 I like to call to order the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board Meeting for Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. Item 1.2, public comments on closed session agenda. Are there any public comments to closed session items? Seeing there's none, we will now go into closed session to discuss. Item 2.1, expulsion referral. 2.2, certificated public employee employment government section code 54957. 2.3, classified public employee employment government code section 54957. 2.4, negotiations update. 2.5, public employee discipline dismissal referral leaves. 2.6, existing pending anticipated litigation. 2.7, field turf light litigation update at Aptos High School. Thank you very much. Good evening everybody. Good evening. Hello. Thank you for joining this evening. We'll be starting off with a pledge of allegiance and I will ask Trustee Shankar if she will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Agenda item 3.2, welcome by the board president. Welcome to the PVUSD board meeting. We have a translation in Spanish. If you need that support please see Virginia Gonzalez at the back of the room. She's hiding back there. I would just let me see. I'd also like to share if someone has something to speak on the agenda, they must complete a speaker card and hand to Eva Vorentaria right here. Each speaker will have two minutes. I just wanted to say welcome everybody here. My name is Daniel Dodge. I'm the new president for the Palo Alto Valley Unified School District. I would just like to say thank you to my colleagues who voted me to this position. I'm proud and honored to represent Trustee Area 4, which represents Midi White E. Hall, Watson, Ohio Radcliffe. It's an honor for me because my grandparents, they attended those schools. I attended those schools. My brother's and my nephew is currently a senior. And so I would just like to say thank you very much. So next off we have Ms. Michelle Rodriguez. Okay, all right. I've been demoted. I'm actually a doctor. Sorry. These students, no. No, anyway. So each year we work hard from our parents to hear from our parents in community through multiple LCAP meetings that are held throughout the district. This input assists us in revising our plan each year. So stakeholders are able to attend any of these meetings if you can go to the next page so that they can see it. There you go. So they can go to any of these meetings here. If they cannot attend the meeting, they may also fill out a survey online. And it's right down there. So these meetings are additional meetings are also held with CSEA and PVFT as well as students. And those are not noted on the flyer, but we do work with both our fifth grade, our eighth grade, and our 12th grade students as well. So cada año trabajamos duro para escuchar en nuestros padres y la comunidad a través de múltiples reuniones de LCAP que se llevan a cabo a cabo por todo el distrito. Esta información nos va a ayudar con la revisión anual de nuestro plan. Los participantes interesados pueden asistir a cualquier de esos reuniones que se ven en la lista. Si no pueden asistir a una reunión, pueden completar la encuesta que está en línea. También tenemos reuniones con los grupos de CSEA y PVFT, así como los estudiantes que están en quinto, octavo y también dos en el grado. At the meeting stakeholders here from fellow cabinet members and me about the district direction and accomplishments. They also hear a presentation from site principals with site specific information and then they provide both input and feedback. So en las reuniones los participantes van a escuchar a membros del gabinete y también a mí hablando sobre la dirección y los logros de distrito. También van a recibir una presentación de los directores con información específica de cada escuela y luego tendrán oportunidad de dar su opinión y comentarios. So in an effort to ensure parents and community members know about these meetings we are promoting on social media through an all call system peach jar our website local media and now at green valley cinema. So we're not actually going to do the video because there's a lot of people here. We do have a video go to green valley cinema and watch the video. So en un esfuerzo para garantizar a los padres y los membros de la comunidad que están que hay muchos en las reuniones tenemos promociones en las redes sociales a través del sistema de las llamadas peach jar nuestra página de internet medios o locales y ahora en el cinema de green valley. So tenemos un video sino sígueme en Twitter y ahí está. So if you want to see it you can follow me on Twitter and it's on there as well. So thank you. Before we move on to item three point four I forgot to mention since this is my first time as president that Jordan mistrust you Georgia Costa called me earlier saying she won't be able to make it because she's sick. So hopefully we could hopefully she feels better and hopefully we could excuse her absence. Next I am three point four governing board comments reports on standing committee meetings. This is our opportunity for each board member to make a few comments and we will start my vice president trustee. Always have my comments. Student trustee. Thank you President Dodge. Last night I had the pleasure of attending with some of my colleagues Daniel Dodge and Jennifer Shocker. The county office of education did a beautiful presentation on a strategic plan and I thought I saw Dr. Ferris Sabah in the room somewhere. Good job Ferris. I was very impressed with the strategic plan and all the efforts that you're making to improve educational outcomes and equity for students in this county. So yeah very happy you're in your position and it was a great presentation. I also attended the school board association meeting where all the other school boards send representatives and we all meet together and discuss really important things to help kids. So thank you. Glad you guys are all here. Karen do you want to say something? Well I should have us both talk. So Midia and I were at the D-LAC meeting which was yesterday and there was a lot of extra people there because we had a woman who came to talk to us about the roadmap and she gave a fabulous presentation which was you know from 630 to 830 about it and about you know the four items for the roadmap that we have to think about and she you know we divided up and started talking about each one of us took one of the items the four items and talked about them and presented them and yeah so there was a lot of extra teachers there that are not using at our D-LAC meetings and and people there to hear what she had to say it was really great. Midia can talk about it too. Thank you and thank you for being here tonight. We did have a pack house last night's D-LAC meeting. A huge thank you to Laura Diaz for the informative presentation on the California English learner roadmap. I also want to thank our parents for the thoughtful discussion and the feedback on the need to strengthen our current bilingual programs that we have in place in addition to the possibility of expanding access to dual immersion programs K-12. So it was it was really neat because we did get broken down into several different works. It was it was amazing to see parents so engaged in the discussion and all contributing their ideas to improve the educational experience of their students at their schools. I also met with the community water center and I learned about the different initiatives to address water pollution both at the local and the state level and I do agree that everyone has the right to save affordable and accessible water and on that same note I want to thank our teachers, parents and students and staff from Ohlone and Renaissance for your advocacy around the water quality issue at your school sites. We are listening and as you may already know we will be installing four reverse osmosis filtering stations along with an additional two hydration stations at Ohlone and something similar at Renaissance and we expect to have these in place in the next 45 days. In addition to that I look forward to attending the Paro Valley Education Foundation board meeting next Wednesday. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you all of you for coming out today. It's been busy with some parents over break about some concerns and thoughts they've had. I was also at the county office of education meeting last night with my fellow colleagues. Thank you Dr. Sabaugh. It was a wonderful meeting, great presentation about the way the county is pursuing education for all of our children. I was also at the Martin Luther King Day of Service here in Watsonville at the Mariposa Wellness Center. My family and I did some volunteer work. My daughters had fun shoveling rocks believe it or not. I also met with Fitness for Life in Watsonville Pell. We're trying to get some after-school programs going that will benefit the children in our community. I also was disappointed and have addressed some of our city council members that last Tuesday on January 14th the City Planning Commission did not approve an amendment to the zoning ordinance that would eliminate the pathways that children take to school from retail shops for cannabis. So right now on the zoning list there is sections of Green Valley and Auto Center Drive where our children from Cesar Chavez Middle School and Paro Valley High School walk every day. And should the city decide to put in cannabis locations our children will be exposed to cannabis on a daily basis on their commute to and from school. These are high visible centers that cater to children and families and people of all ages. So I think it's important for the City Council and for all of us to write our City Council member to reconsider this and have those walkways and zoning removed from consideration for any type of cannabis. I also wanted to agree with my colleague Maria Roscoe here about Eloni Elementary. Dr. Rodriguez worked hard with a company to get the reverse osmosis installed. It was something that I was a little bit familiar with having done it in my home and so we were able to get some better information and a better idea and understanding of how the water can be filtered at a more affordable cost. So thank you to all the parents and teachers who spoke out and we do listen to you and believe your voices are important. Thank you very much everybody. 4.1 approval agenda. Can I have a motion? I'll make a motion to one second. I'm sorry. Item 3.5 the high school board representatives. Diamond Tech. I heard Diamond Tech was here. Diamond Tech. Put it down. Yeah. There you go. Way down. There you go. I came as a representative of Diamond Technology Institute. So the first thing is that we created a Twitter, Facebook and Instagram account if you guys want to follow us. And also before winter break we did a college and career day fair in where many colleges came to our school and they talked with our students about the opportunities and majors and financial aids that their colleges offered them. And the Marines and firefighters came as well and talked about how to get to their careers, how their schools and everything that they had to do in order to become what they were. So each year Diamond Tech usually adopts a family that doesn't have the privilege of having Christmas presents for themselves and we bring them Christmas joy each year. So this year the student canceled. They took a day off of their winter break and went to the families to give the presents. We collected a big box like you guys can see that it was really heavy to take it. It was full of presents as well. We brought two to three small boxes and we put it under the trees and seen like the one, the only family member that was there was a daughter. So she was extremely happy and grateful towards us. So the first day of school we brought an instructor to our school to teach us how to play the drums. We started playing drums for like about 10 to 15 minutes and afterwards they divided us into eight different groups and we were supposed to play our own music out of all the instruments that it gave us and it was really fun. Each student had their own creative way of expressing themselves through music. As well with day two we did three different activities. One the first one was we did an ossebo with the evil robot in which our students were supposed to take the evil robot through a maze and it was fun because we were able to make that robot spin talk laugh back. We had fun and the next activity was a blindfold activity. Every student were blindfolded and we were supposed to guess which shape and color they were missing out of the duty shapes and colors that were there and at first it was chaotic because everyone was talking at the same time but afterwards we started to come down and we started to find out which one were the ones that were missing and the third activity that we did was the launcher and we were supposed to launch a starburst into a tiger and it was really fun because there were different types of launchers like that students created and it was yeah it was fun. So we also went to CSUNB and MPC and they taught us about the financial aids that they would offer us if we applied to their colleges the programs that they offer and and how we could apply to them. So last semester our beach volleyball was a beach volleyball cloud was created it was the first time that we had ever had a beach volleyball so we are proud to say that we got third place in division one and hopefully next year we might get second or first place we're reading for that. So Alianza Lisco and WCSA yeah they came to our school and we had different type of activities that were run by the senior class that they were able to do they did that life photography science experiment business challenge and engineering challenge the one that they most like was the life photography one. During winter break a team of our students they participated in exit polls in GCC where they were supposed to go there and debate against other teams about philosophy in a philosophical way and the the arguments the topics were really difficult because some of them were controversial and it might have like it might have affected like we might we might have like discriminated or talked bad about a certain type of group but our team were really sensible about that topic and they did great. As well we are in quarter two we had we have had the highest time it take perfect attendance so far there were 55 percent of time it take that had perfect attendance. We're looking forward to our GSBW field trip or Muslim team Kayaking the beast battle of 2020 and the business board which also needs some judges if you guys want to participate and judge judge us and our business project it will be held on March 26th in a mail center. That's all thank you. Thank you very much. What's up oh hey I see standing back there. Hello everyone good night. My name is Omar Casillas I go to Watsonville high school and I'm here to do the board presentation today. So at the at the beginning of this of next month we will have our career day or civic stay which is the which is when the 10 to 12 graders get to explore different career options. We have 50 to 60 percenters that go to our school and show them like from people from the Marines from people that work in Driscoll's and many other types of careers that students can learn about. Well this the freshman get to go visit local services such as the firefighters the police department City Hall and learn about what these people do in their jobs. They also get to explore our our academies or career pathways through the recruitment days. They do one day of exploring the town and one day of their academies and after this and following Monday they get to choose their academies. I'm a health academy because I want to go into the medical field side note. Also we will have we will be having our carnival night February the 13th there's going to be games free food obstacle courses and other fun activities. This was set on by a student leader in our ASB class the ASB is supporting him. This year our ASB teacher asked us that we all find found an individual project that we were all passionate about. He chose to do a carnival night just so students can relax and have fun and for seniors it was it's like a way to make memories at the year end. Everyone is invited if any of you board members would like to come and enjoy it with us. February the 13th and it's right after school from 3.15 to 6.30. As many of you know we have the bell guard cup which is our friendly rivalry between Paul Horvath High School and Watsonville High School. That is between our football team and has been going on for more than 10 years. On the other hand our soccer team gets very excluded and we wanted to incorporate them them this more year. So we're creating the Central Coast Classic that is going to be on January 28th from 6.45 to 8.45. It will start a friendly rivalry with Watsonville High soccer team and Ellis High School which have been rivals for quite some time now but it's not a formal thing until now. Watsonville High will be providing a trophy that will be competed for years to come and we also make this a blackout game similar to what we do with the bell guard cup and students who are black and gold get to go in the game for free so as many students as possible can enjoy. As February comes we get our Royal Hearts week which is our Valentine's Day themed week at Watsonville High just to have fun with all the students. It will go from February 11th to the 14th because there's no school on February the 10th. This year's theme is a punny valentine the days are you color my world are you a smarty or a tough cookie we make a great pair and I heart you now and later. Each day like the first one is like stop light day which you are red if you're taken pink if it's complicated white if you're single etc. That's just one example of the days. Our dance is on February the 14th and it's going to be at the vets all this year because we do have construction going on and our facilities are being taken up right now so we're going to have to use that and good thing it's close to us. The theme of the dance is going to be head over boots for you so like every student is welcome to bring their botans because we're in Habanda. Also this upcoming month is mock trial month well like for people in mock trial as we as we like to see it. We have been practicing since September and for anyone who doesn't know what mock trial is it's a program where students get to get a case provided by a program and they get assigned different roles from attorneys to witnesses to expert witnesses and they get to portray these roles and compete against other schools and they get to win prizes. Last year I was a witness and this year I get to be an attorney. It's very excited and a great opportunity to learn very helpful skills such as public speaking. I would also like to mention that our cafeteria remodeling has started and we hope that it is going very well because today we got more fencing and drilling yay. It was only this much disruptive during our class time but it's fine we're gonna get into your cafeteria. I would also like to mention that we still have no heat and we would very much appreciate it if this got moved to a priority because our mornings are like 50 something degrees and we do have we did get little space heaters but they are not enough for classrooms or to heat them up in the time that we get there in the morning and like it's very cold in the morning so I'm having to go to school in like five layers and I don't think this is there should be a thing that should be happening especially considering we live in California which should be warmer but that's another like global warming side no but I just hope that it gets moved up in the priority. Thank you for your time. Thank you Omar. I just want to let you know that I have received those emails and Dr. Michelle Rodriguez knows them about them well so we're working on it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any more of the high schools? Renaissance? New school? Okay all right since there's no more high schools we are now I'm sorry going to 5.1 approval of the December and 4.1 approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? I would like to make a motion to approve the agenda. Is there a second? But wait I'm not done. Sorry. I would also like to move up. Item 9.1 to go after item 8.1 since we have so many families here and I know our colleague would appreciate that too. I'll second that motion. So go ahead and get a vote on that. Do we want to move it before public comment? I'd be fine with that. Then I'll okay I'm ending my motion and seconding the new one. Okay what are the meetings? So we're going ahead and move 8.1 and 9.1 before public comment. Is that what it was? For 6.1 visitor non-agenda items. So can I get a motion for that? Okay and the second can I go ahead and get a vote? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion passed. So 5.1 approval of the December 11th 2019 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Move approval. Second. I will call for a vote. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. So now it looks like 5.2. Approval to December 18th board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Move approval. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? All right here we go. Next up we have item 9.1 which is to approve the Pajora Valley Youth Soccer League joint facility use where Port Robe presented by Maria. Board trust Maria and Joe Dominguez CBO. I thought we were doing 8.1 first just 9.1 okay sorry thank you. Yeah I mean you want to go ahead and I'll just jump in. With your permission? Yeah of course. Michael Jones thank you. President Dodge, members of the board, Superintendent Rodriguez and district staff thank you for this opportunity to share with you our proposal for a project to improve the playing field at Freedom School. I am Michael Jones former Allianza principal and here tonight is a member of the Watsonville Rotary and part of the Pajora Valley Sports Foundation. Joining me are Liliana Diaz PV United board director and local attorney. Gina Castaneda juvenile probation officer and founder and director of Aztecas Youth Soccer Academy. Jordan Thorpe realtor and Aztecas Youth Soccer Academy advisory board member. Jennifer Watson soccer mom and of today realtor of the year and member of the Aptos Tide Soccer Club. My fellow members of the Watsonville Rotary attorney local attorney Tom House and realtor John Skinner and I don't know if Gustavo Indoros is here tonight yep Gustavo Indoros who is from the PV community health trust and Francisco Estrada also from the PV community health trust from the Watsonville City Council and a member of Watsonville Rotary. Now we will go on to next slide. Good evening board members and PV USD staff. My name is Gina Castaneda and three years ago I was asked to present at the Watsonville Rotary Club and a couple of the questions that I had asked of me is how many soccer teams are in this community. There are currently 64 adult soccer teams in this community. There are four competitive clubs two that have recreational programs and approximately 21 competitive teams I mean 41 competitive teams and as you can see out here in the audience these are competitive players for PV United under the umbrella of Pajaro Valley Youth Soccer Club. I was also asked what the biggest problem was in the community that I saw as a juvenile probation officer and also as a local coach and I said that there was not enough safe spaces or fields for children to play on. Roland Hedgepeth also presented and he also answered with the same answers on a different date. One of the needs of the community is to have safe spaces for kids in our community. There's currently 184 youth that are on probation in Santa Cruz County. Sadly there are 107 youth from the 95076 zip code. That's 58% of the kids that are on probation. They are from our school district. By creating safe spaces you create opportunities for youth for engagement. By participating in sports specifically soccer and I know this as a volunteer coach kids get mentorship natural supports a pro-social activity structured and supervised supervision they're taught life skills by our volunteer coaches and they have a support network. We need more sports activities and safe spaces for our youth. We need to meet the social emotional needs of the kids that we serve not only in our school systems but also on the soccer field. Our executive committee as you just met we've been working on this project for over two years. We also met with many stakeholders from the community including the city council, board of trustees, people from the community, businesses and other people that are concerned with the same concerns that we have. Our objective is to create more soccer fields so that our youth have opportunities to be able to participate in safe spaces and also engage in pro-social activities. These are partnerships. We are currently in partnership with Freedom Elementary School, PVUSD, Pajaro Valley Youth Soccer Club and Pajaro Valley United and we represent the Pajaro Valley Youth Sports Foundation. We are here because we want to create and build more safe spaces for kids to have pro-social opportunities in the community. We are wanting to start with Freedom Elementary School is the first start for this committee and we want you as you can see out here you know joining us today and thank you for moving us up on the agenda. We serve over 800 kids that attend your school district. Good evening trustees. My name is Liliana Diaz and I'm here as representative of PV United Youth Soccer Club. Um as you can see this field this slide outlines our use of the Freedom Elementary School field both projected as well as historic. We have been using the Freedom Elementary School soccer field for over 10 years and can sum up the slide by stating that our need this community's need far exceeds what the field can provide. However it is a great resource and we look forward to working with the district to improving it as a start to more projects similar to that. As a non-school affiliated soccer league PV United offers recreational and competitive programs for youth ages four to eight years old. Our recreational program caters to demand and has two to three seasons a year um two to three seasons per year and each season winter fall and spring caters to anywhere from 100 to 300 students per season. Our competitive program that Gina referred to is um also run year round and has 21 competitive teams currently ranging from ages eight to 19 years old. They play and practice year round. I stated in my initial introduction our need far exceeds what this project will offer but this project is a step in the right direction and it will help alleviate some of the scheduling issues our club has had as well as um some of the issues that our teams have experienced in offering more services to our youth. We look forward to using this opportunity to expand, grow and offer more of our student athletes meaningful experiences. By increasing our resources PV United look is looking forward to being able to offer more opportunities to our local youth. This picture depicts one of our nationally ranked premier girl soccer team that consists of girls born in the year 2003 currently sophomores and juniors attending your local high schools. At an international tournament in Barcelona Spain in 2018 they brought home the championship that year. Last year the same team went to an international tournament in France and brought home third place. This year we look forward to sending another team to an international tournament and with additional resources we hope to improve and offer similar opportunities to other teams in our club. Finally and this is my final slide but we have more to come. I do want to say that we do pride ourselves in maintaining and offering a safe program for our youth. As an organization we take our role as guardians and mentors of athletes very seriously and I believe our track record speaks for itself. Our league has been using the freedom elementary school field as I said for over 10 years as good stewards for practices and when field conditions have allowed for it even for games. Our coaches are volunteers that work in and around this community. They have gone through rigorous training to become licensed in addition to subjecting themselves through justice department fingerprinting clearance or life scan as I know that your staff and volunteers are also required to do and as part of their coaching credentials are required to every two years do an additional background check through the United States Soccer Federation. They are required to do concussion training as well as safety or abuse training to maintain their credentials as licensed coaches for our club. Safety training is critical to our program and we take it very seriously. Thank you. Thank you for having us. My name is Jennifer Watson. I'm here to talk about how well connected as a group we are. We've already as you can see have quite a few connections with in kind partnerships and the PV United Soccer Club has already pledged $25,000 from its non-endowed funds at the community foundation Sand Cruz County to get us started for our fundraising. We also have a list of local public and private donors to contact once we get the green light to fundraise. We've had a number of community members willing to help and provide locations for our fundraising and we've encountered phenomenal support with those we've discussed it with already so we just need you to say yes. Hey everybody my name is Tom House and as I've said we've been doing this for a long time and it's nice to get to a point where we can make something happen. This is a picture of the Freedom Elementary School field that we proposed to use that was taken with a drone in December of this year. As you can see in the middle of the field the water puddles it doesn't run off and drain properly and then the field gets played on and it gets all crumpled up and then it gets invaded by gophers and it doesn't always have a good plain surface and we're proposing to change that. It also doesn't have any separate parking for the people that come to use the field. Pardon me I just want to interrupt you for one moment and let you know that we're at 10 minutes so we'll have to. Okay I will make it quicker. Can we go to the next slide please? Oh okay so we're going to put in a full-size soccer field that can double as two use-side soccer fields going sideways plus a separate use soccer field plus the little blue Pee Wee field in the back so anywhere from three to four fields at a time a complete new sod read readjust the sprinklers put nets along the side so the balls don't go into the mobile home park and we're going to put a conduit underneath to put utilities and infrastructure in case we could ever get lights placed in there in the future and maybe scoreboards and PA systems and things like that. And then on the right side up there that's a brand new parking lot that is the big ticket item about $63,000 so that there will be extra parking for the school and parking for the people that come to play on these fields. Next slide. So everything we're going to do is listed on this slide I won't say it all the bottom line cost is somewhere between $170,000 and $220,000 might be a little more than that because our bids didn't include the little Pee Wee field that we were encouraged to take on at the last minute and so we're taking that on too. So lease agreement highlights include the proposed lease agreement it has an agreement between the PVSD and PV United as the tenant this agreement is not a sale the land will continue to be owned by the PVSD this agreement provides a PV United will be allowed to use the fields it's a collaboration between PV United Watchville Rotary Foundation and the district in exchange for no use fees PV United will prepare the field for soccer for supplies line the fields and maintain the premises in safe condition PV United agrees to perform normal maintenance such as watering and mowing PVSD will provide water and related equipment and will pay for sewer water and electricity service PV United will reimburse the district for their share of the electricity service PV United will pay for other utilities for trash disposal after their use and portable restroom service and we will maintain appropriate insurance the term of this lease agreement has worked out with Mr. Dominguez shall be 10 years with two five-year options for you to please support our youth and our community we also have nine kids that are participating in the Olympic Development Program at the highest level of the nation right now and if we have any of those kids I just want to acknowledge them if you could please stand up I know we had at least one of them here but we have nine and if we can continue to create opportunities for our kids to be able to achieve and beat LSL and do all the things that we've been talking about tonight we really appreciate your support thank you very much I'm John Skinner I've been asked to answer your questions but if you'll excuse me for just a minute thank you all for showing up your kids are remarkably well behaved are there any questions before we get to that point we're going to see if there's any public speakers to this okay so it doesn't look like the next we have any discussion from the board I do want to add something to the presentation if I may so in order to ensure we received input from the freedom elementary school community including parents and students I did direct staff to organize a town hall meeting which was held November 5th at this meeting the community voted to move forward with this project and bring it to the board tonight and there were no no votes so everyone agreed to bring this item forward to to the board tonight and I just want to say that as a board of trustee for this school I recognize the dire need for parks and open space for youth and families to convene especially in the freedom freedom airport area when we look at other city council districts there's their parks district three has no parks there's no open space whatsoever um so through this partnership I hope we can improve the existing fields at freedom elementary school but also support the health and wellness of our students and families by expanding community access to our facilities so tonight I am asking the rest of our board members to jump on board with me um and move this item along so that we can kick off the remodel of our field and give more access to our youth thank you thank you anybody else okay I I'm gonna make a motion and we can discuss afterwards if you want to okay before the before the motion I I think we still have uh trustee I'll second yeah as a board trustee for area six I do want to make a motion to approve this item tonight I'll second it yeah not make a motion second not you're right you should do it will that go ahead and take a roll call I did have a comment no comments we can do comments still left okay uh to separate did you want to say something oh okay we're all over the place I know we're all over the place I just want to say um thank you very much for all the hard work that you guys have done for our youth and I know that this is something that is so desperately needed in our area and that children really need open spaces safe places to play and adult mentors that they can look up to and trust um especially those experiencing problems at home I know that this is a great outlet for them to gain confidence um to gain mentorship and to improve themselves oh thank you and I wholeheartedly support it I echo um trustee shocker this is such an amazing effort I want to thank everybody who's a part of it including all of the different groups who have come together to support this as you know our budgets run very lean and we appreciate your partnership and enhancing the fields there and I will support this thank you yeah I guess I can just say thank you to the Rotary Club too Michael Jones just real quick no I'm just and for all of you that are here all of you young people that have come here tonight with us you know spending your nights instead of home here with us thank you for coming good to see you all um and it's I think it's an incredible job that you're doing for our district in terms of for example improving the field um and it's and I I know Gina Costa and I know you I know all the work she does as well you know which is great thank you so just real quickly thank you Rotary the health trust uh and I saw someone here who along who a long time ago told me dodge we need more fields he's standing in the back but I don't want to say his name but um you know I'm glad to be part thank you all the trustees and thank you for all the organizations for putting us together thank you so with that can we take a vote all in favor hi the objections and passes all right item 8.1 is that 8.1 okay 8.1 what's the old what's the old pow presentation um report will be by trustee or yeah is caress the Angelo here caress that okay and Carmen Pichardo are you here too if you can make your way in the front somehow thank you okay do you just want us to jump right in with all this yeah it's kind of loud but yeah let me yell no I'm just kidding um so I'm my name is caress to Angelo this is Carmen Pichardo and we were we're here on behalf of watteville pal and we just kind of wanted to come and just give you some insight into what we have been doing what pal's been everything we've been doing since 1998 so our non-profits started in 1998 primarily as a boxing program as a what a boxing program oh okay yeah okay it's hard to hear you as a boxing boxing program I got that part oh no you can go you can go yeah just talk loud talk loud talk loud no it's okay they're excited I'm excited for you guys you should be cheering so yes we started um we established our 501 3C in 1998 and primarily as a boxing program down in the 100 block of Rodriguez and since then um we've evolved our programming to now how be housed at two sites so we're in the north uh part of town off of davis avenue um off of freedom boulevard and then we still have kind of our south um location which this is one right here and we kind of put a slideshow together just to eclectically show you guys what we do and the people that we affect throughout a year um so this is just going to be going while we cruise through some stats for you guys um so we have a site like I said the 100 block of Rodriguez where we started and so now we're trying to sprawl out and kind of really try to serve uh multiple locations throughout Watsonville and one of the things that we have discovered is that transportation is a huge issue for the demographic that we are trying to serve so a lot of the programming that we provide the community is either completely free or really low in payment just to cover the costs of equipment and maintenance fees um so when we provide services you know we really are reliant on transportation and so we partner with the city of Watsonville which we are fortunate enough that we are in possession of three vans which allows us to go out into the community and pick up kids and bring them to our site we currently with the two sites we operate um in some capacities seven days a week right now we have a staff of about 15 young individuals in our um in our division and we really try to hone in on what the needs are of the demographic of Watsonville we serve as young as five and we go up to 18 so you can imagine the array of programs that we have to a bring to the table and want to bring to the table so we can captivate kids at such a young age and get them in our door provide that positive mentorship just kind of what they were leaning on the leadership the positive mentorship a safe place for these kids to come and be a part of um so when we go out and promote our programming we really start with a program and these kids tend to build relationships with our staff and with fellow peers that they may not interact with on a day-to-day basis in their school environment which then allows them to want to never leave our centers which is a blessing because we want them to be with us and be around that positive um mentorship that we can provide for them so we do like I said seven days a week and we last year served and on an annual basis typically serve between 400 and 500 youth throughout Watsonville so and with that we multiply each youth participation by at minimally five to six hours a week so you can imagine how that just kind of grows and expands and allows them to have that safe space and some where to go and belong to um we with our staff not only provide recreation but we also give them life experience we really try to strive to give them an opportunity to see the world outside of the neighborhood that they think is the world that they belong to so we really take them and push them and take them to local communities we go to colleges and we travel quite a distance at times to give them these experiences to allow them to be a part of the world we want them to to contribute to as they get older uh yeah and so Carmen here is going to speak on behalf of a program that we very closely work with our police department we are the police activities league so we do have officers that come and frequent our centers and we really try to bridge that gap and give an opportunity for our youth to see law enforcement as just a caring adult in our community that wants to make sure that it's a safe space for not only them but their families at large and so we have them come in and they volunteer we have multiple people on our board that um gives back um throughout the year and we really try to stress their interaction with our youth on a consistent basis again a lot of them tend to come in in plain clothes so it becomes a hey this is just another adult that wants to be a part of what we do and then the kids are mind blown when they realize that they actually have a badge and a gun you know so it definitely allows that barrier to be broken within our community and it allows the trust with our youth with law enforcement so I'll let Carmen uh take the mic and talk specifically about the diversion program that has been implemented in our community for quite some time hello good evening um please forgive my stutter I'm not very good at this um but I do I am one aspect of the diversion program that we have here in the city of Watsonville um the name is Camino Salexito it did start um a couple years back I'm not entirely sure I wasn't here for the beginning but I am definitely here now um so this diversion program serves first time offending youth who offend within the city of Watsonville so that could even be Santa Cruz youth who are um sighted or arrested within our city limits they get turned over to this program instead of going to probation it is a completely voluntary program so the youth sit in with a program coordinator that we have along with their parents and they discuss all the benefits of this program and the parent and the youth have the decision to make whether or not they would like to participate in this program or go through the probation um the program consists of a case manager who manages the youth checks in school grades um they also assign a number of volunteer hours and pro-social hours um I manage the pro-social aspect so I guess I get to do all the fun things with the youth and it's you know to my benefit sometimes as well um because they get to do fun stuff so um throughout the year we have a number of programs and we kind of as Cresta said take these youth out of the bubble that they consider their limits right a lot of the kids who I have come in contact with have you know had a handful of kids who had never eaten out of Denny's and for me that was kind of like outlandish because it's a normal thing for me and my family every Sunday morning right we want to go out to eat um but for them it's a first time experience so I get to take them out of that their bubble of Watsonville and we get to go to Alcatraz and they get to you know do the walkthrough with the headphones on and ask all these questions art museums um we've done uh uh what is it called zip lining we also do a camp hammer event where we invite all those kids to participate and they kind of mesh with our general population kids um so yeah that's our Camino's program and it is a great program and I think that's all yeah thank you so I just want to emphasize one of the things that we are trying to do and have done um in the years past and up to today actually as like Jennifer said we recently met with fitness for life we're really into trying to hit our community hard when it comes to trying to impact our kids and I'm a firm believer in why try to invent the you know reinvent the wheel when other people out there are doing things they may have some limitations within their organized organizational structure um so we're constantly reaching out to other organizations we've partnered with like Digital Nest we've gone to youth now um now we're starting this conversation with fitness for life we are currently um on one of the middle school campuses here in town uh Rolling Hills and we're there twice a week and we're trying to expand just again the exposure of kids to a our organization be to the mentorship that our staff bring to the table and giving them an opportunity to know that there's more out there than you know what they may think is available because I have found with working with youth and I've done this for over about 15 years now um born and raised here as well I know it's a lot of word in a mouth and kind of trusting where you're going and who you're sending your kids to so um we definitely are trying to reach the kids and and we really want to spark more conversation with campuses and just let them know that we are a resource and giving kids an opportunity to meet us and see the quality of service that we can provide outside of maybe what the schools are providing or what other organizations are providing we do enrichment classes we do life skills we have martial art programs I mean we have kind of an array of things and the other thing we pride ourselves on is really listening to the kids and giving them an opportunity to have a voice in what we develop as we look at programming from season to season so really what we're doing now a lot of what we do in our centers and after school comes from the mouths of the kids that ultimately we're competing with other things in their life so we want to make sure we're kind of on the cutting edge of what we're providing them so that's kind of us in a nutshell um we're willing to take on any questions if you guys have any for us or feedback I just wanted to add a comment into there before everyone asks questions so we know that our district is underfunded right and we know that we need after school programs so that is why I asked um pal to come here today because they have some resources that they can help provide us with and possibly have a partnership with our district to take some of the pressure off of us and still provide great things for the kids in our community yeah so are there any public speakers to the discussion item any questions comments from the board trustee and maybe this is um geared to um the superintendent or the secondary assistant superintendent do when we have kids that are having behavioral problems can before we end up expelling them from the district are those can we refer to the caminos program and do we and how often and maybe that's a question for ricky do to me there we go so we do actually refer out uh we'd have a school success project with probation as well also jenna castaneda which was here earlier runs a soccer league in addition to so we do some of those wraparound services and referrals already could there be increased partnership with it absolutely there's always opportunities in ways that we are looking to to engage more and we actually to speak on that as well so we um do have a caught an open kind of relationship with student services and so they do um have direct a direct referral aligned to us for kids that the counselors feel would benefit from an agency like ours so we've gone in and done a few presentations with that specific group and let them know that they do have access to us and kind of what capacity out that we can take them out because we obviously don't we don't on staff have like certified counselors but we do work closely with counseling services and through the caminos program we have another program that city funded through our youth development uh division with parks and rec that they're getting up and going which is also a case management counseling service program where referrals can be directed to and we're starting that process like now we just wrote our first referral today so um we definitely have that access so we definitely are in communication with on-site counselors and really try to like kind of push that information onto the town to that group so anything else on question um so the services you offer are you around correct they may vary from season to season um just obviously weather conditions but there are we do have some staple programs uh our website um has a live calendar that has everything we're doing and as we evolve it's posted we do use our social media platform we have a facebook page and instagram and we're constantly on there and we try to shoot it out to all the other um social media platforms that target kind of the parent and youth population in town and really kind of push that information out as best we can and have that try to be as live as possible because we are changing but yes we are year around um our centers are open year around the one time we really close is kind of around christmas time you know but other than that we're pretty wide open would you be able to work outside of the centers we do so we do take kids um two other locations like for instance um we lacked kind of that academic support so we were taking kids to like youth now just as an example so we were going there um we constantly take kids again two sites local you know beaches stuff like that um art programs um our funding is we have a wide range of funding that comes through through private grants through our non-profit grant entity we have a leadership program that we're developing that's kind of been um in play for the past few years that allows us some some flexibility with what we can offer but yes we do strive to like get them and connect them to not only us but to other agencies and other kind of business oriented youth development kind of programs in this area we've gone to like Santa Cruz and stuff diversity center art studios stuff like that so I think the reason I ask Michelle and this is probably directed to you is um the um to recover absences for weekends I think um I don't know what your schedule would allow but I think it would be a great way to get kids more involved especially when it comes to the enrichment opportunities that you offer definitely um or even first of students who um do not attend summer school have this be an option for them as far as you know depending what type of services or programs you're offering over the summer parameters there for sure yeah so I think that's those two ways where I can think we may be able to collaborate if definitely it's open to it yeah I'm open to a discussion and we can have that discussion some other time but I think um it'll be interesting to be able to work with them especially on the uh recovering absences and with being at different areas of town too that might you know increase the their ability to even get them to get to those locations themselves right so because I know a lot of them they don't have the transportation or be the parent support to be able to get to and from that could be a deterrent not necessary to get to school but you know to kind of do that recovery on their own time they may have some restrictions but that is definitely a conversation we can have offline sure great thank you yeah that's what I was gonna say about the weekends so I mean our you know I don't know how we can put it out to more of our students about the fact that they could benefit either on a Saturday and or Sunday because it looks like you're doing 70s a week right um and yeah we should figure out a way like Maria was saying to cooperate with you folks in terms of providing students access well maybe even attendance stuff but access to know that you know that's a you know two knows their options of you know what they have to do out there on on a Saturday and attendance wise too but I'm just saying in a Sunday as well um I don't know there seems to be a way we could connect with you guys more for those kinds of things I mean and you know after school is important too you know for children to know that they have you know other kinds of after school opportunities for them as well thanks all right thank you very much for that presentation thank you for your time over the long week now we're back to item 6.1 public comment and do we have public comment yes we do um our first speaker is bill beecher good evening board uh superintendent uh Rodriguez dr. Rodriguez um I'm here I'm here to talk about the public speaking time that used to be the policy that uh the public was given three minutes to speak somewhere somehow I got changed to I don't know that the board ever voted on that or whether it was just a fiat and then it occurred the county office of education offers three almost all districts offer three now I also recognize you want to get out of here on a reasonable time so I would suggest that you try something like this because well let me stop there's different kinds of speakers that come before the board I've been coming here for 12 years I've seen a lot of them a lot of them just want to get up and say something and support something and move on there are other people who want a little bit more time because they have to explain themselves then there's a few idiots like me who want to get up and do a presentation so I think what would serve the public well is if you adopted a policy where if you have less than four speakers to an item you allow three minutes if you have less than seven speakers and greater than three that you would do two minutes and if you have more than seven when we fill this room and you have all these people that want to speak you're down to one minute so tear it based on the kind of people that are going to come in front of you now on nine six I'm going to talk to you and I'm going to have to break my presentation in half and come back in another time because your time limit doesn't allow me to finish a very important subject now EA Hall and soccer you had a wonderful presentation about soccer and freedom EA Hall is also working on providing soccer fields at that facility and there have been quite a few meetings I think you've missed a few of them you should attend them thank you next we have Melissa Dennis hello I've been coming to the board meetings for the last few months to advocate for clean water after the discovery of chromium six in the water at a lony but I just received excellent news yesterday Ruth Gonzalez Joe Dominguez and Richard Reed visited our school and announced that we will be installing reverse osmosis at our school site I was relieved not I was relieved not to worry about the water that my students will be drinking and I'm just so happy that we're going to be drinking the best water so thank you my very next thought was I don't have to go to the board meetings anymore but then I decided that I should come anyway because I wanted to say thank you to Ruth to Joe to Richard especially to Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez and to our board of trustees representative Karen Osmondson and anyone else who worked on this who I didn't mention thank you Kimberly Dessurpa thank you Jennifer anyway I didn't know the behind the scenes stuff that went on but thank you to all of you it really means a lot to us there were lots of cheers lots of happiness lots of hugs lots of water drinking going on yesterday because we already got the first reverse osmosis installed in the staff room just because that was the easiest one for them to be able to do so work is being done we've heard hammers and drills and and all kinds of construction going on and work is being done for the first fill station that should be coming soon so we're all really excited um just wanted to say your actions speak volumes we appreciate it thank you you won't be seeing me at the next board meeting um but we look forward to seeing you on your next visit to Eloni um well done next is David Petino yeah it's already up that's how fast it happens good evening board members and Dr. Rodriguez it's always wonderful to see you all um I'd like to just run through quickly a few ideas and a few thoughts I'm having I'm a 10-year teacher in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District I'm very passionate about CTE education um I was hoping soon to have an update on the Renaissance High School Wood Shop it's been closed for 1.5 years at this time most likely it'll be close for the remainder of the year two full years a great disservice to the community and the students of RHS I'd heard from the site that there's some movement on the project but I've yet to hear a date and a time when the facility will be open I believe after $100,000 of LCAP money the facility should be able to be open sooner we should have a open on date next year the year after two years from now three years I mean that's what project management is all about is projecting these costs and when they can finally be realized community business owners approach me all the time to provide them with skilled workforce and um my answer is it's impossible without working shop classrooms so it would be great if we could get this open and bolster our community's offerings and get our students jobs and employed my passion is for students to be educated to the best of my ability and this is the time of year that many students at Watsonville High School are completing capstone projects this requires many extra hours and ensures and this requirement is a an important graduation requirement that's outside my scope of teaching on a daily basis I will support student learning and student learning outcomes through the after school process meeting these goals becomes impossible when we are working to rule so I would like to leave you with this thought I would like us not to reach the point in the year um where we do reach work to rule I would like us to come to some type of amicable solution before the students are impacted because that's what's really most important to me thank you for your time thank you next we have Stacy Anderson good evening everybody so I was just doing some research and at the last board meeting Michelle was really concerned about you know making sure we don't lose our funding for the special for Selva for our federal funding and so I was looking into it and I found the legislative analysis report the most recent one and it says from 97 to 98 it was 1 in 600 kids were diagnosed with autism and now it's 1 in 50 and this is a huge obviously it's a huge increase um but I have some current concerns about putting a lot of our kids in the Selva program and integrating them into the gen ed just out of fear of losing funding um so I have some questions and I just take them down um how many of our students are on wait lists to be assessed and what how are we going to address this backlog I know that we are understaffed and we're not get we're actually we're not getting funded correctly because these kids are not being identified um what are we doing about that and how can we expedite it how many kids have clinical diagnoses of autism that are in the school district but the school district is not dealing them educationally autistic and how do you account for them because they will still need social and emotional health and supports so you still kind of need to account for them even though they may not be educationally autistic but they're still going to need supports extra supports um okay miss Rodriguez I know you're concerned about losing the extra funding we have a huge amount of autism in our community how is a district looking to address this has anybody contacted the CDC the news and let them know about our huge cost and lack of funding and under identification because we don't have this extra supports what are we doing about getting the extra help how are we going to get that any more public comment okay next up item seven and play organization comments 7.1 pvft good evening board good evening doctor Rodriguez um I'm Nellie back at a bogs president of pvft um happy new year all right so um really great evening so far uh we definitely make it possible for our students to be part of community organizations and um a really big piece in that are the adults that are there that are available and then in our daily educational lives the important piece is are the educators that are working directly with our students um so pvft we are all in as well we're all in it for the equity of our students we're in it for the safety um safe working environments and learning environments we're all in for a sustainable workload and we are all in for our educators retention here in our district so that they can grow their roots in this community um so when we are going into another semester or actually I would say a third semester of negotiations over a contract that we um sunshined almost a year ago last February it's there's a failure there's there's a failure in this process and if we're going to be all in every day for our students why are we keeping the educators out so I'm hoping that we can get something settled that you are able to look at how we're prioritizing our funding and allocating and where our funds are allocated so that we can offer something to our educators that is not an insult and that is not contingent on us increasing the ADA we're happy to go to the table we're happy to go and eagerly like in earnest negotiate we could spend several days on it but we don't want to spend many more months on it we are approaching the um state testing window we have LPAT coming up we have and it's it's eventually we're going to go into um April which is our state testing window we don't not want to pull our negotiations team out of their classrooms so that we can sit across the table and listen to oh we just can't help you out or we're not really moving there's nothing feasible being offered so we have made movement PVFT has made movement on what we're asking for and the things that we're all in for we have put them into the language that we are that's that's our ask we want to secure those the um sustainable workload we want to secure that safe working and learning environment for our students by having lower class sizes and caps for special ed that would be very that would be beneficial um so i'm asking that our trustees make an impression on the district and um on behalf of PVFT and our community our students that we would love to be able to close this this year this before the school year is over before spring break that we can come to um i'll come do an agreement thank you next up 7.2 oh i'm sorry we have a public speaker for 7.1 bill Beecher good evening again um for 12 years i've watched this negotiation sunrise sunset um it's been messy there's one thing that i've seen that's been missing through all of it there's never any talk about how are we going to improve our academic performance and that just froths me i hear teachers want money we want better benefits but what about how are we going to teach better now there are some structural issues that we have which i learned from our COB um we have about a 10 turnover of teachers yearly we have a problem and you go part of that problem is we have some teachers that are struggling as teachers i would like to see part of the negotiation include a resolution that both parties the district and PVFT work jointly to identify those struggling teachers and provide some kind of help to improve their performance because if their performance improves by golly i think our students will improve and we need that so i don't think it's too late to include that sort of thing in the negotiation thank you for your time thank you very much agenda item 7.2 CACA any representatives from CACA 7.3 power of value association of managers anybody 7.4 CWA communication of workers okay so now sliding down 8.2 data sharing MOU with the Santa Cruz County of Education report will be presented by Dr. Ferris about superintendent school Santa Cruz County office of education thank you so much okay good evening president dodge members of the board superintendent Rodriguez it's really a pleasure to be here tonight to talk to you about an initiative that i believe was going to be something that is going to be very helpful for our students across accounting i'd like to share with you this controller a little bit about the current data landscape and a proposal to be able to create a countywide data system that would allow us to track students and keep information to better provide services to them from birth until through a crew through their career the current data landscape is very fragmented students that come to us at kindergarten at kindergarten roundup we have very little information about them before they come to us and in fact most of that information is gathered through the conversation that we have with parents and in some cases of course if they they've attended our preschools and we would have some information but a lot of times that information is incomplete when we look at a student that moves across districts or when we look at students who have had any kind of interruption to their to their schooling there could be a fragmentation to the information that we have about the services that they've received and the needs that they have there's currently a effort by the governor to create a birth through career data system that would better track the information about the students and their needs but that's something that's going to take very a long long time in fact the governor only set aside ten million dollars for the whole state and we think that that's going to be inadequate and not not result in in a system that will be usable any in the foreseeable future currently there's about 20 counties across the state that are implementing countywide data system that would collect information not only from one district not only from one source for multiple sources in a centralized mechanism the fragmentation of the data is could be reflected in this image just of these different silos that exist and the different kinds of information that exists in these different silos the zero to five world is separated from the k-12 world and in some cases separated from the post-secondary world we have these different databases and your staff our staff have access to these different pieces of information but they're usually gathered separately and there is a time constraint a limitation of us being able to make that information usable and so it takes a lot of staff time to be able to answer questions that link information for students for example of how well they're doing the third grade and where whether they enter college complete college for example and so having a single system that connects all of these silos into a single structure is what we're proposing i'd like to share with you that we already share a lot of data and a lot of different people are involved in supporting students we all want to wrap our students with support and part of that ability to provide support is to be able to share information with each other you'll see that in this example of all these different different circles when we have a multi-disciplinary team meeting for example which many many many times happens in pbsd you'll have different agencies represented talking about the needs of students and information is shared between these different agencies when it comes to working with county services for example behavioral health services information is communicated when there is a student who has high acuity needs and and there's information communicated between the counselor to to the county to make sure that those services take place when a student goes into on an inter-district transfer information is shared students who are participating in regional programs such as with the county office of education again information is shared we share information with the state through cal pads and of course you have memorandums of understanding sharing information with all your your software providers so when you're using your student information system whether it's you're using illuminate or or or the new information system synergy you have you actually have memorandums of understanding with them to make sure that that data is not goes that they have access to it but they don't share with anybody else privacy is probably the single most important concern when we come to a school district and ask for their support in being able to share information and and and it is absolutely important to us we want to make sure that whatever solution we're talking about we're protecting the privacy of our students and that we're not in any way risking that that information is getting out these data sharing agreements between agencies ensure that whoever in this case the county office of education is is holding to the same standards whether it's FERPA or or HIPAA or any other of the of the requirements that protects your privacy it's basically a trusted agency that is ensuring the protection of that information now we currently have a project going on with with first five and it's called the gateway program with the gateway program when a child is is born parents are contacted and they receive a lot of information about about services that are available to them they were launching a program with community bridges um i'm sorry which i'm forgetting the name of the program but it's a it's a uh a program that allows for students to get a a bank account for college and um i'm sorry semigitas that's the name of the program thank you buckle yes and so um through that program we're also asking parents if they would like us if they will allow us to be able to to collect information about them about their children to be able to provide these additional services and this program is starting um we're starting this program actually next month and we're excited because every single student and born in santa cruz county is going to be receiving these additional services and is going to be participating and making this informed consent this idea of cradle to career birth to career data sharing is not a new idea and it's it's happening all over the state and it's something that i think is important for us to have because we'd be able to better understand the needs of our students and be better be able to provide services to them now the district can choose different ways of participating in this program you have currently data sharing agreements with these different uh software providers for example that make sure that again the protection of information is kept school districts in some cases uh choose to have an opt-in approach for parents to opt into uh this kind of data sharing or an opt-out approach and that is something that the different districts have uh have taken on differently what we're proposing is a countywide cradle to career system that would unify the different silos the data silos that exist and on top of that we would have dashboards and reporting that would allow you to answer key questions that would link that information let's say understanding which are the which are the preschool programs that are having the best impact on reading low reading scores in the third grade or which are the kinds of programs and services that are are going to provide the best services for students to be successful in graduation or going on to college or being successful in college this connection this data landscape would be unified in a single system and that's what we're proposing the benefits of this is that having a single information system would allow us to be able to better serve students we would have better information about an individual students and we would have better information about our groups of students we would have localized custom customized dashboards so you would be able to your staff would be able to develop your own dashboards the login of the system would be pvusd's any information that's being shared would be controlled by the board and by the superintendent it would result in better improved decision making it not only helps understanding the need of an individual student because you would have a wider range of information about an individual student and that means better services for that student but it would also mean you would have a wider range of information about groups of students which would allow for better decision making about understanding patterns and trends of our students so we're talking about dashboards giving you analytics about groups of students your staff would be able to click and find lists of students and from that be able to look at and learn about the needs of individual students and services that we're providing to them so the county office of education partnered with the Santa Clara county office of education they have a system called data zone and we went through a process to find the best system that was going to provide the best services for students the system exists now in over 36 districts in Santa Clara county and several districts in San Mateo county it's housed at the Santa Clara county office of education and there is a cost a cost of between three and four dollars for the implementation of that system now the data privacy agreements have already been in place for a long time they've been reviewed by by several law firms in different school districts and and have been and there hasn't been at this point in any kind of questioning of those of the quality or the or the the protections for parents to have about their about their the privacy what we're proposing is to be able to make an implementation oh my gosh all right we would cover the cost for the implementation this year next and you would consider in 2021 2022 picking up the cost of implementation so the county office of education would basically seed the program funding for the for this year next and then you would have the the decision if you'd want to continue picking up the cost for the future we would hope this year to secure a data sharing agreement we provided a copy in your backup we would set up the connection to those data sources and and all this these costs are are covered and then we would provide some training and on the system next year and people this is not to replace your student information system this is in addition to your student information system but it would have that wider amount of information than what you currently have and it would allow you for I believe that the amount the kinds of questions you'd be able to answer are going to be very powerful and I think they would over time you would have a very rich amount of information that would allow different service providers that you decide who you want to share information with would be able to provide better services and you would get better information to make decisions to help you with the decisions that you have to make every day do you have any questions before we get there are there any public speakers to this discussion okay any questions comments from the board trustee shock so you mentioned I know that I've gotten questions from parents before about the privacy of information sharing and there were some problems early I should say late last year with certain school districts sharing private information with the press that went out and I would support something like this but I think it would be really important for parents to be able to like you said opt in or out of sharing their data about their children I know that parents have expressed concerns that they're feeling their feelings of their children being tracked or feelings of things not being secure so I would really want to know more about their data encryption and the process that they are doing to really keep all of these records so echoing it on the privacy because I've heard it's definitely you know it's a concern for a lot of people did I hear you mentioned that there was a forum or I didn't quite catch that forum for for parents or was there some kind of community outreach or is that that no that but that could be something that we could organize if that's something that you would like to to for us to be able to help provide right just there's some way that you know some kind of a community outreach so that there is communication about how privacy is protected thank you question trustee de Serpa thank you second time I've seen this presentation so so you talk about that it's it's useful and you talk about services but that is very abstract like the general person watching this on TV and community TV is not going to know what that means and I'm actually unsure also okay because we're pretty good at data in our district already we know what the issues are pretty seriously we have teachers that get released time to talk about the kids that are already in trouble that we can see or that need some remediation or need extra help so can you clearly explain like the need for that might we have the need and how it's going to help the districts and the students so I think that's a great question so the first the first thing I'd like to point out is that whenever you have a question about understanding for example how many of our students who took an AP math class how well they did in college for example or so for example let's let's go with that example so a student took the calculus class and we wanted to see how well the students in calculus did at cabrio college when they transferred over to get that question at this point you probably couldn't get that answer because we don't have a lot of information being shared between the cabrio college and and the k-12 system some cases there is there there are some some information is shared where this without any student identifiable information the cabrio college is wanting to partner with us on this and so we would be able to answer questions like that that can't be answered right now because we'd be able to share information with cabrio college to better understand the connection between k-12 and cabrio for example the amount of when you ask a question of staff they have to pull information from these different data sources and they have to reconcile that information so if they if if they're using the clearinghouse data to find out where students ended up they have to get that information from clearinghouse they have to pull the information from the high school and they have to try to get those connections between those to understand how this one student and their experience led to their success or lack of success going to college that extra work would be solved because there would be a single system that would connect all of those systems in one place so you wouldn't it would take a lot less work on staff to be able to generate that kind of information and in some cases like with example of cabrio college you would have new information that you don't have access to at this point so imagine just from a from a data point of view understanding if you're wanting to understand the need of a specific student and imagine if all you had more information about the kinds of services and the kinds of experiences that student have for example if they had special needs that were identified when they were two years old and being able to have that information because when they come into a kindergarten and how useful that would be for you to have that information in real time for your students now with with special education that some of that information already exists but there's other kinds of information other kinds of services let's say the student had some reading challenges and required some additional support that they needed you would have that information upon enrollment in kindergarten so the kinds of things that we would be able to do understanding the needs of students earlier on and later and being able to collect all that information in one place would allow for a better understanding of the needs of students and I could give you other examples of what that would look like I guess if we knew some of these things what would be different about targeting resources to certain groups is that what the districts could potentially do and could you give an example of that well so so the cabrio college let's say we recognize that students who participate in the AP classes are not as successful in going to in their math classes at cabrio college as students who participate in the math academy for example and you'd be able to recognize that the math academy is a more successful program at preparing students for their success at the community college that would give you some very meaningful data that you could then say let's expand this program or let's take a look at our AP classes and find out why they're not having the same results just letting you know that we're at our five minute discussion yeah I guess um I guess you know data is a tool like any other tool in my own experience in my family I had a kid who got who passed every AP class he ever went through and is now not successful in college because I feel like he was worked so hard in such a rigorous program that he burned out and not doing well so I think sometimes those markers those successes are not um are not sometimes good indicators so I don't know I think it's a complicated issue and I'm hoping that too I'm offering a solution that I think would would help simplify that the information that you would have to make decisions about that okay thank you thank you first and thank you for representing waltz about the county are we voting on this are we voting on this or not okay so next up agenda thank you thank you uh agenda item 9.2 resolution of support of schools and local communities funding act of 2020 sorry 8.3 cte program update presentation report be presented by julie edwards I am not julie edwards but I will be presenting with julie edwards uh good evening uh board of trustees president dodge dr. Rodriguez a few exciting pieces to be going on with our cte program that we wanted to make sure that we brought forward today uh to really show you the momentum that's happened uh and some of the next steps that we have going on and uh give julie a crack at being able to speak with all of you guys too in regards to the positive work that's been happening so in a few pieces that have occurred so in the transition period from county office cte to pv usd we really looked at three major elements we looked at exploring what the 12 elements of really high quality cte programming would be those are actually right in front of you as well so the board received a reference guide this evening in the second page it actually identifies all of those high-end quality pieces that we're looking for it runs over 12 elements and 92 different criteria I'm going to explain a few of those pieces and what the results are of what we've seen so far in assessing the programs also look at really envisioning and going through the grant writing process gave us an opportunity to relook at the labor market demands gave us an opportunity to relook at what the state has approved for other districts as well and really what the trends of cte have been to give us our best shot and our best opportunities to be able to solidify grant funding through the state the other piece that we worked diligently on since that time period was to really engage and look at what are the focus areas that we need to go to very similar to what we would have done with a curriculum program if this was any other content area a little bit more diverse because of the number of classes and pathways that we have but no more important than to actually kind of dig a little deeper and say are we hitting those high quality factors how do we know that how are we measuring that and then really looking at what are the new learnings around that that we may have access to within our own network and then outside of that network so this is actually referencing within that first page of your reference guide we know you're not going to read this all this evening but definitely an opportunity for you to be able to see all of the groundwork that goes into really performing and doing high quality programs in that piece it breaks down by standard what each one of those 12 elements are and then the 92 criteria that fall underneath each of them you guys have heard me present on PBIS before this is very similar in nature so what you're seeing is when we talk about those tiered fidelity inventories of looking at those 15 factors underneath tier one and so on this is identical to that what it really do is what it really does is mirror what are those levels of support that you need to run a high quality program the data that you're seeing up here is our first survey this is a year-long survey that we basically will be going back out to our staff to ask we had a tremendous amount of support from our CTE teachers so what we do is we look at the perception of those teaching the courses we also do walk-throughs and observations we also work with a partnership group that goes through with us and looks at the scope and sequence so when I refer to that scope and sequence it's looking at a pathway we need at least two of those classes together to be a pathway we're searching really to make sure that the high quality piece would be three classes so you'd have an introduction course you'd have a concentration course and then a capstone course so that's really what the the district is moving forward with in terms of that high quality need that we have and really assessing do we have that currently and what should the scope and sequence look like so this is a combination of factors the pieces in blue which we're going to speak to again this evening is going to be the pieces that we've identified that between the teacher survey the walk-through analysis and observations and the assessment of really looking at what those labor market demands are and where we may be a little soft on training or professional development these are the areas that we're going after not really a new concept we've actually gone back to anchoring the six key strategies have changed that we've used in other elements we've used this in the equity audit as well to help frame the work but it really takes a look at when you're doing project management how do you kind of chunk off that elephant piece to get us to a place of saying let's go for those high priority pieces first that we can all agree to and then move forward from there and how are we articulating that and communicating that to the teachers our stakeholders the business partnerships that we need what we looked at is those six key factors there the first two are in alignment with what we're doing across the district so when we talk about looking at standards aligned curriculum what curriculum was being used is it standards aligned is it highly rigorous the other piece that we look at is engaging instruction are we capturing the attention of our students is it a course that they want to take is it viable that we're going to have repeated courses that when you take your first intro class you're going to want to come back and take your second class so those two pieces are not unique just to see t they're things that we're doing across the board with all of our classes the other pieces which one is is very much so self-evident which is the facilities the technology the infrastructure that we need to run high quality programs and julie will speak a little bit about that with the signature pathways um work-based learning experience so this is where the industry meets our kids what are the what are the internships look like for our kids how do we partner them with kaiser if they're in the medical industry how do we partner them with driscoll's if we're going into ag so it's those building of the partnerships really and that interface that they will have with their first experience with industry that said in order to get to that work-based learning we have to have the connection of the business and community partnerships so that also is an area of focus that we've identified by going through these pieces and then the last one is really looking at and we were full of acronyms and education so it's uh the ctsos which is probably the most infamous that you guys may recognize is ffa um skills usa uh business america uh these pieces really look at uh for lack of better terms i'll reference them as what they've referred to in the past as soft skills but we're finding more and more students that don't really have those going into our our industry those soft skills include how to make decisions how you communicate effectively with other adults um what that looks like to have integrity when you're in a position so some of the things in conversations that we sometime leave leave out of the education piece on ct is really bolstered by looking at what ctsos positions can we put our folks into and really get our kids a sense of those soft skills that they need to be productive not just the skill base in the technical aspect but really a well-rounded student that's able to go into an industry and be successful immediately and i'm going to pass it off to julie so that she can give you a little bit more about how we're going to get there and how we're going to get it done thank you chris it's really fun to be here tonight and i'm excited the last time that i spoke with you was many months ago right when we were getting started after we transitioned our program um back to the district so i first want to um bring your attention to the next slide which is about funding and i just have the little like i like to have the light aspect with funding matters and these are it does matter for cte cte is a a program that um is rich in resources some consumables some infrastructure resources and so it's a program that we need to pay attention to um very closely from a financial standpoint excuse me um recently i've worked with andrea willey our amazing grant writer and our industry partners and collaborators to finish two large grants and i've i've told chris that writing those two grants over the six or eight weeks that it took was the best professional development for me as the new cte coordinator that i could there's no conference where i could have learned what i learned in that process both about our program and the needs and our teachers and what they need but also um first and foremost our kids so i want to just share with you just real quick um the acronym at the top there is cte and that stands for career technical education incentive grant state of california has committed a huge amount of money to an ongoing source for cte funding we um the prior year the 18 19 year we applied and were awarded $279,000 and then this year we submitted our application andrea and i drove it up to the department of ed where i've never been and it was like going to the mountain um but there was a huge cte display in the lobby and i felt like i was super validating to see that i took a picture of the person accepting the grant from us because i wanted proof that they got it um anyway we applied for that and we've been casually notified that we've been um recommended for $493,000 not quite what we asked for but darn close super excited and we will be in the future down there you'll see we're applying for the next round of cte ag actually next month so before the end of this school year we'll know what for sure what we got for this year and what's for next year so we'll have a nice big chunk of money to start doing all of this work um k-12 strong workforce is another state program that is the one that is highly highly connected to the community college so in partnership with cabrio we um did we proposed um $777,000 in work that will support curriculum and instruction that helps to link to cabrio as well as um measures that we can put in place for post-secondary success um that was the focus of our strong workforce application we are also in partnership with etr um for an nsf national science foundation grant which i'm sure you're probably familiar with this is year two we were awarded $90,000 over three years it's a focus on cyber security also linking with cabrio college and we have a state-of-the-art classroom at pv high now we have really exciting things happening in the fall with that pathway and a really um we're going to be having a a parent night on february 5th for our parents to understand the different um options that their kids have within the information and communication technology arena to help their students make a decision about whether they're going to pursue computer networking or programming because we're going to have both pathways at pv high um and then perkins is the money that we get based on a formula that is that is federal money and it's formulaic in terms of the number of students that complete cte pathways and a variety of other factors this last year our allocation was $153,000 uh $54,000 um and then pardon me four minutes okay i'll hurry um so ctig will go on we've been told for approximately another eight to 10 years we will apply each year and we we show progress as we go and that and then we show the areas of need and that's how we um identify what we ask for funding um lcap the lcap which we're all very familiar with is another source of funding for cte programs and um as i mentioned subsequent year ctig and strong workforce strong workforce will persist as well and then additional perkins through the years so um very quickly and this other handout that you had with the the reference guide that you were um provided this is a um a final draft of a quote unquote one pager it's actually a two pager because it's got a back side and it's a one-sheeter yes it's one-sheeter okay very good and this is kind of in a nutshell what the signature pathway reflects and again it's a final draft it's still gonna be passed under the noses of some more people before it's finalized but it is basically if you recall last spring the schools were asked to identify a pathway based on um student interest and labor market demand and relevancy to our community and each comprehensive high school and renaissance high came up with an area of focus so the front talks about the generalities around signature pathways and the back of this sheet has a column for each of the signature pathways so the first one you'll see is sustainable agriculture and it's in orange on the left and there's a lot of detail about it which i'm not going to go into happy to answer questions anytime but i wanted to share with you that the the granular details around signature pathways are on the back but before i jump into signature pathways i'm going to go back a step and just say that we are working with new school our community day school on programming their students are attending classes at digital nest every friday they are remodeling their kitchen and anticipate doing some culinary cte exploration and they are also working with an organization that has to do with installing mosaics in watsonville so students are going to be learning some of the craft of the art and craft of mosaic installation and we're evaluating the facility for additional cte exploratory experiences in addition our cte counselor sandy solis is is visiting new school to help do some of the naviance curriculum instruction there and support the students there that way renaissance high school their signature pathway is in development they are it's highly likely it will be visual and commercial art if that doesn't gel then it will likely be sustainable agriculture we're working on that facility as well and working closely with the end of the principle on getting that rolled out so that it's it's going to happen in the fall next watsonville high you can see again the details on the the one-sheeter but the core sequence is for a sustainable agriculture is freshman biology leads to sustainable ag ag chem and then ag systems and then a dual enrolled course with cabrio college and we're looking at articulation which is where students earn concurrent credit if they earn a b or better in the course so they are then able to earn the cabrio credits as well as well whereas dual enrolled is a potentially a cabrio instructor on campus teaching during the school day or at cabrio college and the students are actually earning college credit so i don't want to take up the time but just go back one slide really quick i want to yeah i show you something so when i speak to high schoolers and i ask them what how can i change education your high school to fit you they often say to me let me learn what i want to learn right so this is a version of that so i want you to focus on the ninth and tenth grade really quick they have to take biology per well they have to take two years of lab they don't have to take biology but generally they take biology and chemistry what this allows them to do is to say i want to go into sustainable ag i have to take biology anyways so instead of regular biology i'm going to take sustainable ag a biological approach or instead of taking chemistry because i have to take chemistry no matter what i'm going to take agricultural chemistry so the the beauty of cte pathways is not just the fact that my electives become these classes but it's also that my core classes are directed towards my passion's interest in talents so i just wanted to highlight that exactly thank you and on the back you can see toward the bottom you can see the college majors that connect to the signature pathways as well as some occupations just a sampling there's a million occupations but so then at pv high that's a bright green um there are 90 students right now at pv high that have already started the signature pathway and they're in what's called it essentials which is an articulated career course next year they will this is what i referred to the parent night where parents are actually going to have the choice of helping their student decide between networking or programming the signature pathway is programming but networking is going to be offered as a dual enrolled course on campus during the school day which is really exciting and then an advanced programming class in 11th grade and then dual enrollment options beyond um in the computer science pathway connection at cabrio and then lastly aptos high their biotechnology pathway will um have its inaugural year this coming fall and the core sequence there is similar to what dr rodriguez said for sustainable ag in that biology is the technology of biology chemistry is applied chemistry and bio yeah applied chemistry and biochemistry a science and ethics of biotech which is articulated and and then a dual enrollment course after that um this is a uh a set of courses that were written um through an initiative through the uc called ucci university of california curriculum institutes a very high end intentional cte pathway that um is a very well respected sort of series and we were able to get cabrio to approve it for articulation which is really cool so out of the gate it's like checking all the boxes it's also being scheduled after lunch so that students from other campuses can access this course which is another aspect of signature pathways that we are working toward for all the signatures so the idea is that kids can move between campuses once we deal with some logistical things around schedules etc but transportation is in place um we're already experimenting with dual enrollment at aptos high and buses are going to start taking kids to aptos high for medical terminology next week and kids from aptos high down to watsonville to take graphic an advanced graphic design class so we're um working with transportation and they've been just awesome so yeah i should be quiet now okay okay thank you um are there any public speakers to this discussion item any questions or comments from the board trustee did you want to so um do we have any i mean there's i see the biotechnology pathway is there another one for other medical careers um there are so these are the signatures right and then there are many other pathways and there is a patient care pathway at both watsonville high and pv high okay and kids from aptos because there used to be the classes at aptos so those are have gone away now or that class that class the teacher retired last year and biotech was the next priority okay so there's a shortage of nurses nationwide and doctors um 50 percent of our doctors are being trained outside of the united states now um dominican hospital has the oldest bargain contract for nurses in the nation they were the very first bargained contract and i am also very proudly represented by sciu it's a great career path to go into nursing because you start out at 60 an hour if you're a brand new nurse at dominican so i really would like to see a better more robust pathway for the medical profession and i know you meant to say partner with dignity health and not with Kaiser right how about all medical providers in santa cruz county anyway that's what i have to say and i'm very pleased with the work that you're doing and you're so excited about it and passionate and i can't wait to see all the wonderful things that happen for the kids in this community thank you thank you for your support trustee home yeah i was really pleased to see that ethics was a component of you know particularly with the the biotech program and how do we foster those critical thinking skills like and the soft skills that you touched on but like how you know how are you seeing those in some of the other programs through the career curriculum component this ethical decision making is something that or just decision making in general it's a life skill obviously is something that is covered through the i would say gently through the noviance adoption as well as heavily in our social studies programs in high school so yeah in health as well a couple of other pieces so one of the areas that you saw in that 12 elevated factors was looking at ctsos so a huge piece of that missing link in what we've notified and looked at through our teachers as well as us is that those organizations robust ffas because that's something that's been traditional and been going on but there are other areas that we can explore and look at which would not be selective to a specific signature but actually attract multiple pathways whether it's signature a lot so signature or not similar to skills us a those pieces that doesn't matter which pathway you're in it's giving you those additional skills base as well runs a little bit more like club base if you will but the gravity of when you get leverage and pathways is that kids flock to those two because they identify with other kids that are in pathways to you so that will be another area that we look at to to make sure that we have focus on trustee rusko thank you so i had one comment and then i'll follow up with my questions i'm i'm really happy you included new school and renaissance and so my question is is the goal is for these schools also to have pathways a mirror that in our three comprehensive high schools so the goal is for renaissance to have a full-fledged pathway that leads to it new school is a little bit different so when you're running a community day school the the goal is really not to one keep our kids there so we're trying to actually move our kids back what we do find is that with renaissance they have a little bit more robust ability to be able to hold a pathway and we have kids that spend a little longer out there with credit recovery the goal really is though as you can see with some of those pieces whether it's visual and commercial whether it's ag that actually would lead back and offer our kids an opportunity to still be a part of the pathways at watsonville high still could be a pathway at pv high so that if they choose to move back to one of the comprehensive schools that has that program as well they wouldn't also lose traction or ground what you're seeing and what what julie referenced with new school and she uh if you heard or articulated it was that exploration piece what we're really trying to do is get kids excited they do have a very strong movement with their civics piece but really it's the place of going we want to be able to move our kids back to our comprehensive whenever possible so it really is not a designed program to keep kids there for a multiple year pathway piece and my other question is um i mean it is a goal to have every student in the district be college and career ready upon graduation so i'm assuming that the courses on uh at least for the three comprehensive high schools i'm assuming those courses are you see a through g approved everything everything is at mo at aptos high they're all a through g pv high i believe they are as well watsonville there might be a couple that are being applied for but the goal is to have a hundred percent a through g in the cte courses right thank you and then my last question is um do uh students and will students be walking um out with certifications from any of these pathways yes they will different different levels and with the computing program they they achieve certain levels that lead them toward certification as they go along the way some of them they'll walk away with something in their hand as the back of that one sheet or breaks down some of the options that we currently have that that are going forward but absolutely with the intent to make sure that our kids are certified and have a usable piece when they leave us that's wonderful thank you trustee schacher microphone i know you mentioned the very beginning about creating you're trying to create more community partnerships to move forward with the cte what are we doing to create those partnerships and what can we help you with to create those partnerships we're we are working with your future is our business is our partner that is helping with that piece all of our teachers are meant to be connected with an industry partner themselves and so we're a teacher doesn't have a partnership your future is our business is helping and then we're we're networking um what can you do to help i would love to talk with you more about that because we need we need that support that is the critical piece the linkage between the um theoretical hands-on practice and skill attainment and the community and workplace experiences so yeah another area and i'll i'll just kind of throw that out there as well as we will be bringing a board policy piece forward as well it actually looks at training so right now our training and our board policy reflects really in-house training because that's what we've done in the past but this actually requires us to to hook up our teachers with industry partners which means they'll need to train off-site and off-district facilities at times so you we you will see that come through as well so we'd appreciate your support when that comes through that will help definitely students will actually go out i don't know if they're in culinary they might go out to some some big huge hotel where they do some fancy culinary and whatever i don't know or or um egg i mean obviously we have drizzle but i mean um but there's other so there's ways that we connect out there we go out there with these students to these places where they can connect i mean i don't know with graphic artists or whatever i don't know um in in out there in the community that they will go yeah so that is uh the other focus area that you saw up there which was that work-based learning experience a specific model that we've had in place at the district in connection with the city was somewhere in the city that's very mirroring of us connecting the dots between our kids those internships and really getting that quality experience with different uh different industries depending on what that looks like but that absolutely is the intent of work-based experiences that they'll have direct contact with partners um and essentially you now have a certification when you leave us and and it is not uncommon for kids to receive job offers after the fact either when you have a full flourished pathway i would think so yeah i would think so that's good just one quick question i mean we're talking about between cabrillo and aptos high school like how is that going to work are they going to take like the metro bus system or is there buses um it's our transportation yeah our buses yeah our buses are going there yeah thank you yeah thank you very much thank you guys resolution nine point i mean night agenda item nine point two resolution 19-20-25 support of schools and local committees funding act of 2020 and it says report will be made by mariel rusko yes and i would actually like to ask nellie to come up in case you have something else to add so um this resolution is in support of the california schools and local communities funding act of 2020 um so just a little bit of what this initiative would do if it were to pass come november it will reclaim over 12 billion per year for k through 12 schools community colleges and local communities it closes a commercial property tax loopholes and in shady schemes of big corporations and wealthy investors used to avoid paying their fair share of property taxes it protects all homeowners and renters by maintaining tax protections for all residential property it invests in educating all of our kids and in the vital services necessary to support our families and communities it provides one of the largest tax incentives in a in a generation to spur new investment in small businesses and it levels the playing field for all the all the businesses that already pay their fair share and lastly it ensures a strict accountability so that money goes directly towards students and communities um so this resolution before you um supports all of that and so tonight nellie and i and everyone else involved because there's been so many stakeholders involved in in getting this uh measure part of the ballot this november would like to ask for the board to move this forward i know if there's anything else you would like to add thank you um and then tonight i also um was able to attend a portion of the csa chapter meeting and their area rep was there as well to speak in support of schools and communities first so i know that csa members are also on board because i mean it makes sense it makes absolute sense to fund our schools and to also um fund our communities because it's not it's kind of like a big wrap around uh service boost um financial service boost for our communities and our schools so thank you for for accepting this resolution and presenting it and just one last thing that trusty shocker wants me to emphasize is that it's uh there will be no property no changes to property taxes for homeowners yeah and there is going to be a lot of money invested by you know the big you know large uh well very wealthy people uh who are gonna put in a lot of money to mislead to mislead misinform the voting constituents so um no it's not going to affect your property taxes it's not going to affect renters um it is going to hold these major majorly wealthy people who can afford it to actually pay their fair share and their property taxes and one last thing because i remember this from our discussion was um um we live in an area where agriculture is a big part of our community so this does not apply to ag land no it does not this um so ag is is um is safe from that they won't be affected and um and then there's incentives that will hopefully happen from this and that would be that some of these wealthy people who have um properties that have maybe just been sitting there might incentivize them to build and to create housing so any public speakers to this item any more discussion from the board uh trustee home did you want to say one i enthusiastically support this it's i i've had you know many conversations over the past few years with our state legislate state legislators and just how we need avenues for increasing our funding to our schools there's more needed of course but this is a step in the right direction and we desperately need to take it can i get a motion i would like to make a motion to approve this resolution was there a second second second can i go ahead and get a vote all in favor hi all opposed motion passes thank you thank you thank you thank you so um just to add or just emphasize i would really love to see pvft pvft pvusd's board of trustees sign the online um form of the online on the website the schools and communities um first and just to show that support and so your name is on the website that would be wonderful and if we brought the resolution this actually an action item that we're all committing to so you're gonna do it so we have to thank you exactly we're gonna do it okay so uh agenda item 9.3 approve resolution dash 19 19 dash 20 dash 23 acknowledging national school week report will be presented well join us not here but we've tried twice now so i have the pleasure and honor of moving forward with this resolution in front of you this evening um as you know national school counseling week is coming up february 3rd through the 7th in front of you is a resolution a couple of highlights in that resolution whereas school counselors are actively committed to helping our students explore their abilities strengths interest and talents as these traits relate to career awareness and development also whereas our school counselors seek to identify and utilize those community resources that enhance and complement our comprehensive school counseling programs and help students become productive members of society um we can't say enough how much our counselors have helped move forward our students health uh and really the dynamic piece that they play in the social emotional supports that we have for our kids um it is staff's recommendation this evening that we approve the resolution and proclamation that february 3rd through the 7th would be national school counselors week in recognition thank you any public speakers to the item any discussion from the board no we're happy to do it can i have a motion i'll make a motion i can have a second i'll second all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next up on agenda item 9.4 approved resolution number 19-20-22 support of black history month black history oops you gotta turn it on it's gotta be turned on and she'll have you turn it on too good evening president dodge board of trustees and dr um rodriguez thank you i know i'm a little taller right i have the privilege of presenting resolution 1920-22 acknowledging black history month i will be reading highlights from this resolution whereas paharo valley unified school district recognizes that black history month is the opportunity to promote and foster cultural relevance for in our schools and enrich the educational experiences of our students to deepen their understanding of the different perspectives of american history whereas paharo valley unified school district recognizes the significant contributions and considerable advances that african americans have made and continue to make in our community state and the world in such areas as education medicine art culture public service economics development politics human and human rights we see the greatness of america and those who have risen above injustice and enriched our society whereas paharo valley unified school district encourages pv usd educators to celebrate honor and study the contributions of the african americans throughout the year and to include the lived experiences every month therefore be it resolved that the paharo valley board of trustees acknowledges that february 2020 as black history month and recognizes the significance of black history month as an important time to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of african americans in this nation's history therefore be it resolved that paharo valley board of trustees encourages the continued celebration of this month to provide an opportunity for all members of the district to learn more about the past and better understand the experiences that have shaped the the nation and the world past and adopted this 22 22nd day of january 2020 by following vote there you go thank you assistant superintendent kasey um any public speakers to this item any discussion from the board um can i get a motion oh i was just going to say you know i mean you just have to recognize how much for example african americans have done in in regards to human rights justice and human rights which you know i'm going to talk about but but not only him so many african americans and still today are so fighting so hard for you know justice and human rights for for all of us i would say thank you very much is there a motion make a motion second second um no no call for a vote all in favor hi hi hi all opposed motion passes thank you very much next up agenda item 9.5 2018 19 out of report report will be presented by joe the cba all right good evening uh president dodge jr and members of the board superintendent dr michelle rodriguez uh attached in your item you have and uh the audit report and if you can turn to my favorite pages page 103 104 105 and 106 and all our financial documents for pvsd our auditor has no findings so that's my favorite part of the report uh and uh with that being said we're going to do a short little summary of how we got there and uh helen will introduce our auditor mr good evening president dodge board members dr rodriguez um it's my pleasure to present joe eskibar eskibar from our audit firm uh i'd bailey uh formally btd um and we spent with them probably from early spring last year till um december 15th working on the audit with them and they've you know they've asked us to pull documents to um have them review and they do an intensive review and um i'm very proud that we were able to do it with no findings so i don't want to present okay sure um thank you board um thank you dr rodriguez for allowing me to present for you today um really the our audit opinion uh can be summarized uh in our four different letters we have four letters one is the positive opinion the other three are negative opinions providing assurance and the fact that we did not find any uh how many findings um those are related to state compliance uh internal controls and federal compliance whereas the positive assurance states that the financial statements are fairly and reasonably stated in all material respects and that the opinion is unmodified any public speakers to this item yes bill beechard good evening again um last fall uh i came before the board and went through an issue we found with the citizens oversight committee and funds that were transferred out of one account on measure l to another account back in 2016 um over a million dollars was identified that's not chump change and so i sent a letter to these folks and asked them to look for any transfers out of measure l accounts from one to another i haven't received any response from them so tonight i asked did you look and what were the results if you did not why not and in the future assuming that you're our auditor next year will you do that in the upcoming audits if not what does it take for you to do that thank you thank you very much anywhere public speakers okay any discussion from the board trust me to separate question for um i don't know his name what is his name eskibar yeah eskibar mr eskibar i i did we did receive the letter uh we did not respond that is correct um actually the uh letter uh i spoke with helen in regards to it and um the contents actually what the request is is beyond the scope of our audit we're actually contracted by the board to perform um our audit within governmental audit standards and the specifics in which the letter we're pertaining to is um kind of like an inter transfer level um however the district is providing their own investigation in regards to that i believe okay so we'll look forward to that later but i had other questions for you um so you audit many districts how often is there a is there a no findings finding like how often does that happen um is that common or uncommon like i would say i've had auditors in front of me i've been on the board 11 years so i've had many auditors in front of me before so sure um the there's a fine a finding for paro um three years ago it's not in this report because it gets removed after prior year so you know every three years in that case um i'm not sure if there was any before that um i would probably i wouldn't throw an estimate but um i i would say it's it's more common that there are not findings um for the most part um but there are districts where we have um 15 findings you know uh some that are more troubled um whereas and so when you talk about the word finding because we have new board members here sure what does that mean exactly if you had a finding it's an irregularity or an area that needs remediation or what do you mean by a finding sure so a finding would require a response by this by the district management um which is that's disclosed in there as well um they're going to be related to it depends on what finding there could be a state compliance finding um there could be a federal uh uh compliance finding and there could be an internal control deficiency um uh or a financial statement um finding uh those are the the four categories of findings um a simple compliance finding with what a state could be the instructional time amount that the schools had um was not meeting the requirement by the state so it's something that should be corrected in some way yes yes uh yeah okay so congratulations Helen and joe no findings good job and that's a really long time to do an audit is that a normal time from the spring all the way to december um no i think this one was um just a little bit uh longer um we do our audits in three phases we have an initial planning phase the beginning of the year that's what we're doing right now uh then we have the interim phase we come in april may what have you and then final audit so it's broken up and we are not working on it the whole time it's just more intense periods of time maybe two weeks at a time two weeks at a time absolutely thank you for the questions can go ahead and get a motion move to approve kind of second second um take a take a vote all in favor hi all opposed motion passes thank you very much next up item 9.6 school accountability report cards report will be presented by disa gina assistant superintendent good evening board president dodge board of trustees and dr rod regus um in 1998 prop or in 1988 prop 98 was passed and this was supposed to give um schools a steady stream of funding and in return um all public schools then were required to annually prepare school accountability report cards called sarks and disseminate to the public um and what how this happens is that through a system called dock tracking system sarks are updated by the facilities department human resources department technology department the curriculum department and finance additionally information is uploaded directly from the state in regards to our state test scores majority of the information is from the current year 2019-20 but there are some um some parts of the information within the sark that is from previous years that is standard on all sarks for example expenditures per pupil and site teacher salaries are from 2017-18 types of services funded from 2018-19 school year cte programs and state test scores are also from the 2018-19 school year so now let's take a look at what's on the school accountability report card so there's different on the basic components of the sark about the school conditions of learning pupil outcomes parent student engagement and then there's some another category called other sark information so within the about the school it's the contact information the basic information about um who the site principal is what district that they belong to a narrative description of the school and the school mission statement the student enrollment broken down by demographics the conditions of learning and if you notice on the side we have it aligned to our l-cap so the l-cap is more recent the sark is very the um archaic document um we're looking at teacher credentials textbooks and instructional materials which was reported out earlier this year through our williams visit and then also school facilities which was reported earlier through our williams visit pupil outcomes this really is taking a look at the state test scores that students take the cast test scores the physical fitness test which is taken in grades five seven and nine and then our career technical education programs if this does apply to certain schools engagement looks at parental involvement and also um student student engagement so it takes a look at um school suspensions school attendance it looks at dropout and graduation rates for our high schools and then it also um the it takes a look at the different activities and opportunities that are available for students on the um school grounds the other information that is within the sark um looks at class size support staff so if there's any additional instructional associates if school counselors um these ratios are put in the support staff funding um advanced placement how many students are in advanced placement classes and then the professional development opportunities that are available for the um educators that are on the school site within the packet there are three there's an elementary a middle and a high school example i wanted to make sure that um we had a representation from across the district to look through um and within it and like i said the document itself i tried to research to find out when the last time the sark template itself had been updated and i could not find that information so since even since i was a site principal eight years ago it was the same information that you put in there each year and it is an accountability report card now um in our in today's um in today's era we really look at um this the data dashboard our school dashboard that contains a lot of information and our l-cap plan which goes it dives really deep into the different services that are available and then also the williams report is a very comprehensive report that goes through instructional materials um facilities and then to teacher credentialing any public speakers to this item yes mr bill beacher right here good evening again you're probably getting bored with me um several months ago i started tutoring a student at one of our local colleges she was a graduate of watsonville high school last year 4.0 average she's struggling in math and i got a chance firsthand to see what the issues were with her knowledge of math or lack so the aptos high school is what you're given in your package i've compared that to the state aptos i've saw me better than the state and that's not saying too much but if i look at watsonville high school and compared it to the state the state data says that over half our students should be getting f's in math in high school but they aren't because we're grading on the curve and we're telling our kids a lie and we're moving them forward without the proper foundation so there are possible causes for this we know that the students are entering high school significantly behind in math that's hard to triage when they get to high school the teachers aren't capable if they were why aren't we doing better and there's a pressure to gate on the to grade on the curve and not on to the standard and i made a presentation six years ago and showed hard data that it's only the math program where this exists so there are remedies improve elementary and middle school math this is being done i think a lot of the issues that we've seen over the last couple of years are showing we're making a difference and so as you feed those kids through the group high school math will get better but that's going to take a while we need to hire better math teachers but that's almost impossible because a math student coming out of college starting salary 60 grand average salary is 107 with a max of 165 you aren't going to get any math teachers and you should grade to the standard why because if you don't and you dumb it down you start to think you're actually doing well when in reality you aren't and when you look at the state data we suck so you need to put this on the agenda we've been kicking this football for too long let's have an open discussion on what the problems are and the remedies and i'll use a little quote you've all seen it continue to do the same thing and expecting different results is insanity from mr. Einstein thank you thank you very much any discussion from the board so with that i'll take questions before we i asked for approval to publish them on our district website and school site websites i know lisa that we have implemented some math changes um in our curriculum um we signed the partnership with con academy correct and we're also using um engage new york which is also known as bridges bridges but a lot of some of the teachers are doing the con academy programming the map accelerator thank you that's what i was looking for the map accelerator to help their students improve in math yes and um we're gonna have an upcoming presentation and we are seeing correlation between the classrooms that are using the map accelerator and our map growth scores and aside from those that data that we use we're aren't we in the middle schools we've implemented alex yes we have alex and are we having any any positive results from the implementation of those programs we are having positive results so we will be discussing map data soon we're actually our one cheaters about ready to come out um but we are seeing double digit growth um in multiple grade levels um and so we'll be speaking to the success that we're seeing all the way from second grade to sixth grade so um you'll be hearing about that when we release the scores okay there's a couple things and i it was thinking about it before and god i forgot what i was gonna say um one of the things i noticed is that um that's one thing that i can remember um is that often females do a lot better than males and in one place it was like huge you know how the difference between females i mean in terms of how they're doing a whole lot better than the males i don't know so i was just wondering you know and and and often they did a little bit better at least but i was just wondering so i don't know if we can we have to focus more on males or something i don't know about that but um we did take a look at that at the beginning of the year and it it is it was dependent wasn't even dependent it it varied from school site to school site whether it was the males or the females in which subject area it wasn't um anyone like the females always did better in the subject area okay okay so because i just noticed when i was looking at you know michael this you know that i was looking at through it and i thought whoa look at the females are doing it you know and obviously it wasn't you know i didn't see every school site but yeah okay i'm just checking can i get a motion make a motion was there a second second all right all in favor hi i'll opposed motion passes thank you thank you agenda item 9.7 is up next middle school science adoption recommendation the report will be by lisa uh good evening once again i i'm actually just up here to introduce our um science coordinator um you proved his uh the hiring of mr michael russo earlier this year and this is the first time he's um in front of the board and he's doing a fantastic job so he's going to go for it thank you lisa hi good evening uh evening board president dodge good evening board trustees good evening dr rodriguez uh i am well first of all thank you for approving my uh my hiring a couple months ago this first chance i got to thank you for that uh i'm really here on behalf of a dedicated group of middle school teachers uh which made up the science middle school science adoption committee and i'm here to share with you just a quick overview of what that process was like and the recommendation to share with you uh that they made at the end of that process so just to give you an overview of the kind of timeline that happened and i wasn't here at the beginning when a lot of this happened so a lot of this credit goes to my predecessor rob hoffman and uh uh jessica sukeless who was is our k8 tosa and science coach who really took over the process in rob's absence and before i came on in september but what they started to do was in spring a little less than a year ago was they uh selected middle school teachers who would participate in the pilot uh they did textbook screenings and they came up with two n gss aligned uh curricula that they decided to pilot in over the summer they had four days of training with publishers and also n gss training as well and this fall a group of 16 teachers piloted the two curriculum we also jessica and i before she went out on maternity leave we did classroom observations one of the most exciting things we did in this process as well for me coming on new in september was doing student interviews and asking their opinions about the textbooks that they were being exposed to in their classroom i'll tell you just a little bit more about that in a minute and then also in the fall after the first cycle so eight of the 16 teachers they piloted in their classroom for one month one of the textbooks and then they came back to an analysis and evaluation of that reflected on uh their piloting of that and then they swapped in the next month they used the other textbooks and on november 21st all of them came together did their final evaluation and reflection and called it decision day they actually voted on which one best serve their students and in their opinion was most user friendly for them as teachers and so we're here tonight to share that recommendation with you in the hopes that we can implement that new adoption this fall so the two texts that they piloted was one was amplify which comes out of uc berkeley lauren's hall of science and the other is tci which is an acronym for teachers curriculum institute both of those are n gss aligned i thought that might happen i was trying to see the size of this podium from back there and all right so just to uh let you know the scope of who was involved in this process we had nine schools participate right so we had our six middle schools and the junior high school along with mar vista which is k through six valencia and then alianza as well also participated so that's where the nine schools come from uh that represents over 500 students in those 16 teachers classrooms and jessica and i actually interviewed uh 71 uh did we did 71 students that we interviewed and what we would do is when we would go in and observe and just watch the teacher and the students interacting with the new text that they were using uh we pulled after a couple minutes of observing we pulled groups of three students and we asked them questions like how does this text motivate you right how does it support your language development anything else you want to tell us about the text and then about five six weeks later when their teacher switched to the next text the second cycle we pulled the same exact students and we asked them the same exact questions and it was so exciting because it just confirms what we all know that students are in love learning right and when they're engaged so um and i'll tell you the results of those interviews in a minute okay just to give you a quick sense of some of the tools we used we used uh an ngss align protocol called time it stands for the toolkit for instructional materials evaluation it's a pretty intense process um the first one up there on the left is our district lens and so that was developed after looking at assessment that and seeing what the needs of our students were and the ones highlighted on there are uh any prioritizing curricula that focused on student talk and discourse multiculturalism and bilingual resources so those were some of the priorities we were looking at the tool on the lower left it's uh looking at student learning and how effective is the curriculum in supporting that and then the tool on the right is looking at how the curriculum supports the teacher in order to help the students learn so you'll see like on the fourth one down uh support for students with the first learning needs or support to monitor student progress all right the moment we've been waiting for and uh the decision day you can see it was pretty unanimous um the dark blue represents the teachers who said i can strong i strongly agree with this program and can support it and almost 85 percent of teachers felt that about amplify the other remaining 15 or so percent said i can support this program and willing to go along with the choice none of the 16 teachers um strongly supported tci so i just want to say that uh the middle school science adoption committee recommends that you the board of trustees approve amplify as the new middle school science adoption beginning in the fall of this year and i'll just close by saying that uh ed reports they review curricula um and amplify got really high scores on being aligned to n gss 25 out of 26 points coherence in scope 49 out of 56 points and usability uh user friendliness for students and teachers 50 out of 54 points so i just want to uh on behalf of all those teachers and all our middle school teachers and students uh thank the board for your continued support oh the students yes that was okay by the way the students also prefer to amplify 58 percent to 42 percent for tci okay but um before that um were just any public speakers to this item okay any more discussion from the board we have a question sure so um how were students selected to participate as part of those yeah thank you they were selected by the teacher and we asked for a cross section of students so students of different academic abilities we asked for male and female students as well from each side so teachers kind of self selected the students and i'm assuming we had representation from our english learner population yes definitely that was also part of the criteria yeah uh and that we just we left it up to the teacher and told them that we were trying to get a good cross section of students yes thank you dita sirpa thank you so this was um the presentation about how we picked a curriculum i felt like it should have been under more of a curriculum heading than a middle school science heading because there's no like meat to this presentation about what is this curriculum so my question is is it articulated to ninth grade like how is it going to be shepherding this group of students to ninth grade and improve the success of kids going into the sciences yeah so i didn't have time i have notes here about i shared a little bit about the ed reports and how it amplified the recommended curricula got high scores on ed reports um so here's the other thing about the curriculum it's uh really a lines first of all it really promotes literacy with students this is just one unit right this one's about matter and energy in ecosystems it's all phenomena based which is what really um targets triggers students engagement from the very beginning and then one of the things that teachers really liked about it is it puts the student in the role of a scientist whether it's an ecologist uh whether it's an engineer uh it puts them in that role i remember in one of the student interviews uh i know what i was going to show you here there are 12 articles in the back of this just in this unit so it really promotes reading literacy student talk and engaging students so when we interviewed one student one group of students at rolling hills in particular they came out and they were studying about a fecal transplant and it was like oh it's called day 23 but we're only on day 12 and you can't believe what's happening and they had to play by guys uh kind of they had a doctor and try to figure out how the fecal transplant was helping this patient but the students were they were enthralled with it and engaged so there's just a couple of quick ways in which amplify will support one our science goals and vision and helping students succeed around language and literacy skills as well cross articulation yeah that's great yeah one other question i have is the coe is preparing some type of standard based curricula for science and how how does this fit into what is being prepared by coe so i i did want to mention that this is about the adoption we do have an entire presentation coming in in two weeks by by mr rooso that's going to go over the science however i um that the curriculum is not implemented in all of the school districts um that was actually inaccurate information that was given to you previously not for me i wasn't the one that said it um but um it was only santa cruz city schools who uh who purchased that it was not the other nine school districts in the county it was purchased by the second largest school district in the county which is santa cruz but um it was um many of the school districts have not um purchased their science curriculum yet yeah because he said that all 12 districts adopted no yeah i i looked into that and that was not accurate statement okay all right sorry i rescind that question thank you these soccer soccer did you have a question or i just wanted to uh clarify something um about this curriculum this curriculum is more of an interactive curriculum cracked with the students um like you said they're putting themselves in in places so it's a little bit different than the technical science curriculum that we grew up with that's right it is yeah and that's one of the uh powerful points about it and i think one of the things that attracted the teachers and the students as well it wasn't tci what they said was it was like old school science which just kind of they felt like they tried to dress it up but amplifies the real deal and a lot of the literature out there also expresses similar kind of reviews about it as well yeah thank you thank you maria trustee russ go i'm just ready to make a motion okay um have a motion and the climb second second um vote all in favor of died hi hi hi i'll oppose motion thank you thank you very much next up 9.8 approved the appointment of alianza teacher on a provisional in-ship permits good evening president dodge board of trustees dr. rudriguez um yes before you is a provisional intern permit for a teacher that we hired um for the second semester at alianza she is a watsonville high alum um she's finishing her program at ucsc and her major is spanish so it's really we got really lucky that we were able to find a b-clad teacher uh in the middle of the school year to help out alianza so i request approval of the pip any public speakers any discussion from the board can't get a motion making a motion to approve this teacher second second can i go ahead and get a vote on the motion on favor hi i'll oppose thank you motion passes all right next step 9.9 approved resolution 19-20-24 support of measure g which is now measure y so before we continue um it is 10.03 correct right so um i will like to make a motion to approve um to to go down later yeah to extend the meeting uh to 11.30 just in case we need that additional time second all in favor hi hi all opposed motion passes thank you um so i i'll go first and then you can you can speak um so the district um in 2014 when this was originally put forth um the district did support the measure um so as um you all know so i meet um i meet quarterly with um matt hafaker the city manager and we were having a conversation um about the measure and about the frankly the damage that would occur if they did not have the continued funding for measure g um and so this um resolution would support the former measure g now um measure y i wanted um i just wanted to note two different um additions um so you'll see that many organizations throughout the community are going to be um having very similar resolutions so i just wanted to highlight how i customized it and the reason why i felt that um we should um support it um and it's the the fifth down and it just said the paharo valley unified school district is dedicated to providing resources and services for the whole child and recognizes that the safety and security of our students impacts their learning and social emotional well-being um and so you know i think what was said about the um about the previous resolution about the money that our municipalities and our cities get actually also support the schools i feel this is true for that um we did have this resolution come forward to pvp s a and we were able to hear from um from captain redragus and he mentioned when he was a patrol when this first came out and the 10 homicides that kind of boosted this um and the differences of when he was a child in watsonville and people would you know throw out guns and knives out of their car as they'd be driving by and that now you just don't see any of that um and i don't want to steal your thunder because maybe you're going to say this but they they were able to add um seven new new officers which equates to 10 percent so there's only 70 officers they're able to um add seven which to me 10 percent is is a large amount um and then they were also able to offer other professionals that really allowed them to do task force work that had supported the community and the gentlemen are here to speak so paco will you be speaking first uh first yeah thank you uh good evening uh board president uh vice president uh board and the staff um my name is francisco strada i'm the representative for district four in the city of watsonville and i'm the chair for the measure why committee uh renewal committee i'm kurt boyvita presently a battalion chief for the city of watsonville fire department i sit on the oversight committee for the current measure that's in place the court has sent sales tax for measure g and i also am a committee member of the uh campaign of measure why and so we appreciate that you're considering uh are supporting measure why uh there's a lot of great things about measure why and i think the voters were wise to support it in 2014 we're hoping that they will give us a second opportunity to do so i think we've uh met the fiduciary uh responsibilities associated with managing this measure and uh the the stats speak for themselves total crimes are down nine percent in the city of watsonville crimes to individuals down 17 percent and crimes to property down 29 percent and one of the things that we are very very proud of is the fire academy for youth that we were able to launch this past year and uh you didn't steal our thunder um i believe they they've uh been able to add one more police officer making a total of eight through this funding uh the fire department's been able to add seven new uh firefighters to it it's also uh allowed us to uh replace some aging fleet uh with the current measure we we were able to buy uh two new fire engines and currently we just purchased a fire truck the truck is the one with the long ladder on it that goes up about 100 feet and helps protect the citizens also we're able with those those seven firefighters are crucial because they are uh where the boots hit the ground those seven firefighters are medics that's advanced life support that goes out on every rig we staff and that measures allowed that prior to measure g our fire department was looking at cuts we were looking at possible layoffs we we had equipment that was felling we borrowed equipment at times um so it's crucial moving forward with this uh with this measure y is a continuing continuation of the current measure that's in place it's not a new one it doesn't raise the taxes and it's a quarter cent sales tax for this for the city of washington the citizens of washington so with that with that said moving forward with with measure y the only difference uh from measure g to measure y there's a small amount eight percent that's going to go to parks and rec and that's for uh to reach out to our our high-risk youth programs in the in there so thank you for supporting it so in the motion just because i i know that there was some concern on clarity i did follow the template but um if you could um if we would be able to make the amendment to say support a former measure g slash a major y so that um it's just really apparent that you all know what you're voting on i'd like to make a motion to approve this resolution for measure y continuation of measure g a second discussion okay i just wanted to ask so i know i know you're doing a lot of well with parks and rec you're gonna add more youth programs but during in terms of you know homicides and all this i mean you did not only for police and fire but you did programs for the youth obviously and so just talk to us talked to me a little bit about all the stuff you did for young people too with that with the g and now i so some of the successes that we always like to highlight are like the pal program the contigo program which um you know they believe in the philosophy of restorative justice and i believe like 90% of youth that have participated in these programs have not reoffended they get mentorship they get activities they get exposure to the greater world so that they understand that um you know it's about discovering themselves it's about figuring out what they want to do with their lives and then how they can contribute to the community and as i had mentioned before the fire academy was just a remarkable thing and i don't know if you want to just tell tell me a little bit more about the academy with the fire academy it was a mini academy for our youth um ages i believe around 16 through 18 participated in it and it was a mini mini academy for them to give give them a look at what it what it takes to become a firefighter and um it was the first time we were able and have enough funding to put it on before all those programs in the fire department were cut with chief Lopez he spearheaded that and targeted at youth risk and brought him in and did a uh i believe it was a two-week academy and they went through everything that our firefighters go through in an academy when they're hired and um and they graduated it was really successful and this coming year we're looking at doing two academies okay that sounds great and then just you know part of the equation in increasing safety in the community decreasing crime is prevention you know it's hard to put a dollar amount on the value of prevention but in the long run it's the best investment it's the cheapest investment with with the highest returns and so that's why we wanted the increase the amount that was allocated to parks and youth services because in the long run as i mentioned in the generation or two i think we'll we'll really notice the difference yeah exactly have one last question i think a trustee shocker or okay is the um the percentage allocated to parks and rec different from what it was last time around uh no no it wasn't at all i could answer that for you um the the current met uh the current measure that's in was a quarter cent sales tax and it was for the police department and fire department it was a 60 40 split and that's that's the two departments that received it the measure moving forward would add eight percent to parks and rec so the previous one parks and rec was not on that and that's that's the the change moving forward with measure why so it would be um instead of 40 for fire it will be 38 and then uh police department will will be getting um 50 54 and then eight percent to parks and rec highlight the fact that you know we are giving priority to parks and rec because it's such a like you mentioned is the prevention piece um that i think we really need to be investing more on and the fire academy follows our cte pathways to give youth a chance for a career just otherwise that they wouldn't get a chance to explore in what's available and just to finish up um i've been volunteering on the campaign for a while and if you're still undecided there's a website called what'sable for 2020.com um there's a lot of great pictures you know simplified things and if you also want to get active on the campaign you can also sign up to walk so and there's signs available for your yard and there's buttons okay since we already had a first and a second um can we just go ahead and take a vote all in favor hi all opposed motion passes thank you very much thank you thank you thank you all right next gender item 9.10 initiative may 20 may 2020 meeting to board schedule yeah so we we originally went to um reserve april 15th for the mellow center when we went back after your approval it was no longer available so we set the date um on may 20th 2020 um because that is um was a date a wednesday that was available to us and it was available for mellow so we have now secured it i recognize it isn't as great um because we were going to do it on in april 15th which was going to be a wednesday that was only one board meeting in the month um but i think it will be celebratory in nature and um it it should be fairly be able to be fairly quick probably um two hours um but it will be all smiles so um i'm hoping that we can put it on the agenda so that we can have the special board study session that is just for student recognition thank you any public speakers to this item no any discussion from the board just really quick so thank you for getting this done i know that was a request of mine um last year um and so i i do believe that students receive proper recognition i don't think um that during board meetings regular board meetings that was that was the case um but it is a special board meeting so how would are we going to be following meeting protocol um for that day well no so what we'll do we will have to do the pledge of allegiance and we'll do we will have to do the approval of the agenda and then we'll just get to um being able to recognize the students so we do have to do um two items so we have to do the opening the pledge and then the approval of the agenda and then we're off to the races right thank you so if there's no additional comments i would like to make a motion to approve this item the second is there a second second i will now call for a vote all in favor all right all opposed no motion passes next up item 9.11 approve the guys say project and cte program fund development work presented by dr rodriguez yeah thank you so we've had a lot of great success with our grant writer um there is some um there there's always some risk on hiring someone um full time so we're going to try this as an intermediate step um so this is um linda bixby linda bixby is um a significant staple in the community has been linked to agriculture she currently just fundraised um a million dollars for the opening of the brand new library um that is up in um it isn't scott's valley but boulder creek or somewhere around there i'm sorry felton thank you um and so what she would be doing is she would be um fund recruiting for us in order to be able to do the proportional share um for the lacrosse so they gave us half a million dollars that isn't enough to build the over a million dollar facility that we need the positive of this is we are able to use ctig funding so it's not coming out of general funding because it's leading to a culinary pathway and so i think this is a great way one to test the waters on um getting an additional way to have someone else that is providing grant support um with really little risk um and um it would um you know reap great benefits because um we would be able to also have a key messenger out there talking about the good work that we're doing around cte and so i'm asking for your approval any public speakers any discussion so i just want to thank michelle for this because this is something that i mentioned to you before about the possibility of hiring a second grant writer um for our district and thoughts if this works out is that something that you think will be moving towards thank you so i'd like to make an emotion to approve if there's no other comments okay we have a first we have a second can i go ahead and get a vote all in favor hi all opposed motion passes and i vote yes yeah all right yeah um agenda item 9.12 core sips agreement it's 19-030 yeah so this is actually a really great problem to have in that um so what we're having is students are more and more prepared so i'll give you a specific example so we have sips implementation now in each and every school within the district um so if previously i was a second grade teacher i was receiving students significantly below grade level so that meant that my first year of receiving sips instruction and coaching i most likely was teaching a beginning level um module that is not at grade level we're now seeing really great as you guys know we've had 89% of our students that participated in sips were able to read independently by the end of the year um so those students no longer are reading at the beginning they now need either challenge or extension and so those are different modules for our teachers they're not it's not actually the same set of routines and so we were able to reduce originally this contract um year ago was 300 000 it's now 140 so we took out completely the admin piece because we now do that in-house and support in-house um and then we're also we were also able to reduce from two consultants um to just one so now we only have an leon that's supporting us um we used to have nancy that came out as well so we had two consultants um but it really is necessary for us to be able to make that leap um because we need to be able to have the coaching for the new modules if not we will revert back so they'll receive the students higher up um but then we won't effectively and implement the program um so we are hoping that after this um then we would be able to do everything in-house because now teachers are teaching grade level modules which is a which is a really good thing any public speakers any discussion from the board um can I have a motion I'll make a motion to approve is there a second second um I'll now call for a vote all in favor all opposed motion passes next up agenda item 9.13 second reading of board policy 3 3 5 0 travel expenses by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez so this is just the two slight changes that we brought forth in the first reading so it basically allows for tips and gratuities and then also it allows um for me to approve authorized overnight stays within a 60 mile radius and again it was the example I gave you previously was um when we had a large group of teachers that went to Silamar um which is a math conference and it technically is with is not um it's it was grant funded and it's inside the 60 miles um they should have had not been allowed to stay um but because of traffic patterns as we all know getting up there um it takes it takes a long time especially um those of us living down here um and so this would allow me to be able to make those approvals um when I feel that it's prudent but we'll use it judiciously any public speakers for this item no any discussion from the board okay can I get a motion some second second I will now call for a vote all in favor all opposed motion passes agenda item 9.14 approve applied research results based on county work agreement so really um probably my first month here and then since then I've been talking about program evaluation and do we know that the money in which we are investing is worth it so last year we did um in an effort to support we did hire a TOSA um to allow our research and evaluation department to do some program evaluation um also it's really the responsibility of every director that's out there to also be doing that work not just research and evaluation but what we know is that's a skill set and frankly we hadn't been using data as well as we probably could have um and then definitely not doing program evaluation as much as we could have so what this this is Susan Brucci so this is ASR um I've worked with her now for three and a half years I find her super confident and supportive she knows her stuff um what she would be doing is she would be doing at least 10 um professional development sessions with what we call expanded cabinet so that's every director and coordinator in the district as well as principles because principles should be doing this as well and they she would be training them on the principles of program evaluation so that when we invest the 45 million dollars worth of um program money every year that we're putting into our system that we're getting the the return on investment that we need and we're looking at what should we do what shouldn't we do and making those modifications so I recognize that this is an expense however that's why I mentioned the 40 million each year if we make sure that each if all that money is used effectively year after year it will reap many more benefits than the cost of this contract and so I'm asking for the approval any public speakers to this item any discussion on the board I just want to say you know I know you talked to me about we are trying to even eliminate some of our doses in order to reduce the amount of money that we're spending out there you know in terms of saving money so so even though this is a tosa we are eliminating toses as well right um no this is actually a consultant agreement so the tosa position we did not refill yeah that's what I'm saying so but we okay but I just want to say that we haven't filled more than one tosa position so we eliminated three tosa positions so that's what I'm saying we have eliminated tosa positions so we're not having this person there it's not like we're you know you know what I'm saying we've saved some money eliminating some tosa so this is not hopefully I mean when we look at it's kind of like what I said at my state of the district we look at two different things we look at quality and efficiency right so I've been working a lot on efficiency this looks at quality how well are we doing what we say we're doing just say any other discussion from the board I have a question so typically when money is awarded or allocated for programs there's supposed to be a part of that allocation that is set aside for either program monitoring or evaluation is that right well there's a reporting piece and so there is always program evaluation I think when um when you're looking at like state compliance items what they're looking at is you're saying these are the objectives this is what I did and how did I do it the problem with the state just compliance level versus what I'm talking about is then the next steps of how do we know what we know and then once we know it what do we do about it and I think that the compliance piece doesn't hit that last part and frankly and a lot of times I'm happy about it but frankly there's not much bite if you don't do what you say you're going to do on most compliance pieces because all you have to do is provide a justification of why it didn't happen and then you continue to get the money and that's why in every system in education it's not just here in every system we continue to do the same because frankly we're a lot of times allowed to do the same right because it's hard for legislatures and and other governing bodies to pull money from from districts and so then you're given a lot of leniency so what I want us to do is each and every one of us to be thoughtful but we also have to provide professional development and capacity building around that if no one has had to do that in the past I think this is a great idea so I'll be supporting this thank you I'll make a motion actually just one question and then I'll support your I'll second your motion Kim um is this going to be an ongoing thing or is this something we're just going to do once and then I'm just clarifying that for just one so that we're teaching people the fish here we're not giving them the fish thank you I'll second your motion any more discussion all right um can I go ahead and get a vote all in favor I I'll oppose and I oppose one two three five okay next consent item agenda item number 10 consent and agenda are there any public speakers to the consent agenda are there any items that the board wishes to defer all right can I have a motion on the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve second second all right I will call for a vote all in favor I I'll oppose all right consent agenda passes and do we have any deferred consent items closed session items we do have closed session we always do we always do yes so under item 2.1 I've moved to approve the recommendation of the district administration for a full expulsion for the remainder of the 1920 school year and the first semester of the 2021 school year with placement at another school outside of the district on the district behavior contract for student number 1920 012 um and make a motion to approve also I'm I'm sorry and we actually voted indoors so I'm just reporting out yeah so I'm not making a motion by reporting out so we approved the expulsion the expulsion with a district recommendation for student number 1920 012 with a 601 vote okay it looks like our upcoming meeting and we actually have two more items oh I'm sorry so under item 2.2 I moved to approve the certificate a certificate a personnel report as rescinded by the district administration with the addition of one separation second all in favor I I'm sorry we're just reporting out right no this one's not reporting out we're actually voting on that one we're all confused it's generally I know I'm sorry gents gents go ahead take it over okay so motion motion number two gents was to do the rest um I moved to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration on January 22nd 2020 with 31 and two additional action items all in favor all opposed is there any more all right so the next upcoming meeting is February 14th which I think is Valentine's Day but I'm could be wrong oh it says it says 14th I know I mean our meeting's on the 12th which is my birthday my birthday is okay my birthday is Abraham Lincoln's right so thank you very much everybody thank you for hanging in there with me