank you very much. Most of us are here. Thank you everybody. Today is Wednesday, March 11th, 2020. Welcome to the Pajaroa Valley Unified School District Board Meeting. For agenda item 3.1, I will ask Karen Ostmanson, if she'd like to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Welcome to our Pajaroa Valley Unified School District Board Meeting. Just to let you know, we have translation in Spanish. If you need that support, please see Magdalena Maciel, who's standing there at the back of the room. So next up, we will start off with agenda item 3.3. Dr. Rodriguez, our superintendent. So usually I do my comments in English and Spanish. I'll be only doing them in English today because of the length of them. So people that need it in Spanish will be hearing it from Magdalena. So our student's health and safety is paramount for us and our community and educational partners. This afternoon, we received notification that a person at Rial del Mod Elementary has tested positive for coronavirus. The Santa Cruz County Public Health Department confirmed that a person at Rial del Mod was placed on quarantine because of testing positive to COVID-19. They are recommending school dismissal for 14 days after the date of last exposure. The individual has not been on the site since Friday, February 28, 2020. After careful consideration and light of the new information, effective immediately, the district will dismiss Rial del Mod Elementary School until Monday, March 16, 2020. Please note that to date, no other individual has tested positive to COVID-19. At this time, we ask others to make the parents to make arrangements for their students for Thursday, March 12 and Friday, March 13. As classes will be canceled and any school related activities will be canceled. During this time, the site will be deep cleaned to ensure the health and safety of students and staff. I did wanna note that our staff is the one who developed the county-wide process for the cleaning. So I'm proud of our staff for doing that. During this time, they will receive another notification if the school must remain closed after the noted date. This complex decision included close collaboration and coordination with our County Office of Education, the Board of Trustees and the Santa Cruz County Public Health Department. We will continue to work closely with multiple community partners to coordinate and adjust planned activities as needed. And then if there are any questions, they are to contact our Public Information Officer, Alicia Jimenez, as she has constant contact with me. So I want people to know that we are going to continue to follow the health official. She is the only one who can actually close down a school and so we will continue to follow that lead. And so if you can put up the other document for me. Okay, so I wanna address something that has been out there. I believe that many of you will not wind up staying for the budget presentation. So I wanted to go over some information. So many of you, hopefully you saw the one pager that spoke to the benefits. What I want you to see is, yes, when it comes to teacher salary, only 30.57% of our budget is for teachers and the state average is higher. So the state average is 35.42. If you're wondering where we received this from, we took it from the CDE website. So you're more than happy to go to that website. That's exactly where we got it from. And so it's based on the SACS unaudited actuals found on the CDE website. You'll see that for classified salary, where our percentage of our budget is a little higher than normal, but we are about at par. There is a question of where's the other 8%, right? So there is other school districts have higher pay. Many of them not higher take home pay, but they have higher pay. And so this is where our priority is at this moment. So when you look at what percentage of our budget is towards benefits, it's 16.93% is towards budget. It's towards benefits where the average in the state of California is 8.35. And then management, you will see that our percentage is 5.27 and the average is 6%. So we're about at par at everything, not teacher salary, but at the other two, except for benefits. So I wanted to bring that to light because if you stay for our budget presentation, you will see this information, but I wanted to make sure that you had it while you were here. Thank you very much. Next up, Agenda Item 3.4, Governing Board of Comments reports concerning committees. I would like to ask the trustees if they can pass along their time to keep the board meeting moving. So I'd like to start off with Ms. Tristia Costa. If you could, yeah. I'll waive my time. I'll do the same. Thank you. I will pass as well. I'll pass. All right. Next up, we have, okay. So do we have Watson, the representative? Good evening. Just a reminder, my name is Omar Casillas. I'm a senior at Watson, Ohio. So I want to start off this meeting by reminding everyone that we had LPAC testing February 24th to 25th. Oh, sorry. Very good. All right. We had LPAC testing February 24th to 25th. They were very quiet days and like people were focused, which is good because hopefully we can reflect our students' effort and all their effort in school and our testing and see how they have grown as students and as individuals. Another thing was we had a Royal Hearts Week, which last time I presented, we were going halfway through it, but because of construction, our cafeteria, our dance had to be moved to the vet's hall right across the street from us. So we were kind of like, if you about it, because we didn't know how it was gonna go, but it was a great success. We had like around the, I think we had a little more turnout than we usually do, like in our gym. Our salsa was very good. And then the dress-out days were very fun. We had a theme this year of a punny Valentine. So every day had like a pun attached to it. So like you color my world was like a stoplight day, which is like red if you're taken, pink if it's complicated, white if you're single. And like all the rest of the days had like similar or like how does plan that was similarly attached to a dress-out day. And then events. We had donkey basketball on February 21st, put up by FFA and I wasn't very sure of this, but I found out that it's just what it sounds is people playing basketball on a donkey. And it's, I don't know. I didn't get to go, but I hear that it's very fun and it was very enjoyed. And maybe one day in the future, I will get to see someone play basketball on a donkey. And from what I heard is that like you can't throw the ball if you're not on the donkey. So like if you drop the ball, you have to get off the donkey and then back on the donkey just to throw the ball. So we can imagine how like tedious that is. We also had our pause for talent on the 28th, put on by Armata Club. It's a fundraiser for them. And it's something that students love a lot. It's like everyone, like people get to perform and like show their talents that they might not get to like, you know, just walk around and like just walk into their classroom and sing like a three songs. But they get to hear, so it's very fun. And then our soccer team, as I mentioned last time, they were doing very good in their season. And they actually went to CCS semifinals and the Norakal tournament. They're like one of our strongest team. And like this year we have worked harder on getting them recognition. And like their hard work and efforts. So it was really nice to see them succeed and go into higher level competitions. All right, I would like to thank Mr. Dominguez and Mr. Reed. For those of you who don't know, Mr. Dominguez and Mr. Reed actually went to Watsumahai and talked to our leadership class about any questions or concerns we had about our campus. And while they were only there with us for about 30 to minutes to an hour, it was such an impactful moment because it's time you get to see like people that are like working for the district and get to make these top decisions. Like actually take in student input, which I think is a very vital thing to make our district grown very smoothly. It was very appreciated. Thank you personally for going there. A lot of the students enjoyed like getting the attention. And it wasn't like just getting attention. It's just like knowing that they're being heard by the district and that our concerns feel more valid rather than just us going to our like teachers or admin and just like complaining about something. So it was very, we greatly appreciated that they spent some other time on us. And then following, we would have to, we have, we want to address some issues and some questions about bathrooms. This is Mady Manso. She's also a senior at Watsumahai. She has taken a very strong initiative in the issues regarding our bathrooms and she actually has some questions for the board. And I am, we invited her to come and speak because she is very passionate about this issue. And I'll just let her speak. Thank you. My name is Mady Manso, like he said. A lot of students and I had some concerns because of the viruses going around, not just the coronavirus, but influenza. As of yesterday, we only had one working soap dispenser and then tire school for boys restrooms. So I was wondering what the district and administration was doing to kind of fix that issue and to look more into it. We also have some mold growing inside our soap dispensers, which is also very worrisome because we have a lot of posters up on our school telling us to wash our hands and be very sanitary. But we don't have these facilities available to us in order for us to be clean and sanitary around other students. In reference to the moldy soap dispensers, I have emailed some pictures that Mady herself, she went around and like took pictures of all like the soap dispensers and like the issues that we had. And I emailed it to like all the board members if you could see it, like please take that into consideration. Finally, thank you for listening to us. It was a pleasure to be up here again. If you have any questions, that's my email. Please like don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you. So next up agenda item 3.6, Wantsable School Waste Reduction Recognition Report by our Mayor Rebecca Garcia. I am so excited to be here before you this evening. To acknowledge the strong partnership that has developed between the Parallel Unified School District and the city. And I wanna thank for many of you who are trustees who have come to our city council meetings and shared your thoughts and recognition. But I'm just as excited because I with some of our staff are going to be presenting certificates to some students and others who have really helped in our partnership with you in terms of our recycling program. And so at this time I'd like to ask Ilda and Tammy if they come up with me because we're gonna present certificates and in addition to that, Tammy and Ilda will be giving you a formal presentation. So I'd like to begin and I'm gonna lean over because I want to first acknowledge some very motivated young people. If I could have Linda Bravo, Andres Villafana, Robert Baker, Ismael Bravo, Bernie Mora, if you will come out. These are the Parallel Valley High Green Grizzlies. And I'd just like to say read what the certificate says. It says the Parallel Valley High Green Grizzlies. We recognize you and appreciate you for your committed support of your Parallel Valley Unified School District recycling program. This is the city of Watsonville Green Schools. Each one of you will get a certificate because we didn't have all your names yet. So we'll give you each a certificate. We didn't know who was gonna show up. Okay, next, if HA High School Green Team can come up. Come over here, over here, over here, over here, over here. Thank you so much. If we can have Laura Rodriguez, Brian Wallace, Kevin Roth, Carmen Medino, and Kathy Miller. Dr. Rodriguez, Dr. Rodriguez. Can we get a picture with the mayor and everybody that she's presented award for? That would be, okay, that would be wonderful, thank you. And if you wanna wait just a minute, we do have some other awards. I wanted to recognize, thank you, Mayor Garcia. And maybe you could state, oh, yes. Smile. Maybe Mayor Garcia, if you wanna stay up front, we have our top awards. These are our true eco-heroes that really work hard every single day to make sure that these waste reduction programs really tick at the schools. Yesenia Jimenez is the perfect example. She started the Green Grizzly Program at PV and she works really hard to get the students involved in creative ways. Nadia was recognized with the HA High Green Team and Nadia won't let one single milk carton go in the trash or one single food scrap go in the trash. So she really works hard at this every day. Angelica Carrasco is here and is Freddie here? Freddie is not here, but at Anseldo I walk in and Angelica is leading the students and telling them what the system is and that makes a big difference. When students grow up and they know how to reduce waste, it's great. They can all participate. So thank you, Angelica, and to your teammates, Freddie. Jeff Cortez at Linscott has been recycling and composting for over 20 years. As long as anybody's known him. Oh, thank you. Kald Wilson and Stefan Lovell at Starlight. I had to take pictures of the Starlight system and show other school districts because their system is really ideal and it just, it works like magic and they really reduce waste. So all the awardees, if you could come up front and get a picture with our whole group with the mayor and Superintendent Rodriguez. And the board. Where should we join you? Right here. Right there, okay. Because I'm gonna do a media release. We can't get one here, it'll be good, right? I figure I want one of them. You're not gonna be in it? I want to be in it, but I have to do a media release. I'll take it. I'll take it with you. I'll take it with your phone, Tammy. Will you send it to me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can hear myself. I can hear myself. All right, take a look. Hello, it's me. Hello, I can hear you. Okay, this is for you, Tammy. Just use it, there's a note. Okay, got it. Where is it? So we're going to make a very brief presentation about our PVUSD and city waste reduction partnership so you can learn a little more about it. So my name is Tammy Stolzenthaler. I'm the environmental education coordinator with the city. I'm held up at Altam with the Solid Waste Division for the city of Watsonville. So thank you for celebrating our success with this wonderful program. You can see that many staff and students and administrators have joined together to create this model waste reduction program. So tonight we'll share with you some of the details of this successful program. Our program here in Watsonville has become a model for other agency programs throughout the Monterey Bay area. All right, in 2016 it became a mandate to recycle and process food scraps. And this is part of the state's wider vision to reduce our reliance on landfills and to also reduce greenhouse gases. So Watsonville has been really working hard to develop this program here locally. We currently have the infrastructure and full route designated to collecting food scraps. The material that you see at the end is what it looks like when we recycle food scraps. We currently work with over 50 businesses, excuse me, that are currently participating in the program. 50, yeah. And so it's a range of businesses. We have markets, local restaurants, and it's important that we're working with schools now because food is really a valuable resource that we're able to recycle and process. We have the technology through our partners at Monterey Regional to process food scraps to extract the biogas that food has and use that as renewable energy. And whatever is left, we use it as compost that goes to local farms. This is really making us look at food a little bit in a different way because food is no longer going to the landfill. We are now able to process and collect that and recycle it. So food is a resource and we started working with the school district because of the volume of waste produced and the opportunities we wanted to work with local schools to make improvements. So Tammy's gonna talk a little bit about the pilot that we launched. So in 2018, we partnered with PBUSD Food Service. We have Linda Lu here and Kevin Roth with operations and of course the finance office. And we kick started our waste reduction partnerships and the results have been really remarkable. We've trained over 165 staff in the new systems for garbage. We started food scrap collection at 14 schools inside of Watsonville. We've built food share and donation programs to keep a massive amount of food out of the trash. We added 10 bottle fillers. Hundreds of students have been educated about being stewards of our environment and to be responsible. And we've built green teams of students that can be stewards at their school sites. So you can see the difference here. Our first audit, this is what we found in most trash cans and with a little bit of training and education, this is what happened very quickly. Food scraps in the food bin, recycling in the blue cart and a lot more of this food can be donated. It's actually legal to donate food because of California's new, what would you call it? New goods to Maritain laws. And this is a very important way to keep a massive amount of excellent food out of the trash. We have 14 schools with this system now and we have model programs at Anseldo, Starlight, Linscott and HA Hyde that are providing great examples for other schools and what can be achieved if staff put some effort into it. So this is what it looks like over on the left Starlight and on the right at Anseldo in separating the food that can be repurposed, recycled or food scraps. The students really enjoy being on the green team. They want to be stewards. They want to help their community and their environment and we want them to grow up being stewards. It's an important part of their education. One thing that's very important is being clear about the new system and Angelica and Mr. Lovell do a great job announcing to the students and telling, being clear with them about how to recycle more. For, we still have a long way to go. There's still a huge waste stream seeing that you serve 15,000 meals a day. So we could try harder to clarify what kind of food, what food exactly needs to be taken. It would be nice if students didn't have to take a milk if they aren't gonna drink it. We can implement the Obama's traveling Apple policy so students can take an apple and a grain with them to go. Increasing food donations or repurposing food that the Salvation Army wants this food to give to people of need. We're hoping maybe we can partner with PVUSD on getting more food corp and AmeriCorps volunteers. It really needs to be part of their duties to help reduce the waste stream and to purposely use food. Yeah, and now that we've implemented these diversion programs, we look forward to working with district staff to really assessing the garbage level that you guys are producing and hopefully reducing that so we can save the district some money on that. We found a Starlight and HA Hyde that we're reducing garbage by about 40%. So the money savings can follow with that and back in the operations budget. And we're willing to work, the city is willing to work with PVUSD on that. We also want to include recycling and food scraps and job descriptions to really and do more training on that. At secondary schools, we hope more schools can become like PV High. We want to have more teens involved in making a difference and not being embarrassed about recycling. The other thing, area of improvement is where we can make more progress is we're noticing that a lot of packaging is actually being landfill. So really exploring other solutions such as BPI packaging. So overall congratulations on our amazing waste reduction partnership. Let's continue to make a difference for a positive future. Do we have any public comments to this item? Any questions or comments from the board? All right, next up we'll go to... Okay, thank you. Next up, item 4.1, approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? I make a motion to approve the agenda. I'm second. Second. I will call for a vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Agenda item 5.1, approval of March 11th, 2020 in board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? I'll move to approve. I second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Abstain. Thanks. Next up, agenda item 6.1, public comment. And I just wanted to say due to the World Health Organization declaring global pandemic of Corvin 19 with the CDC and our county of Santa Cruz and the city of Valsival all declaring a state and an emergency, I would like if we could keep our comments to one minute. Oh, I mean, technically, there's a lot of us here. You know, last night, briefly, President, Trustee, George Jr., three of us sitting governing board members attended the city council meeting and they did a similar thing last night, reducing the speaking time in recognition of COVID-19. So I will move to support your decision to limit the time to one minute. All right. Well, I will now call for a vote. I don't want to call for a vote. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, that's what I'm saying. So we'll just go ahead with the one minute. According to end code, it doesn't need to go to a vote. So I know that a lot of you are here tonight. I appreciate you coming out amid the coronavirus. I know that you have a lot to say. I know you have a lot to say. I haven't talked for one minute. If you want to be rude, that is your prerogative. The board is here to do business and we appreciate the teachers coming to make their comments. You have one minute to speak. So what I have is we're allowing people to email in comments. So what I will do is I will alternate. So I'll call out three names and then I'll read three of the emails and we'll alternate in that fashion. So that's what we're doing. You guys get up and speak. We're not saying that you can't speak. Yeah. Well, public, she's going to read off the names and then everybody can speak. I'm ready. So just as to be respectful, I think we should just allow whoever's present to speak first and then we can read the emails just to clarify. So the first three I have are Amy Lauta, Laura Azzaro, and Lady Leon. Yes. Right down the space and then you have to let it dry for 90 seconds. I'm sorry. And you have to let it air dry. And here's some hand sanitizer. Yeah. Here's some hand sanitizer. There you go. There you go. Okay. Okay. I know we're all really emotional, but I actually really do hope that we can all be polite. I do want all of us to be polite, please. Okay. My name is Amy Lauta. I'm an early intervention special education teacher at Duncan-Holbert. I currently hold a bachelor's degree in international relations from one of the country's top universities. I also hold a master's degree in education with an emphasis on curriculum development and an emphasis on reading language arts. Additionally, I hold a multiple subject teaching credential and three special education credentials, mod severe, mild, mod and early childhood. I taught in Silicon Valley and Scotts Valley before coming to Pajaro Valley two years ago. I came here for three reasons. Number one, I have a passion for early intervention. I understand how critical it is to student success. Number two, I wanted to work in the community that I live and vote in. And number three, I wanted to work for my amazing principal and mentor, Michelle Scherer. I love my job. I stated my above qualifications not to boast because I know many of my colleagues have the same qualifications. But to make a point, despite my education and my qualifications, I am missing out on time with my family tonight to fight for a $66 increase in my monthly salary. This is extremely demoralizing. I spend an average of twice that on supplies for my classroom out of pocket every month. My students benefit from thousands of dollars worth of materials that I have purchased over my 11 years of teaching. I did not enter the teaching profession to get rich. However, a little respect would be nice. When looking over the salary schedule, I noticed the cabinet get twice the stipend I do for a master's degree. They receive $3,600 to $39 per year. I receive $1,700 per year. And I ask, why? A master's degree is a master's degree. The message that I receive when I see this kind of discrepancy is that teachers do not really matter to this district. Qualified teachers, in my opinion, are the one thing that you can't do without. We can do without fancy facilities, although they would be nice. We could do without a large technology budget, although that too would be nice. Besides a student's family and network, qualified teachers are the most important variable to a student's success, in my opinion. Pajaro Valley's actions and priorities do not seem to align with this. I often receive phone calls from recruiters and people that I've worked with in the past. I could easily make 40% more over the hill. My youngest child will be graduating high school next year in 2021. And sadly, I will be considering those options when the commute will not be an impediment to my family. I know I am not alone. Please come to the table with a respectable offer for teacher salaries. Thank you. As you said, Daniel, out of respect for COVID-19. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez and board members. Thank you for your time and your hard work. My name is Laura Azaro. I am an elementary school teacher with our district of 26, 27 years. I'm just reminding you, and I know you know this, but we are a people-driven profession. Our classified staff has been cut to almost a skeleton crew at our sites, which has affected the quality of the cleanliness of our schools. There's just been a lot of layoffs over many years that just have never been replaced. Our class sizes are smaller now. Thank you. And keep that going. Because you know what you experienced when we were all like upset and you felt like your whole meeting was going to get hijacked. That's how many of us feel every day in our classes. And I'm not kidding. Thankfully, we are getting trauma instruction to help kids with trauma. Thankfully, we are getting some training on these because the kids that we are working with every day do what just happened to you and but ramp it up. They are upset and we have very solid structures, consistent routines in place. We have good, tight behavior management. We are very loving people, but we're also, we have our expectations. I cannot even begin to tell you what happened in my class today, and I'm not going to because I don't have time. But I need a raise. We are negotiating. We have come down in our expectation and our raise. And I would like you to come up in yours. Let's see some movement happening. Find it. Make it a priority. Keep the money coming to the people closest to the kids. Don't take money away from the kids. Thank you. Thank you very much. And if they so desire. But like, you know, we at least came with the supply. Do we have a lady? Hello, my name is Eddie Lone. I'm a senior at PV High School. I am here today because teachers deserve higher salaries. Let's just take a step back and think in where we are right now. What each and every one of us has accomplished in their lifetimes up to today. Who made many of this happen? Yes, yourself, but also the help of teachers who have helped you develop the skills to thrive. Who taught who taught the leaders of the past and present to build and flourish an entire society? Teachers. Not all of us have the privilege of living in a stable home filled with love and support. Us as students spend the majority of the day at school. Many of our teachers have become not only someone who has taught us essential material, but been there to support and encourage us to have a successful future, or in other words, become part of our family. I myself have many teachers and counselors who I am very blessed to have in my life who continue to encourage me, support me, and push me beyond what I ever thought was possible. So let's give the teachers the respect they deserve and raise their salaries. Thank you. If I can have the next three come up. I'm Evelyn Polito, Adam Hioki, and Alejandra Rodriguez. On my way home from the last time I spoke here, my mom was amazed at how little attention some of the school board members gave towards the speakers. You should be concerned by this observation. I don't know what the requirements are to be a school board member, but it's the ability to tune everyone out one of them. Now I'm not saying this to ridicule you, but to simply bring to your attention the way you are treating those who stand before you. PVUSD wants to create brilliant outspoken students who will enrich our community. But if we come and exercise our elaborate speaking and comprehension skills, you won't listen. But you might listen. You might have listened. You might look at me, take note of my tone, and then your eyes will gloss over as soon as you hear the anger in my voice. Are you listening to me right now? Dr. Rodriguez, are you paying attention to me right now? Are you hearing my plea for help on behalf of my teachers? Are you acknowledging my presence? Because you will be in three months from now when you reach out for a handshake during graduation. You'll be smiling, and the senior class will shake your hand blindly, not knowing who you are. Because I've never seen a lady in the red gown at PV. Have you? One minute. If you can't seem to acknowledge us now, don't acknowledge us then. And if you can't bear to listen to another teacher ask for a 1% raise now, then you should skip the graduation ceremony because you don't deserve to see the fruits of our teacher's labor. They deserve better. Give them what they deserve. Good evening. I have three pretty simple rules for my classroom, to respect, reflect, and learn. And originally I hoped that over the next two minutes that you could do all three, but it looks like we'll have to do it in one. A 1% raise contingent on attendance, frankly, shows no respect for teachers, students, or the community. Do you earnestly believe on top of all our other duties and responsibilities that we should also be truancy officers? When I see empty seats in my classroom, I see students missing out on their education. Should I instead see a 1% raise shrinking to zero? It's demoralizing to know that while I'm spending extra uncompensated hours lesson planning and grading, writing letters of recommendation and calling parents, there are individuals in the district on the board dreaming up new ways to tell us that we aren't worthy of fair compensation. Two weeks ago, I watched one of my students stand where I am now and deliver a heartfelt, honest, and poignant speech, and I just watched you do it again a few seconds ago. You heard the same words that I did? You've had the same time to reflect on it that I have. We talk so much about putting students first and what would be best for them, but look around and how many of them have come out tonight to speak favorably of the position that you have taken. I don't know how much longer you can argue that you have their best interests at heart when you give offers to their teachers, such as the one that you have. That was one minute. The teachers in this room are role models, day in and day out, and don't you want to be the same? When students ask us about district administrators and school board members, what do you want us to say? I hope that you can learn from these students, just as many of us did in this room two weeks ago, just as many of us do every day in the classroom, and you can realize that this contract offer is inherently unfair. Thank you. Dear board members, I am writing you on behalf of the after-school program staff at McQuitty. The letter is to inform you that of the concern and stress added to our work environment due to the early release of Cathy Sinettos Mitani. Since day one, Ms. Mitani has been a major impact with her after-school staff. She has treated all of us with respect and appreciation. Ms. Mitani has always been open to new ideas, being flexible and created a safe and happy environment where we all feel very united as a group. Because of her great leadership skills, Ms. Mitani has had a really positive impact on how we perform in her jobs and how our students view us. They see how well we get along and support each other. We are good role models for our students. We function as a great team, and that would not be possible if we didn't have her as such a great leader with like Ms. Mitani. We were aware of the fact her job description has changed, therefore she probably wasn't coming back next school year, and we totally understand that, but we were told that her last day is Thursday, March 12th, and no more explanation was provided. This has all of us concerned and stressed because we can now run this program without a supervisor. We are being unruly. That all that we are asked is that she's able to stay with us until the end of the school year. We don't want a new supervisor. Ms. Mitani has already planned so many activities such as spring performance, where all the students and parents participate without her after school program will not function properly. Some of us work in the regular school and we have seen how stress and not just motivated. Some of the teachers are because they don't have the best leader. That was not the case for us having Ms. Mitani as our administrator. She always makes sure we feel welcome and safe at work. If you deny us the opportunity of having her as our administrator until the end of the year. That was one minute past one minute. Thank you. We're just not going to show up as staff. We don't do anything. That's why we're here. We support our teachers. We need to be supported. Even if we want to grow as a community. We are the only ones of staff that from that school coming that were not classified. But we're here. We're not certified, but we're classified to work and we want us to be heard. So thank you. The next three people I have are Robin Reynolds. Emily Hulbig and Eli Reynolds. Robin Reynolds here. Robin Reynolds is my wife. She's at home watching our baby. So I'm going to take her minute because she could have emailed you with the comments, but she'd rather me speak for her than any of you. I thought I was going to go first because I put my name on top. So that's why I planted my head. But I'll go for her first because you said her name. She came to the last meeting because we switched off meetings because one of us has to watch our baby because I don't get paid enough to pay for a babysitter. And she came home and said a couple of smart things. If we have to be in all in every day, shouldn't everyone be all in every day? She's seen a lot of different paperwork with pays and salaries. I've been to a lot of meetings. I've heard of teachers sleeping on their parents' couches. My wife came home and said a great idea. She said, why doesn't our admin, why does it our super intense, why is it our deal? Why don't they take a voluntary freeze and pay because none of them have ever slept on a couch because they can't pay for it. I work in special ed. She works in special ed. We change diapers. We do all these things that we don't think we should have to do. And then we have to come home and still cook dinner every night because we can't afford to go out and just pick up dinner. So I want admin, she wants admin, take a voluntary freeze and pay because you make enough money for five years. Use some of that money to pay us. That was one minute. And then we'll be good. All right. Now we're going to Eli Reynolds because I think that was next. I had a whole speech planned for me until I heard our boss, Dr. Rodriguez, give her a little speech. My speech changed. So you said you were very proud in the middle of your COVID-19 disclaimer that they took our procedures from our district. And we got a lot of emails saying you're going to give us supplies. You're going to clean our classrooms. Last night, one of our custodians was sick and we got an email said, all they did was picked up your trash. You didn't get vacuumed. You didn't get anything else. So thanks for making the procedures but thanks for not using them on us. Secondly, you put the budget and the salary percentages up there. Cost of living. We're 30% in California but we're in the top 10% of cost of living. If you want us to live here and work here, pay us. I try to stay under my two minutes but I had a lot more to say. I could say a lot more but I don't think I'm coming back because I love my family and I don't really want to deal with this anymore. So do something and I'm not coming to work except from 7.30 or 7.15 to 2.45 from now on. No other time. Emily, you had a slide. Is that correct? Yeah, I do have. It's the sheet that's been passed around and I wanted to thank you, Dr. Rodriguez, for noticing it and looking at the numbers. And I'm scared to get closer to it. I don't want to get too close. Okay. So, yeah, I'm the one who made this flyer which is up there in color and I'm not a math teacher but I am a meticulous researcher and so I know Dr. Rodriguez spoke to the numbers but I want to share the research that I did and how I came to the conclusions that I did to help clarify any misconfusion and then I'd also like to say that maybe we can sit down and meet and look at the numbers together side by side because I also got my research from the CDE website and I also pulled a lot of data from the PVUSD school accountability report card for last year. So, I'm just going to kind of go down from the top. The first thing to point out is the difference in salary, right? 16,000 is the difference in what our average teacher makes and what the average teacher makes in the state of California. The, you know, defense of the district has always been we can't pay you more because we give you great benefits. It's true. We do have great benefits. We appreciate that. However, when I looked at the line, there were 19 lines in the J90 document on the CDE website that show the different plans for the school district's health benefits. Those averaged out, which it took me a while to calculate, comes out to about $21,000 contribution on average per teacher. I have one dependent and my, the contribution for the district on my contract was $22,000 for this year. So, I think that's about right. Now, the state of California average for health and welfare benefits is 14,000. I got that from an Ed Source article that talks about how they need to revamp the whole healthcare system. The difference between those two numbers is 9,500. Okay, that's a lot. So, I don't think that asking for a small raise that we're asking for is out of the question. In fact, I believe that we should get that whole 9,500 in our paychecks. Okay. So, that's the why. Now, I want to talk about the house. So, I looked at the district's budget to about $260 million, I know. I'm almost done. And the main thing, as I pointed out, is the 27% and the 35%. Now, that number came from the district's school accountability report card. It's on your own website. It says 27%. It doesn't say 30% as Dr. Rodriguez explained. Now, what I assume is, because maybe they were, they lumped in the administrator certificated salaries in there as well. But anyway, either way, what I'd like to do is see where you got your numbers and then we can compare with mine and see what the discrepancy is. Lastly, you know, the cost of living issue, it's 32%, it costs 32% more to live in this part of the state than it does average in the state. We're not asking for 32% more than the average salary. We are asking for somewhere close to the average salary. That's what we would like. Thank you very much. The next three speakers I have are Nancy Jackson, Elizabeth Thorn, and Sonia Quintero. My name is Nancy Jackson. I have been a teacher at Start Elementary for 28 years. I have to say I'm incredibly demoralized and discouraged to be here again. What is this? If I've been here 30 years, this is my 10th contract cycle that I've had to come and beg that the board acknowledge the worth of teachers. I'm asking that the board acknowledge by negotiating in earnest, okay? By offering something that we can respond to. We're willing to respond. We've come down in our initial offers. We understand that the Pajaro district is feeling the pinch by declining enrollment driven in part by increasing rents as well as a pinch through increased benefit costs. This is a cost, a dynamic that all people feel these days. Teachers feel it on a very personal level, okay? We pay higher rents. We pay higher benefit costs for our loved ones to live safe and to live healthy. I'm going to continue. I'd like to say also that it's far more, much higher percentage of my personal income than any administrator in the district. I have dedicated my entire adult working life to the community that lives in the six block radius around Pennsylvania and Hammer Drive. And I've done it gladly. And I've done it with pleasure and I've done it with dedication because it's extremely rewarding work. But I'm not feeling the love from you at all. Like, ni una poquito, okay? I want to say that the cynicism in your offer of one percent in the face of my dedication, dedicating my entire work, adult life to the community is offensive. And it's infuriating and I'm pretty tired of it. And it's forcing me to do something that I don't want to do, which is to withdraw my uncompensated work. My uncompensated work that is up close to 20, 30 hours a week. I am going to start working to my contract hours. That is 8 to 330. That was one of the past 20 minutes. Whatever I can get done in that time I get done. What I don't, I don't. I don't do this gladly. I don't do it with pleasure. I do it because I expect my work and my dedication to be acknowledged with a fair offer that we can negotiate with. That make sense? Is that reasonable? Everybody's feeling the same dynamics. You are going to need a much longer term solution than squeezing teachers for the ADA for your lost revenue. You are going to need a structural change that addresses declining enrollment. And it cannot be done in the backs of teachers. Teachers have enough on their back already. Thank you. And right now I'm also being asked to go and teach people how to clean their classrooms. Okay. I have to teach the AIDS how to clean in their classrooms. I was told I had to go, one day's notice to go to a mandatory meeting to learn how to teach these people how to clean their classrooms that actually was scheduled to go beyond my work day. That was one minute. Thank you. I'm almost done. It's not okay to schedule meetings that go beyond my work day that I'm being told and I got an email tonight saying how come you didn't attend this mandatory meeting? Even though I had a previous scheduled meeting with my administration that I couldn't get out of and I had a one day notice to go to this. Another one's going to be scheduled and I'll be happy to go. But my caseload is ridiculous. My caseload is ridiculous and we need more nurses. Okay. Carolyn has four schools herself. Okay. So it's not just me. And thank you. If you don't mind, I'm going to leave a few more wipes up here in case people feel like they need them. Thank you very much. Hello. Good evening to all. I was here last week or should I say the last board meeting and I'm here again for the same cause but I just want to tell you my name is Sonia Quintero and I work at Calabasas Elementary as a first grade teacher and I've worked here in this district for about 25 years and I really enjoy working with the community. I love the families and we are all here because we care about our students and support their learning. Each year you budget for programs and activities to just for that effect to support our students' learning. Yet you don't budget for a decent wage increase for our teachers. This doesn't make sense. If you value our students' education this should be a priority. Investing in teachers is investing in quality education for our students. This will ensure our teachers to stay here. On the current offer of the one percent increase tied into attendance almost through I found out that when a student moves the school site has to keep marking that student absent until a QM has been requested by the new school so it doesn't make the criteria for attendance attainable. There are needs to be a separate record for the students that there are no longer on our site. The one percent attendance rate contingency is an insult and is that absurd is absurd. They say that actions speak louder than words so please show us the respect that you value what we do for our students by giving us a decent wage increase. Thank you. Our next three are Greg Tucker Joan Lings Whistler and Eileen Clark Nagoka. Good evening everyone. I really I've done so much talking to district administration through negotiations that I don't really know that I want to say very much more but I felt obligated when at the start of this board meeting tonight a slide was put up there with a bunch of data without context. I felt obligated as a teacher to point out that data without context is used to silence not educate. And so when Emily came up a little while ago and kind of helped to kind of make sense of some of the data that she had and explained her sourcing for that data that's actually education that's not shut up and go away and unfortunately that may not be the intent of the presentation of the slide at the start but that's how it reads. So you know thanks. Good evening. I'm Joan Ling-Swizzler and I teach at Pacific Coast Charter School. I wanted to talk a little bit about attendance at PCCS we do attendance very differently. It's a homeschooling and independent study charter school and so kids actually do not need to attend school. They do their studies at home or elsewhere with for elementary middle which I teach with a parent usually at home teaching them. So I've only been at the school for this is my third year however from my very first few months it was astounding to me how many kids were coming to us not because they intended to be homeschooled but because they've they'd suffered trauma because they are being bullied because they had anxiety because they had depression because they had medical issues that could not be addressed by teachers or the scant staff that was actually there to help their social emotional needs and so well a minute already so we are getting so many of these kids that they are desperate for another place to be because they cannot physically come to school their parents are trying to get them to come to school but they're so anxious they cannot. We happen to have really good attendance because we do our attendance in such a different way but what about the kids who can't be homeschooled what if their parents are working full time what if they're in kindergarten and their parents need to make a living those parents can't do what our families do and I think it's just a shame that teachers are being asked to encourage those kids to go to school some of my students did not have science did not have math or did not have a teacher in SELPA for months at a time they had subs who were on their phones because there were not enough people applying for those positions because it pays too low so please take a look at the budget and see if you can find some money for the teachers because what we're doing directly affects the students and we deserve a living wage thank you Good evening I'm Eileen Clark-Nagoka I'm a kindergarten teacher at H.A. Hyde School I've been teaching I think more than 30 years I've lost track but I wanted to just say how touched I've been by the teachers that have spoken and so eloquently especially about the love we have for the work we do and that's why we're here that's why we do what we do and just to say as well that it felt to me like a joke when I first heard that our salary increased was going to be based on increase in attendance I really thought it was a joke and it is a joke actually but because it's so insane I mean the subtext of that is that we don't teach well enough to attract to bring our students that we're not giving enough and we're not putting enough in to have an engaging curriculum I don't know how else I can take that and the other point I'd like to make quickly is just to finish up that we spend so much money on curriculum that we have for a year and we throw it out because of the That was wonderful because of the disorganization in our district office or something I don't know what people don't talk to each other people don't have the same goals I'm not sure and I just read that one of the one of the things that's being asked for for next year is more SIPS consultants we have an army of SIPS people already teaching some of the people some of the TOSAs and some of the classroom teachers have already been trained do that training instead of spending 50 I think it's 52,000 dollars it just seems like common sense to not do these things that you should pay and to redundancy like that and common sense also to invest in your most valuable research which is resource which is teachers thank you Next we have John Bland and is it Maya Lord? okay one minute huh this is tough I have kind of doing a audible adjustment so I had the kid I just got here basically I was going to read my cover letter that I've sent out I was going to read the cover letter that I sent out to a couple of jobs that pay 18,000 dollars and one pays 44,000 dollars more and they're public schools but I can't do that I do want to I just want to read something very briefly that I wrote you guys and yeah it's called math not English I'm an English teacher I wanted to quickly say two things thank you for your hard work and I do really mean that and my family can't afford for me to work at this district my name is John Bland I'm the English teacher at PVHS and I'm also the intern chair I'll be brief and I'll paint with broad strokes I take home 3300 my rent is 2800 I spend 60,000 dollars in education to become a teacher I have all the other bills folks have and when it adds up the juice is not worth the squeeze I can't afford to teach at this district and I absolutely love my students I want to teach these kids not over the hill but it's not about English it's about math I can't afford to teach at PVST please approve the raise requested by PVFT thank you hi my name's Maya Lord and I'm a second grade teacher here in PVST I'm just about to finish my second year I come from ECE I was a preschool teacher for five years living with poverty wages at 24,000 a year and I made the sorry I'm really nervous I made the switch to become an elementary school teacher for a chance at a better life and health insurance for my disabled husband I'm overjoyed with my switch I love my students I love this community I love my co-workers and the families I work with I want to stay in this district I'm passionate and I believe in this work but here's the reality for 1500 a month I live in a converted concrete garage with no heat it's an illegal an unsafe structure to live in but it's all we can afford I don't even have a bathroom inside yes even in the winter I have to shower outside with a hose I have hopes and dreams just like my students I dream and hope that I can maybe have the stability of owning a home one day raise a family and care for my disabled husband and be a great teacher giving me a 1% raise is just one small step towards that thank you and I did receive the emailed comments I'll start with Melissa Dennis from Maloney Elementary School I would like to speak tonight about teacher pay raise attached to attendance increase I believe that the district can afford a raise for teachers we deserve it and we need to we need it to keep and attract quality teachers in our district I don't believe we will be able to achieve 97% attendance despite all our best efforts we try to improve attendance all the time but some circumstances are out of our hands let's end this stalemate and give the teachers what they're asking for and what they deserve next from Narissa Graydon the coronavirus has been declared a pandemic and our county has a current outbreak the prudent thing to do is to close the schools for 14 days 175 students come through my classroom every day the virus lives on all surfaces for nine days my students are being forced to choose academics over their health and as a teacher I am being forced to choose money over my health keeping schools open to avoid loss of money and hysteria is putting all students and staff in harm's way please put health first and close the schools for a deep cleaning from Debra Mallard Dr. Rodriguez and board trustees I would like to address you regarding the COVID-19 outbreak as it relates to the 97% attendance rate contingent on a 1% teacher raise more than ever we do not want six students attending school all the new policies adopted with the county health department push for social isolation and people who are sick to stay home now more than ever this attendance contingency for a 1% raise is completely out of the control of PVFT members this contingency needs to be dropped as part of our ongoing negotiations also the salary comparisons made in the districts flyer with Hemet and Coachella in San Bernardino County, California completely unrelated to the cost of living here in Santa Cruz County the prices for housing alone in these two spots Hemet and Coachella are one-third to one-half of what the costs are out here data from rentcafe.com to compare teacher salaries in PVSD to these cherry pick districts is a manipulation of data to support PVSD is low salaries we are not fooled pay teachers fairly retain good teachers do what is best for students thank you from Ryan Olivas is that a little better okay so from Ryan Olivas I am a special education teacher at PV high and I'm unable to come to the board meeting tonight but wanted to share some thoughts with you as my representative on the board I love PV the student body collective is inspiring to teach they are dedicated to improving themselves and greater society as a whole my students recognize the difference between high and low quality instruction and understanding value that high quality instruction comes from well trained dedicated teachers they also keenly understand economic forces such as wage cost of living and housing expenses and are aware that the teaching profession as a whole is grossly under compensated my students demand and receive high quality instruction because I insure it and would like to see my dedication rewarded with a salary increase so that I can continue to live and work in this wonderful community thank you for your time and service from let's see from Kristen Prestridge Dear members of the PVSD board of trustees are you aware that a teacher in the PVSD would need to work in the district for 12 years before working his or her way out of poverty according to the city of Santa Cruz 68,000 is the threshold for an individual to be considered above the poverty level it takes 12 years of full-time employment with the district to reach that step on the salary schedule we need to do better for our students by paying teachers a living wage teachers are the single most important factor in a student's education and here in the PVSD we don't have enough of them why? because we can't because they can't afford to work here all of our students deserve a credentialed teacher every day every day too many of our students are taught by an uncredentialed or substitute teacher we can do better pay teachers the professional wage they need to live and work in this unique and wonderful community sincerely Kristen Prestridge from Maya Campbell Dear PVSD Board of Trustees we the staff of Landmark Elementary School would like to bring to your attention current library conditions that are negatively affecting our students and teachers on January 31st our school library was closed due to suspected mold contamination our library media technician followed the PVSD mold standard operating procedure from July 2019 the district's SOP states that an environmental hygienist will be hired testing and reports will be published and shared with the cabinet and affected sites within four to six weeks this Friday March 13th will mark six weeks since our library was closed our staff has repeatedly asked for updates and received none to our knowledge testing has not even begun we are very concerned we want you to be aware of the ways this closure is negatively affecting our school we only have access to 8% of our circulation we have no access to books to support our academic curriculum and units our students many of whom rely on the library books to complete homework and early literacy practice are limited to checking out one book per week from a very limited selection almost all of the bilingual books our students gravitate towards are no longer available to support by literacy we encourage the board to prioritize literacy and follow their own SOP to open our library as quickly as possible keeping all staff and families together in the process from Caitlyn Johnson thank you for taking my comments via email I'm a PVSD arts educator with more than 20 years teaching for PVSD at the last board meeting I heard about the upcoming PVSD recruitment fair and it got me to thinking about what I would say to a new teacher considering beginning their career here I'll start with the positive why work at PVSD excellent health benefits thank you fabulous kids and family and community hardworking smart and dedicated colleagues a beautiful county to live in an engaged board and superintendent reasons not to teach for PVSD low pay compared to the cost of living a new teacher could make 10,000 more over the Hiller and Salinas abysmal working conditions overcrowded filthy decrepit and unsafe facilities in classrooms or in some cases like my no classroom at all not enough support personnel no classroom made's not enough nurses counselors safety supervisors not enough custodians too large class sizes chronic teacher shortages and high turnover not enough special ed teachers substitute math science not enough bilingual not enough arch teachers not enough intervention teachers and the exhausting cycle of having to turn to the negotiating table every couple of years from Omar Guzman hello with what is going on with the COVID-19 pandemic do you think it's smart to have negotiations about the contract proposal that hinges on a 1% salary increase on raising attendance teachers do so much and now you want them to do even more for a 1% increase that is a joke the reason I emailed is that shouldn't these negotiations be put on hold since many teachers and members of the community will come to the board meaning to express their feelings there may some may not come knowing they have COVID-19 we need to look after our teachers and community members I hope the board puts this on hold from Kathleen Machado as a teacher at RHMS I am concerned with the short closer closure of Rio I had two students from Rio at my home this weekend and my daughter is about to go to a soccer practice this evening with them my daughter attends Aptos Junior so there are three schools that are linked how is PVUSD addressing this cross school contamination also without wipes I know how people are allergic how am I supposed to get the Chromebooks cleaned in between my five classes of 35 students we need the Chromebooks cleaned more often than the promise deep clean I was told would happen soon by our site tech help me understand all of this from Rebecca Royston my name is Rebecca Royston from Radcliffe Elementary I'm actually forward in a comment for agenda 6.1 from a colleague Michelle Connery here's a comment my name is Michelle Connery and I'm a first grade teacher at Radcliffe Elementary School in taking precautions towards COVID-19 I decided not to attend this evening as a union we continue to fight for a higher salary for us for so many reasons tonight I wanted to share my reason my husband and I have an almost two-year-old daughter and we really want to have another child in the near future but when it comes down to it we sadly realize that we can't afford to have another child it boggles my mind how two college graduates with full-time careers cannot afford to have a second child I resent your offer to tie a 1% raise to increase attendance both because it would do little to help teachers afford more and because of the implication that myself and other teachers are not already doing everything we can to encourage attendance this new attendance hype is something we do every day we want our kids in class just as much as you the benefits to their education and health are clear to us already and it's insulting to think that we don't want the very best for our students every teacher I know works every day for the best for their students knowing that support we provide daily is vital for their continued growth from Nicole Beverly good evening Dr. Rodriguez and fellow born members thank you for taking your time to read my comments I just want to address the ongoing negotiations between the district and PVFT it is very disheartening to know that you think as teachers we are responsible for student attendance and getting our students to school every day especially in the times we are in right now we as teachers can plan and prep and make our lessons as engaging as possible but we cannot get the students to school and putting these stipulations on a raise is only showing that you do not find teacher salary as a necessity in your budget I actually did the math one day with my own class and found that to get 97% of my class there on one day I have to have 100% of my students there there it is impossible for me to get 97% if I have even one student absent with one student absent it puts my percentage at 96% I hope you all realize that this is an unrealistic expectation and we know that you can do better for us teachers from Laura Feistel we deserve at least a COL raise especially in this area please make that a priority Dear trustees my name is Micah Powell and I'm a history teacher at PVHS I am urging you to vote no on the upcoming budget vote on March 11th specifically no on any budget that contains teachers raises with contingency language such as increasing student attendance the current office from PVSD of a 1% raise tied to a 97% attendance rate is an insult and absurd the role of educators is to assist students in their growth and development not to monitor their attendance which we have no control of please consider the complexities of my nearly 200 students attendance habits and ask yourself if it's fair to tie that to the way I provide for my family please understand that the current offer from the district is asking us teachers to correlate students attendance with our paycheck that is wrong there doesn't seem to be any compromise on the part of district negotiators in our current struggle for a fair contract we as a union have come down from our original ask for cost of living being increased yet we are still being offered the same ridiculous contingency tied to student attendance that is wrong students should be tied to the high cost of living in this area and to the sacrifice that teachers make in our dedication in the last four years my rent has increased by $600 per month I am a 14-year veteran in this district I struggle to pay my bills this is wrong from Barbara Knapp to the school board and Dr. Rodriguez I am making this comment in response to the district's office offer of compensation to the hardworking teachers of PVSD with all due respect the offer of a 1% raise based on a 97% attendance rate is absurd the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the most illustrative example of why this offer is an empty gesture it's insulting I am at the higher end of the pay scale which means a 1% raise is about $40 a month ridiculous a brand new teacher in this district would see a raise of $26 a month $26 I can't help but think of the sexism behind an offer like this we all know that teaching is a female dominated profession thus low wages and the unbelievable disregard for our ability to fend for ourselves this district complains about spending 82% on their budget on salaries but police departments and fire departments both male dominated professions spend at least 90% of their budgets on salaries I am also deeply concerned about this district's impact on our environment continued low pay makes it impossible for teachers to live in the district in which they work that means longer commute times which means more fossil fuels being burned adding to climate change what's innovative about that in closing I want to remind everyone here that this district gives a lot of lip service to being on all in but the only people who are truly all in are the teachers from Stephanie Hedgepeth Lopez I am a third generation PVSD teacher in addition my parents sisters and I my husband and three children are all educated in PVSD schools we all graduated from PVSD schools we are currently members of the PVSD community as part of that community I want to ensure that the younger members of the community grow up as educated citizens in order for that to happen PVSD needs to show some support for their teachers as I get closer to retirement I want to be sure that we attract the best individuals to continue to educate the community my community and the district needs to show their support by attracting and keeping those young bright teachers by increasing their pay so they can afford to live in and enjoy this community as I have done for practically my entire life raise the level of our newest teachers to keep them here and do not continue to offer the insulting raise attached to attendance especially in this time of a global health emergency thank you for your time stay in good health from Israel Castro I just want to share something now that Rio Elementary is in quarantine I'm a special education teacher at Calabasas Elementary many of our service providers OT, speech, PT psychologists serve as students at Rio serve as students at Rio and there might be a possibility that staff might have come in contact with the virus if so the likelihood of virus spreading within schools is great due to the staff coming in and going between schools I was also there three weeks ago for a meeting please take that the latter into account when considering reasons to close schools I share this for this health and safety of all our schools and communities from Jose Serrano as a matter of equity and well-being we seek salary increases for early childhood educators preschool teachers within the district's child education development department are the lowest paid staff within the district janitorial staff earn more secretarial staff earn more administrative personnel earn exponentially more preschool teachers are tasked with ensuring safety and security of their students while also facilitating students social emotional development positive academic adjustment as students first classroom experience preschool would should be reasonably resourced in staff by competent and equitably compensated teachers please help us strengthen the future academic performance of our youngest students by adequately resourcing preschool classrooms we can do this by attracting and retaining skill and dedicated early childhood educators by improving teacher salaries to be on par with a living wage preschool teachers are not asking for a handout we want a leg up we want to earn enough to support our families so we can also support yours to the board members thank you for your personal dedication to the students and families of our district which you demonstrate continuously to our teaching colleagues we in early childhood education appreciate the continued support of our K-12 colleagues thank you Manuel Serrano Bradley State Preschool from Rocio Pantoja I'm writing to question the decision to remove Kathy Mitani from McQuitty Elementary as VP after school coordinator Kathy has successfully fulfilled this position for many years she is loved by staff students and parents she has done nothing short of going above and beyond her duties this year in particular she has been critical in implementing PBIS in the attempt to rebuild a McQuitty School culture of trust, respect, and community why weren't we as staffed asked about her performance shouldn't our input count? we work with her every day we entrust our students to her our opinion of her should be very important to you more importantly what does this say about our principal we teach our students to solve problems what does it say to you to us to our students and families that her solution was to have Kathy removed this is not solving problems she is simply removing her problem we solve problems is what we teach what she preaches and yet she isn't practicing what she is preaching to our students I am disappointed that whomever supported and made the decision not care to be well informed or educated on the situation I hope that you show our community and our students that you are responsible enough to look into a mistake fix it and facilitate a conversation to actually solve whatever the problem may be from Becca Berryman hello my name is Becca and I am a teacher at Calabasas I used to teach in the Central Valley and with my pay difference here versus there is only 1500 per year yet my cost of living is exactly double here how is it possible for me to sustain myself with that kind of pay please tell me how I am supposed to someday buy a home or even have children this type of pay is not sustainable to live in this county the email you sent out comparing our salaries to other districts was just insulting I know how little my pay is I don't need your graphic to remind me please consider teachers like myself who absolutely love teaching here I love my students I love my fellow teachers I love my Calabasas community but pay this pay is just not sustainable please tell me how you feel okay with pushing away a very passionate teacher purely because you won't loosen your tight purse strings from Christina Carter I am a first grade bilingual teacher at Minty White I want to thank the Board of Trustees and PVSD for the continued excellent health benefits for me and my family I am aware of the 7% increase this year however I do not believe this shows enough to the teachers of the district that you value us and our vital work with students I am especially concerned about new teachers who don't even make 50,000 barely a living wage for a professional last month I asked the Board to dig deep this time please really analyze the budget and have the guts to prioritize us if you truly value our work and our students our union has bargained and in good faith lowering and adjusting salary requests and not stipulating impossible attendance contingencies 1900 on each salary sells is fair where can you move that 2.5 million from prioritize students and your employees on the front lines and service and the front lines of service to them thank you from Laura Arnau in light of the coronavirus outbreak now definitively present in our district I find it increasingly dangerous that teachers are being asked to compete for high attendance rates instead of encouraging our students to protect our community by staying home when sick tying salaries to high attendance flies in the face of public health science at this dangerous time and then from Stephanie LeFever I am deeply concerned about the safety of our students in PVSD there was a confirmed case of COVID-19 at Rio del Mar resulting in school closure and then today five to eight staff members from Rio came to HA Hyde for a training that took place inside my kindergarten kindergarten autism classroom the only way to prevent this from spreading is social distancing now not waiting for it to spread through the schools as a board member you have the power and responsibility to prevent this please act now to keep all students staff and families safe thank you and I don't have any further public comments thank you very much next agenda item seven point PVFT is PVFT the representative here seven point one get up here I think that first of all good evening board thank you those of you who've come out you've you've heard some pretty powerful testimonials and they're real and they're also any type of data that was presented to you was data you guys like data right so some of the I haven't been like really busy working on other other projects or many the many different projects that that Roddy and I work on and meetings that we attend so thank you for acknowledging Dr. Rodriguez that PVFT should be part of of the communications like being notified when a school site is going to be affected because those people are our members as well and CSEA should hopefully also have been notified so first or second interim report because you know it's numbers that we're always looking at where is the money for arrays in this meager budget that we have I we pointed it out in negotiations and so I'll let you know line item 4300 in the sacks report thank you Joe for updating for correcting the sacks report first of all the board approved back in July a budget of about 9.6 million for this object code and then when you revised the budget you increased it by 2.3 million so now it's at like 12 million dollars so as of January 31st you have spent 3.4 million so you still have a pretty good chunk of money in that that has not been used I'm just looking at 4300 materials of surprise if you want to look at the total books and supplies the totals you have not the district is going to end their year with money there according to your interim report a 1% with statuatories is 858,487 dollars for gosh I hope I'm looking at the right one for us for our unit so what we're asking for as far as salary goes we're asking to restructure the salary schedule so that we can address the needs of our newer teachers and offer them a wage according to MIT study for this county it is about 50 57,000 to to be able to just make it maybe if you can find unfortunately you know a something liveable converted garage and I live on the west side in Santa Cruz and I watch the homes in my neighborhood sell for an amazing amount of money and homes that will need another amazing amount of money just to remodel to make it livable so um I just lost my point basically you have money you're gonna end with some money yes the district has been deficit spending because you did have at some one point an incredible reserve and yes we're no longer in those years of extra money coming in because we're done with the the LCFF there the that extra money coming in that we got it all got paid out last year we know we get it so we're down just the coal years but we still have that money we had it last year when we started negotiating to restructure the salary schedule and it was put off we had that money that raise could have happened prior to July 1st people could have come to work with a settled contract at the very beginning of this school year you could have helped make that happen and instead it's just another how many teachers are going to show up and pick it on the side of the road maybe your job application your job ad should be a picture of teachers and then have like a couple of spaces underneath signs like this could be you you know because it's ridiculous I've been in the district for 13 years and my kids grew up on the picket line they grew up holding up signs so the money is there this raise could have happened at the beginning of the year and then you guys come back to the table because everybody in the district office has to look at the numbers and adjust and we wouldn't be here in this situation there are a couple of things on your on this agenda that I hope that you ask to have more of a discussion before you make a decision 9.5 on 9 point well let's start with 8.3 that's a $56,000 wage contract for SIPs I'm sure you could find some people in the district who can run this and 9.5 we're finally going to go to the table and begin negotiating over the learning center model but this to bring in a consultant for that not necessary so I'm hoping that maybe this board will start a new trend of asking to maybe interview teachers at sites that have already experienced some of these consultants coming through before you make give the okay for the district to just show you oh here's your three days of looking over this consultant contract we really need it but you haven't heard anything from the teachers in regards to is that really going to be very valuable or is that just going to create more work on the teacher so I hope that you start a new trend and at the beginning to ask to let's let's hear about it and then I want to go meet some teachers and have an actual discussion about it before you vote on something so serious because that's money that you're giving away um thank you thank you very much next up agenda item 7.2 CACA represented from CACA okay 7.3 uh Pajaro Valley Association of Managers 7.4 Communication Workers of America all right uh 8.1 the 2019-2020 second interim financial report by Joe Dominguez so good evening uh board president Dodge Jr superintendent dr. Rodriguez members of the board administration and members of the public this evening uh myself along with Helen and Colleen will be presenting the second interim report and uh we will um walk through our um current situation and what we're facing it is not working here so the interim report um the deadlines for interim reports and its certifications are clearly specified for school districts in California and for county government that's EDCO 1240 for K-12 or public school districts it's 42130 and 42131 and we must after uh the reporting ending we must file within 45 days our second interim report for that report being um covered this is a mandatory state legal requirement for all districts in California the second interim is different from the first interim because it covers a period or window in time of our expenditures and revenues so the first interim covers July 1 to October 31st the second interim covers July 1 through January 31st and it also updates projections for the balance of the year so any uh additional revenue and or expenditures it's updated within the report and what the impact of that is to our budget the report um as I mentioned uh are due to the to the county and then the state uh California Department of Education by March 16th and that is the 45 days one of the items that I need to stress to our board and uh to PVSD is if we fail to approve the second interim report this evening based on EDCO 1230 our county superintendent of Santa Cruz County Office of Education will not send our apportionment of state and or county funding for PVSD uh furthermore which is very alarming we will not be approved any warrants so the day-to-day operations of our district would cease that includes payroll for classified and certificated staff that even includes our premiums to our health and welfare benefits other items that are also covered are PG&E so keeping the lights on not only at the district office but school sites throughout the whole district the sense of urgency and student safety we would not be able to pay or order cleaning supplies for the coronavirus hire or provide staffing and or contract for services for cleanup or deep cleaning throughout our campuses and it's talk about being student-centered this would be a negative impact to student activities sports music and art materials and functions and instructional materials so I want to stress that and just let you know the magnitude if we do not pass our second interim I do have positive news tonight that we as a district we come before you this evening with a positive certification based on the EDCO we will meet our current and subsequent two fiscal years and we can meet those financial obligations I'm not going to this was a lot of hard work and I also thank our superintendent Dr. Rodriguez for her leadership and taking initiative to make sure that we remain positive this was a very difficult task in itself because we as a district and we mentioned this in previous presentations we are not funded on a national level here in California to cover our day-to-day expenditures and we'll go through that through the presentation but that includes transportation our SELPA and other areas where it's a structural deficit because we have the lack of state funding to cover our expenses our second interim assumptions we have the 180 contracted days and instructional days one of the big items that I really want to stress and point out and I'm very worried about it is our enrollment loss for 1920 we had 387 students declining loss of enrollment for 2021 the projection is an additional loss of 512 students and for 2122 it's an additional 476 on top of that I questioned our demographer and the experts that assist the district and the forecasts and assumptions we did a five-year trend analysis back in time and their variance was less than 1% so their projections have been spot on and because of that we are projecting that decline enrollment in the current and outgoing years that impacts our funding and even stresses the importance to maintain or enhance our attendance campaigns all in every day of our average daily attendance so if you look at the bottom and ADA is a percentage of enrollment we are have in our assumptions a 96% percentage of ADA for 2021 we see that increase of half percent to 96.5 and for the 2122 we have projected at a 97% so what we're saying is even though we're declining as a district the students that we still have in the classrooms in our community we need to make sure they attend school and look at the various initiatives that we have in place to make that happen and doing so that also helps us maintain the positive certification our funded LCFF based on ADA is also decreasing due to the loss of enrollment and so you see that at the last row to further more stress this point of loss of enrollment and our projected declining enrollment since 2014-15 as a district PVSD has lost approximately 2,000 students in that period of time in 1920 as I mentioned we went from 17,963 down to 17,581 a loss of 387 and if you look at the BART graph you see at 2021 from 17,581 to 17,069 students a loss of 512 and 2122 you see that loss of 476 we do show that we have the ADA percentage of ADA health and welfare is a uncontrollable cost that we cannot handle as a district we as previously mentioned for the 1920 fiscal year we received an increase of 7.1% to our health and welfare contribution for this coming year we're from our first interim to second interim at first interim you can recall we had that at 5% because we took the average for the previous years we recently got notice from our JPA Board of Directors and SISC that the range would not exceed 4% so we have adjusted that from 5% down to 3.5 and as I mentioned our budget is a living document so as soon as we get new information we adjust the budget accordingly so this is an adjustment that I commend our staff and making sure that we can squeeze dollars where we can and so we reduced the 5% down to 3.5 for 2021 and we are maintaining the 5% for 2021-22 unless we get further new information for the out year health and welfare at second interim is 58.3 million dollars cost to the district I'll hand it over to Helen so she can cover our multi-year projections okay for our multi-year projections multi-years are projection not a forecast and so we use different factors that we get through the governor's budget workshop to use those and so looking at our multi-year projections for the unrestricted we're beginning with 24.94% 24.94 million we're deficit spending in this year to the tune of 14.33 million over the next three years we will have currently we have our 3% reserve in all three years but in the last year you'll notice that we only have like 170,000 more than our 3% reserve the restricted funds are pretty much down to using what they receive in the current year and spending it we have the contributions to the other programs and overall it shows that we will have our 3% reserve and 170 dollars sorry this is just a chart of all the expenditures so we have our salaries and benefits which is the majority it's about 83 almost 84% of the budget and other expenses are around 16% for salaries we have the salaries here for 135 million and broken down by the different ones certificated at 61% and classified at 28% and the management's about 10% and then for benefits as you can see our health and welfare is about 54% which is the majority of the different benefits and STRS and PERS follow that here are our contributions and I'll quickly we've gone over this before so as you can see special ed and routine restricted maintenance are our biggest contributions there in the amount of 30 million and 8 million and then I'll turn it over to Joe so in regards to the unrestricted restricted for the contributions the state and federal government has funding that has strings attached and we can only spend it a certain way that is restricted funding for unrestricted those are funds that are have less strings attached and can be used within the local control and are flexible but because of the lack of state funding this is where we have our flexible dollars being used and transferred to restricted programs so our budget assumptions as I mentioned the declining enrollment the 88.5% increase annually and that's contributed to our Saturday academies and are all in everyday attendance campaign we must right size as a district are staffing to declining enrollment throughout our district we also have reduced district office and legal services an additional 70,000 from the previous first interim maximize our LCAP funding as I mentioned we have a positive certification one footnote is the second interim does not include nor our actuals or multi-year include any ongoing negotiations so whether it's a 1% 2% or 3% that is not included in our budget documents they're still ongoing cost-saving measures taken to date we have rights continue to right size the district we went from coordinators from 16 to 8 and those coordinators now shared dual sites savings of 610,000 we've also right size our district office management and staff of savings of 670,000 and we'll continue to do more analysis there district services we reduced our legal services and 150,000 in addition to what we previously reduced and we are reduced contracted services 250,000 and then a reduction of transportation taxi services of 180,000 the 180,000 reduction to transportation was to the implementing internal efficiencies and maintaining our white fleet internally and developing that white fleet so that we can hire our own people to drive our own students to sites to sites where previously we had taxis we're still working on building that up and other like to commend our HR department and our business services staff in position control is continuing to make sure that we monitor our budget and our staffing and making sure that budgets and funding sources are aligned and making sure that the systems have the right staffing at the right places we need to and we are in the process of establishing a five-year deferred maintenance plan so that we make sure we have the infrastructure over a five-year term that we have a plan set aside to fund those projects and that is plumbing gas lines HVAC etc and one of the other areas where we're looking at and we have found some findings is reducing overtime comp time and looking into employee absenteeism and student absenteeism the continue our fiscal efficiency road map is we need to continue meeting with sites and departments review our budgets the key stress point is to stay within budget and whatever make the adjustments accordingly if we're not spending our budgets enhance internal efficiencies of our enrollment our average daily attendance our district office services making sure we're efficient as we can moving forward as our staff mentioned we had to use the additional 3% so when we have the a minimum 3% state mandated requirement for our reserve we no longer have the board resolution 3% on top of that so we had to use the 6% and now we're down to 3% the goal is to try to rebuild that but it's going to be very difficult with the declining enrollment stop deficit spending and we need to reduce our special ed contribution and I'd like to commend Casey and Heather and SELPA department they have taken huge strides in doing that and we're continuing to do that work this evening we also have and it's a concern of mine is making sure that we pass our board resolutions for cash flow we currently have the ability to enter fund borrow when we're short on cash we will be short on cash towards the end of this year and that's something that we need to prepare for and that's why those resolutions are on the board we have a couple options is go to the county but then also enter fund borrow from ourselves and so we currently have our bond program where we're able to do that but I just want to be precautionary and conservative and make sure that we have other resources in place and that concludes my report and our staff recommendation is to please approve the second interim report with the positive I can tell her about the importance of voting for these budgets because of staff her she wouldn't get paid either staff to get paid so you know so you know you really have to understand where we're coming from and understand you know where we have to go and why we have to do these things as well thank you and it was great to hear about I'd like even to get a copy of that the ways that you've reduced funding all the this page that you showed me to do that I'd love to get a copy of that just so I can have that available to know that that's happened that would be great thanks you're welcome thank you very much anybody else oh sorry trustee whole on slide 20 under fiscal recovery plan where we talk about re-establishing the additional three percent how are we expecting to re-establish that one of the items that we look at is on slide 13 as you see 1920 the the deficit spending in the out year we've reduced the deficit spending and it's really internal efficiencies and then increasing our average daily attendance and reducing our contributions from unrestricted to restricted programs so it's a combination of all those items to do that we are going to have some hard work to do that but those are a recommendation so we can become or maintain fiscal solvency in the out years and also looking through cafeteria special revenue funds how deeply are we likely to be affected by changes in federal guideline and funding for these programs so that would from the federal we are directly impacted by the federal guidelines and or revenue and funding measures one of the items is the free and reduced and poverty income guidelines the federal government has not determined that for this coming year but we have we'll see that in the next couple months that is a direct impact to our families and our community who qualify or can't qualify for free and reduced lunch they're also implemented some food nutrition regulations that we have to follow as they are implemented so there is a direct impact to our district in regards to the federal program and I just wanted to you know because I also you know received many emails about voting now and just as a statement it's like looking at for me like this is my vote is about whether or not I think these numbers are accurate and even at a minimum if you know talking to you know other you know other sources you know for what the impact like the very minimal impact would be the county office of education rerunning all these numbers with likely the exact same result you know at the cost to the district and so you know where I'm weighing is you know ethical principles of beneficence doing good versus non-malfeasance which is doing no harm and to me the idea of having the county office of education rerunning the exact same numbers getting the exact same results doesn't have a strong enough of a balance of beneficence to outweigh the non-malfeasance of doing no harm I'd like to point out our first interim was reviewed by the county and approved by the county our second interim conversations in the budget development process is in partnership with the county and they do question our various accounts our debits and credits etc and so it's and then once if it's board approved it's submitted to the county for further review anybody else trustee shocker so you know I have traditionally in the past few votes have voted no for the budget and my feeling of why I've voted now is I think that we need to do more to streamline our budget especially looking at the road ahead with declining enrollment with government funding up in the air with presidential election coming up where we don't know what's going to happen and potential cuts in federal funding as well as uncertainty with state funding what other things beside these few listed have we've been looking at to move forward to reducing our budget so we are looking at all contracted services we are looking at all even it license and software where there could be duplication or a lack of alignment to our core curriculum so we're reviewing those items we're also looking at all services both contracted and or internal services to become more efficient we and another piece is we're focused on the unrestricted side of the budget because that is where we can make the most impact and addressing the unrestricted side of the budget but making sure that we continue to be efficient and looking at our contribution factors so SELPA and transportation are two main factors there and then the smaller contributions that we have from the general front general fund on the unrestricted side and there's some school sites there so we're also looking at how we can be more efficient there there are a balance to making sure that we keep reductions as far away from the classroom and so we're looking at overtime comp time and but making sure it doesn't have an impact to the cleanliness of our sites and or operations so it's a balance and there are other numerous factors that we're working on that we can update the board I want to make a point though and the adopted annual budget the difference between that that is where we make us a position as a district how we're going to fund certain initiatives or how we're going to fund certain programs that's where we take a stance as a district which direction we're going in the out years in the fiscal year a first interim and second interim is you know what you're in your checking account and it's just managing your debits and credits and it's a report of what came in your checking account and what was paid out of your checking account that's all the first interim and second interim and layman's terms to summarize that that's what it is and the adopted budget last year it's working off last year's adopted budget and so you're welcome so I have a comment to make um so all of our 3,500 employees I think that's how many we have correct rely on their salary to support themselves and their families so I will be boating yes tonight for that reason with the condition that between now and may we work diligently to identify cost saving measures in collaboration with PVFT CSEA even meeting with Emily to you know look at our numbers why are your numbers different than ours in an effort to be able to offer the best total compensation package possible without contingency language I would also like to request staff and I have shared this email with Michelle and Joe to look into or explore the following as cost saving measures trustee benefits and stipends furloughs for administration attendance for students who we know would be absent before or after the winter break could they make up their absences through independent studies whether while they're out is a budget allocation for books and supplies restricted is there a way to save there are all elementary schools now down to two administrators if not is this an option I know that for some elementary schools we have a principal and then two assistant principals we don't have that I'm assuming we don't have that at the middle or even the high school level um oh do we do we have two vice principals and a principal currently there's a principal an assistant uh academic coordinator and then now there's just a part or for next year there will just be a part time extended learning coordinator currently there are three and next year everybody will have 2.5 and that resulted partly from the boat that we did this past time thank you for doing that and then also again can individual departments analyze their budgets right transportation food services adult ed special ed I know special ed has done pretty good in in finding some consaving measures there going line by line serial based budgeting right applying all of what we've done with the district budget at the department level are there any program academic or not currently in place are not effective and or cost effective that we can cut looking into consolidate consolidating buzz routes even further I don't know we rely on fuel purchasing practices are we getting the best deal out there are there any additional energy conservation measures we can implement aside from what we have already have possibly looking into the possibility of increasing fees are associated with our facilities use anyway to limit or eliminate over time for our hourly employees review water usage such as sprinklers toilets etc anyway we can recycle water and then to the extent of eliminating food dinner for school board meetings and then my last one will be looking into the possibility of implementing a district run preschool option for employees at a reduced cost yet making it so that additional revenue is generated through this option and I think I mean the list can go on but these are just a couple of ideas that we can look into because it's it is a by prioritizing and we want to make sure that we stay away from the classroom as much as we can thank you Board Member Orozco we are looking at your ideas and suggestions and then our fiscal team and I know our superintendent is dedicated to fiscal transparency so we'll work on setting up a meeting with union leadership so that our the books are open and the doors open so we'll make sure to continue to do that and what we do to once board approved we do provide a hard copy electronic copy to union leadership and we'll also set up a meeting with them thank you Joe welcome any more comment or questions trustee to supper hi I just in going through all the slides I just had written down some questions so this is a no real particular order but one of the questions I had was about a slide that said something about establishing a five-year maintenance plan I was wondering if you could say more about that Joe so currently one of our internal weaknesses as a district is we do not have a deferred maintenance plan so we are structured in a sense where it's a sense of urgency or as an item breaks we rush to fix it and sometimes we don't have the internal resources or the time to do so and I will take Watsonville High School as an example and or Cesar Chavez Middle School a deferred maintenance plan takes an inventory of our infrastructure and I'll use gas line and plumbing as an example how old are those systems and what is the life span of those systems and so should we replace those every 20 years 30 years etc and it puts a plan together to make sure what is a priority what is needs to be replaced within a one-year down or down the road to a five-year and one of those items that's really something we need to look at is our HVAC units throughout the district but that's what's currently going on right now the board supported a facilities master plan and so we have maddie architects that will be visiting all our school sites throughout the district and doing an inventory of our infrastructure and so that is ongoing as we speak so do we still have a deferred maintenance endowment through the bond yes we do and are we using that I'm guessing it's coming to its end point because it's it was only good for 10 years that was my understanding correct and we are using the funding every or every fiscal year we are maximizing that funding and putting it to good use and so were we only using that fund for like stopgap measures for crises or were we actually using it for it was planful like because we were going to to replace a lot of the HVAC systems across the district a combination of both okay I think you answered the one about reestablishing the ending fund balance so the enrollment loss that's projected is just the consultant who took a look who we hired to take a look at declining enrollment yes so it was a consultant firm with that included census data live birth rate within our community housing development and then also met with internal staff and so it was a combination of the demographer and internal staff and then we did our research to make sure that looking at the variance with the firm and it was approximately one percent over the last five years okay and when you talk about right size staffing does that mean not like allowing attrition to just sort of have staff like retire or leave the district and then not replacing those positions because of the declining enrollment correct so based on resignations retirement and if there's a loss at elementary middle and high school just making sure that our staffing aligns to the loss of enrollment and have we considered like a golden handshake we did that in my first couple of years on the board where we offered a special package to senior staff who were ready to retire that's one item we can add to the list however in the past the savings did not come to fruition because the positions were backfilled and so it just depends but we can take another look at that but they're high earners so you know so getting the high earners off the book sometimes I think does actually save money we can review that but anyway maybe we can just kind of look into that anyway thank you very much for all the hard work behind this and I'll be supporting and second in room tonight thank you thank you thank you very much and trustee Acosta hi Joe thank you so we've really been consistently hearing from the district admin team about the issue with the declining enrollment and how that is affecting the budget right yes so I'm just curious that if we have a declining enrollment it makes an obvious question to start questioning the number of people that we employ and I'm not necessarily speaking at the staff and the faculty level I'm speaking more at an admin level so what have we done as a district admin and as a governing board to actively look at the number of cabinet members we have and those contracts and the number of directors we have not principals not vice principals at the number of directors we have and those contracts in correlation to our declining enrollment as well as just to look at them period but we are analyzing all positions in the district to right size to enrollment and that includes district office staff district administration and district site staff can you go back to that last slide about oh it's right there okay so you say management so when you're saying management you're specifically speaking to directors I take it yes all management including cabinet we're reviewing all the positions this the ones included in this these are directors and or coordinators and those also being reviewed in the analysis they're not cabinet cabinet will be also be reviewed as as we move forward as well as those contracts yes okay so all cabinet the number of cabinet members those contracts the number of directors and those contracts as well as coordinators and the additional staff will be looked at and that's part of right sizing our district as a whole so as once as a district we were looking at similar size districts once we were at 18,341 so how compared to another district how is that staffed and so now that we're on a trend to go to 16,593 and probably in the out year probably less that's something we need to look at from a holistic approach okay and yeah I just wanted to also clarify on this projected decline enrollment that I'm reading this correctly I understand that the yellow bar graph is for ADA and the enrollment is green so the enrollment is actually over the projected ADA correct okay because our average daily attendance it's not 100% of the kiddos attending school every day the average daily attendance is we hope and we're projecting 97% and but those are the numbers so for 1819 it was 95.86 1920 96% 2021 96.50 and 2122 projected to be the 97 for 19 I'm sorry 2021 projected to be 9650 and 2122 to be projected to be 97 correct so 1819 95.8 was actual actual that was the actual 1920 we're projecting 96% we got some work to do there and we're trying to do that with the Saturday academies and the attendance initiative 2021 we're projecting a half percent increase and then another half percent that's what I saw you're getting about a half percent increase on that so on top of that comment I made about wanting to make sure that there's a close look taking it all number of cabinet members those contracts number of directors those contracts as well as coordinators and those contracts the other thing that I have also said in the past that I will reiterate here is for when we talk about health and welfare benefits right and not just to the district it's to any employer one of the two largest expenses any employer holds is payroll and health and welfare so in looking at health and welfare there are many things that can be done creatively to reduce those costs without attacking the benefits of employees so what other things are we doing creatively as a district as the admin as this governing body to creatively look at how we can reduce those costs and possibly incentivize employees that don't necessarily maybe need maybe want to be with PAMP and can maybe go with an HMO and have a lower cost what are we actually actively doing to look at that and what we can do to incentivize those employees so that's another one and then again a curiosity about the budget the line by line on have we looked at all spending categories as by percentage because numbers as you and I both know at the end of the day don't mean things looking at the percentages and the change in percentages that's what really matters right with other truly comparable districts right and to say for us just to compare against districts in this county is it truly comparable when we are really the largest district I mean one of the largest district that'll 1100 in the state of California so what are we doing to actually look at that line by line by percentage comparison and if you could bring we could have that data brought back I think that is essential so this evening in your packet you have the variance report so that is the the next step or the part of the fiscal team is to review that percentage difference from adopted to actuals and so that is the work that is going on right now and we'll provide an update to the board I'd also like to commend the board as a whole for supporting staff and the health benefits committee so we took major strides in our health benefits committee in partnership with union leadership and the members of that committee to look at options that we implemented some were implemented last year in negotiations and we are looking at other options to minimize where we can have cost saving options but also minimize the impact to our employees and one of them you mentioned about network so what would it look like if we adjusted our network still maintain health benefit benefits but just change the network and that network adjustment would be a savings to the district and we're working on that now as long as that network adjustment is not again it comes back to what my said previously to not attack employees because we have several employees let's for instance Palo Alto Medical Foundation is one of the biggest service providers in this county we have several employees that are already established with care there right with designated doctors I don't think it would be fair to rip pamp from those employees in other words to me that's attacking those benefits so I'm talking about other creative ways to incentivize not to attack benefits and I appreciate your answer but I don't think you for sure said to me that what I'm asking for is a line by line comparison by percentage not hard line numbers to other districts of comparable side of compare true comparison to this district okay we will work on that thank you you're welcome okay thank you very much so now we will just can I have a motion I'd like to make a motion to support the second interim budget there a second move approval okay President trustee George jr I'm going to call for a roll call vote on this vote okay kind of I will now ask for a roll call vote aye no trustee shocker your vote no trustee osmondson your vote aye trustee home your vote aye trustee diserpa aye trustee acosta no trustee orosco aye president dodge no passes with a vote of four four three all right thank you very much next agenda item 8.2 approvals of statistics adoption recommendation and report will be presented by lisa I think getting so as we're we're waiting I'll just go ahead and start that's okay so good evening president dodge Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez I'm here on behalf of our fabulous math coordinator autoselly mndez is who is currently on leave on baby bonding leave and so I'm here to present the majority of the work that she did with our amazing teachers in pvSD in alignment with our other textbook adoptions the time model for instructional materials evaluation was used for this for the statistics pilot process and it started last May 2019 where we had a team of teachers that came together to review textbook materials and it finished this December where our pilot teachers actually reviewed after they came through and they piloted the the materials and decided which one that they liked best and so if we can and so we'll go so at the first there were three different um textbooks in in May that the a group of teachers analyzed and looked there's a rubric that they used to go through and look to see which ones there were two textbooks that were chosen and if you look here here's a rubric that came through they went through and it was this Cengage and the bfw were the two textbooks that were chosen to pilot after that pilot teachers were um we've we uh got pilot teachers from all three of our comprehensive high schools who piloted the materials as to the statistics textbooks materials for six weeks each and then we'd come together and there would be different meetings where they talk about things that are needed and how it the pilot was going the student voice was also looked at and so 130 we had 130 responses for students in regards to the two textbooks that were chosen to pilot with the three questions how accessible did you find the textbook to be what was the format of the textbook easy to follow and how could the textbook be improved one being the not so good for being the high end of really liking it from the student voice bfw was the textbook of choice for number three I just put one quote if we used it all year long instead of switching to the second book because the second book is not very understandable the book is definitely good because it gives clear examples and it's very easy to read and understand all three teachers were in agreement with the student voice and with that the recommendation the pbusd statistics pilot committee recommends by unanimous decision that the school board approves statistics with probability and applications as the core curriculum for statistics also including the packet is the quote which is for a six year timeline that we have with the company any public speakers any discussion from the board yes trustee shocker do we not have a current statistics program the current statistics program is very outdated how outdated that I don't know the exact year I'm guessing 10 years well that would help to know that answer to that question thank you any other questions see none oh sorry hi so this will be offered at all three comprehensive or more than that all three and also with a possibility at renaissance oh great and we have current teachers at all three of those schools teaching this now yes all three from the comprehensive high schools piloted okay thank you any other discussion from the board okay see none can I have a motion I'm going to give a motion to approve the statistics and probability with applications book is there a second I can I will now call for a vote all in favor aye any opposed aye thank you very much five two thank you next up agenda item eight point three consortium on reaching excellence in education core sips and reward support 2020 2020 service agreement report will be sent and be presented by Casey good evening president dodge members of the board and Dr. Rodriguez I am here I bring forward for your approval their service agreement between PV USD and the consortium on reading on reaching excellence in education PV USD has been able to successfully increase literacy results with the use of sips and rewards support for students with disabilities this contract is to continue support of the program in the 2020 2021 school year the core consultant Gail Adams will continue to support the rewards and sips reading programs the implementation of special education classrooms in all six of our middle schools she'll continue to work closely with the district rewards and sips TOSAs providing demonstration lessons supporting our classroom teachers by reviewing data and supporting the instructional assistance also and our principles in supporting those classrooms our goal is to continue to increase our students with disabilities and make sure that they are increasing levels of actually being able to be on the diploma track by the time that they get into high school we also want to make sure that we are increasing their literacy skills so they also have access to their core grade level content standards Dr. Rodriguez Yeah, so I just wanted to mention so the difference between this and what we're doing at the elementary schools is the program is the level of program so currently we have three elementary level programs that we started now three years ago which we do have trained staff on and we have trained coaches on this program here is sips plus so this program has two nuances to it that we do not have currently at the elementary level so we can't just bring someone from the elementary level to here because it's not the same program so elementary uses beginning extension and challenge this is sips plus which is meant for adolescent readers and it's for our special education students and their accommodations so what this allows us to do is to be able to build that base so build our capacity and yes it is funding that we are using but we spend exorbitant amounts of money on credit recovery and on intervention for students and our students need to be able to read and so we're in the middle of looking of working on the data right now for the elementary version the secondary version we just started it and so this would allow us to do that just like we did for elementary we will keep reducing the consultant agreement the end they use two separate people so one uses Ann Leon which is the elementary and then this one uses Gail Adams who has specialty in adolescent reading and in special education so I just wanted to show the differences between the two thank you very much is there a public comment do we have public okay any any discussion from the board trusting or did someone turn a card in I didn't have one no okay I'm sorry I just saw someone did I miss one okay just so just just so I'm understanding you said we can't pull from elementary for the this this version so that means that you know so we absolutely do not have somebody qualified currently in district as we do not each and the teachers that have had to transition even the elementary teachers that have had to transition from beginning to extension will tell you that it is it's a different routine different programs it also with this a lot of what we're trying to get support on is grouping of students and so what we have found especially at the middle school level and we're going to implement it this next year is that the way that the students were rostered really got in the way of us being able to group the students well but we have had really great results from feedback from Ann Leon I don't know of really many people out there that don't we actually are having the opposite feedback at elementary right now of why we're not having additional focus similar to this with the bilingual programs and so it's but most importantly and most importantly is we're increasing the number of students that can read and I cannot over-insubstitize the importance of that for every single curricular area including mathematics because now mathematics is very literature based with all the reading that's required anybody else any any other trust the automatic just so I can understand Dr. Rodriguez so there's been lots of you know complaints from teachers that we could use teachers to do the training and there's a lot of teachers that are capable of doing it and and I understand the special education that might be different but for example it is there teachers doing training and sips in some of the elementary and other levels yeah so we we cut our contract over the last year and a half for sips part of doing that was to have teacher leads at each site so we have at the elementary level because we've done it now three years we have for the English classes we have lead teachers who are training teachers and so we've significantly reduced that consultant but they I want to remind everyone they had the program for years prior to the consultants coming in and saw no growth yeah no I know that and so the it isn't always true that we don't need someone coming in and coaching us that is actually not accurate and a reason why I mean it was not the teachers for there was an administration fault that we implemented a program and didn't provide the support yeah but they were not trained on it before and our coaches will tell you that they did not know how to train on it right so we are doing some of it in the middle school you can come then if you want to we are trying to do some of the SIPs programming in the middle school with our middle school grants and kind of things where we're trying to do better we're using SIPs there too right well that's exactly what this is so this is for the second year at the middle school but a special ed though this is special ed this is special ed and middle school so this is not elementary this is not supporting anyone at elementary level this is supporting at middle school which is why there's this thought oh we can just bring these people over it's not the same program okay so SIPs plus is not an elementary program it's a middle school program and it's being used in the special education setting okay but we're also using SIPs not in the special education level we are using SIPs at the middle school regular middle school as well not at this point we're focusing on special education okay which when we did the assessments an average reader of special education at the middle school level is reading a second grade level okay which is a problem yeah exactly okay and as we focus on our work in the elementary with our general education and special education students they will not need as much support by the time they reach middle school right right they're coming up from elementary and now they're going to go they're going to be up there in SIPs so they're going to be reading at a higher level when they get there yeah absolutely yeah that's true I will comment Danny trustee so at last year as Michelle's evaluation one of the directions the director from the board was to give more of an emphasis to our special ed population and I think this supports that goal of making sure that we're reaching all students regardless of whether they have a disability or not so with that I am going to make a motion to move this item forward is there a second a second all right all those in favor aye aye all those opposed aye aye all right motion passes four three thank you very much agenda item 8.3 I mean no sorry 8.4 school site wireless network upgrades report will be presented by Joe Dominguez all right this item in front of you provides our membership to our JPA also known as Spur and so this is a another opportunity for a general efficiency and pricing so as a member district we get a reduction in pricing competitive pricing throughout the nation and this is for a e-rate program through the federal government and so this supports our schools and libraries program throughout the district the conduit or pipeline for communications for telecommunication services but and or as well internet so funding is provided in two priority categories category one telecommunication services data line services and category two is internet access internal connections and the infrastructure so cabling and connections so the federal government allows us to receive 85 cents on the dollar for our funding and then the additional necessary funding is will be from the IT endowment through our bond program and so we are able and have been awarded to support 36 of our sites throughout our district with the latest high speed wireless network infrastructure and ensure coverage for every school facility and with that being said I'd like to recommend for approval so that we can obtain our e-rate funding and implement upgrades to our wireless infrastructure any public speakers to this any discussion from the board okay can I yeah is there any no speakers no so over the 11 years that I've been on the board we've done many of these e-rate resolutions to make our money go further and to support areas of our district that wouldn't otherwise have any connectivity at all and so I remember starting from just dial up to moving to sort of a network etc etc so just for a historical perspective this is it's an excellent idea and I appreciate you bringing it forward thank you trustee shocker I just want to say thank you because this is one of the budget cost-saving measures we're looking for so I would like to make a motion to approve I'll second so with that can I have a I will not call for a vote all in favor aye aye anybody opposed motion passes 7-0 next up agenda item 8.5 second reading board policy and administrative regulation 51-42.2 safe routes to school program by Dr. Michelle Wright yeah so this is just a second reading of our new board policy so this was off of the presentation that we did around safe schools so it supports that work in terms of the safe schools and really encourages us to promote the joy of walking biking in any other active transport to school it also does address such things as working in collaboration with the city with the state organizations in order to try to get the grants that we need in order to be able to put forth the recommendations from the safe school and so I put it forth for your approval any public speakers to this item any discussion yes question so I just want to thank everyone for working hard on this and Michelle I'd like to make a point because we've been able to already start this at PVUSD with one of the grants that our beautiful grant writer has obtained with the Lagosci kitchen correct and Starlight is going to be able to start improving their parking lot and hopefully we'll get the city to improve the parking on Pennsylvania for them too so then they'll be good I think you want to make a motion and yet I'll make a motion to approve I'll second that I will now call for a vote all in favor hi hi anybody opposed motion passes seven zero the next agenda item nine consent agenda I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda with deferring items nine point one nine point five nine point nine nine point ten and nine point eleven I'll second now I will now call for a vote to approve everything we didn't or everything we pulled which is a but you're calling for an approval to approve everything that wasn't deferred yeah yeah okay so I'll now call for a vote all in favor hi anybody opposed motion passes so to clarify the motion we're asking to approve everything but pulling the following numbers nine point one nine point five nine point nine nine point ten and nine point eleven and there was a first and second on the table yeah so I thought it's okay okay oh I thought you wanted clarification I thought I'm sorry I missed her did trustee discerpe did you abstain yes okay okay so now we're agenda item nine point one are there in nine point one when we scroll down to our expenses there's a lot of general expenses at the end of our report for general consultants do we have any idea what these expenses are scroll all the way down gotta scroll all the way to the bottom there's like um general county professional consult purchase order changes in sense general county food for work just just kind of wanted to go over some of these thank you Maria 15 and 16 there's a couple on 15 too one of them is BP 020 000138 if you look at that line on page 14 or 15 I can't tell on my computer here these I would just like to point out these this report is available to us on Sunday nights and if we have questions about any of these warrants or any of those things you can always check in with the superintendent about your questions prior to this meeting well for point of clarification this is actually on the public agenda and this is a public meeting and that's the time for this discussion to actually occur is in public this feels like a gotcha like you're trying to bust somebody or point something out trying to bust anything that that's how you feel in your perception that is why we meet one on one with the superintendent so that we can ask questions and that could be questionable about the appropriateness of that absolutely can and that's all I'm saying again this is a public meeting this is part of the public agenda now is the time to have this discussion thank you thank you we get the elaboration on 9.1 the board member shocker you were specific on the 00138 yes I'm just wondering there's just a couple of them that aren't explained very well like the one above it I understand most likely Watsonville cafeteria right because we've had a lot of changes orders on there so I'm just asking for some clarification on we have just general consult professional consult just kind of getting idea we've got a lot of little small numbers with all these consults is that are these for ongoing projects are these you know for change orders what is going on with all of these yeah they vary some of them or the some of them are the general contractors or consultants assigned to projects those range from anywhere and I will get you a more detailed report to explain each one but in some some include architects other specialists that are assigned to a project I'm looking at the list here there's others that are district consultants and I will get you a report on what specific program they're consulting on or what department but those also vary and I see one amount of five hundred twenty dollars up to a range of I think they vary but we can get you a they're all just small little ones so that's what that's what piqued my interest and caught my attention as I was just wondering for some clarification on that so I would appreciate that help from you and if anyone else has any questions I will move to approve nine point one I'll second that trustee necessarily wanted to make a comment no I do oh okay I'm sorry if we could just maybe in the future have that information already added as part of the report right when there's you know especially anything that has to do with consultants or additional expenses for things that we generally wouldn't see I think it will be helpful to know what those projects are or what those architects and projects are assigned to and so forth just so that we have access to that information ahead of time shocker made the motion and I seconded okay so kind of going to vote to approve but in the item nine point one approve I I anybody oppose motion passes agenda item nine point five which is west ed co-teaching vacation it was a six yeah just making sure that we have their correct vote six there was one absence one yes I'm sorry six zero one thank you very much agenda item nine point five no go ahead so um can you explain this was brought up to in public comment can you explain a little bit about nine point five and why we're bringing this forward at this meeting and what exactly is going on with it so this is actually our continued work with providing inclusive practices as you heard at the special board studies session on special education that it is we are not hitting our mark with making sure that the percentage of students that should be in the least restrictive environment are so this continues the work that we're doing with sips and we're starting with the middle school special education students it's the co-teaching piece in high school which we're continuing we've had them working with the co-teaching piece in high school and it's continuing on and this ensures that we have our students with disabilities having access to the core curriculum and actually staying in the least restrictive environment for their classes and it also helps them stay on track for receiving a diploma or college and career readiness this is basically inflated at Watsonville High School correct is where this program has been because that's where I've gotten most of my emails from my concern is what's going on with the teachers that are already piloting this program are they not able to continue on with this without the consultants there's been a lot of back and forth with them about having a consultant for this so this is actually providing professional development days outside of just the regular classroom instruction support and it is they do need the continued support with this effort it's not it's kind of like the SIPs piece where they need the continued support so they're able to do it it's also providing them the different structures because there are different models for co-teaching and and use universal design for learning also specific strategies to help them in the classroom thank you for clarification Casey can I ask you a question so you're saying this is a continuation of something that is already existing right and I'm seeing that I guess by the 1920 AY right yes it's it's continued work and it's from a previous AY or from just this one from a previous academic year or just this one from this one okay so why is it needed to be brought forward tonight if it's just a continuum is the contract up no and that and that is why it was under consent right so it was under this year and we're continuing for next year with that say for the 2021 AY for the 2021 yes okay thank you for the clarification on that no problem thank you I have questions is there a motion to support agenda item length 0.5 I'll make a motion to support 9.5 is there a second again all in favor say aye aye anybody opposed aye aye motion passes thank you very much agenda item 9.9 request for allowance of attendance due to emergency conditions October 10th and 28th 2019 six schools closed due to PG&A power safety shut off um Dr. Rodriguez would you just be able to clarify this because I know we've get a lot of questions about ADA so I think this would help just for public record a clarification of what this is for sure so during the winter season due to the past fires throughout the state of California PG&E decided to do closure or stoppage of electricity for our schools we do have several schools these six in which they're referring to that run on septic tank and so we cannot have those schools function without electricity because they have no toilet so if because the septic tanks are run off of electricity and then we had to close them so what this allows us to do is have there be no effect to the ADA so in essence thinking of mathematically it changes the denominator so normally we have 180 days they missed several days of school three I believe it is right they they missed those days or maybe it was yeah three one two just two sorry so soon I forget so they missed two days so they would instead have a denominator of 178 days that their students went to school instead of 180 and it allows us not to have to make them up but not have an ADA loss as well thank you for that explanation and with that I move to approve I'll second all in favor passing 9.9 saying aye aye anybody opposed thank you very much next up agenda item 9.10 resolution 19-20-31 temporary borrowing between district funds in order to meet the cash flow needs of the district for fiscal year 20-20-21 so this item covers provides the ability for PVSD to borrow to borrow with amongst ourselves in interfund borrowing specifically within our bond program this has previously had similar resolution in previous years as a district and it's a precautionary measure just to make sure that we have the ability to do so if needed and as I mentioned in the second interim presentation this is something that we are preparing for as we may need to take advantage of the resolution and or interfund borrow in November and this is this resolution allows us to borrow from ourselves and a period of time to replenish those funds that we borrowed once we receive the so it's a time issue once we receive the funding then we reestablish the fund that we borrowed it from so Joe in your budget report on your fiscal efficiency roadmap on your three large bullet points under your fiscal recovery plan you had a note in there about to reestablish the additional 3% reserve board resolution from a previous governing board so why do we see that there when we're at a point of needing to borrow funds to potentially protect ourselves I mean I hope I explained that yes I can you did thank you for the clarification trustee whole so just to clarify when you say it's a precautionary measure we're not expecting to have to do this but it's just in case or are we expecting to have to do this we may need to borrow it's a precautionary measure to have that option available to the district previous years we've had this presented to the board and approved this will probably be the first time we may have to use inner fund borrowing so trustee Nisirpa okay okay so just being a new board bummer and clarifying this what happens if we can't pay this back so we have our allocations in cash flow about the main piece so to answer your question then that leads to fiscal insolvency but we have the allocation and the allotment schedule that we can replenish the fund back so it's more of a time issue that we don't have cash on hand right now we do this gives us and some districts don't have the ability to borrow amongst themselves because some districts don't have a bond program whereas we have a bond program so we can borrow the necessary amount of cash to meet payroll and to meet our expenditures once we get our allotment from the state then we replenish that fund back and so we have the ability to do so and that's what lines us out it's approximately ranges it's different for each district but approximately a one to three month transaction and it's about timing so trustee Nisirpa so in the past we have always seems like every year passed a resolution that if we needed to borrow money we would borrow it from the county office of education so that's the second portion on the agenda right so so but so we're talking about actually potentially borrowing money from ourselves via measure l correct I don't think that's a good idea in terms of the voters I don't think the voters would like that that money is really earmarked for yeah and it's only time we've never done that I don't think we've ever passed a resolution to borrow inter bond or whatever you're calling it yes we've passed a resolution in the past to inner fund we have resolution has been I thought it was inner funds but I didn't realize it was inner funds using the bond yes bond is one of them there's another one like nutrition services but there's more restrictions because of the federal funding and there's others but the bond program has the most flexibility and it is a practice in other k12 districts that have a bond program they have the ability to do so but we're getting close to expending the entire contents of the bond correct so there's not much left to borrow there and and it's earmarked for PB high so and we're only going to need the borrowing for no more than three months and we put the money back and it really comes back to the tax funding and how we get those installments from the state and so right now we have those two installments twice a year and so it's just a time issue so once we get that revenue we put the money back into our bond program so it doesn't jeopardize our bond does it cost any money to borrow from the county office there is a slight interest on that it's a reduced interest or fee but that's also the second resolution on the board item tonight thank you you're welcome I just have a question of a point of clarification between what you said to me and my question and your comment to trustee home because the way I interpreted what you'd said how it what I'd heard was that you were saying that we would be borrowing this and that would be at a cost of an interest expense but then I had understood that when you had responded to trustee home you were saying it's a what if that we may but we may not but when you'd answered me and I'd heard that we are going to do it and we will have an interest expense associated with it so I'm good for the maybe I heard wrong but for the inner fund borrowing for this resolution we may and if we do there will be an interest expense with its inner fund borrowing it's an interest to ourselves okay so it actually complements our bond programs when we inner fund borrow so it's not a penalty or an external cost to the district and at the most it's approximately about three months timeline because of the tax allotments to the district and so this is how that process works and then we replenish the bond program for the funds that are needed and right now we are looking at November but I want to also stress to the board a lot of things can change what the governors may revise that can also change the financial outlook and maybe there's changes within that where we're not going to need to inner fund borrow but as of right now we are projecting November we may have to inner fund borrow and and to trustee to serpent trustee shocker's point of self concern about where this is coming from from measure L and what if we can't repay it what does that mean to that fund for measure L so those those are funds that are already allocated that we're borrowing from you know it's like Peter borrowing from Paul to pay Mary I mean this is like a vicious cycle so it's a very concerning I'll come back it's a timing issue and then there's state ed code on the tax allotments to districts so by law those tax have to do disperse throughout the state of California to the K-12 districts those are on certain timelines or schedules that schedule doesn't align with where we're at in our cash flow and so we know that we will receive that tax allotment within that three month period of time and this is for AY 2021 and you're it sounds like you're pretty certain this is going to happen and well as of right now with the information I have on hand the day correct but I have today I may revise that it'll be something else and then I just want to stress to the board one of the main factors districts become fiscally insolvent is cash on hand and so we have the ability right now to cover cash on hand with our bond program until the talk the tax allotment is provided and then we can replenish the fund but I am concerned and this also is a forecast what we have with the given information as of today okay I think that's just one comment for me I'm willing to support tonight with the condition that if we do end up borrowing that we bring this item back just so that there's transparency that we're able to see that if we did take funds that we we actually did return those just for the public just because it's coming strictly from Michelle and we're being held accountable for that money and where that's going so we'll do and I would like to add on that that it not be a consent agenda oh no absolutely not I think I wanted to that discussion item yes thank you John with that I would like to move for approval I'll second that with Maria's recommendation so I'll take a vote all in favor aye any opposed thank you very much next up agenda item 9.11 resolution 19-20-30 President Dodge can I interrupt can I make a motion to extend tonight's meeting to 11 o'clock second that's okay all in favor to extend till 11 o'clock aye aye any opposed aye thank you very much agenda I'll repeat agenda item 9.11 resolutions 19-20-30 to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Cruz to provide temporary cash loans to Pajaro Valley Unified School District so this item is specific for the and I appreciate and thank you for the support on the previous item so if we do not have enough inter-fund borrowing within internally then this gives us an option to go to the county for additional borrowing and so this is a precautionary measure right now we don't foresee that happening but it also allows us as a district to provide that and notify the county and how it's structured is districts need to if they have the ability to inter-fund borrow internally first that's what districts are asked to do if they're not allowed to borrow amongst themselves inter-fund then they approach the county and so this is also a precautionary measure and positions of districts so that we can if needed borrow on a short term basis from the county is this again for the 2020-21 yes and is it the same time period you're talking about approximately and what is that cost of that borrowing it'll depend on or given scenarios right now we are asking for not to exceed $15 million on this resolution but that is a what if scenario and that depends on the May revise cash flow etc so but right now we were asking up to $15 million if needed well I mean I get it changes if we borrow $15 million versus $10 million but the percentage of that rate at what we're charged for borrowing does that change by whether it's $15 million or $10 million or is the percentage rate stay the same whether it's $15 million or $10 million so let's say it was 4% is it 4% at $15 million and 4% at $10 million that's something that the county has but it's it's reduced at a lower rate I don't have that oh so they scale it yes yes they scale it so that's the answer to my question so if it's $10 million it's more it's if it's a lesser amount it's actually a lesser rate it is okay all right thank you for the clarification welcome any other comments Karen trust us Mohsen I'm sorry yep oh okay I just wanted to quickly say like Joe we're we're relying on you to get this you know this data correctly to us because measure L is really important to us you know the voters in 2012 they they worked really hard to get the projects and kind of borrowing is kind of well for me it's nerve-wracking but I believe most of us have faith in what you're doing and we'll go ahead and go well I think a lot of us have faith in Joe the summer projects are on schedule for this coming summer and then we also have the planned summer projects for the following summer so this will not impact those projects this yeah all right thank you very much is there a motion to support this agenda item so with that faith in Joe I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve okay is there a second second we also okay we all second as trustee Holmes seconded so all in favor aye any opposed right thank you very much motion passes agenda item 11 closed session I'd like to make a motion I move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on March 11th 2020 with 27 and 8 additional action items is there a second second all in favor say aye aye any opposed action item 12 action important I'm sorry there's more sorry very more um I move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration on March 11th 2020 with 20 action items their motion that is a motion but I'll suck in her motion okay you read it very seconded I second the motion okay all in favor aye anybody opposed motion passes now do the readout so during closed session as per resolution 19 2028 the PVSD governing board of trustees voted 7-0 on the non-re-election of certain probationary certificated employees for the following employees 8-2-7-0 8-3-1-7 and during closed session the PVSD governing board of trustees voted 3-4 to rescind the non-re-election of probationary certificated employee 8-1-9-8 okay um I don't have the date for the next meeting but I believe it's March 24th it's March 25th here or March 25th and here or so um information just came down just about 20 minutes ago that they are making um flexibility for Brown Act for due to the coronavirus throughout the state of California so um it is possible that we will have more of a virtual um option this upcoming board meeting but it will be on March 25th March 25th thank you very much meeting adjourned