 Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I'm Kim Diserpa. I'm the board president for Pajaro Valley Unified School District. I'd like to welcome you to our board meeting tonight for May 25th, 2022. Is this working? Yeah. Yeah, okay, good. Thank you. Tonight we are missing a few members of our board. Jennifer Holm. Well, I have to speak in the microphone because it is televised for the community. So we'll try to fix the echo, and I'll try to back up. We have a few trustees that have excuses tonight not to be here. We have Jennifer Holm who is presenting on her PhD project, which she's just concluded. So congratulations to Jennifer. Ms. Maria Roscoe is at an event at Watsonville Charter School. For her son who's starring in The Lion King tonight. So congratulations to the Roscoe family. Jen Shocker is joining us remotely. Hi, Jen. Hopefully she can hear us. Can someone confirm if Jennifer Shocker is indeed on screen? Yeah, sorry we're having technical difficulties. Okay, that sounds okay to me. And I believe Trustee Acosta called the superintendent this afternoon within a family emergency. So I'm not sure she'll be here. She will not. Okay. There's a lot of new faces here tonight. If you'd like to speak on any of the agenda items, please fill out a speaker card in the back of the room and give those speaker put which item you'd like to speak to on the agenda and give those cards to Eva. She'll get those to us and we'll call you up in an orderly fashion. You have two minutes to address the board. This is an open meeting of the board, but we're not allowed to respond to speakers, but we do take your comments very seriously and we'll consider them after the board meeting. Thank you. We also have Spanish translation and our translator is sitting right over here, so if you need a little translation tonight, please see Orania who's filling in. Thank you. Next, we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance and we'll... So sorry. Trustee Daniel Dodge will lead us in the pledge. Do we have Jen Shocker yet? She's on. Can she hear us? Yes, she can. Okay, great. We're going to have Ethel. Oh, as a result. Okay. Excuse us while we iron out some technical difficulties. I'll just start out by making a few comments. The events that occurred yesterday in Texas have left all of us nationwide heartbroken. We must do something about guns in this country so that our children are protected. I'm going to read the names of all the children and the two adults that were killed and I'm going to start with Javier Lopez, Lucia Garcia, Tess Maria Matta, Rogelia Torres, Nivea Bravo, Miranda Mathis, Mady Rodriguez, McKenna Lee Elrod, Laila Salazar, Alejandra Anaya Rubio, Alethea Ramirez, Amari Jo Garcia, Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez, Eliana Cruz Torres, Eliana Garcia, Jose Flores, Jackie Cazaresio, Gila Nicole Silguero, and JC Yavenas. And they're very courageous instructors. They're teachers, Eva Morales, and Irma Garcia. We are deeply, deeply sorry for what happened to these kids and we hope it doesn't ever happen again. And we have to do something as a country. Thank you. Next up we'll have Dr. Rodriguez comments. So before my comments leading from that, I'm going to ask that we do a moment of silence and recognition to the victims. So we'll have that moment. Thank you very much. So earlier today I wrote a letter to all staff, students, and families regarding the tragedy. I want to encourage everyone, if you need assistance, right? I went into three schools today and I saw in the eyes of students and I saw in the eyes of staff how the, how the tragedy had really impacted everyone within our system. I want to, within the letter was a lot of links to resources. Please reach out. Sometimes people feel that reaching out is a sign of weakness. It actually is a sign of strength when you can admit that you need help. We have everything from our social emotional counselors, our mental health clinicians, our behaviorists, and our support staff at the Wellness Center. So whether it's a Saturday or a Tuesday night at 6 p.m., we have services for you. So we are going to do additional steps within the district to continue to see how we can fortify our safety measures. But I want everyone to take the time to grieve and feel and know that we are here to support each other as a community. So thank you very much. Danny, do you want to, do you have anything to comment on? I just want to briefly, you know, thank you for saying the names of the teachers and the students that were tragically lost and let's just keep them in our present memories. Thank you. Trustee Soto. Yeah, good evening everybody. I too want to extend some heartfelt prayers out to the community of Yolanda, Texas. Very, very unfortunate and unnecessary event that occurred yesterday. And that's, it's a very real situation that can happen anywhere and we need to be aware of our surroundings when we're anywhere. Pay attention to what's going on around you because you never know what could happen. Kind of changing yours a little bit. Just want to congratulate all the graduates of 2022 and good luck in your endeavors and your futures. Thank you. Thank you. And do we have Jen Shocker on the line? Is she able to talk? She cannot hear. Well, she needs to be able to hear or you don't have quorum. Do we have Dan Weiser here? Where's Dan? Hey there, we're going to need to do everything via phone right now because it's just not working and we don't have quorum without you. Yeah, so I'm going to try to walk, you want me to just log in to Zoom audio and then I can type in on Zoom conversation or what's easier? Everybody can hear you. We're just going to have you on my phone. Okay. You can watch via the streaming, is that fine? And then listen through here. Yeah, that's fine. And then I'll start through Zoom if there's a problem. Sounds good. And we are at Comet. So, board member Comet, we just said our moment of silence and all the rest of the board members did their Comets. Would you like to do a Comet? Yes, I just want to allow everyone via Zoom and we have some Zoom problems, but I'm here. I'm watching on one Zoom link and then I'll communicate through the phone. So, thank you everyone for coming tonight. I'm just putting this right here because I have to hold it. Sorry. Okay. In this last week, I attended the Seal of Biliteracy event and we're so proud of our students. How many students were there this year for the Seal of Biliteracy? 186 received the Seal of Biliteracy. Which is unbelievable. When we started the Seal of Biliteracy, I think there were like eight students that received it that year and we've increased the number of students that received this special designation being biliterate in obviously more than one language. Some of them two or I mean three or four languages, so it's just super. It's a beautiful event with the families and so I want to thank everybody that was there and congratulate those students. I also attended a Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance meeting this week. We are actively looking for a new executive director to lead, continue to lead that agency forward. Erica Pitya Chavez took a job with Second Harvest. She's their new executive director and so we're really going to miss her but looking forward to new leadership. So I will be on the search committee that helps to choose a new executive director. The other event I attended was our retirement celebration where we recognized and celebrated our certificated and classified staff for their many, many years of dedication to our district and it was very, it's a beautiful event. It was about a two-hour event and each site administrator, each principal came up and talked about the contributions that those employees made to that campus over the years. Many of them 40 plus year employees so it was just a really beautiful event and I want to congratulate and honor all of our retirees and thank them for their many years of service to our district. So tonight I'd also like to acknowledge some donations, special donations to our Emeril Lagasse Culinary Garden and Teaching Kitchen and I want to receive with great gratitude from Bud and Rebecca Colligan a $50,000 donation towards this amazing project. Thank you very much and also to our colleagues and friends at the Watsonville City Council for their pledge and donation of $100,000 towards the garden. So Dr. Rodriguez, how much more do we need to raise at this point? Just a little over $100,000. Just a little over $100,000. Okay, thank you. Thanks to the people who donated and also to the Monterey Peninsula Foundation for the Watsonville High School sober grad night. I'd like to thank our colleagues at the Monterey Peninsula Foundation for that donation. Item 3.5 are our high school student board reports and we're going to hear, I think, from Diamond Tech. Did they send a video? Can we roll that? Good evening President DeCerpo, Board of Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. I am Adriana Jimenez and soon to be a Diamond Tech grad. It has been very busy at Diamond this past month with field trips, events, and projects. We had a chance to visit Fresno State, which is an alma mater of our principal and also where a few of our graduates are attending. We also had a really fun day in Los Landing for our science kayaking trip with our juniors and seniors. Our up until this year was the biggest one we have ever had with over 30 ventures and a lot of shoppers. Of course, we'll be having another one in October, so be on the lookout for that next year. We also had our eighth annual business board competition. This competition has a scholarship that is given by our industry partners, Santa Cruz Community Credit Union. There are some really amazing business ideas being pitched for Maui Techies. Student leadership planned a park cleanup at Ramsey for Earth Day. Many students showed up for the day and got community service. Our ninth and tenth graders had an opportunity to do a leadership day at Sunset Beach. They had to do tasks such as they'll attend one for it as a team and a catapult and then reflecting the results of their teamwork. It looked like a lot of fun. We had a freshman orientation and open house showcase on May 11th. The teachers presented all of our work over the year. It was hard to believe we actually did all of that. During the open house, we also had an art show. She has some of the art that was displayed from the Redwoods photoshoot. We congratulations to Siomara Ipolito, who went for her submission for the cover of AIM, which is a local youth mental health organization. She was awarded at the Sunset Center in Carmel and her art will be used for a year on the promotional booklet. I'm happy to announce that all of our seniors passed their senior defense. This is where the seniors defend that they have achieved the mastery of their learning over the four years at Diamond Tech. The other grades also do a passes defense when you defend the mastery of learning over the last year. We would like to invite the board to a commencement ceremony, which will be held on June 1st in the Melo Center at 5.30pm. Have a good new weekend and don't forget to follow us on social media and thank you again for the opportunity to share what you have been doing at Diamond Tech. I will miss you guys. Please don't forget me. We won't forget you, Azeana. Congratulations to all the seniors for passing their senior defense. That's awesome. That was a great video. Next up is Herman Gonzalez from Watsonville High School. What was that? I think you are. Last but not least. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for being here. No problem. It was actually kind of a trip to be here. I've kind of been at home with COVID for like the last 11 days, but after three negative tests today, we're good. So nice. Should I begin? Awesome. Well, hello everyone. And once again, and for the last time, my name is Herman Rafael Gonzalez, representative from Watsonville High School. And I might possibly go over five minutes. I apologize if I do, but not really. Starting off, stay at five minutes and I'll say everything I need to say at five minutes. Starting off, as always, with our athletics, Watsonville High School has been wrapping up all of our different competitions and events and we have competitions and events. A big shout out to Watsonville High School's very own Caitlin Ruiz for making it to CCS finals for track and field with Watsonville High School's boys volleyball team and Watsonville High School's ever amazing girl softball team for also making it to CCS. Our sports teams, I didn't shout out every single sports team on this slide, but our sport teams this year have been doing incredibly well, especially considering the difficult year that we came back off on. Speaking more of athletics, Powder Puff, Watsonville High School had their end of the year Powder Puff game organized by ASB. We had the junior girls and the senior girls going up against each other. And a flag football game and we have a picture of the senior team. I wasn't able to get a picture of the junior team, but that's the team and you're able to see our coaches to the right. It wasn't a number two, but here talking a bit about Wildcat's life and what's been happening for these last few weeks. On May 6th, we celebrated Dia de la Madre and Dia del Niño, like it was like a joint celebration. Mothers and families who joined us were treated to a free dinner of, I believe it was tacos, I kind of exactly remember completely, but we had a whole host of different performances from musical performances to folklorico to theatric performances. And I just want to give a big shout out to Watsonville High School's Dream Club and World Languages Department because Prof. Novoa said to shout them out. Continuing all good things must come to an end, but that doesn't mean that we can't celebrate it. Watsonville High School seniors have been celebrating their final spirit week of their high school career. All spirit days are listed to the left of the text. As you can see, we had our summer outfit of the day on Wednesday, Tuesday our time travel Tuesday where we imitated an old picture. Wednesday was a wacky hair day. Tomorrow will be a throwback Thursday and Friday will be college and career. We will also be hosting our final rally pack in all of our seniors and most of our students into the new gym and we look forward to making all of our seniors cry really, really hard with kiss a senior goodbye video as we always do. Graduation and grad night are coming in very, very, very soon with graduation happening next Friday and grad night continuing from that Friday onto that Saturday morning. So it's going to be a massive event. We're renting out a large portion of the boardwalk and we're going to have laser tag. I forgot laser tag is the main thing that's been in my head. So it's really exciting. It's really sad. It's really depressing. But yeah, we're all looking forward to it. PVSD students were changed past the decision of the board to continue PVSD as pilot program for SROs and mental health clinicians combined. A lot of students were not feeling let's say content with their decision. So many of them took to making their presence aware online and also making posters going to the Placitan Friday to share their thoughts, share their opinions and what they were feeling as they always should and as they always will moving on to the next steps of their lives. Right there we have a QR code that may not be completely scannable but PVSD students for change compiled a list of demands and wants for issues that they see President Watson will and the PVSD if anyone would like to scan it they should and hear some of the amazing ideas that they have. Seniors have begun wrapping up their classes juniors and sophomores are getting ready to move on to the next year and a new pack of ninth graders are soon to be entering. Some of it got cut off but essentially what I was trying to get at is that we all have to say goodbye including me so I'd like to take just one to two minutes hopefully to reflect a little bit and say thank you not thank you and just speak a little about what speak a tiny bit about Watsonville High School so this will be quick. Freshman Day orientation I entered the freshman orientation it was 600 of us and we're all divided into thirds in the new gym seeing that one 200 of us in each of the bleachers and my ASB director then told us we start with a class of 609th grade and we graduate 400 so a whole section of those bleachers 200 students will be gone by the time we're 12th grader. I think back to that a lot and I think back to what that signifies that a lot of Watsonville High School students struggle a lot go through a lot and oftentimes for lack of resources lack of support familial issues are unable to finish high school and that's really depressing and even so so many so many amazing students who are about to graduate are going off to some of the best universities in the world we have almost like 10 students going to UC Berkeley many going to UCSD some going to top 10 universities and some staying here to help their community and so I've just been thinking a lot about Watsonville High School the difficult circumstances that we face and just seeing how people at Watsonville High School make the most of it. I was told that this position as representative of Watsonville High School is into some extent performative and I agree I mean I'm just kind of speaking about the fun events at Watsonville but I think the most important thing has been showing that Watsonville High School is genuinely a really good school no matter how oftentimes that's denied or it's compared to Aptos or other schools in different areas because it is constantly and so I just hope that going forward going into the next year that this broad but everyone in the PVSD keeps in mind that those 200 students that disappear every four years that they're still out there and that we can keep them in our high school and that they matter too so please if there's one thing just please keep that in mind that's all I have to say. Thank you Hermon. We really appreciated your voice in the past year and we wish you all the best in your schooling up at Stanford congratulations. Thank you. Okay Tristia Roscoe has joined us thank you for coming Maria. I'm looking for a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve tonight agenda I do want to apologize for being late I was actually on my son's Lion King performance so that was the reason why I was a couple minutes late but with that I would like to make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. I have a second? I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Did Jen say aye? Okay thank you motion passes 502. Next up we have the approval of our minutes from May 11th 2022 looking for a motion? I move to approve. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. I abstain. Okay so the motion carries four one no four one one. Next up we have our employee organization comments and we'll start with PVFT. Is there anyone here tonight? Hi Nellie. Good evening board. Feels weird to still have the sun out actually. So good evening. Point of order if I may I'm sorry Nellie for interrupting you. We forgot. All right I'm 6.1. Yes we do. Oh okay we'll come back. Apologize. Sorry I already said good evening so that's cool. Okay thank you for that point of order. I'm sorry we have public comment. We have visitor non-agenda items and we have several speakers tonight. Yes we do. We have seven. Just one quick question for clarification. James you and Whitman you are 6.1. You're speaking under item 6.1 for clarification. That's okay then that's perfect. All right you're up first. You're going to kick us off. If you would just say your name into the microphone that would be great. It's for the record and for the viewing public who are watching this live streaming right now. I haven't heard that today. Yesterday several times. Oh my name is James you and Whitman. I'm actually down here to tonic question what's going on with the parents not being able to participate in any activities because they're not vaccinated but I haven't found that on this yet. So I don't know if anybody noticed but I didn't say the pledge of allegiance. You know any flag that has a gold fringe around it is a pirate flag. Our nation was taken over to February 23rd 1871 and that's a corporate flag that's not the US flag so I'll never say a pledge of allegiance to that. So what I'm going to say may sound offensive but under my first amendment rights I can say what I want but only what I'm saying these quotes if you're not think only someone not thinking wouldn't find this offensive. I approve to the chemist to discover a humane gas that will instantly and painlessly deadly by all means but humane not cruel. This is Gerard George Bernard Shaw. Another quote of his. I am a communist but not a member of the Communist Party. Stalin is a first rate Fabian. I am one of the founders of Fabianism and as such I am very friendly to Russia also George Bernard Shaw. We have leadership in this county that went to the London School of Fabian Economics and that's basically practicing eugenics. I have 25 seconds. There is so much information about the code the the PCR tests were never designed for what they were going to do. All these lockdowns and what's happening to the children is really diabolical. I've spoken here before and I couldn't believe how much beauty there was with the teachers that were here. Apparently they are paid the least in this county but there's a lot of beauty here and I'd like to keep seeing it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Gary Richard Arnold chairman board members. Gary Richard Arnold. I think we need to start correcting what's involved with your curriculum especially civics. Very few people know what AMBAG is. AMBAG is Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments. It overpowers. It overrules. They've been moving the authority from AMBAG from elected officials like city councils and boards and supervisors to what is basically a cog a California cog. Every square inch of California is covered by a council of governments which is a Soviet. There you've got the stakeholders, the Driscoll's, the Panettas and the Packers making the decisions and I noticed on your card everybody that grabbed one of those cards. Not three minutes anymore it's two. That comes under Panetta stand. These decisions are not made by you. They're inculcated. The head of the national president lifetime member of the National Education Association is John Dewey. John Dewey prays the Soviet Bolsheviks. He said we must create children. They're citizens, a citizen of the world. Exactly what you're doing there are a global community. Your people do not know about the Constitution or a sovereign country and you're allowing a sanctuary city to bring in the fentanyl, the gangs, recruiting your daughters for God knows what because of sanctuary cities and a sheriff that would not take a report that threatened a couple that the Granges here they threatened both the property and the persons of the Grange and the sheriff and this county would not take action. There is a cabal and it's a Panetta machine and it's evil. There is also if you look at Leon Panetta if you look up Panettagate you'll find that he gave military and policy information to the red Chinese. It was Dr. Charles Lieber from Harvard that worked with Wuhan on the gain of function. You need to know what's going on. You don't know any civics and your attack against the second and first amendment is thank you for your time. Thank you. Next. Jennifer Prophet. Hello. I'm Jennifer Prophet. I'm an English teacher at Renaissance High School. Today Dr. Rodriguez gave me a cookie says PVUSD cares. Early in the school year I got this t-shirt says PVUSD cares. I see on the electronic display when I come in PVUSD cares but really in my experience it doesn't feel like PVUSD cares. I was hit by a student in my classroom on January 25th. The student received no consequences ever and was never made to take any action to repair the harm that was caused. Instead the student was rewarded with his preferred outcome of switching out of my class. Support staff at Renaissance sought to ensure that there was no accountability for the student. Site admin allowed these folks to take over a disciplinary response process and ensure that the student would never perform action to repair the harm that was done. In so doing staff and admin silenced my voice and tried to erase the truth of what happened to me in my classroom when a student hit me. As a result I do not trust my admin or school support staff. There is a toxic workplace culture at Renaissance that needs to be addressed by the district and we need district level intervention to repair the broken relationships at our school site. PVUSD wants to implement restorative justice at school sites and Renaissance was supposed to be a pilot but I have to tell you there's no RJ happening at Renaissance. RJ includes repair of harms. Harm done to me by the student was never repaired nor the harm done to me by staff. Harm doesn't disappear if it's not addressed. As a result I can't say with confidence that I'll be able to return next year because my heart is utterly broken. I want to be at a place where I'll be treated with dignity at a minimum. So I cannot accept these gifts because to me it's like pouring salt on a wound when I see the logo. Thank you for your comment. The next step we have Rachel Hcock. Dr. Rodriguez, ten board. You might know me. I've been at MSD 20 years. Love it. I love being a teacher. I loved it even this year and I continue to love being a science teacher. I want to learn as much as I can. I want to grow and get more and so that's why this year I went to a training put on by Jennifer Shocker to help me work with my SDC and my RISE classes because they're literally killing me and I'm only with them for an hour and then I want to get in a corner and cry. They are so hard and I feel like a failure every time I have them. Twice a week and I don't know how I'm going to do it next year because I am concerned about SELPA's decision with our RISE program at MSD. They are going to combine the lower grade and the upper grade together into one. First graders who hurt people are going to be with fifth graders who hurt people. Fifth graders are going to be with second graders. They're going to throw stools. They're going to grab them. They're going to scream at them. They do it to me and SELPA says it'll be okay. We have been telling them all year it's not okay in the RISE program. We don't have enough staff. The kids are already eloping. They're destroying my room. They destroy my materials. They cry. They scream. We have to be stuck inside or we have to really move ourselves and go outside while they destroy my room. Andy has already, the teacher lost her prep so many times because her kids are in crisis. We don't have enough support. I had to be by myself last week because she was subbing for a teacher who was out because we don't have enough subs. And I was alone because the BT needed a break. I had nine kids. Oh, it's no problem. It's a problem. It's not about the numbers. It's about their needs. Why are they moving her? Maybe because she's asking her questions. Maybe because they need her somewhere else, but we need her. Thank you for your comment. Do people doing this program? Not one. Thank you for your time. Next up, Chris Webb. I would like to thank Board President Triste de Serpa for permitting my comment at the last meeting to be read in absentia. One thing I would add to that is just a question of whether PVSD will support teachers who defend their oath to the Constitution in the face of police misconduct against students, if that possibility comes. I think given the data that we saw where the program we have is not unique and it's not actually different and showing negative interactions with certain demographics in SROs, I think that's a serious question PVSD needs to consider. That program, SRO program, allowing it to continue outright and leave pilot status is bad enough, but then like ignoring that we're not really different in terms of who's being most negatively affected, that's disconcerting, but then furthermore was that a seeming indifference to Sheriff Hart's basically allowing to the public about the funding for that program. Education dollars shouldn't be siphoned off to subsidize law enforcement agencies who already have an obligation to the district. And also as someone who's at the pilot school for restorative practices, I was a little disturbed by how restorative practices was tied to the SRO program. Not because restorative practices are bad, but because I found the PVSD brand of restorative practices to not be that restorative. They're rather permissive and those during that program is surprise suspensions and I feel bad for my students because I feel like they're being set up in a way because we are maybe in misconduct and then suddenly and inconsistently draw these lines with harsh consequences. I'm thankful that the harm is not compounded at Renaissance with legal ramifications that an SRO could bring. I'm thrown off by that no, Temer. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you for your comment. Oh, I feel like Helen, I know you just closed on my last part. Look, if we're serious about restorative justice, we need leadership that's really committed to it, and we need restorative justice coordinators at every site, not necessarily SROs. Thanks again. All right, the next one I hope I get right because you did uh, enunciated here on the card as Ria Garza. Is that correct? Is she here? Renaissance? As Ria Garza? Azariah Azariah is her name. She couldn't be here. I'm reading her comment. Hi, my name is Azariah. I attend Renaissance High School. I'm sorry I'm not here to address the situation due to work. A teacher at Renaissance High School had no child care and brought his newborn and toddler to school for the day. They were well behaved and were not a disruption to the class. For the rest of the week, we had a sub because the school didn't allow him to bring his kids to school. I believe that teachers should be able to bring their children under a liability contract or schools should provide a child care program for teachers. The average monthly pay for a teacher runs from 2,000 to 3,000 daycare for two, for two children can be almost 2,000 monthly. If we want to retain our teachers and keep them attending, we need to have flexible, we need to have a liability contract to bring kids, provide a child care program, have family leave available, and also teachers should be able to take two weeks off paid when they have a new one, both parents. This teacher is a model and also showed other model students that not only women take care of children, thank you and I hope we can come together as a community to help our teachers out. Since she has 50 seconds, I want to take them and just say, um, yeah, Chris. No, you had your time. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, three more. Who's next? Nelani Lopez. Is Nelani here? Lopez? Hi. Oh, hi. Is this working or? Okay. We previous students for change believe in the power of student voices. We believe that students deserve to have a voice and a say in student and district decisions. We believe that previous students should be completely transparent about their funding as it directly affects our schools and communities. We believe that students deserve to have a fair education by having qualified teachers in every classroom so we can grant, graduate and fulfill our A through G requirements so we can have access to a higher education. We believe that previous teachers and staff deserve a substantial pay increase. We believe that we have a right to have a say in the renovation and the facilities of our campus campuses. We believe that students should have access to clean bathrooms with access to menstrual products. We believe that students regardless of their gender identity and sexual orientation deserve to have easy accessible gender and mutual bathrooms that are open at all times. We believe that students have access on opportunity to meet with both emotional, social emotional and academic counselors on a regular basis. We believe that suspension and expulsions do more harm than good because they are depriving students of education, education, social emotional support and a safe space. We believe in restorative justice. We believe that SROs contribute to the school to prison pipeline. Communalize our community and do not belong in PVSD schools. We believe that PVSD students deserve a lot, deserve a better education, facilities and support than what we are receiving right now. Below our list of demands and changes that we wish to see in PVSD schools. Student voice. We want a student advocacy course to be taught at PVSD schools. We want an ongoing survey created by students asking about their personal experience with issues in PVSD schools and how it's impacted them. We want the opportunity to connect with the underclassmen through advisory, mixed classes and academic events held throughout the year. Thank you. Next we have Maricela Balderas. Push to start. Okay. Thank you. Should we start? Okay. We want free and diverse menstrual products in all bathrooms on campuses. We want the appropriate genitorial staff necessary to ensure the campus sanitation. We want bathroom renovations that will positively affect the campus environment. We want teachers. We want teachers in every classroom for every subject for the entire the entirety of the school year. We want to avoid ingenuity by having teachers for that subject. We want qualified and culturally competent students to teach their subject. We want transparency with how PVSD is using funds for each school site. We want more funding for staff as well. We want more social emotional counters that are proportional to the amount of students on campus. We want Watsonville High School Wall Center to be open for the entire day of school. We want academic counselors to be more easily accessible. We want additional academic counselors to lessen their caseload of students on how they can focus on a smaller group of students. We want students to have at least one meeting a semester with their academic counselors. We want no suspension or expulsion without exhausting all other options. We want all students to have access to peer redemption modules and restorative justice practices at school sites. We want school resource officers to be excluded from all suspension expulsion and restorative practices. Thank you. And our last speaker to 6.1 is Marilyn Garrett. Thank you to the students for their excellent statement. And in line with this, we need to assure that we have a safe and healthy living and working environment. And by putting students and everyone in a microwave radiation environment with all the Wi-Fi and all the antennas and cell phones, that's actually documented to endanger everyone. One of the trustees, Jennifer, last time asked what is the most important thing in keeping kids out of harm's way? Well, remove the harm that you are imposing upon them. I want to refer you to Dr. Sharon Goldberg, who testified against the rollout of 5G in Michigan. October 4th of 2018, she stated, wireless radiation has biological effects, period. It's no longer a subject of debate. These effects are seen in all life-form plants, animals, insects, humans. Clear evidence of cancer. We're seeing all of these epidemics. And the closer people live to cell towers or work through cell towers that you keep putting in on campuses, the more ill effects we've seen. Through the epidemics are related to these microwave exposures. Health, suicide epidemic, opioid epidemic, congestive heart failure, diabetes. Remove the harm. And there is one candidate room for Governor who has addressed this issue. And what's the rest for 5G? That is, the former mayor of Nevada City. I want to see all elected officials, like yourself, and at the county government and city level, advocate for removal of this harm. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And next up we have item 7, employee organization comments. And we'll try again with PVFT. Thank you. Okay. So Nellie, I'll be timing you on my phone. Okay. All right. Well, we are fast approaching the end of the school year, this long arduous school year. And it hasn't gotten any easier for many of our teachers as we see cases still continuing and vacancies that were never filled. Plus now more absences. School sites are impacted. I went in last week and helped out at a school site, stepping into a classroom to sub for a day, and my back still hurts. It was first grade, so they were smaller. And our teachers are still, they're just exhausted. And I'm just, we are looking forward for the summer break so that they can take a very, very, very well-deserved break themselves. But as we approach the end of this year and the district is handing out their assignments for the following school year, it is really disappointing to see that the SELPA continues to mismanage the program. This is why we have so many SELPA vacancies. This is why many SELPA teachers leave, because the administration does not treat their people well. And the decisions that they're making are made in the presented in the way of, here's the position you're going to get next year. It's the only one available. Then silence and that is insinuating. Then you have a or the resignation date is June 30th. The ECE is making their decisions. One is very disappointing in that for us, as we have been part of representing many members through the ECE program, the early childhood program, one member in particular, the only male preschool teacher in this program who advocates, who is constantly, I think the expectation on him is a lot greater, is being moved, just being told that he needs to move and is actually losing pay because he's also being not allowed to continue as a site supervisor. The decision for that decision is ridiculous. I believe that is it's retaliatory for all of the advocacy that this teacher has made for himself. And so we stand by him and actually appear from their entire school site that this preschool is attached to, who is very upset to hear this news as well, as well as parents. So that as the president of the PBFT and moving into the summer and thinking about this upcoming year and seeing the resignations and retirements that we have still coming in, it is concerning that instead of honoring the people who are here, they are giving them ultimatums in a way when they say you're going to move or else, you know, whatever you make your decision, resignation by June 30th. I've let the district know this is a teacher's market right now. We cannot afford to mistreat our people. One of the things that happened during our negotiations this year was the district not wanting to honor the school psychologist, school nurses, SLPs, program specialists, that salary schedule equal to the same amount of increase of $4,000 of increase to the salary schedule. They would they only offered them 2000 plus an off salary raise and that was the only way that the district was willing to move forward in reaching our tentative and reaching an agreement. This is a group of people that are absolutely needed. This is a group of people who mainly work under the SELPA and are filled and so there's a lot of agency people that you have to approve those contracts as they come in. They get paid just as much and from what we're hearing some of these people are remote so the actual work that they cannot do in person is handed off on an individual who is here so increasing the workload. Again disrespecting the actual employees in this district who build connections with the students and the families. It is our families and our students who lose when they don't have a proper educator in there that is consistent every day all year long in that classroom or providing the service for their child. You heard it from our students earlier. They want teachers. They want the staff that is going to be fully employed, gainfully employed in this district. Thank you. There's a lot more I can say but I know my time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have CSEA or California School Employees Association. Is there anyone speaking tonight on their behalf? Okay. How about PAVAM 7.3? Okay. I hear Claudia is out there. Okay. Hello again. Hi. So good evening President D'Serpa, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. So my name is Claudia Morjaras and I'm here today actually representing our assessment curriculum and instruction department otherwise known as ACI. So our team really is very proud to be a part of our PBSD community and we've enjoyed partnering with our teachers and administrators to support our students through our different content areas. At the high school level we are finishing our first full year of our World History Ethnic Studies course which has been available to our eighth, excuse me, tenth grade students. We will also be continuing our work around our Ethnic Literature and Studies courses for the upcoming school year. And this year we actually had training so we had two cohorts of teachers. One cohort was working. They participated in training over the course of the school year and it was through UCSC and they had partnered with CRE. And then the other cohort which was our high school's teachers, they participated in a community of practice directly with the CRE company. At the last board meeting we were able to hear about a VAPA update from Sue Gralty around music, visual art, dance, theater, film and community partnerships. She also works with our GATE students. We've just finished identification and parent letters are being sent out this week. GATE family meetings are being set up for fall of 2022. And for science. So starting this summer from June 19th to the 29th we have 18 PVUSD Latinx rising juniors and seniors from PV High School, Watsonville High School, Aptos High, PCCS and DTI. They will be living on the UCSC campus as they engage in science investigations, data collection and field work as participants in DIGCAMP. And DIGCAMP is Data and Geosciences Collaboration and Mentoring Program. This program is funded by the National Science Foundation and it's a partnership between PVUSD, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science. The purpose of the program is to foster students' interests in exposure to and understanding of science to improve the likelihood that typically underrepresented students in the STEM field will pursue related fields of study or careers. Supporting them with Latinx, UCSC undergraduate mentors and scientists, students will see science as a possible career pathway. This year we were able to collaborate with a committee of elementary teachers for the report card committee. This committee helped us revise the TK through fifth grade reports of progress for the upcoming 22-23 school year so that now all of those report cards are aligned with common core standards at each of the grade levels. We were also able to renew opportunities to hear teacher voices around instructional decisions through our curriculum council meetings. Our elementary teachers are currently finishing their third year of implementation using both the benchmark advance of the Lante curriculum resources as well as resources that our language art team had built last school year. We look forward to refining our support next year based on teacher feedback and current experience in the classroom and this is going to allow us to help build more robust in-class supports this coming year in language arts and with our other content area coaches. Thank you for your time. Thank you Claudia. And next we have 7.4 CWA. Is there anyone here for communication workers of America? Okay seeing none we will move on to report and discussion items and this is item 8.1 a report on the Watsonville High School softball field. Oh I'm sorry but we need the yeah that's okay no that's 8.1. Hi. Hey good evening good evening President Serpa Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez and Cabinet. At a previous board meeting we were asked to present information on the update for the softball field so when I was asked to do this I was very honored since I'm a Watsonville High School alum I'm a parent of Watsonville High School alums I'm the Watsonville High School booster treasurer and a former Watsonville High School softball coach so this is near and dear to my heart. I also brought along with me two of my former players that are currently playing at Watsonville High School. I'll let them introduce themselves Vy. My name is Veronica Alvarez I am currently a senior at Watsonville High School and Allie. My name is Alessandra Carmona and I am a junior at Watsonville High School and let's see if I can get this going. So I'd like to start off with a brief history of I believe why we were asked for this presentation back in 17-18 some parents coaches and admin got together to decide on and talk about what can be done to the Watsonville High School softball fields and these are some of the things that we came up with that were immediate needs dugouts uniforms helmets landscaping restrooms facilities and fencing those were just a few of the immediate needs. So these were the dugouts prior to any kind of upgrades you can see that it was pretty unsafe. There were openings and any time it rained there was puddles and so that was then and this is now these are the new dugouts at Watsonville High School. You can see they're much safer and they have a concrete base so that's one of the upgrades and we also have Willie on the back of one of the dugouts. One of the other things we talked about were uniforms so this was a sample of one of our uniforms prior you can see that it was basically a dry fit t-shirt with an iron on and now these are my lovely models to show that what Watsonville High School uniforms actually look like now. So we were able to get them new uniforms and new helmets because the helmets that they had were very old and obvious for obvious reasons we wanted to get those replaced so we were able to get new helmets for the team as well. Another thing that we talked about was landscaping. One of the biggest things were there were large trees these shrubbery bushes that were right behind the bleachers and they weren't very sanitary and so those have all been removed. There is gopher abatement being done out there for the outfield of the softball fields and we're getting on a routine mowing before the games. Some of the areas that are in progress right now are in the outfield they're still rain when it rains it sinks in so there's a few areas in the outfield where the girls can potentially sprain their ankle or hurt themselves so we want to get those filled with dirt and the infield dirt as it rains the infield dirt gets washed away and we no longer have the crown that allows the water to drain well off the field so we'll be getting more dirt in there and it'll help with that transition lip that's there from the infield to the outfield. Right now currently there's a lip there. So the other thing are restrooms that was a big thing and thanks to ESSER one-time monies they did approve that we can get our restroom redone and updated so that's that's huge and the project's going to be completed around September 30th of 23 that's what we're shooting for also in the 23 budget there's facility funds that we are able to use for ADA accessibility so now we will be doing a paved walkway from the Lincoln Street entrance so anybody who needs a wheelchair or anything can easily get to the bleachers and we'll also be updating those metal leaky dangerous containers out there that are used as sheds and we'll be updating those with some more I guess safer sheds out there and then we also talked about fencing so as I don't know if you remember some time back a track and field player got hit on the head with a softball so the softballs go over so what they did is because we had issues with DSA to try to get a not offense but a net up there and there were issues with DSA so we just changed the schedule so there won't be any track and field events going on when there's softball games going on and then we also purchased a temporary fence to help with the cca ccs playoff and it will also help if the program wants to do any fundraising they can charge for admission and they can use that temporary fence to fence in the field we also extended from the dugout we extended the fencing there's a set of bleachers out there and we extended the fencing so the first fan safety and then the last thing that is still an issue or something we continue to talk about is the housing neighborhood surrounding the fields and we're still entertaining ideas some of the ideas right now are quite expensive and we would require a larger funding stream but you know we're still open to those ideas and trying to work out that at this time and um that's it are there any questions i think we have a speaker if you wouldn't mind yeah bill beecher good evening bill beecher madam president dr red regus trustees and staff uh this is long overdue i'm thrilled but i also have some concerns because i think there's some potential holes in this plan and it has to do with maintenance history tells us that everybody means well with maintenance after two or three years maintenance tends to disappear and the fields will go to hell now why am i worried blaze baseball is dying they rarely use the field girl softball is big time here if you go by on the weekends those fields are full people are all over the place those fields get a lot of wear and tear so i think got to do something more than what's been proposed so what i'm going to suggest is the state has something like 98 billion dollars of excess revenue there is money coming one-time money coming to the school districts i think some of that money should be used for a synthetic outfield because i don't care what you do about gophers they're here to stay they and the cockroaches will outlast us all so let's use some of that one-time money to put in a real feel that you can maintain and these girls can be proud and we can be proud of what they do because it's a super team the boys they're dying i mean soccer and other sports dominate so let's think about when that one-time money comes especially you two guys who are big sports advocates let's back this girl softball team because they put a lot of players out there and this community is much better for it thank you come back up okay does do any of the trustees have any questions for Colleen or the players Danny i just want to start off say thank you Colleen for always supporting multiple sports i don't think i i met you you officially but i used to play little league and i remember at ramsey park and i remember seeing your last name uh i went to once of ohai from 1996 to 2000 and the girls are always champions back then 2020 the girls 2022 i'm sorry and you guys are still champions today um i know it's a big issue i know you know i know there's a lot of restrictions you know caltrans the neighbors i i go to support the teams because you guys are you know constantly winners and as mr breacher was saying you know there has to be more ways that we could support you guys you know so you know and the idea that i had and a lot of people in the community have is you know is it possible to switch fields next to the boys baseball team i mean how would that work you know because like i said i know there's a lot of restrictions um a da issues caltrans neighbors what would it look like if we could move the field around i mean would there be more or less restrictions so we did an analysis of that and so at that point it was 1.4 million dollars to move that was months ago and costs continued to go up um we are investing almost three million dollars into watsonville high we chose to do the large bleachers at geyser field and the bathrooms um the board would have to if there is additional one time monies coming in the board would have to then decide to allocate funds um because at this point the transfer would probably have less restrictions if we went over in that direction but it would require us to invest i would probably say 1.5 by now if not more just because prices continue to skyrocket every month um and so that would have to be a board decision or other over other priorities that we also consider to be health and safety so personally it's not about supporting athletics or supporting the team or not supporting the team it's all about just prioritization and um i mean everyone knows that my son's a college athlete and so i believe in athletics um and being a female of course i want to support our female athletes because i was a female athlete myself but um it will just become a board decision at that point because it's definitely not a cheap endeavor to move them well you know i i i like to thank you guys and i know there's people in the community you know that i went to high school with and you know they're always asking and i need you guys to come out here to to tell us about the girl softball fields i hear you guys i'm listening you know thank you for making this presentation but it takes the watsonville community to come and help me help us say hey you know we want to do this for the girls and i encourage people to keep to keep coming and tell us what you guys want so we can move ahead thank you do you want to yeah trusty soto yeah thanks for the presentation calling it's good to see the progress in those fields my oldest daughter was a watsonville graduate and i'm sure you remember she played with your daughter for a while um softball was pretty big to us with my girls coming up and it's um you know some of you are going to enjoy the improvements because you're coming up through the grades and some of you are going to enjoy it partially because you're on your way out and it's just the progress of uh the development of the school but all in all it's good to see the changes that you know we have a lot of great tournaments here in this city you know with the strawberry fields and the other things you know that go on at rolling hills and watsonville so it's good to see that we'll have a little bit more uh presentable facilities for those types of things to make it more inviting for the community and for others coming out of the area and the overall economy of the of the city so um you know good job enjoy it and congratulations on your current uh streak right now hopefully it keeps going keep up the good work thank you thank you trustee roscoe i think everything has been said um we're obviously in support of uh improving our facilities our fields so i appreciate the presentation with the updates thank you for being here trustee shocker did you want to make a comment jen i don't know if she can hear me can you hear me yeah there you are sorry it was like a delay um i just want to say thank you for the report and i know that we do support athletics um throughout our district and we have a wonderful girl softball team and we are doing our best to try and find solutions to give them a feel that they deserve so thank you for the presentation tonight and let's continue to figure it out thanks go wildcats thank you thank you okay next up we have our action items and we'll start with item nine point one i'm sorry no we will not we have eight point two our california state seal of biliteracy and i'm sorry i stole your thunder earlier earlier with the number yeah i'm so sorry i have a line in here about the big reveal yeah i'm so sorry no while we're getting the power point up uh good evening president usurpa members of the board and dr rodriguez tonight i once again have the privilege of presenting you with this year's update on the california state seal of biliteracy um before we get going i wanted to once again acknowledge the academic counselors at each site for connecting with students and supporting them and our team um with the process to to identify students that are um qualified to receive the seal uh the seal is recognition bestowed on seniors who have attained a high level of proficiency in both english and another language or multiple languages the criteria are uh proficiency in english is demonstrated through english requirement required courses um also a language other than english and there's multiple ways to achieve this criteria most commonly through passing um a set of courses leading through ap courses mostly we have um spanish recipients um for students that are currently english learners they need to get a four on their l pack the s back criteria has been waived for the last two years um it it will be reinstated next year um it was modified due to covet one thing that we are working towards is a series of um awards for fifth graders and eighth graders so in our in our dual language programs we are going to be expanding these the pathway so that we truly have a tk 12 pathway for students to become multiliterate and here's the big reveal as you can see we have been growing steadily throughout the years and it was mentioned um we actually were one of the very first uh districts in the in the state um and we had 45 students awarded in 2012 and now we're at 184 um and uh and we're really proud of that and and we're really proud of our students um this is a breakdown by site um want to give some props to pacific coast and virtual academy who are made this list for the first time this year um so we're getting more students and we're getting more schools represented so we're proud of that um once again you see power of valley high school um with the lion's share um and and we've talked about it in the past um there are multiple uh reasons and variables to that one thing that i i don't know why it took so long for me to realize this but of all of our elementary schools we've had three schools that are late exit bilingual programs kindergarten through fifth grade and they all um mostly predominantly send students to p v high so i think that's a really cool connection between the work that we're doing for our dual language programs and growing those programs throughout our district and the idea that we're going to have more and more every year because we're in we're increasing and improving those programs um here's a picture from the other day from last week we did it at p v high it was a lovely evening um some of you were there some the audience were here um we had most of our students receive their medals and then here's some photos any questions do we have any speakers there are no 8.2 no speakers any comments or questions from the board i already spoke about it yeah congratulations to everybody it's a beautiful program yeah um i do have a question about um dual the dual language programs so are are the uh what are they called the certificates that are awarded to these kids in the fifth and eighth grade only available in the dual immersion programs or currently we we don't have them but the idea is that there's actually the state now has um two different programs one is for all students participating in a dual language program when they when they exit fifth and eighth grade then there's a certificate they can receive and then there's an additional award which is represented by the ribbon which is which is kind of more rigorous criteria for students who are multilingual who don't necessarily need to participate in a dual language program but can qualify similar to the to the seal so for kids that are speaking dual languages but aren't in a dual language school because you know potentially they don't live in that area or they didn't make the wait list or whatever do do they are they looked at and given certificates if they continue to for the fifth and eighth or for all of them yeah so for for the for the actual awards established by the state including this one um there the criteria is for all students okay great yeah that's my question thank you uh maria yes well first of all i'm sorry i couldn't be there i was really uh upset about that um but as far as um you mentioned how now we're moving towards middle school and elementary level how does the outreach look like how does the outreach to attract students to those programs um we're we're building our programs currently we are in some version of k five um for multiple schools uh next year freedom which started kindergarten five years ago we'll be going to fifth grade um with their official dual language program we have some schools that are k one um this year and our our our hope and goal is to expand those programs move into middle school and continue the pathway all the way tk 12 so that was just on the schools that already have a dual immersion programming plays so that's freedom and what other schools um currently in some version we have freedom kide uh amesty and starlight is um is in the list as well as as um going into dual language and then and then alianza is k and that's and that's our two way and just to add on i think what we find is through student services and inner district transfers we do have people who ask to be in those schools and so we have seen for example freedom has significantly shifted the amount of students that even want regular sci so structured english immersion versus their dual language program and so through those through our various programs whether it's emerald legassi where now people want to go to starlight not only for the bilingual program but also the emerald legassi program um then um we are doing that through our student services and our intro and intro district transfers um so we're even finding some people from out of the district who are wanting to come to us which is what ultimately is our goal right which is to get back students and also increase the number of students who um stay within the system um but the big the big point is is we know research wise that early exit is not as good as late exit and dual and late exit is not as good as dual immersion and so our heritage program and so because of that we're trying to shift our our early exit programs to um become either late start or or best um dual immersion programs this sounds like an agenda item in the future we're gonna need a full report yeah this is great we'd be happy to yeah okay any more questions down on the side or from trusty shocker presentation i was able to be there for a little while and let's keep growing this program thank you thank you michael all right thank you take care okay next we have action items the first one on the list is item 9.1 okay item 9.1 pahoro regional flood management agency all right i think i'm good thank you for waiting no problem i appreciate having time on your busy agenda good evening board president diserpa members of the board superintendent rodriguez my name is kim floyd i'm the public outreach coordinator for the pahoro regional flood management agency i'm here tonight to introduce the agency talk about its areas of responsibility and the problems it's trying to resolve and its proposed assessments for levy operations and maintenance and the relevance to the district is the district owns 25 properties that are subject to the proposed assessment so what is the pahoro regional flood management agency it was formed last year it's a joint powers authority of the counties the city of watsonville the monoray county water resource agency and santa cruz county flood control and water conservation district it is governed by a five member board of directors and our founding board members include the santa cruz county supervisors greg capet represented here tonight by ramon gomez also supervisor zack friend city of watsonville and that we are represented on our board uh by dr dancy billisich and then from monoray county we have supervisors louis alejo and john phillips so what's the problem the agency was formed to resolve its sole mission is to reduce flood risk to life property and the economy in the lower pahoro river region which includes the urbanized areas of portions of portions of watsonville and the town of pahoro some surrounding agricultural properties and these communities have extreme flood risk the levies that protect these communities currently only provide an eight year level of flood protection that's among the lowest in the state and certainly among the nation for federal flood control facilities and this is a federal flood control facility there's a long history of flooding here and some of you may have been uh intimately familiar with that that's not likely to change in the future unless something changes in terms of repairs maintenance and improvements and because floods are likely here the federal emergency management agency has designated large portions of the community as a special flood hazard area with that comes mandatory flood insurance requirements for any property with a mortgage more expensive flood insurance for business and commercial properties industrial properties and restrictions on building and that would include ag properties for example if they wanted to build a barn they would not be allowed to do so compounding the issue is that funding for ongoing levy operations and maintenance is woefully inadequate this is kind of a busy slide but this is a good look at the problem so the red line across the bottom is your existing level of flood protection and you can see that the graph or the bar chart rather is represents the flood since 1955 and all but one exceeded the existing level of flood protection the most serious flood in recent history was in 1995 when the town of pahoro was flooded it caused two deaths and a hundred million dollars in damages the top red horizontal line is what we're trying to achieve and that's 100 year flood protection so the agency's job is to try to close that delta between eight year flood protection and 100 year flood protection 100 year flood protection is really considered the minimum standard for urban communities and it is what this community deserves so that's the proposed solution it's it's twofold the first in the immediate near term we have to improve levy operations and maintenance over the long term or still near term but longer term is improve levies to provide up to 100 year flood protection so looking at our immediate need improving maintenance of the existing levies this is important because we have to maintain that eight year level of flood protection we can't afford to let it erode further by neglecting operations and maintenance currently levy operations and maintenance is done by the counties separately on either side of the river we're proposing to consolidate flood system operations and maintenance under the agency which is expected to improve cost efficiencies and also service efficiencies adequate funding for levy operations and maintenance is three point eight million dollars per year currently the counties bring in through zones one and one a in monorail county and zone seven in monorail or in santa cruz county about two point six million that results in a one point two million dollars shortfall annually for levy operations and maintenance so again our major near term concern is that we don't have the money we need to maintain the existing level of flood protection for this community longer term we need to improve the levies and for the first time after 60 years of fighting for a project to improve levies the community finally has a shot at doing so the agency is partnering with the us army corps of engineers in the california department of resource water resources on a 400 million dollar pahero river flood risk management project that project will strengthen levies along the pahero river salsas poetus creek and core lettuce creek up to green valley road as a first for a project of this type the federal and state governments are willing to pay 100 percent of the project costs typically the local community is required to pay 10 percent or in this case that would be about 40 million dollars for this community but thanks to efforts by senator laird and assembly members rivas and stone the state has agreed to pay the full local cost share as well on one condition because there's always strings attached right you know that probably better than most we have to be able to provide assurances to the state and federal governments that we have the financial wherewithal to maintain levies not only in the near term but in the long term without those assurances we cannot sign the funding agreements for the 400 million dollar project which means we won't have a project so not only will we not be able to maintain the levies that we have what's in front of us we don't we will lose out on the opportunity to improve them to that hundred year flood protection if however we can demonstrate our ability to fully fund levy maintenance project construction would begin in 2025 and the levies would be completed within seven to eight years so how do we get adequate funding we are proposing a property to bridge that 1.2 million dollar annual shortfall that will help us again in the near term bolster levy operations and maintenance services and in the long term it will keep us eligible for the 400 million dollar levy improvement project in accordance with prop 218 law only properties that receive benefit can be assessed and the benefit is the avoidance of flood damages to land structures and contents as a result of levy maintenance services every properties assessment and i'll get to that after this slide this is the proposed assessment district boundary you can see that all of the properties in purple are included in the proposed assessment district all those properties benefit from the avoidance of flood damages from levy maintenance again each properties assessment is specific to its individual risk and we determine that using a number of factors to include their relative flood risks so where they're located in the flood system how many miles of levies are they exposed to what is their land use type and that we have rates for different types of land use because a commercial structure might suffer more greatly than a single family residential for example and in terms of damages parcel size that's for land damage and we do that based on acreage and fractions thereof size of the structure again driving that contents and structure damage calculation the average depth of flooding based on our levy failure modeling and also the percentage of the parcel that's flooded any parcel that had less than 10% flooding was excluded from our proposed assessment district so here's a look at the land use classifications average assessments and this always trips people up because no one is the average as you know but it does give you a good sample two of the number of properties in each land use classification for the school districts properties they're either vacant or considered commercial because they're most like office buildings rather than industrial for example so just some key facts again this proposed assessment is not for the project it's for levy maintenance however it will make us eligible for the project funding past flooding is not predictive of future flooding so we can't say because our property wasn't flooded in 1995 it's not going to be flooded in 2025 or 2035 depends on where the levy breaks and the volume of water coming down into the system flood insurance which you know some people have is still a disaster cleanup payment it's not a way to prevent flooding those properties that are most especially vulnerable are those without flood insurance and floods are one of the only natural disasters that we can prevent with proper planning and investment and that's what we're attempting to do now and just to put it into perspective the 400 million dollars in state and federal investment if you were just to do simple math there are about 3000 properties in the proposed assessment area that investment is worth about 130 thousand dollars for every property so you can imagine that it would be unaffordable to try to do this without state and federal support to the prop 218 process only property owners can vote they vote by mail ballots were sent out at the end of April on the 22nd and they have to be returned within 45 days as per state law and so they have to be returned by June 8th ballots are weighted by their proposed by the proposed assessment it's basically one dollar equals one vote so if you have a hundred dollar assessment you have a hundred votes the assessment is approved if the votes that come in are the are in favor outweigh the votes opposed and if it's approved the assessment will take effect this fall and the board has already passed a resolution to convene an assessment oversight committee in the event the assessment is approved by property owners so just very quickly this is a yes or no decision and property owners will decide there is a cost either way there's a cost to voting yes and a cost to voting no a yes vote means a new assessment on property taxes it also means improved services in the near term for levy operations and maintenance which will decrease the risk of flood related damage to properties keep us eligible for the 400 million dollar state and federal project when that project is built we will achieve that 100 year flood protection that this community so richly deserves and the properties that are within the special flood hazard area now subjected to mandatory flood insurance and building restrictions will be removed and those uh requirements will go away but a no vote does not mean no cost if we are unsuccessful levy maintenance services will be reduced to account for the budget shortfall that will bring with it increased risk of flood related damages to properties as that eight-year level of flood protection continues to erode the community will lose eligibility for the 400 million in funding they are competitive funds so they will be sent elsewhere in the state and nation and again as I mentioned before that leaves uninsured properties especially vulnerable the FEMA special flood hazard area will remain in place and we would expect with climate change and all of the focus that that's receiving that FEMA will revisit the community and reconsider increasing the size of that zone those property owners will continue to be mandatory flood insurance and be subjected to building restrictions so we've had five community meetings along with other neighborhood community meetings we've sent out three mailers plus the ballots and we've tried to do a good job of of getting information to property owners we will close this process out with a public hearing on June 8th again ballots must be in hand uh by the with the agency by that date if they're postmarked June 8th and delivered June 9th we can't count them by law we have a pretty robust website which has a lot of um information on the project on the proposed assessment frequently asked questions we have a hotline and we're encouraging people to reach out to us with questions about their assessments thank you and just a note I am in receipt of the ballots they made sure that I have the ballot so after the board vote then that would give me the permission to vote for you on your ballots and then they would be able to be mailed out tomorrow okay do we have any speakers there are no speakers any questions from the board discussion trustee dodge just to briefly make a comment um as a lifelong waltzable resident we're always worried about flooding my great grandparents nita and me lucies live right here off collard road and they would show us how the correlators creek would rise and it would flood their backyards and so that's one of the things that I remember about how susceptible we are to flooding I was here when the pahoro river broke and it's scary because it could have easily been our side and you know I live on lincoln waltzable all of our schools you know we're in the flood zone so it's uh obviously dangerous it's you know waltzable leaders you know aria parker dr nancy bilisic supervise a great cap it john martinelli they all support this and I support this agenda item as well so thank you very much thank you trustee soto it's uh good information um when the flood of 95 occurred I was with the police department at the time and uh the you know you spoke a loss of life the gentleman that did drown I witnessed when you know when he went in the water and saw his head bobbing up and down and it was not much we could do for him and I don't recall we ever found him so it it's a pretty it was pretty um it's real when you see the entire area of pahoro flooded the way it was where there was no access my uncle lived on cayetano at the time you know his house was pretty rough um so yeah it's a very real scenario and uh I think the last time we had a serious storm pretty close to that was probably in 98 because uh we were down for a while up on my hill but yeah this this is a very very real thing and you know the levy does need a lot of work with all those willows that are in there to clog everything up to you know prevent this from happening in the future so thank you thank you trustee rosca but just want to say I will be supporting this item for the reasons already mentioned um I think I was pretty young when uh the pahoro um flooding happened uh but I do remember my parents housing some of the families who had lost their homes um so whatever we can do to prevent that from happening I will support thank you and any comment from trustee shocker hi yes I will be supporting this item tonight I think it's important that we take any protective measures that we can thank you I have a quick question about the assessment if you could go to slide 12 so um perfect so the multifamily residential versus the single family residential I'm not quite clear on what that means what does multifamily residential mean apartments apartments thank you okay yeah so the other thing I heard you say is that the closer to the river um somebody lives the higher their assessment would be is that right not necessarily because in some cases some homes next to the river are elevated and so we do take into account elevation when we're looking at potential flood damages to a property but where the property is located um in relation to other properties determines relative flood risks so for example um if you're in the area of the senior villages or watsonville high school for example you have a higher flood risk than some properties that are further up the system along corleadus creek so you would have a greater relative flood risk and that's reflected that's because you're exposed to more levy miles and as they do the levy breach analysis and break those levies see where the water goes you'd have a greater flow okay I mean I haven't done an analysis of what the homes costs that are closer to the river but my guess is that it's not based on assessed value right in fact by state law we're not allowed to do that okay so it's based on a it's based on a depth damage curve that was produced by the US Army Corps of Engineers so there's a flood depth versus the type of structure and what type of contents you would expect to see replacement costs yeah I understand it but I feel like when people bought those homes they probably knew the I don't know I mean I don't know but it just I feel like it's almost an unfair burden to ask people that took the risk of being closest they you know that maybe it was less expensive to move closer to the river and now they're being assessed a higher value I think everyone should have an equal assessment but anyway that's just my opinion so yeah and that's that's another complication under prop 218 it used to be pre prop 218 you could just do kind of similar to a fee where you said every single family residential will pay a hundred dollars yeah you can't do that anymore because it has to be based on yeah I understand you have prescribed yes around this so I'll be supporting you'll have an unanimous support it sounds like tonight from the members who are present thank you um I'm sure Jen Holm would support this as well but um she's not here tonight so I don't know can she can she still vote or just ask oh as a team okay fantastic thank you for your presentation thank you so much for your time this evening I would like to make a motion to approve this item yeah I'll second um all those in favor aye aye and Jen says aye the motion carries um five zero two thank you okay next up we have item 9.2 the naming of aptos junior high school multi-purpose room as the bob wallis gymnasium we're gonna actually have bob and his family move up to the front row if we can good evening president to serve by board of trustees dr. Rodriguez have the honor of being able to lift us off this evening and talk a little bit about bob the following board policy 7310 a aptos junior has gathered a committee together within those guidelines and mr. Phillips will be sharing with us the outcome um it is not a secret since it's certainly on here but bob Wallace's name has been brought forward um I will tell you that I am also a c dragon parent so when I saw the name come through I will tell you that from a student voice perspective my car has been full of young ladies that are full of oh my gosh mr. Wallace made us do to getting to the point of a couple weeks saying holy cow I just broke my seven minute mile so he not only has had an impact but less than a week ago you know you've arrived with kids when they have your parents slow down the car so they can say hi to them so pretty big deal for a middle school to say slow down I got to say hi to him and the last thing that she responded to me was he was always so respectful of people so I wanted to be able to share that with you bob and I know that you will be retiring but uh just incredible how much you've given the kids and I personally thank you as well and with that I will hand it over to mr. Phillips to go through the process of the naming and we are going to be seeking approval of that that naming this evening thank you chris thank you president beserpa trustees dr. Rodriguez in the cabinet the process took place by organizing some committee meetings where the exploration of the name of the gym would would take place I'd be fortunate to have some monies available this year to renovate our gym at aptus junior high we have a brand new hardwood floor it's beautiful brand new facilities inside we have a non-gender binary changing that was added to it so we really had some tremendous upgrades to our facility and we felt like it was time to name it and give it a permanent marquee so committee meetings were held in march and april these committee meetings were advertised on the aptus junior website they were sent out to our community through apparent newsletters and they were advertised in local newspapers aptus times in the pahrone the committee is then determined criteria for how to name the building and the committee decided on these particular criteria uh the the person who they're building would be named after would have to have a significant contribution of the aptus sports community have been a coach in the community had been some sort of leader in the school community had had a long service time at aptus junior high and demonstrated integrity was a role model a mentor and a teacher at the site the community then therefore um unanimously put forward the name of bob wallast gymnasium um for your consideration uh bob wallast has been a teacher at aptus junior high school for his entire 40-year teaching career uh this being his last year so we congratulate him on his long service in the district and at our school site um there on the left you can see one of his um former students at aptus junior high school a former c-dragon now coach and athletic director at aptus junior high which speaks very much to his impact in the community both at our school site um and throughout the the area um you probably can't read them but at the bottom of the screen there are some great quotes from students in a former yearbook and uh coach wallast um in quite the hairstyle um this uh i'll read it out loud but um try to breeze through it in a 40-year career bob wallast has served in many responsibilities duties and roles at aptus junior high and support of other schools in the community mr wallast first and foremost as a teacher and has taught and mentored and been a role model for thousands upon thousands of students in his roles of tennis track and field and basketball coach he has had the opportunity to mentor a countless student athletes at aptus junior high and aptus high school mr wallast has provided leadership as a pe department chair and athletic director throughout much of his career throughout his career he has supported students athletes staff and parents through aptus junior high aptus high school pvusd in the greater community their current pvusd employees who credit mr wallast for encouraging them to become teachers and mr wallast is also a member of the aptus high school sports hall of fame despite all the credentials is above i'm sure he would say this thing was it say he is the most undeserving but that we raised three wonderful daughters that were all the products of pvusd schools um here's some more example of coach wallast's contributions that kind of left must have been really tall coach and your your tall guy he's he's almost up there um and this is a story of coach wallast's hair over the years i i did steal that one from your mantle in your house i don't know if you remember the day i took a picture of it um and if you can do one thing for me coach before you retire is uh teach me how to wear the short shorts i we're going to need to bring those back um god wallast believed it's in past tense he still believes strongly in the power of community his community was aptus in our high school he spent 40 years there all at the same school and we were humbled by the opportunity to honor coach wallast and his legacy for as many years of contributions of time energy and positive endurance he dragon spirit so we respectfully submit to the board for the consideration or approval of our request to name our gymnasium the bad wallast gymnasium thank you it's a great presentation we have any um speakers to this item there's one john sims hi mr sims good evening president disrupt members of the board dr rodriguez and cabinet my name is john sims and i wear a lot of hats i'm a teacher at aptus junior high school um my children attend pv usd schools and my family lives in the community serves by pv usd tonight i'd like to share with you three short stories the first is from last saturday when my oldest son and i were talking in the car during our conversation we realized that his last three p e teachers were all former students of bob wallast not only has his teaching inspired others to lead a more active life bob inspires his students to become p e teachers themselves this is the impact bob wallast has on his students or the years i've been lucky to be able to call bob a friend we ride our bikes through the forest of nice marks and as we pass by others the forest fills with hi bob or hey mr wallast after 40 years of students his children grandchildren his faith the teams he has coached in his time living in aptus i'd not be surprised even the birds know who he is this is his renown among our community my last story is from working with bob for the last 20 years at aptus junior high school for many years bob has supervised students at breakers they wait for the buses after school he's generous with the time and attention he gives to the students in these moments talking with them reminding them of school expectations giving out fist bumps laughs and slide grins his positive attitude created excuse me his attitude created a positive environment where everyone feels welcome and included at school this is his impact at aptus junior high school i urge you to consider the efforts of the naming committee and join us in support of dedicating the aptus junior high gym as the bob wallast gymnasium thank you for your time president to serve on board i have two questions for you unfortunately i do have a couple of folks that asked us to be able to speak i missed mr shiro who was also part of the presentation earlier i'd like to give him an opportunity to be able to speak if it's possible it's granted thank you good evening i just wanted to just share a quick story i was the student in his p.e. class at aptus junior high eighth grade didn't know him and we made a connection and he became a dad to me to this day he's the reason why i became a teacher he went on in high school i was a tennis player for him he was my coach nobody in my family ever graduated college and he inspired me i remember asking him the question how do you become a p teacher and he took me under his wing and we could honestly write a book he was in my wedding one of my groomsmen i was fortunate to be the efficient of one of his daughter's weddings um he's family and without it just shows you the impact of a teacher uh what they have on on kids i am that example i didn't have a dad growing up he took me under his wing and junior high he became my high school tennis coach he was at my college graduation in my wedding and now the last four years i've been able to teach with him and it's been the honor of my life i'm so proud to know him and uh there's nobody in my life that it had a big impact on me and so i love you coach and i just want you to know uh i just i'm so grateful to have you in my life so thank you thank you um is there any comments or questions from the board any discussion oh is there one more person oh sorry about that dr billisitch come on up i had a time so i need to take a minute i just want to say that physical education has always been very important in my life as my mom was a physical education teacher but i had the privilege to work with bob wallis as his principal for i don't know how many years at aptos junior he was always a gentleman the students loved him he has made such an impact on this community and uh i think this is a great honor for him so thank you for the consideration thank you dr billisitch okay now any comments from our board of trustees you start down on the justia roscow just in full support of this item tonight i think it's a phenomenal one we have one of our own who is very much invested in in the community um and to just see the impact that you have had over the years on students um one which we have present here with us and is very inspirational um and i think if we could fill up you know our all our schools where role models like yourself who are willing to um go that extra um step and really um take the time to inspire and motivate students i think it's just thank you thank you anyone down here have any comments okay gen shocker anything well um i'm cam i'm the aptos rep on the board of trustees one of two and i'm so sorry that we made you wait this long in the audience for the honor had i known i should have known you know i would have put it up earlier on the agenda i'm really sorry you got to see some very interesting things tonight appreciate their patience um but you know like i said i was at the retirement and um the the people like you i mean i started crying listening to the presentation and um it's people like you that are irreplaceable and um we're really going to miss you at aptos junior so i hope you come by come back and volunteer or sub or somehow stay attached to the kids so thank you for the many years of service we really appreciate you and i'm very proud to make a motion to support the bob Wallace gymnasium at aptos junior high school oh second all those in favor hi anyone opposed the motion carries unanimously tonight thank you and i think we should have a pic can we have a picture let me stop real quick to have a picture yeah where's um alicia alicia can we get a picture do you guys mind can we all get together for a quick picture if she open your mouth it can whoever came to support him please come to the picture i can't see jennifer shocker thank you beautiful one two three jennifer smile okay thank you are you up next i think so i've i'm reading the agenda correctly yes and bob thank you to your wife for putting up with all the long hours and everything really thank you okay it's nice to have a positive thing like that happened okay um item 9.3 approve a memorandum of understanding between pb usd and pft pvft on virtual academy and internet stipend yes thank you president discerper board of trustees dr adriga so before you tonight is an mou renewal um we already have this in place for our virtual academy teachers to receive $100 stipend per month in order to have internet service at home and phone in order to communicate and work with students since they are not actually physically in a building that we um own so this is the same mou that we presented two years ago and it's just up for renewal so i request that you please approve the mou s presented are there any speakers to this item no there are nine point three okay any discussion from the board seeing none i'm entertained a motion we'll make a motion second okay all those in favor hi hi motion carries uh five zero two thank you next is item nine point four a new course um for art is it art one i'm sorry i don't have my glasses on art one for ethnic studies yes good evening president discerper board of trustees and dr adrigas as part of our commitment to um developing students talents passion and interest tonight i'm bringing forward for approval a new course art one ethnic studies do you have the presentation by chance um this course focuses on building visual theory and application as well as analysis of current topics surrounding ethnic studies such as indigeneity identity decolonization and social movements towards equity for all students can earn visual and performing art credits or ethnic studies credits our current ethnic studies graduation requirements applies to this year's freshman class so the class of 2025 a team of visual art teachers met monthly this throughout this past year um in collaboration with san francisco state university based uh it's um community responsive education and they use the framework of rethinking um ethnic studies as a basis to develop the framework for the art one class the four major units um in the ethnic studies portion of the art one our identity indigeneity roots systems of power equity and health and healing and in conjunction students will be doing um artwork with painting drawing digital art murals and as well as 3d models and designs a quote you can sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are or you need to write it and paint it and do it so that you know who you are uh with that staff ask for your approval of the new course art one ethnic studies to be offered at all high schools in the fall of 2022 thank you thank you any speakers to this issue no speakers okay any um comments or discussion from the board members no okay i'd like to make a motion to approve i'll second and i'll just say this is amazing so exciting so thank you for bringing this forward all those in favor i i think motion carries 502 thank you this is item 9.5 acceptance of sums mtss phase 3 grant as in they serve life see we're always there when we need you all right so the goal of this grant is to support increased student outcomes um in the form of supporting our students with social emotional behavioral and academic supports through the implementation of mtss and then this grant will provide additional funding for our teachers um to be given professional development modules and to also have job embedded focused ones meaning whatever pertains to the psychologist role in mtss they're going to be given that that um professional development as a and just like the principal or a teacher or a classified ia so it is tailored for them it also builds in common um grounding and foundation for the mtss work also and so it will in addition it will provide coaching for the implementation of mtss to for our site administration at the three sites and provide other resources so we are also confident that this is a good model to to learn from so we can also share the strategies and the learnings to other sites across the district so with that said staff requests your approval are there any speakers to this one we have one chris web well i want to say i'm i'm four professional development for mtss my concern is that what i've noticed with mtss this year is not so much um that the teachers are the biggest issue with it but that um higher levels or higher tiers of it outside of the the direct site are kind of lacking a little bit like for example um i'm marking kids absent when they're absent but uh it's i don't really see like we i'm not seeing that something's happening eventually when these absences rack up and that that level of support it's it's not there that i haven't noticed it to be there um um i'm thinking that i hope i rather than pd i'd like to see that um some things that i know have worked for support because we've given up a lot at remissance to kind of put our faith in mtss um like i know our after-school program or we had in-person teachers that worked that worked and that made students like value come to school because when you missed you had to make up your time and you had to be here and it made a culture where it had you it mattered to come to school and we kind of like moved to like more of a drop-in program since the mtss and it's a little demoralizing for for teachers um another thing i kind of want to see like for mtss money for a drug and alcohol counselor i get it if you can't afford it for every site but maybe if like we could refer to somebody from the district level who could take care of that that'd be good or um sports was big for our site like that we got good sometimes a kid will come to school just for that um and thank you for your time thanks chris are there any comments or questions from the board on this item justia rusko do you do you have anything on this one no okay looking for motion i move to approve second all those in favor say i i i motion carries 502 thank you thank you item 9.6 um a resolution 21 2245 a temporary cash loans um from santa cruz county office of education for fiscal year 2022 2023 good evening president the surba board of trustees and dr adria's feel a little bamboozled so i feel like clon gave me the two not fun ones and she got the really fun one but they are actually necessary even though they are um something we do every year and have to do every year per egg code the first one first resolution we have in front of you is for temporary cash loans from the county treasurer so one thing i want to clarify is this is actually cash loans not because we don't have funding but because of how our funding comes in as a school district so as many of you know property tax makes up the majority of our funding we only receive property tax payments in cash in two months december and april so typically we see cash flow uncertainty really around like late november beginning of december sometimes um in january but typically it's december maybe sometimes april um what this allows us to do is borrow from the ceo e if we need cash it's typically only for periods no longer than a month and it just allows us to borrow from the ceo e if we absolutely need to in order to pay off any expenses and not have to defer defences expenses to another month okay are there any speakers to this item there are none there are none any comments or questions from the board danie danie josh i have a question with property funds at an all-time high why are we borrowing so again this this doesn't necessarily mean we're going to borrow what happens is our this has nothing to do with borrowing revenue what this has to do with is actual cash flow so we get cash um again basically in april we get a large amount of cash which we use for payrolls april all the way through december we get our portion final apportionment from the state so not our property tax but the state lcff apportionment in june really between june and december we don't see any large amount of cash from the state we just wait for property tax so we're not borrowing um because we can't afford things or we're trying to borrow to purchase things it's literally just cash so it's just cash in hand um and it's just based on how school districts are funded thank you like to make a motion to approve this item no second all those in favor i i motion carries five zero two and again this is something that we do every single year just to just in case we need to and you're staying up here aren't you i am okay um this is item 9.7 approve a resolution 21 22 46 temporary is this the same one no temporary borrowing would be okay temporary borrowing between funds for fiscal year 2022 and 2023 thank you once again president to serve our board of trustees and dr roger you guys so yes while it does look similar to the one we just approved this one is now in our fund borrowing so this is not borrowing from the coe which typically when we borrow from the coe that's our last resort um with our bond fund that we currently have or our self-insured fund we typically have cash in those funds to borrow from this is really where we go first when we are doing any sort of borrowing of cash again this is not a loan to take out to pay expenses it's just cash and it's between funds so whether it's our general fund and our bond fund or our general fund and our self-insured fund so i would ask the board approve this resolution for temporary borrowing if necessary for the 22 23 school year do you have any speakers none okay any questions from the board i'll make a motion to approve all second all those in favor i motion carries 502 thank you thank you so much this is item 9.8 we're going to approve architectural agreement for hamilton achon architects for the aptos junior high hvac modernization project number 202 3009 and this report will be by urlindo fernandez fernandez thank you thank you good evening president the serpa and board of trustees dr redriguez cabinet members um i'm here to present the first item the architect agreement between hamilton achon architects for the aptos junior high hvac modernization project number 202 3009 and this project the architects will be designing a new hvac system to replace the old adequate boiler that's in place since the school was built um this new hvac system will replace the the hvac system the boiler system that's there now serves the entire npr system which when the boiler goes down means all the classrooms attached to it go down we're going to be separating that system to ever so every classroom has its own hvac system so um here i want your approval for the this is an issue as a project and this is estimated at a million two and i want i want to get your approval for the architect agreement for hamilton and eight eight minutes architects for 150 thousand four hundred and eighty eight thousand are there any speakers there are none okay so just to be clear tonight we're not approving the 1.2 million we're approving just the architect fees of 150 or something okay 150 thousand four hundred eighty eight dollars any questions or discussion from the board i'll make a motion to approve not second all those in favor hi i i think motion carries five zero two thank you i think is it you again or linda yep nine point nine um approve architectural agreement for 19 six architects for the rio del mar elementary school stairs and access ramps modernization project number 20 23 003 did you present the serpa board of board board members dr rodriquez and cabinet um my second item here uh for the approval of the architect agreement 19 six architects for rio del mar school life stairs and access ramps modernization project two zero two three 003 and this is to replace the stairs at the site um the it's a natural project funded uh construction construction estimated cost is a million three and here to ask for your approval for the services for the architect 19 six architects of 167 500 for their services are any speakers none are there any questions or discussion um i've never heard of 19 six architects they're based out of cenotrus oh they are great i've maddie architects yes i have okay yeah i forgot to say one thing there was a typo on the project mm-hmm title that is being amendment and it's going to get a minute and um everything else all the details on it refer back to the correct project for rio del mar okay great are there is there any discussion no you want to approve a little second okay all those in favor hi i motion carries 502 thank you thank you uh this is 9.10 approve the diamond technology institute career and technical education project number 2022012 good good evening once again president de serpa board members dr rodriguez cabinet um here to ask for your approval for the diamond institute career technology education project 2022012 on april first 2020 the district advertised diamond technology institute career and then the third big rock was held on april 12 10 contractors were present at that time and may six one sealed bill one sealed bid was received the disrecovered rebued the bid and at at a cost of 584,101 i'm asking for the approval for one-to-one builders ink for the project are there any speakers none okay um are there any questions or comments from the board um or linda i have a question for you yes um 584 000 seems like a lot for one portable can you explain the scope of this project a little bit because that seems like you could almost build a whole house for that much money like why are we spending that much on one portable and i know that there are architect fees kept to prepare it lay the cost i mean i understand but it just seems like a lot well to can i just so to give you a like perspective the project at starlight which is technically a portable i mean it's a built-in and the and the location of the garden is going to be 2.6 million right so if you think of that that project who it came to the board was 2.6 million so if you think about it in perspective um one one building it's it's possible with all the foundation is going to cost i might i might be able to elaborate a little bit just based on my you know experience you know with current trends right now with material costs fuel costs a lot of that's gone up quite significantly significantly i mean i i was quoted a delivery from scott's valley to watsonville for five hundred dollars just for delivery that's just based on fuel costs so i think those are probably reflected in this bid price based on availability of material costs of material transportation costs i mean not necessarily labor but those other factors probably contribute like dr roger you said 2 million for the previous project you know i mean it might kind of sum things up and clarify things there's also a couple other items that are going to be there a couple shade structures in a green house so it's not just one portable it's other items included in that project other districts around us are actually doing real construction when they're building new things i just worry that we're putting all these portables because they're cheaper but they they're not going to last um so anyway that just seems like a tremendous amount of money for a portable so anyway i just have those questions but um i'll entertain motion now can move to approve let's second okay first second all those in favor hi hi motion carries five zero two thank you uh oh we'll come back um item 9.11 approve aloni elementary school admin re-roofing project um item number 202 2019 good evening good evening once again president de serpa for the for the trustees dr rodriguez and cabinet um i'm here to ask the approval for the alonia admin re-roofing project 202 2019 um on march 26 and april 2nd the district advertised at aloni of the aloni school admin re-roofing project and mandatory bidwalk was held on the 5th four card contractors were present on may 11th the district received one sealed bid that sealed bid was from pebble construction for that bid came in at six hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred ninety seven dollars um i'm asking for the approval for this project uh it is an esser project any speakers okay any comments from the board seeing none i'll entertain a motion i move to approve second okay all those in favor hi i motion carries five zero two thank you uh huh thank you and um that's it thank you rlinda good job thank you um item 9.12 safe return to in-person instruction and continuity of service plan i think this is a report by dr michelle rodriguez yes thanks so much so we won't go line by line unless you would like to regarding the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity of service plan um this is a requirement of us so you may remember that in october and of 2021 was the first time that you saw this plan and it was approved by the board um since then were required every six months to update the plan um for us we have maintained that we will always update the plan per cal osha which is our staff requirements and cdph which california department of health requirements we must do this every six months in order to continue to receive and use esser funds if we don't um have this plan in place and we don't review it and approve it every six months then we actually have to stop receiving our allotments of esser funds which would make um he's gone right this moment but which would make our cbo very unhappy um so i did confer as is required um we did confer with um both of our labor partners so both pvft and csa were able to provide um just overview of this and um and looked at it um received one modification which was included you'll see that it um has it does have some major changes to it one is in regards to physical distancing as you know physical distancing is no longer required and the second was in return of face coverings and so face coverings is also no longer required so when you look at it and there really are not many major changes to the document those are the two major changes um that you will find within the document and i'd be happy to go over any sections or um take any questions from the board are there any speakers to this item none okay any um discussion from the board members okay i think we need a motion i'll move to approve no second okay all those in favor hi hi motion carries five zero two thank you everybody and thank you dr i'd really guess i know that was some work put into that um report okay next up we have our consent agenda looking for a motion to approve i move to approve second okay all those in favor hi hi motion carries five zero two thank you so next up we have um item 13.1 this is action and report on closed session and trusty soto we'll be reading out our uh-huh i think so you're doing great yeah it doesn't matter anyway we'll help you all right uh closed session uh items motion one closed session item 2.1 i move to approve the certified personnel report as presented by district administration on May 25 2022 with 13 and 20 additional action items all second all those in favor hi hi hi anyone opposed motion carries five zero two thank you motion number two closed session item 2.2 move to approve classified personnel report as presented by district administration on May 25 2022 with 10 and three additional action items second all those in favor hi hi motion carries five zero two okay we have two announcements this evening uh announcement number one paul valley unified school districts please to announce the selection of jeff docker as a new assistant principal at watsonville high school mr docker has been serving students since 1999 as a theater arts director student advisor and assistant principal mr docker holds a variety of degrees consisting of a bachelor's degree in theater from shannon doha university a teacher certification from st paul's college master's in education from cal state san bernadino administrative credential from uc riverside and a doctorate in education leadership from nova southeastern university he's worked at the secondary level on site leadership teams leading ips and 504s directing a wide variety of school plays and his work with students on helping them achieve both academic and career goals these experiences will serve him well in his new role we're proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to his new administrative role announcement number two uh paul valley unified school districts please to announce the selection of elizabeth ortiz as the new academic coordinator of starlight elementary elizabeth has been serving students since 2016 as a teacher at starlight she also served as a lead teacher for the afterschool program and summer school program so after graduating from watsonville high she went to obtain a bachelor of arts in sociology from san jose state and multiple subject teaching credential she has earned a master's in education administrative administrative credential from concordia university we're probably uh proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to her new administrative role and that's everything one last item uh item 2.5 closed session special education settlement for a student the board voted with a 403 vote to approve the final compromise and release agreement for a special services student and this was at 640 p.m. thank you um our next meeting will be on june 8th 2022 and we'll see everybody here back at the board board room and congratulations to all our graduates starting with our adult ed uh tomorrow night i'm looking forward to seeing everybody at graduations and this meeting is now adjourned thank you