 So are there any, are there any public speakers? No, I don't think so. So we will now go into closed session where we will discuss 2.2, Certificated Public Employee Employment, Employment, blah blah blah, 54957, 2.3, Classified Public Employee Employment, Appointment Employment, Government Code 54957, 2.4, Negotiations Updates, 2.4, Public Employee Dismissal Release, 2.5, Existing Pending Anticipity Litigation, 2.6, Ratified Work Compensation Claim, 5106910150, and 2.7, Tucci, yeah, I was gonna say that. Tucci Learning Solutions, Non-Public Agency, Public Supplemental Service Agreement, two cases. Okay, to closed session. If you can wait to talk a little bit later. All right, we're gonna call to order our meeting for Wednesday, August 21st, 2019. And we're going to do the Pledge of Allegiance. I can't think of somebody new to do it today. Let's see. You did it last time. You should do it again. Well, well, Jen, why don't you do it, Jen? I don't know. Please rise and turn. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Oh, wow, me too. The Republic stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I think the flag was over there before. Wait. We went the wrong, we're saluting to the wrong flag. Okay. We have translations with Virginia. Yes, it's the same. Ha ha ha. Este, si necesiten ayuda se puede conseguir los aparatos, se puede decir para poder oír. Gracias. Y también si quieres hablar con algo en la agenda, hay que agarrar una tarjetita y darlo a Eva. So if you wanna speak on the agenda, you need to fill out one of those little cards and give it to Eva. There she is. Raise your hand. There's Eva. All right. I'm gonna ask, I'm gonna ask now for the superintendent comments. Okay, great, thank you. Well, welcome back to the new school year. We look forward to build off of our current successes this year's, and you can see it on the screen, and this year's district wide campaign is All In Every Day. And this campaign is focused on our relentless advocacy and service as a PVUSD family to engage in work that accepts and supports a belief, commitment, and passion that all, all students can. And we intentionally left it at that. They can, cause they can do anything. Every day I visit sites and departments and I see both classified and certificated staff engaging with students in impactful and meaningful ways. Thank you to the staff. Bienvenidos a un año escolar nuevo. Esperamos continuar construyendo nuestros exitos actuales. La campaña de este año para todo el distrito es con ganas todos los días. Y esa campaña se centra en nuestra obligación y servicio como familia de PVUSD para participar en un trabajo que acepta y apoya la crecencia, el compromiso y la pasión que todos los estudiantes pueden. Y ahí paramos ahí porque pensamos que pueden hacer todo. Cada día que visito escuelas y departamentos veo personal clasificado y certificado con acciones interactuales ando con los estudiantes de una manera impactante y significativa. So part of the all in everyday campaign will focus on students attending school daily. Hear that guys you probably do already. We know that frequent absences not only mean less instruction and learning for our students but also include missed opportunities for intervention, reteaching, social, emotional supports and enrichment. Our connection with students matter and we have a saying that we have on back of some of our t-shirts. You teach one child and you are a hero. You teach hundreds and you are PVUSD. So part of this campaign with Ganas todos los días se concentra en que los estudiantes asisten a la escuela todos los días. Sabemos que las absencias frecuentes no solamente significa menos instruction pero también aprendizaje para los estudiantes sino que incluyendo oportunidades perdidas de intervención, apoyoso, emocional y enriquecimiento. Nuestra conexión con los estudiantes se importa. Enseña a un niño y serás un héroe. Enseña cientos y eres PVUSD. So we are excited about our recognition of being named part of the League of Innovative Schools. It's too bad you guys didn't win one month earlier. I would have put you in my video. It was a rigorous application process. We are one of only 16 California School Districts and the first in the county to be a member. So estamos muy entusiasmados con nuestra reconocimiento de ser nombrado parte de la Liga de Escuelas Innovadoras. Es un proceso de aplicación muy riguroso. Somos solamente uno de 16 distritos escolares de toda California y el primero en el condado de ser miembro. So thank you very much. All right, does any board members want to say something, Jennifer? It's been a busy summer. I want to first take a minute to recognize one of our community members that we lost recently, Ms. Ria Dahart sadly passed away and a lot of you knew her, her students, friends, family. So my heart goes out to you for your loss. I also, in interest of transparency because that's one of the things I ran my campaign on, my daughter is no longer attending school here at the district. She had some special needs that needed to be taken care of and my first job as Michelle Rodriguez says is to be a mom first and then board member second. So I had to take care of her first. She would be sad to be missing our wonderful Aptos team too because this is her area of interest and so she's gonna be completely jealous when she finds out I got to see this in person. And then just to follow up, SELPA, I've been in touch with Dr. Rodriguez. I have heard your community suggestions, complaints. I've heard teacher complaints and suggestions and we hear you and we are discussing it. We will also have SELPA be giving a presentation at a future meeting. So that is next meeting, right, 9-11, okay. And just real quickly, I just want to recognize PVSD. There was a lot of community interest, student interest of the school district going greener and we are in the process of doing that, Aptos High actually. We've worked with, we've worked with a couple other schools and there are going to be a vegetarian meals available online. You can just order online. You don't have to wait to go to school to see what they have. We've got lots of fresh fruits and vegetables coming in. We're also reducing our waste, plastic waste, silverware waste, individual packets. So that is being worked on also, thank you. Hi, Jennifer Holm, trustee for area seven. For those of you who don't know, that's the ocean side of highway one from, you know, C-Cliff on down to Pajaro Dunes. And like many other households in this area, my family is adjusting to the start of school. My youngest has got all his supplies now. And it was wonderful kicking off the start of the school year with the district breakfast. I also attended the Mexico and El Corazon and I just wanted to express my appreciation to the other board members cabinet and Dr. Rodriguez for fostering those partnerships with other organizations and agencies. I attended Pajaro Pride and it's just so important to recognize and celebrate the rainbow that is our community. And I accepted an invitation to view the setup of one of our preschool classrooms at Bradley Elementary and met with advocates from a community water center about water safety issues. Good evening, everyone. I also got the opportunity to attend the district white breakfast. I'm wishing everyone an excellent start of the year. And like Michelle says, let's make it our best year yet. I was also heavily involved in the strawberry festival through different nonprofits in addition to hosting our first annual strawberry jam race. To kick off the strawberry festival, it was nice to see many of our students present are from two year olds to 13 year olds. And I think the oldest gentleman we had was 93 years old. So we had an excellent turnout at that event. I'm also very pleased with the Mexico and El Corazon performance and that collaboration with the city of Watsonville. We do have another event coming up for which we're also collaborating with them. And that's music and El Corazon with city council member, Aurelio Gonzalez. We will have the Santa Cruz Symphony present and performances by various student, PVU student groups will also be there. So if you can make it out, it will be at the city plaza on September 19th. And lastly, being pretty active with the PV Farrell Valley Foundation, we have the date set for our next fundraiser. So please save the date. It will be September 12th from 5.30 to 8.30 p.m. at Jalisco's here in Watsonville. It's $20 a ticket. It includes a lovely meal, special performances by PVUSD groups and also an opportunity to bid on the silent auction items. So hopefully we can come with your support on that upcoming fundraiser. Thank you. Hi everybody. Hi Aptos. Very excited that you guys are here tonight. I was hoping that we'd have you on the agenda and here you are. So thank you Peggy and all the parents are here tonight. Thank you for all the hard work that you guys have put in to make these kids such a success. So I'm really looking forward to your presentation. I also want to comment on Ria DeHart. Ria passed away recently and she was a board member here and she also helped to found, I think the teachers union CFT. I enjoyed Ria very much over the years and she'll be missed. She participated in our last PV PSA meeting a month ago. So I was surprised that she passed away but we will all miss her very much. Last thing I'll say is that I just dropped off my baby to college and for all the parents out there who are going through the same thing, it's a hard thing to do. And I want to thank our wonderful teachers in this district for preparing my children for the next step. They do a great job and that's it. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Glad to be here another school year. Thank you teachers, custodians, bus drivers, office assistants. I'm excited for the school year. I was at the breakfast for the teachers and everybody at the high school. It was fun. I also like to say thank you to Joe and Michelle for finally getting rid of the mountain of dirt at Ye Hall. Finally, one of the reasons why I sit here is because I told the people that that was one of my concerns and issues so I'm glad we've only got that out of the way. And just to remind everybody next week we're having a community meeting at Ye Hall Tuesday, August the 27th at 7 p.m. It's a meeting to decide what to do with the remaining $2.2 million from the Measure L funds and there's a couple options you guys can take a look at but I will be supporting option A because I believe our teachers need their classrooms upgraded and I think our students need a good reason why to be happy when they go to class. And I also like to also thank Jennifer Shaker for your work on SELPA. I know that's a big challenge. You know, and I know Michelle is working on it. I know you're working on it and it's intense. I visited H&I a while ago and it needs a lot of work but we're working on it but I'm right here to support you so thank you very much. Let's see, can I say? Well, so I was the district breakfast as well. It's great to have a big breakfast before school starts. Great to have everybody, see everybody there. I also go to one committee meeting all summer long. It's the migrant head start meeting. It's with migrant parents of course. And I love, you know, starting at the beginning of the summer is when we have our big meetings. So there's like up to maybe up to 30 people there. The meeting are close to that. Yeah, okay, in case I sound funny. And so, for example, incredible to hear the representatives of their different preschools and the representatives that are there at the meeting talk about their parent meetings when they tell us that up to 30, sometimes even 40 parents come after working in the field, after working in the field, they come to the meetings for migrant head start, that many parents is pretty cool. Yeah, I just want to say I knew Ray at the heart very, very well. We were super good friends. She was always at my house when I had a lot of events there. And I need to tell you this, she was 96 years old and she was still the president of adult education, president of adult education. She was on the PVPSA board. She was, she went to the all the city council meetings. She would come to many of most of our board meetings. She was, I mean, she was also for quite a while, not that long ago, our community member for migrant head start. And she came to most of the meetings. She loved migrant head start too. She did, did she on Helica? Yeah, and so how many people do you know in this country? You have to say probably in this country that our 96 year old and still completely 100% involved in the community and still, you know, doing things. I mean, actually being a president of adult education at 96, there's not that many people. I don't think so. So, let's see what else I can say. So, well, I think I've maybe said enough. Thank you and thanks for all the work that all of you do and thanks for the work that all of us are doing and are going to be doing. And including Dr. Rodriguez, of course, she's going to be the hardest worker of all of us. All right, thanks. Going to the next part of the agenda. We're going to have a very special, special, special part of the agenda right now. We're going to have the recognition of the international winners, you might say. Is that how you would say it? International winners of the, would you say, mate? I'm saying it like in Spanish. Sorry about that. Mate Rove Championship and it's our student robotics team and we're recognizing them as the incredible international champions that they are. Thanks. Okay, I'll start this off with a quick introduction. So, first of all, good evening trustees, good evening Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Joe Manilde and I have the good fortune to teach at Aptos High School and also be the faculty advisor for the Aptos High School Robotics Club and ROV team. So, before we begin, first of all, thank you for honoring them here tonight. I can't tell you how proud I am of these students. Well, I guess I can because I just said how proud I am of these students, I really am. And so, before we start, I want to say thank you to a few people, a few individuals and organizations that have, without their support, we couldn't maintain this club, we couldn't maintain this team and we certainly couldn't send them to an international competition. So, thank you Dr. Rodriguez, Susan Prez and Robert Hoffman at the district office for their support. Thank you at our site, the Aptos High School Boosters Club to our principal, Peggy Pugh. Where'd she go? There she is, okay. Yes, thank you Peggy Pugh for your support and to our families, our friends and our community of sponsors who've been, without their support, we just couldn't do it. So, thank you to all of them. I'd also like to recognize our volunteer coaches, Mary Seamount and Victor DeCosta. You could wave for their uncountable hours of dedication to the team and to coaching. So, thank you very much. And so, without further ado, and with great fanfare, the world champion, world renowned Aptos High School, team scaler. And so, I'm gonna have them stand up in alphabetical order because I had to put them in that way to remember it. You can get them all right down. So, we'll start with, we'll start with. So, we have Cameron Barrett, who's not here today. We have Jordan Chin, Sunwoo DeCosta, Amelia Lovell, Keegan Martin, Catherine Walton, Jamie Walton, Jacob Sandler. Out of alphabetical order, I just got that. And of course, Chris Whaley. I leave the mic to you. Hi, my name is Jamie Walton and I'm the CEO of SEAL Team Scaler, Aptos High's varsity underwater robotics team. Thank you so much for having us. For an upwards of six years now, we've been competing in Mates ROV, or a remotely operated vehicle competition, which brings together teams from all around the world to build robots that can complete scientific tasks underwater. Because ROVs are such a critical part of real life underwater exploration, Mate chooses a new theme every year that reflects what actual ROVs and scientists do in the real world. For example, this past year our theme was lakes and rivers in Tennessee. We had the opportunity to design and build a variety of solutions to problems that Tennessee rivers actually face. For example, we got to build a mini ROV inside our main ROV to investigate pipes within dams. We also got to design and program image classification systems to identify organisms and many more of our own custom technologies. We also operate as a mock startup company, meaning that we're not only gaining engineering skills, but also communication and cooperation. ROV was an incredibly rewarding experience because it taught us not only the technical skills, but the confidence to become engineers. Because for many of us engineering seemed like an abstract concept or something that we couldn't do. But after six years of soldering wires and fabricating circuit boards, going through countless prototypes to see what succeeded and what failed, and watching every part of the ROV break and have to be fixed, we learned the skills to show that we really were the engineers that seemed so far off before. But on top of this, we not only learned those technical skills, but learned that communication was an essential part of the engineering process. Each of our team members took on their own specification for the ROV, such as VP of software, VP of finance, and things like that. And we found that the communication between each of these different aspects of the ROV is what was truly essential for our success. And those skills in teamwork and leadership will take with us for the rest of our lives. But more importantly, the skills we learned extended far beyond the reach of STEM because we were a mock startup company, so we had to showcase our skills to a panel of real scientists. And those skills in marketing and also fundraising to get the money to create the ROV are skills that we can use no matter what discipline we decide to go into. Hi, I'm Catherine Walton. For the past three years, our team has won the regional Monterey Bay competition and traveled to the international competition over the summer. This year, the international competition was in Kingsport, Tennessee. While we were there, we got to talk to teams from 18 different countries about how their ROV worked and how they approached the same big challenge that we had faced. We all came from many different backgrounds and had many different experiences with the program, but all of us could come together under a common interest and passion in robotics and in solving these engineering problems. By coming together and connecting over this common passion and investment in solving problems, we realized that we can solve problems like this if we tackle them as a global community. We don't have to wait until the distant future to solve problems like global warming, space exploration, and building an underwater robot. As students, we can be part of the solution in the here and now. We benefited so much from this experience that we really want to pay it forward and give everyone in the district the same opportunity to experience this program that we had. So this year, we're in the process of reaching out to members of the district and other schools to make sure that other schools have the opportunity to benefit from this program and that we can offer our mentoring skills and advice to new teams in the mate competition. We really want to make sure that every team has the opportunity to succeed in the competition and gain the skills and the confidence that we'd gotten from this program. None of this would be possible without support from the community, from our amazing mentors to support from PVUSD. So thank you so much for making this possible. Now we'd like to open the floor for any questions if there are any. Thank you so much. What did you find your biggest challenge was? Sorry. Here you go. Thank you. Let's see. We had some trouble with, Jamie here mentioned making a program to identify benthic organisms in the bottom of the pool. And for a while, we had some trouble navigating that since a lot of it required some pretty advanced programming skills and learning even some new coding languages. So that was one of the challenges. Another one of the biggest challenges was also probably the micro-ROV, which wasn't especially a big challenge due to the fact that we not only had to have it explore a narrow pipe but come back and the automatic tether wander that Keegan developed was incredibly difficult and we had to go through dozens of different prototypes in order to get it right and have it do what it had to do. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. Well, I can say that I'm amazed. I mean, I don't know what to say because, you know, listening to you, I'm not even, I'm not, I hate to say it, at this point, I'm not smart enough to know, understand completely everything you've even said to me. But, I, you know, listening to it, I'm thinking, whoa, that, I mean, you know, just even your challenges for me was like, okay, woo, okay, they had to do what, okay. But, you know, I'm just incredibly amazed. I am, I have no other word I can figure out how to say, really, except it's completely amazing. And I would say you folks are, what you might call inspirational. You're very inspirational. Thank you. Thank you. And we were so thankful that. Exactly, yeah, I'm, and I'm really hoping, like you said, that other schools can, you know, start to understand what you have done and figure out what you, and, you know, be eventually, maybe possibly as good as you are. That would be so cool if you had even other schools being able to do that. Pretty cool. Thanks. This is less of a question and more of an acknowledgement. I had the fun of walking behind you all at the Aptos Parade. And so what I had the opportunity to hear was the buzz that followed you in like a wake, you know, as you kind of move forward. And I'd hear people, you know, off to the side, go, oh yeah, did you hear about them? They did this and blah, blah, blah, blah. And so your win is certainly a win for you and the people who supported you and fostered this sense of excellence for you. But it's also a win for the community. It's also a win for, you know, having pride in our students and, you know, that expectation of excellence is also a gift that you have given to generations of students who follow you. You've set the bar high. That's a wonderful thing. And thank you for the work that you put in and for doing all that you did to make that happen. And for the students and for everyone who supported them. Just a quick question. How did this group get started? I mean, were you guys like the founding... So basically the core of the group really came together freshman year of high school. So before that, we all were on our own junior high teams. And then once we got to high school, a lot of the teams kind of combined into one. So after that, it's basically been the same core group with some seniors being added on the past two years. But otherwise that experience that we gained from the junior high level really carried over to high school and then we were just able to develop our skills from there. The overall program, the club itself has existed in the junior high and the high school for a lot of years now. I think Mr. Nome can talk about that a little more. I just want, if I could jump in, just to answer your question. There's a teacher at the Atlas Junior High School that should be named. And I didn't name her in my thanks, but Emily Cassar has been a huge, huge reason why we have this program in the first place. And so that is, she is definitely somebody who's fostered the beginnings of it. But before they get to high school, they've already heard about it. Even if they weren't a part of it, they've heard about it and been around people who've been in it. Yeah, I think it's cool that you guys just somehow found each other and came up with this. So thank you very much. Hi. Well, I've been proud of you guys for many, many years. Again, thank you to the parents who I know are integral and in helping. What would, you're talking to board members who make decisions about policy and oftentimes funding. What would be helpful in the future to support this kind of program, not only at Aptos, but at Watsonville and at Pajaro Valley High School? What do you think would be helpful? Well, definitely a lot of our experience was fundraising to build this ROV. So if schools were able to maybe give a small amount to getting teams started in building an ROV, that would probably be really helpful since a lot of the buying the materials and things like that, getting a head start on that at least would be probably really helpful in getting teams independent to get their own sponsors. How much money did you have to raise to build this product and to do your traveling? We raised an initial 1500 to build the ROV. So I think it cost it. And then we raised more after that. So I think it was around 2000 total. And then for travel costs, we raised around 5000. That's also for the varsity team. There are some beginner teams that might be closer to probably 500 or 1000 when starting out. As the robots get more advanced and you compete in higher levels, you have to get more complex materials. But just for like the, I think you've already covered it, but like the starting scout robots to kind of get the ball rolling, they usually need around 800 somewhere around there. So just giving that money to give some teams a start could probably snowball into something bigger into the future. And the travel expenses were actually 15,000. Is that right? That was a correction. No, no, don't be sorry. And so I know you raised money through GoFundMe because I made a donation. And so these sponsors that I see across the bottom. Yeah, so they're a combination of both sponsors who gave us the money to start the process and also sponsors who were able to give us materials. Some of them also helped us with things like reading printing and things like that. So we both are really grateful to those who helped us through the actual cost itself and through the fabrication as well. So we thank the sponsors that are listed here and that's wonderful. So how did, who taught you guys to code? Oh boy, definitely our mentor Victor DeCosta has been an incredible resource and he really taught us pretty much everything we know. Yeah, so he's a parent volunteer, right? Yes. Okay. What is it? Yeah, Vic, how do you know so much? I guess I'm getting old. Thank you. And so what is the plan to sort of deploy this model to the other schools? Who can talk to, who can speak to that idea? Well, one of the main ideas we had was to set up an online forum for new teams, which we're starting to work on this year over the summer. I tried to build, started to build an online program on the website Slack to bring everyone's emails together so that new teams from around the district can come and ask questions from people who have more experience. So people on our team can answer questions and offer advice on anything from technical challenges to more team and organizational challenges. We also reached out to the robotics team at UCSE, Slugbotics who agreed to help us with this. So we have their emails as well in that forum and they can offer advice and questions as well. So we can offer kind of in-person help but also that online forum. This seems like a great initiative to try to find grant money for Dr. Rodriguez. So anyway, congratulations you guys. You have big bright futures. I think Maria Arosco has the final comment tonight. My comments were around too, how can we further assist in expanding and covering the cost of this program? Because it's one of those things where you're applying skills, learning skills, but also solving real life problems, right? And we don't see those opportunities very often. So like Trustee D'Serpa, I'm very interested in figuring out a way to expand and support programs like this, even starting at the middle school level, especially that's sort of the gateway up. So whatever we can do to assist, I'm all in. Congratulations. A very proud Mariner tonight. Thank you, congrats. Now you're dismissed to go do your homework. That was the thing that they, there it is, right? Honest. All right. Pretty inspirational, that's what I have to say. So now we're gonna do some much more boring things. For example, like the approval of the agenda. Okay, can I have a motion for the approval of the agenda? A little bit approval. Second. Okay, all in favor. Aye. Aye. All those opposed, seven zero. I mean, no, not seven zero. Six zero, excuse me. Five zero two, Kim's not here. Okay, we're going to do now the approval of the minutes and we need to prove two minutes, two days that we were, we have minutes. And so we're gonna approve the approval of the July 10th board meeting minutes. Moved or approved? Okay. Second. Okay, all those in favor. Aye. Abstain, I believe that's the meeting where I was absent, correct? And I need to abstain. Two. We were both gone that meeting. Okay, so then we need to wait for Kim. So Jen, you would be voting, right? Jen, this is Jen. I'm voting. Yeah. I'm saying just we have enough to one, two, three, four. Okay. So now that we have Kim, we're voting. Okay, so there's just, there's a lot of people right there, so we need you. Okay, so I have, did I get a second? Yeah, I moved Danny's second. And Danny's second. Okay, so we're gonna have those that are here all in favor. Aye. Aye. Abstain. So that was, it's one, it's four. Four, two, one, zero, two. Okay, that's too complicated for me to figure out. Four, zero, one, two. Okay. Now we are asking for approval of, this is 5.2, the August 7th. No, we haven't. No, we haven't. Board meeting minutes. Okay, does the motion to approve? Second. I will call for a vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay, and that's, that's six, zero, two. Six, zero, one. This is six, zero, one. Okay, all those opposed. So now we're at the visitor non-agenda items. So anybody that wants to come up here, you only. We have one and it's Esther Murillo. Esther. Esther Murillo. These are two classified employees as well. I have to say this. Yes. Good evening Board of Trustees. Dr. Rodriguez, cabinet. My name is Esther Murillo and this year, I was the Vet Co-Event Chair for Watsonville Relay for Life. It was a amazing year. I want to thank PVUSD for their support. Kristen, thank you so much for all your hard work. It really paid off. The community was buzzing with the fact that Dr. Rodriguez was there. They wanted to know who Kristen was. They wanted to know who Casey was. And we had principals out there. We had students saying, hey, my principal's out here. I've never seen him here before. They were all out there walking. I'm sad that I wasn't able to walk with you, Dr. Rodriguez, from 12 to three in the morning. But on Friday I pulled a muscle. So what I did do, I don't know if you noticed, I parked my car right next to the track. So I couldn't walk. By six o'clock on Saturday evening, I was dragging the leg, but I wouldn't go home. But it was amazing. We had an amazing year. But we're not done yet. The American Cancer Society gave us a goal of 100,000. Well, we reached that goal. We were so excited. But Barbie Gomez, my other co-chair, my other half, and we want to reach last year's goal. So last year's goal was 115,000. We're at 114,000 right now. So I've got buckets. So we'd like, those of you who still would like to contribute, because we have until the end of this month to reach our goal. So if you'd like, please contribute. Also, we have one more last effort, and that'll be at Jalisco's tomorrow. It'll be from noon until closing. We have music from seven to nine. And a part of those proceeds would go to the American Cancer Society. And then we'll be done for this year. Again, thank you so much for all your love and your support, and making this year's event so exciting and wonderful. And Kristen, thank you. This lady is amazing. She went in, she set up shop, and then she says, oh no, this is too small. I need something bigger. The very next morning, she was there, I think at 5.30. She set up a bigger spot. So I'm like, are you kidding? This isn't the same thing I saw just on Friday night. You changed overnight. So it was amazing, and it was wonderful to see all of you guys there supporting such a great cause. It meant a lot to me this year, as you guys know. So thank you very much. Very much appreciated. Thank you. So here's the bucket, do not forget. Oh, you know, I just, yeah, I'll get, I'll try to go tomorrow night. Okay. And that is it for public comment. So I might keep going here, even though you can give them as much money as you want. For with the employee organization comments, employee unions, I call them. So the Pato Valley Federation of Teachers is, Nilly here, Nilly, oh Nilly, there you are. Nilly, I don't know what Nilly, Nilly. Hi Nilly. Hello, I'm here with Radhika Kirkman. She's the grievance officer. We're the new leadership for PVFT. And yeah, we did, we didn't know Rea personally. I did see her at a meeting once, and was pretty much in awe because my grandmother who was 96 would not be able to be at a table in that capacity and, you know, and contribute the way that she, you know, that Rea did. Yeah, and Rea was a founding member of PVFT back in 68. She rallied the teachers. She's the president of the union, wasn't she? And later became the president of the union. Unfortunately, she wasn't on the charter, the original charter. I went to look to see if her name was listed on the charter that was signed on January 16th in 1969. But she was a founding organizing member of PVFT because she understood the importance of teachers being in a union so that we have that collective bargaining right. And yes, she was the president of PVFT as well. Yeah, so she did a lot of wonderful things in education. She did. So on the note of collective bargaining, we are hoping that we can hear back from the district in regards to setting up some dates to get back into negotiations. So we hit pause for the summer. We're ready to get back into the negotiation process. And it's sort of like the ball is in your court. So we're ready. It's wonderful to see that on your agenda, you have a resolution for environmentalism. And that is important because climate change is real. And it's important that our students are, their knowledge and their growth of the environment is fostered. And then just skills that would help make our environment much better, such as Mr. Monaldi's group. He is a teacher. He is also a member of one of our site reps for PVFT. So we're very, very proud of him and the things that he does as well. And we also know that there is a new position that's on the action item list for the district office and something that we have had conversation about myself with Dr. Rodriguez. And I just would like to just make it clear that we understand when certain changes need to happen. But we will always advocate that it not be on the backs of the teachers, which essentially is the backs of the students. So we are student first as well. And because we represent teachers, teachers and students are equal. Thank you. Is the next union there, CSA, you wanna come back up? Okay, good evening again. Estrimudio chapter 132, CSA, first VP. Well, we're excited to start the year off. We've started strong. We started with a new program, the student program. We've had a few major hiccups, but we are working towards solving, resolving some of the issues that we have at hand. We've made an appointment for hopefully early next week to meet with Kristin in regards to our concerns in implementing this program. It's been a little tough because it's new to our sites and it's caused delay in entering and dropping students, especially entering them and updating the information. It's based on our job descriptions of what we have access to. So which is a big concern because everybody knows that we do more than puts on our job description. And with that said, we need access to be able to bring kids over from other sites, enter them properly with correct information so that their courses, their credits are done correctly. So we are meeting with the district office and making sure that that's happening. Another program that was implemented was Escape. I'm happy to say that they've done a wonderful job in training us prior to the end of last year and having ongoing trainings and also very accessible. Every time I've had a question, I've been able to get an answer within 24 hours and sometimes even sooner than that. I've been able to come into the district office and get assistance. I wish I could say the same for the other program, but I do understand that we have lots of schools, this impacted everybody and we need to resolve as soon as possible. And I know that that will happen. Thank you very much. Thank you. And negotiations will be starting next month. There you go. Okay, the next one is the PIVAM. Is there a manager here that would like to talk? No managers, would like to get up? Okay, get up. Anybody can come. You can be the one. I'll be the one. I just wanted to say thank you. Hello, welcome to see me. No, I want to say thank you to all of you for having our students here tonight. They were incredibly excited to share and I think what Jennifer you talked about in your remarks to them was really important because it is really a district effort. And so as one of the administrators in the district, I'm proud of all of the work that our students have the experiences with in the classroom as well as in the unstructured time out on the playgrounds. They have so many opportunities and we're grateful for all of those. So thank you and we're all in every day. All in every day. Thank you. Okay, and the last one is CWA, Communication Workers of America. Now we're on the action items and resolution that I will say that I wanted to see happen. I talked to Dr. Rodriguez about making sure that we have this resolution on the board. I did, I did wanted to make sure this one was gonna happen, I did. All right and it's a really super good resolution. We've had a good one on I think the whole climate issue but this one's overall really good. I think if you can read it more, okay. Exactly. Well thank you very much though. I think member Schacher mentioned previously some of the other efforts that we're doing and our president, Osman Sinci did provide me a sample. I took that sample and also looked at other groups, other districts that had done it. I was really impressed with Lake Tahoe's version because it not only talks specifically about sustainability but sustainability within a school setting and what we could actually do as a district. Another thing I think that is very unique about us is the fact of where we live and we live in the solid basket of the world and so you'll see that noted on here. Kind of if you go to the second one it just talks about the fact that whereas schools have the potential to make positive, tangible, environmental change in the world while teaching students to be stewards of their community, the earth and its resources. So whether it's through like the ROV that we're doing or it is through our environmental literacy program. Also it speaks to, if you go to the fourth one where we're located within an internationally acclaimed and ecologically sensitive central coast which provides PVUSD students a unique opportunity to learn principles and practices of environmental stewardship. So I'll say that me having to engage with the PVHS construction gave me a whole perspective on this topic with having things be, having ESHAs and having environmentally secure areas. And so I think we have a unique and very rich opportunity for our students that most students in California do not have the opportunity for. We have wetlands too. And we have the wetlands as well. So it speaks to what was mentioned a little bit earlier in that we're recognizing if you continue down many options and choices exist for schools and staff to use natural resources more efficiently to reduce, reuse and recycle to produce more sustainably sourced lunches and to purchase clean energy and environmentally preferable products and supplies to protect our environment. So what we are committing to do because I think that's the most important part of the resolution is what are we gonna commit to do? So we received a award just this past year for our energy efficiency. So we're gonna continue that implementation and expansion of that plan. We're gonna try to rely on clean renewable energy sources to power our district's facilities through solar. We will assure that all new buildings and retrofits to existing buildings are environmentally sensitive. And we're gonna continue the conversion and Katie is here tonight. Conversion of PVUSD buses to clean energy to maximize efficiencies and reduce the total vehicle miles traveled. We're gonna continue to develop infrastructure and enhance biking and walking school through safe routes to school program and youth they came and presented to us. We're gonna implement comprehensive waste reduction recycling and composting programs which we're doing a pilot with the city of Watsonville. And we're going to continue to develop our school gardens and hands-on learning tools as well as drought resistant landscaping options which for instance we did at Valencia Elementary just recently and we will continue to have a fairly renowned so we go and present on this environmental science curriculum that integrates next generation science standards and enhances students, educates students on sustainability and energy literacy. And so I recommend the approval of this resolution. All right. Is there any questions from the board? I know we keep hearing it but sometimes people don't understand that climate change is real. And we're trying to do something. Thank you. Yeah. I just wanted to say I'm really excited to pass this resolution. So it was fun to read through my board packet as I'm sitting in my living room and it's like this one I was like, yes. And I just think that it's critical that we model for our students and for the families and staff and everyone the practices and standards that ensure that our students' children and grandchildren have a healthy planet to grow up in. And I enthusiastically support this. Is that a motion? No, well I just want to say too that because we're in a very, very, very special area I mean our slews here are in terms of reachers to know that they're some of the best slews in the country that we have. Our Elkhorn slews here are really some of the best slews that we have here in the whole country. And the fact that we have a marine sanctuary in terms of the Monterey Bay and we have really great connections our school and others with the Monterey Bay Aquarium which is very special too that we have here. And as Dr. Rodriguez say, we are the salad bowl capital of the world I think. Well and we are the berry capital of the world really. We are the berry capital of the world as well. That makes us our area very incredibly beautiful in an area that we have to make sure that we sustain absolutely. We have to make sure that we can sustain such an incredibly, you know, incredible area that we all live in. Thanks. I make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor. Aye. Everyone that's here is in favor. There's no post. All right. So Karen that passed 6-0-1 with trustee Acosta absent. Okay, we're gonna prove a lot of university stuff here. And yeah, so that's what we're gonna do for the next few. So we're in 8.2, we're gonna prove Education Administration Internship Contract Agreement with Fran Mann University by Chona Colleen, Dr. Chona Colleen, doctor. Yes, you have to say doctor. Thank you. We're gonna be here for a while because there's several HR action items. Yeah there is. So I need all the help I can get. So we're gonna call on my two, our two directors from HR, our two fabulous ones, Alison Yasawa for the first few and then Pam Shanks for the latter half. This first one is presented to the board, President Osmondson, board trustees Dr. Rodriguez to approve the Education Internship Contract with Fran Mann University. As the nationwide teacher shortage continues, PVUSD works closely with several universities in recruitment efforts to fill these certificated teaching positions. And the universities and college interns provide a reliable and motivated source of new hires for our vacancies. Fran Mann is one of several universities that we contract with and these universities include the University of California, Cal State, private colleges because we wanna leave as many options as possible to be able to fill the vacancies with the best and the brightest. And these agreements are presented to us by the universities at various times throughout the year. And as we receive them, we present it to the board for your review and your approval. So this first one is for Fran Mann University. Okay, any comments or questions? Any speakers? No public, no, we don't have any public speakers. My comment is to make a motion to approve. This is no different than it has come before us in years past, so. Great. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Six, zero, one. And then the next one is another one with another university, student teaching and practicum agreement with national university. Yes, thank you, President Osmondson or trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. These are standard agreements again with various institutions of higher education and each contract with each call it is approved and resolved by the board trustees every year and the contracts do arrive at different times during the year depending on the semester configuration and student assignments. Past practice has been to facilitate these agreements for student teachers as it allows a district to identify and recruit highly skilled individuals and then we wanna sign them to a contract before the other districts get to them. And before they reach the marketplace and again, we contract with a lot of universities and some of those were listed in the abstract including San Jose, UCs, different private colleges, Cal States and this is for your approval. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve? A second. All those in favor? Aye. Okay, six, zero, two. Six, zero, one, excuse me, six, zero, one. Nobody's opposed. The next one is also with National University. It's an intern credential program agreement and Dr. Chona Kalian. Yes, President Osmondson, board trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, this is similar to the item in 8.2 except this is with National University instead of Brandon. Okay, so you got it, right? Yeah. Motion to approve? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Six, zero, one, I finally said it right. Okay, continues on with, I think you're gonna be up here for a while. Yes. And this is 8.5, is it on my correct? Yeah. Yes. Approve the appointment of an Aptos high school math teacher on variable term waiver. Dr. Chona, good one. Yes, thank you. While we have made progress with filling vacancies with credential teachers, we are still need for board to review and approve credential waivers for individual teachers. And I'm calling on Allison, our HR director for Certificated Personnel to present this one for a teacher at Aptos high school because she's worked closely with the teacher and her team to ensure that we provide and submit the documentation that's required to be in compliance to be able to get the emergency waiver. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez, President Osmondson, Board of Trustees. So a variable waiver is a document issued for employees who meet the waiver criteria when a fully credentialed teacher is not available for the assignment and it allows the district to fill the assignment while searching for a fully credentialed teacher in the subject area of the assignment and gives the waiver holder additional time to complete the requirements. So we are asking to hire Lena Pine Campbell and she is going to be a math teacher at Aptos high. She attended Humboldt and has a degree in biology. So we're asking for your approval. Okay, a question. I just had a quick question. This is, you know, I'm still fairly new. Can you just tell me like how many teachers or specialists in the district are on waivers or internships like this? And is that a usual amount? I love that question. It's an excellent question because it allows us to give a shout out to everybody that's helped us because the data is pretty good in which we had just shared with our board. It allows us to give a shout out to our collaboration with PVFT, the hard work of our administrators, particularly those at the sites and also to you, our superintendent and the board for your approval of a lot of incentives to let us retain and recruit the best and the brightest for our kids. And some of those incentives that the board has approved in addition to early recruitment, we do recruitment in January at job fairs as well as posting them early. And some of the incentives that you had approved was signing bonuses, matriculation colleges and universities for credential, increases in salaries and continuation, sustaining that great health and welfare benefits program, professional developments, especially by our Ed Services team and mentors. A lot of you champion the mentors. We have site mentors for our new teachers that covers our interns, our steps, short-term teacher waivers as well as a provisional intern, teachers on provisional intern permits. And the numbers for the interns is last year we had 40 interns and this year we have 10. And the vast, although we had four separations from the district, the vast majority of the teachers are in on their way remaining here to reach tenure. And a lot of that is, you know, also work with PVFT because we work, we meet all the time with them. We have them on speed dial, you know, providing support with our teachers and using the talents that we have. Stips and pips, we have kept those at single digits. And I think those Allison actually had, we had some decreases with the pips and the stips. So the pips last year we had seven and this year is about the same eight. The stips went from 11 to nine. So we got those in double digits. One of the other great statistics was the non-elects. Before I started in the district, there was well, there was close to 40 teachers that received non-election notices. After the first year it was down to 14. Last year it was four. And it is, you know, it is the great incentives and the support that we're getting as well as the collaboration. We have some work to do because we will like to reduce the number of resignations and retirements as well. But those, I guess you can't keep them here forever. That was a fabulous question. And I think, you know, it gave us an opportunity to just give a shout out because this is not a one-person show. This is an effort, collaborative effort by everyone. Dr. Colleen, how many positions remain open? I have that too, I knew you were gonna ask me. Right now some of the numbers may be off a little bit because we're transitioning from one employee system to another from digital schools to escape. So some of those things had to be manually done. But basically these are pretty close. So right now we have our elementary schools, 14 elementary schools are fully staffed. We have a couple of schools that need full-time teachers and then the rest needs some science release and reading. In the middle schools, we have Aptos Junior and EA Hall, that's fully staffed and we do have the others that need one or two teachers. At the high schools, Diamond Tech, New School and PV High are fully staffed and then we have some part-time positions. Most of the vacancies are because we're taking on CTE this year, so there's a lot of part-time positions that we're filling and it's not going through the county. So basically summary of the vacancies is we have eight full-time classrooms, three special ed positions, three part-time CTE, one Spanish part-time and one PE part-time. So if there are people out there in our community who for example have a bachelor's and a master's and maybe have a background in education but not a credential, do we have a pathway in to bring people in on one of these waivers to place them in those positions and how would they go about applying? This one and our team. We will work with them individually to put together our steps or PIPs, interns. Those are what we use and then they get to work for us and hopefully stay with us and retain and recruit the best and the brightest. So this particular person, is this person that is in front of us tonight working on a credential? Yes. Okay. Secondary credential or something like that. Okay. For Aptos. And she's qualified to teach math with a biology major? With a, if we can get the waiver. Yes. If we can get the waiver. Okay. She's qualified. So I'll make a motion to approve this waiver. Awesome. On Lena. There might be more comments. Is there another comment? Just one last comment. I think the statistics I share are pretty awesome and I don't think the larger public knows that information. So if there's a way to disseminate and share that with a larger community, I think it'll be great to do that. The other thing is, as far as, you know, the professional development opportunities or even programs like this, I think it should be more policized. I think there's a lot of community members that could potentially be our employees or not because they don't know of the different type of services and programs in place we have for employees and the opportunity to just move up in a position. All right. So we have a motion and a second yet? Okay. So all those in favor? Aye. Aye. 6-0-1, no post. Okay. There's one more. Oh, there's another one. Okay, there's a long, it goes for a while. Yeah, so it's a long time before Pam shanks. It's a long time. It's a long time for her. Okay, so this is another internship permit. Dr. Chuna Kaleem. So these are for provisional intern permits which is different from the waiver. Allison worked closely with them along with her team to put together the documentation that's required so she can share, there's six individuals that we would like to submit for your review. So yes, so Adriana Breseno is gonna be a sped teacher at Watsonville High. She studied at San Jose State in degree in sociology. Israel Castro will also be a special ed teacher at Calabasas Elementary. He went to CSUMB and majored in social and behavioral sciences. Jessica Carrasco is gonna be a social science teacher at Lakeview. She studied at San Jose State in sociology and Mexican American studies. Cynthia Froylan, sorry, fifth grade, Hall District, she went to UCSC and majored in sociology. Mariana Sama Diego, she'll be an RSP teacher at Freedom. She studied at UCSC in sociology and Latin studies. And then Juliet Villagomez is a third grade teacher landmark CSUMB is where she studied and she was in communications. And then the last one is on the next item, so nevermind. Got going, that was one. Go right to 8.8. Okay, comments? I'll make a motion to approve. Second. No comments, okay, good. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. 6-0-1, no opposed. So the next one, 8.7, this is to approve the memorandum of understanding between PVUSD and Davis Joint Unified School District. Yes, thank you, President Osmondson, Board Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. This is slightly different. It's a memorandum of understanding for an induction program. This is similar to the agreement that we have with the new teacher project that supports our beginning teachers support and assessment program that's for probationary teachers. And the goal of this partnership is to increase student achievement through the implementation of a teacher quality research-based teacher induction program while nurturing the growth and development of participating teachers in a sustained and systematic manner. That Davis Joint Union School District will partner with us to conduct an induction program for agricultural teachers that meet the requirement for the state-approved induction programs. So our agricultural teachers are gonna be able to do it, yeah. Okay, is there any discussion for the board? No, okay, question. So we had a great ag teacher who was new like two years ago or last year. We still have her and we have another one. So we're both of these particular employees go through this induction and we feel like they need that or that's just something that is an opportunity that we would like. It's both, so they need it because they need to clear their credential and what's awesome with partnering with Davis is obviously they are a big ag. I know we are too, but community, but their program is more geared for ag teachers so it's gonna help them do with their induction, particularly to their actual teaching versus a little bit just more general, which is NTP or just more of the classroom teachers. So they're gonna get more support that way. And then do we have any CTE teachers that will be going into this induction also? No, CTE, we're working with Ventura County, which is where they did through the county. So we're picking right up where the county left off. Julie Edwards is doing a phenomenal job of working with Anna in our office to get that going. We've submitted a few packets to get them, so they'll go through induction in their own program through Ventura. Okay, thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. 601, nobody opposed. Okay, we're still working on it. This time is for elementary school teacher for Starlight and it's an appointment on a variable term waiver. So this is the last one for Allison, which she wanted to jump into it a long time ago, so I'll let her go ahead and share that with you. So it's the same waiver as before for the math teachers. It's on a PIP, but it's the variable waiver. And this one is for Tricia Moran. And she'll be an SLP, which is one of our really hard positions to find at Starlight and she studied at university. Say what that is. Sorry, I apologize. Yes, speech and language pathologists. Yeah, there you go. With the special ed department, yeah. So she studied at the University of Utah in social and behavioral sciences. I don't know why I have 160 hours. Is that what she needs to go to complete the waiver or something? I mean, I just got that information. I don't know why I have so. Oh, sorry. Yeah, as part of, yeah, sorry. As part of when we take on people on credentials, we have to also agree that we're gonna support them. And that's kind of what Dr. Kling was talking about earlier that with our partnerships with PVFT and our mentors, we were able to provide that with them. Yeah, there you go. Or to them. Okay, thank you. Obviously there's none. No. So do I have a motion? So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. 601, nobody opposed. This is 8.9. This is a revised class description. Is this? So it's Pam? This is gonna be with Pam too, because I have you up here, but that's fine. It's several with Pam. So this is an executive assistant human resources confidential. And thank you. President Osmondson, board trustees, Dr. Rodriguez for your approval. This is a revised job description for an executive assistant in HR, which has been reviewed with CSA leadership and approved by the personnel commission as the meeting the reclassification requirements, which is a gradual accretion or increase of duties over time, Ms. Shanks will go over her research as incorporated in essential job functions and salary relative to marketplace comparisons. So what I was gonna present is some of the changes to the position and why the reclass was brought forward. Some of the additions that you'll see on the attached job description are that this person needs to train and provide work direction to the entire office of human resources, provide litigation support to the assistant superintendent of human resources, input on department budgets, implementing different office procedures, and then overseeing and training staff on our life scan fingerprint system. And she also works as a liaison with the company that transmits our fingerprints to the department of justice and the FBI. So those were some of the pieces as we were doing our research and our analysis of the request that came forward. And as Dr. Kling just said that the personnel commission did approve this at their July 18th meeting. So I'm asking this evening for the board to approve the class description and the revised salary schedule is attached. So these are her increased job duties? Yes. Yes. Okay, any comments? I'd like to make a motion to support 8.9. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. There she goes. It was still 6-0-1, she's still here. I don't have to say five. All right. This is a revised class description and this is for adult education and it's also classified positions. So I think Pam's gonna talk about it. Yes, thank you. So the administrative assistant for adult education. Yes. The following item is revision to a current class description. The previous title was called office manager adult education. The position is currently vacant which is a good time for us to look at positions and make any necessary changes. Due to the expansion of the adult education program over the past few years which I know you probably are aware of this position has changed quite a bit. The position will provide leadership over the workflow of multiple office staff at multiple locations throughout the entire county. It's important for this person to understand the operations of multiple school districts since the adult education program has expanded throughout Santa Cruz County and actually continues to expand as well. So the revised class description and range placement will be taken to the personnel commission tomorrow evening. So I'm asking for the board to approve your portion of it this evening with the attached job description and salary placement or salary schedule. And you haven't hired a person in that position. Not yet. No, we will be recruiting when we get this approved by the board and then the commission tomorrow evening. Yes. Okay, thanks. Okay, any comments? No comments. I just have a question. When you did go out for recruitment will the block grant be covering this position? Would it be adult ed funding? It would be adult ed funding. Got it. Yes. Thanks. Okay, a motion. We'll make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor. Aye. Aye. It is still 601. All right, thanks. And this is another one. I think I have a few more. Yeah, you're on here now. Yes. You're together. Yeah. So we're in 8.11 and this is the new class description for mental health clinician and that's in child development department. Yes, and I may ask Kathy to come up if you have questions about the budget piece. She's the expert in that. So this is presented as a new class description. The position will provide social, emotional and mental health support and consultation for children and families of our youngest students with challenging behaviors. Additionally, the position will coordinate and participate in student services and with other mental health services in order to integrate early childhood education and K6 socio-emotional mental health systems to best support our students. All funding for this position is covered by the California State Preschool Contract Funds and there was some more information in the item attached for you. Again, this new job description and range placement is going to be placed on the professional services salary schedule and it'll be taken to the personal commission tomorrow evening as well for approval. So I'm asking the board to approve the job description and the salary schedule. I just have a quick comment. Go ahead. Hopefully we could get some of those people to radical if any hall of any way. Thank you. Well, this one is for child development. So in all the places where there is child development in all the different schools. And this is pretty incredible in a way because it's like we have social emotional counselors for high schools and now we're getting it for child development. So we're getting actually social emotional, if you will. I don't know if they called that, but we're getting, it's almost like getting social emotional counselors for our preschool now, now that we've done it for all the elementaries and everything else. And you've been able to, I'm sure Kathy knows, but you've been provided additional funds to be able to do this, right? And the state level, state. Well, the state of California. Hi, good evening board, superintendent, cabinet. The state of California has a tricky way they're doing things with early childhood education recently. They are not giving us new money, but they keep telling us new ways we can use the money we have. And they've provided some options for training days and then this is the most recent one. So they're not giving you additional money on your contract, but if you have any unused contract dollar or you can find ways to change how you enroll children, et cetera, et cetera, they're giving us an additional, it's called an adjustment factor. It's a 0.05 factor for every classroom. And the really remarkable thing about the funding and the way they structured it is, it's very preventative. It allows us to work with teachers, with the social, we have like a baby PBIS, it's a teaching pyramid on how we're gonna present on it later this year. It'll allow us to coach and work with teachers on that, allow us to work with children with challenging behaviors. And we're really, our staffs are really struggling. We really are having very high profile children come in very young. So, and then it isn't like, just because you have that one child, you can apply the adjustment factor to just for that one child, you can apply it for the whole classroom. So I'm very creative and I found ways that we need that coaching. I think transitioning to school is a little bit of a mental health crisis, don't you? Okay, that whole classroom needs this person. So we're gonna recoup, I'm hoping to recoup close to $100,000, $130,000 contract funds that haven't been used in other ways. So that's the funding piece. Oh, wow, that's super interesting. We're really excited and thrilled about it. And the state of California is responding to the high need they see. And trying to eliminate expulsion. And I can come. So I'm assuming this is an ongoing position, right? Not just a temporary position, right? And only one position? Well, we're starting that way. And we have hopes to expand it to also the 270 children we serve in family childcare homes. But we thought, let's get the job in, let's find out what we're doing and work with our centers, at least for the start of this year, and then look to the future about whether we would need additional positions and what that would look like. I'd like to make a plug that this position is a licensed clinical social worker. There are four categories of licensing. I saw that. Yeah, I just think that would be the best time for this position. Thank you. No, Kim covered it for me. Okay. I'd like to move approval. Suck it. Yeah, anybody? All those in favor? Hi. Hi. Thank you, Kathy, for all that you do for our young kids. Yeah. So it's six, zero, one, and. No opposition, obviously. Continue to go here. Okay, this is another one with Pam and Jonah, Dr. Jonah. So this is a new class description, 8.12 for an applications analyst. So similar to the previous one that was a reclassification request, this was also a reclassification brought forward to staff. One employee submitted that reclassification that was formerly a database systems analyst and we are ranking the recommendation to move that person to an applications analyst. The new class description range placement and the classified salary schedule, I'm sorry, the reclassification request was approved by the commission at their July meeting. So some of the changes to this job, due to the changing landscape of student data reporting to the state, the level of complexity of the job duties performed by the incumbent required a reclassification to the job descriptions you see before you tonight. So I'm asking the board to approve the class description and the revised salary schedule. Okay, any comments? All right, do I have a motion? Motion to approve, second. All those in favor, are you gonna do it, Kim? Hi. Hi. Okay, six, zero, one, still. And this is 8.13 new class description for a controller by PM and Dr. Shona, you both here. So this is the last one for HR tonight. So this is a new job description for a controller. Ms. Shanks will go ahead and summarize the essential job functions and salary placement relative to the marketplace comparables. In addition, CBO Joe Dominguez will share the need for the position and as well as the funding for the position within the business department. I think I'll let Mr. Dominguez talk about some of the reasoning around the position. I will say that during the research that the salary recommendation for the position is commensurate with what is out in the market for this kind of position. And this will also be presented to the personnel commission tomorrow evening for approval. So I'll let Mr. Dominguez talk on the item itself. Well, good evening. Internally there is a need in our business finance and accounting division to have additional support for internal efficiencies. The position itself as a controller would assist the district in cross-referencing, internal auditing and confirming our multi-year projections but also assisting and completing internal audits within our various departments throughout our district. And one of the things we did have is the support of both union leadership, CSEA and PBFT, and it's in alignment with other similar sized districts that have the same ADA as ours. And one of the other things that it also assists and supports is in some of those job duties we currently have consultants assisting the district in that. And so this also assists reducing the use of consultants and it helps build internal capacity. And so overall we will build an internal capacity higher our own and it also assists continuity but also long-term investment to making sure that we have our fiscal resources in alignment with our student achievement plan. I was gonna say that, to Joe I guess, because this person, we usually have to pay a consultant or an auditor to come in, I would think that we have to pay for to come in and to have our own person, kind of like an auditor, our own person's color controller but it's kind of like an auditor. It would end up being somewhat cheaper for us and obviously they're there, it's not somebody that's gonna come in every once in a while to check things. It's gonna be a person that's here all the time can be always always checking on things, correct? It's a management position that is full-time and it'll provide additional support both for my office and the director of finance and our accounting division. So really a support of the fiscal and budget development process. And then we still by Edcode have to have a third-party auditor come in but this actually will assist us in preparing for that audit and confirming and making sure that we have best practices implemented. Is it gonna be maybe less expensive? The position itself, yes, it would reduce, it would be a cost savings for the district because we're currently paying consultants in one way or another form to do this type of work. Yay. I have a question, didn't a month or two ago, didn't we already hire a business analyst and a consultant? So the position that we provided was a business analyst and non-management. So that was a classified position. One of the things, internal weakness that the district has is we do not have more of the IT systems, analyst type position that exists in the district. We currently had a management position in that role and that position was vacated and so that position was also eliminated. So that position is now a classified position at a lower level. So what will be happening to the consultant underneath that? So that there was, yeah, there was no consultant in the analyst's position. So the analyst just so that you're aware that was the person who was going out to the school sites and doing the training that Esther responded to. So we did that as a non-management position knowing that we needed boots on the ground in order to be able to do that. Trustee Dajay is correct that we did the consultant as you'll remember with all the contracts, if you approve up to a number, but it doesn't mean that we have to use that. So what we did is we have that consultant. She actually has not used not even a day. I don't believe, I haven't seen her a day of that contract but it's according to how quickly we fill this position, whether she'll come in. But if you remember, it was up to a certain point. So once we actually fill this position, then she will not be back. So that's one of the ways in which we're trying to build that internal capacity. She was a stopgap, so to speak, until we could identify the process that we wanted to go through to fill the position. Okay, so the consultant, if she has it, it will be let go if we get this full-time position. Yes, okay. But I do wanna note that we do need to go through the application process, which could take some time. So she may be present some days until the person is hired. Once the person is hired, most likely we won't hire someone that's unemployed. Not saying we won't, but most likely we won it. So that person is definitely at least six weeks out, I would say. And so we may utilize her within the next six weeks as we're closing the books. But after the point that this person is hired, she would no longer be present. So moved. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. I vote no. Absolutely. Good evening, board. A couple of corrections that I need to make right off the bat. So as we are in training with my executive assistant as well, I should have caught this. It indicated public hearings. This is actually an action item. So you are seeing it in action, so my apologies. The low-performing block grant, as you know, already went through in the spring. This actually supports that work. So the monies were essentially made to do student connection, literacy and mathematics. These pieces are being supported through sports for learning. One of the things that we've found in the past is that it's very difficult to secure substitutes and the amount of lesson planning time that our teachers need in addition to, to be able to allow them to release, to do these works. What we have on board is TNTP work, as well as PLCs that are happening. So during this time, essentially, it gives our teachers 14 release days, both seven for English language arts and seven for mathematics teachers. It runs pretty much in a cycle of about every six weeks. We're able to merge sixth, seventh and eighth grade teachers on the same campus in those subject areas to be able to work with not only our own internal coaches, but also the support and that sustainability of having TNTP contracts, as well as the PLCPs moving forward. So this kind of alleviates that need for additional subs. All of the coaches are vetted. They are fingerprinted. They go through screening by this company, as well as making sure they're going through our fingerprinting system. And essentially our kids during that time period are going out and experiencing STEM, physical activities, other pieces that support the pieces that we already have in place. PBIS, attendance, really that well-rounded connection of even the NGSS pieces. You'll see two samples in there of what it looks like in regards to what a sample would look like in their curriculum piece of what they're bringing forward. Those pieces are tied to NGSS standards as well. So you'll also see I put a piece in there about motion instability. They're drawing that connection by the use of them actually using sports and indicating those factors as well. A team of us went out last spring. We looked at Salinas, which is one of our neighbors as well. Looked at what their program looks like. We had the opportunity to be able to talk to not only the kids out there, which were middle school as well, but we also were able to talk to the teachers and kind of start doing some research to say, is this effective? Does it work? Their scalability with this has worked very successfully, but it also gives our teachers the opportunity that rather than lesson planning and us actually trying to secure the number of subs that we need, our students are actually going out and having physical activity that's attached to the pieces we're already doing while our teachers are released for us to be able to work with them on moving those early literacy pieces and mathematics pieces. So we are recommending that the staff approve this. The money is governed by the low performing block grant that was already accepted by the board. The comments by the board. Okay. Can I have a second to approve? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Appreciate it. Are you gonna say no? No, are you approving? Okay. I didn't hear you say aye. Okay. Okay, this is 601. And this is an exciting report. The work we're doing that we've been chosen to do 8.15 with NWA, Khan Academy, MAP Accelerator, pilot agreement, pretty exciting. Good evening, President Austin and Dr. Rodriguez and Board of Trustees. I'm very excited to present to you MAP Accelerator pilot agreement. We are one school district in the nation, one of five in the nation selected to be chosen as part of the pilot. And the reason why that we were chosen is because of last year over 90 of our teachers used the Khan mappers on a regular basis, as well as the company was very impressed with the amount of work that we were doing with our NWA MAP data to disaggregate to look at where our students were, to look at how we can differentiate within the classroom and also because of Audicelli's great work and the partnership that she has with the different organizations. So I'm gonna turn it over to Audicelli to give you a little bit of information about the program. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez. President Austin and Board of Trustees. I'm Audicelli Mendez, a MAP coordinator for our district. And as Lisa mentioned, we're super excited to be part of this pilot. And so I want, you know, I'd like to share that we will be using the MAP Accelerator throughout our district in grades third through eighth. On the screen, you can see the list of schools that have self-selected to participate. In partnership with Khan Academy, we presented this great opportunity to our elementary and secondary principals for them to share with their leadership teams at their site so that there could be a common agreement as to do we have the capacity, how do we best utilize this tool with our students? So those are the schools that have opted in. The program overview, it's a computer-based program, adaptive based on our NWEA scores. And it will be available for our students in English and Spanish. Do you see all the schools? Okay. Any comments? I just like to thank Michelle for help making this happen. I remember we've seen the test scores and I was at many weight and the principal handed out a cookie of the test scores going up. So I just like to say thank you. Any other comments? Jennifer, no? Okay, I bet you're gonna be ready. So how long, I'll have a comment. How long is this pilot? Is it two years, three years, one year? We are committing to a one-year pilot. And so at the end of the school year, we will be evaluating our, how this program is impacting our student learning before we make a decision to fully commit for the following year. So it's a one-year pilot with an option to? To continue the following year. Okay. And then the results of this particular pilot will be publicized in a journal or how will it be disseminated to other entities or? We haven't discussed how it will be shared with other entities. We know how we will be sharing it internally with our stakeholders so that we expect to see the growth that our students need so that we can expand our use. One thing is that because we are one of five districts in the nation, there is a larger report that they will be sharing. And we still haven't clarified if our name will be anonymous or not. So does this particular pilot come with like a cash award to implement things or it comes with like free application or? It's free for us to use them. The cost that you're seeing is for the training offered to the teachers. Do you want to add anything? No, I was just saying it looks like you're, so the access to the program, so it really is what it's designed to do is to close the achievement gap for our students. So it's really looking in detail of where our students have gaps in their math learning and attacking those skills to help them boost their confidence and also gain the knowledge that they need to be at the level that they need to be. So how is this different than what we're already using? Like what makes this special? We're one of five districts. Tell me what is special about us having this? So one of the most special things about Map Accelerator is the improved version of what teachers are familiar that they call MappersCon Mappers or Khan Academy. So this program is so special because of the personalized instruction that it will provide for each student based on their individual data from our assessment that we've been using for three years as a district, NWEA. And so NWEA has partnered with Khan Academy to share that data behind the scenes so that teachers don't have to go through the trouble of entering data or the students. And another special feature about it is that because we administer NWEA three times a year, that data will be synced in those three times. And so the lessons for students will be adjusted. So for in the fall, they'll have this set of lessons because those are the gaps that were identified by the assessment. In the winter, when they take the assessment again, they're gonna have a new score, the program adjust and now a student gets a new set of lessons based on that score. So all the teaching is on the screen? For the students, yes. But it's just part of, it's within their math course. So students aren't sitting in front of the screen the entire time. So it might be when students are in small groups because the teacher is working with a small group on a different type of lesson. So they're not gonna be doing ST Math and Khan Academy and other programs the same day? Correct. So if a school is using ST Math, which then they will continue with that. The schools that you see before you don't have ST Math in the grades third through eighth. So we are making sure that we're not doubling up. And as Lisa mentioned, this is a supplemental tool to support math instruction. It is not a core program. Just my concern is I don't want students doubling up on screen time in the classroom. I already think they get enough screen time. So if this is replacing an existing screen time that they're already doing, that is my question. Yes, it is. And for a lot of the schools that you see, this is replacing the beta version mappers or it's replacing the regular Khan Academy? I was gonna ask, I love that students are really involved in knowing how they're doing well and where they need to be improved. So I hope with all this, students are really involved in this. That's what I wanna make sure happens. And the other thing, when we talk about parent involvement, how are the ways that we're gonna be able to get parents involved in what we're doing? And you know. As related to this, from a request from the board from last year at parent conferences, all parents will see their students' NWA map scores. The map accelerator is linked to the NWA map scores. And so it's gonna be linked to the data that's already planned to be shared with parents. And within those conference teachers can share what are some of the things that they can do at home to help and where their gaps are. But it's the same data that will be used. But they're just sharing with parents during parent conferences? Or there's another way that parents can be involved? We also have math nights throughout the school year. So there are different opportunities for the parents to be involved with it, specifically with the NWA map. As we're talking about looking at how the parents get the information, we are making sure that all parents get it through the parent conferences. But some schools already send out the report three times per year. Okay, to the parents, yeah. I have one more question, Karen. So I know some of the schools do, with their after-school programs, do after-school reading intervention. Are any of these schools doing after-school math intervention as well? Yes, and so that's one of the things that I noted on there is that we have select schools that will be using it in their after-school program. So right now we have two so far, and actually we have a planning meeting tomorrow for one of them to launch. Two schools at this point are gonna use it in the after-school program. Correct. And I would think we would hope that there would be quite a few other schools that could do it as well. Don't we think that? Don't we think that's a good idea? Okay. Yes, we think it's a good idea, and we're working with the schools and a lot of students meet with another one. Okay, thanks. And just one comment from me. I think it's good that the online program is in English and Spanish. I think that's fundamental. And the focus on math, I know that that's where we're seeing the most holes within the achievement for many of our students is good that we're focusing on that. So I'm in full support of moving this forward, and with that I would like to make a motion. Second, with gratitude to the Khan Academy and NWA. It's great. All those in favor? Aye. Okay, 601. Where am I? Okay, there you go. 8.16, special education. And this is a memorandum of understanding between Santa Cruz County Mental Health Department and, so obviously. Thank you, Heather. Good evening. Director of SELPA. Thank you, Heather Gordon. Good evening, President Osmondson, Dr. Rodriguez, board cabinet. I'm here to bring this memorandum, MOU back to you. It has come before the board, and this is a return of it because when we originally put it through, there was the idea that it would have an increase over three years of 5%. So this is showing that that increase has happened, and we wanted to bring it back so that you could see that we are still moving forward and have this MOU with the county. Okay. Are there any comments from the board? No? No? Okay, sounds like it's an easy one for you, Heather. Okay, do I have a motion? Move to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. 6-0-1. So 8-17 is a memorandum of understanding and facility agreement between Watsville after Santa Cruz. It's long now, how you have to say this, adult education with community bridges and LIVO community resources, and I think we've had this one from before. We did have it from before, and you probably should have it on consent. There aren't any major issues here, but you are more than welcome to ask whatever you'd like. Is this preschool? It's, no, it's ESL classes at the LIVO Community Center. English, second language. I'd like the motion to support 8-1.7. Second. Okay, everybody, no more comments for English to the second language, yeah. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. 6-0-1. Okay, Nancy, it was an easy one for you too. One more. You ready for the next one? Oh, you are on a one more, yeah. We're on 8.18. Clinical programs approval and management agreement between Watsville after Santa Cruz, adult education and Adventist education. Oh, can we know this one too, I think? I think so. We've had phlebotomy before at the school and this is a new group, so we are, I don't know, it's probably the first time in a while that we've had it, but we're ready. So that's what it is, the MOU for phlebotomy. So it's it, okay. And so it's kind of, it's just one of your career technical education programs. And it's not, it's phlebotomy, it's not any of the other of the medical systems, we already have those, they've already been through the clinical medical assistant, the EKG program and let's see, other one, pharmacy technology. Pharmacy technology, I think they've been through. If they haven't, you'll get them next month. Okay, and they're going through Adventist too? No, they're not. Adventist is for phlebotomy because the clinical, the other program cannot do phlebotomy in California. Oh. And we want to offer it. Oh. So we went elsewhere. Okay. Okay, is there any more discussion from the board? I just have a quick question. How long is this contract with this company? Year. I'd like to make a motion to approve. Okay. Thank you. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Six, zero, one, no opposition. Thank you very much. Okay. Let's see. It's still early. 8.19, and this is for Starlight School as well. And this has approved a letter of support to accompany Emeril Lagasse Foundation application. You want to go ahead and get it? Yeah. Yeah, great. Dr. Rodriguez. Yeah, so through a lot of what you'll wind up finding is the synergy that's happening with all the collaborations we have out there. So because as you kind of saw because of the good work we did with NWA, we got the Khan Academy in this case because of the good partnership that we have with Life Lab, they put in our name for the Emeril Lagasse Foundation and their teaching cooking kitchens. So they have what's called a signature program. What they do is they start out with a large number of recommendations and then you go through a process where they whittle it down. So we were originally through Life Lab. Our name was put out there. We went through a two-hour phone conversation. We then had a site visit, all of which I was present at, and at that site visit, then they determined that we can apply. When I asked during that site visit, like what percentage, because it felt like we had gone through quite a bit of work already, what percentage of sites or districts actually make it to receive the half a million dollars, they said close to 100%. So we feel really good. This would require, we've worked with President Osmondson to create this letter. This she would sign on behalf of the board because although she is our president, we speak as a board of seven. This would approve her to sign that letter, basically saying that we do want to apply and hopefully receive the half a million dollars for them so we can develop this cooking kitchen. There were many requirements. One of them was that you had to have already a full-fledged garden that was in process. So it was a limited amount of sites. We did very much believe that Starlight was the best location. At this point, because of the site visit, the location could not be changed. It would have to stay at Starlight. And they have a garden too. They do have a garden. We would be putting in a actual, well, it's a portable, but it would be an industry standard level kitchen for our students. Eventually, once we're up and running, we would open it to community to have classes within there at night. And we would open up to our junior and high school students as well. Pretty cool. Is it, everybody knows that Emeril Lagasse is a super, super famous- You know who Emeril Lagasse is, everybody? Okay, good. So we're hoping to get him over here as well. Hopefully to see him as well here. All right, this is a motion. Moa Pribble. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Six, zero, one. Okay. We're at this one. We're at eight, two, oh, this is a superintendent's contract renewal. And I'm going to present what we had to grade her on and just comments that I'm making on each of those areas. So this is my report. Karen Osmondson. Instruction was the first one. I put she, and everybody puts, she's really great too. She is phenomenal. Dr. Rodriguez has led the district with instructional objectives in curriculum. She implements curriculum to meet the diverse needs of students. She has knowledge of current educational research. And, you know, as you well know, the instruction for all of our students has improved greatly in her very small time here that she's had with us for a little over two years. It's improved greatly. It's pretty incredible. So the next one was financial. So Dr. Rodriguez actually has a CBO certificate. Believe it or not, she's not only a superintendent. She has that too. And she's not only a doctor, she has that too. She is very informed about our budget and spending. I have to say this. Dr. Rodriguez is an equal to our actual CBO, Joe Dominguez. Oh wow. Tell him I said that about him. She is equal to Joe Dominguez. She is, in her knowledge of finances. And she has helped, if there has been a mistake in the budget, she has found it. I mean, Michelle has found it. Not even Joe, Dominguez, she has found it. There's mistakes in the budget. So she is implementing a new budget system and continues to identify and solve, as I said, budgetary problems. Our budgets have remained positive at this point. The next one is relation to the board. And I'm gonna talk about myself. I love meeting with Dr. Rodriguez as often as I do. I feel I have learned a lot from her on the possibilities for district improvement. And I feel the relationship I have with Dr. Rodriguez is really fabulous. And I think she has really worked hard with all of us to make sure that she hears our concerns and she's really good. I'm gonna say this, I'm adding to this. She's really good about whenever we, one of us have said that they have a concern, she writes all these tons of notes. I see her, she's writing all these tons of notes. She's, and so she knows exactly what our concern is and she's working really hard to make sure we are our concerns are responded to and worked on. Okay, relationship with staff. I'm gonna say this, some of the new boards members don't even know some of this, but we do have new staff because of Dr. Rodriguez's high expectations of everyone. We have new staff members and the new staff members we have been really wonderful people, wonderful people. I mean, we actually have new cabinet members, we have directors, we have principals, and in my time at the district, like almost 15 years, I've never, ever seen that happen before, so I'm talking about it now. She also meets with the labor union representatives very often and she communicates effectively their concerns as well as our concerns. Relationship to the community. This I know about her because Dr. Rodriguez's goes to all of the festival and events, the ones that we've had at the plaza. She's been to every single one of them and we've had quite a few, obviously. We have lots of festivals and events at the plaza. She's at every single one of them and in every single one of them we have had a boost. And I go to many of these, well I go to most of them for maybe a couple of hours. Some of them I've gone to a little bit longer, but she is there all day long. She does not, she doesn't leave. She's there the whole day. So in terms of her relationship to the community, in terms of that, it's been amazing. She's, okay, she meets with the Watsonville city manager. I know that she does that, Matt Huffager. Is that what I'm saying? Huffaker. Huffaker. She meets with him a lot, the city manager. And she has a good relationship with our mayor, Francisco Paco Estrada. She has a good relationship with him and she meets with him often. She emails him and she does that with Matt as well. She, in terms of the community, she is at every single LCAP community meeting that we've had. And she meets with parents and staff. I mean, she's, I go to, for example, well I'm on four committees, but she goes to quite a few of my committee meetings and she's there. I go to a lot of the committee meetings that speak in Spanish and of course, I will talk about that part too, she's able to speak to the parents in Spanish, which we haven't had a superintendent be able to do. And then we had our last year's State of the District, which we invited everybody from the community to be at. She had last year, was incredibly informative and it was actually inspirational. It was great. I mean, I left, I went, whoa, is this amazing or what? And she's gonna have one this year as well and it's gonna be in October 11th. So everybody remember that. October 11th is her next State of the District event. And it's a breakfast event. Okay, personal qualities. For example, our state superintendent, Tony Thurman, oh, I think it's great, has recognized our superintendent for her personal qualities and she's been asked to serve on multiple professional committees in the state. And she has been recognized by high level groups, I know she's been recognized other times too, as a best practice leader. She's a great role model. And then I just wanna talk to that about this again. I mean, Dr. Rodriguez's ability to speak fluent Spanish, fluent Spanish, at my committee meetings makes a difference in her leadership. And for me, she is the first superintendent that we've ever had that is bilingual. That's pretty good too. Okay, so my summary is to thank you Dr. Rodriguez for making such a difference for our students. Because of your leadership and you've been hearing about some of the things we've accomplished today, but we have been recognized in multiple ways. So we've already said this, but we, she already said this, but we've been recognized selected as one of the League of Innovative Schools. We are now one of recognized. We were recognized by the Stanford University Scale Project for our Latino Youth Film Institute. We were recognized by them. We were recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for our SIPs implementation. That was been so well. We are recognized by the, well, it's N-W-E-A, well, it's N-W-E-A. N-W-E-A and the Khan Academy, as they've said today, is one of the only five districts in all, including ourselves, in the whole nation, in the whole nation to pilot the MAP Accelerator. And it was due to our effective implementation of the MAP. We were chosen because of our effective implementation of the MAP program. And then, yeah, and then I already talked to you about her selection by our state superintendent to be on, to help with educational priorities for the state. As a result of this excellent evaluation, of course, I'm adding, I'm proposed to adding another year to Dr. Rodriguez's current contract. I wish I could add about 10 if I could. I could add 10 to the contract. But I'm only able to do it at this time. One year to her current contract. And we want to continue her momentum of its success and hope she will continue to want to work with PVSD. Hope she will. All right, thank you. Do you want a clap? You can clap. I think this is a clap. Okay. So was that a motion, Karen? Are you making a motion? I'm making a motion. That's actually, believe it or not, that's actually an action item. Making a motion. I mean, or somebody else made a motion. Yeah, okay, okay. We can make a motion, you can make a comment still. Make a motion a second. Okay, go ahead. I would just like to thank you, Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. I haven't been here that long, but I've seen the results. I believe in your vision. I believe in your direction. For a long time, Minnie White and E. Hall were not doing so well. But now that I am a trustee and I talk to the teachers, the principals, I see the results. I also like to thank you. That mountain of dirt was there for almost a decade. And I heard about it from the people, from the community. So thank you for helping me with the dirt. And also, thank you for bringing the glasses and the vision to the children of Minnie White. Yeah, well, I'm just, I know important and how expensive those could be. If you don't have insurance, just a vision examination is easily $100 to pick out a cheap pair of frames is another pair of $100. So thank you for thinking about the children and thank you for helping all of us get done in our schools. Thank you. All right. You wanna make a comment? Anybody? Can I make a comment real quick? Yeah. I just wanted to say it was a first year board member. The task can be daunting. And I thank you for, like I said, always answering my phone calls, answering my questions. And I think the dust district is going in the right direction. There's a lot of improvements that have been made over the years. And I like that. And I hope we continue that momentum. Yeah, Jim. And I just wanted to say that also as somebody fairly new, what I have appreciated about our conversations and the discussions about where the district needs to go is that students from our very tiniest students to our adult ed students, they're always at the center of the discussion. Even when we might have slightly different perspectives on things, I am crystal clear that that is your commitment and your stand. And I just have a tremendous amount of respect for that. Okay, any other comments? Everybody. Okay. I'll just make a quick comment. Okay. This is my ninth year on the board. And I'm very pleased and invigorated by where this district is heading. And I want to thank you for bringing the innovation, the grants, the leadership, the vision and the new staff that we have in, I think we are going in the right direction. And the recognition and the data is showing us that we're going in the right direction. So on behalf of all the families and children, thank you. For me, and just really quick, two things aside from what Kim just said is the accountability piece, but then also the coaching part, right? When you first came in, you said, you know, I wanna, yeah, the district needs to move in a whole different direction. And we often know that would change. Sometimes there is pushback and change in general can be hard. But yet when you presented change, it came with a push for additional professional development. It came with coaching. So it wasn't just like, oh, here's what I needed to do and implement it is you provided the tools to teachers and staff to ensure that of whatever process was going to be implemented, it was implemented right. And with the right tools and the right support for teachers across the district. I also wanna echo what Jennifer said in regards to always a focus coming back to students. And I think, like I said, in closed doors, it's that's what keeps you grounded. I think the love that you have for this district, the love that you have for the job and the love you have for the kids, I think it's what keeps you going. And we haven't had that type of energy and that type of focus in a very long time. So I applaud you for all of your efforts and also to the staff, right? For being open to change and for being open to this learning experience along with us, so, because we also need to, right? So thank you so much. And I'm in full support of adding that additional year to your contract. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Zero one. Okay, we're actually finished with the action items. And so we're not gonna, we're doing now what you call discussion items. And do we have our 9.1, our youth now presentation? Oh, there you guys are. There you are. Yeah, sorry that we took so long to get you to you. Good evening. I'm just gonna say the report will be presented by your Michelle Cheney, right? I am Jenna Rodriguez. Okay, so I don't know why I said that. Oh, okay, and you're, okay, yeah, no, you're there too, Jenna Rodriguez. Yeah, you're absolutely here. Okay, I was just looking at the first one. Both of you. So introduce yourself because this is being filmed and it'll be shown on community TV. And so make sure to speak right in the mic and then our viewers can hear what you're saying. Great. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Jenna Rodriguez and I am extremely honored to be here with you all as a Watsonville native and someone who grew up and went to all the schools at PVUSD. It's, this was quite an experience to be here at this meeting and I've learned a lot. So thank you for having us. I wanted to start off by saying that as you see on today's agenda, Youth Now is a non-profit after school center serving middle school and high school youth across the county through individualized programming focusing on academic and social emotional support. Youth Now serves 150 youth throughout the academic year averaging 32 volunteers per semester as well as offering 54 pro-social activities including field trips, enrichments, community service events and family nights. More importantly, Youth Now is a place where our youth feel connected are given that individualized support whether it's tutoring or having a caring adult mentor who will listen, shoot the basketball with them or just sit quietly and do a little artwork in our high school coffee house. It's where relationships are built, confidences gained and labels are lost. A glimpse of this is seen at our annual cultivating success event which happens every May and I would love for you guys to attend this coming year, May 2020. And this event brings together community partners, members, families, donors and youth advocates of all ages. Youth Now recognizes six youth, three from our high school site and three from our middle school site in areas of academic dedication, growth and leadership. It is here where many times our youth share with their families and the greater community just how much Youth Now means to them. I wanna share a brief story of one of the students who I have the privilege of working with and getting to know for four years. She was brought to our high school site by her dad who I met at an ELAC meeting at Watsonville High School who expressed his concerns for his daughter who was a freshman and she was doing very poorly in school. He signed her up for tutoring and she started coming two days a week so she had tutoring sessions twice a week and she would come in for at least an hour. After a month or so she started working with her tutor and connecting with myself and other staff and then slowly she started coming every day working on her homework and became an independent contracted tutoring student which means that she raised her grade above a C plus and slowly started talking to other students in the learning center. Fast forward to her senior year which was spring of 2019. This student was doing great in school. She was a regular in both our coffee house, socializing with friends and coming upstairs to the learning center to catch up with staff and do a little homework and she was getting ready to graduate and attend Cabrillo College. At the event she shared how she learned to love math thanks to her tutor she gained confidence in school and in life because she was able to make new friends. She felt supported and knew that we all believed in her. She shared how youth now was like a home and staff were her family. The family she came to when she had bad days or needed a listening ear and the one she ran to when she had exciting news to share. On our brochure you will find two other quotes from students awarded this past year and this is what we get to experience every day at Youth Now. We are more than an after school program. We are a place where our students call their own. And now I'm gonna pass it over to Michelle. Good evening President Dr. Rodriguez and the Board of Trustees. I'm Michelle Cheney I'm the Executive Director of Youth Now and I just wanna extend my congratulations to Dr. Rodriguez because I know having had my own daughter in the school system here that you've made so many great improvements over these last couple of years. So thank you. I'm here because Jenna and I can only share a glimpse of our students' successes, experiences and the connections that we observe in our days at Youth Now but I wanted to extend a formal invitation to everybody that's here tonight to come anytime and visit our site in person so that you can see what we do as a resource for our students in this community. The students that we have enrolled are coming from all different schools. At the last count we have 14 schools in your district. They are coming to Youth Now for free one-on-one tutoring, somebody checking their grades and assignments, following up with them, encouraging them, advocating for them, someone looking at them as individuals with personal needs, goals and challenges and facilitating ways for them to get the guidance and resources they need. And as Jenna spoke about, someone celebrating the successes with them. Youth Now has the ability to pick up where a teacher has left off each day to help them in their out-of-school time. We help them get homework done, go biking or hiking, play recreational sports, pick up a guitar with friends, study for a test, learn a life skill or even just be in a safe space and eat a healthy meal. With this in mind, we want to be seen not only as a resource for students, but for teachers that somebody will be able to help their students after school. Recent conversations with a couple of fifth grade MSD teachers really stood out for me and that these teachers felt so protective of their students in fifth grade about to move on into the middle school world and had not heard about us and were very grateful to hear about us so that they could use us as a resource for their parents. I'm constantly presenting information to families and school staff who either have not heard about us or have not known exactly what we do. And so Jenna and I are here tonight to ask for assistance in this area. We know that once somebody knows who we are, they have the ability to refer a student or family, like Wendy does at EA Hall or the staff do at Linscott. But for the most part, staff and families and teachers don't know. Printing hundreds of flies in this time consuming costly and ineffective way of reaching teachers and families and we would be so appreciative of an opportunity perhaps at the beginning of each semester be on a direct email, be on your peach jar or be able to go directly to a large group of teachers. Teachers who know that a student needs more support in their out of school time can feel like there's another option. Our current families who are working and need the children to be somewhere after school are so grateful for us and we know that there are so many more families in this community who we haven't reached out to yet to let them know about us as an option. Our goal tonight is to be more visible and we're looking for your assistance in showing us as a community resource for our students in the district. I'd like to open it up if you have any questions about us if you have never heard of us before. Say maybe we can get an article for you in the register part owning Todd. Todd actually did write an article for us after summer last year. We hosted over 50 students for five weeks all day at the cost of $35 a week running basketball clinics and doing three or four field trips every day. And he actually did highlight that for us last year. So we're very grateful to him. Okay, we just need to do another one. This year. Another one. This year. Well, I mean, we, you know, there's other ways we can work. We have a communication director. Alicia and so we can work with her to get more news out about you. And each of us that are involved in the schools that we're go to as in our districts can help put the word out about you, I think. And I feel like I should do more of that myself. And what other ideas people have to have people have here? The board members. Can I ask a question? Yeah. Hi, Michelle. Hi, Kim. How many? So essentially you serve 150. Right. Unduplicated kids. Unduplicated kids. So we have a district of almost 20,000 kids. So if we start publicizing you, right? What truly is the capacity? Like, could you continue to expand based on the need if you had more kids? Yes, we definitely can. I know that right now our middle school program is not, we don't have as much ability to expand unless we're writing up new grants, which is something that Jenner and I do so that we can expand those services. So it's, it's one of those cycles where the more students we get in, the more money we can ask for. Showing that we are able to do this. And where is your location? Our middle school is at 15 Madison Street. It's across from EA Hall. And our high school site is at 31 Carr Street, which is two blocks from Watsonville High School. Just to kind of piggyback on your question, we, our middle school site originally, so October of 2017, we were only serving, 30 to 35 students, and we were able to expand within that same building and acquire new space because of funding. So now we have, you know, close to 40, 45 every day and registered over close to 60. So not every student comes every day, but because the need was there, we were able to make that happen. This is a wonderful resource for especially the middle school kids who tend to, get into trouble if they're left to their own devices or they're just sitting in front of a computer screen, you know, while their parents are working. So I think this is so neat. Some of the programming that you guys were just talking about where you had kids in the summer, and you did field trips, Michelle, can you just talk about a few of the field trips that you guys did? We could be here for a long time. It's really neat what you guys do. Absolutely. We really focus the summer on having a healthy outdoor experience. We took out students hiking in Nicene Marks Park. We took them to the beach. We brought surfboards down for them. Many of them surfed for the first time. We walked everywhere. We actually donated Fitbits that we were able to track all their steps every day. We averaged about 10,000 steps per day with our students. Walking to the sluice, walking to play soccer, walking to the parks and using everything that's local. But we were also able to incorporate some science in. And we took all our students, 55 plus our high school volunteers, because we didn't have a high school summer program. So we had four high schoolers volunteer with us all summer and get their hours. And we took everybody up to the Exploratorium for a day. We also took them to the science workshop in Watsonville. And we had one of our retired volunteers came in and ran a whole morning of science experiments with all of our students. And so we also made it a very healthy summer in terms of all the activities that we were able to do. We went bike riding with trips for kids. We partnered with a lot of other organizations. The City of Watsonville came in and implemented a recycling program for us. So, yeah, I could go on. I loved summer. We had a lot of students every day with 55 middle schoolers. That's great. Thank you. I have one question. Can you expand on your partnership with United Way? That relates to the Youth Violence Tax Force? Yes. So United Way has decided to focus their funding on youth. So they're still doing the families financial stability, but it's really catered around youth because there's a big need here. And there is a huge population of homeless youth that we have here. And so what United Way did was they created a new pilot program. And it's based on two neighborhoods, Watsonville being one of them and Santa Cruz Live Oak being the other. And so with this opportunity, we're actually able to formally partner with there's six organizations in total. So five others besides youth now that can come together and provide all of our services, wrap around services to those that we serve. And so although we have students who come in in our need of tutoring or a safe place to come to after school, we don't necessarily have the resource to give them the counseling or if they need substance abuse counseling or information on that if they want parent mediation. So we have different stakeholders at the table. We're partnering with PV, PSA, the Conflict Resolution Center, Living Evolution, the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, CAB for employment services. And so this is really going to give us an opportunity to give back and give more to our community. So we can only, you know, we each have our specialties. All these organizations are bringing their specialties to the table and we're being able to provide all of these families kind of like a menu of services that they can take advantage of. That's wonderful. Yeah. Thank you. Jenna and Michelle for reaching out to me. I live behind the 15 Madison Center and I notice it's a good place. You know, there's a lot of kids in my neighborhood who don't have nowhere to go. And so now when they see the doors open, they know there's a safe place there to see. So thank you. Thank you. I just want to comment. I know Michelle that when we were doing the equity audit and we met with everyone part of, at least one of the ideas was to have some sort of bridge program right at the different levels, like fifth grade going into sixth and then eighth grade and going into ninth. So I think that when we get to the implementation process of that, if we haven't done so already, it would be good to be able to sort of incorporate what they're offering as a way, as some sort of support service in addition to what our program would entail. Sounds great. Our assistant superintendent of secondary Christian in Chow's will reach out to you. And I'll try this guide while I visit you. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. Can I ask one question of the superintendent, Karen? We've got like contracted tutoring services through at different agencies, right? Through with federal dollars. Yes. So that's SCS services. So supplemental educational services. There has, there's some flexibility that has been allowed on that. And so we now part of that is done actually through our own teachers. But that is correct that we also use outside agencies. We have tried to use our teachers as much as possible just because they have the direct link. But that is a possibility. If we're looking for new provider agencies, I think that would be great. Thank you. Thank you. Whoops. 9.2 is our Saturday Academy, which I'm looking forward to hearing about. Report by Joe Dominguez, CBO. Well, good evening, board president, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. So this evening just going to give a short update on our Saturday Academy and the efforts, successful efforts that we took on this past year in comparison to the previous year. As you know, our Saturday Academy provides an opportunity for extended learning to piggyback everything that's going on, the great things that we got going on Monday through Friday. And then provide an opportunity for students to continue to be fed a safe place to go for enrichment and for continued education, but engagement as well, and build deeper relationships with our staff. And it's a program that's financially sustainable. And I know that was something very critical for the board when we first started it. And at the end, it's also an opportunity for attendance recovery. One of the areas as we, our superintendent really strives on is looking at the data and making strategic data decisions. And so looking at that, we pulled up our absence calendar. And this is a visual to show and reflects that what's marked red are the most extreme days of absenteeism. And so if you can look at from November and the various months after December and January, you can see that a majority of those absenteeism, absenteeism days are Mondays and Fridays. And so internally, we're also doing some adjustments to our director of nutrition services. Linda Lu is implementing some of our favorite most popular food items on Monday and Friday to encourage students to attend days. And then we're also looking at some school activities, et cetera. So this is something that we're working on as part of our all in every day kickoff for the upcoming year. What does the Monday and Fridays reflect? It reflects about 63% of our students fall in excellent and satisfactory attendance. And 37% fall in that they have missed excessive absenteeism and have missed more than nine days in the school year. So we have room for improvement with that number being at 37%. So our goal is to reduce that 37% and increase our 63%. We're from 18, 19 from the previous year. I'm really pleased we have a 50% increase. 229 individual school site sessions. Over 20,000 students attended throughout the district. And over 11,000 recover days ADA. And it's the strongest year we've had. So I'm really excited and pleased and commend the entire team what we were able to accomplish. From the previous, and this slide's a little hard to see, the graph showed that from 1718 to 1819, we had 191 sessions in 1718. And in 1819, we had 229. The number of students that attended from previous year to current year, the previous year we had 12,812 students. And this past year we had 20,460 students. And the number of students recovered in 1718 was 7,762. And this previous year we had 11,805. So we have in those two year spans, 718,000 net across the board. And so from the previous year that brought in $231,000 and 1819,487,000 net. One of the areas that I would also like to commend and we had a big celebration here at the district for our high performing school sites. And I'm going to go high school middle and elementary for our top performing high school. It was Watsonville High School. They had a total of 6,577 in attendance with recovering 3,471. They netted for the district $171,000 and they received approximately 40% so that we were able to provide $25,100 of unrestricted money back to the school site so they could use for school supplies or for school site initiatives that they would like to support. Our middle school, our top performer was Rowling Hills Middle School. And they were able to bring in 1,500 kids of recovery of 800, and net ADA revenue for the district approximately 25,000 and that brought in about $3,000 for the school site to use on their unrestricted budget. And then for elementary, the top performer was Calabasas Elementary and we commend their efforts. Their total attendance was 730. The total recovery was 443 to the district, 13,500 and they also received $3,000 to their site budget. And so this complements in addition to their annual budget that's provided and we just like to commend the sites and want to show the reflect to the board that we're on the positive track. Moving forward, we are having a transition meeting scheduled for Friday with Rick Ido, Greg Fry, Kristen Shouse and trying to set that up with our team so that our student services take it and move it on and continue to grow the program. At this time, are there any questions? Well, I'm just, maybe you should, I don't know, maybe it would be great for you to just discuss what are, what do they do in many of these, I don't know if they're just to complete different each time or what are the kind of things that students are coming to more often than they were last year because they like, I would think they were coming because they like what's happening at Saturday and so they're coming more often, I would think. It's the promotion of the Saturday Academy and the programs that are offered both in Richmond and academic and then I'd really like to commend Chona and Kristen and our HR department because one of the challenges we had was just finding enough teachers and I'd like to also thank PVFT for their support, so just making sure that we had the staffing available and that's something that we're going to work on in the year so that we make sure we have it set up correctly for the upcoming year. Yeah, so it's obviously a teacher has to come in and say, oh, I will come in and teach students about, who knows, about how to take care of dogs or something. I'm just, I can't think of anything. So maybe Dr. Rodriguez wants to speak to this because there's multiple topics and like football practice, marching band, I mean there's multiple things that could happen at Saturday school, including enriching. Yeah, so one example is we have students that often do go to the slu so they go to the slu and they're doing scientific investigations in terms of that. We do also have the students doing things that are art related a lot of times and we off of the request from board we also are doing ACT prep, SAT prep as well. So when we know that it's something that students really either need or they want, then they frequently come. I think the old perception was is I have to go there and it's going to be boring and do the work. Instead they're doing things like going to the beaches and actually cleaning the beaches in an effort to understand conservation and the reason why it's a danger to have plastic cups that are being consumed by marine animals. So I think each one is different. What I appreciate about it is that many times the teachers take their individual skill set that they don't always get to show off within the school day and they do it with the students. So we have teachers that are teaching students how to sew. We have teachers that are teaching students how to do origami, how to write in mandarin. There's a lot of great enrichment activities but because we do have a rigorous curriculum there's not always time to do that and so this is the opportunity for students to have a safe place to go be fed, socialize with their friends and at the same time the district benefits because we have increased AVA which if we keep up the efforts which is why there's the goal of the transition if we keep up the efforts then that's ongoing revenue coming into the district which is important for us. Thank you for putting this together I know what it's like to sit at Watteville High School on a Saturday for a Saturday school from 8 in the morning to 12 and it goes by really slow and you don't really want to go until they threaten you with not graduating so thanks. Schools used to be punishment at one point that I've been here they were punishment Saturdays, they were for punishment so students went there they were horrible Saturday schools used to be bad news yeah so like you said did the students want to go Saturday? No they did not but they were required to go in some cases so back when we had what we had was not good I have a couple of questions if I may Joe, are the number of suspensions included on the stats that you presented? No they're not okay so these are just absences it's just absenteeism correct? got it and if there's a way to break those absences for school yes so we can provide the data by grade level that would be great is this program now in all of our schools or no? not in all of them we have six remaining and two shared so we have approximately five that are still remaining and then two campuses shared so it's a little bit and what we like to do is continue to make it fun with enrichment but make sure that we have the sites established the remaining sites it will be interesting just to see the numbers I would think that it would be even a stronger push for those school sites with the most absences as far as providing enrichment opportunities really selling this program to both the kids but also to get the buy-in from teachers and part of the LMIA that's one of our number one goals working with PVFT CSEA and us as a district to ensure that that we increase attendance so I think right now is a good way to get that going and looking at those statistics and really talking to those school sites and maybe getting PVFT involved in the conversation to ensure that we have teachers that are interested and some really amazing enrichment opportunities for those kids who are missing school and one of the items that we're also able to accomplish was we increased the net 40% of the net so it really is encouraging and it's unrestricted so they could use it for school supplies art music whatever the sites needs are so I think it's a huge benefit and it's okay definitely and then one other question Michelle I'm not sure if Joe can answer this too for kids at Duncan-Holbert on the Pre-K program do we get ADA funding for those students what was the program? ADA for Duncan-Holbert students so Duncan-Holbert is in the program? we do receive ADA funding as well which would be we'd have to do work around that but it would actually be a really good location for us to do something with because we have significant absences but we can work with Heather and with Michelle Shear on thinking about how we can do it for the youngest students it has some complications but it's not impossible it just has some complications because of transportation and amount of staff that would be required to support their unique needs and that is something that the data is also showing our high absenteeism within SELPA but that's something that we're going to have to internally review those strategies and I would assume that even if for whatever reason we didn't receive ADA it's still a good investment because they're going to be trickling and right after I thought about it the answer is yes they do so they do? awesome I'm excited just a quick clarification because I didn't quite catch is this just for students who have absences but it's also available okay I wanted to make sure I was understanding that correctly it's for anyone but more looking at the excess of absenteeism it's open to everybody I had a question okay so have we ever asked the kids what kind of programs they'd like to see at Saturday school have we ever done a survey or gone into the schools to find out what kinds of things they'd like to see I know we have done it in some of the schools because I've heard it at the student forums I can't say that that's something that we've done at every school so that's a great suggestion we can follow up on that and the other thing I'd like to say is there's a lot of parents who aren't aware of Saturday Academy so I think we need to do a little bit of a better job and have a plan of rolling it out because I think if more parents were aware they would force their kids to take advantage of it we'll do we'll do we'll love it we'll love it got some questions so part of our high absentee numbers is an effective way of actually capturing the kids that are actually at school so I'm wondering since we're doing an all-in campaign can we talk for a minute about some of the improvements on capturing accurate numbers of kids that are actually in school so are you referring to taking role later in the so we're rolling out all those initiatives this year that's part of the work that we're doing just making sure that we're taking role at a later time that absences are actually being turned to tardies when they do become present and then just making sure that kids along with parents understand the impact of being gone you know I think for many parents sometimes especially in the middle and high school it can become a challenge to get your child to school when they don't want to go to school so that's one reason why student connectedness is a big focus for us for middle school because we want kids we know that they're social beings well we all are social beings and so we want them to be connected to school so I've said it frequently but my son although he was a good he probably would have been hard to get him to school if it wasn't for football he knew he had to go because he needed to go practice and if he didn't go to school he wasn't going to go to practice and so for each student it's different for some it's banned for some it's others but I think it's making them want to go encouraging parents to know that there's options when they don't go and then accurately assessing them and making sure that they're labeled correctly the great thing about LMI and we're scheduling our next meeting coming up soon is everybody wants increased attendance I think that that's something that we can all rally behind whether you're doing it from the instructional side of knowing it's good for kids or you're doing it from the financial side of knowing it's good for the district or just from the social emotional support side and that's why I mentioned it it's not really just about instruction but it's also if you have a student who is already depressed and then is staying home they're not able to access the supports we can give them when they come to school and plus that interaction with peers actually supports them versus the isolation of staying at home thank you so let's say we are accurately capturing attendance more properly and we increase our revenues by 2% which I think used to be a goal I'm not sure what our goal is now but let's say we are accurately capturing almost everybody and then we offer Saturday school and then we capture back all the absences but then there's more kids that attend Saturday school then we have absences can we actually use this as a revenue builder above the level of absences so we can only capture the days that they were absent we can't go get additional days on top of that okay so it's only the school calendar and the days that they were absent so when there are a group of kids because we open it to everybody who attend who might not have absences on the book are we getting ADA for those kids no only the kids that have been gone okay got it and then one of the things that we had talked about before it was offering an SAT prep class on some of these Saturdays for some of our kids but is that ever going to move forward we actually did it Aptos high end at PVHS just last year yes we offered one session at Aptos and we offered three sessions at PVHS and they were well attended so I know how PCS does it and it was an eight week class every Saturday I think and Sunday but one session probably is better than nothing probably not what we could be offering to improve scores well we definitely want to look I think now that we have Kristin on board but I think having a series is definitely more effective than having a singleton for sure and so we'll push towards making that a reality so that our scores keep going up yeah my daughter attended the PCS program and raised her score more than 160 points and it actually opened up a brand new scholarship situation for her so it has a direct impact on families and kids that they're not adding you know querying debt so I'd like to see that and then the numbers that you were just reporting Joe did not appear to be 40% back to the sites that was the two year but we have the breakdown as they do get 40% but that was the two year overall okay because you said that one of the schools got like a hundred and over a hundred thousand dollars and recovered 80 a but then the site only got 25,000 that that's not 40% yeah that was a I believe that was one year but all of the numbers did not equal 40% so I'm wondering what did you report like a gross and then not the net yeah that was based on the net but we have we did provide the 40% and one other initiative that we did as we broke down the 40% checks by quarter and so that's another incentive that we saw the benefit the sites so that's another option that we did but they did receive 40% okay so we'll look at the numbers and then provide you the revised excel okay sounds good thank you so overall we did get 50% growth as a program and we will continue to grow it so thank you for your support thank you I just want to really quickly probably need to hurry up you know I know one school where students are gone a lot is renaissance you know they just don't show up because I don't know it's further way or whatever they or they're just the credits they're just too I don't know but so that's one school where I think absenteeism is pretty high correct yes especially before last year so last year they made a great improvement on that but it is one of our most vulnerable populations and it is a long bus ride yes we've had significant conversations I know at the request of trustee diserpa we looked at having two bus routes a day we looked at several things trying to figure out how to get them there they do have a you know so but they did increase it by about 20% last year because it was extremely low it was about and I don't quote me but like 60% the previous year so they had a lot of students every day that didn't come to school so in terms I mean just looking at the idea of Saturday school you know I mean for example figuring out I mean if we could figure out where all the renaissance students are located and if they're not located right there if we could figure out them going to Saturday schools that are closer to where they live and they can almost even walk there whatever I mean the students can easily get to their Saturday schools and then they know that the Saturday schools will be fun the enrichment or whatever they're deciding that they I mean like that won't be a good place to ask the students what they'd like to see on Saturday schools that'd be a good place to do it you know so you know I was thinking you know how to do that encourage them and then obviously have the Saturday schools where not at renaissance obviously where you know where they don't have to take a bus to get to the Saturday school they can just do it you know close to where they live or something well I do love the idea of a satellite site it's not a bad thought so we can look into it for sure I know just knowing high schoolers they want to be with their peers that they see every day so we definitely want to cluster them so that they didn't feel like they weren't with each other but we can yeah we can look at a satellite location we can look into it for sure I know the Porter building is empty by the city hall okay so let's go to can we go to the next one so we can get out of here early enough not to have to extend the meeting now we're at the number 10 which is the consent agenda and there's not too many things that I hopefully you guys don't want to, well you can defer them but of course and the only thing I would like to say that there is a donation from Julian Grant's CPA and she gave a very generous donation of furniture and it was valued at 12,000 for the Watsonville High School school that's cool for them so is there any items the board wishes to defer yes okay wish to defer or make a motion to defer 10.10 and 10.12 okay so we're going to make a motion with a deferral does anybody else want to defer something can I just make a comment real quick I'd like to thank Michelle and the cabinet for putting 10.26 architectural agreement for Minnie White Elementary School I'm glad to see that's happening where is that one I'll make a motion with a deferral with a deferral so on 10 point call the vote so I'm calling okay for the vote so I'm calling the vote with the deferrals all those in favor of what there's left I okay so 10 point is the Carnegie one and the 10 point Alex one we'll see 10.10 so does anybody know how to help with 10.10 you want me to ask a question okay so 10.10 I know that we already have consultants with the SIPS program so what exactly is Carnegie going to be doing again how is it going to be helping the program sure so part of what we want to do is develop a systems map to identify all the levers we use during this implementation to be able to utilize it in all of our other implementations so what Carnegie has come forward and said that they wanted to do was to be able to help us develop this systems map so part of what they'll do and it will help us as we're moving forward so as you looked at my presentation we identified three levels of teachers belief in that what they will be doing is tracking and we're going to be doing what's called pilots with pilots within a pilot but pilots with saying okay if we do this treatment because it's going to be research-based if we do this treatment with this type of teacher what's the result of that we'll be able to help us to actually look at if we did this for three weeks with this set of teachers and this set of needs what is the result of that so they'll actually it'll be our staff doing the professional development but they'll actually be tracking the changes that are happening so that at the end when we're done with this we can say what were the key levers that we did so that we can make sure and replicate all the different levers that we did throughout the entire system to make this successful we can then say okay now let's apply that to the middle school math adoption implementation and we can know all the system levers that we actually want to do it will take pretty it will take quite a bit of time I think the most important thing is that we solidify it from an outside perspective that people so that we are thinking of it from all different vantage points and so Carnegie came and said they wanted to do this with us we're really excited about doing that work because I think it will build the capacity of everyone around us to do the implementation and understand why this implementation work versus others that haven't worked in the past okay so your goal is to take what you've learned from Carnegie and by evaluating SIPs and then use that to implement new curriculums in the future exactly okay thank you so you feel good about that okay and the next one is 10 oh yeah we have to move all those in favor of that one alright and then we're going to do 10.12 additional this is one Alex licenses it's you so question with this is we just discussed that we're implementing the con for grades three for eight so are these schools not using the con academy is that why we need additional licenses for them and is there a implementation process to get these schools on con academy so we're not paying out extra money for licenses yes so this actually Alex will be replacing the standard core curriculum so what is happening with this these and these additional licenses is that one of the hardest areas for us to fill this year has been and when you look at our vacancies and you look at our number of interns and waivers a lot of it is focused around our math and science middle school that has been the crutch which is really a challenge so we have many teachers in those positions which are multiple subject teachers that's great for classroom management and relationship building in general because especially when you're used to working with younger children that's a good thing it's not as good of a of a thing when you are doing high level math eighth grade math now is actually tremendously challenging and so what we're doing with these teachers because their understanding of math is not as high as we want we are doing parallel tracks meaning we don't want the kids to lose out so we are training them on the conceptual understanding of math while we're simultaneously having the students using Alex and Alex is a computer adaptive program that will actually replace big ideas so it's not in it's actually not at the exact same time of doing this the majority of these licenses will be at rolling hills we have two openings at rolling hills for middle school math too and that's a really big challenge so while we're struggling to find those teachers so we have we have credentialed teachers in them now but they are not credentialed in single subject mathematics so we're trying to do this in an effort to ensure that the students don't lose out in the process while we're trying to find highly qualified teachers well the teachers are present and the teachers still pull small group during that time so the teachers aren't not doing anything they're doing significant work during that time but the base curriculum that they're using is Alex instead of big ideas because in order to teach big ideas effectively you have to have a solid understanding of mathematics instruction which generally someone with the I said generally because it's not all generally someone with the multiple subject credential that slated to do elementary level children do not have a strong mathematics understanding maybe that's something we can get those students partnered with youth now too for some one-on-one tutoring that are more gifted and need to be more challenged that might be some type of benefit for them to meet with a high school tutor so that they're getting that experience thank you okay second all those in favor I okay we're done with the deferrals and so we're pretty much done with the agenda and yeah we're just going to do the defer closed session right okay motion number one closed session item 2.1 I moved to approve the certificated personal report as presented by district and administration in August 21st 2019 with 61 and 8 additional action items motion second all those in favor aye motion number 2 closed session item 2.2 I moved to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district and administration in August 21st 2019 with 65 and 17 additional action items second we made a motion right okay okay all those in favor aye announcement number 1 the Pajaro Valley infight school district is pleased to announce the selection of Juanita Aguilera Pajaro Valley High School Ms. Aguilera has been serving the students of Pajaro Valley since 1987 as an instructional support specialist for the micro aid program before becoming an English learner specialist at Pajaro Valley High School Ms. Aguilera is a local resident of Watsonville and a former student of PBSD she teamed her bachelor of arts in the social studies science and teaching credential from San Jose State University and her master's of education and administration from San Jose State University we are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to a new administrative role announcement number 2 the Pajaro Valley infight school district is pleased to announce the selection of Michael Rousseau as a new coordinator of science Mr. Rousseau has been serving students since 1991 as a biology teacher on Watsonville high school before going abroad to teach in Italy and Ecuador for the past 15 years he has been working for the new teacher center bachelor's in biology from UCSC master's in secondary of education from the University of Alabama and is currently working as administrative credential from the league program to the Santa Clara County office of education Mr. Rousseau brings a wealth of knowledge of providing professional development to teachers and administrators we are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to his new administrative role all right so for Wednesday September 11th here and I'm going to adjourn