 home is with us. She is with us via Zoom. Hi. So again we just want to say welcome to tonight's PBUSD board meeting. We do have translation in Spanish. If you need that support please see Eurenia Lopez. Tenemos traducen en español si necesita de este servicio por favor pase con Eurenia Lopez. So we also ask that if anyone has something to share that you put in a speaker card prior to that agenda item starting on the agenda. Once the agenda item has started no additional speaker cards will be taken. Please hand those to Eva Renteria prior to that agenda item at the end and each speaker will have two minutes. We do have a couple of clarifying questions for two that we do not have an agenda item. Sean Schotter and Nat Lowe is that for what agenda item? You're gonna pass. Okay so it would have been 7.1 but you're gonna pass and Nate public comment 7.1. With that now we will have the Pledge of Allegiance and in honor of Veteran's Day coming up in our very own trustee who is a veteran I'm going to ask trustee Soto to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Perfect. Okay now moving to item 3.3 our Superintendent Comments Superintendent Murray Scheckman will make a few comments now. Actually just one comment I appreciate everyone's presence tonight it's democracy in action but I also want to honor our veterans. Do we have any veterans in the audience besides Oscar Soto any other veterans? All right. Congratulations. On Saturday on Saturday on Veterans Day there is a parade that will start at St. Patrick's Church veterans will gather at the church walk along Main Street and come to Watsonville High join us in the mellow center where Leon Panetta will present and honor our veterans. I know we all know Leon Panetta our former Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff for the President of the United States we're very honored he's from the Central Coast and he gives a great speech so thank you veterans for what you've done and your service and there's a free breakfast or lunch whenever time you get to Applebee's we'll have a ticket for you you'll take the ticket you go to Applebee's and they'll say congrats and thank you also and you have lunch and you won't have to pay for it. All right thank you so much thanks for being here folks that's my report. Thank you Superintendent Scheckman and moving on to item 3.4 we'll have our governing board comments and we will start with our student trustee. Good evening everyone I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge that Transgender Awareness Week is coming up next week along with the Transgender Day of Remembrance I believe on November 20th and on another note I would like to see the board bring back the renewal of the contract with the community responsive education program also known as CRE and do more research on CRE before voting students would like to ensure that our teachers are learning from professionals in their fields who can speak from their personal experiences to bring a more in-depth perspective. Thank you. Thank you trustee to Serpa. Thank you I've been attending several fundraisers in the community for the Pajaro Valley Health Trust for Dominican Foundation and for the Diversity Center they've been every event was beautiful and a worthwhile endeavor to help the community. Thanks. Trustee Soto. All right I've got a little bit of time to make up I want to apologize right off the top for my absence for the last few meetings some of you may or may not have heard but I'm recovering from a motorcycle accident it was pretty significant it's been about seven weeks now I'm not a hundred percent but I'm here and I'm on two feet thank God because it could have been a lot worse. I want to acknowledge the veterans as well for this week you know Veterans Day coming up the world is in a very tumultuous time right now and it's time to really take time and honor and salute those gentlemen and women that are out there for us to make sure that we can sit in a room tonight without worrying about somebody coming through that door and doing something you know that we all don't want to happen so it's something to think about and that's why they're out there that's why a lot of us volunteered you know in our day to make our stand as well to protect our country I take a lot of pride in that a lot of pride in that. Finally I want to mention the availability of a scholarship through the Elks the benevolent protective order of Elks has some scholarships available for those students that are out there in the audience that are interested in applying you can go to elks.org and look into that they're pretty significant scholarships and I'll take care of you for a good good portion of your of your college tuition so thank you everybody. Yes thank you everybody for being here and for those watching us online just a couple comments I want to thank extended learning and everybody who went to Gilroy Gardens and had a great time a couple Saturdays ago I was there with the orchestra from Elsie Stenna had two great performances obviously it was a lot of fun that was my first time to Gilroy Gardens that place is pretty amazing I can see why everybody keeps going there so thanks to extended learning and everybody who helped organize that I want to thank Superintendent Checkman and supervisor Glenn Church for a good meeting at Pajaro Middle School a couple weeks ago or within the last couple weeks talking about recovery and restoration efforts there and partnerships with Monterey County that was a productive discussion and look forward to continuing those conversations. I want to acknowledge an amazing choir show that I attended on Saturday night at Aptos High School what a beautiful performing arts center I got to say an amazing performance by the Aptos Junior and Aptos High Choirs I was really impressed and I want to congratulate the teacher we have a new teacher there Jessalyn Levine for a phenomenal job and all of our students so looking forward to more of those and finally I did I get a tour of Esperanza Farms which is now supplying our students with healthy organic local food and they in partnership at PV Hire hosting a rally about farm the cafeteria there on Monday and I'm looking forward to attending that I want to thank our district for supporting them as well and I think we're gonna be hearing more about that hopefully at a future board meeting thank you thank you trustee Dodge Jr. I just like to say good evening everybody you know it's good to see we have a packed house that's that's what we like to see here just a couple of events I attended so the Watsonville High football team won at the last second on a field goal and so I just like to thank the coaching staff the players all the fans that came out to support the students I was also able to attend that deal of those mortals event in the cafeteria held by teachers Mr. Pozo and Novoa and I'm also like to recognize the veterans when I went to Watsonville High from 1996 to 2000 I remember seeing the names on the rock you know from all the soldiers all the veterans World War one two Vietnam Korea you know all those that served in Afghanistan and the Gulf Wars I think that's one of the reasons why I'm here because we have to continue to support the veterans you know you know it's you know the veterans went you know my age younger and think you know we want to serve our country and sometimes you know they say things that they didn't ask to be a part of but they went and served and so I just like to thank the veterans thank you trustee Flores hello everyone thank you for being here tonight I also want to apologize for missing last meeting I wasn't feeling well but I did watch online so thank you to all who were here and who commented I wasn't able in the last meeting to give you an update on the intergovernmental meeting that we did I attended and that focused on you know the city of Watsonville really is preparing for this upcoming rainy season and they want to make sure to stay in close contact with PVUSD so that we are ready with the plan you know should roads get closed or anything should happen so I was happy to hear that we're gonna be more prepared of this season than we were last I also did a campus visit at Caesar Travis middle school with superintendent checkmen and principal Benavidas took us around to a few classrooms and I was able to do a really good tour of their wellness center there and learn a lot about what the students get to use that center for it which was really great and I encourage all my fellow trustees to take advantage of you know a visit with with superintendent checkmen it was really informative I also was able to have a meeting with principal Vahi at landmark you know elementary we asked that Courtney Lindbergh who is the director of public works for the city of Watsonville she was able to meet with us and walk aloney and we were able to share our concerns with her regarding you know traffic safety for the for the children who are trying to walk to school so that was really great and Courtney seems amazing she's the new director there at the public works and she's gonna she listen to us and said if we have any parents that want to listen to her so far this goes she wanted me to extend this invitation to all campuses that she's willing to you know hear our concerns and make sure that we can have safe routes for our children to walk to school and lastly I just want to I just want to say that I really hope that everyone's taking advantage of our community input sessions for their superintendent search there was one yesterday there's one going on now and there's one tomorrow at PV high school which I'll be attending and then we also have some zooms if you're not able to attend one in person so I definitely encourage you to look on our website to see when those are so that you can take give us your input because that's exactly what we want to hear thank you so much thank you trustee Flores president doctor home thank you so I participated in the agenda setting committee meeting and I just want to note that we did have you know one agenda request that was not included in tonight's agenda which was to bring back the CRE contract for ethnic studies training for administrative staff and the committee voted with the majority declining to add it and have the board's focus beyond the superintendent search and I've mentioned to our superintendent my appreciation for the Winston Churchill quote democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others yet I firmly believe that the best answer to and protection against authoritarianism and fascism is standing up for democratic principles that is even more important as elected officials we hold positions of power but it is representative power and we each have a duty to represent a plurality that doesn't mean the temptation to use any means available if a vote doesn't go the way we want doesn't hold a certain appeal as such I believe in honoring vote results even during instances where I personally disagree my hope is that the board will find a path to having a clear and open dialogue about this important issue that our our constituency is rightfully very invested in so thank you thank you president home so I'll start I just want to again thank you and honor and acknowledge our very own trusty soto and thank him again for his service as a veteran and as a veteran and those others in the meeting tonight and all veterans hopefully many will take part in this event this Saturday also want to just briefly speak to yes agenda setting committee did have a conversation around the topic of our ethnic studies and is considering what we can do going forward in the future including potentially having a special study session around the topic where all voices can be heard from all perspectives so we are looking at that and looking at the board's calendar and schedule to see what we can fit in in the future with regards to what else is a very prevalent and important activity that this board has going on right now as well as this district as a whole is our search for our superintendent I did attend the meetings last night at Watsonville high very disappointed in a very very low turnout of that meeting we did have a virtual meeting today one at Aptos high as trustee floor is already noted there will be one at PV high tomorrow I really actively want to encourage all members of our community who are here tonight or viewing online to partake in these meetings right the board recognized the public and the public's input as part of the search this is one of your mediums of platforms to be a voice in that so if you haven't attended one of those meetings we hope to see you tomorrow night out at PV high at six o'clock I believe it is right in what room six what and did we know what room did everybody here ever did you want to seek in here Mike I'm sorry English will be in the cafeteria at six o'clock and then we also have room H1 19 for Spanish speakers perfect so please please be a part of that and there's as well right now going on the survey I believe is open the 7th opened the 7th and is open through the 17th one of the things that I did bring up to Superintendent Shackman was my concern and in realizing and putting the pieces together of the time frame that leadership and associates gave us and looking at some commitments that were made but are not in the time frame that concerned me so I just want to put those as part of the public record now because I've already shared them with Superintendent Shackman at the meeting we had was a special study session back in August I leave in replacement at the meeting of the evaluation the superintendent leadership and associates came to the board we had two board members who could not be here that night due to serious unexpected compelling reasons as well as for myself I wanted to wait to have the public's input and had requested that once leadership and associates has collected all that they bring it back to this board in public session before flying the position to finalize things realizing though that the intent is to fly the position on Monday December 4th the board's next regular meetings December 6th so I would hope that I don't know how leadership and associates missed that that was made part of the public record at that meeting to bring this back before that so hopefully Superintendent Shackman and his staff can work with leadership and associates to delay that posting until it could be brought back on the board's agenda on the December 6th meeting okay and that will do for my comments moving on to 3.5 oh and I do have one acknowledgement with gratitude for the donation by the Valencian home and school club for the purchase of an AED now moving on to 3.5 we have our high school student reports do we have Diamond Tech Institute here or are they or is it a virtual presentation okay good evening present home court of trustees in interim superintendent mr. Shackman I'm Diamond Tech ASB president O'Reilly Durand our current character education theme for quarter two is collaboration we chose collaboration as the holidays are great time to come together and support those we care about as well as those who are in our care with that said we'll be launching our annual adopt a family event we're looking for a family in our community who's in need during this holiday season we'll begin taking donations immediately after the Thanksgiving break please help us support those in need in this community you can drop off wrapped donations at Diamond Tech until December 15th our October activities began with our biannual a polka it was another successful event and helped to raise money for ASB we even had folklorico dancing we closed at the month with this spirit week which included pumpkin painting classroom trick-or-treating and of course dress-up days all be long between these two events we are very very busy we finally have our new office manager a meal say Mendoza who joined us last week and we're happy to welcome her as a white tiger we also unveiled our annual school t-shirt which was a design competition in my design one it also happened to be a sketch of our business teacher mr. tenant he was so excited that he provided a sheet cake with his face on it for the whole school to celebrate we did get a chance to get out and have a little fun though we took two field trips one was of the plantasticus event at the exploratory and for agriculture and agriscience and the other was to the maker fair in the bay area for engineering them tech has a blend of wall-to-wall college preparatory and career technical education through project-based learning miss keller reviewed our cast scores at our last assembly and I wanted to honor our class of 2024 by sharing our test results because we're extremely excited about our accomplishments compared to the state average for e.l.a. which is about 55% we scored with 80% of our students achieving standards met and math the state average was 27% and we scored 40% on the cast science scores that state average was 30% and we scored 45 of course our teachers want to see us going to 100% scoring proficiently we are very proud that we're in the upper 50th percentile for the state of california go white tigers thank you again for this opportunity to share what we've been doing at diamond tech if you'd like to know more about what our schools doing please don't hesitate to stop by our website or follow us on twitter instagram facebook and come check it out we won't see you until next year so happy holidays next we have new school good evening esteem board of trustees interns superintendents mary checkman and audience my name is it's a line and this is kali louis we are both new to new school this year thank you for having us here tonight hi i'm kali louis this is my first year at new school i came to new school because i thought it would be the best school in the area to receive my credits that i'm missing and what i really like about new school is that the teachers really like get along with the students more than at other schools i've been to and they're more hands-on and they really make sure you're understanding what they're teaching new school we celebrate the small victories and one of those is attendance research shows that if you show up to school on time every day your grades will get better that's why miss g makes breakfast on friday for all the students that show up every day on time for that week we started our eleventh outdoor and character development program on october 19th at mother nature's temple sorry we started our eleventh outdoor school and character development program on october 19th at mother nature's temple and santa cruz mountains we had to perform team building exercises painted carved wood and also practiced archery during the second day of our outdoor site or our outdoor school and character development program we helped food wet with their harvest festival at their ucse farm by teaching students and adults how to make corn husk dolls and seed bombs for their gardens day three of our outdoor school and character development program was spend during monitoring mushrooms the touring the largest mushroom grower in the world tomorrow will be the onsite day for our outdoor school and character development program when when we will work on garden projects tie dye t-shirts for students and for all our program partners as well as picking up trash in our surrounding neighborhoods on november 16th we'll be working on our working at second harvest food bank and then you're all invited to new school thanksgiving on tuesday november 21st our students of the month for november word so and naya and foylan moreno thank you to expanded learning for bringing us pizza with judy g it is a great way to relax at the end of monday and get to know each other better we recently had a lgbtq panel um at our school yesterday and i think it was a a great way to let students know that they have support around them and they're never alone new school continues to compete in monitoring the alternative school athletics league volleyball tournaments every friday our advisory classes are filled with many very many engaging programs such as community circles zone to grow we recently had a visit from the people at zone to grow it was fun learning more about the program our teachers use zone to grow to help us understand our feelings and emotions and that's it thank you for listening to thank you so those are the only two schools i had noted do we have no if we have anyone else those right okay thank you all right moving on to item four point one approval of the agenda can i have a motion to approve the agenda a motion to approve the agenda can i have a second a second all those in favor aye aye vote carries seven zero zero zero um okay moving on to item five point one approval of the october 25th 2023 board meeting minutes can i have a motion motion to approve can i have a second perfect all those in favor aye aye vote carries seven zero abstain excuse me seven zero oh six yeah i got a subtract one hold on let me do some math six zero one okay and moving on to item six point one the public disclosure of the collective bargaining agreement between pb usd and cwa and this report will be presented by our new cbo kim sims this is working okay um my name's kim sims i'm the interim cbo just met you all last time the board meeting i think was my first day last two weeks ago i'm here to present the um the ab 1200 requirement where when we settle with a bargaining unit then you need to present the um brought my long my wrong page anyway um so we're required by law but to disclose in a public meeting the major provisions and costs of a written agreement with its represented employees these laws are intended to ensure that the public is aware of the known costs within a proposed agreement before it becomes binding in the district so you should have in your packet the actual estimates of what the costs are and the three multi-year projections three years and um the total cost of the agreement is four hundred and eighty thousand dollars there's also a letter from the county office um that accepts the agreement i believe um but i just wanted to point out in the multi-year part of the the um the agreement is um 23 24 um we are deficits projected to deficit spend in the unrestricted side by 3.5 million and the county the superintendent the county office of education has um said that in the letter and then the second year out is 3.9 million and then 25 26 if we continue in the same strain without making any cuts to our unrestricted ongoing funds is going to be 7.5 million in that third year we still are going to meet the required 3 minimum so the county office is going to approve the agreement i just wanted to make sure those items were aware so we recommend that you accept the agreement later on and this is going to be the cost to the district thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not okay any discussion from the board trustee to surpa um i i'm happy that um this was settled and that we've increased the rates to our substitute teachers and yes and that hopefully will help uh bring more subs into the district so um will we be publicizing the new rates aside from edjoin will we is there any marketing going on to attract new employees yeah it'll be updated on our website we'll have the new contract the new salary schedule and and all the other communications we put out with okay for hiring great thank you thank you any other questions any other questions seeing none i will close the public hearing and we are now moving on to item 7.1 our visitor non-agenda items um this is our public comment this is an opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda for this evening we do want you all to know um that through the brown act it prohibits the board from engaging in discussion for non agendized items but the governing board of directors is listening to you i also want to just make a brief comment that i do see a lot of new faces in our audience here tonight so i just want to take a moment to establish some ground rules there may be differences of opinion sometimes those differences of opinion can be strong differences i ask that you please give those speaking the same respect that you would like to receive when you are speaking and this will allow everyone to be heard and the board to conduct its necessary business with that do we have any public speakers this evening trustee floris we do and i will call you up by three and i ask that you please line up behind the podium i have chris oh and please correct me if i have your name wrong chris webb synthia lewis and christine and i apologize if i left this out each public speaker has two minutes good evening um i wanted to take the take my time to read my students comment from last time uh he can't be here um but his his name is andy salazar and he's from renaissance high school and he had to comment about measure l funding quote the school renaissance high is more focused on the looks of things such as wasting money on a staff room to be remodeled instead of fixing up our soccer field for the for the students a soccer field provides opportunity for students to engage in physical activity and to genuinely play in practice a staff room would not benefit the teacher would not benefit the students nor the teachers it would only benefit the eyes of the teachers to be more pleasurable to look at we could use the funds to add things such as wrestling mats for a wrestling team or renovating the buildings in the back of the school and turning them into something to benefit students and their interests the funds could be even used for a workshop for mechanics or even a room for another elective that interests the students a soccer field not only can provide physical activity for students but also serves as a capital asset that can generate revenue for the school it wasn't i wasn't able to make the site council due to work and wasn't ever notified that the use of these funds were on the agenda but this is my written statement as a student end quote so i think it's really important for us to if we want to do our best we have to be hearing the students and obviously i'm here with my my own children i just want to say that when i'm i since i've had them in my life they do inform my my service here and i ask myself when changes come would i want this for my own students and if i wouldn't want it for my own students that i mean if i wouldn't want for my own kids then i don't want it for my own students so that does color my views here and another thing i just wanted to share was well i'll share it another time thank you and to begin but good evening my name is synthia lewis and i'm associate dean of diversity equity and inclusion for the social science division at the university of california santa cruz and also former chair and current professor of education as someone who is also jewish i'm here to say that i was terribly disappointed and surprised by the board's decision to end the contract of c re the the ethnic studies consultants given that there was no evidence provided that c re consultants are anti-semitic and in fact i know them not to be i'm very much hoping that the board will reconsider their decision not to return to this agenda item as someone who whose work includes the education of future educators i was especially disappointed to see that teachers were not consulted in this matter and i can't imagine that they feel trusted as profession as the professionals that they are it is difficult to educate future teachers and support their passion for being change agents and role models for kids when they know that these experienced and excellent teachers are not being supported it is the teachers who know how important ethnic studies is for their students and this is is confirmed by a good deal of research on the effectiveness of ethnic studies including higher graduation rates and increased engagement in school this is the last leg of a three-year journey with c re that was going very well it was to focus on administrators and school leaders who have such an important role to play in the continuing rollout of ethnic studies and i think it's a terrible loss that they will not have the support of experts in the field as they continue their work again as a jewish educator who knows anti-semitism when i see it and when i experience it there was no anti anti-semitism present in the work of c re thank you but that's time i asked that the board reconsidered the decision thank you my name is christine hung i served as the inaugural chair of the department of critical race and ethnic studies at uc santa cruz i am currently the director of the center for racial justice and um i would like to say that at the beginning of this meeting the student trustee spoke and stated that the contract with c re should be back on the agenda i have been here week after week i've heard teachers say this i've been here i've heard community members say this as well and although trustee home described this as a democratic process this seems to me to be an abuse of process and i would also say that when there is an example of someone hurling a highly inflammatory life altering accusation against someone without substantiating it that to me has an earlier historical example and it's not democracy it's macartheism and this is a moment in which certain people are getting blacklisted their lives are being altered because they have been targeted with these slanderous charges and it also has a long history in this country when accusations are made against people of color there's no attempt to substantiate it with evidence and their lives are altered as a result i would like to introduce into the record a petition to support dr allison tinty uncle kubales and c re and there are 63 organizations that signed on to this and over 1600 individuals as well and so i would just say something you are witnessing broad demoralization and there's no accountability for the decisions that were made and i would like to just i'd like to give this to you thank you that's time our next three are nicole beverly bobby palaz and donald williams good evening board and superintendent checkman my name is nicole beverly and i have been a teacher at pvsd for the past 10 and a half years you may have heard or may not have heard that the district recently decided to dock teachers pay for taking personal necessity days attached to labor day weekend and i was one of these teachers while our contract states that we cannot use a three-day weekend to extend the holiday i hope that the district and you realize that things come up that are not extending a holiday which would justify using a personal day i hope you will see that this is the case in my scenario when i first received the email about the possibility i didn't think much of it because in all of the years working here this has never happened nor as a employee i've received any indication before this that it was going to happen so um my mom had surgery on her hip when the school year started she planned on having me visit her in sacramento so that i could help her take her to appointments uh go grocery shopping just with basic needs and to be there for her and um so after i got the second email i was already in sacramento helping her because i wasn't going to take that away and i replied to the district telling them my situation i our contract also states that we can use a sick day to help a family member when we have first principal approval and i did i talked to my principal ahead of time but i put it in as a personal necessity because i wanted to ensure that i had a sub for my for my staff um so when i checked my first check it wasn't docked and then my second check i was docked almost nine hundred dollars um i only hope that i can pay my bills for this month because i was not expecting it at this time because the first month it wasn't i've been a dedicated employee for over 10 years and it makes me incredibly sad that the district has lost my trust they're saying that my family is not important and i have no care in what might happen to me and my family with this pay cut not only that but this will later affect my years of service when i near retirement i hope that this is concerning to you as it is to me and i hope that you'll ask questions and demand that the district repays those people with compelling reasons thank you um good evening i'm here to speak again on the cre contract but tonight i would like to direct my comment to those on the agenda committee uh trustee disperper you've said that you you didn't see that betting had been properly done on the cre program but i have worked with allison in the cre program and i've never seen a single instance of bigotry or anti-semitism and that's betting the entire ethnic study team wrote you a letter and asked you to bring them back that's betting allison wrote you a letter explaining herself with extensive evidence that's betting there's a petition signed by over 1600 people in 60 organizations that's betting folk from ucse what goes in the heart and the tobera project of all voice their support that's betting your own student trustee voice their support that's betting and yet you still refuse to bring the contract back it seems to me trustee disperper that the person who is not properly betting the cre program is you trustee acosta you have said that you are appalled that we'd be associated with a program like this well it appalls me that you would say those comments without any evidence to support them that you would have a total disregard for the people that you have hurt with the things that you have said it appalls me that an entire team of your own teachers would ask you for what they want and you would not support them by honoring their request and what appalled me most of all is that two people on a board of seven that is supposed to represent all of us can block the will of the people because of their own agenda to me i find that a gross abuse of power and i will not stand for it the arc of the moral universe is long but it always bends for justice thank you hello hello name is donna williams jr i am the founder of black in san accruz but i came here to share that on tuesday november 14 pb high will be having their walk to school day honoring ruby bridges for me i actually got the honor to meet ruby bridges when i went to college san jose state actually was involved in a hate crime in 2019 and all the students band together and marched on my behalf and fought for the school to make changes and we brought her to campus and i was had the privilege and honor to meet her so i like to give you guys these stickers and hope that you guys come support the school pb high our next three are ross shornstein takashi misano and doug kaplan uh board and superintendent checkman i speak in favor of inclusive ethnic studies and i speak in favor of more extended study of the program but i also speak in support of the board's decision not to renew the contract with community responsive education there are many reasons for this but tonight i want to focus on the cost benefit of spending an additional hundred and ten thousand dollars on top of the hundred seventy two thousand dollars that paharro has already spent on c re in the past two years the renewal would have brought the total to two hundred and eighty two thousand dollars over a quarter of a million dollars in contrast the other two school districts in our county scott's valley and san accrued city schools have had their teachers and curriculum specialists developing their ethnic studies courses without spending any money on outside consultants paharro district students currently are enrolled in four or six accredited courses in ethnic studies english history and art implemented by your experienced curriculum specialists and teachers costly additional teacher training is really not required at this point the progress of these classes can be evaluated so that the program can evolve based on student needs and then the district will have time to explore free or low cost resources for augmenting subsequent years classes input from teachers new superintendent in the paharro valley community will be useful in a study session or an evaluation of the program as as it develops as you know paharro valley has had a large drop of enrollment leading to budget cuts going forward what will the hundred and ten thousand dollars be able to fund helping students catch up to grade level after they fell behind during covid shutdowns programs to prevent bullying counseling for anxiety and depression healthier lunches a new soccer field for renaissance there are many worthwhile programs to benefit students in summary a cost benefit analysis does not support renewal of the seary contract ethnic studies will continue to be offered thank you good evening i'm takashi mizuno and i'm a community member and i was also on the ethnic studies community corporate cooperative committee and i had several questions to ask you and i wrote an open letter address to mr holm president of your board and i'm going to read i have i had a whole questions i'm going to read the questions first question is this the board of trustees talked to professor arson or and c r e before the board made the decision in the board meeting on september 13th the second question have the board of trustees talked to professor or professor arson and c r e after the board receives a letter denial of community responsive education contract due to accusation of anti-state senators dated on october 9th from professor arson third question is the board of trustees talked to pbsd ethnic studies teachers before the board made the decision in the board meeting on september 13th and the last question is does the board of trustees talk to members of pbsd ethnic studies community collaborative committee because of more of major decision both of major decision in the board meeting on september 13th and regarding the letter which you received from professor arson the letter was forwarded to me by her colleague at san francisco state university my friend he's the chair of department of asian-american studies at the at the college and i have known him for almost 20 years and i have trusted him his judgment he wrote to me that professor arson is one of his competent professors thank you i i'm going to send my letter to his home by email okay please give those to eba please give them to eba okay okay thank you thank you my name is doug kaplan a former pvusd trustee and trustee accosta you began the public comments by saying that there are people in this room who strongly disagree with each other and that's true and i also believe that there are people in this room most of the people in this room that share fundamental values and that's why before we stand here talking to you our board wouldn't be wonderful if we had the opportunity to sit with each other and talk before this district hires or rehires any consultant i think it would be so beneficial for the district for our community if we had a conversation a conversation about where we are and more importantly a conversation about where we want to be and how we want to get there that in my opinion is the proper next step thank you thank you our next three are sarae maher sorry yes um minnick brooker and tashawn myles hello my name is sady maher and i'm a senior and i'm an eagle scout at aptos high school in my junior year i was faced with issues that impacted my mental and physical well-being i'm going to i'm going to talk to you this evening about bullying which we all know that happens to everybody and unfortunately for me and for many others it was pretty bad it started in my fifth period spanish class my junior year here's some incidents that happened to me i had water poured on me i had things thrown at me and my identity as a queer student was made fun of i could not focus in class because these students were out of their seats and being very disruptive i told the teacher numerous times but he did nothing that's when i knew i had to deal with this all on my own this was not my first brush with bullies since elementary school i've been told very numerous times to just ignore it and the bullying will stop if i just don't do anything and not fight back i tried ignoring their behavior for weeks i said nothing i did nothing but they didn't stop their behavior continued they were still rowdy spanish class became the worst part of my day i dreaded waking up and going to class and i hated block days because i would have to spend 80 minutes with these people 80 bad minutes so i sat down with admin i reported i reported them i made my case i checked on with admin numerously to ask how's it going and they would only tell me i can't tell you anything it's confidential stuff like that weeks went by and it seemed nothing was changing the behavior only continued fact only worsened i'm here this evening to tell you that i'm sorry i got lost pfc board what will you do to keep the bullies in check and make sure the school communities that you oversee will be bully free what will you do to prevent future generations from receiving the same treatment you offer better trainings something to make sure that i will not be let down so i can regain my trust in the admin and in the board to make school better a better place the safe where i can be myself and where my friends can be themselves and trust the admin to take care of things thank you m robinson brooker mink brooker it's a pleasure to be up here and on a happy note i just wanted to inform everyone that i actually hooked up with triple a and they sent some merch i am the black student union advisor at pv high and next tuesday is walk to school day for ruby bridges and so i wanted to share this because pp high i was told did not have a black student union but i was asked last year if i'd be a black student advisor and i said yes and so this is second year we have a representative from the santa cruise county office of education who comes and supports our bsu meetings and i just wanted to make sure that i left some merch with every one of you and the other gentleman left the stickers so hopefully you all have a ruby bridges sticker it's next tuesday november 14th walk to school day however you would want to support it i hope you do so i just wanted to show this hello everyone uh my name is day son miles and i am the advisor for the countywide black student union so this is the second year that i've been participating at the county and my job is to basically put on black grad and so uh black the bsu started in at santa cruise high and it was just dedicated to santa cruise high because that's where it originated from and then i just graduated from mills college so i'm just coming back this is my second year uh with the county office and so um this is just my way of giving back to all of the students and so i've been in contact with pv with miss booker along with the santa cruise high bsu and so even though it's called the black student union was very inclusive of everybody who's in support and uh allies of uh black culture and the black students um surrounded on campus and basically it's just to create a safe space for all of the students to feel like they can be heard um for them to have some more support inside and outside of the school i am also just currently about to uh help put on a workshop with the college portfolio which is basically where i'm just trying to set up all of the students with the transcripts the uh personal essays career choices etc etc and then that way i can um bring them to a trip called the black college expo which is a way for all of the students to be able to possibly accepted to colleges on the spot if not colleges at least try to apply for scholarships and so this is what i've been doing for the past year um and this will be my second year trying to bring more students from all of the uh high schools so now this year i have pv uh in support and who i'm participating in these kind of things so thank you thank you our next three speakers are roberto martinez Jimenez ellie davies and amanda lashaw hello good afternoon buenas tardes uh my name is roberto martinez i'm the eighth grade science teacher at ea hall middle school and i'm concerned upset and confused at the new district guidelines regarding eighth grade promotion and activities a quarter and a half into the school year we're shifting towards a new policy that had absolutely zero input at all from teachers it does not hold students accountable and is inequitable the standards we hold our students to are the expectations they strive to meet and we're telling them a 1.5 is all we expect from them we challenge students every day in our classrooms and they meet these challenges last two weeks ago i had students build a small mouse trap car with a battery and a motor the first time many of these students ever built something we preach equity but our standards and expectations are far from it our mission statement over there says we prepare we prepare students to pursue success successful futures and make positive contributions how are we doing this with a 1.5 expectation how are we preparing themselves for high school university and the world after we're not it's inequitable and just not right to the students who show up every day and do their best when they're not when other peers are not being held to the same standards over there it says high expectations high rewards where has that gone we need to challenge our students it is how we get them to push forward and doing this is giving up on that it's giving up on our community it's giving up on our students giving up on people like me who grew up here other teachers here who also grew up here we want to push our people forward we're failing them with these expectations so i would like us to reconsider that and have teacher input we're the ones with them we're the ones in the classroom thank you thank you good evening board i'm elie and i use they them pronouns i am an ethnic studies major at csu moderate bay one of the things i love about ethnic studies is that it rewards a curious mind students can ask questions about history legislation power structures and propaganda about settler colonialism and in return they gain powerful tools to analyze the world they're living in ethnic studies is also belonging ethnic studies is seeing yourself your family reflected in history and in school for some that reflection may be uncomfortable my white european ancestors were colonizers on this land but by building a threshold of tolerance for difficult conversations i have found belonging and upholding the common struggle for the liberation of all people i believe it is crucial that pvc students continue to receive the ethnic student studies education that they and their teachers already love without the disruption of starting over from scratch when we are leading with curiosity we can ask why even when it's hard we can do our homework and check the facts and maybe even heal the rift that opened during the board meeting two months ago impacting teachers students and community organizations our children are our future and we need to give them the tools to succeed and think critically about the power structures they inherit i asked the board to reopen the matter of reinstating the contract with community responsive education and ask they apologize to dr tintiago kubales thank you hello i'm a faculty member in the education department at uc santa cruise also here to express my concern about the need to renew the contract with c re and to address some of the ways that the opinions are being formed and processes playing out i want to add to what's already been said tonight by sharing that we at uc santa cruise and in fact my colleagues across the state and across the country have been pointing to what's happening down here as a model of ethnic studies practice in development my work is in the area of k-12 ethnic studies i teach hundreds of students every year who are exploring careers in education and they we are collaborating with people in this area teachers teachers and specialist assignment community supporters because we are so impressed with the kind of vision that's coming out of the schools here and we really want to support what the teachers are calling for and that is the renewal of this contract and an apology to someone whose reputation has been damaged there is no evidence of antisemitism in the work of c re i'm also a jewish educator i've been paying attention to these debates since the very beginnings of talking about developing a model curriculum and uh there is somebody referred earlier to disagreement among people about the vision the truth is that among ethnic studies educators among educators who are working to get ethnic studies into the schools there is no disagreement you're not going to find other consultants who do this kind of work who have a different opinion so i want to support the teachers repair the trust that seems to have been broken with the teachers who are doing this work so that i can send my students here as future teachers and know that you'll have their back thank you that's time and our last two on this um for public comment would be nat low and gus pause hi good evening board of trustees and in terms of superintendent my name is dr nat low i'm an aptos resident i'm an aptos resident community member and a co-director for the asian american justice and innovation lab i'm here to ask that the board renew the contract of c re because that is what is best for the students of this district i understand that there are concerns around the accusations of anti-semitism but i have not seen any evidence to believe that they are grounded in reality it is said that a tree is known by its fruit a good tree produces good fruit across the many comments presented over the last few board meetings all those who have actually engaged to c re's work have been overwhelmingly positive pvusd educators have talked about getting the support that they need to create good lessons for the students student trustee romero maya said that the classes have changed her perspective on the world um president holm described her child as thriving in his ethnic studies class and community partners from what's in the heart have have described the meaningful relationship that was developed with pvusd and its students into which they have invested both time and resources in contrast the board's hasty decision to not renew the contract without doing any due diligence in investigating the evidence for anti-semitism has been incredibly disruptive throwing away two years of hard work not only by the c re team but also by the many pvusd educators involved and having to start over again in building local capacity for ethnic studies which means that students lose out it has also led to the suspension of the partnership with what's in the heart again both students and the broader community are losing out i have in the past seen this board listen to the voices of the people that it serves and reverse a bad decision made and i urge you all to do so again be the good tree that bears good fruit for the benefit of the students of this district put the c re contract back on the agenda and vote to renew it thank you good evening board of trustees uh president holmes intern uh checkman uh first i want to thank you people your speakers because these young individuals here got to see how it works and um that's pretty awesome so you're wondering why i'm here my name is gus pause i'm a wrestling coach for a long time um older than dirt this last couple of years i've been coaching at washington high school um still coach there uh my son goes to st francis so i coach at st francis now because he says if he i don't coach he doesn't wrestle but he's got to wrestle so this past year with uh the former principal consuela mason a very very nice lady i'm sad we lost her and joe manfrey let us work out with his team we bounce around a lot this past year these these individuals got to know him personally and we had an individual placed in the sections in the girls division and when she was on the platform she didn't she didn't have a warm-up and i said that's not right she's representing power of valley our schools our community i represented my community when i won state and and i wore the black and gold i still wear the black and gold so with the help of the committee uh the spring lamb we had an opportunity to put and talk to coach josh castile at watsonville said you know what let's let these kids do it so they haven't seen it so we're going to end this the open comments on a good on a good note here so they don't they haven't seen this it's going to be like christ is from so they get to see their warm-ups that they work for on that cleanup picking up garbage putting away tables putting away chairs um washing dishes i mean it was it was it was some it was work they had to work for it i was my coach my husband coach told me he goes don't look for a handout look how you can earn something the community will that's what the community wants learn the work for it don't look for a handout so coach bob on behalf of rudas here is your new warm-up for your tv high wrestling team i know i'm gonna go a little late here real quick on behalf of rudas coach bob they want to give you a pair of brand new wrestling shoes here you go start your season off right congratulations kids i think i do have to agree i think we all do that was a wonderful weight and public comment this evening on that note um moving to our employee organization uh comments now is the time that we hear from our employee organizations each organization has five minutes so i will call on 8.1 pvft our peharo valley federation of teachers welcome all right good evening board uh superintendent checkman and president holm often zoomland um as a union we believe that strong educational leadership must be grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and realities faced by educators and students in the classroom it is through this lens that effective policies and decisions are made ensuring the best possible outcomes for our educational community i've said this before we extend our gratitude to the board for ensuring that we had time to meet with eric andrews the consultant for leadership associates to share qualities we believe are valuable for the next superintendent to name some of the top five or the top five one an educator with a minimum of five years in the classroom or serving families in a certificated school position and years as a school administrator because we firmly believe that the selection of superintendent without direct school site experience sends a message about how the district values the role of educators and support staff and the importance of classroom expertise so that's administrative in addition to five years in the classroom or at a school site to bilingual and somebody who is bilingual and values the importance of bilingualism and bilingual education three has experienced teaching and utilizing curriculum curriculum four a person that is transparent and approachable with the ability to reflect and readjust and five a person who is a defender of public education pvft would like to be a part of the interview process either through the closed panel or the community process another important aspect of our federation is advocating for social justice causes in 2018 the pvft presented a resolution to protect staff and students from the health risks of agricultural pesticides at the aft national convention and then in 2021 you guys the board approved a resolution to improve pesticide safety notifications in our schools and today a fellow member a third-grade teacher melissa denis and i spoke at a rally against the use of toxic pesticides near our schools and communities lastly we want to share about one of our grievances that we are currently in with the district it's regarding our contractual right to utilize personal necessity day for a compelling personal reason this is like HIPAA in a medical office when we sign off on that it's for privacy this has been a decades long standing practice encapsulated in our contract this year human resources decided to change their interpretation of this language their decision has financially harmed a couple dozen educators some of whom have had just over 1500 dollars taken from their salary we get one paycheck a month one for the entire month this wage theft has left some struggling to pay for daycare by food pay bills and other living expenses and the long-term damage of withholding pay negatively impacts their retirement the poor treatment of employees sets this district apart and it ultimately ultimately this is at the expense of our students our families and our community because these people will no longer have trust in this district and they will leave we have fought hard the last couple of years to make our total comprehensive package in our district attractive enough to get people employed in this district this year again was the first year in many years where we did not start this school year with a bunch of vacancies and the the expense of or the lack of respect the lack of respecting our contract language has just continued to make that canyon the differences that we have greater something that we have been working hard to fix over these years so at this point the district is going to utilize public funds to figure out how to not pay its employees as opposed to just following our contract language in the decades-long practice thank you thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do we have one roddy kirkman good evening president home wherever you are board of trustees and superintendent checkman so as nely mentioned we do have a long-standing practice in this district of being able to utilize personal necessity for a compelling need that does not need to be disclosed i want to give you sort of a timeline of these events that how now they went down so our members were notified by an email from brian saxon if they had put in for a p&a on either nine one or nine five as that attached to the labor day weekend many of our members emailed brian saxon notifying him of their need to use that and disclosing their compelling reason even though that is not required none of them received a response they then went and got their paycheck at the end of september without any pay docked and with the p&a's removed as would have been past practice without any further notification from the district they then woke up on halloween to a nice trick right not a nice trick not a nice treat to having that pay docked without any single notification from the district that they would do that moving forward so not only is this building a lack this is breaking the trust there has been zero communication so far to these employees about next steps about the district's decision about how they put in those p&a's about their need for that time so i ask how does that support pvusd rising with trust joy and belief how does that build the morale and then i just want to say i'm very happy that our cwa brothers and sisters got to ratify their contract and increase that pay we know that having subs and qualified subs is a just absolute benefit in our classrooms and i want to address the deficit spending that came up because for the public deficit spending doesn't mean we're spending money we don't have we have it thank you moving on to item 8.2 csa california school employees association do we have anyone here to speak on behalf of csa good evening board of trustees and interim superintendent schekman my name is dily lemacito you all know gas pause we are both executive members for csa chapter 132 we would like to start by thanking the board for not voting to eliminate the career development specialist at a previous board meeting we appreciate you asking questions to the district and we encourage you to keep doing so our negotiations team has met with the district about a half a dozen times and they are hard at work trying to come to an agreement for the current school year they've been going back and forth on paying allowance many of our classified employees are looking for work elsewhere and we're trying to keep them here within the district we would like to acknowledge our negotiations team our team is made up of 16 classified employees representing 16 different job families our chief negotiator and president richard l martinez our historian marissa hernandez representing accounting and fiscal services email to hernandez custodial is pablo maran representing facilities and maintenance mr gas pause um food services norma sabla representing grounds rigoberto ornellas the instructional division is represented by leila vasquez support and guidance is represented by patricia bugion media is represented by christina Feldman secretary on clerical kathy benet storekeeping and supplies curtis fox technology is represented by monti matison transportation and maintenance is represented by johnnie martinez program evaluation diana martinez human resources carina run hell and we also have our labor rep buddy runzolo on the team lastly um we'd like to thank all our members for giving their best every day and for um being there for our students everybody have a great weekend thank you thank you um moving on to 8.3 pavam our prajaro valley association of managers do we have anyone here not tonight okay moving on to 8.4 cwa communication workers of associations representing our substitute teachers hey welcome good evening board of trustees interim superintendent checkman and president home i'm louis rocha the temporary administrator of cwa local 9 4 2 3 and i'm here in support of the tentative collective bargaining agreement reached october 17th with pv usd this ta was approved by over 90 percent of the bargaining unit the substitute teachers represented by cwa are an essential part of the education system and are relied on to provide staff coverage when permanent teachers aren't there supporting substitute teachers also support students and the community substitutes are also impacted by the stress and changing demands of the educational system this tentative contract is a step in the right direction that demonstrates pv usd's recognition of the critical role substitute teachers deliver daily throughout the district the increased compensation is essential in this economy i also know from direct feedback by substitutes that their professional development concerns are worthy of more discussion which we look forward to collaborating with pv usd at the appropriate times while we do have our differences i also would like to acknowledge ellison nizawa and brian saksden for their collaborative and professional approach to negotiations on behalf of substitute teachers bargaining unit i urge your support on action item 10.2 and approve the tentative agreement reach with cwa thank you thank you moving on to our report and discussion items we will move to item nine point one the merit system presentation and this report will be presented by the director of classified personnel ham shanks thank you that was quick um good evening president holm superintendent checkman and board of trustees um thank you very much for um allowing me to come here tonight and give a presentation on our merit system it's been a very long time since i've done this so um i look forward to sharing some great information with all of you tonight um so i'm going to just start with some introductions i'm pam shanks director of classified personnel i have worked in the human resources field for over 26 years working with cabrillo college the city of santa cruz paharo valley back in the early 2000s um the santa clara county office of education and then started as a director of hr here back in 2009 so i'm almost 15 years as the director um the field of human resources is challenging innovative and every day there is something new to learn and tackle which is what makes this work so rewarding i do have my personal commissioners here tonight and would like to also introduce them kasey o brian um is current the current board appointed uh commissioner and chairperson and has served in that role since august of 2022 mr o brian has over 24 years as a school administrator and has been a great asset to the personnel commission in his thoughtfulness curious questions and strong support of classified employees as he's learned more about how merit systems work in a school district kathryn griffin um is the current csa appointed commissioner and vice chair person as and has served in that role since december of 2022 ms griffin worked for the pvusd for close to 30 years as a classified employee in various roles starting as an instructional assistant in her children's classrooms um campus safety she worked in payroll and then she ended her career with the district as a staff accountant um she brings a strong work ethic thoughtful questions and an unending support of classified employees and fairness um elvia torrez is our joint appointee um and has served in that role since july of 2023 so just about six months miss torrez has over 30 years of human resources experience she worked at pvusd back in the early 2000s and continued her human resources career working for various agricultural businesses in the area miss torrez's background brings a unique perspective to the work of the personal commission um i also have an honored guest tonight he didn't want to be recognized but i'm going to do it anyway mr philip gordillo um he is here tonight as a strong supporter of merit systems throughout california um he served at the santa clara county office of education as the chief human resources officer for eight years and as the classified personnel director for over 15 years mr gordillo currently serves as the executive director for the california school personnel commissioners association which is our statewide organization um that provides a lot of support to merit districts throughout california um philip's proudest achievement is to be a 41-year classified employee i will talk later in my presentation about having a network of colleagues throughout the state being a benefit to helping merit districts be successful in this work all right so i'm going to talk a little bit um this is our agenda the i went over introductions and then we're going to talk a little bit about the history of how merit systems came to be the basic principles of merit responsibilities of the personnel commission the roles and functions of the commission relationships with the board and the commission and the union the benefits of being merit and then also um merit system resources as well so a little bit of history i'm kind and i'm going to be giving a broad overview many of the topics i'm going to talk about tonight could be a full day conversation but i'm just going to be touching on all of the highlighted areas of a merit system a person a merit system is a personal management system designed to ensure the practice and fairness and impartiality of the selection retention and promotion of classified employees and this is these are the ed codes that cover the merit system um a brief history there is a long history of how merit systems came to be in california which actually started almost a hundred years ago so while the history has been around longer than anyone in this room the tenets of why it was created are still very relevant today so a little history in the early 1930s political corruption was rampant throughout the city of los angeles patronage was prevalent at all levels of local government in the la unified school district the situation resulted in the firing and replacement of over 700 classified employees and replaced by friends and political um politicians as a result there was a reaction from the concerned citizens who petitioned the state legislature for the establishment of an independent civil service system um civil service commission for the district that personnel commission came into existence in 1936 as the first legally sanctioned personal commission in the country to administer a personal program under a merit system for non-certificated employees in a school district its primary purposes were to ensure that employees are selected for employment and promotion solely on the basis of merit and removed for just cause and not just fired arbitrarily as la unified did that year the pvusd established a merit system in 1969 so some basic principles of merit recruitment from all segments of society we're a public agency so what that means is we are looking for qualified candidates and allowing an equal opportunity to outside candidates to gain employment in a public sector organization fair and equal treatment of all personal management matters and equal pay for equal work of equal value so for example one classification the district has is a custodian the commission is charged with looking at surrounding total wages of custodians and making sure we can compete with other employers in our area for those positions and we have a hundred hundred fifty different classified positions in the district so we're always making sure that we're staying competitive some continued basic principles high standards of integrity and conduct retention of employees who perform well mechanisms in place to help correct performance of those whose work is not adequate and separating those who cannot or will not meet the required standards of the job and protection of employees from arbitrary action personal favoritism or political coercion so some responsibilities of the personnel commission the commission is charged with prescribing amending and interpreting rules necessary to ensure the efficiency of the classified service and selecting employees based on merit and fitness and there's and i'll get into that in a little bit of how we do that the personal commission rules and regulations are based on education codes the ones mentioned earlier and can be found on our personal commission website on the pvusd website the commission is also charged with appointing a personal director who shall be free from prejudgment and bias so somebody who's going to look at things follow the rules and look at things in a neutral way and then the commission is also charged with preparing an annual budget for its office which upon approval from the county superintendent of schools is included in the governing board budget and again that there's a process for that which we'll talk about a little bit too i'm not going to read all of this but there are a lot of rules and the rules and regulations and i'm just going to highlight a few recruitment is a big one for classified so that involves applications examinations eligibility lists of the most qualified candidates appointments and promotions of employees the another item is job analysis and job descriptions as the board knows i've brought job descriptions here before there's a piece that the board looks at and a piece that the personal commission has authority over the merit system education code was established before collective bargaining so every area of classified employment at one point fell within the merit system once collective bargaining became came about in the 1960s those areas that are negotiable would be covered under the collective bargaining agreement and would take precedent over the merit rules the merit rules do cover all classified employees in the district though so that also includes classified management confidential and professional services which are outside of the collective bargaining agreement the the commission is also charged with preparing an annual budget for its office and some of those areas that the budget covers are testing software examination creation software our annual membership dues to cspca which is our state organization advertising and recruiting and commission staff training each year cspca holds an annual conference that is relevant to staff management and commissioners if any board members are interested we are actually holding our upcoming annual conference in march of 2024 and it will be held in Monterey so it's here very locally this year philip and i are actually both on the planning committee for that conference and the committee works really hard to provide high quality speakers with current and relevant topics to the work that we're doing today so personal commission rules and functions there's eight major items again i'm just going to briefly touch on these the rules and regulations ensure the selection and retention of employees is based on merit and fitness they are binding on the board of education as they pertain to the classified service they ensure an efficient workforce and again not applicable to bargaining unit members if the area is within the realm of negotiations another item that they oversee is classification classification is a process used to define or redefine jobs based on duties assigned by management as i brought to the board before when administration wants to create a new job description or update a job description i'm given the task of creating that class specification or job description the personnel commission has the responsibility under education code to prepare that class description and determine the title minimum qualification so we can conduct examinations and designate the salary placement on the appropriate salary schedule so they can ensure internal alignment under board direction administration prescribes those duties and responsibilities of all positions in the classified service and the duties are discussed with the union as well ultimately the commission approves the final class description typically classification is a result of job audits interviews are questionnaires completed by incumbents and supervisors the commission is charged with creating a development of hierarchies of jobs so we have job families that maybe have career ladders in them where jobs have increasingly response increasing responsibility so they're charged with making sure that positions with increasing responsibility within a job family are paid appropriately and then ultimately it results in a final class description to allow us to recruit and also to administer our exams the next one is salary the commission recommends the initial salary allocation for classifications again to maintain that internal hierarchy and then the way they do that is by surveying prevailing wage in both the private and public sector for in order for management and unions to use that in collective bargaining the next area is recruitment and selection this is kind of the meat of what we do examinations are administered objectively and consist of test parts that relate to the job performance so we're testing people for the work that we're going to be asking them to do we have different types of recruitment that we conduct promotional or open promotional what that means is promotional would be a position would only be available to current classified employees typically a higher level position if we have a broad enough applicant pool to in order to do just a promotional exam or open and promotional where open means it would be open to the public to submit an application and that we're also publicizing the upcoming recruitments and exams that we have and that we're marketing the district as a positive employer again recruitment and selection we're developing job related selection procedures that produce lists of eligible who have taken the exam and that they've been successful in expressing their knowledge skills and abilities to having to do with that particular job we conduct job analysis with our supervisors we do meet with our supervisors to go over our exam process to make sure that it's meeting their needs one example that we've done in the recent years as we've changed to a google platform and we weren't doing our exams with google and so we moved to that so that we could be attracting and getting candidates who had that experience and skill so that they could hit the job running when they were hired all right so assignments is another area on the commission has authority over and that all vacancies in the classified service are filled from eligibility lists so everyone hired into a permanent position in our district needs to have gone through an exam process and be placed on that eligibility list and that applicants are meeting the minimum qualifications based on their training and experience as determined by the commission in that job description and appointments are made from the first three ranks as well that's in ed code and then performance evaluation is another area that there are commission rules around where we administrators evaluate classified employees on their second fourth and fifth months they serve 130 days of probation which is around six months and then we also evaluate our classified employees annually for our permanent employees and those are due in march of each year and then the last area is disciplinary appeals so when disciplinary action whether it's suspension without pay demotion or dismissal all of those affect an employee's property right which is their job and affects their income if an action is taken by the board of education against a classified employee the employee has an additional appeal right to the personnel commission and the personnel commission's decision is binding in that at the end of that case relationships and understanding and building relationships and stakeholders the board and commission are administrative bodies created by statute and are responsible with separate powers expressly conferred by the legislature just just understanding what those different areas are and how they work together and that the board and the commission are part of a whole personal commission rules and regs support the district's mission and maintain the principles of the merit system at the same time and building relationships again i want to thank you for the opportunity to come here tonight to to share some more information about the personnel commission having the board attend personnel commission meetings if you're available we hold them once a month typically the third thursday of the month sometimes that may change and having the personnel commission attend board meetings like tonight i'm holding a joint meeting such as this one to provide information to the board about the roles of each body and keeping in mind that both bodies are part of the district's mission which is student achievement relationship takeaways that again that the board and the commission and administration have certain roles and responsibilities and that we work collaboratively together and and honor those different roles and responsibilities and this is just a a chart that um has been around for a while and sort of describes a few different areas i was just going to touch on a couple um the under the in the middle where it says establishes openings the board has the authority to determine how many custodians we need to have in the district the commission doesn't decide how many people that we hire but instead they conduct recruit and test and then the district determines how many people we're actually going to have to do that role and then the commission certifies and eligible candidates that have tested and then the district is the hiring authority the board is the hiring authority not the commission so it's just a couple areas that i wanted to touch on and the benefits of being a merit system um i think the first one for me really sums it up it's designed to ensure the practice of fairness and impartiality and the selection retention and promotion of classified employees and you can read through the rest but i feel like that one um is what really um for me is what really embodies um the merit system and lastly um merit system resources um cspca as i mentioned that's the california school personnel commissioners association is our statewide organization um merit system dot org is a great website with lots of information on it um there are three different associations in northern california southern california and san diego i've been serving on the northern california board for i think about the past three four years and served as a director at large and then vice president and currently i'm president of the northern california association the cspca also offers a merit academy which is you just saw a very brief overview of what the commission is about that's a very deep dive into um what the merit system and personnel commission are all about it's about an eight session eight three hour sessions um over zoom um it's held once a year with amazing speakers and really some great information um the annual conference is also coming up as i mentioned that's in march march third fourth and fifth um in monorail and the cspc also has an email communication group with other districts and directors and commissioners um if we're facing an issue and we're trying to see what other districts are doing we have a group that we can email and gather more information and connect with other folks and then of course um other resources the merit system rules and regulations as i mentioned are on our website the california ed code the collective bargaining agreement and of course board policy and that's my presentation i was going to ask um the commissioners if they would like to come up and say just a brief word of why they um if they want why they decided to be on the commission and serve in that role and then i'm happy to answer any questions that the board has all right good evening board mr sheppman uh nice to see you all of my pam said i've been um an administrator for a number of years and a teacher um 20 years here in the district for new members that don't know me i'm proud to be a former pvust person my kids went through our schools and i still live in the neighborhood and so i was happy to serve um being on the certificated side i didn't know much about the merit system so it's been a really interesting process um and i have to say i really believe in the merit system not all districts use it and so i'm proud that pvust is doing that um i learned a ton and it was super interesting um and i have to say that i really respect miss shanks and the work that she's done she has a huge depth of knowledge from her experience um taught us commissioners a ton um and knows a lot of folks around the state and has just done a lot of research and a lot of professional development um and could easily teach a lot of classes on it so it's just been very interesting i appreciate giving back to the community um didn't do it for the money um we give our money back to the uh to the scholarship program anyway the little bit that we get but yeah it was just great experience i appreciate the opportunity to do that my session is or my my uh service is over in december so um y'all will be able to pick somebody else but um i've appreciated serving and i appreciate miss shanks and the work that she's done for us thank you mr oprah kathryn griffin also new to the commission this year um and yes pam has been a pleasure and she has worked really hard with us um i was able to participate in the merit academy and watched philip over zoom and learned a lot through the process of the year uh i felt that it was really important to have a member of the commission who had actually come up through the ranks as a classified employee um i've done a lot of different classified jobs worked with a lot of different people and i think that adds to what we can bring to the positions um i look forward to going forward i know we're going to have another new member but i think that we're developing a really great team and appreciate being able to work with you the board because you know this is definitely something we do in tandem so thank you hello everybody my name is elvia torres and i am a product of pv usd i grew up in this community i went to haul the district paharo valley paharo school and then watseville high so i live in the community this is my way to give back um i want to be an example to everybody in my community and i've known pam for some time and as she shared i also worked with pv usd 20 25 years ago that's a long time ago but i worked on the class of on the certificated side not on the classified side so um i'm here to um assist with my human resource background which with um whatever i can so thank you for having me so i'm able to answer any questions if the board has any questions thank you um do we have any public speakers to this item we do not okay seen none i'll bring it back to the board for any discussion from the board trustee to serve it pam shanks i didn't know you were serving as the president of the association that's that's big stuff for about two days now right thank you pam that was a really informative presentation um for those of us who have worked in county government or places with merit system i think we're all well aware one of my questions i have though is when people apply sometimes if they don't put the exact language that's like posted in the job announcement they don't sometimes screen in for jobs that's been my experience in county services do you find that here are do so like when when people apply for jobs if they don't use the exact language right in the job description so i'm just wondering how we handle that yeah so you know we um do accept applications through ed join and um with the difficulties of recruiting over the last handful of years one of the things that we are doing is um taking in resumes as well with the application so if the there's information maybe that isn't included because the application only has the last three employers too so we're also really looking for um some broader experience so if somebody can show us in their resume um that they have the experience that's related to the job that they're applying for then they would be screened in so we're definitely trying to broaden that more than being so restrictive that's great thank you mm-hmm any other comments from the board thank you for this presentation very informative i'd like to attend one of your meetings sometime i'll get myself free on a thursday sure i'll start including the board on um the agendas that i put out so that you know when the meetings are happening they take place in the hr conference room so they're here in this office anyone else um doctor home oh okay okay okay thank you thank you for letting us know so no other comments well um i will say thank you very i agree very informative um presentation appreciative of that and i was just gonna ask you what you've already just told trust people on a scale if you could start including the board on those communications out you said it's usually the third thursday you get there could be some changes with that and would did you say what time uh five o'clock five o'clock okay so yeah if you could and you how advanced do you send those out a week like three days yeah so we we also follow the brown act um just like the board is so i usually send them out monday evening right at five o'clock um which is three days prior to when the meeting takes place perfect so that's when we can be trying to watch for those yes okay yeah and it's a schedule very much i mean you said there could be um it's generally a thursday sometimes it can be the second thursday the third thursday it's kind of depends but i on our website the the uh schedule of meetings through um i do them july through june uh is on our website as well so you can always um take a peek there i can also send that to the board so that they're aware of when the meetings are and then um but like i said sometimes they do change around depending on the commissioner's availability oh so it sounds like we're on the beginning of july you set the calendar for that for july through june for july through june yes yeah and we pretty much stick to them as close as we can sure unless some conflict comes up okay wonderful thank you again for your report you're welcome have a lovely evening oh well you're gonna be back sorry you're not going anywhere i'm sorry a teaser okay moving on to item nine point two student services report on wellness and this report will be presented by christy mclayne coordinator of counseling programs oh and mrs gary good evening president home board trustees and in terms superintendent um mr schekman i'm just kicking it off really quickly because i'm very excited and proud of the work that student services is doing in terms of wellness um it is estimated that over 85 percent of students um uh teens have some type of mental disorder at this time the work that we're doing in pvusd is remarkable work and one of our flagship sites is cesar chavez middle school which we'll hear about this evening who has tier one in place and then the wellness space which you started to hear about um i just checked the data to look at outcomes of our students i looked at four indicators and with all of the middle schools including the junior high uh cesar chavez has the lowest rate of suspensions as an in accordance with um their enrollment they have the they have the students indicated that they are the happiest in the district and they have the highest average gpa so all of these are great outcomes for our students and i attribute to the work that we're doing with the socio-emotional work on the school site so without further ado i'm going to hand it over to mrs. mclayne good evening thank you uh president home board of trustees and superintendent schekman um let me push play on this timer because time changed too so what time is it um so i'm happy to present today to talk about whole childhood family whole community and really this the the current student services journey um across uh pvusd in this realm most of the work that we're doing is embedded in el cap number six climate and culture creating a culture where all adults provide a safe supportive and positive school environment as well as el cap number seven family engagement so through this presentation i'm going to talk about three parts um this is our student services journey and we have only just begun this is our journey for the last few years i'm going to first just talk about the family engagement wellness center um that opened on december 21 i will be talking about the grant that i am currently working in sb hip and then i'm going to just speak a moment to um a third grant that student services is starting to work on on july 1st just so that you can kind of see the rounded picture so first of all um family engagement and wellness center so um i was fortunate enough in december 2021 when we opened the family engagement wellness center to be a part of that onboarding part of working with the partners the design and that was really the foundation of increasing our connection to all of our community partners and ensuring that we have wraparound services for our students and our families you know we have the food bank we have um a clinician on there we have salud para la gente in there now they even have the mobile van we have um case managers also from pvpsa in there we have our healthy start the point of the the family engagement wellness center is that families and students when they need something they go to the family engagement wellness center and we can can help support them in connecting to that community partner instead of having to send them all around town we can do the connecting right there in that space and so one of the the important things to recognize about the family engagement wellness center is that is where one of our behavioral health um and students support referral systems originated so with the family engagement wellness center is where we we introduced a digital referral system a digital closed loop referral system where we could reach out to the multitude of resources in the community and that usage has grown from the the family engagement at wellness center and so um and here are some of our partners and also i put a link in here i know you don't have this link per se but we can resend it if you like that is the update that mr. slider um did about the numbers of the family engagement wellness center and so i do um wanted to put that there if people wanted to look at that uh to go back and see those those updates and uh mr. ben slider is doing a wonderful job um continuing the the supports for families and expanding partnerships at the family engagement wellness center so then i'm going to move on to the the espihib um behavioral health wellness program grant so very quickly and i'm just going to speak to a couple points of here so that you could understand this two million dollar grant that we're in the process of doing it is um part of california's uh children and youth behavioral health initiative california is really moving towards trying to center schools as places for wellness so with that there's multiple grants going out the espihib is this incentive grant to sort of help schools um rebuild their behavior health programs to match some of the goals california is in the the um in the middle of trying to reimagine and transform the systems that support behavioral health for california's children and they know the place to do that is in the schools if we want the kids to have the services we bring it to the schools so this is a one-time expenditure grant um we received the the nearly two million dollar grant we were selected by the county and by the um central california alliance for health as the district to do this work because we were prepared with our staffing more than other county districts and today we just had our espihib check-in meeting and the uh central california alliance for health who is working with other counties in this same grant we're very impressed with how far along we are and how we're meeting these milestones this is a milestone grant meaning you have the the plans that we set for it as we meet them then we get another check so the objectives for this grant with pbsd are mainly approving access and coordination with community partners making sure we're addressing those individual student needs with the appropriate level of support it allows us to increase complementary services we want to build on our multi-tiered systems of support and strengthen the the strengths of how those multi-tiered systems of support teams at our schools are operating to that they are identifying and matching the correct intervention with students and it expands our commitment to the whole child the whole family in the whole community and again going back to the family engagement and wellness center where we have all those wraparound services it does leverage those relationships that we've already built and the digital referral system that we utilize to reach all the partners and give all the schools the same access so the in this grant there targeted interventions and we polled counselors we polled mental health clinicians and then we worked with our partners and the california central alliance for health to pick from about 14 lists of interventions produced by the state and we chose behavioral health wellness programs behavioral health screening and referrals and building stronger partnerships to increase access to medical services today i'm only going to address behavioral health and wellness programs and we developed these plans earlier with our santa cruz county office of ed partners and pvpsa so the main focus of this one project plan there's three big project plans in this grant is really the creation of dedicated wellness spaces the expansion of training programs piloting some new interventions so increasing that intervention list especially the middle interventions a tier two and adding as many new partners from the community that we could access as possible we know it's going to take a lot of folks and a lot of resources to make sure that we can be here for our students and give them the the supports that they deserve so some of the elements here for this behavioral health wellness program portion of the grant student wellness spaces at school sites those are those those social emotional focused behavioral health wellness sites expanding training curriculum increasing our mtss services and programs and also promoting mental health well-being and reducing stigma and anything that we can fill any partner that we can find to help fill current service service gaps so outcomes we're expanding facilities more range more access to services building small groups really building the capacity of our adults we know we can't just rely on counselors we need all the adults on the campuses to know that they have a way to connect with the student and be their first student so let's get to the good part wellness spaces so the pvusd wellness spaces as outlined in the sp hip grant and here's a picture of cesar shavas i'll show you another picture in a moment um are based around this this idea of supports for all supports for some and supports for more intensified supports tier one tier two and tier three so in this ideal space that is outlined in the grant there is a space where all students are welcome like a bigger room where all students are welcome and connected is a room where you could have your small group or they might call tier two interventions and as well having co-located connected right there um one-on-one offices for those intensified tier three supports all of the wellness services in one space but that tier one space is really the space that is transformational so having a space where all students are welcome where they can learn coping skills decompress check in with themselves feel safe so that is the part that is really making some impact um the assistant superintendent of secondary spoke to some of the outcomes at cesar shavas i'm gonna look to show you some of the visits here at cesar shavas number one they had the counselors who are so dedicated their Veronica Fernandez and Angelica Flores when we started designing this space um they knew it was a good idea to go and bring all the teachers through and make sure that they're they're touring the space with the students so the students know how to use the space what the space was about and the teachers knew as well because principal benavidas has made a very strong clear expectation of social emotional learning on that site as evidenced by their son to grow data the teachers and the students understood how to use that anew when it said well when you're feeling this way you can go here to check in so they have the components to actually produce some results pretty quickly so when they first get to the space the the students and teachers have this and students they check in on a computer this is their little sign that they see so from class they're allowed to get a pass from the teacher if they need to sort of reconnect or need to refocus or you know they're noticing that they're not connecting with the with what's happening in class and they need a short break so they can go to the wellness space again here they named it peace pod so they had that the the students name it the teachers and the parents on back to school night got to be part of the naming process and then they stay for about 15 minutes that's the time limit that this the school decided on and then they get a pass to go back to class the counselors have been so happily surprised that the kids just go back they say okay it's 15 minutes and they say okay and they go back to go access their education they've had their moment to reconnect refocus and they happily just go back this is an example from our son to grow data of what a student said about the space this our son to grow one aspect of the son to grow social emotional platform is where there's a weekly reflection where students can reflect and write about something and this question this week was tell us about something going on at school and as you could see it's something that welcomes every student and teacher at the school it makes us feel more connected to everyone and relieves many things off our shoulders what a gift and that's just one student for me even just one student feeling that way is feels to me pretty monumental but here at Cesar Chavez so far since august 30th we've had 2,000 800 i'm sorry 2,426 visits to their wellness space and trustee floris you saw the space there right um this is exciting now it is also open at lunch and break and students do like to be there in lunch and break when we disaggregated the data it's 298 unique students have accessed that space throughout different times of the day that's 55 percent of the students that's more than half of the students at Cesar Chavez have accessed and utilized their wellness space that's transformational so instead of of the the amount that this reduces of students having to hold in whatever's going on feel alone and maybe not even feel alone not know what they're feeling act out disengage miss the learning those instances reduce they reduce when we can train we can help teach our students to be okay with their feelings know they can manage them and get reconnected to the goals that they have and especially their education i'm also showing you a picture of lakeview middle school so lake i'm way over time so i'm going to go super fast right now lakeview middle school is um one of the sites that it does not have the co-located yet but it has the tier one space um what's wonderful there they have four counselors that are taking turns um in there on certain days and greeting the students and logging what they're there to visit for the next year is the hope to attach the co-located small group and one to one space and hear some data for for them eight hundred and thirty eight visits to their wellness space 147 unique for power middle school 75 unique for lakeview middle school that's 51 percent of the power middle school students have utilized that wellness space 18 percent of lakeview middle school what's great we don't know exactly why those are different but we have the data and we can start in we can investigate and we can make sure that we're um uh that we're reaching out to all the students and informing all the students as best as we can and that the teachers also to see where they're at in understanding the full utilization of the wellness space this is a chart of visiting for needing a um a safe space or a break versus one-to-one counseling for that site and here is almost I am sold out I'm sold out of elementary also has a wellness space they don't have as much staffing so the data is much less this is an example of a social emotional counselor providing a social emotional learning lesson for the students um teachers can bring kids in there but also kids are just coming in and checking in in elementary school they're learning to come and say I need a break they get there I was looking at the time logs they're staying 15 minutes and going back to class reconnected refocused able to feel good about themselves able and able to engage in education they did a school naming process as well and they called it they call it the send in this is just an example in this same project plan one of the components besides building wellness spaces is training our adults multiple adults to be able to be there for students these are the many different things that we're training folks to and this is the goal of the the training that will be finished by December 2024 this is our goal of training all of our adults in our campuses some plans by next year we're hoping to open these at three of the high schools we're going to expand a middle school and elementary um and the last part the as I did the I said we do the art you've already heard about the grant dr. akaras has been up here talking to you about the the next grant that's coming that will focus on attendance behavior social emotional learning and family engagement um the student services team and dr. akaras are planning now for that july kickoff and thank you for um hearing about the journey that has just begun about how we were hoping to transform and empower our youth to connect have a sense of belonging and have the tools to really engage with their education as best as possible any questions thank you uh do we have any public speakers to this item we do not okay i will bring it back to the board for discussion um and or comments questions trust sorry trusty floors i just like to start by saying yes i was able to go to the caesar chavez uh wellness and it was amazing i if that's going to be the model for our other schools and i think it was great i'd love to see how the kids can you know on their own decide i need a break right now and they have this amazing place where they can come and get that support um i love that the social emotional counselor and academic counselor are right there um connected to the space so they can you know if if a child's you know just struggling with this with the work at that time it just needs to step away because they're upset with themselves for not understanding it if they go there and they have the academic counselor maybe they can because then if it's you know something else if it's a social emotional reason then they i just i thought that was really great and i loved how they were saying that in the morning you know the kids that get there early for breakfast club you know they come in there and it breaks and lunch and so it's it's created a space now for belonging and so yeah i really really thought it was a great model thank you thank you trusty floors trusty bolanos go yes thank you for this presentation um just a question about the roll out to the middle schools and what kind of funding are we providing for these wellness centers is it's going to be presumably equitable for all of our high schools and middle schools or is that kind of grant dependent can you just talk about the specifics of that it is grant dependent um we have a consultant that i've been working with that same consultant that actually worked with us to open the family engagement and wellness center um and so we are assessing sites to see um if there are certain components the components that are there first the bonus of cesar shaves there was two major things that cesar shaves had going on for them number one um they already were um utilizing son to grow and had a strong basis of social emotional learning as an expectation around that campus um those two powerful counselors are very good collaborators and the space itself we had to do a lot of uh everybody pitched in m&o um sort of fixing it up but there was no construction that was needed because it already had the the couple offices it had a bigger office that was perfect for the small groups and it has that one office um with the window which really helps if two people are in the office the counselor so can see if a student comes in it just had the the perfect layout same with unsoldo the it had the layout to be able to have two and one so you know we know that there are different um different readiness levels at the schools and so we're continually just checking their their social emotional learning competencies as being something pushed around the school and the physical capabilities of how we can make this space as best as possible to match the grant and how the um the mtss team and their their counseling team is uh working efficiently to be able to provide those services and so if we think if the if that site thinks they can keep that door open um all day that's also a good factor how much money is it per like that's just a job it's how much money are they getting for that site that one i think we spent around 37 000 and that's like mostly on furniture uh at the grant is um 1.94 million dollars to do multiple things but this part of the project is uh 60 percent of it so i don't have the exact number but 60 percent of 1.94 is for this part of the grant well my hope would be that we would try to find a way to get that to rolling hills and eahaw as well oh yeah i know they they're starting to have a center but don't have money for furniture right now yeah there's a reason for that but yeah so we are we have been assessing those schools we've been to both of those schools to assess for space and certain things our hope is to put them in all those schools it's in our student trustee um i just wanted to say thank you for this really cool presentation i mean i think this is amazing because we know that the social emotional support is the root to students success um i also um i look forward to seeing how this looks at different sites and um how students can grow from this kind of support um and i was wondering if student input is like taken into consideration for the development of these spaces thank you for asking that um so far we've pulled some students about the different types of furniture and that is one of the components as we roll them out at the high schools to have a survey to send to the students and get that student feedback so i definitely will be utilizing your expertise if you don't mind and how you think the best way to elicit that feedback from your peers thank you anyone else just needed surpa this is super exciting so we have so many initiatives happening right now for student wellness so let can i just ask some questions so that i can keep it all straight what what we're doing sure okay so this is lc ssp a grant of 1.94 million dollars through behavioral health so this one is espihip um i'm this the one i just complained about i complained about surely not complaining um uh this middle one is espihip and the next one what is that dr alcaraz what does that stand for oh i didn't tell you it's learning community espihip stands for student behavioral health incentive program and that's through the state department of behavioral health yes okay so how is that different than the wellness centers that we've already established on our comprehensive high schools is it different it's different right it it is different there are so these are these are um wellness spaces and it's true we did like when i was at watsonville high school we said okay we need a space so i found a classroom and miss nunez went and found a bunch of resources and we built a wellness room just kind of sort of like right so it with the partnerships with the community that's what i'm talking about with salute and oh so that is you're talking about the family engagement wellness center yeah so the way something totally different this is different because this is some of the same elements exist well these are like behavioral health social emotional focused okay on the school site specific to the school site and the students the family engagement and wellness center is wraparound services um that helps us connect our families and our students to every community partner resources yeah whether they need rent whether they need food whether they need any of those things so so that's a that's a bit more that's so tell me tell me the schools that this is going into so we have caesar chavez what else so the ones that it's at right now yeah we have and so though right we have caesar chavez uh-huh and we have um lake view has the tier one um section of it and will there is there a proposal to to open more or is that yes yes and our hope is by the end of next year yeah the the hope is we'll do all the high schools and we're hoping we can do all the middle schools so we'll do pahoro middle i hope i've already toured um pahoro middle with um mno to look at space yeah space and we're going to start inviting the the the folks to come and look at that space and this will go into aptos junior high as well we have done an assessment at aptos high as well aptos junior and we did an assessment at aptos junior high that's great okay and then is there a secondary grant that will help us continue to operate or is it just this there is we are working with santa cruz county who wants to also really help us complete this and so they have some offerings of some grants but nothing is signed yet as well and i can come back at another time to show you the the slides of the multiple um grants and initiatives that california is rolling out so there's going to be lots and lots of opportunity i get the emails so i see them um and so i saw in here pvpsa and encompass so why would we encompass i mean i understand it's the biggest non-profit in the county but why wouldn't we use our own local pvpsa to help deliver some of these services oh we do we then why isn't encompass on the list because we also use encompass the more resort we use monarch um we also use salud para la gente for behavioral health services as well especially if a student is a already a client of salud para la gente we and they need behavioral health services then we will hook them up so that they are at least being seen by their their same doctor and they're sharing that information are we hiring any new positions off of any of this um grant money no we're just using partners okay we're using partners and there's other things that i can so increasing the access to partners plus some of the systems that i didn't talk about in here of how california is transforming uh behavioral health especially in the schools i have lots of opportunities for schools to um create some reimbursable items okay so i would like to tell you i just read a study that's evidence-based that showed that kids that run or people that run have um just as good a result of people who take antidepressants so in st louis missouri where i went to graduate school the school district and the county partnered it was a public private not the county school district and i think private people um partnered and they built this unbelievable workout like venue so it had like an olympic sized pool it's got an unbelievable workout space and kids could exercise there during the day all the different schools filtered in and and add their kids train there and then at night it was open to the public and on weekends i would love to see us do something like that because that would that would be a center for wellness too yeah um and we actually at caesars shop as we talked about how we could use that that's part of why we put the yoga station over there because they said some kids like to exercise and they have a punching bag in there too and in one of the little corners because it helps the kids and then we are looking at the outside we just got some some picnic tables for the outside but how we could put some of that kind of equipment you know that use the really nice sort of workout equipment that you see in parks like how can we put that near some of these wellness centers because we know that that um you know taking care of your body does take care of your overall well-being you know sometimes those are the times that we're that we slow down enough to check in with ourselves thanks it was a great presentation very exciting yeah very exciting lots of stuff happening the state of california around this i hope to come back and talk about more in the next semester any other questions comments thoughts from anyone else well chris i just i want to thank you yet for the very thorough presentation i appreciate that um i several of the questions i was pondering in my head got answered with trustee to surface questions from you um especially the clarity of the differences of the programs right um and there was one that you had mentioned i just wanted to clarify when you said partnering or working with santa cruz county santa cruz county office of education i just want to i met santa cruz county office of education okay i just wanted to clarify because we have other partnerships with santa cruz county as well as santa cruz county office of education so i just wanted to clarify no no no um i appreciate it again thank you very thorough presentation i am not going to wish you a lovely and good evening because you're coming back oh yeah thank you thanks okay moving on to our action items we will start with item 10.1 the appointment in terms of personnel commission members announcement of candidate for board appointed seat and this report will be presented by our director of classified human resources pam shanks good evening again um the item before you tonight is the item where the board um publicly announces the name of the person it attends it intends to appoint for the upcoming vacancy as you heard earlier mr kasey o bryan will not be serving another term he did turn in his resignation so in order to review those interested a subcommittee of the board was established to review the interested candidates and it was the recommendation of the subcommittee to move miss ester morillo forward as the board's candidate to fill the upcoming three-year term which will expire in 2026 um she's actually here where is she there she is you want to come up miss morillo has worked for the worked for the pv usd she retired um for over 30 years and is a strong proponent of the merit system and fairness for classified employees um she's active in the watsonville community having volunteered with the relay for life organization for the past 18 years and continues to volunteer for fundraising events for various nonprofit organizations in the area she looks forward to the opportunity to serve her community and ensure the continued success of the merit system in our district um she will make a great addition as a personal commissioner um at a future this is the announcement tonight of who you um the board is announcing as their appointee um uh in december there will actually be a public hearing held at that point the appointment is actually made so the ed code does say that there does need to be a little bit of time between the announcement and the public hearing and appointment um so that will come back to the board at a december meeting um so this evening i do ask the board to publicly announce miss morillo as the board appointee to the personnel commission i'm honored and excited uh to continue to serve pv usd of appointed and to also serve our community and the students that we serve thank you very much okay so um do we have any um public speakers to this item we do not okay seen none i will bring it back to the board for any discussion from the board questions or comments trustee bolanos yeah i think ester morillo is an excellent choice uh and i'm looking forward to seeing the personal commission in action but a great choice thank you for applying thank you for all of your service to our district and your continued service so i'd like to make a motion uh if you need a motion we do to uh to approve this announcement of ester morillo i'll second congratulations well i guess we haven't voted yet but thank you um ester for um volunteering to be part of the personnel commission we really appreciate your service here in all the years in the district and as well uh stepping forward for this honor thank you trustee bolanos gallon and trustee serpa trustee dodge jr i also like to support this nomination you know ester morillo has dedicated many years to this district she had children that went to this district i know she eats and breathes pvc the city of wassa all the power all unified power value unified school district the organizations the non-profits you know thank you for applying and i look forward to supporting this agenda thank you trustee floris sure i would just like to say thank you also for your service to our community and applying for this position and i look forward to seeing the um personnel commission in action chesty soto welcome aboard ester i know you're a firecracker i know your history we've uh our previous uh work relationship um but uh you're a good choice for this and i know you'll fight for the classified because uh i know you're always looking out for their best interests and you know they they need a good voice and a powerful voice so welcome aboard well i will just tie up the comments and say you know just when you thought you were done with us and retired we just pulled you back in didn't we um and i i agree with everything that's been said i think you're the perfect candidate i know you will um represent our classified school employees um very well and i am honored to be in this position to be supporting you here tonight so welcome i think i got a call vote so we have a first and second all those in favor i opposed hearing none the vote passes 601 welcome ester moving on to item 10.2 approved tentative agreement salary schedule and public disclosure with communication workers of america this report will be presented by our assistant superintendent of hr allison niezawa thank you board of trustees um superintendent checkman i like to invite louis up with me if he would it is his birthday and he stayed here and spent his birthday with us to approve this very important agenda item yes i just want to echo what louis said earlier in the cwa public comment portion of the night i i really appreciate he came out of retirement to take over this charter in san jose and so did one of his colleagues and i really appreciate their leadership and their collaboration with us their communications workers of america and so they do a lot in the private sector and they do this little sublet of our substitutes in the education system so i really appreciate that louis has experience but their all their other two administrators really trusted us to help explain how school districts work and how this impacts some members that they're trying to represent so i really appreciate that i'm also proud of the ta that we came up with i think with the increase of wages as we know we need to attract and keep subs in our district they're a vital component of our operations and we also put in place some items that their membership of his has been asking for with regards to getting to tier two a little bit quicker so we went down from two years to one year it was previously three so we've we've even ratcheted down the last few years um we have supplemental pay rates for them for both working in long-term sub positions and like attending back to school night and whatnot as well as working in the after school program and then some other pieces just about their working their workload when we have them in long-term sub positions they wanted to be kind of seen as needing that prep period because they are taking on long-term sub positions and so they're included in that rotation and we decided on an hourly rate for them similar to what we do with pvft so i respectfully request that you approve the ta and the public disclosure tonight so that we can move forward in the process do we have any public speakers to this item we do not all right seeing none i will bring it back to the board for discussion any questions comments i need to make a motion to approve i have a motion to approve do we have a second i'll second and thank you both for your work and welcome and happy birthday anyone else happy birthday perfect well happy birthday and thank you for being here and sorry we had to keep you so late um this evening but thank you for being here um so we have first and the second so i'll call the vote all those in favor aye aye any opposed no it vote carry 601 thank you we're fine moving on to item 10.3 approval approved provisional internship permit request for certificated employee report this report will be presented by our director of human resources mr. brian saxon good evening vice president costa interim superintendent schekman and board members my name is brian saxon i'm the director of certificated for human resources and i come to you tonight with a request for you to approve a provisional internship permit for mr jason b and carti he's a special education teacher at a mesti he's almost done with his intern requirements but needs just a little bit of a gap here to to finish that up so this pip provisional internship permit allows me to do that so i respectfully request that you would approve this thank you thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not see none i will bring it back to the board for discussion for questions comments i'd like to make a motion to approve this provisional internship permit perfect i have a first you have a second i second perfect any further discussion from the board see none i'll call for the vote all those in favor aye any opposed none seen so the motion passes 601 thank you very much moving to item 10.4 pb usd and cabrillo college partners and pb usd high school college and career centers this report will be presented by our coordinator of counseling programs we welcome back christie mclean thank you board of trustees superintendent checkman and i think president holm is still around over there um no oh okay um so i'm gonna you've seen these slides before uh in the past this has been approved already the partnership with cabrillo and the placement of um student support specialists in our college and career centers at the comprehensive high schools so through the k-12 strong worst workforce program grant it's a cte focused grant that's paired with community colleges there is various funding and the funding for these positions come out of that grant but they're a shared partnership because we have that grant with the uh with cabrillo college so um this has been approved in the past these uh the positions that were dreamed up and i think you've heard the story before or oh this isn't the story one this is a different one but so the the hope is to increase access to community college whether that be for dual enrollment or even just for post-secondary choices because we know how many students if they get to uh any post-secondary choice if it's a community college and they are guided well through that process they will get to the university and it um increases our positive outcomes for our students so um again these are aptos pv and watsonville high school it's a full time position that is hired by cabrillo but they're in our college and career centers working right next to our ucsc partners that are helping students through eaop and gear up um and it's really just to sort of expand the services we provide students we want a student to walk into college career center and whatever their choices may be that they're going to get as much support as possible to get to that post-secondary choice um and as we are increasing the college and career centers to have more access for students we have these partners are all in there and we have just recently last year we added digital nest as also one of the partners inside our college career centers and in many of our college and career centers we also have our migrant programs too so we want to be able to service our students um and in all the different needs that they have to ensure their success so this portion and i'll just read that first paragraph if you have not read it is really about the amount of money that is not coming from the general fund but it's to approve the ssa to have these positions in partnership with cabrillo this mo you was approved on june 8th 2022 for the the exact partnership and this is just the next part to approve the ssa so that we can continue to have these student support specialists in our college and career center supporting our students questions yes do we have any public speakers to this item we do not see none i'll bring it back to the board any questions comments trustee funds so you mentioned that this is um the the positions are being funded by cabrillo they're just utilizing our space um so what exactly does this budget that says unbudgeted but it would come from a grant you said correct so um if i misspoke i apologize it's it's the positions are being funded in partnership from the grant and the grant awards both pvusd and cabrillo money to expand all of their programming especially those cte pathways and it's um so one of the outlining targets in the grant is to increase the the cabrillo enrollment and one way to do that is to ensure that we have a cabrillo supports student support specialist right in our schools because truth of the matter is you know our counselors at our schools always want to help our students with that but they don't always know all of the pathway and their first priority does have to be the students right in front of them and their their high school um success so this was the the idea that came up collaboratively to make sure that we can service the students okay i think it's a great idea and of course you know would look but just to do our due diligence so what exactly is this almost 300 000 going to as you mentioned that it's for the site service agreement so that's to pay the for the three um for the three site um student support specialists because we have one at aptos one at wastrel high school and one at pd high school and that is for the three years the next three years so that's separate from the position that cabrillo will be that you said cabrillo would be paying so and i apologize um because i am definitely i am a part of running the college and career center and making sure that we have the vision and we're providing the best services we can to our students i did not write this grant so i can definitely come back and answer that question but it's the the tricky part is it's not cabrillo is not paying from their general friend fund pvusd is not paying from their general fund there's this big uh grant that pvusd and cabrillo have applied to applied for together and received and the money is coming straight from that grant to just further elaborate to fund the entirety of it correct yes and it funds actually more things the grant is actually bigger than this amount um because it it also helps the cte pathways we were here just maybe a month ago talking about some of that um to make sure that there's alignment across and lots of choices and clear pathways for students so this is just one component of that grant thank you and i'm sorry i just had that elaborating part off of that response so but i'll bring it back to other board members yes trustee below yeah thank you i'm just curious about what are our numbers of our kids enrolling at cabrillo in the last recent years i apologize i don't have that with me but i'm happy to get that to you that'd be cool i know i've heard cabrillo's enrollment is down and i think a lot of community colleges colleges are because of the pandemic and recovery from that i'm just wondering what are longer we have a very high percentage of students from all of our high schools going to cabrillo cabrillo loves the pvusd we are their number one district far and away in this county and what you're talking about is also a decline in the state universities but we can get those numbers that's easy yeah i was just going to echo that that's at the university level across the board and that's it's not even isolated to our region and state of california it's a it's a national issue the declining enrollment and higher ed if i might just add how many of them are finishing the rates of success that cabrillo would be good to know if we're i don't know if we're tracking that but that would be we like to do that trustee to serve it i was just going to comment on the cabrillo stuff we've gotten reports in the past that have basically outlined every kid that's gone there and and if they're successful etc so we can we can certainly get that from them but it's free so i mean it's a it's really an unbelievable deal for kids their first two years are completely no cost do we need a motion for this oh motion would you yes motion to approve like to make a motion to approve we have a first can i have a second second um was there any other comments from any other board members or questions okay so we have a first and a second so i'll call for the vote all those in favor all right any opposed see none the motion passes 601 thank you Chrissy for me this evening thank you now you can have a good night all right i had a 10.5 approved notice of award for Pajaro Pajaro middle school exterior painting project number 2023072 this report will be presented by our director of maintenance operations and facilities Herlindo Fernandez welcome good evening president Acosta interim superintendent checkman board of trustees cabinet my name is Herlino Fernandez and i'm the director of maintenance and operations i'm happy to please um to bring forward this project Pajaro middle school exterior painting this project is funded by maintenance funding on august 25th the district advertised the power middle exterior painting project a bid walk was held on the 29th of august and on september 19th there was two the districts have been received two sealed bids from the following contractors color nuke company came in at $242,000 premiere builders came in at $158,301 i'm here to ask for the approval so we could continue with the contract for Pajaro middle school exterior painting for premiere builders thank you do we have um any public speakers to this item we do not see none i'll bring it back to the board for comments or questions trustee i'm sorry trustee so i'm looking at you and i'm just not saying your name what color are we painting Pajaro pink and purple polka dots it's it's not staying the same right um we're going to make it lively and liven up the neighborhood correct we're we're going to change the colors on it right now we're working on the rendering so we don't have the colors picked yet but we are going to change the colors on it make it entertaining yep what was there any other comments from any of our rooms was just something i was going to note about that comment that a lot of um schools um i've seen in different areas and we do the same at the university right we'll paint in tones similar to the colors of that school so is that a possibility like at least accenting tones maybe for trims and such so is that a possibility for consideration since we're going in this endeavor and i'm not even sure what the those colors are but i'm not sure if you know i would green and yellow green and yellow yeah i went to a hard school it's a green and yellow so we have a possibility or is that drive up the cost no i mean we have a green roof right now and a green trim so it's it is already in there so we're trying to get some colors that go with that it's a little hard which we're we're going into the gray tones but i didn't really like the rendering so we're trying to choose some other colors that are look good in that area just because a lot of the buildings around there or they're coming up with new colors and you know we want to brighten up that area too and we want to make it look different so when the kids come back and we've painted the same color it's going to look pretty much the same and they're not going to notice much of a difference so we're trying to make a an impact when they come back what's i'm saying if you paint the body yellow and the trim green you'll make a statement and then and then with that gem being art deco with all those ornate pieces on there that's already outlined right now but if you get someone there to detail all the little oh yeah that's part of the scope we gotta we're gonna come in there and detail that that art deco that's in the gem yeah so they can stand out that would really stand out yep especially on the the street side yeah we're also picking up the ornamental fencing too give it another coat of black paint so it stands out as well so uh trusty belano scout i'm just curious it's a big gap between the two bids what's what what gives there i mean what what's up is there a labor probably bigger companies too i mean the company color new i think they're out of uh san francisco area maybe and then this one's premier building is out of gilroy more local we do a lot of business with them yeah we do i'll make a motion to prove it sounds good to me you just stripped that from trusty sultan oh i'm sorry i'll second it all right so we have a first and a second uh i'll call for a vote all those in favor aye aye any opposed seen none motion carries six zero one happy painting thank you president costa can i make a quick comment sure yes usually these items are on the consent agenda and we agree to keep this in the public's eye we want this world to see what's going on with pahero middle and maybe now based on your conversation we'll get calls from the community with some color suggestions thanks arlando really appreciate it looking forward to that job all right thank you guys thank you okay moving on to um our consent agenda these are items that are routine items coming before the board are there any public speakers to our consent agenda there's not okay seen none are there any items that any board member wishes to uh defer or pull see none then can um i have a motion to approve the consent agenda as is motion to approve our consent agenda tonight i have a first second trustee sit to second i have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed okay seen none it motion carries six zero one moving on yes to our report out of closed session let me switch gears and switch hats um all right on closed session item 2.2 i move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on november 8th 2023 with four and three additional action items and i'll need a second the second sorry Olivia you can't ever you call the drill for it's okay i have a first and a second all those in favor aye opposed none motion carries six zero one on closed session item 2.3 2.3 i move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration on november 8th 2023 with 15 and five additional action items i need a second a second i have a first and a second all those in favor any opposed seeing none the motion carries six zero one and i have a few announcements out of closed session um our announcement one the peharo valley unified school district is pleased to announce the selection of rich moran as the new director of el a social studies and ethnic studies rich has been serving students since 2005 as a teacher at pv high extended learning coordinator at pv high assistant principal at aptos high and pv high principal at aptos junior high and most recently the principal at mini white elementary rich holds a bachelor's of science from cal poly san luis abispo a single subject credential and biological science from cal poly san luis abispo and a master's degree in education leadership and an an administrative credential from san jose state university we are excited to welcome this highly accomplished administrator to his new role welcome rich moran announcement number two the peharo valley unified school district is pleased to announce the selection of iven rodriguez as the new assistant principal of peharo valley high school iven has been working with students since 2006 as a special education teacher at the monterey county office of education as a special education teacher in the alicell union school district and most recently as the assistant principal for educational services in the alice sal union school district iven holds a bachelor of arts from csu mb a education specialist credential and a master's of arts and administrative services credential from grand canyon university we are well or we are pleased to welcome iven to pbsd and his new role go grizzlies and welcome iven rodriguez welcome and our next upcoming board meeting if i just check my calendar and confirm i believe it is december six wednesday december sixth we look forward to seeing you all then and with that i will adjourn this meeting at 10 o five p m have a good night everyone and thank you for being here