 Good evening. Welcome to our PVSD board meeting for February 22nd. We have translation available in Spanish. If you need that support, please see Oranía López. Tenemos traducción en español si necesita este servicio por favor pase con Oranía López. If someone would like to speak to an item on the agenda, you must complete a speaker card and hand it into Ivarantaria prior to the agenda item. Each speaker will have two minutes. So we'll start with our pledge of allegiance and I'll ask Vice President Acosta to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. So we get to move on to the swearing-in of our provisionally appointed member of the board for area six and we'll be, so City of Watsonville Mayor Eduardo Montecino will administer the oath of office for Provisional Trustee Adam Bolaño-Scow, Mayor Montecino. First of all, thank you for being here this evening. So you may begin administering the oath. Adam Bolaño-Scow. Do solemnly swear that I support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California. Against all enemies. Against all enemies. Foreign and domestic. Foreign and domestic. I will bear true faith and allegiance. To the Constitution of the United States. To the Constitution of the United States. And to the Constitution of the State of California. And that I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will. And that I will well and faithfully discharge. The duties upon which I'm about to enter. The duties of upon which I'm about to enter. Thank you. Just really want to say just a one thing thank you. Thank you for giving me the honor and and you picked the right the right person for for the district in our community. Thank you. And I believe we have one public speaker to this item. We do. We have one public speaker to this item. Chris Webb. Welcome Adam. I'm Chris Webb I teach at Renaissance High School. I really appreciated your your comments. I'm looking forward to you being on the board. I really feel the value that you bring as a as a teacher. I'm hoping that that's going to be reflected in your leadership. One of the things I heard a lot about you know the the environmental work you do and one of the things that I'm looking forward to is I know on that front you're you're keen to lead and you're not you're not trying to wait for the state laws and and we could and you can make PVSD lead as a governing body. So I'm hoping you can do that not just with environmental laws but then also with like you talked about retaining teachers and attracting teachers and and and yes money is important for that but then also I feel like we as a society not just PVSD but just a larger society need to reflect on the work life balance and the demands that people have and and being like a whole a whole person for for instance I have two kids and I I could have I well thankfully my wife was able to take the day off but I almost took a day off the very first day of this or it was it was Valentine's which would have been technically extending a a holiday possibly but it's because I had to take care of my I could have had to take care of my kid for childcare reasons and we just need to make sure that our policies make sense so I'm hoping you'll bring a logical sense and it make things make sense like if we don't have subs then maybe we should allow teachers to if they can if they can do the job and they can take care of their kid we did the forum before during the COVID time where we let teachers bring their their kids when they really needed do things like that get get some um get some advanced policies like let's make people want to be here and let's let's make sure that we realize that because of COVID people are reassessing um their work life balances and they'll leave thank you thank you we'll go on to uh our superintendent comments Dr Rodriguez yeah thank you so much so this weekend is going to be a wonderful weekend for our community so Jim Bruno our director of extended learning has really just a wonderful experience ready for us along with Michael Berman and his parent engagement so we're going to have our parent um conference our annual parent conference then we will wind up having a resource fair for all of our families followed by either roller skating or um free movies with our families so it's really a wonderful time for everyone within the community to learn together and um and conviviate juntos right so be be together and so I hope that you take advantage of it I know that Mr Clappenback and I were going to be at the movies with the families I had knee surgery on Friday so I won't be roller skating but I will be at um at the movie theaters and so I hope everybody can take advantage of that um and then also there's always a lot of conversation about staffing and what we can do about it so one thing that we decided to do is to really look at why why are people leaving and so we had 249 people who within the last two years have left PVUSD so we looked at um we looked at either the resignation form or we called each and every person to find out why that was happening 60 percent of the people um either retired left the profession or left the state of california so 60 percent of people of the rest of the 40 percent the two other largest chunks was um 12 percent left the county so went down to southern california went somewhere else um and then 13 percent let for health or family reasons not related to work um and so then when we looked at who actually left for pay salary um we did lose 4 percent so we lost 4 percent of people left for a neighboring district so we want to we had a lot of conversations with the people um and many of them did say to us we don't want the health benefits we want the pay right so that's something that we're able to know I did also want to note that we had 10 people who in the last two years left us and then came back within those two years um because what they found was in fact um they they do have when they go elsewhere they may have a higher salary but then they have to pay for benefits and so their take home actually was less so we did have people that came back so we are we're going starting next week we're going to start already offering contracts and so our goal is what happened this past year is we were able to reduce vacancies and we hope that we can do it again so um hope I see you on saturday um with all the fun festivities because it's going to be a great time thank you all right we'll move on to item 3.5 our governing board comments um or report on standing committees and so this is an opportunity for each board member to make a few comments um so we'll go ahead and start with our student trustee marielle thank you good evening everyone uh first of all I'd like to just extend a warm record welcome to mr scowl um it's great to have you here and um something really exciting that I will be a part of is we're working with the research group at UCSC to develop kind of like curriculum resources and we're planning to integrate some Filipino farm worker history into ethnic studies um courses at PVUSD um another super exciting um happening soon we're going to start scheduling interviews for the next student trustee um because in four months I'll be out of here and so I'm looking forward to seeing the candidates and there's a lot of potential so very exciting thank you trustee deserpa thank you welcome everybody and welcome to adam we're very happy to have you on the board we're going to really miss you marielle when you go um and thank you for everything that you do in the community and all the service um last night I attended the deloc meeting I'm now on that committee and it was probably one of the best committee meetings that I've been to in my 12 years on the board it was just a beautiful thing to see um Spanish speaking families from each school across our district represented in the room it was right here and um it was super interesting had a lot of wonderful um presentations by district staff and by copa and I look forward to serving um further on that committee thank you trustee sota uh good evening everybody and thank you for attending and those watching as well I I want to extend a welcome and congratulations to adam as well um it's uh good to have you here and have someone fill that seat uh I had the opportunity to work the uh ccs finals this past week and a lots of high school uh it was a it was a great event I mean it's it's great for the local economy restaurants hotels stores you know with the number of schools that attended it was all of northern california pretty much um I was uh with the barbecue crew helping out we probably served about 90 tri tips so uh we weren't flipping burgers contrary to popular belief we were actually uh trimming prepping slicing and serving and cooking and uh it was pretty much an all-day deal I want to extend uh a big congratulations to the crew out of watsonville high school for sponsoring it and kind of coordinating everything that took place because it was a real real big event and I hope we can carry that tradition on here in watsonville and uh hold ccs finals and everything else here uh I think we're in a really good location according to talking to people it's pretty centralized where we're at for the region that we covered in the schools that showed up so um we can keep that going and and help our little town uh earn some money and get some notoriety as well so thank you trustee scout did you have anything you'd like to say yes um honored to be here thank you everybody for coming out and being here and not just for me but to have a a stronger connection with our district and to make always wanting to make improvements that's just kind of how my brain works and uh I have a lot to learn there's no question about it and I'm uh eager to be meeting with my colleagues here on the board with dr. Rodriguez with the teachers with the classified workers there's many people who serve our kids our districts uh on a daily basis it's pretty impressive the spirit of our community uh my area I'm very proud of uh representing Watsonville and the unincorporated part of freedom area we have some wonderful schools wonderful leadership uh and it's very exciting for me um also want to note uh some of you know I am a teacher for el sistema doing after school and it's really been a privilege uh to work with my colleagues and Amalia Diaz is here our director and this morning we played for I don't know hundreds of kids at mellow center I also played with the santa cruz symphony this morning and tomorrow I'm honored that some of our students are going to be on stage with me uh performing for more kids and so this is going to happen all week so this is very exciting and obviously championing the arts is something uh I'm going to be continuing to push and build upon the good work that's been started here by our by our district so I hope you'll keep coming to our meetings I hope you'll keep engaging with me and my colleagues uh and uh really make this a participatory participatory hands-on endeavor and I'm really looking forward to this journey thank you thank you trusty trusty doubts junior good evening everybody hello good evening everybody thank you for being here this evening uh congratulations trusty scow I look forward to working with you uh I know music is part of your endeavor here and so I look forward to your help with the mellow center we could always use help so anybody that wants the sponsor or donate to the mellow center it'd be greatly appreciated um just just quickly as trusty soto touched on um the ccs wrestling championship was a great event you know from the numbers that I got we had 2000 people from out of town who came and you know supported our local economy in our hotels and we look forward to keep supporting you know what's of high sports and wrestling um also at the same time I was able to see the what's of all high school girl softball team scrimmage you know as long as I've been in what's behind the what's of all high school girls softball team has always been champions and so hopefully we can continue to find ways to support them I was able to attend the gear up event last night my daughter received an award but also with that there was at least 200 students and families and so hopefully we could continue to support the gear up program trusty scow was also at the mellow center teaching work with the santa christ symphony with a lot of children so hopefully we could continue to work with the mellow center and support the music programs um also too finally I was able to send I was able to attend what's of all high school where they did a send off for the wrestler danisa nunes she's one of the the finalists who's attending tonight the statewide championship and so I wanted to to take to thank what's of all police department and what's of all high school administration for sending her off um thanking danisa and good luck um go cats and also trusty memorable I know we're working on the what's of all high school pool but I also wanted to say thank you for your service and always be active and always be involved because sometimes not everybody could speak up so hopefully you can carry that on so thank you trusty faras thank you welcome everyone and I wanted to say congratulations trusty volana scow I look forward to working with you on the board um I also was able to attend the d-lac meeting um I attended just to observe I'm not on the committee but I was interested in seeing um what happens at these meetings and I was it was a great meeting a full of information and just the environment was amazing so if you are a parent at a school and your school does not have a d-lac representative I encourage you to um try to get that spot because it was a very very warm and welcoming committee um also tomorrow evening at Watsonville high school I'm going to be attending donkey basketball it's an ffa fundraiser I look forward to it I hear they're going to be riding donkeys playing basketball so come out and support ffa seven o'clock at Watsonville high school gym uh vice president acosta I was just saying I never thought I'd hear the two words donkeys and basketball in the same sentence but okay so welcome everyone good evening thank you for being here this evening I'm going to do the same as everyone of course trusty volana scow welcome we're glad that you're here and that your trusty area is being represented um I have not had any um committee meetings since the last meeting and we're actually working and getting making sure we get some scheduled going forward for next month um so I pretty much just have the welcome to trusty volana scow welcome and and thank you to everyone else who's here and hope everybody enjoyed their three-day holiday weekends and thank you for having your children back in school on Tuesday post that thank you and uh like vice president acosta this was an unusual two-week period where I didn't have committee meetings I was like this is strange but um I want to echo the sentiments of welcome so it is it is good to have a full board again and thank you to all the members of you know our pvusd community and you know for supporting you know the efforts to make that happen so thank you all right so we will move oh yes we will move on to um item 3.6 our high school students board representatives report and I believe we have a video from aptos high good evening school board members and superintendent dr. Rodriguez my name is chase shock main senior class president i'm jimmy glassman asp secretary i'm sofia kina asp treasurer and i'm vienna louise asp president today i'll be presenting for you aptos high school's academics okay so monday's tuesdays and fridays we are offering extended learning after school and library students can go there to get additional help with schoolwork in addition aptos high school is gearing for s-back testing starting on march 20 all 9th and 11th graders will participate in the standardized test counselors have presented class information are preparing to choose their classes for the following school year the local scholarship is open to all seniors who do march 7th yeah and i will present everything about the arts that's going on so first of all last just last week cte held a festival giving in the students around the campus an opportunity to see the facilities and classes that are offered in terms of arts around the school and it went very well uh also our theater department here at the school just last week we finished up our performances of head over heels in loving the school at grade and finally uh two more things uh tomorrow we are going to field trip as a class focusing mean girls in san francisco and we are just beginning our pv up the uh starting the production of our radio days are in place now i'll be talking about athletics here at aptos high so all of our sports have ended already except for boys basketball boys basketball has their first round of ccs tonight they're playing south san francisco at aptos high so uh girl soccer was able to make it to the first round of ccs and they were the number one seed for that and a few wrestlers had also made ccs and i think one of them had one but that's also over and then all spring sports are an hour and full swing uh this is also the first time we've ever had a girls cross team so i'm pretty excited um and i'll be talking about activities we have our spring spirit week coming up and it's in motion we're so excited to have finalized our days um and that will take place march 13th through the 17th um during that week we also have our spring spirit rally um and we're hoping that'll boost morale and school spirit around the campus and we have bandha night on march 17th elections are also fast approaching and we'll take place in march we also have our annual or monthly club carnival on march 3rd so our amazing clubs can showcase their work and hopefully recruit new people new people speaking of clubs we also have our mock trial team that's competing in the county competitions and our red cross clubs which is planning their annual blood drive on march 31st thank you presentations okay so we'll move on to item 4.1 approval of the agenda um president home i'd like to make a motion to approve um the agenda with moving item 9.1 before item 8.1 okay i have a first do i have a second second i have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero it's been a minute since i could say seven zero i like it all right um item 5.1 approval of the february 8th 2023 board meeting minutes can i have a motion i would like to make a motion to approve the minutes from the february 8th board meeting can i have a second a second i have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero um item 5.2 approval of the february 11th 2023 board meeting minutes can i have a motion i'll make an emotion to approve the february 11th 2023 um special board meeting minutes all right can i have a second i'll second all right all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero great all right so we will move on to item 6.1 our public comment this is an opportunity for members of the public to address uh issues that are not on our agenda for the evening and just you know as a reminder for those of you who may be new although the brown act prohibits the board from engaging in discussion for non-agenda items that we are listening so um so we have how many speakers do we have on this item uh president home we have uh 15 speakers this evening um i will call out your names um by threes um please step up to the podium and if i do mispronounce your name please um feel free to correct me um margaret rosa carol wallace and jamila colinda jamila colinda thank you good evening dr rodriguez and trustees i'm margaret rosa it's my 24th year as a bilingual teacher i'm also proud to have established our school book garden back in 2014 with life lab years ago i had a bright spunky boy in my second grade class who i envisioned one day becoming the school valedictorian years later i would be writing back and forth to him while he was in state prison serving a long sentence and asking him why his life took a turn he said that after elementary school he got in with the wrong group and he said that what could have helped was having adults listening to him this year's youth truth survey shows only 45 percent of middle and 38 percent of high school students had positive relationships those are depressing numbers as the mom of two teens i know of so many young adults who through this pandemic have had severe mental crises and have felt an overall sense of hopelessness what is the answer to this crisis i said it last year at the board meeting and i'll say it again it's having stable adults and our students lives it's mazlows hierarchy of needs according to the apa supportive non-parental adults have a significant impact on adolescent psychosocial functioning the district has shown a commitment to mental health by hiring counselors but nothing makes a student want to come to school more than a welcoming classroom with a trusting consistent teacher at the helm i know why we can't hire and retain teachers a first-year teacher in santa clara with my masters in b-clad makes over a hundred thousand dollars a year even after over 20 years of service i make way less than that go to their adjoin page and you'll find there are no classroom job openings lastly the sub shortage my colleagues dread the daily email from admin entitled plan for today here here's an actual email today we have five absences with three unfilled absences we will be pulling from music science art and reading intervention we will attempt to continue with our wind data meetings at a messy classroom teachers have had to fill in for the sub shortage over 170 times this year i would rather pay the district not to lose my prep time that's how much we value it and need it to be effective teachers the message here is clear the most important investment you can make in our students is in people it's really that simple thank you for your time hello um thank you for hearing all of us my name is carol wallace and i am a retired firefighter paramedic and fire marshal from aptosal sublifier and i'm thank you i currently am a fire services consultant uh but more importantly or one of the most important things is i've been on the uh i've been associate faculty at cabrillo college in the public safety and emergency medical technician program for 20 years and uh i have a success story my daughter who now is a practicing attorney in new york city went through the whole pvusd program from k through 12 and graduated in 2013 with lots of ap classes went to berkeley um graduated with honors in economics and went to nyu work for a couple years in a law firm then went to nyu law graduated last spring took the bar and passed the first time and now she's practicing so she's a pvusd success story and we had great experiences at all the schools at that time and i was the inspector in all the aptos schools and i was there every year in all the classrooms and meeting all the teachers and lots of students and and the custodial staff uh what i have seen um so my daughter was one track she was higher education highly driven academically and uh in the cabrillo program we're looking at most of the people that come through fire technology criminal justice and emt want to go into public safety uh or they want to do emt as a precursor to nursing p a's or medical school or so on and so in the last 10 years i would have to say that the academic preparedness of the students coming into the emt program which has fairly rigorous requirements because you have to pass with the certificate which allows you to take the national registry exam which allows you to be certified in a state so without preparation they're not going to make it and then we need to bring back cte programs such as the medical technician program thank you thank you hi my name is jimmy hi my name is jamila clinda i'm a student at aptos high school and i'm here to speak on behalf of all the students who have been stuck using apex this year instead of having an actual teacher i entered high school actively behind after distance learning instead of having a qualified teacher in the classroom to help me get up to speed i'm stuck using a computer program where the highest grade i'm i can achieve is a 50 percent because i don't understand as a struggling student it is very discouraging to be turning in all my work trying my best and still failing because i don't have any help let me explain what it is like you start with a overview of the lesson which is five slides then you have 25 to 35 slides teaching you how to do the unit last the unit quiz last is a unit quiz it is horrible and one and it is not engaging i am not learning anything i'm requesting that you guys show you care about our education by getting us the teachers we need shout out to mr gruber who is an amazing history teacher but not qualified for math teacher he does his best at encouraging us our next three uh tessa aucardo chris webb and thad bishop good evening board members and dr audriguez my name is tessa aucardo i'm a third year teacher in this district every day teachers are asked to find solutions for example when we return to school after covid closures we were asked to squeeze 35 students into our classrooms on tables where they had to sit the tables were five feet long so i'll let you guys do the math on that one we are sometimes asked to do the impossible support our 160 plus students follow ips keep contact with parents fulfill a junk duty give up our prep time oh and also there's a new online tutoring program that the district paid however much money for so that kids can sit in front of a screen and get help from a stranger forget time to take of ourselves we continue to rely on the martyrdom of teachers we perpetuate the trend of public education system being held up on the backs of people who continually put themselves last for the good of the next generation exploiting their time and energy for the good of the students you think that this district would want to lead the way to change that for as outwardly progressive as we like to look the point is we make it work we make the impossible happen and what are you the board and dr. Rodriguez doing to help that it's time for you to find a solution to make this district more desirable for qualified teachers to not drive us away with low pay meaningless programs that put our kids back in front of a screen trying to control our personal days threatening our health insurance plans without teachers you have nothing no new fancy program you shell out money for can replace the teachers in a classroom we are not asking for the impossible we're asking to be paid a livable wage and to be able to stay in the community that we love with the students that we love we're asking you to find a solution for your teachers and your students thank you good evening when when the board decided to do the appointment over an election I was a little apprehensive but I want to commend PVSD for the way that they approach that the things I like about it are the things I like about traditional renaissance it was heavy and stakeholder involvement there was clear due process all the websites were really clear about the expectations and everything there was a focus on principles of democracy they took the time to have public comment they had people able to send in comments and then they scheduled time to actually read them so I want to commend the the district for the way they did that and that kind of operation makes me proud to be here um one concern I I do have is back to my my uh my site and um I worry about like how we might get in between admin we might get redefined in a way that I think doesn't fit us so I just want to lay out a little bit of like what our real mission is um we are a second chance at education for all of PVSD secondary students we're a safety net it would be a mistake to say like oh well comprehensives they do it this way so that must be the way that's I think that would be a huge mistake one thing that the the student trustee spoke to that you really stuck out to me was a few meetings back she mentioned at her site that students had a hard time seeing the counselor and I hear that from kids who come from other sites and I know like at Renaissance one of the assets is we have our home room and we are able to have those relationships and we should we should preserve that it would be a mistake to in the future possibly lose that and you know expand the work day and and to not honor that we have our prep for instruction but then we also have our prep for when we're doing all our parent meetings and we're really building those those connections and we're following up on issues as they come in a way that the larger district doesn't quite do as well so thank you good evening board members superintendent dr rodriguez my name is thad bishop i am a p teacher at cedar chavez middle school i've been there for 15 years and i'm also the wrestling coach i'm standing here tonight to remind you all teachers deserve a living wage i used to teach in madera california where right now i would be making $14,000 more a year after you include the insurance deduction i have friends who have left our district to work over in the San Joaquin valley because of higher salaries and lower cost of living i've had friends who work in the Fresno area who have declined jobs in our area because of the lower pay in our district as we all know teachers retention has a direct correlation with student achievement i've also been a parent in this district district from the time my children were in the watsonville cooperative preschool many years ago i was shocked to see the pay scale and early childhood education especially how hard my children's preschool teachers worked to prepare them for kindergarten please consider this vital part of our community's education my final thought i used to be a substitute school teacher before i became a full-time teacher it was one of the toughest jobs i ever did we need a pay raise for all substitute teachers including teachers covering on their prep time thank you very much for your time our next three um sherry australian griselda sanchez and ron sandage good evening dr rodriguez board members and especially our new trustee mr scow thank you again for attending our general membership meeting we really appreciated that i'm here tonight because i understand that the negotiations surrounding the subbing during teachers pay or during teachers preps has stalled basically no one's budging and i realize that there just aren't enough subs available okay but what i don't understand is why mountains aren't being moved at the higher level not us but y'all to remedy this problem clearly whatever is being done is is not enough and it's time for you to come up with a viable solution for this in march of 2020 right before we shut down um our sub rotation list for our school at pahero middle was four pages long i know this because i printed it last night on each page list seven entries of teachers that perhaps were absent last night i printed our sub rotation list which also has eight entries one for each teacher that is absent it's 14 pages long we're not even into march yet this was march 13th of 2020 okay at pahero middle we have been in session for 107 days because of the evacuation stuff we're a little bit less than the other schools 63 of those days have required multiple teachers and administrators to cover their classes and i want to add that contrary to popular belief we're not talking about a monday and friday thing because i literally went through and counted all the days those green highlights okay we have 13 mondays 12 tuesdays 11 wednesdays 12 thursdays and 15 fridays so yes there are a couple more fridays okay the point is is we're not blowing people aren't blowing off mondays and fridays we have people sick for solid weeks weeks and we don't have subs ever i'm exhausted i'm very exhausted thank you thank you hello good evening um my name is chris aldis sanchez and i'm here to speak about a school closure happening next year it is very sad um for my family that this school will be closing it is the pvusd virtual academy it is an option that for us is a lifesaving option as our daughter has medical needs and is unable to attend a school in person we have been attending the school for two years and she's been flourishing she's been doing awesome learning um getting all the attention that she needs from her teachers and we're able to provide that at home which brings safety which is vital this school is closing and now we don't have an option the option here in this district is not the option for us she would need to attend in person activities which we are exposing her and affecting her health we're looking into going outside of the district to fulfill our education needs which we don't want to do we love this school the only explanation we've been getting is that there's low enrollment parents were not asked or discussed this option or this decision was made without parents um knowledge we were just given the news so um i would want to bring this up to you because there must be something that we can do low enrollment as i know it's not a reason to close the school it works for my daughter and it works for other families as well who are currently enrolled at that school thank you for your time he's in the pen he's ready to go push that button my name is ron sandage i am a proud member of the community and i was once part of the district staff the last place that i worked full-time was at pahara valley high school along with my esteemed friend and colleague alson yasawa when the school started it had no playing fields to speak of but thank goodness um proposition or measure l came along so all those evenings that i wore this very same jacket watching the grizzlies football matches soccer games oh and shout out to the grizzlies we haven't mentioned them all night they're playing uh the boy's soccer team is doing very well this year just like they did 2000 okay there you go thank you anyway the school needed fields and it got them finally baseball diamonds there soccer pitch football field track what the school is lacking is a swimming pool and a performing arts center on the pbs news hour the other evening it was mentioned that minority students primarily latinos and african americans constitute a very low percentage of competitors at the collegiate level i did some research and less than 10 percent of those two racial groups get a chance to develop swimming schools skills and that's the case at pahara valley high school there has been no swim team for girls or boys one time lily skill represented the school in swimming other than that there's been nothing else we need those facilities thank you all right next three speakers anthony feldor christy philip philip wiska philip wiss thank you and bridget feldor it's two minutes per person right it's two minutes per person okay um i am here on behalf of the virtual academy parents in regards to the closure of the k-through six grades during the town hall meeting regarding the closure of the elementary portion of the a there were several questions as parents had asked that were not answered or we were given answers that dr rhodrigus and lisa could not explain the only reason we were initially given for the school closure was low enrollment there was reference to the elementary school but va is not an elementary school it's a k-through 12 school there are no laws that state that the schools must close due to low enrollment in fact this is a statewide problem that is not specific to va and the size of the school is not because it is unsuccessful in fact in my daughter's second grade class every single child has shown growth in e la and maths the parents of va implore you to reconsider this decision and allow for the school to remain open with a possibility of one teacher for the k-through six students va is a unique school that provides accessible resources for all students to learn as parents we cannot do what these wonderful teachers have done for us kids having a virtual program is different from the homeschool options that the district is offering us and that difference is the reason we all chose va instead of homeschool in the first place there are a few other concerns i have regarding the town hall meeting once i had inquired about the possibility of a one teacher for k-through six solution it was immediately rejected due to claims to claims that the va was costing two million dollars in infrastructure costs i asked several times what this meant and where we could find a breakdown of said costs but was refused an answer dr rhodrigus rudely left the meeting 30 minutes into the meeting leaving parents with unanswered questions and feeling unheard in seeking out my own answers i found that the budgets for the past three years are missing from the website virtual academy has received funding for the next six years we are not given a reason as to why we can't stay open and it seems as if there is freedom to reallocate the money for our school and that is what the district is choosing to do instead of considering what is best for the school children and our families further only just over 12 minutes of the recorded town hall meeting was provided to parents the entire parent comment and q and a portion was eliminated from the recording i believe this is a violation of the brown act as the video in its entirety should have been made to the public this presented parent prevented parents who were unable to attend to hear the answers that we were given to the questions we had asked there was a survey sent to the va parents regarding this closure and almost all respondents plan to return the next year and are considering leaving the district to find another program similar to va if we cannot stay open parents have also provided nope it's two minutes per speaker i i just have copies of the parent responses can i provide to you you are welcome to provide those thank you you're welcome hi my name is anthony felder and i'm speaking on behalf of va as well i'm just going to go ahead and pick up where my wife left off so uh there was a survey sent to va parents regarding this closure and almost all respondents plan to return next year and are considering leaving the district to find another program similar to va if we cannot stay open parents have also provided reasons such as fear of school shootings experience with bullying and a mean to compromise children mental health and quality of education being the top reasons we should like va to stay open if possible i would like to provide you with copies she provided you with um thank you for hearing us and hope you implore to reconsider for the success and well-being of our children since i have a minute left um first of all i want to start out by saying the va teachers in principle are really good at what they are doing for our children and has always been a pleasant interaction with them we as parents of a succeeding program we're absolutely shocked to hear that it's coming to an end i can't speak for all parents but i know our daughter has excelled in every subject she has done because of the teaching style it's more of a it's more time allowing the one-on-one reactions and not so much the 30 plus kids in school you know i mean so um on that note that's pretty much all i have to say yeah just hopefully you guys reconsider and uh think about this thank you i'm christy philippo what's i'm uh community community member that's concerned why would you be closing a school that students are selling in the virtual academy i've heard nothing but complaints valid complaints from the teachers that have spoken today about how their schools just aren't working for them yet you have the school that's beautiful it's working for these children and it's going away okay seemingly with no reason that anybody has heard so far i'm close with a family of a current student that is going to be negatively affected by the closure of the school this child is so bright and engaging and interested in science and can speak to me with eye contact do you have any idea how rare that is her confidence is coming in big part from this school and it's just horrifying to me that that would be taken away from her um i just have to wonder is anybody taking into consideration what's best for these students these kids are our future and i know that sounds super cliche but these are the people that are going to be running our country in a few years and when you have something that's just so successful it just doesn't make any sense to me um to take it away and it's not fair it's really not and these kids are going to have to seek other you know outside of the school district um which is just such a hardship for these families that work so hard you know so i'd really like you to reconsider this and and at the very minimum give the parents um some real answers as to why this is happening because it's low enrollment hua doesn't make any damn sense so anyway that's all thank you and our um last three speakers on public comment megan scott donna lafever and david morales hi i am also a parent of a virtual academy student and an aptos high student your teachers are tired can you hear me your teachers are tired almost every single one of them came up here and told you us parents are tired too we don't have any answers our kids don't have bus drivers our kids don't have teachers virtual academy is actually working for our students let parents help and when we brought ideas to you the other day they were shot down you didn't care you already had your answer you already decided that where those funds were going to be reallocated to and you didn't even care what the parents told kate said you gave us two weeks notice two weeks to figure out what we were going to do with our kids that's not okay if parents have ideas on how to help you guys on how to help your teachers listen and when we come to you with questions don't look at us and say oh i don't know if i can give you an answer because i think that that's an emotional question that's not okay that's not an okay response at all yes it is emotional when our kids are having their school closed and their friends taken away from them and we weren't given enough time to figure out what to do with our kids next year it's already halfway through the school year this is just not acceptable our kids deserve better our teachers deserve better our staff deserves better maybe you'll listen someday because you're losing teachers and our students are going to be taken out of this district because you guys can't get your head um my name is donna lafever i'm a math teacher at watsonville high school um i just want to start by saying um dr radriguez you seem to imply that 60 of the people who left um were was out of our control because of retirement or left the state or left the profession but things that i heard from teachers that i hear from teachers so anticipate more people leaving for those reasons i'm going to retire earlier than i would have i have more i have to move to a more affordable place because pvusd doesn't pay me enough um as a teaching professional i don't feel respected here my time is not respected and my contributions are not valued so we have control over why these people are leaving so let's not try to manipulate it to fit your agenda um the next thing we need to stop expecting teachers to sub on their prep that needs to stop um last week grades were due and i had to sub on my prep my teacher colleague lost two of her long block preps because she had to she's in the unfortunate position of being a fourth period prep and there aren't enough teachers on that rotation so they're coming up all the time she lost both her preps that's about four hours of prep now i have 170 students if i want to give about two minutes to review an assignment make sure i know what they know how can i teach them and address my uh the concerns that i need to um or build them up where i can um two minutes to look at each kid i have 170 students that's 340 minutes that i need for grading and that's going to be almost six hours so i lost an hour and a half that teacher lost four hours that she has to make up outside so i was up until midnight doing my grades as per usual always working overtime you're demanding that we work extra overtime because you're requiring us to sub on our prep it's ridiculous take it off the other thing that i want to bring up because i'm so stoked that you brought up the ccs uh thing happening at watsonville the donkey basketball happening it's amazing it's a great community builder having ccs wrestling there was an opportunity an honor but the opportunity for fundraising is key and we need that fundraising money to keep our programs going and the way that those things happen think about how amazing it was at the donkey basketball think about how much work probably went into making that happen it's all done by the teachers the staff at our schools that are underpaid and we're celebrating it we want this to continue we want them to keep doing this unfortunately as a coach myself i know that we work way beyond what we're expected what we're what we're paid to do because we're passionate to keep this going let's try to keep and respect these people me keeping these things going by paying them with the right amounts they don't leave because we want to keep seeing these things happen in our community good evening trustees my name is david morales i am a pvusd parent and uh i have a background in law and policy i've been in this community for a long time um i actually haven't speaking to your board since the redistricting many many years ago uh when i was uh active in lulac along with a lot of other community activists uh in watsonville and your board kindly adopted the map that we had proposed so i was very happy about about that uh that decision um the reason i'm i'm here today is actually i want to apologize in advance uh i really just came to tell you how excited i am about your your board um your addition of of mr scow the line of scow i watched the selection process uh i don't know it was a week ago or whatever uh it was an excellent event i was very impressed with what mr scow had to say uh your decision was pretty clear pretty obvious um what was i believe a very positive uh day was only marred a little bit by some political comments that clearly were pre-planned and you know being active in the community and politics i understand how that happens but let me just say that you know i've been in this district for a long time i've interviewed uh pvusd students for some selective colleges really have been concerned about some of the training that our students have had some of the training that my children have had um you know i'm taking this opportunity to tell you about some of the things um latino students are tracked very early on you have these students from the time they start school you should be able to put them into your advanced courses by the time that you're done by the time they reach high school um you know this four percent tracking forward on on the salaries it's it's unambiguous that the teachers are underpaid and the four percent number is not credible i would encourage you to take this opportunity to really make some changes in this in this district you have an excellent board and i look forward to supporting you in any way i can and to the improvements that you can make in this district thank you so much for your time good evening president holm dr edriga's board of trustees and welcome to adam scow our new trustee in uh area six we're glad to have you here so um i just want to start by saying we also collect the resignation and retirement forms um and i just did a quick pull up of what we had in our data from 21 22 from last school year so there was a total of 153 employees that left our district out of that 153 35 percent of them were retired 11 percent of them were relocating 23 percent of them were seeking a new job and 18 percent of them listed that they were leaving due to salary so we have some different data than what was shared um i also want to share that um i am the chief negotiator for our our educators union and for many many many years we've shared as a union that um our position is to attract and retain quality educators however in the last few years in the climate of education we have switched that phrase to now being the goal of retaining and then attracting quality educators because our number one priority is keeping the quality educators we have in this district and having them stay here um as we are working through our contract negotiations i am optimistic that the district is looking at offering on salary increases for our tk 12 our psychs our nurses our slps for this year and for next year that is the number one goal we had to retain the educators that we have and while the district has increased our offer for our ece and adult ed members to 10 percent for this year we still don't have an on salary offer for the second year out and just to put that completely plainly to you all a 10 percent increase for the highest paid associate teacher in our early childhood education takes them from 19 dollars and 19 cents an hour to 21 dollars and 11 cents an hour that hurts um as dr idriga has mentioned earlier we do offer an excellent benefits package and it is something that our members are very thankful for but we also know that our benefits don't pay our mortgages they don't pay our rent they don't pay our utilities they don't pay for groceries we also know that salary and total compensation while is extremely important to retaining educators it is not the only piece of our job and it's not the only piece of what has driven many educators to leave this profession you have heard endless people come up to this podium and share the amount of prep time they have lost the amount of time they have had to sub and cover classes it's just not sustainable one of the things we also negotiate is workload and what one of our goals is is to limit the amount of time our educators can be asked to give that time up time that is vital to addressing student needs to prepping their lessons to grading to reaching out to families we cannot keep adding things onto teachers plates we are forcing them out of this profession tonight on consent agenda item 10.4 you have an MOU with Santa Clara University for a PBIS program when you look at that I'm sure you look at what a great PBIS program that can be offered to our students when I look at that I see 10 hours of training time additional eight hours of leadership meetings when is that going to happen when is that going to take place what are we going to remove what responsibilities are we going to take away in order to have time to do those extra tasks so what I'm asking you is to look at that not just total comp that's very important but look at the total picture and the total picture because what we also look at is the comments that people share on their retirement and resignation forms and what I look at is comments like my mental health couldn't take it anymore the workload was too much there was a lack of support and it saddens me to know that people come into this profession loving what they do and then that drives them away we need to start addressing that as well thank you do we have anyone from CSCA hello everybody board of trustees cabinet michelle how are you doing I want to start off by saying this past weekend CCS good turnout good for our community good for our kids and not only that just being out I'd like to also thank Adam for being on board now welcome and also between me and Oscar Gus and two other friends of ours we cooked over 96 tri tips and that was all just for the kids Adam and Danny came out supported us at the barbecue pit there for a while and they made the rounds thank you for showing up we are a community we're there for each other we need to start showing up to events supporting the kids being exposed out there and saying here I am I'm here for you and yeah let your ear get bent a little because that's what it's about we need to work hard for each other side by side hip to hip as a district as staff as teachers we have to support each other there's nothing wrong with helping one another but it ain't going to happen if you don't go out there and do it to the two new trustees welcome again thank you do you have anyone from pavam good evening president home dr. Rodriguez members of the board my name is Mike Berman I'm the director of equity state and federal programs and I am here to build on what dr. Rodriguez was talking about earlier in her opening we are extremely excited about Saturday Saturday we have our annual parent conference for the last two years we've done it virtually we're so glad to be back in person we have a great event planned we hope you all join us we hope everybody here can come out we got flyers in the back I come bearing props we have 14 workshops offered three times each most of them the social emotional supports hopes and dreams financial health chatting under the rainbow Mexican consulates coming out and talking about immigration and rights we have our misteco presenters coming out we have most of our most of our workshops offered in misteco all of them are translated uh we have some great information for all ages we have child care across the street the our event is at ye hall and child care is at minty white across the street we would love everyone to get the words out again I have flyers in the back a couple other highlights is I don't know if you've seen the weather report every day looks like rain except Saturday right it was destined to be but it will be cold however we have local coffee provided along with breakfast and lunch it really is a great opportunity we hope to see all of you we would love to welcome you at eight o'clock for our opening we go until three o'clock the day concludes with an hour of resource fair where we have 21 of our community partners and district departments represented and we're kind of continuing on the passport idea we have bingo cards and the idea is that every participant gets a gets a drawing for some great prizes that have been donated from from community members and and and uh partners and then if you get 12 stamps on our passport then you get an additional opportunity to win things like um iPads and Chromebooks and as was mentioned we are tied in with the um the passport event the evening that is happening um with Jen Littleton Bruno's team and you can get extra tickets or or uh opportunities to enter with the rolling and the roller skating and the movie night and one last event before I leave you Monday is our next Monday mini and this one is specific for credit recovery um so the the messages have all gone out and will continue to go out to families that might be interested in all secondary schools and especially to families where we have students with Ds and Fs so if you could spread the word on all that wonderful stuff and again we have flyers in the back hope to see you on Saturday and all the other wonderful events thank you very much thank you do we have anyone from CWA all right now moving on to item 9.1 since we moved that um so let's see what we'll have um so refunding of the 2012 election series a bonds the report will be presented by Dale Scott uh president of Dale Scott and company thank you president home board of trustees dr. Rodriguez um Clint Rucker I'm the chief business officer welcome trustee scow so I'm only here for a brief minute because I won't pretend to be nearly as knowledgeable as Dale on these topics but we are lucky enough that he was able to join us um Dale reached out to me actually a few weeks ago regarding our measure L bond that you just heard about earlier and a way to actually refinance it in order to save taxpayers money so first thing I said to Dale was is there any reason I don't do this and he looked at me he said there's no reason you don't do this you're literally just saving people money so I'm always interested in saving our community money and Dale is here to give us a presentation on how we can do that um this won't be an action item we'll bring that back to the next meeting but Dale will be here to give a quick presentation to answer any questions so with that I'm going to pass it off to the expert good evening um usually when I stand up and um say that I'm going to talk about the district's bond program and how you refinance in my pause as there's a mass exodus for the for the exit but I will um be brief I promise um the district has this is just a short presentation to kind of give everybody a flavor of where you are the district has had a number of attempts uh two of them successful to pass general obligation bond measures um since 1998 uh the ones in yellow were the victories and you can see that there still is a certain amount of bonds that are going to be have to be paid you'll see on the next slide um these are the various series of bonds that have actually been issued to investors um the most important column on this is the one on the far right hand side where it says next call date that means the date in which you can refinance them there's some restrictions as to when those might be refinanced the one that we are considering is the one on the top in yellow that was a 28.6 million dollar bond issued in um 2013 and it can now be refinanced as you can see 8123 you can actually refinance at six months and I'm sorry three months in advance of that date so this is right on track I put yellow highlight on the one on the bottom the 2020 refinancing refunding that just actually took place a couple years ago it will not be brought to you next it's your next meeting but we're working on some ideas on how that might be restructured and refinanced also I just didn't want you to think well why didn't you talk about this the last time you were here so it is not ready for prime time but there may be some opportunities there as well to reduce the cost of the taxpayers these are the estimated tax rates per hundred thousand dollars of assessed valuation um for all of the bonds that are outstanding in your community so what we're trying to do with the refinancing is lower these rates now to be clear this is not going to be a massive lowering of the tax rates it's a lot of money in aggregate but it gets spread out among all of your taxpayers you can see that there are still seven years left on the 2002 election and then there'll be a big drop off in 2029 faking it down to the 30 dollars whether you still have a fair number of years to repay these bonds as was announced to the taxpayers when they put the voters when they voted on it oh just one last slide on the uh background this is the district's assessed valuation and that's really the the guts of the transaction this is the all the value of all the taxable property in the district single family industrial agricultural this is what the tax rate is actually based on they take the amount of that is owed to the investors they divide that by whatever the assessed valuation is and that is the tax rate as you can see the district has had for the last 10 years at least a very steady rate of 5 per cent per year that's just that's not the housing values that's the tax rate value the taxable assessed valuation and five percent is a good healthy steady clip for any district in the state okay here we go there is 28.6 million dollars of this particular series outstanding to put it very simply those bonds that are outstanding now are at interest rates that are higher than what the current market is that's really what's happening so if the investor went out to buy those bonds today the interest rate would be less because rates for those bonds I know rates have gone up recently but when these bonds are sold rates are lower than they were at that time so what the refinancing sometimes called a refunding is doing is essentially taking those bonds away from those investors issuing new bonds at a lower rate and the savings is then returned to taxpayers in the form of lower tax rates that's really all that's happening in the current market that would result in savings after all the costs are paid for the rating and the lawyers and underwriters and people like me the net savings the taxpayers is currently estimated to be over 2.6 million dollars so it takes simple action of the board to pass that it takes a couple maybe a month to put that together if rates go back up in that time period and it becomes uneconomical we stop we put it on hold we hope the market comes back but there's no cost to the district at that point all costs of issuance is paid out of this transaction nothing comes out of the general fund so with that I'm going to pause and see if there are any questions this will be coming back to you as an action item and it takes a simple majority of the board at your next board thank you do we have any public speakers to this item no we do not present at home any questions or comments from the board trustee das jr I just want to say that in my trustee area we're trying to spend the money as fast as we can so thank you trustee de serpa did you have some questions hi thanks for being here I know you have to drive a long way to get home but I appreciate you standing for questions so the 2,623,305 that would be the savings to the taxpayer over how long over like 30 years or 27 years or over all of those years now sometimes it's done so the maturity of that particular bond is 2047 correct so that it doesn't change the term in terms no does not change the term doesn't doesn't lengthen the term we can shorten the term if we want but we can't lengthen the term so help me understand because when these bonds were issued interest rates were very very low so how is it today that they could be even lower than when they were issued that that's confusing to me the average interest rate if you look down at the fourth line the average interest rate on the bonds that we are refinancing and this this is a little bit into the weeds okay when bonds are sold they're not sold the way you think of a mortgage for example you go out and get a mortgage and it's four percent and that's the that's the mortgage rate bonds are sold each year has a different interest rate because an investor might say oh I want to have a bond from the school district what's the interest rate well if it's five if you're gonna keep the bonds for five years it's two percent okay well what if I want to keep it for ten years so in the case it's two point five percent or it's three percent so the rates usually go up the longer the term is so of the bonds that we are looking at refinancing the average rate is four and a quarter today that same rate would be three point nine percent and it's simply because when those bonds were sold at that time the rates were actually higher than they are today for those bonds okay and then there are significant costs associated in refinancing the bonds so why is now the best time to do it like because if we have to do this again down the road there's going to be more costs in addition so well you can that doesn't seem like a huge savings it's well I mean it's something for sure point six million dollars there's a lot of people that will stand to make a lot of money off of this refinance including yourself and so I'm wondering do we is now the the right time to do it or would it be more important to wait and and do this at a later date and save more money so if you look again at that far column on the right hand side now those are the years when the bonds can be refinanced so with the exception of the one I described at the bottom that we're working on the next time you'll be able there is one right below it 8123 the third one down we've looked at that that doesn't have any savings in it so we're not bringing that to you the next opportunity then would be three years from now so you're giving up three years of savings because you're not you're the taxpayers are paying those rates during that three-year period was your savings going to be you are your cost that would be completely compressed into one no it may be less but it wouldn't be the same it just wouldn't be because you have two different bonds that you are refinancing so is this the right time well in terms of trying to save costs yes because you're not going to save cost in terms of interest rates rising or falling I can't tell you so two million dollars and all of the tax the people paying taxes on their property taxes I know everybody has a different rate depending on what their valuation is but this seems like it's not a tremendous amount of savings to people right it's like three dollars or something now it's in that range here's the way I look at it and I think it has to do really and I don't mean this to sound good but I think it's the way we kind of look at costs and savings if I came to you with a new bond issue and we just sold a new bond and I said well I have I have some news for you we sold the bond but we should have done it a different way because it cost us an additional 2.6 2.8 million dollars in interest but don't worry about it because it's not it's really not that much that would not go over well that would not go over well with anybody what do you mean you pay you cost it costs us 2.8 million dollars more but now you have the opportunity to get 2.8 million dollars by really doing not much of anything except you know your staff has to do some stuff can you break down the costs that the attorneys yourself and other people would be making off of this refinance I can give you estimates of all of them this assumes costs of about 185,000 dollars the majority of that goes to the underwriter I shouldn't say the majority the large percent of that that is going to be probably 50 to 60,000 dollars that's for the sale I'm estimating that there's going to be roughly 20 to 30,000 dollars these are coming off the top of my head and they might not all add okay but 20 to 30,000 dollars for the rating legal fees are probably going to be close to 70 to 80,000 our fee I believe is in the 50 to 60,000 dollar range okay thank you I appreciate it any other questions or comments from board members you had mentioned about the possibility of also shortening the term and could you speak to what benefits there would be into that or any suggestions as to why not to proceed to shorten the term this is purely up to you the way the terms get shortened on these is to keep the payments the same for the next in this case 20 years or so and just take all the savings in this case in that last year 2047 in terms of absolute dollars that's the largest savings because you're taking the compounding off yes so that's the that's the most that's the largest savings and just a pure cash basis but there's no direct benefit to the taxpayers today there isn't the future obviously but there's no benefit to them today and that benefit wouldn't be reaped until after 2045 correct okay and also you also spoke to with regards to the district's rating and as I recall when I don't know more than a few boards back I think there might only be two of us here when that made the decision about purchasing this building at a cost neutral position and part of our ability to do that was because of our our good rating right and could you speak to that our district's current good rating where we're standing with that well the district would be re-rated and as I don't anticipate any change and I'm using could be faulty memory but my memory is that the rating is in the lower double a category which is a or higher single a category which is a very strong rating I don't see any real changes coming up in that but they do take into consideration actions such as this you know the fiscal fiscal savvy of the district if you will and then of course there's a lot of factors that you can't control such as enrollments population income etc etc but the actions such as this do count and how about the actions such as the the action that like I said more than a few boards back when we made the decision to purchase this building that impacts that decision as well I think it helped it I don't think it had a big impact but I think it helped it because it reduced your cash draw okay all right thank you for being here and presenting this to us thank you answering our questions anyone else thank you very much thank you very much for taking the time thank you circling back to item 8.1 resolution 22 2335 women's history month report will be presented by dr. Michelle Rodriguez yeah so thank you so much so two years ago the president came out with this new designation of women's history month and so since that time so this will be the third time that we do the resolution since that time we too have acknowledged national women's history month and so this year the 2023 theme is celebrating women who tell our stories and I will just read a few lines from this in appreciation to all the strong women that we have within our district so whereas American women of every race class and ethnic background has made historic contributions to our nation and community in countless recorded and unrecorded ways whereas American women have played a unique role throughout the history of the nation by providing the majority of the volunteer labor force of the nation whereas American women are particularly important in the establishment of early charitable philanthropic and cultural institutions in our nation and whereas American women of every race class and ethnic background served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive show social change movement whereas American women have served our country craziously in military whereas Pajaro Valley is the part and its partners invest in the empowerment of young women through everyday lesson plans such as programs such as ethnic studies girls in engineering girls who code and other now therefore it be resolved by the Pajaro Valley unified school district board of education that march is designated as women's history month the superintendent is called to observe and highlight march as women's history month with appropriate programs ceremonies and activities throughout the district and so I ask for your approval of this item thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not do I have any questions or comments from the board thank you thank you to Dr. Rodriguez for bringing us forward I would like to support this resolution by making a motion great I have a motion do I have a second I have a first and a second all those in favor I any opposed motion carries seven zero moving on to item 8.2 approve resolution 22 23 36 acknowledging national career technical education month report will be presented by Julie Edwards our CTE coordinator. Good evening board president home board trustees Dr. Rodriguez I'm excited tonight to present a couple of things I brought a little bit of swag for the board as well Peggy Pugh our executive director of teaching and learning and I were honored last night to receive this proclamation from the city of Watsonville honoring PVUSD and our CTE program so I'm I'll be sharing that with Eva later for the superintendent's office and then also I don't know from which direction you might have come into the boardroom tonight but if you notice the halls of the of the main hallway and we have some posters up in here too these are a series of posters that we created to highlight the exciting parts of our CTE program the breath of it the kinds of things that we're instilling in our students in terms of innovation and creativity problem solving critical thinking and all the things that we're we're celebrating in general about CTE and it happens to be CTE month and so tonight I bring for your consideration a resolution and I'm just going to read a few parts of it just starting with the the beginning where whereas in the month of February 2023 has been designated national career technical education month and whereas more than 3200 students in PVUSD secondary schools are now participating excuse me in career technical education pathways providing rigorous academic courses and real-world work experience that improve the quality of their education and increase engagement achievement and high school completion and post-secondary transition and whereas passions interests and talents of our students they discover early in their educational experience and continue to be nurtured within the district as well as pathways of study that advance their educational and career goals and whereas PVUSD will continue to support and expand career technical education to advance excellence in education contribute to the development of a flourishing workplace and improve the quality of life in the city and communities of the Pajaro Valley so I bring this to you for your consideration with gratitude and I want to mention just very briefly that Karen Lemon is a retired PVUSD CTE teacher who was a teacher at Renaissance High and she is the photographer for all of the posters that we're seeing around us and she worked really hard to try to capture the students in those special moments that we thought everyone would be inspired to to experience as they visited the district office and so anyway thank you I bring this to your consideration thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do we have one um Martha Vega good evening Dr. Rodriguez some board of trustees I would like to welcome the two board of trustees on the board and also like to take the time to introduce myself my name is Martha Vega I am a teacher here at for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District I'm a teacher at Pajaro Valley High School under the career technical education program I like to say thank you for all the work you do also Karen Lemon that I've collaborated with her and 10 years ago on a project I'm a firm believer in career educational program I've worked in the state city and county for 28 years prior for me doing a career pivot having my master's degree I went back to Cabrillo took some career technical education classes and did a transition career transition during the pandemic seeing the need for for teachers so I am a firm believer I live here and believe in our future they hold 33 percent of our part they our students are 33 percent of our population here in Watsonville so it's important to for everything that you do so I want to thank you I like to also add to Ron Sandage he was my teacher at Ye Hall I'm totally dating myself but um and he was also at PV High School oh my god I'm running out of time so let me wrap it up he's also part of Freedom Rotary and I was asked if I could be the Interact Club Advisor so I've been collaborating with him and I totally would love to see the expansion as well of activities at the school I just got back from Redwood City supporting our students they were playing soccer they won tonight can you guys like applaud for them I'm so happy if you go on Instagram they shared oh damn I ran out of time okay thank you so much I'm also collaborating on the mural at Cesar Chavez thank you for having that it's creating a space for students to be safe and I welcome everyone to help out with that and thank you okay no time any discussion from the board or questions oh hello um good evening I just wanted to say thank you too for bringing forth this resolution and I was supposed to be at that meeting yesterday too for the city council and it's been an overwhelming week so I'm sorry I couldn't be there but I'm still really glad that you're here and I just wanted to share that at Watsonville High we have really extensive CTE programs like um the academy that I'm in it's called education community humanitarian outreach leadership academy and all throughout my past three years I've had like CTE classes and it's like perspectives in education their psychology and I'm taking social justice this year and they're all super engaging courses and they really stimulate like discussions in class and I think it's super important and I know there's also different pathways that students can go to and it's just super fruitful for students to have that opportunity so thank you and congratulations on the proclamation thanks very much any other yes um I I just want to thank you Julie for the work you and all your your team is doing and I'm always appreciative of all of our teachers and especially teachers like Miss Vega who are in our CTE program that's always been something very near and dear to my heart I really appreciated like early on in my tenorship of being on the board getting to be our federal advocate to travel out to Washington DC to advocate for continued funding for CTE programs with our senators and congressional leaders and so I'm very very appreciative of all of you and the work you're doing it couldn't be done without also our teachers I don't know maybe that will be my new thing and my retirement because I think my retirement is just going to be a new version of me doing something different so I also look forward to our meeting this coming month right coming up and I can't let it go I mean I know someone else wants to speak so thank you but I'd like to make a motion to approve this resolution before anybody takes it from me good evening Julie thank you for bringing this forward as a former green building construction skills instructor myself I did that for three years and it was very rewarding you know I had my student dynamic was you know 18 year olds and older men that you know they're unemployed getting retrained or you know got a little trouble and trying to you know go the right way and learn a skill so you know I I did that for a while and I really enjoyed it matter of fact and I think I've told the story before I see one of my success stories just about daily on the freeway every day out of one so he drives truck number 45 for bellows plumbing and I pull up next to him sometimes in the morning or in the evenings during the drive and I'll give give him a good hearty wave and he'll do the same for me because he still remembers me so you know just to see that you know the guy you know he's got a job he's doing well he's supporting his family and you know these programs make a big difference we need hands on people not everybody's going to be an author or an archaeologist or what not we need guys and gals to get their hands dirty either wrenching on a car or planting seeds or you know digging a hole or whatever it has to get done we need we have infrastructure that needs to get taken care of so you know I thank you and yeah I'm full support as well you have a first I have a second I beat anybody else to that thank you I'll make it quick I'll just say I do have a son who's a sophomore now and the highlight of his schedule is his cte class so it is very important to keep that and for our students thanks and I'll keep it short if I if I may um it just it's been so fantastic to watch your excitement it's contagious about the growth in our cte programs and the new things that you've brought into the district and to keep up the good work and we're so proud of the work that you're doing on behalf of the kids thank you thank you very much thanks any other questions or comments all right I've got a first and a second and I'm excited as well so I'll keep it to that but with a first and a second all those in favor hi any opposed motion carries thank you thank you very much all right item 8.3 comprehensive school safety plan report will be presented by Dr. Ivan Alcares director of student services good evening president home board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez I'm Dr. Ivan Alcares the director of student services and yes today we'll be talking a little bit about our comprehensive safety plan so just to get us started a little bit about our comprehensive safety plan it is in there is timelines in which we are supposed to be presenting this information to the board and when we're working with our sites to develop and review these comprehensive safety plans but the reality is it's a really a whole year long process because we're consistently taking feedback from our partners and those who are participating in the review and update of our safety plans so just so that everybody knows typically the this year it started in September so we met very early in the year with our principals to start identifying the safety teams at the site those who are going to be involved in reviewing and looking at these safety plans per education code we are required to look at them annually to review and make adjustments to the safety plans we do take feedback from our stakeholders so at the site level the sites are working with their safety teams that they identified in September they're getting feedback from their constituents at the local level with our school site council teams as well and then also at the district level with our safety team as well and so just as part of that process we do involve some partners as well we do involve our law enforcement as part of the review process this year we did have a work with Deputy Lopez from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office we work with Officer Johnson for WPD and then also work with the Monterey County Community Services Division Sergeant Mendoza as well as part of the process in reviewing our comprehensive safety plans so once this process of review happens it starts in September goes all the way through January and about February they're getting the approval from their school site councils and then it comes for our review for our district team there is four of us that look at these plans and we do provide feedback to our sites if any changes need to happen as well as we're getting feedback from those our law enforcement and making adjustments as well throughout the year we're also offering some trainings that pertain to the safety plan this year we've kind of amplified many of the trainings that we've made available to our school sites as well our admin so we did a lot of suicide risk in September we did a threat assessment offered in October ongoing Alice trainings throughout the year did our reunification protocols as well review this year with our district leadership as well so we've been doing a lot of ongoing trainings throughout the year to kind of enhance our comprehensive safety plans for our district there is office hours that were provided throughout the review process as well so the team of four at the district office that were looking at these plans made themselves available on a weekly basis to you know look at these plans with the site administration and provide additional feedback if needed just a quick reminder there's two parts to the comprehensive safety plan the first part is really based on just all of the policies and procedures that very heavy on district policies and then really looking at our school culture and climate indicators so if you look at some of these for example we're looking at school climate indicators like office referrals we're looking at attendance rate truancy rates suspension and expulsion data at the site level perhaps we're looking at our california healthy kids survey at the site and then also any local law enforcement data that may give us some indicators about the current climate at our our schools as well as our current crime we also take a look at our training schedule we look at when they're having their drills for fire earthquake shelter in place as well as our alice protocols and then looking at anything that would give us an indication of the school climate so we're looking at our pbis initiatives initiatives looking at our counseling support services that they have been placed at the site so this all gets embedded in part one part two just a quick reminder it's not public it won't be released to the public part one is public assuming that the board approves it tonight we will be posting it on every school website they'll be posting their part one to the public and made available on all of these sections part two is to be kept confidential because part two is actually a much more in detail that specifies all of the evacuation area has all of the maps for the site it also indicates the reunification areas that that the site have indicated in case there was a true need for an evacuation so it also identifies the roles and responsibilities of the safety team and those that are that were involved in the process of developing and adjusting these comprehensive safety plans so for that reason that portion of the plan does not get posted on school websites they it's to be kept confidential so yeah so with that i'm hoping that you would approve the safety plans for our sites thank you do we have any public speakers to decide them we do not present at home do we have any questions or comments from the board trustee dies jr thank you dr evan you do great work in the district and i just wanted to thank you for that i know you're born and raised and i know you take your job seriously um when we talk about alice training how often is this alice training taking place yeah so we put in front of the board back in i believe it was our october board meeting there was a schedule um that schedule included three goals we wanted to increase the number of certified trainers for our district that could go out and do these trainings with our sites um we do uh we did finish all of our secondary sites in the fall and currently in the midst of doing our trainings with all of the elementary staff sites um we will be probably finishing about march so we did because of the increase in trainers that we have in our district now we actually weren't able to move our deadline because we were kind of pushing it all the way to may so that would seem a little bit too long for us so we were able to accomplish that and we'll probably be done in march so there is an official training that happens um at the site from our district certified staff once a year and then staff that are trained do a refresher as well so there's two alice trainings at the site in addition to that i did mention to the board that we are working on our student pilot we actually have a meeting this upcoming week to talk about our our two sites who will be piloting um the alice training as well so you would say twice a year that the alice training is taking place okay and so you talk about a safety team what is the safety who is the safety team yeah so typically this is the first meeting that happened in september where we task our site leaders to identify the group of individuals that holds some type of skill set or level of of knowledge in one of the areas that may be needed in terms of an emergency so a safety team typically involves an incident commander who would lead that team to a crisis if they were to happen and then in addition to that would be involved would be probably a health care assistant or someone in the medical field to be able to or a nurse or someone that can assist at the time it could be our custodial staff who can assist in you know shutting off any power or anything that may be of assistance needed at that time of the emergency so the task is to look at specific emergencies and then identify folks that can assist in resolving that crisis or assisting in that crisis it could be custodian could be the nurse could be the health care assistant a counselor the assistant principal principal so they look at the gamut of their staff and then kind of start identifying those strengths and and matching those roles and responsibilities so in other words classified workers it is sometimes also as well sometimes classified workers support with the communication as well typically as you know most of our office staff are the first ones to get the calls from family members so we oftentimes tap into their level of expertise and communication with with their families another question I have is you know I know in the past that we've had surveys about how safe students community members and teachers feel is it possible to do that again to kind of like a refresher of how safe do you feel you know how safe don't you feel how safe you know just can we do a survey like that just to kind of stage of where like Aptos and Watson were feeling safety wise yeah so I think what you may be referring back to is our youth truth survey data that we recently and that is an annual survey that we put out just to measure this climate question that you're talking about how safe students feel in addition to that our healthy kids survey also has a a similar question that is the same as you choose so there's another data set that comes to us in the spring so right about now our school site are actually implementing our California Health and Kids Survey so that's another data point that we can also take a look at and that's what we take a look at when we're also developing this comprehensive safety plan that's part one right so we technically would have two data sets to kind of identify this safety component that you're talking about so adding an additional one I will default that to Dr. Rodriguez in the board. Oh yeah I'm just curious because it's been a couple years and I'm just curious at Watsonville High how students in the community is feeling that way I could listen and see what we could do to make our students and community members feel safe and so if we could do something like that and you know I'm not you know I'm not sure how the Aptos representatives feel about that because that's I'm just curious to feel what the Watsonville the community of Watsonville is thinking and how they're feeling. So at the last board meeting I did I showed you the summary of the youth truth so we actually have that by every single school site so the reason why we actually deviated or did in addition to the California youth survey is because that is only a subsection and didn't include staff and didn't include parents so the youth truth we've now been doing it now for four years are we on our fifth at least yet fifth our fifth year and that is every single child every single parent and every single staff member has access to that and safety is one of them actually be one of the when we look at the sheet one of the decreases was in safety which is why when you look at we had some positives and then we had some challenges two of the challenges was meant one was mentioned tonight actually was relationship so the disconnect between adults and parents feel like they have high level of relationships the students don't feel that so that was the one one area and then the second area that we highlighted was safety so we definitely can provide that we have that for each and every school site as well as the student view of that the parent view of that and staff view of that and so we literally just just put out that information so we can definitely provide it to the board no problem thank you very much that was a question I actually was going to ask you because you had done a survey the summary of the youth truth survey and in your report we I saw a startling you know number here like students at Rowling Hills like half of the students there don't feel safe that hurts me and so like I want to see the raw data of these youth truth surveys you know for all the schools but yeah I mean our kids need to feel safe at school to be able to learn so I'm glad you know you guys are looking at this and implementing this plan and I'm hoping that you know in this plan yes you're gonna try to figure out what these students are afraid of and really pinpoint those issues and try to work on those and I wanted to ask because I do sometimes hear from my constituents that they are they feel frustrated about how emergency alerts are communicated so you know what proactive steps can pbsd parents take now to ensure that they're getting you know these types of communications in a way that works for them so either email or text or however what steps should they take now yeah one of the one of the things that we highly encourage our families to do is to really provide the most up-to-date contact information to the school site what we oftentimes find out is that they've had a change info number or change in their email address or of some nature so we typically just want to encourage our families just to stay connected with the site and provide the most up-to-date contact info most of our sites are using all of our systems of communication so auto dialers typically do happen when there's an emergency or an incident on campuses email addresses are also used through our student informational system as well so that's another avenue so if they haven't provided an email address as part of the registration process or packet that we highly do recommend that they do that to the site and we do have a remind as well so that's another tool that our district uses to communicate with families as well and so we highly encourage them to provide opt-in to getting these these messages as well because sometimes they our families choose not to thank you I just wanted to add on something so first and foremost and with the severity of the situation it will actually sometimes extend the time in which we then respond to parents so just so you know first and foremost the job of an site administrator is to secure the site first and foremost so in some cases that it that takes time for us to be able to do that prior to communication and now with most students having their own cell phone I will tell you that likely a student will actually tell their parent before we do and often we're criticized for that because but what the reason that's happening is we first and foremost have to care for the health and safety of students and staff so as soon as we secure actually because Dr. Acabas is is is very good at what he does we already have like scripts that are ready for us to use in certain situations but we will not use those scripts until we have secured the site because the life of students is first and foremost and of staff and so a lot of times people are like well I my student my child told me 15 minutes ago 10 minutes ago and you know Dr. Acabas has worked with the sites to try to set a standard of we're going to communicate by X amount of time but I just wanted to highlight that because likely a child will tell their parent beforehand especially the more severe the case probably the longer it's going to take us to secure the site and so you want to talk to them about the timelines or your proposed timeline I can't so the it typically like a campus like Guantanamo High School when we do drills and what it takes about anywhere between 7 to 10 minutes to secure the entire campus so by 10 minutes it's kind of our mark to start kind of the first line of communication to families and those who are involved in in that process so it does take about 7 to 10 and I would tie into myself to ensure that we have locked doors gates and what not in case of an emergency of that nature so by 10 minutes we should already be you know having some type of communication to the community and our parents thank you trustee scow thank you thank you Dr. Acabas I'm very impressed with the document here for rolling hills excuse me in my area so the school I've been getting to know better over the recent years and I got to say I'm very impressed with the leadership of the of the administration there and the spirit that's been changing there I also want to acknowledge as everything is related uh trustee dodge was talking about classified workers being essential to this process I just have to acknowledge that rolling hills is down three to five teachers depending on how you count and it's been an issue that's been commuted to cater to me as a board trust before port trustee and now as a board trustee that just wanting to acknowledge how all these things are interrelated and thank you for this report thank you anyone else oh another question okay yeah I'm not trying to bash on any safety or security I just you know I have complete faith at the safety and security of what's why I you know my daughter goes there I feel safe you know with the SRO and the health I just wanted to be able to see some sort of data to see what I could do to improve on and to listen and you know I know my newer colleagues have this I don't want to speak for you but you know I know they might have some different issues and we would just like data to see but I have complete faith that the administration and the safety of what's why so they've proven themselves you know with all the guns that they stopped and all all the issues and I have complete faith in all them so just thank you I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve I have a motion do I have a second a second I have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero all right moving on to item 8.4 j-13 a request for allowance due to emergency condition school closure due to state of emergency for heavy floods and winter storms report will be presented by Dr. Alcatraz. Good evening president home board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez yes we get to present to you the j-13 a form which is a request for allowance for attendance due to an emergency condition so as many of you probably recall back in January many of our schools had to close due to the state of emergency costs by the heavy floods and winter storms the schools that were closed due to the emergency conditions were assessed daily and on the individual basis to determine if school closure was required so health and safety of our student staff and families was a consideration as part of the closures there was a set of conditions that we looked at to determine whether the schools should be closed at that time whether there was a counter-city evacuation order that impacted the site counter-city evacuation warnings impassable or closed roads restricting access to the school site as well as any national weather service flash flood warnings so what this application does it allows us to indicate that we were having to close our schools due to a state of emergency which would allow us to receive the same apportionment of funds that we would have had we not been closed so we typically have a 180-day calendar for our school sites and when impacted this application allow us to to receive the apportionment that we would have if we have not closed in the board documents you'll see that there is a timeline as to which sites were closed on which particular dates starting with january 9th so with that i respectfully ask that you approve the j-13 a form request for allowance due to emergency conditions thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not present at home do we have any discussion from the board i would just like to say thank you to all the class seven workers and teachers who are out there during these storms i know dr. red rigas that was at watsville high because i had concerns and issue you know about flooding because there was a lot of flooding off of riverside and bridge all the volunteers who were out there during the flooding especially in trustee classes area there was a lot of people who came together and a lot of people's names who didn't get mentioned who were out there in the waters helping senior citizens get their their their clothing their animals and who sheltered other people i just wanted to say thank you to those and i wish you'll bite him when it came to watsville first before capital but that's just my opinion so thank you vice president acosta i think it's just i want to have a clarifying question for the public just to make sure that public's understanding this is clear is that there will be no makeup instruction days for students for those days of school closure correct correct till this application would allow us to not have to make up those days at the end of the year typically she's got a mind of her own okay and right and i just wanted to make sure that that we were pretty clear because i think there was some state of confusion about that but okay thank you um unless somebody else has a comment i'm willing to make the motion to approve this agenda item a second i have a first and a second um all those in favor hi any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you moving on to item eight point five um approve the memorandum of understanding between pvft and pvsd uh 2022 2023 summer school pay rates report will be presented by allison neah zawa our assistant superintendent of human resources yes thank you president home board of trustees dr adrigus and welcome trustee scow thank you for being here um so yes i have an mou uh for you tonight we're already planning for summer school believe it or not and so we would like to continue um with the program that we ran last year and the pay rates so this mou encompasses the esy which is our special ed program the migrant program as well as the expanded learning program that's already been run through um the extended learning program so this is continuing with what we did last year um we offered a per diem rate for teachers who taught in the program and then the incentive to conduct the nine hour day with the 70 an hour for teachers who stay and either work before the program or after the program again to help us meet the requirements of a nine hour day for students so um we work with pvft on the attached mou and so i respectfully request that you please approve it tonight thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not president home great any discussion from the board i'll entertain a motion i'll make a motion to approve a second i have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero all right moving on to item 8.6 city of watsonville amendment with expanded learning report will be presented by jennifer littleton bruno our director of expanded learning. good evening president home board of trustees i think dr adriga's left um i'm jen littleton bruno director of expanded learning and i'm pleased to share with you a an expansion and amendment of our contract with the city of watsonville and so before you what you are seeing is a multi-year two-year contract to support our nine hour day throughout the school year it will serve three thousand students per year minimum upwards of five thousand students and what this is for is for before school program after school program saturday programs the really exciting event this saturday the roller skating so for our parro passport summer school camps winter camps spring break camps our partnership with the city of watsonville is really growing and expanding and our students are getting better services and more services so i'm very excited to present this to you tonight and i ask that you approve this contract thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not present do we have any discussion from the lord right i i kind of want to ask if we'll be donkeys with basketballs on saturday because that seems to be a thing i was really jealous that i'm not the person bringing the donkeys with the basketballs but um stay tuned because i just see this as a challenge of more really unique great services for our students can i have a motion i'll make a motion to approve all right i've got a first do i have a second second all right all those in favor i any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you all right and going on trusty home oh yeah my president sorry some seven p.m. donkeys basketball and what's behind it um so uh item 8.7 contract with arts council santa cruz county report will be presented by jennifer littleton bruno um take it away good evening president home board of trustees i'm really excited for this other multi-year contract as well this one is with the arts council of santa cruz county and this one is for three and a half years of programming each year we'll see at least 3,500 students um what this what is this like what are these students going to see we will have over 312 art performances go on to our afterschool sites and our summer school sites so that accounts to about anywhere from 10 performances per school almost one arts assembly per month in our afterschool programs we have 231 year long residencies with spectra artists and classes going on so that might be music theater drama classes in afterschool and during summer school in addition there are 84 year-long mariposa art classes those are the really cool art classes where our own high school students are teaching and being paid to teach with a mentor teacher and so they're learning how to play a guitar and then they go on to our afterschool sites and with a mentor teacher they're teaching the youth and making money to come on to our sites so that's really exciting as well i asked that you approve this contract thank you do you have any public speakers to this item is it hope we do not any discussion from the board i'd love to i'm sorry go ahead adam sorry what was i couldn't quite hit i was just going to make a motion but i think adam had a comment yeah trustee sounds it sounds fantastic just a question um and forgive me obviously i'm new how is this proposal relate to previous proposals from the arts council and the services is continuing or expanding or building or so it's continuing and expanding so we typically have a contract about three thousand dollars to three thousand five hundred dollars a year in our old i would say for probably the last five years and so this year we've really grown our programs we've expanded to many more sites and many more days and seeing more students at many of our school sites and so this allows us to be able to serve more students on our school sites we also um a new initiative that we had is that we saw that we didn't have enough vapa assemblies arts assemblies and so we're working with like tandy beal and company and other groups to bring more artists on so you know in a previous year you might have seen three assemblies per school site and now our goal is to have 10 assemblies per school site so the other thing that's different about this contract is that this is a multi-year contract and with this we're able to save money the arts council is investing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year of administration fees that they are not charging us because we're doing this larger contract with them and so it's a cost savings for the district the other pieces that we're using our expanded learning funds both carryover and regular year and some of our carryover funds do need to be utilized and so that's one of the reasons we're doing this contract one more question if i may and how i'm sorry but i'm missing it in terms of which schools are these programs going to be offered at so the reason you don't see that is because it's offered at all of our after school program sites that we run it's really important to us and expanded learning that they're it's equal across the board and that all of our students have access to our education in the after school program so we have different art classes and we have this huge spreadsheet that to make sure that each school has art and vapa and different pieces and nutrition and health and so that no matter what school year student is at in after school program they're able to get a baseline of enrichment activities and so we don't share that because it is at all of our elementary school sites that we're running programs through our district programs and then it's also during our summer programs as well all right so in the past well in the past there were there wasn't after school programs in all the schools so this is really amazing and also in the past we would have to apply for the specter art grant and usually it was the parent volunteer for the home and school club doing that work so this is super exciting so i thank you very much for bringing this forward and i would like to make a motion to approve this thank you so i have a first and a second um any further comments other than i whole heartedly support this it's a wonderful program so thank you all all right so i have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero all right moving on to item eight point seven recommendation of award for rfp pvsd 2023 w an report will be presented by rich ariano director of purchasing and dan wiser director of technology all right um good evening president home board of trustees and dr rodriguez um pleased to be presenting this item with director of technology dan wiser i'm going to speak to the rfp process and then i'll turn it over to dan to um not yet um to go through the um the features of uh of these new connection speeds and what it'll mean to our um to our school sites um so back in october of 2022 the district issued a request for proposals for um w an wide area thank you um which um uh we're issued that for um for erate bids for um category one digital transmission services um on december ninth we received and evaluated two proposals from atn t and spectrum uh district staff reviewed and scored those proposals with atn t receiving the highest score 95 out of 100 points um the criteria for scoring um as part of the erate process is to give the most consideration to the price so 40 of the consideration goes to the price but other things are also considered um the cost for noneligible items for erate um successfully implementing other similar projects and um just the quality of their submittal so um we reviewed that as a team um scored them and we're bringing forward atn t with an initial uh recommendation of a three-year agreement with the option to add on an an additional two years i think the last paragraph of this really kind of explains the the the value that the district is getting from this proposal um which is basically going forward at once this is awarded and once we get erate funding we still have to apply for that funding um it will these connections will be half as much and 10 times faster so um part of that has to do with just our erate application the fact that we qualify for the highest level of discount um and then taking advantage of california teleconnect fund and other discount programs to get the best possible connectivity at the lowest possible price um and so we're bringing this forward for your approval and i'm here to answer any questions if you have any great um do we have any public speakers to this item uh we do not present at home great thank you um any discussion from the board i have a question all right so is this going equally across all schools every school so this is for 29 sites they're not all schools right so we have transportation is one of them for example we'll have the same 10 gig connection so it'll be 10 times faster for nearly every school there's we have three schools that currently are at 10 gigs and those are the high schools but they're not part of this contract we'll be bringing forward another contract for them but yes every school will be at that 10 gig level we have a few small locations like the boinevista children's center and aptos post secondary which are such small locations they don't really need the 10 gig so they're at a little bit slower speed but they got they have plenty of bandwidth they never come close to even you know hitting halfway so this is great will this be going to our date like our daycare centers or this just to the district so this is the connection for every single campus right we connect every campus back here to our data center right across the hall here um so every every network connection that these way in connections connect come back here and then out to the internet all of our all of the children's centers and other facilities migrant head starts and others that are on campuses take advantage of these same connections um and then there's a few that are a little bit farther away that we've actually managed to connect like at ea hall the watsville so they're actually connected to the ea hall network so they don't need their own separate connection they get that connection through ea hall but yeah we make sure that every single facility all of our early childhood facilities and all of our adult education facilities and every other facility has the fastest possible connectivity i know there's a preschool right next to ea hall so i just wanted to make sure yeah and they're also on the ea hall network so they're they're getting that same connectivity yeah thank you and that's part of this is future-proofing these connections just making sure that they're fast enough today and that we aren't going to run out of bandwidth in the future during this three-year period so so you mentioned about our three contemporary high schools because they're already on the 10g so that we're not that's not included in here right now we're going to be bringing that contract probably at the next board meeting is but it's basically the same it'll be the same price they're just they're on a little bit of a different time frame so that's what i was going to ask why the difference but it's a time framing yeah and part of that is they already had 10 gig connectivity now we're bringing all the other sites to that same level of connectivity so and so because part this communication thing we were discussing earlier tonight with school safety um and reflecting back to some of the criticisms um with aptos high and that there was some issues there with communication and and the bandwidth i mean this will help improve that as well so in other words students could communicate to their parents faster that there's a problem at school and then we we don't max out none of our schools are coming close to maxing out their connection back to the district office or out to the internet um so we don't have a school or any facility where the the wan connection is a problem and that's part of my job is to make sure we're constantly making sure they have more than enough connectivity for that this is not sell connectivity so there are parts of the campus that maybe won't be able to connect to this if you're far down in the baseball fields for example or on the football field that's not current that's not currently on to our wireless network we're working really hard to expand that wireless network and we're actually investigating e-rate opportunities to actually increase the wireless bandwidth and broadcast across the aptos high campus and then we're also continuing to work with cellular carriers to get cell connectivity out to that campus and across that campus but this is really just for the instructional network and and the wireless network across the campus we've also add a lot of wireless infrastructure to the outdoor areas so that when students are moving between classes and things like that they still have that connectivity and and yeah that's the idea is to make sure that this never gets maxed out that we never have a situation where where you know the the network slows down because we have too many people on it exactly okay and and thank you for the clarification on that so this still doesn't kind of cover some of those zones that kind of get into the dead or very low cell service zones this isn't covering that but but it sounds like your team's taking steps we're working yeah we're working to expand our wireless connectivity across those spaces and we're working to actually get cell connectivity as well because that way we'll have the best possible options for connectivity and and all for all purposes emergencies and instructional purposes and others so okay thank you sure just go thank you is it will this cover um problems that teachers might be having in some of their classrooms i've heard at rolling hills sometimes there's uh volume problems speed issues is this gonna so i mean i need more information about the specific problem so volume problem i i would assume you're talking about the the clock bell paging system and that is on our network but that's something that we can always if anybody ever has any problem i encourage them to submit a help ticket we will resolve it whatever it is wherever it is we make sure that every instructional space has wireless you know the highest level of wireless connectivity so that all students and staff get that connectivity but this is really about getting the school's connectivity back here to the district office it's not this contract isn't about expanding individual wireless infrastructure on each campus that's a whole other project and we're always working on that as well um but if there's if you ever hear of any kind of an issue if they can get us a help ticket we will get to them and get it resolved thank you sure can you assist us with the PG&E problems and the aptos area right now i was out of power for days um yeah just some in the rural areas just right you know fyi kids and families have no electricity and they haven't for like i you know more than 24 hours now yeah and we we are working with PG&E on improving that process and improving the communication and then we're also on our campuses adding battery backups so that when we do have a power outage the network stays up as you know longer and all that so and the phones stay up through those connectivities to the office battery backup systems so we are doing everything we can to keep that going that's great i'll make a motion to approve this i have a motion do i have a second i'll second great um if there's no further discussion i'll call for the vote all those in favor i any oppose motion carries seven zero thank you all right moving on to item nine point two full day kindergarten pilot update report will be presented by kasey assistant superintendent of elementary education good evening president home um board of trustees and dr rodriguez tonight i am excited to be able to present an update on our full day kindergarten pilot journey that we have endured this last year and so i would love to start off with a quote from one of our valencia um full day kindergarten or fdk is what we like to refer to it parents so very helpful and beneficial to be in a school full day previously preschool was even more hours and to be half day would be a loss of learning time and social time so as you can see you will catch um a few glimpses of some of our full day kindergarten classrooms too as we show you this journey so up at the top um you'll see miss negros um from and sold a couple of her kindergarten students and they are actually working on math and interacting and playing what we call their math um work stations and um they're actually adding already and being able to add on and explain their strategy and on the bottom um portion you see a picture in the same classroom of a couple students with puzzles having some purposeful play time and so we started this year with six pilot schools because we are a pilot to scale district and so it encompasses six sites that actually stretch and cover all of the areas in pv usd and we did that purposely and we also covered the different um language programs so we have our eo programs our sei programs bilingual and dual language programs across our district um we also included our um dependent charter schools as well as our um our regular schools as well and so um tonight i will cover quickly our journey and how we started off with our guiding principles and what that journey looked like um voices from our stakeholders which are so important which we have continuously gathered throughout the year um and um thirdly our academic outcomes so i'll show you a quick um couple data points of literacy and mathematics and then of course our learnings a few of the learnings that we have we have encountered this year and discovered together as a community and then next steps and our responsive changes as we plan to expand to three additional sites and so just like with our contingency planning and all of the things that we really work on in pv usd we have we developed guiding principles so everything that we did within our programs we wanted to make sure that we took it up to the litmus test if it's actually covering one of these items right if we had a if we had to decide if we were covering it or if it actually was representative of the work we wanted to do for our students um families and staff and so that first one starts with high expectations for all students right the second one is all about high quality developmentally informed um instructional programs right we want to make sure that our students have calm activities to do it's that balance right and those rest rest time activities as a um in conjunction also with those active tasks and learning um learning opportunities we also wanted to make sure we were integrating experiential play right um and then in addition we knew um listening to our parents also that they were very concerned they wanted to make sure that not only academics were important SEL was important social emotional learning and of course language development if we have our students longer we want to make sure that we're maximizing those opportunities for language development no matter what language it's in and then we also want to make sure that we are not doing what we always did in the past right we know that school um and education looks different so we wanted to make sure we had 21st century learning environments for our students we wanted to give them an opportunity to explore and then also develop strong identity and belonging and then their agency their their ability to really advocate for their own learning um and then lastly or not lastly last but not least because it is our secret sauce right is that parent and um family needs and that engagement piece that true partnership with our parents um and really focusing on the whole child the whole family and whole community um throughout um the year so as we're moving forward I just spoke about not wanting to do the same thing right and just stretching out the day what we have found um previously through research and evidence is that if we just continue to do the same thing and stretch it out our students will not grow in those types of kindergarten programs and so we wanted to make sure we looked at innovative and transformative practices and looking at the needs of our students so we knew based on data that our students were coming into kindergarten um in need uh phonological and phonemic awareness so we brought in um a kinesthetic program that really is supportive of the um developing their abilities to manipulate sounds um and blend and segment them which actually helps um um with literacy development and actually accelerates it and so it also ties in and supports the sips right our sips literacy program um which is also based on the science of reading too and then also adding in that the s t math with which is a blended learning math program which will support our bridges core curriculum giving our students an opportunity to have more of a personalized math program also and then a real focus like I said before that language development right but through a couple key um strategies which works on the literacy piece with writing so we focused on morning message shared writing interactive writing throughout um our core curriculum and then of course right we know that students really do learn a lot through play so our teachers have the ability to order purposeful play items and we went through what that looks like and we also partnered with our ECE program to make sure it was developed mentally informed and so our students actually had that time um embedded and integrated into their day along with that social emotional learning and so we have the opportunity to add in this piece of social emotional learning that really taps into passions interests and talents of our students so you heard um Miss Julie Edwards talk about it earlier right with the cte program well we're starting it with our youngest students also so there is a vertical alignment piece there too and then lastly that balance again making sure that as we're as we're waiting that balance between the active and quiet learning time for our students for example have making sure that we have that calming corner for our students too so they can learn how to self-regulate also so our journey started last spring and so we offered the the sites um all of the kindergarten teachers that were on this journey with us we got together with them and in five different planning sessions and so they had the opportunity um to go through and we started building schedules together and building this community of educators um as a group and as a team and so as and this was really instrumental in preparing them for this this year um and then it also helped us prepare at the district office level office level to make sure we were able to support them and so during the year also we right before the start of school we we offered two days of professional learning sessions that actually worked on the same things that I showed you on the slide before and that we also front loaded as part of some of these planning sessions as well and so we hopefully we launched them into a successful year and then throughout the year they had the calendar for six collaborative sessions so each trimester we had a couple check-in sessions and the really great thing about those sessions were we gave pre-check-in surveys so we tried to get exactly what they wanted to work on and we were able to be responsive to the needs of our teachers and if we weren't we were able to change it the next time we were constantly trying to get a keep a pulse of what was going on in the classroom and with our teachers and so we also did a mid-year survey so you're going to be seeing some data from our mid-year survey we gave it to our teachers and we also gave it to our parents and then lastly and then we have our SEL professional learning sessions which we will have a couple we've already had one we will have a couple more which really focus again on the RIASEC and that's that that piece where our students actually get to identify their passion interests and talents at this age and we're able to get them kind of like introduce them and expose them to some career pathways and start learning about them so the this next piece is all about feedback right so we want to learn from our feedback because we said that that was one of our guiding principles right and so this is the piece about our families so this first question one of the surveys questions really highlighted the social-emotional well-being so it asked our parents full day kindergarten has been helpful in developing the social-emotional well-being of my child so they got to either rate it extremely helpful right which is a five or on the other end not helpful at all and so as you can see we had a majority of about 90 percent of our parents identified either a four or a five right so that's extremely helpful or helpful right help the social-emotional well-being help the development and then the second one to your right is the academic growth right and it asked them the same type of question but it asked about how helpful full day kindergarten was to the acceleration of the academic growth of their child and the same scale right so you can see a majority again we have almost 90 percent right about 86 percent 87 percent of our parents also identified that also as being as seeing that it was either extremely helpful right or helpful and then moving on to another survey question that we asked them we asked them how how beneficial was it right to the to their child or to their family also right because again that was one of our guiding principles to work with our parents and support them and so again you see a huge number right you see over 90 about 90 percent of our parents said it was extremely beneficial to them to have that that full day opportunity and then the next question asked them about the parent family the school site partnership because we want to make sure that we are helping our sites also partner with parents and help our parents as well and so this one again you see 84 percent said that that there was a strong effort so this one was a little different it was a based on effort so there was a strong effort or no effort at all so you're looking over here and you can see that again we had a strong sense we had about 84 percent of our parents either saying a strong effort or you know there was effort notice notice there too and so what do parents value most so you can see it here the three things that they really valued most out of all of the items so we had over 90 parents actually complete the survey so 70 percent of them said learning environment was valued most length of day and then the additional time for our students for their social interactions and their social skills so that so those is what those are the things they valued most and then so here you see three parent voices so again you see some of our you see some of our full-day kindergarten students at Anseldo they are doing another one of our math workstations or workplaces sorry where the students are actually practicing their own math concepts and understanding and practicing their fluency at the the same time and they're having those meaningful social interactions right so I'll just read one of those quotes I think full-day kinder full day is great and makes sense it exposes the kids to more academics more time for concepts to click as well as more social time with peers and so that was one of our PVUSD full-day kindergarten parents and then 84 percent of them recommended a full would recommend full-day kindergarten to another parent all right right so now we're moving on to our teachers right so our teachers feedback is really important to us because they have been doing a lot of that heavy lifting and that and that work with our students and so one of the teachers said my students have attained higher levels of learning and so one of the questions we asked them was on a scale of one to five full-day kindergarten has been helpful in accelerating the academic growth of our students and so you can see that 60 percent of them rated it a four a four out of or a five and then this is about we have a 20 full-day kindergarten teacher so we were able to get feedback from half of them 50 percent of them and so and so you can see that they that a majority of them did feel like they're seeing that growth and then at this point we also saw the same question for social emotional and you can see just a slightly higher 70 percent of them rated it very high the benefits and then that same question about how beneficial is it to our to our children and their families we can see around 60 percent rated it a four or a five and then we also have um we asked them the same question about their sites making an effort because we want to know how we can support the sites if it if the teachers think it's been a struggle too and so we actually have a slightly higher we have 80 percent of them viewing it as that they had us a strong effort or that there was a significant effort made and so what did our teachers value most so we were we did like I said we did enable them or we were we empowered them to be able to purchase purposeful play materials and we provided them with a release time and um and instructional assistance time and so what they rated the most is the most significant or to value of them is that instructional assistant time they also said the um the release time to prepare right for instruction and that parent and family partnership and so we hear some of our teacher voices here and so we have students have made more time to have more time to complete tasks to rest in between tasks to take assessments and to play as far as scheduling it is much easier to have students on the regular schedule as the rest of the school for field trips conferences and for older siblings to be able to help both before school and after school buses all right so our academic data now this is our dibbles and edel data this is our literacy data points that we use for our universal screener and so our goal is on the left we have the fall dibbles which is the english version of the assessment we have the fall and the winter and then on the right we have the del which is the spanish and um fall and then we have the winter and so we our hope is to reduce the red because that is the intensive support that's needed when they're coming into us in kinder and so we were able to reduce it decrease that intensive support by 16 percent from fall to winter and then we were also in dibbles i mean not dibbles edel in the spanish version we were able to decrease it by 20 and then the core we want them in the green and the blue right where they're only needing um that best first instruction support and we were also able to significantly increase it there and then the last data point focuses on mathematics so this is part of our bridges um math program it's a checkpoint that we take that they take during the year as a formative assessment so at the beginning of the year in fall after just a little bit of instruction there wasn't much of a difference only a one percent um differential between the students meeting the standards in full day and the traditional kindergarten classes but look by winter one of the checkpoints showed that there was an 11 percent differential so if you imagine that keeping up for the rest of the year it's almost a 20 percent differential to our students being able to um to be meeting that standard so we saw significant growth there with the math and then our learning so now we're to the learnings and adjustments that we've made this year the first one is we and um as we were meeting with teachers and with administrators we were able to give them add additional yard duty time on campus we are hearing that the IA instructional time and adult another adult supporting them is important we were also able to make scheduled changes so our teachers were making schedule changes as their students matured and were able to do their learning routines quicker and then also that ongoing responsive pre check ins so we were able to support them based on need and then the sites were able to start looking at how to better schedule some of their release um teachers in a different way knowing that kindergarten students might need smaller chunks of time throughout the whole week of that release and so for next year we have learned that we need to support that job embedded coaching and support earlier in the year um and then we've also been able to offer um ECE units to through Cabrio and a grant um to help our instructional assistants if they want to um develop professionally so they can support our students too and so lastly as we enter next year our plan for expansion again we are trying to cover um our different regions and make sure that we are doing quality so we are expanding to HA Hyde Radcliffe Elementary and Rio Del Mar and so I will end with this last couple of quote or this one quote it's the same one we have a Spanish and an English um just that whole child whole family and whole community um peace um it has been a very beneficial beneficial for me because I work and the hours seem perfect to me because I have another daughter in third grade and I picked them up together and it has been beneficial for my daughter because I see that she is teaching herself quite well and she really likes the schedule so this is a parent from Minty White we started with one from Valencia and we ended with one from Minty White so thank you so much and I will answer any questions now do we have any public speakers to decide yes we do president home we have one um Radica Kirkman good evening again um so I did want to speak to this just because I uh my background is in early childhood education and child development and it is a very dear and near place to my heart um and I spoke earlier about bargaining with the district and we also do another kind of bargaining which is called impact bargaining so because moving to full day kinder was an impact to our sites and our staff we were able to bargain um some of those impacts and so I I thought it was very poignant the slide that pointed out the teacher feedback mentioning that the most important things to them were having that support in the classroom with them having that prep time right in order to do their jobs and being able to connect with families because those were all things that we bargained through this process for our members um I also just want to point out in the last slide it mentions that they are working with a grant to provide ECE units to instructional assistants or classified employees um we have assistant teachers in our ECE program who right now are um trying to get pushed out by that department so that we no longer have the assistant position but only have an associate they already have ECE units and part of the process of bargaining we asked that they be able to work in those tk and full day kinder classrooms because they are trained to work with those populations so I hope the board will consider that as it would be beneficial to both the teachers and to the students and families to have someone who is currently trained in this and in those programs and thank you that's all I want to say thank you any discussion or questions from the board uh yes trustee you mentioned that this is at six sites and then we have 20 teachers so there's multiple classes per site correct are you still offering a traditional kinder if a parent chooses to have that or if they're at that school they are full time full day kinder now yeah so currently at the sites where we are offering the full day kinder garden that is the program have there been any pushback from parents I'm just curious actually they're they have they're more excited about it there's six sites currently and we're adding three additional and then eventually everywhere well again it's our pilot to scale right so we're going to see how we how we do and what the need is and we will continue to survey our families okay and then what about at Duncan Holbert do they have kinder there well currently they do have mainstreaming for kindergarten students and they have different programs but they don't have a full day kindergarten program okay any other questions or comments yeah it was a very thorough presentation thank you you know I just have one more I'm sorry I have one more comment and it just said I remember when my kids were in kinder and it was a three-hour program or something it was so hard and the kids were like zooming around and the teachers had just to fit a lot in in a three-hour time period so I love that this is extended it slowed down there's quiet time for kids I just love it I think it's a great idea so thank you for this presentation it was great thank you thank you all right we'll move on to our consent agenda these are items that are routine that come before the board do we have any public speakers for our consent agenda we do not present are there any items that the board wishes to defer I will entertain a motion make a motion to approve our consent agenda tonight I have a first do I have a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 601 moving on to item 13.1 are there any items to report from closed session yes we do have some items to report under closed session agenda item 2.1 I move to approve the recommendation of the district administration of a full expulsion for one year for student number 2223005 and a suspended expulsion for the remainder of the academic year for student number 2223006 second I'll yeah so all those in favor aye any opposed yes yes so um motion carries five zero zero one one okay because you're got my camera all right yes um I move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on February 22nd 2022 with 24 and 13 additional action items did I say that was 2.2 I'm sorry did I say I'll second I have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed any abstaining okay but zero one one so five zero one one under closed session item 2.3 I move to approve the classified personnel report is presented by district administration on February 22nd 2022 with 15 and six additional action items the second I'll second all those in favor any opposed any abstentions motion carries five zero one one on closed session item 2.6 regarding resolution number 222333 the board approved the possible release release reassignment and non-relection of the following certificated management employees number 1220 number 1223 number 6974 number 8428 number 2425 number 4d950 number 2950 number 9152 number 4970 and number 6119 that was going on and so you need me to report out what it was right it was um it was yeah five zero one sorry under five zero one thank you thank you and that is it for me great our next regular board meeting will be on March 8th 2023 and the meeting is adjourned at 10 o'clock exactly