 If you are not, all right, moving on to items. All right, we're gonna move on to items. Thank you. Well, so I'm actually gonna be showing you really quickly a video of one of our students, and this is Xander from Watsonville Charter School of the Arts. So every year we have about five schools doing the invention, every year we have students who reach the global invention level. And in this case, Xander was one of them. He is a third grade student. And he won with his, all the water, third grade students. He was up against students from China, Singapore, Mexico, and here in the U.S. He competed against about a total of 150,000 students and the reason why I appreciate this, and Xander's one of our students, but you'll see that this is an invention that he created for his grandfather as Parkinson's. I am especially close to this invention because it looks as if it is something that, when, but for a daughter of a Parkinson's patient, I'll tell you this is life-changing for those that serve. And so let's watch just a few minutes of, so the whole thing is five minutes so I won't feel as if the reason why I wanted you to see it though is it really highlights what we want children to be able to be, which is resilient, right? So he found a problem, had multiple prototypes, and he kept moving through the issues, and he didn't give up. So he had this prototype in 2020 give up, decided to do it, get in and, and then I'm just gonna have, I just wanna show you some of the, we put District YJ tractors up so that we could provide outdoor heating and learning for our students. And so I just wanted to show a few examples of that. I was able to be at Rio, then my morning and saw the children seen and playing under it. We're excited to have these additional learning for our children. And so thank the facilities department to Clint Ruther and Ryan Black for making this happen within five minutes. We will move on to, and I just want you to communicate with us. Good evening board. Good evening. And then I was able to start by at Star Lake too, which is another walking school, and they had a successful first day of school also. Just wanna inform everyone that there is a contest going on right now for all junior high and high school contest, or students, sorry, mayor for a day. So they get to be with Mayor Jimmy Dutra for a day in the life of the mayor. All they need to do is submit an essay and you can find that information on my Facebook page where I will be happy to email it to you and have that information also so you can always contact your site principal. Thank you. And I wanted to direct members of the public to some donations that we've had to our various programs. We had Raffle Items donated by various vendors for our district kickoff event that we had on August 11th. And we've continued to have donations to the Emeril Lagasse Culinary, Garden and Teaching Kitchen. And we had the following donations for that from Steve and Carmela Datoch, two payments of 2,500 each and for the pledge of 10,000. And Amy and David Harrington, $10,000 donation. Ruth and John Sousa, $1,500. Nancy Wilcox, $500. Dr. Ferris Seba and Dr. Blanca Balthazar Seba, $500. Carolyn and Kurt Coleman, $500. Dan Carrillo donated a vinyl poster for the program and American Ag Credit donated $25,000. All right, yeah, so thank you for everyone who's supporting our program. For item 4.1, approval of the agenda, can I have a motion to approve the agenda? A motion to approve. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. On to item 5.1, approval of the July 28th, 2021 Board Meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We will move on to item 6.1, our public hearing for Level 2 Developer Fees 2021-22. The report will be presented by Cment Rocker. Test, test, test. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. Tonight I have for you public hearing. So thank you for all the public who do wanna participate in the Level 2-21-22 Developer Fees proposal. So in accordance with government code, we are required to do a public hearing anytime we want to impose or increase our developer fees. At this time, the district is proposing to increase to Level 2. There are multiple criteria that allow us to increase these developer fees. The criteria we currently meet is that more than 30% of our classrooms are portable classrooms, as well as we do have a 15% of our bonding capacity is actually in comparison to our debt. So what that effectively says in layman's terms is, are you able to go out for a bond to be able to do all of this? Or do you need additional money to be able to support these continuing developer fees? So for us, the answer is, no, we do need the additional fees. This amount would be going from 408 to 538. This was actually brought up at the June 9th Board Meeting. Trustee Shocker asked if we could come back and present Level 2 Fees. So I am here presenting Level 2 Fees. We have done all of our due diligence in sending both counties, as well as the city, the letters expressing our interest to increase developer fees. We set those out before the July 21st deadline, and we did note the time and place of this meeting. So at this time, this is just the public caring piece. We will be bringing a resolution as an action item later in the night, but I would open this up to any board questions or public comments. Do we have any public speakers to side them? Yes, we have one public speaker. Carol Turley, can you please come up? Yeah, two minutes to speak. Hello, trustees. Thank you for taking the time to listen. I was hoping that trustees Acosta and Daniel Dodd would be here for these comments. I'm fortunate that they're not here. Those trustees who have accepted funds from Vic Morani and his past that are mostly funded by developers, should we please themselves for voting on this issue? Thank you. Do we have any other board comments? Thank you. Thank you all. We will go on to item seven of our visitor non-agenda items. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda for this evening. Please know that though the Brown Act prohibits the board from engaging in discussion for non-agenda items, we are listening. Do we have any public comments? So I'll call you up in groups of three. Please keep six feet distance between you. I will give you two minutes to speak. And then at 30 seconds, I will hold up our sign so that you know you have 30 seconds left. Okay. So first I have Bill Beecher. Second I have Carolyn West. Next I have Marilyn Garrett. Good evening, Madam President Dr. Rodriguez and all of you others. I wanted to talk about unintended consequences at the last Citizens Builders' Site Committee meeting that we held recently. We discussed the need for happening to do another bond. So it's obvious we ran out of money and we were $150 million short of what we thought. Well, one of the committee commented that with the uncertainty about the accusations brought by Trustee Acosta about financial mishandling that the community might be hesitant in raising another bond and would voted down. That would be a travesty. I think this was an important observation and I think we all concurred that is a potential to make a problem for the roadblock. So it's my recommendation that the board should resolve this issue by putting it on the agenda to be discussed in open session. Medication, administration forms, training, health reports, even more training is not being done. We are unable to do the required work that a school nurse does as all our time is safe and pandemic. Lots of the high school got a quarter of their population exposed. There are nurses who receive calls or angry visits from parents. This is not the relationship that we want to have with our community. We understand that the distance between all it can to higher school nurses and other support staff, but it is not enough right now. We actually lost the season of our angry this year though the last. So we are regretfully submitting our assignments by objection forms. Six out of nine nurses are doing it. We are reluctantly accepting our assignment because we don't have choice, but we do not accept your liability that the students receive. But speaking for myself as a nurse of 28 years, 14 of them are the school nurse. I love my students and my staff and the community, but I'm only human. I can only, you can only stretch so far before we break. When I taught here, we used to have three minutes to speak. Now it's two minutes. More and more constriction of a comment. The first obligation of a school nurse to provide a safe and healthy learning and working environment. The question is, what really makes it safe? I've been here numerous times talking about wireless microwave radiation, danger from wifi, cell phones, antennas, et cetera. I'll show you my detector meter. That's really endangering children. Why don't you remove that and have a wired system? Another toxic exposure here in Pocco Valley. And the reason I think I have tremor is the pesticide use in Pocco Valley. And I taught at a nasty school next to pesticide fuel. Regarding what's going on today with all the vaccines and stuff, I'm going to leave you a card here. What are some of the vaccines you're using? And I'm going to throw on wifi. This says in the library or anywhere. Convenience for a health character. And if any, learn the risk. Vaccines or health or profit by Brandy Vaughn and her organization learn the risk. And it starts right out. Medical freedom is a human right. Do not violate that point. Thank you. Next up, I have Chris Webb, Mary Hoy and Matt Montgomery. Keep my own time. All right. Regarding the July 21st Board Meeting and Essar Fund, some of the stated requirements include health and safety preparedness, support for vulnerable populations, mental health and service and support, school facility repair and improvement, addressing learning loss, summer learning and after school programs. A new or restored sports field and the return of in-person extended learning opportunities would check all those boxes more than a bathroom, a furnace, a cafeteria work and a fire alarm. Those were the items that were mentioned. The fact that a sports field didn't get mentioned for renaissance and other sites raises some concern about the feedback that informed that presentation. From my perspective, we need a field more than we need a fire alarm. We just got a new bell system not long ago and I would think that a fire alarm could be integrated into that VA bell system. If we got a new fire alarm, our traditional emergency evacuation zone would be a field that's unsafe to play on. On the teacher workday, a sheriff came by, a former student to visit a teacher and from 70 yards away, he remarked about what's wrong with the field. I don't like having to tell students when they ask me, do we have soccer here at renaissance? I'd say, oh, we did, we had a championship winning team, but we have no sports field now, so no soccer. RHS needs a sports field back and in-person extended learning opportunities would help the student. They'd help with credit recovery. I see other sites with operable fields getting new and improved fields while renaissance looks to go another year without a field. Also, I wanna thank Trustee D'Serpa for acknowledging the need for fields and also the water concern. Also, I think there was a statement from Dr. Rodriguez about following the state guidelines. State guidelines are insufficient. They're due for a new MCL from MCL, so going up to the state is not quite right. Appreciate the RO station, thank you. Good evening, Board and Associates. My name is Mary Hoy. I'm one of the School Nurses represented in PBSV. When a student shows up at school sick, when a student has an emotional breakdown or sees you're in class, when a family needs to know where to find medical care, housing or food, chances are they're looking for their school nurse to help them for guidance. School nurses are part of the public health system charged with keeping children healthy and safe so we are able to learn and enjoy school. The role of a school nurse has never been more important than during this pandemic. As students cope with the physical emotional trauma of dealing with COVID-19 in their homes, community and in their classrooms. The list of duties for a typical school nurse was already lengthy and consistently growing before the pandemic. School nurses help take daily medications, manage diabetic care, oversee immunization compliance, are part of the special education team, do health assessments, interview for excessive absences, intervene, confer with other medical professionals and much, much more, but I only have two minutes. We take care of our emergencies, anything from injuries to anaphylactic reactions to episodes of anxiety. Emergencies do happen and everyone is hoping or even possibly expecting that when they do, a nurse is onsite and available. During the pandemic, school nurses have been responsible for performing COVID testing, checking COVID vaccination status, both manually and electronically, manning school isolation rooms, helping conduct and document contact tracing and disseminating that information to the district and county department public of health. 30 seconds. All while upholding the standards required to perform our regular job functions. I believe that the expectation that our school nurses at PVUSD can get this all done to the level of our expertise required to do our jobs is unrealistic. I believe the responsible thing is to hire more school nurses and lower the current nurse to student ratios, which I know you're attempting to do, but we want to provide our students with the attention to their health that they need and to be successful in school. Thank you. Good evening, thank you for having us and having me in person with you. I printed this graph off the Santa Cruz County and I added this black arrow here to show what the first mass mandate went into effect. So I went into effect nine months later, and we get a 2,000% increase in cases. Can you imagine if I came before this board and said I have a great cure for truancy or some other school issue? You put my policy in place and then truancy or that issue went up 2,000% nine months later? I think you would say that's a pretty worthless intervention. I think you'd be right. So I want to say there's not a single study showing mask protect children or prevent them from transmitting the virus because of the paucity of evidence when masks have any effect on coping kids. The World Health Organization recommends entirely against masking children under the age of six and says those six to 11 should only wear them in limited settings, not schools. The European CDC agrees and says masks should only be for children over 12 in limited situations. Public Health England specifically recommends against masks in schools, same with Switzerland and Norway, but somehow these organizations are all wrong and kids as young as two years old have to wear masks here. Has anyone asked our county's dim-witted health officer, Gail Newell, what her specific evidence is for forcing kids to and up to wear masks? What specific study or research supports this policy? If you know it, please share it. We are past the emergency stage of this pandemic. As such, we must demand quality and concrete scientific evidence showing child masking has a discernible and discrete effect in children preventing the transmission of the virus and that the harms outweigh the benefits. Otherwise, when there's this much uncertainty, the only ethical way forward is to make an added choice. Thank you. I have Carol Turley. I'd just like to take a moment to express my appreciation for trustee's arrest and traffic in your presentation of the last open meeting about the balloons and the balloons schools. I got like you listened to the public, you listened to students and you got something forward to the rest of the board. Clearly not a ground up violation. If one, two, or three of you meet and work on something, it's really doing a job. It's not violating the ground up, the open meeting. Now, when four of you meet in private and decide who should be president and vice president, that is a violation. I have Mueller. I'm sorry, I'm not sure about the next one. That's Mueller Keason. Go ahead. Okay, I'm just here to express my outrage at a situation that happened at Aptos High School this last week. I was personally witness to the separation and segregation of our children without parental consent. Without my consent, that's for sure. I got a text message that said I had confidentiality. My son had been exposed to COVID-19 by a student on the campus and that they were gonna be doing testing. So I immediately went to the school to find out if I could get the information about it, where I personally witnessed the principal of the school dividing the kids into two groups. There was a group of about 40 children that were standing together. And she said, quote, if you are vaccinated and you have your proof of vaccination and you are ready to go back to life as normal, go in this door. If you are unvaccinated and we need to test you, go in this door. I was outraged, I got out my camera and I videoed the principal. I wasn't there to video there, I was there to support my son. I have video of them separating, by the way, which was about 50-50. So when you think you're in the right, I would look around this room and see who's here saying no and how many people are not. It's not in your favor. You are all voted in and they are counting and taking notice. The next day, after I had a long conversation with my dad, but my son and my daughter, who's here tonight, and my wife, I said, you have a choice. They're gonna, my son didn't get tested that day. He ended up getting tested the next day. He called me from the walking down. He called me, he said, dad, they called me. I would like you here to help me make this decision. I drove from my house, Vicarillo College, to the high school with no traffic. I was there in five minutes. And they had already turned him out. They said, no, you cannot wait for your father to get here to help you make this decision about being tested. They said, he said, well, I'm on the football. Okay, I'm gonna finish this, please. I'm gonna direct you to, directly to. May I finish? No, I'm sorry, we're at times. But we can, I'm gonna direct Dr. Rodriguez to handle this. I'm gonna let you know that this is, you cannot turn me down on this. This is unbelievable. They turned my son away without a parental notice, without parental consent, and they told him he needed to go, he asked if I could play football, and they said, no, you can't play football. So he said, why would I test if I can't play football if I'm gonna put the whole team at. You have two minutes. Where are you going? No, I'm gonna talk in public, and I have all of these people support right here, every single one of them. This is a meeting to conduct board business. Everyone has to. If this isn't board business, what is? You're segregating our children. Can you tell me one time in history where the people. You have had two minutes. Segregating our children. We would like you to step aside and talk to the superintendent so she can get your information to handle this. Yeah, where? She's right here. I think everybody in this room needs to hear this story. I think everybody in the media needs to hear this story. You are welcome to do it. You explained to me why a kid can't play football because he's not vaccinated, but is requested to go there and sit on the side of the field and be publicly shamed. Your time is up. I'm going to ask every member of the public to please be respectful of everyone else who is speaking, including being mindful of the time. And I do want to make note that comments do need to come in before the start of the agenda item. Our next item on the business is item 8.1, PVFT. Do we have a representative from PVFT? Leaving Board, President Hall, VP Shopper, and Dr. Rodriguez. It has been an incredibly busy few weeks of school. I have been to a few sites to help substitute teach, help with class trip to Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Spent time with teachers who were making the best of a morning without electricity at their school site. And I could say that there was a lot of joy in the expressions in the eyes that I can see above masks, amongst the people that I encountered and the students that I encountered. But there's also a lot of uncertainty from the employees as procedures and protocols were not clearly in place or in an area where they can locate them. So I want to thank Human Resources for having agreed to and CSEA for having agreed to do a joint communication on those shared on those protocols and procedures. That was helpful because the updated mandates or guidelines are confusing. Agenda items that I want to acknowledge here. We appreciate that the mask resolution that you have on the agenda, but what we need are masks at sites. We are hearing from sites that they don't have masks and some of their administrators are saying we're not going to order them in there. So I know in my conversation with Dr. Rodriguez that there are masks and so please make sure that all of our administrators know that they need to provide them. So a couple of other agenda items, 9.8 and 9.9 that we negotiated with the district. So it was an unfortunate fight to reach an agreement to pay our seasonal early childhood education teachers their contracted hourly rate to work an additional hour. The program and district did not see the value in the hard work the teachers put in to caring for the infants and toddlers that they care for all day. And they were instead offering them to work an additional hour offering them $15 as opposed to their original rate. So that took all summer. So these are teachers who not only complete college units in early childhood education to become preschool teachers they meet the stringent demands of the state licensing department to keep the centers open. So an entire summer spent arguing back and forth to pay them their regular hourly wage is a sad statement. Several of these teachers are even scheduled to work split shifts. So they show up to work twice in a 12 hour work day. The cost of gas is high. And the only way that they will be compensated for the mileage is if they work at two different sites. But if they work at the same site that they're returning to the work an evening shift they're not receiving any type of compensation for returning. These are teachers who I think for the most maybe earn $20, $23 an hour. So we're disappointed that the district does not value their time in compensating them even those who return to the same site. Now we are asking that this program also stop expecting these teachers to work outside of their contract time. The whole child approach, and I just actually want to add something to that. These are parents who they themselves are having a broken day with their schedule. And if they're still going home in the evening after their six o'clock shift is over then they are still working. Where is their time with their child? Where is that whole family? That whole child approach, their teachers too. The whole child approach. So there's this acknowledgement for the outside partnerships in this ecosystem to continue caring for the whole child. Earlier this summer the phrase that I was hearing from the board was student centric. And I spoke to that. You cannot be student centric without being people centric, the people that work with our students. You cannot address the whole child, the whole community without addressing and respecting the people who provide their daily education and the daily professional services and the daily support. So in this evaluation, that this is where I'm getting some of these statements. This lens is grounded on the belief that students can with the driving need begin to consistently keep the whole child needs at the core of each student's educational journey. There's a lot of words and goals on building human capital, on having those appropriately credentialed teachers. We want teachers who are qualified, trained and qualified in front of our students. We have this focus on social emotional needs. Where are the teachers? We have 30 vacancies. They're unhired. They are, there are classrooms that do not have a teacher of record. And we have teachers who work outside of the classroom to support the thousand teachers that we have in classrooms. We have so many teachers who need help. There's their goal, their guidance and ensuring that we're delivering our standards that our lessons are well thought out. And we're at time now. This, the potential threat of not having them in order to try to put a band-aid on an issue of vacancies. I just want to say. We're at time. Thank you. But I am going to end with this. We need to be respectful of everybody's time, including PVEFT. So I had to cut a member of the public off. So please be respectful and it is time. Thank you. There was a lot of oversight. And it was the employees that were completely ignored and now we are short staffed in both CSEA and PDUSB and PVEFT. That's time. We are. All right. So we're on to item 8.2 CSE. So I'm going to ask people to be respectful of the meetings business. If you have, want to have conversation, please take it outside so that we can pay attention to the speakers who are coming up. Do we have a representative from CSEA? Any representatives from PVAM? Good evening. Good evening, Board President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, and Board of Trustees. My name is Ricky Donovan. I'm the Director of Student Services. Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. To start off, I'd like to say how great it is to see students on campus again. I've been able to visit some sites and was there for the beginning of the year, the newness. Students in their new clothes, new backpacks and seeing their curiosity of new schedules and teachers has been so exciting. The school staffs have done a great job welcoming students back with enthusiasm and energy. I had the pleasure to spend a couple of days at Minty White and walk several students to several excited and nervous students to class. In Student Services this year, we have processed over 550 inter-district transfers and 851 intra-district transfers. On the attendance side, we switched from having an outside contractor process truancy letters and attendance data to having it back in-house in the district. The change required our attendance team to train schools in preparing and executing the report and letters to the families. During distance learning, Elson Leticia, our attendance analyst, made over 200 home visits and countless phone calls to support our families. The start of this school year, we have been working closely with school sites who are at their maximum enrollment to help balance classrooms and grade levels. Elson Leticia and I are currently working on how we can continue the SART process during the challenging time to support our families' needs and connect them with services to help their children attend school regularly. As a department, we have already made several changes. And are continuing to approve our services and procedures to assist our families and sites by evaluating and refining our systems. Our number one goal is to improve communication with the school sites and ensure that our parents receive the information needed at their first stop. In student services, we know we're not only in service to students, but our families as well. Thank you. And good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Greg Fry and I'm the coordinator of student services. I do consider it an honor to be able to share a few other things that we are doing in student services. Our Healthy Start Department works tirelessly to provide resources and support to families experiencing homelessness or students who are in foster care. We do this through many areas, including providing school supplies, purchasing new clothing where students can pick out themselves, community agency referrals, navigating the school system forms, and we can even enroll students in Covered California Health Insurance. We provide support to sites for PBIS, Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, and social-emotional learning. We work to provide tools which give students a voice, whether by stop it, which allows students to anonymously make a report and immediately interact with site and district administration who have had several such reports already this year and able to solve some problems. Or by Five Star, which sites used to recognize students from everything from positive behavior, participation, and even for completing passive screening before they come to school. Our LGBTQ Plus Task Force focuses on increasing awareness and support for LGBTQ Plus students and families and allies, supporting all sites with Fair Education Act and improving the safety and equity for LGBTQ Plus students. Again, student services, as Mr. Iro said, is committed to supporting the whole child, the whole family, the whole community. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this evening. Thank you. Do we have anyone from CWA? We'll move on to Section 9, our action items. We will start with the Superintendent's Contract Renewal. I will be presenting on that. Keep it short and sweet. Members of the Republic, I would really encourage you to review the supporting documents that accompany this item. They're available on our website. Just to get a sense of what Dr. Rodriguez has accomplished in the last five years. This contract includes a one-year extension of her contractual time. I wanna make note that unlike other UUSD employees, Dr. Rodriguez's contract does not have a usual step and column increase. Instead of the five-year mark, which she has now reached, there is a 2.5% longevity increase. So you will see a salary increase. Dr. Rodriguez, I want to thank you for your work, especially in bringing arts and music programs to our classrooms and for the incredible amount of innovative opportunities that you have brought to the UUSD community. So thank you. Do we have any public speakers to the side? Yes, we have one, Nellie. I agree, Dr. Rodriguez has brought some great things to the district and ensured that the LCFF, a commitment set we had had originally, which included VAPA, did in fact come to fruition. But I do wanna touch on some of the items that are in the evaluation that are goals because they are important. They are important goals. We want to retain people. We want to retain staff. We want to retain the good people that come and work with us in our community. And in order for us to address the whole child, that is the support staff and the other people that is inclusive of them. So I just wanna say that at PDUSD, you had the time to begin setting around work to retain the staff features. You refused to do so. Instead, you use your managerial rights to push the limits of our members, workload and mental health. You're in action to value the educators and support staff has left our students with 30 vacant positions. Just about all vacancies are in Watsonville school sites. The pressure is on us to step up into those classrooms so that our students aren't left feeling demoralized. The added preparation on top of the regular teaching assignment on the teacher is demoralizing for them. Teachers are severely impacted at these sites. They're losing their time to prepare and grade lessons. Address student communication or collaboration. Your austerity mindset at a time when you will be receiving a 5% increase to the LTFF and according to the CDO it's an added $9 million on top of the base funding, which is separate from the 100 million in COVID funds that has left us with vacancies and yet there was nothing put on the salary schedule. When we asked for some of that 5% let's be added to the salary schedule. There was nothing offered to honor the people who have stayed in this district to continue working with our community. Thank you. Any discussion from the board? Trustee D'Sirka. Thank you. When we first interviewed Dr. Rodriguez we had a search firm help. They brought us many qualified candidates and Dr. Rodriguez was head and tails of the zillion times better than any of the candidates that were brought to us that were similarly qualified. We had high hopes for her. She listened to the board. You know, her first year she brought in a grant writer who has realized something like $13 million to our district to provide increased programs and opportunities for our students and their families. I am more than pleased with her unbelievable experience and performance with our district. Her presentation to us, which you'll find on the website. I actually would like to ask the agenda setting committee maybe Dr. Rodriguez could present that during our next board meeting because it's unbelievable the amount of things that you have worked on, you have changed your collaborations, the work you put in. I know you work 12 to 16 hours a day. I don't know when you sleep. So my only recommendation for you, Dr. Rodriguez is to try to take care of yourself. Take time that you need to recharge because we're so fortunate, we're very fortunate to have you leading our district. And I wanna thank you for everything. Thank you. Thank you. I just wanna say, Dr. Rodriguez, thank you for coming back. I know the beginning of this year was a bit crazy, but I want to thank you for taking the time to address my concerns, to work with me to make sure that we are being even stronger for our students, for our community. Thank you for going out and visiting sites as well as different departments of our district. So we've been out there visiting transportation, you've been out there visiting maintenance, you've been out just with everybody, not just our students and not just our community. So thank you for taking the time to really make a difference and make this pandemic have a little bit more positivity with some of the programs that we've been able to do. So thank you so much for the next. So I was also part of the board when we hired Michelle and one of the things, I think I was board president then and one of the things that I wanted to make sure we were hire someone who was gonna be visible, who was gonna be known to the community, who was gonna be an active listener and who would bring the much needed change. That not only focused on students and improving their academic performance, but also on staff and providing support to staff but also professional development. So they could grow with us, right? And Michelle, in this five years that you've been with us, I think it's on that and that. I think we all appreciate the approach that you take through not only the innovative initiatives that you've brought forward to the district but also being very much data-driven. And I think that has led to some of the major improvements we've seen these past couple of years visible within our parent community, within our school community with the students who are all over the place. And I think people appreciate that. And just as a parent, even through the D-Lite communities and with our Spanish-speaking parents, I've never seen our parents be so comfortable speaking directly towards the government and addressing those concerns. I think before they felt intimidated. And I think you have allowed that room to have that direct connection and that direct communication with parents. And I think they actually feel that and they value that. And then just having high expectations. I think you will lead, by example. You don't have higher expectations for your staff. You're just like the example. And you do it in a way that puts students at the first. And so that I think it goes a long way. So thank you for your work. I know that during the evaluation, there were several, yes, of girls who could discuss with you. And I very much value and appreciate your openness to listening to those concerns. And also, I'd like to shut myself off in a moment. Justice Sotomayor. All right, Dr. Rodriguez, I know we got off to a very rocky start in the beginning, but as adults we spoke and we clarified things and we've moved forward. And seeing the information presented at the last meeting in your accomplishments, it's pretty substantial and pretty impressive. Just the community involvement alone, all the organizations and different things that are going on. Community like Watson's Onions, that thing, that interaction connection. So on that part of the community, it's a good job. Thank you. Can I have a, if there's no further discussion, can I have a motion? Make a motion to approve. I second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We'll move on to item 9.2, approval of the naming of Freedom's Soccer Field after Mr. Kenneth Morana. A report will be presented by Casey Poppingback, our Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education. And Mr. Tom House, our Watsonville Rotary. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Rodriguez. Tonight is my pleasure to present along this report and request alongside Mr. Tom House, an esteemed member of the Rotary Club, the Watsonville Rotary Club and the Harle Valley Sports Foundation, and also another active community member, Mr. Emmett Linger, the Chairperson of the Naming Committee. And previous principal, Ms. Puda, unexpectedly retired this summer due to personal reasons. Unfortunately, she is unable to be here tonight, but I know she is here and here alongside us. On behalf of Freedom Elementary School and its community and Naming Committee, we bring this item forward for approval and the new field at the site we named for Mr. Kenneth Morana for his many contributions to the Harle Valley community as detailed in the biography provided. The field at Freedom Elementary School is currently being transformed into a first class soccer playing field, thanks to the effort of the Harle Valley Sports Foundation and the enthusiastic support of Driscoll's and many other community members who have contributed generously to this effort. So our current board policy is 7310 that actually requires the following. So the Board of Education shall name schools or individual buildings in recognition individuals living or deceased who have made outstanding contributions to the county or community. Another requirement is the geographic area in which the school or building is being named. The board encourages the community involvement participation in the naming of that facility. And then also a citizen advisory group shall be appointed to review the name suggestions and submit recommendations. And so there was a committee form to do this. A report was also brought from the committee to the superintendent's office. And tonight we have the presentation and the request for approval to the governing board. And so I'm going to hand it off to Mr. House who will share additionally the process that was followed and why this name is being requested and selected for the field. Thank you trustee. Can you hear me okay? On behalf of the Harle Valley Sports Foundation and the health growth of the Boxingville-Rowbury Club, we're doing close to a $350,000 renovation of the field for student elementary school. When we talked, this was approved by the board back in January of 2001. And when we talked about raising the funds to do this, we were advised from our charitable fundraising people that we should be able to do a plan and a project after thank you, John. So we asked the district whether we could do that when we got going and we were told, well, yes, but you need to follow the different policies, so that's why we're here tonight. And it became apparent, we've got lots of community support and it was just heartwarming. We see all the different people and organizations but one organization stepped up more than all the rest and that was good for them. And it became apparent that they were going to end up funding more than half of this project. So we asked them if they would like us to try and get the project to be of any more useful. And we got a quick response from them and it just no, we are a humble organization. We're doing this because it is a good project. So we thought that was the end of it. A couple weeks later, we had the chairman of the board for just goes out at the site to show him what work we were doing. And one of our members asked him, we know you don't want your name on the seal, but is there someone that you would like to honor? And they said, we'll get back to you on that. So a couple weeks later, we received a bio and a recommendation to the district that they would like Mr. Chairman to be honored with his name on the seal. And the bio is in your materials. He was an excellent, both employee at Bristol and community member met with superintendent to find out what we needed to do to get this approval. And a technical figure went through all of the steps, re-participated in a community meeting that was healthy as well. And the vote, and the vote, I believe was 641, 638 for the Kenneth Marina and B for, I don't know how to say the name, but it's an abstract word for seal. As far as who is Kenneth Marina, there is a friend and colleague of his who has known him for 35 years, who is here tonight, he came as a Kenneth London. And I'd like him to come up and talk to us. He would need to just tell you a little bit about this. Yes, and it's Emmett. Linda, and I have worked for, he hired me among his accomplishments, that was one of his better ones. Ken, in his tenure at Driscoll's, he championed an industry-wide food safety program which was back 23 years ago, where there was a need to have a food safety program put into the Scotland industry. He was chairman of the strawberry industry, strawberry commission at the time, and so he rallied every year around and put in together the food safety program that was still followed today. To follow the, really like to promote from it then, he himself was not a college graduate. He did not believe that anybody that was working in management and upper positions needed to have a college degree in order to perform the work. If they, or to manage people, if they were hardworking, smart, if they were able to work hard, you know, they could prove themselves out if they could do the work. So he mentored many, many employees, including myself. You can see in the bio of his philanthropic and community work, some of the highlights was that he started the first adopt-a-school program at Bristol's Purchase Pavilion and Bottlewood Middle School in Powell, because of the underserved nature of that student body that was very successful for many years. He has supported the efforts of Hartnell College and helped develop the successful agricultural business and technology institute. He also started internship program for Hartnell and for Cabrera College students, because he needed to be there at Bristol. Also his big, big community supporter during the one more creative earthquake, really had Driscoll pony up to help its growers in order to have money to pay for the displaced farm workers and folks that were challenged during those times, and also with Paharo River, the same kind of deal. His most recent activity was a major fundraiser for the Healing Garden at Dominican Hospital, and he currently serves as an MRS board member of the Dominican Hospital. So I hope you vote for me too, and thank you so much for your support. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Do we have any public speakers to decide? Yes, we do, President Combe. I am going to call you to the podium. You have two minutes to speak. I'll give you a warning at 30 seconds. I have David. I have Trey Herndon and Matt. Okay, so which item were you intending to sign up for? Okay, what was your name, sir? And you're Matt. Okay, so. All right, okay. So no public speakers then? Well, let's see. Is there a Jess? Okay, okay. Sean, same thing, okay, and Mr. Gleason, outside. Okay. All right. Thank you, gentlemen, for your presentation. Do we have any discussion from the board? Thank you. Plus you, Soto. Mr. Diserker. I'm in favor of naming the field for Mr. Morena. He's given so much to the Pajaro Valley, with his philanthropy and his leadership, and I think this is a wonderful opportunity to name the field. I want to thank Driscoll's for stepping forward, being such a generous donor, and I want to thank, in particular, the work of the Pajaro Valley Sports Foundation. It's wonderful. Thank you very, very much for partnering with our district to make this a reality of the freedom. I appreciate it, guys. Trustee Soto? Yeah, no, I'd like to reiterate, Trustee Diserker's words as well. Thank you, and it's a very deserving recognition from Mr. Morena. Trustee Rosario? Yeah, I'm in full favor of supporting this tonight. I think one of the things that I have appreciated about the partnership between the U.S. and the Pajaro Valley Sports Foundation is your willingness and openness to bring in community input. I think from, you know, the time where we hosted that town hall to get community feedback, to see if we could start the process of renovating the field. So now, you know, reaching out to the larger community too and getting the feedback on the meeting. So thank you. That's just something that I wanted to highlight. This was not a decision that was dismayed by a group, but a community decision. So I'll be supporting that tonight. I will be honored to make a motion to put this slide tonight. Second. Vice President Soto, did you have a comment? Yes, I just wanted to say one thing. I just wanted to say I echo a little bit of what Maria said, well, all of it, but just the process that you've done with the community. I know there's been some setbacks with COVID and construction, but I love how the community has pulled together to support this project and they show up to work at the field and help with the different things that have been happening. And it just shows what a community effort this project is and how excited that the community is to bring us to fruition. So thank you. And I just wanted to say thank you for sharing Mr. Morena's bio and story. It was very remarkable to be reading. Thank you. All right, we have a first and a second. So I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. All right, item 9.3, resolution 21, 2208, support of CDPH mask mandate report will be presented by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. So we, you will find the text resolution. So as we know, at the time actually when this was originally placed, we didn't yet have the mandate as well from the county but something that has been a requirement of the schools since day one is masking within the schools. And so we have complied with that. One thing that I would note is we have had positive cases within the schools but we have had no spread. And we do believe that a portion of that is due to the fact that we have been requiring mask within the school, within the structure. So we do believe that there are detrimental effects for children who are unable to be vaccinated that do receive COVID-19. And so because of that, we are following, we are, this resolution shows the board support to follow CDPH requirements that were released on July 28th. That confirms that we must require all mask indoors with the exemption. If you have, if you can have a face mask exemption, I will state just for the record that technically CDPH, if you have a medical exemption, you still must wear a face shield with a drape. And that is a state level requirement. And we are also encouraging students when outdoors and unable to do the physical distancing to also wear the mask because we know where transmission has occurred has been during eating time. And so we have seen a significant spike in Delta. We are seeing it level out, but what we know is the grand majority of the people who have had significant consequences to the Delta variant have not been vaccinated. And in many cases, do not engage in wearing a mask. And so staff recommends the board approve the resolution that we are affirming that we will in fact, follow CDPH requirements and ensure masking of our students and staff. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez. I'm imagining we have some public speakers to this item. We do. Okay, I'm going to call up Bill Beecher. Go ahead, Bill. I'm going to do it for all three. No, you can go. Okay, good evening again. Many of the people who are going to speak here tonight are going to talk about their rights. Well, there's something that I learned in Boston Ball High School long ago that for every right, there's a responsibility that goes with it. In exercising your rights, you have the responsibility to do no harm to others. In this case, if you happen to be a carrier of COVID-19 and do not wear a mask, you may infect others. If your child does not wear a mask, then he or she might infect the fellow student, their teacher, or school staff. Now there is some validity to the argument that pre-K and K through third grade students will have difficulty wearing a mask. So what to do? In Fresno, they are starting to wear face shields and the children seem to find this a better solution. I would suggest that we do this for those who do not want to wear a face mask. What about the district staff? It should be mandatory that they all be vaccinated and wear masks. How else do you protect the students? It's a two-way street. Do masks work? As reported earlier by many doctors, the last flu and cold season was non-existent. It went away. Why? Doctors attribute this to wearing masks, washing hands, and maintaining distance. 30 seconds. That speaks volumes. Thank you. Can you learn Gleason? Okay, I'm Matt. Two minutes. All right, hello. Thank you for hosting this meeting in person. Can I adjust this? Yeah, I should move on. All right, is that good? I can do it. Okay, are you fine? All right, so once again, thank you for hosting this meeting in person. I brought my mask that my kindergartner is wearing, he's five years old. As you can see, it's filthy. The who says that five-year-olds should not wear a mask because they can't do it appropriately, says children age five years and under should not be required to wear masks. This is based on the safety and overall interest of the child and their capacity to use a mask with minimal assistance. I think that masking comes with a lot of costs. I disagree about the benefits. I don't think masks prevent these spread of the COVID-19 because it's an aerosol disease and aerosols are too small for masks to do much of anything. I think if you look at the real world data, you will find a stunning lack of evidence that masks are doing anything. And if they were beneficial, it's really hard to overstate how clear the evidence would be at this point, 18 months into the pandemic, but it's not there. I saw that you guys cited studies, those are observational studies. I would note that the recent study that analyzed 1,300 different schools in Georgia came to the conclusion that masks do not work to stem the spread of COVID in schools. This is detailed in a New York magazine article that I would encourage you guys to read about the lack of scientific evidence. It quotes a lot of highly credentialed epidemiologists who cast doubt on mask efficacy. I also think that that America is unique in doing this, the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden are not masking children. And I would also say that the covering of a child's face as a condition of in-person schooling is just morally wrong. Kristen. Hey, you guys can hear me. The only reason we're having this discussion is a ridiculous, ridiculous conversation is because the California governor is off the rails. This fake state of emergency, there are people and alphabet agencies that think they can be above the law and mandate or coerce the people of California. You all are not above the law. You are only here at the consent of the governed and we're not consenting. There is a recall election happening, you must know, that is going to result in a stark change of direction for all of California. When Newsom is recalled, you will lose what you think is your power to go against the rights of parents and your constituents. You are harming our children with these policies of masking, testing, segregating, quarantining, discriminating, coercing and lying to the community. There are two big lies here, that the VAX protects other people, it does not. And also the other big lie, if everyone gets the VAX, we can move on and COVID will go away, that's another huge lie that's being perpetuated. Newsom will be recalled, unless there's fraudulent cheating in this election. Recalling Newsom sets a precedent for other elected people in this state and I hope you are able to weigh the costs and benefits of going along with Newsom's corporate culture here in California. It's unacceptable, thank you. Dr. Deena Riggins. Good evening. I am a doctor of chiropractic, I'm an expert in neurology, I'm an expert in nutrition and overall immunity, immune function and how the body works. There's no doubt there is not one ounce of scientific evidence that the mask works. Let me tell you a few things that the mask does do for our children, it increases their anxiety. It increases their depression. Do you know that in California, we had the highest rate of teenage suicide? Doctor, you speak about a restorative restart. I don't know about you, but the symptoms that I'm gonna list, I'm gonna list more of them above and I wish you wouldn't cut me off right at two minutes because there's other people that have gotten more than two minutes, I'm not sure why, maybe because everybody should get a chance to just speak their truth. Increase in carbon dioxide. You've all been lied to, you're making yourself slowly sick right now with the mask on, I promise you. The vaccine is not a vaccine. A vaccine is an antibody for something, it is not. We are the lab rats, you are, I'm not gonna get the jab. Increase carbon dioxide, resistance to breathing, heart rate, blood pressure raises, increase in your respiratory rate. It decreases their blood oxygen saturation, which actually is, they need more of it as children, yeah. Decrease in heart and lung capacity, ability to concentrate and think. So if we have this increased student learning plan, how is it that they can increase their learning when they can't even concentrate and think? Are children deserved to have a normal school experience full of smiles? Social interaction. My teenage girl, her friends, they're getting real screwed up in the brain about this whole face covering. You're at time? I have one more thing, oxygen for their brains and joy for their hearts. I pray for you. Karen Corsino? The masks are really necessary to keep the fear proper again to going that the media's been pushing on behalf of Big Pharma, which provides the media with the most advertising dollars. Without fear porn, people wouldn't feel the need to subject themselves and their children to an experimental gene inoculation for a virus that's 99.9% survivable in most age groups. That's why this mask nonsense continues to this day. If you have no masks, you have no fear. You're teaching our children a lie that they're dangerous and presumed sick before proven healthy. It's disgusting and immoral. The drug companies need the mask nonsense to persist so that people will believe this thing is so dangerous that effective early treatments like hydroxychloroquine, zinc, D, ibermectin, C, and budesonide will be ignored in favor of a so-called much more effective vaccine. It's a lie. It's a leaky vaccine that's only 39% effective. If you get the shot, you still contract COVID. You can spread it and there are documented tremendous risks associated with this shot. The most recent studies show that the vaccinated carry even more viral load in their noses than those who choose not to get the shot. And the last study for Israel published on August 16th shows that out of 516 patients who were hospitalized with COVID, 59% were fully vaccinated. The masks are simply theater and part of the propaganda campaign along with unnecessary testing of only the unvaccinated when we already know the vaccinated still get infected and can carry the same viral load or more. But truth, data, and facts be damned. You all have been given your marching orders to continue this sham. And I'm here to say enough, we're onto the scam. Masks don't work unless you're coughing and sneezing large viral droplets. And if you're in that kind of shape, you're not allowed at school anyway. Masks don't work and the vaccine doesn't work to stop the spread. All the vaccine does is possibly lower the chances of severe COVID symptoms when it isn't busy giving you blood plots and creating variants. There are other ways to avoid severe outcomes like all the therapeutics I listed. So the scheme of perpetual mask wearing in order to coerce kids into taking an experimental shot won't work. Parents are onto you and we demand that you leave medical interventions and medical decisions to parents. Real science and human rights demand that you make mask use optional. So I'm gonna start by reading from your agenda packet. I'm quoting your agenda packet for this item. It says, at least 10 studies have confirmed the benefit of universal masking in community level analysis. That is observational and anecdotal science. That is low quality science. Community level analysis doesn't mean much. What we need is peer reviewed clinical double blind studies. So I emailed you some studies. I emailed you a meta analysis of 65 studies at about 7.30, you should see it in your emails. So that meta analysis shows that there is mask induced exhaustion syndrome for wearers. So there is potential harm for wearing masks for long hours. Now, our children are developing. Our children are potentially being put at risk by not having access to oxygen. That is unconsciousable. So more than that, we know that schools are not even shown to be a hotspot of spread for COVID. So if schools are not spreading COVID, there's no risk to the community and we know there's no risk to the vast majority of children. So if there's no risk to community and no risk to children, then why would we put them in potential harms way of mask induced exhaustion syndrome? Now, I understand that their staff recommends that you approve this resolution. However, you actually have a choice to vote no. To not approve this resolution. To have mask choice, especially for the youngest children. Thank you. Elizabeth? Hello. You've got a lot of very educated people in your audience, I guess you noticed. We are not just your everyday people coming in or to shout about something we're very well researched, okay? So there might be some things you're missing. And I know that there's a lot of you that agree with it, by the way. If you knew you were following advice and recommendations from a superior, and this was causing harm and injury to others by following them, would you report this to your superior? Would you by your own moral compass resist carrying out those orders? This is exactly what is occurring. The CDPH has determined that children must mask indoors all day. And he has to look at studies, sorry, he has refused to look at studies, which have clearly concluded that this is unnecessary. Because children have 0.00001% chance of getting COVID or even carrying the virus. And I'm happy to provide you with those studies and I know my friends would here too. Masks are harmful to the health of children. I mean, this is common sense and I think this is what a lot of you know. And there are studies that I can send you, knowing that this is harmful to and unnecessary for children, yet carrying this out, this guidance is morally reprehensible on your part. All of you should be standing up to the CDPH. You do have a voice, you do not have to go along with him. Standing up for the children that are in your district and refusing to carry out these orders. I know you question this, yet you choose to be complicit. And Erica just, she just read right off of the page, CDPH of CDPH and I want you to stand apart and look at the real actual studies yourselves with unbiased eyes for the good of the kids, not for state compliance and funds. You have a duty here to observe, research, listen and act independently if necessary. You really can, you can for the greater good, not for funding, et cetera. I encourage you to listen to us, we are educated, sane parents and citizens who are not blinded by state opinion. We want you to take a stand with us and the children against the CDPH, thank you. I know you guys know everything that we're talking about. I know you guys have kids. I'm sure you've had your kids come home until you have to get the masks. California Health and Safety Code 101080 and California Government Code 37100. No ordinance is valid if it violates the California Constitution. California Government Code says we have the right to be free from harm. Mask and restricting your breathing, breathing violates your right and life as it causes harm. So you guys know that you're violating the California Constitution and yet you still are doing it. It's just, it's mind blowing to me that this is even a thing. You guys know the science, you guys have seen the science, but yet you guys continually not look at it. California Code 46, it's illegal to assume somebody has a contagious disease when they don't. Having the kids wear a mask is assuming that they have a disease. You're violating the Constitution. Education Code 2220, every child has equal access regardless of religion. They can have a religious exemption, but yet are they allowed to do that? No. Education Code 51, you can't discriminate. You're discriminating against these kids via, it's the masks, via, it's the testing. 30 seconds. It's the jab, everything. It's just, my mind is blown why this is continually happening. If the kids are able to eat inside at lunchtime without a mask on, why are they not able to sit at a desk with no mask on? Have you guys ever thought of that? Does that go through your minds? Does that make any sense to you guys at all? I really hope that you guys will take this into consideration when we get mask choice. Thank you. Matt, Matt McHenry. Thanks for letting me double dip. I appreciate the board being here letting us talk in person, letting us beat up on the junk science of masks. You'll notice here it talks about community level analysis, 10 of those studies. One thing I don't see if there's schools, right? We've got a unified hospital system. I think trained medical staff are a little different than school kids, right? More junk science. We heard some junk science earlier about from a mask proponent talking about a reduced cold and flu season. What about a reduced COVID-19? No, we didn't get that, did we? So here's that again. We had that 2,000% increase. Let's talk about the latest science. So we hear that masks are meant to protect those around them, right? Not just the wearer. So I'm gonna reference here from a study that just came out in the Journal of Physics of Fluids. So it's titled Experimental Investigation of Indoor Aerosol Dispersion and Cumulation in the Context of COVID-19, Effects of Mask Inventilation. So they looked at aerosols emitted by mannequins wearing masks. This is after they game the system in favor of masks to secure the mask straps extra tight to pegs on the mannequins. So the efficacy of masks in stopping exhaled aerosols was 10% for cloth masks. So talk about rights and responsibilities, right? So you have a responsibility to reduce your exhaled aerosols by just 10% and then that abrogates you from any responsibility from spreading the virus. What nonsense? Surgical masks, 12% reduction. The much-vaunted N95 mask, 46% reduction. 30 seconds. Caveat with a three millimeter gap. It's a 3.4% reduction in your exhaled aerosols. Junk. So I have a question for you. If we're stopping 10% of aerosols, let me ask you this. What if you had an umbrella that stopped 10% of raindrops? You'd still get soaked and masks do nothing. Thank you again. Chris Webb. When the water quality issues hit us, PBSD did the right thing for the short-term installing RO fountains. And when COVID came, they did the right thing again with the mask mandate. With Delta on the rise and other variants thanks to the lack of masks across the community, it's, again, right thing to have masks. Had the PBSD been reckless, negligent or anti-science in their approach to COVID, I'd have lost my child care as my provider is immunocompromised and then PBSD would be out one more veteran teacher. Thank you for doing the right thing. Even when people attack you for it, I taught with the masks in small group in person. I've never had a single student complain. And I've certainly never had a student pass out. And I've never even seen one show any sign of bodily distress. And we played rugby outside, touch rugby. This experience includes students exerting themselves physically. When people speak of Scandinavia and other European places in their mask policies, bear in mind that they have a better healthcare system. We don't have the privilege where everyone has the same healthcare. As we see this evening, mask mandate compliance is not uniform. Therefore, pointing to an increase in cases after a mandate is not really that logical since not everyone's wearing a mask. Thank you for recognizing that individual liberty does not include the right to be a public health hazard. Remember, not everyone has the privilege of being able to be here tonight to defend their right to a safe learning environment. My three-year-old has no issues wearing a mask. Thank you for protecting him and my three-day-old by protecting me. My aunt taught indoors with no mask, wound up bringing COVID home. I taught the same time with the mask and other measures that the union helped install, and I was safe. Never brought anything home. Thank you. I am gonna ask members of the public to please be respectful of all speakers and please treat other speakers the way you would like to be treated. And what I would like to do, I would let people know that agenda items needed to be in at the start of the agenda item. So items that come in late will, or comic cards that come in late will not be read. Jess, my name is Jessica Rinda. I am a parent of a kindergarten in the district. I would prefer for him not to be required to wear a mask at school. At this point, I'm at peace with the inevitability of him receiving some form of the COVID-19 virus. And I believe that's the case for everyone else in this room as well, whether we're vaccinated or not. This virus is not going away. And I think that masking is not effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19. Because he's a young child, I believe that those symptoms would be very mild and I'm very comfortable with that. I would like to make my own decisions about my child's health instead of being subjected to an unprecedented intrusion into my decision-making as a parent. I do not think that masks help prevent circulation or I do not believe that they prevent the circulation of respiratory infections. And I do think that they impede the educational experience of children, especially young children, like myself. And I would appreciate not passing this resolution. Thank you. Sean. My name's Sean Kenyerman, but thank you. So I'm not gonna talk about science or anything, because really, people will say it's good and it's good. What I do want to touch on is the personal experience and that's my, this is my first time ever coming here. I didn't know the rules, I didn't know what was going on. I'm glad I got there. So what I want to say is, my wife and I have a child. We plan on having multiple children. We were unable to have multiple children. We did have one, because he's a young boy. He's currently going to school in Colorado University. I hope and pray this will be his first full year of his life. And why I bring this up is because whether masks do help or don't help. Like, say you're gonna get me good, say you're good, but what I do tell you in my local experience is it kills his personal interaction with other children. I heard the lady earlier, thank you. I heard the lady earlier say, she can see the children smiling from mask up. Now my six-year-old can't see that. He doesn't know that. He needs to start learning what is a good place for expression. What is positive for the future? What is negative? What is acceptable for other kids and what is not? I think you can see I'm very passionate about this. I hope your guys' mind is open. I appreciate you paying a lot of attention. I'm not sure why some people are on, because I don't even know what there's on here, but I would hope that everybody who is around here can be like me. I am your neighbor. I am your friend. I am somebody who would help you out if you were outside of your own home. My son needs interaction with other children. He lives out in the country. I understand this every second. He lives out in the country. I don't have the opportunity to put him on a bike and go to the local park. Our local park is full of local people. I can't get them around other children. I need them at school to learn that face-to-face contact. I'm looking at you and I'm begging you. You're going to get very passionate about this. This is something that I'm sure everybody should. The children need to see what's going on, just like you're engaging me right now. I need to see my emotion. They need to see that. You wouldn't see my emotion like this. You don't understand that I'm emotionless. My could be different. I wish we had it with kids, too. I'm sure that would work, but we don't. Please, unmasked kids, at least we don't have kids. Trey? Trey? Herding? OK. OK. Good evening, folks. My name is Tracy Henderson. I'm a parent of a sophomore in high school and I'm a licensed California attorney. I'm the founder of California Parents United, which is a coalition of over a million people. I'm here to ask you one question. Where did you get the idea that you get to decide what's best for somebody else's child? As you know, CDPH has delegated the enforcement prong of the mask guidance to schools. The only requirement is that you develop a protocol and that protocol can be non-enforcement. There's nothing in the guidance that says you can not develop a protocol of non-enforcement. In fact, I've submitted a letter that shows it is legally better for you to develop a protocol of non-enforcement. Let the parents decide. Now, maybe it's because you think masks actually work. Like they've said, it doesn't really matter, but they do not work. I've submitted 23 studies that show that within three minutes of wearing a mask, you're damaging the hippocampus, you're causing oxidative stress, which is the basis for degenerative disease, and you're creating a bunch of Alzheimer's patients. You do not need to do this. You can let the parents decide. Are you waiting for the option of vaccinations? It has to be safe, effective, and necessary, as the doctor will tell you. And with a 99.9% recovery rate, it is illegal to enter a child into a medical child. As you know that, in case you didn't know, the FDA did not approve a vaccine. They approved a product that is not even on the market, so that's not coming. You need to worry about that. 45,000 people have died within 72 hours. Let me ask you this, let me leave you with this. Where do you get the idea that it is within your decision making power to make that decision for a parent to take that kind of a risk? Thank you for your time. No masks. I appreciate the opportunity to speak again. I'll try to give it quick this time. In speaking here and listening to this gentleman right here speak, I wanted to commend him. The reason I wanted to commend him is because he does have a very passionate stance on this, and that's what it should be. You should be able to have your passionate stance on this, and you should be able to wear a mask if you want to wear one. You should not enforce it on others. I would also like to point out that he's a very passionate person about what he is speaking about, as was I. He's also wearing a bandana, which is not legal by the mask mandate or standard of anything. He's not even, that's not even, that's not even an argument. You can't even have it. Okay, so now he's got, okay. So if you want to wear a mask, great. You want to get vaccinated? Great, nobody's telling you you can't. But forcing it on others that vehemently do not want it will only end badly. So I'm against the mandate. I'd like to say, you know, I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm not an anti, any of that. My aunt had polio. I grew up with a, with a, my aunt had polio and she was confined to a wheelchair for her last year, post-polio syndrome. Polio was in our system, you know, before we are around to really have to deal with it. But my family dealt with it. The people that dealt with polio was one in four. It's one in four. You were either going to be crippled or worse from polio, one in four. This is three in 10,000 if you have co-morbidities. Whatever that word is, right? Three in 10,000. We don't even enforce polio. You don't even have, you don't even have to have a polio vaccine. And now you're going to take this and say all over the country, all over the world, you're putting in kids and dehumanizing them by making them wear a mask like that other, this guy said, that was the best thing I've heard all night is because we are dehumanizing our kids. Don't dehumanize the kids. You want to dehumanize yourself? Knock yourself out. All right, time. David. Thank you. So, for probably 15 years at Ghosty's Kids, I've coached this community program here and there's something like that. You earlier heard Mueller and Dyson talk about segregation. I suppose you want kids wearing masks for the teacher's safety and other children's safety. I suppose you want kids to take tests in school so you know they're not basically inoculated with the disease. However, they segregated the kids at Aptos. The ones that had the vaccination did not have to take the test. You've just heard all these people state all the facts that you can still carry even though you're vaccinating. So why do you not have half of the kids at the school not taking the test? Who are you protecting now? You're not protecting anybody. And for all the people in this room, this does nothing, okay? Cal OSHA, this is not a mask. You have to be a mask fit to have a mask that actually prevents from aerosol. This does nothing with Cal OSHA standards. So you're not doing anything, okay? So stand with us now or stand against us later. Thank you. Kasha, I know this year has been incredibly hard and I appreciate it and I'm here to ask you for a mask choice for kids and to experience it. My son, he wore a mask unless they were eating food or sitting 60 of hearts at a time. So he was in school four to five days a week for four to six hours a day. And he's five and he's in the dirt and he's got his nose and he's coughs and he's masked with his soaking wet and he's chewing on it. His nose completely swelled shut. Your nasal turbinates are what line your nose completely swelled shut by the end of the year or he could not get out any air to close his nostril, he could only breathe out of his mouth and he's wearing a wet mask. Then the bacteria from that went into his ears and his middle ear. My son has never had an ear infection. He's never had ear problems. All of a sudden, he can't hear, he can't breathe and he has to wear a mask for school. He can't, he breathes lifts a lot right now. He can't see what the teacher's seeing. And this is what we're doing to our children because they have a 99.9% of clean, high, and so I don't feel this is necessary and I think it should be a mask choice. My two-year-old was in an in-person preschool and someone's backyard with the teachers didn't wear masks. The kids didn't wear masks when there was 13 of them. We went through a couple tiers, not one case of COVID. And this is 13 of their families we are navigating. We don't know what they're doing. We don't know where they're going. And I have five other preschools that were the same thing, backyard preschools. They had no masks because they couldn't be one and a half and five. So obviously, again, you have to wear them. And so it wasn't about wearing masks that kept COVID out of these kids. It was about hand-washing and keeping our kids home when they're sick. We can adopt these policies and everyone who is at high risk can get vaccinated. We can protect ourselves. We can keep it mass choice. We know how to do this. Hand-washing, keep our kids home when they're sick. And people who are high risk get vaccinated. Thank you. Do we have any discussion from the board? It needed to be turned into a tent. It needed to be turned into a tent at the beginning. I gave 20 years of my professional career teaching children in Cockroach Valley schools. Ma'am. And I would like to comment on this. Ma'am. And I would. Our guidelines are to turn in the cards. If you have the respect to let me speak. Turn in the cards. I would like to speak. All right, go ahead. Please go. OK, you could start the clock for you for two minutes. Thank you. The idea that we can keep from sharing viruses with one another by being six feet apart and wearing masks is as realistic as putting a mask on a fish and pretending it will protect it from getting wet. That's from Arthur Fürstenberg of Cell Phone Task Force. And I have an article I'll give you here by a medical doctor called Questioning COVID. And the connection to 5G. It turns out that the 5G radiation from insulations going on all over the world, beginning in Wuhan, was followed shortly thereafter by COVID cases. It's in this book. The contagion of wide viruses, including coronavirus, are not the cause of the disease. And Dr. Thomas Cowan postulates, people are getting sick and dying, but it's from radiation poisoning and other poisoning that have the same symptoms and unsanitary conditions. So damaging children like this, mask wearing, is really unconscionable. And I saw something on the blue masks on the high wire, made in a third world country. They were stacked up. They're on the floor. It shows the nanoparticles breaking off and made out of nothing plastic. You just heard a horrible testimony here of what has happened to one child. And you know that this is happening. Other child children do not harm children. Do not follow this. We're at time. Do you have any discussion from the board? Trustee Soto. Good evening, everybody, and thank you for your comments. First off, I'd like to acknowledge President Holm, Trustee D'Sirpa, who are both in the medical field, and they do an incredible job. Matter of fact, Trustee D'Sirpa was telling you a story about her work prior to get her. Just as she arrived, what's going on at her hospital. Now, that being said, with all due respect, I'm going to be the cynic. I, myself, would like to see peer reviews of a mask that says my dry fit mask works, your handkerchief works, paper mask work, and the other mask. There's no standard for a mask. It's just a face covering. Like the gentleman said regarding OSHA, he's right. If you're going to wear a mask, you need to be fit. It has to be properly assessed, all that. And that's the only effective mask. Also, guidance, mandate, guideline, recommendation are not laws. There is no health and safety code, business and profession code that specifies that you need to do this. It's a recommendation. Now, I took a note, and it's a note I've taken four times. So I'm here to defend the children, number one. And secondly, I'm defending the Constitution of the United States. So I, like I said, with all due respect, I appreciate your work. I appreciate what you do. I appreciate the effort that went into this. But I cannot support this mandate. Vice President Shulker, I understand we all have different beliefs. We all want what's best for our children. We all have different studies that we've read. We've all read different studies. We've all looked for peer review. The fact is, we have a coronavirus. Another fact, our government hasn't done enough double line studies. That's not our fault. That's not these people sitting up here's fault. That's our government's fault. So in your opinion, I'm speaking for my brother-in-law, who is in the hospital fighting for his life. If you can be loud, I can be loud. He's fighting for his life because he had to have a double lung transplant due to COVID. Yes, he had early invention. We had nurses, my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law, my other sister-in-law fighting for him from out of state. He had early intervention. He had treatment. He was healthy. He did not survive COVID complications. And as a matter of fact, he almost died. He had to be rushed back to the hospital after he was released. He had to be airlifted from Washington to UCSF to qualify for a double lung transplant when he was told, we were told, while he's in a coma that he doesn't qualify because COVID patients don't qualify for a lung transplant because there's no science to back it up. Well, there's not a lot of science to back a lot of things up these days. But I will say this, I'm not going to tell my niece or my nephew that their dad died because they brought COVID home to him. I'm not going to be that person. I'm not going to be the person who doesn't listen to my constituents who have asked me to have masks. We have mask choice. We have a virtual academy. We have Pacific Coast Charter. Those are mask choice. And at this time, I stand for trying to take some precautions until the government, until a serious double blind study tells me something different, I am for masking. Trustee Aroscoe, any other forward comments? I am going to ask that the public please respect other people's comments. Thank you. What I am hearing in the diverse comments tonight is deep concern and commitment to the well-being of our students and our community. I hear that. We are very much in agreement about that. The challenge that we face is that we have very divergent views on how to manage our current situation. I have been a nurse for over 16 years. I hold multiple science degrees. And I'm currently in a doctoral program with extensive training in epidemiology and population health. I have advocated for patient safety in the hospital, in Sacramento, and in Washington, DC. In the thousands of hours that I have spent in the operating room, I have not once had a patient request that surgical staff remove their masks because of concerns about oxygen deprivation and carbon dioxide toxicity. Science, except in extremely rare and limited cases, does not work in absolutes. Evidence must be weighed and considered across multiple contexts. I read the resolution that was submitted to the Board in support of mass choice. I also read the sources that were cited. What concerned me was that many of the sources were not as supportive of the resolution statements as they were represented to be. Important context from those sources was missing. I am a scientist and an ethicist at heart. I don't promise 100% surety when that's just not possible. What I can promise is that I do conduct my own research. And by that, I mean literature searches among validated databases using peer-reviewed journals. It means critically evaluating research results, weighing the types of studies conducted in the statistical measures used, and assessing limitations and potential biases. Masks aren't about living in fear. They are about living in hope. Hope that we can reduce the load on our health care system, that we can keep our schools open so that our students have opportunity to learn and have much needed social interaction. It means recognizing that our freedoms have always been bounded by the effects that they have on others, like having freedom of speech but not being permitted to shout fire in a theater, or being able to smoke inside a hospital. I am in support of the resolution to follow CDPH guidelines. The evidence supporting it is comprehensive and contextual. For those supporting alternative resolutions, I do hear you. I empathize with your concerns and wanting to do the best as you see fit. And my vote goes with the best available evidence and ethical considerations for our entire PBSD community. For further comments, I will entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve. I'll second. I have a first and second. All those in favor? Aye. All those in favor? Motion carries, 4-1. Moving item 9.4, resolutions 21-2207, developer fees level 2, 2021-22. Report will be presented by Clint Rucker. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Rodriguez. I am happy to bring before you the resolution for our developer fees for level 2. As I noted in the presentation during our public hearing, this is to increase our developer fees for level 2, which increases it from $4.08 up to the $5.38. This resolution is needed in order to enact the developer fees. If it is approved by the board, level 2 fees actually go into effect immediately. So starting tomorrow, we'll be able to charge developer fees at level 2. Just to talk about some of the projects. I know we had a trustee, the SIRPA, asked before some of the projects that we've used developer fees on to kind of see what we're able to do for our students. We, part of it, we've assigned about 500,000 of those developer fees towards our legacy kitchen. So to provide a learning space for our students. We did replace brand new restroom and sold-off. And we also have done elementary playgrounds throughout the district. So again, developer fees really go towards supporting our students and supporting kind of the impact that development has on our district. While we are in declining enrollment, we kind of see less of that because of the new development. So at this time, I'm going to have to take any questions and we would recommend that the board approve this resolution to increase our developer fees together. Do we have any speakers to decide on? All right. Do we have any discussion from the board? Our trustee, the SIRPA. For the viewing public at home, could you please talk about what the new developer fees are and how much they've grown up? Yeah. So currently our developer fees at level one are $4.08 per square foot. They'll go to $5.38 per square foot. So this is whenever anyone wants to develop in within our district boundaries, those are charged out to any developer, whether it's an individual doing a residential or a large business creating a large residential. Is that answer your question? Yeah. Can you say it one more time? There was some screaming happening. Can I have a second? Not a problem. Distracted. The whole piece? Huh? I can start the whole piece. Yeah, that's the number. Yeah. So level two fees will enact residential fees going from $4.08 to $5.38 per square foot. And that's for any residential build? Any residential build and that means whether it's an individual or a company building mass amounts of condos or things like that. Yeah, I always worry about that's such a hardship on people that want to add a bedroom. You know, it's just a hardship on families. And when housing costs are so expensive to begin with. Is there any way just to levy that onto like commercial? So sadly, there's not. So commercial are set up 66 cents, which we did do in our level one, which we always do, lifting fees each year, but level two is only for residential. Okay. A detail that we had in me that ran us on time, so maybe in the future we could look you're marking some of these fees to the grounds, to the field. Yeah. So developer fees we have in the past used on fields because they do actually fit into the letter of the law because they are a learning space for students, right? We do have physical education that takes place on the field. So while they are not your traditional classroom, they are an outdoor school. Just to clarify, so I'm hearing everything right. These developer fees are for on new housing developments, correct? That's correct. It's any development done residentially? Any construction. So if you wanted to add on to your house, it would be like per square foot, five dollars and something like that. But it would not be for example, a family mall or something like that? That's your old school? Thank you. Oh, I just wanted to echo what Tristina said. I think Chris at Rent-A-Songs and I also feel like we need to, yeah. I will. Okay. So Clint, does that include the development that's going on in Elone Parkway right now than the building there per unit? Yeah, so I would have to look to see if they've already paid developer fees at the old rate, but it would include that if they have not paid developer fees. Those are assessed? Yes. Correct. So they're revenue from there too? Absolutely. And this year we saw quite a bit of a decrease. We only saw about 319,000 in developer fees in the past. We typically see around 500. Now one other question, have you heard anything regarding the development in downtown and the housing that's going to go above the retail area down Main Street? Now is that going to include developer fees with that development as well? So again, if it is residential development, they will have to pay those same developers in 1st, 4th, 5th. There will be a lot coming down the pipe. That's always the hope. So we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Do we have a first and second? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? I just want to take a five minute break so that we can kind of reset and regather so that the board can bring their full attention to the remaining items. So we'll take a five minute break and then we'll come back. We'll go ahead and reconvene. And we're going to move on to item 9.5, Resolution 21, 2206, ASB creation. Flynn, that's all you have. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. So this one might look a little confusing to all of you as we have had associated student body funds for a long time in our district, most recently in actually in 1920, GASB, which is our Governmental Accounting Standards Board. So they're the ones who look at governmental accounting and say, here's kind of best practices that should be done. They actually recommended that districts that manage ASB funds should separate those out into a completely different fund. So as all of you know, we have fund one, which is our general fund, fund nine is our charter, fund 13 would be our cafeteria, et cetera. We have a lot of different funds. GASB's recommending that we actually create a fund eight to separate out ASB funds from our general fund because really they shouldn't be intermixed. Now I do want to clarify something. We're not currently mixing these funds. We have a specific management code so we have a 21-digit account string. In that account string, we have a specific code that shows these are ASB funds. So we're doing everything perfectly by the book at this moment. This will just help our accounting department more easily notice those funds and be able to identify them quickly. It's not that we're doing anything wrong. It's really just best practice that we want to include that recently came out. So we do need a resolution to create this new special fund. But as I noted, it's nothing that we're doing directly, it's really just the best practice and it will help our accounting department. So I would recommend that the board approve this resolution to create fund eight for our student activity special revenue. Thank you. Do we have any public figures in the board? We do not. All right. Do we have any discussions on the board? Trustee D'Sirfin? Hi. This is a great topic. How much is in the fund every year? How much do we put into it for ASB? It's a, so we, not that we put in, but that students raise and that goes through that fund is around $200,000 each year. So it's a very small amount in our general fund, but it should really show. How much is it? 200,000. And that's for all schools and it's all self raised. We don't match any of it. We don't match any of ASB funds. No, we actually can't match ASB funds. We have to keep them very separate to make sure that we do meet our needs. A fiduciary criteria. Okay. And you know, is this for junior high too or just, or middle school? Anyone that wants to create an ASB and kind of raise their own money again. ASB has a lot of laws that surround it because of the fact that they do want to keep it student-based and kind of keep the finance side of the district out of those funds, which is why creating a new fund has to kind of separate it more for each one. The public to see too that right now when you look at our general fund you'll see those dollars are included. It's really nice to separate it out for the public to see these are actually funds raised for student-based projects. Okay. And in anyone's experience who has worked in a different district, do the Swedish streets always contribute anything? Not in this manner, no. I mean, you can contribute to efforts in which they are moving forward. So sometimes you have ASBs that are very involved and they may want to do a project that the district then contributes, but you always keep it very separate. Actually, most of the districts have fine means when it comes to ASB because they do actually contribute or co-mingle, which you can't do. Okay. So we're highly recommending this resolution for that new student-based project. Okay, make a motion to the support. I have a first and a second. Do I have any further comments? You're none. I will call for the vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you on behalf of the accounting department. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Item 9.6, Cruz Ayo Network Distribution Equipment site joint agreement, and then the number two report will be presented by Dan Monson. Good evening, President Monson. Good morning, you guys. I'm bringing for your consideration an additional agenda to be extended to Cruz Ayo Community Center across four additional sites. So that's my respect. Thank you, all of us, and all of us. And this will just allow us to expand our partnership by community, students, and families. We're pretty excited that this partnership and some of the success that they've had that we've got that well represented in close to 600 years. This expansion will allow the reduction of public roads, neighborhoods, including all districts in the area that have a lot of good roads, that it can happen. This agenda will then increase that and allow for more energy. Mr. President? Any discussion from the board? Justi Soto? Again, yeah, thank you for the effort. That's awesome that we're able to reach Hall District. My question is, how are we able to amplify the signal to reach that far back now? Because I know there was some challenges before, right? Right. So the infrastructure that Cruz Ayo Community is really lining the site, right? So off the airport, it's building a lot of good roads along the way. In order to get to Hall District, they actually are having a lot of good fiber line. So this is the very best infrastructure to get back to make it look like it shows the desired numbers to help facilitate this. Now, is that above ground? I don't know exactly. Usually it runs on telephone poles and there may be sections where it does go below ground, but I don't know exactly. All right, awesome. Justi Aresko? But we've been talking about this. Expanding that infrastructure to get to those parts of the area, so. Thank you so much. Well, no. Right now we have nine schools, so this will have four additional. We're nine facilities, so one of them will be five or six, eight schools. Right, exactly, yeah. Yeah, I second. This is great. So exciting. It's building equity into these communities where there was none, and so it's great. Is there any contribution from the district for this project? There's no cost to the district? Okay. Yeah, it's really just a collaboration and to allow it to come out so it is. I think you could make a pitch for up to us. I have a pitch for every part of each area. Yeah, we have no internet. Thank you. Make a cruise on your customers. For like 30 years. And I just wanted to echo the appreciation for the collaboration, you know, having that knowledge of equity, you know, including equity, you know, but it's just, it is so important. We're living in an era where it's more and more necessary and it does give us options when conditions change and having that flexibility allows us to adapt. I'm very excited. I'm gonna hear the first and second. There's no further discussion. You're welcome. Oh, something. So, after that time. I just wanted to say thank you and thank you Dr. Rodriguez. I know this is something that PBUSB took a initiative on with getting our students and reaching out to Cruzio before the government actually did anything. So I just want to say it's something that you guys have been working hard on. We've talked about it in different committee meetings and I really thank you. And I know you're working at Aptos Hills. So soon I hope the whole district will be covered. Excellent. So I'll go ahead and call for the vote. All those in favor? Aye. Let me oppose. Thank you. I'm sorry for turning the mic off. All right. 9.7 approve Williams quarter two report April, May, June, 2021 report will be presented by Allison Gonzalez. Good evening President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. I have the Williams quarterly report for you tonight as part of the Williams settlement. If required, all districts will adopt a complete process. And then that we also fully report about the rules that we took. And so I'm happy to report that this quarter any public speaker, any comments from the board all entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve. Second. Got a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 9.8, Memorandum of Understanding between PVFT and PVSD, that are refunded by your student has start split shifts. The report will be presented by Allison Gonzalez. Everyone, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. But one of the two MOUs in front of you tonight are from the Child Development Program. So we do appreciate our child development teachers and we do appreciate their contributions to our students in our district. And while some split shifts are necessary, this MOU clarifies that we are paying up to an additional hour at the Persian grade in order to reduce the number of split shifts. It actually reduced to get by half. We also establish a rotating schedule for the federally funded migrant student on the start program, where staff will rotate annually. And that way they're not always having to equitably distribute the split shifts among the staff while we need them. And I'd like to do appreciate our collaboration with the district. Thank you. Do we have any public figures? No public speakers. Any discussion from the board? So Vice President Schoenberg? So just to clarify, is there a reason why we're not offering the travel to someone who's doing a split shift, even if it's up on the same site, because we are forcing them to come back? It's my understanding that we're not able to pay people to drive to and from work. And so we did look at that as an option in our conversation, but we can't do that. When we do have employees travel for their work, like meaning that's why you see them in between locations, that is an important part of my journey. Thank you for the question. Are you ready for the discussion? We have a motion. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? 9.9, our memorandum of understanding between PVFT and PBSD, our Buenos Chis... We're definitely getting for the evening, aren't we? Buena Vista Children's Center split shift. Alison. Yes, thank you again, President Holm. Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. So, similarly to the previous MOU, the only difference with this one is that the Buena Vista Children's Center already, they don't rotate them, they advertise them as such. So that's a little bit of a difference. I didn't mention any of the ones that they don't advertise it, so we have agreed to do that so that employees know they're applying for. But one of us already had one of the packages. That extra hour is very good. No public seat. Court comments, the motion? Only the motion to approve. I second. I've got a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. All right, so 9. President Holm, can I make a motion to extend the meeting? Oh, yes, please. Can I extend the meeting till 11.30 PM? We've got a motion to extend the meeting. I'll second. First and second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We'll extend the meeting till 11.30. Item 9.10, accept early literacy support block grant funding for a year one implementation. Add up to be given by Casey Coffman. Evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez, it brings me great pleasure to be here tonight. You requested my return when we actually were approved by the state for the funding for early literacy support block grant. And so I am pleased to ask for you, you're able to accept the funds that the CDP has awarded to Amesque Calabasas and Radford Elementary School. And so we were able to submit our early literacy action plan, which was actually approved by the CDP. And so on a yearly basis, the funds will continue to be approved by the CDP for the free site. So staff requests and recommends they accept the funds for the early literacy support block. No public speaking. Any discussion from the board? All in favor of motion? All moved to approve. Second. I've got a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. For item 9.11, second reading of board policy five, one, two, three, promotion, acceleration, retention report will be presented by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Yeah, thank you very much. So as I stated during the first reading, we're required to follow AB 104, which is new retention guidelines. And so because of that, as we, as site what we do is every time that there is a assembly bill that has information that a lot requires us to update our board policy, we then do so. So there are two tonight. The first one is in particular, and again, you'll see the red line. So you'll see the differences in there. Because I did not receive any additional feedback, it is identical to what was presented previously. You'll note that it was required that we begin to discuss a transitional kindergarten. And so information regarding transitional kindergarten is in there stating that it is actually a grade that a child normally would automatically go into kindergarten, knock her straight, and then provide the process for if a child was to wish to go straight or their parents wished them to do so. It also has some updates of language on there because this was, this is a fairly long standing item. It was originally approved in 2007. So we're talking, you know, over a decade ago where we approved this. And so I'm asking for the board to recommend to approve our recommendation for the board policy M5123. Any public speakers to this item? No public comment. Any discussion from the board? I'll entertain a motion. I'm sorry, I need to discuss this. Oh, okay, by all means. Dr. Rodriguez, can you talk a little bit more? It's confusing to me what this is. For many years in this district, our gate programs got cut, by the way, so I think in lieu of differentiation of clustering is really, in my mind, kind of a business goal. I'm wondering if you could, in terms of gifted and talented students, if you're accelerating kids to do this. Okay, so there's, so all of our students, or is that something totally different? Why would consider it totally different? But I can explain it. So about three years ago now we began gate clustering. So prior we used to have every teacher got an equitable amount, or equal, sorry, not equitable, an equal amount of gate students in a way to perceive it as being beneficial that every teacher had high-performance students. What we know to be true is that that doesn't actually work when it comes to instruction. And so we have now clustered students, so Dr. Kaplan, who is one of the premier gifted and talented professors and researchers from USC, she did a lot of work on clustering. So we now cluster our students, so in groups of six or more. So if you have a site that has 12 students, then it is possible that you have two teachers that have a cluster. Because what we know happens is that the children wind up not really being able to be exposed to the high-level rigor that they deserve when there's only one or two of them in the classroom. So that changed. And it was, at the time, about three years ago, that was a huge shift for some people. Some people didn't like that shift. We still do universal screening of all of our students. So all of our students have the ability to see whether or not their being is going to be noted as gifted and talented. Once you get to the middle school and high school level, it is mostly at the honor and AP level that you wind up seeing it. But especially pre-pandemic, but during pandemic as well, we had parent gate nights that were highly, I mean, highly had high participation levels. We had a lot of people coming. We used to have them in person. And then this past year, we did them online. And so it's really about training. What I have found, and which is why there's this requirement of this observation, is often you accelerate children past the grade level, not realizing that later on, the maturity of the child. And sometimes the academic goals are not evident until years later. I have personally accelerated children as a principal, sometimes at work. And I have had times where, especially with boys, because of their stature going to night grade one year ahead of time, kind of sometimes can catch up with them. And I've seen it too positive at the beginning and then not always positive when they get to the high school level. And so this really, the next one we'll talk about notification and what we have to do with the parent. But this really is just making sure that we, it's more for the retention piece than the acceleration piece. The TK is acceleration because some parents don't want the two year process. But you have to remember that when you're in TK, then you come in as a four year old. Or you can come in as a four year old. And so you're not necessarily leading to accelerate quickly. You still have the opportunity to graduate even at the age of 17, even with TK. And so, especially about your career, especially with TK. Thank you, Arisha. All those in favor? And item 9.12, second reading of board policy 5124, communication with parents guardians. So this one, it had a small update on the ways in which we engaged parents. So because it was over a decade ago, we didn't really engage through email and digital platforms that now has been included. The main new change through AD 104 is what you see in the middle of what we're required to do with them. So we always were required to consult with them and have a conversation. But now AD 104 specifically states what we must say, what we must actually speak with them about. So we must talk about, and again, this is more about the retention piece and then the acceleration piece in this case. But we have to talk about all learning recovery options. We do have to talk about academic data and any relevant. And then we also have to talk about the effects of people retention. Because as I mentioned last meeting, the majority, grand majority of positive effects of people retention disappear after the age of 13. And it is a challenge because you, especially if you only are in an elementary school, you do see the initial benefits. And so people then perpetuate that practice. But if you actually follow children along, by the time that they are 13, which is generally eighth grade or ninth grade, those benefits generally wind up all disappearing. And it no longer has more detrimental effects than positive. And so we have to do, if we do have a parent who requests a retention decision, we must give them, we must meet with them and then give them a reason for a response within 10 calendar days. So I'd request your approval. You have all the speakers? No public speakers. Any discussion from the board? All entertain a motion? Make a motion to approve. I got a second? I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 9.13, agreeing team committee selection update. Report will be presented by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Yeah, so we, here I go. So we have, at the last board meeting, we established the green team. We sent out a survey and had 37 responses. So our community is definitely in supportive of our green team and wants to be participatory. As we were reviewing the 37 selections, we realized that we really weren't going to be able to have a balanced representation of our entire district unless we expanded the number of people which were on the committee. And so what you'll see is some have remained the same, but there are a few additions. So the additions to the list that you see is we added one elementary administrator, one secondary administrator. We did expand the number of teachers just because being able to have teachers in multiple geographical areas, we thought was positive. So we went from two elementary teachers to three. We had originally just two secondary teachers. We decided because of their contribution that we would go to two middle school and two high school just because they have diverse backgrounds. We also shifted to three non-classroom staff members. So we had more of a broader response and so instead of it just being classified, we decided designated as non-classroom staff. We also increased it to four parents instead of three parents so that we could have not only geographical but grade span representation. And lastly, just because we wanna make sure that my request is clear because I'm required to give you the recommendation and then you approve is that there was a statement but not an action item related to the selection that Vice President Stockard and Trustee Orozco view the two committee members representing the board. And so this action item would change the composition of the committee and also establish the two board members who will be representing the committee. Do we have any public speakers here, Senator? Yeah, we have one, Sharon, here because I did apply to be on the committee because it says we can have community members. And I'm very green because Dr. Rodriguez is about that. He's a group. I mean, I worked with this migrant head start to so that they not use as much class as they would use me and I'm the one that got the board and not use those plastic bottles, plastic bottles that we were drinking. I'm the one that got her. Anyway, and then I worked on solar for seven years, whatever. So anyway, so I, through a week to be on the team. So I'm just wondering, is there gonna be community members on the team? It said that there was going to be. Oh, I can't comment on this. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm just being, I'm acting like I'm talking to you guys, like I'm talking to you guys after this. Okay, so. Sorry about that. Okay, sorry. So anyways, so I'm hoping that there will be community members on the drinks. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion from the board? Can I have a motion? All right. A second. Great, we have a first and second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. All right, item 9.14, Lighthouse Leadership Development Proposal. So since my arrival, we've really tried to continue to build the, the capacity of our expanded cabinet. I feel that we've made great strides in holding our, our regular expanded cabinet meetings, doing our book studies, having capacity building around that. At the same time, we want to continue, we're in challenging time, right? Whether it's COVID or, you know, challenging diverse opinions, we want to arm our top administrators with good training and information. And so Lighthouse has been doing work since 2014. We researched different firms that could come in and help support us. We really wanted someone who was going to be providing us engaging experiences and really build around what we felt was important topics. And so you'll see for the 35 members of expanded cabinet, they would be focusing on these five areas that we feel will help improve our system in general and also be able to help us to service the schools better. So one is communication skills, coaching to improve performance, resilience under stress, leading change and power of engaging leaders. And so all 35 expanded cabinet members would be going through, it's a little over a year process in order to be able to focus on these modules. And we feel that we are able, we have additional professional development money. So it's not coming out of regular general fund. It's restricted general fund that is title two funding. And so we're requesting that you help us invest in our expanded cabinet. Any public speakers to the side? No public speakers. Any board comments? Yeah, just to show. Dr. Rodriguez in the training, do you know like a little bit more in dots about like some of the topics that will be covered besides the overall general, like using the social equity movement? Yeah, so if you look at the actual module, if you look at the attachment, it tells you what for each area, it tells you the different outcomes that will be provided. And so I will say that this is so for example, if you're, I wouldn't necessarily say that it's going to ensure that people are more equity focused or have a better vision or closely relevant, what I will say is they'll be able to take our vision and be able to implement it further because they're able to, whether it's lead change or have those challenging conversations or coat someone up, they will be able to leave that work at a higher level because of it. And so, we reviewed a lot of different companies. They have had a lot of support. He provided some of that information at the back for you to see just some of the companies that they've worked with and just some of the ratings that they have. Granted, they did provide it with these ratings, but you'll see that they did work with some school districts, large school districts, and had great success. We feel confident that they'll be able to try this out. For comments, I'll entertain a motion. Just a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Item 9.15, grand jury report. The report will be presented by Mr. Rodriguez. Yeah. I'm just going to jump with you here. The opening of the attachment and then kind of scroll with me if you're ready to do that. So I want the attachment that is the, that's the 9.25.21, so they can see the other notes. It's the other, the one that has the date in it, 9.25.21. There you go. Okay. So as I had done or I did a report on this when we first received it, we were, I did have people after they saw the grand jury report they were like, you've seen a grand jury report with accommodations. Good job. And for the most part, it was pretty easy to respond to. So we were required, I'm required on your behalf to respond to seven findings and six recommendations. And so if you can just scroll just a bit. So in each one there were, as I mentioned, there were seven findings. We agreed with every finding except for one we partially disagreed. So the first one is about since this is learning, we'll continue after school reopened. Students, teachers, families and administrators will need to continue learning new ways to operate and we'll require continued support. We agreed with that finding. Number two was students, teachers and families were well served by the continuously updated information provided by the PDUSB Superintendents Weekly FAC hosting on the PDUSB website. I of course agreed with that one. Number three was the administrators, teachers, parents and students themselves are all understandably concerned about student social emotional issues arising from the pandemic. We agreed with that one. Number four, the reasons that 2% of PDUSB students have been lost are not well understood. Possible answers might include that they are either logging not logging on at all or have left the area. We actually partially disagreed with that because we had a very dedicated group of staff members on both site and district wellness team that worked with our non-participating students and we knew and we identified and understood their point of need. I think, couldn't we always fix what the problem was? No, right? And so that's why we did have what they coined as lost students, but I don't believe it was because we didn't understand it. We actually had people, we had in person meeting with parents and we conducted home visits. So we were pretty knowledgeable of what would you need for each child, but it's just sometimes it was complex to be able to support it. So that is the one finding that we partially disagreed with because we believe that we did know who they were and why they weren't engaging. Finding number five is the safe spaces works well supporting online learning as well as providing counseling and food to students. Carol would say, yes, that is true, yes. So we agreed with that one. So that was an agreement. Number six was even with the training provided to teachers and internet accessibility provided to students distance learning has not worked well for some students. And that is true, it didn't work well for some students. And then finding number seven additional upgrades to air quality systems and furniture are necessary to comply with COVID-19 safety protocols and we agreed with that as well. So you'll see that we didn't have a response for the ones that we agreed with because we only needed to respond when we didn't agree with their findings. And now here are their six recommendations. Because they are fairly long, I'm just gonna summarize what I wrote and I'm not going to read because I know the board has read the packet. But the first recommendation is within the first six months prepare for continued distance learning and possible future situation. They should that we should survey students and staff. And this just speaks to all the surveys that we did do and the information that we did do. So as was in the second finding where we were highly communicative, you'll see that we actually did do already significant survey. So they gave us six months to survey our people. We actually were surveying all along and we did massive surveys well before the six months. So we agreed and said it had been implemented. Number two was around the safe spaces and they wanted us to continue the safe spaces and evaluate and modify over time. As students return to school. So we actually said we would not implement that because it wasn't warranted or reasonable. So we believe that our students since they're back in full-time in-person learning that they have that safe learning environment within their classroom and with their teachers and our staff. So I did note that we would do the safe spaces if for some reason we were to go back and be required to go back to distance learning. We would definitely do it but we wouldn't do it without if we were in-person. It doesn't really make sense. Recommendation three, so to basically keep it up. They say keep your website updated with information, resources for teachers, students and families and so we have done that on Wednesday July 28th. We received our brand new updates from the state and by Friday July 30th, 2021, we had a brand new website up. Thank you to Alicia and the team. And so we specifically put some links in there so that people can see, but we're proud of how it looks currently and it is completely different from before and updated. So the next recommendation is that within six months that we should provide summer and after school program with the child with learning loss of social emotional issues. So I spoke to the ELO plan that really encapsulated that. We spoke to what they said that they wanted and then I went ahead and if you keep scrolling then we spoke to what we've already done. So they gave us six months to do it for the summer of 2022. Well, we already did the summer of 2021 and we intend to do it the summer of 2022 as well. And so this is just information on what we did. Recommendation five, it talks about air quality. So we said that is implemented. So we spent two, so we referenced our involvement as you guys approved. We had the support of Air Tech and Geo Wilson to do the evaluation of all of our sites. And on October 28th of 2020, so well before they're asking us to require to do it, then you guys approved contracts for various contractors to engage in HVAC so that we could be ready for our return in the spring, which did occur. And we did note that we are doing additional, all of our primary safety upgrades are completed. I did know on July 21st that you guys did take additional steps to increase the efficiencies of the HVAC system through additional allocation, but it doesn't mean that our emergency primary safety upgrades weren't done, so they were. And then lastly, they talked about the lost units. And so then I talked about it being implemented. And so what we were able to do is we were able to any child that is within our system, currently we are aware if they are not present, we're making automated phone calls, individual phone calls, and when necessary, both the site and district wellness teams are conducting those home visits. And then my last paragraph is just stating that I created this, it was approved at this board meeting and that I created it with input from you all and that it also constitutes my response because I had a voluntary ability to respond, but I would just accept the same thing. So this letter will be your response and your required response and my voluntary response it's approved. I have any public speakers to decide. No public speakers. Any discussion from the board? Good job. Yeah, no, just the commendations. My grand jury. All right, so I'll enter to the motion. I'll move to the second. First and second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries again. All right, we'll move on to section 10, our report and discussion items. Item 10.1 are Watsonville-Aptos Santa Cruz Adult Education Annual Update. The report will be presented by Dr. Nancy Bilsich and Todd Livingston. Can you believe it? We're gonna have something positive tonight. There's always positive things, but we've been waiting now, I guess, for a couple of years. I don't think I've been here in a long time. So I know that it's going to be a positive thing. So I want to say good evening, President Holm, other trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, of course, our superintendent. And we're excited to share with you an overview of your presentation in a kind of a limited format because I know that we have a lot of slides and we have many times, in this case. But we're going to highlight the important details. And our leadership team is, we have Susan Drew. She and I can really instrumental in working with us as the Community Advisory Council President. So our agenda for tonight is going to go through our background and our history and our governance. A lot has changed with our governance and program areas and our wash before it that we had, the Rio de Heart Memorial Wing, which you know a little bit about, and of course our community partners. So with our background in history, 1928, not even me, but that's when our school started. And it started as an evening high school. And there's been a lot of proud tradition of welcoming all kinds of immigrants. That's what Washington is all about. All the various districts have come in, all different nationalities, everybody's come through our town. So we've gone through, and we had the Ractal School, and the Institute of Elementary School. So they brought it back and we ended up with the Institute of Language and Culture downtown. And then they needed a place to be. So we had to move out. 2015, yeah, very different, very unusual. We made the site Green Valley Center located here. The Institute of Language and Culture. But we also have other sites throughout the world. Wherever we're asked to go, we try to find a way to do it. Well, Governor, what about Governor? It's changed tremendously. Because we used to just be, you know, watching the Ractal School. And you know, these people, thank God Dr. Rodriguez is our chair. So she's extremely supportive of our school. These are the people that we have to meet with accountability and what we're doing. We have to give a report every month. And then our teams, well, there's City of New York City, that's you. And then we also have to increase it, City Hall. Yep, they attend our Community Advisory Council. They give us all the accountability that way. Because we have the California Adult Education Program. That's our major funding source, state. And it's called CASE. It's called Sting Numerous Things. And now today it's called CASE. Then we have the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. That's what we're doing. That's called BIOA. Then locally, we have the Workforce Development Board. And CAUTI is the one with that. Public Education Administrators. Of course, our Community Advisory Committee. And the California Department of Education. They have an Adult Education Program. And we have three state leadership projects. Professional Development. We call it CAUTI. The Comprehensive Adult Education Assessment System. CAUTI. And our Outreach Program. Technical Assistance. So there's a lot of organizations involved in our little field. I think this time I want you to be aware. We have a Workforce Community. And we also have an Assessment. The Workforce Assessment. That we work with CELTA also. Working on this Cognitive College. That's what happens. Our main thing is the medical. Because we know that we have a need for. So we have CNA people. We have a class. And those students are almost hired because we support them. The Clinical Medical Assistance Theory and Clinical Program. We have our program in the medical field. And we just added the opportunity. We have more areas than CQD. We have a 3D printing class. We have an manufacturing sector. We get decorated. People love that class. They want to go in. They want to learn. They make their face. They come to decorate. They get jobs. Cognitive College. So right now we're in the process of. We've met all of their. Down here in CQD. In Brooklyn. CQD's Regiment. Then we have the Integrated Education and Training. Lots of acronyms in CELTA. And this is where we get ESL students. They also want to start a career. We offer them in private education, health care. Then the English learners. We have classes at Green Valley here. Downtown. Down here there's doctor testing. That's how you get our money. We give all students. We come in after 40 hours or more. And we get a postcard. Four hours. And then we have students. And the learning center. What's the learning center about? Well, that's a high school program. You don't want to come in and get a high school diploma. Some are just a few credits short. And we come in and we have the program at the center. Green Valley has the only CQD testing site in the county. Then we go to parent education. And this is the first time. First of two. Boy, I tell you. You know we live in a birding community. You would know it more and more every day. I'm telling you. These kids, these kids. These students come in and they already go find those birds. And they go everywhere. We had a second. We were ready to go. Nope. Too many. We had to open another set. We had to use that as a place where people wanted to go out and see the birds and arms out. Ceramics has been going on for a long time. That's what's been going on for the last 10 years. Oh my goodness. You can't keep up with that. You have too many people wanting to learn how to drive. This is a good thing. But the teachers are... I've got too many students. And I'm drive, drive. So they're driving and they're having a good time. And the people are very, very busy in 2020. But have you seen it? They came in. They did their thing. We were excited that they gave us our students. Because you know a lot of times. And then there is for us the focus, for our student food, student support services. Getting ready to put up the signs. And so that's really us. And then the last thing is our... We can't do anything with that. Appreciation. Do you have any public speakers to decide on? Public speakers. Do you have any questions or comments from the board? Trustee Roscoe? Yeah. For the critical areas to focus on. The last one point is what's the plan? Do you have any ideas on programs that you plan on bringing in? Well, I say one of the things we focus on is health course. Because people really have the demand for health. And our optician program. I'm going to be discarding it. We're going to be adding it. And then part of the college. We listen to our community advisory counselor. We listen to the county reports that say what kind of jobs are happening. And what we can help our students. So those are the two right now. There's always ideas. Do you have ideas? I will take it. All right. There's something to look into. I think it's because it's been the closest one to our community here. It's probably kind of a field road. Gavilan College. And that's our age back program. And I think that's just from being out in the community of interest. And something worth looking for. Also to us, probably up in San Jose. So it probably will have to be three phase. Because of all the materials and everything that's involved. But I think people will be willing to pay. Well, and be on the side of the road. And everything that will be happening. That's what we're planning to do. Like the Cousin's College. You know Cousin's College. I think I got it all. Yeah. That's a great idea. That's pretty much all right. So I have a question about your Cousin's College program. Okay. First, will it be in Spanish also? Or in English online? Well, we always have Spanish too. I think we have books that are in English, but probably in Spanish. Okay. Because I know when I had to get my license here. There was a lot of people who were Spanish speaking. And so that would be something to definitely consider. And then are you going to offer cosmetology only? Or are you going to offer like esthetician and the nail tech? They're going to offer. Yeah. In the Spanish. Perfect. Thank you. For myself, I was, my eyes were opened about the demand for cosmetology as well. I attended a Cabrillo community outreach event a couple weeks ago. And there were so many people there who were asking about cosmetology. And I was like, I had no idea this was in such demand. And you know, but one of the things that one of the people there said stood out to and they said, you know, I want to work where I make people feel better about themselves. And I was like, wow, I haven't ever looked at it that way. And you know, and that, you know, what we're talking about here, so many things that the adult program does really does help, you know, our community members connect to the wider community. Be it cosmetology, be it, you know, or driving. Any of these various ways that it can help. Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Are you still, are you still doing any instruction in the jails? Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Item 10.2. Appointment in terms of commission members. Mayor at rule 3.1. Thank you so much. Good evening. President home board members and Dr. Rodriguez. The personnel commission rules require that on or about September 1st of each year that I notify the board and CSDA of the commissioner whose term will expire this year. The appointing authority and whether or not that commissioner will accept three appointments. Commissioner Nunez has served as a commissioner's joint appointee for the last three years and has decided not to serve another term. His term will expire in December this year. He's going to serve out the remainder of his term. So at the August commission meeting, commissioners McFadden and Valdivia Casey gave direction to staff to open a recruitment to fill the recruitment. The recruitment is going to join currently and it does close on September 10. And interviews will take place. Actually there's a correction in the agenda item that's needed to get moved to September 23rd. So that's when the anticipated interviews. So this item is just for information for the board. Thank you. Any public speaker? Any questions or comments from the board? Thank you. We will move on to section 11, our consent agenda. Consent agenda items are routine items coming before the board. Do we have any public speakers to that? No public speakers. Are there any items the board wishes to declare? I have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Again there's much gratitude for the donations received on behalf of the council. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Alright. So no deferred consent items. But we'll go to item 14, our action and report on closed session items. Are there any items to report? Yes. Thank you President Hohn. So on closed session item 2.1, I moved to approve the Certificated Personnel Report as presented by the district administration on August 25th, 2021, with 54 and 27 additional action items. I would do up to 2.75 additional action items. Do we have a first? Do we have a second? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Closed session item 2.2. I move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by District Admin on August 25th, 2021 with 50 and 7 additional action items. Can we have a first? Can I have a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. I have some announcements to make. Okay, please. Okay. Announcement one, Parho Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Vanessa Garcia as the new coordinator of Early Childhood Education. Vanessa Garcia is a Watsonville native attending PBUSD schools. She's been working in Early Childhood Education for 16 years. The last five years have been spent as a site coordinator at Watsonville Children's Center. She is eager to continue to administrative growth with PBUSD to continue supporting the kinder readiness goals of our community. We are proud to welcome the highly accomplished educator to her new administrative role. Announcements number two, the Parho Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Candy Nunez as the new teen parent program coordinator. Candy Nunez is a native of Jalisco, Mexico, but has spent summers attending summer school at EA Hall in Watsonville High School. She stayed her sophomore year and graduated from WHS. She attended Cabrio College where she received her AS in Early Childhood Education and has worked for the Migrant Seasonal Head Start Pre-School and Part Day State Pre-School programs. Candy is always willing to grow, brings a wealth of child development knowledge to this role. We are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to her new administrative role. Announcement number three, the Parho Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Amber Moss as the new assistant principal for Watsonville High. Amber comes to PBUSD with a wide range of experience. He has literally taught all over the world in places such as Alaska, Cambodia, Myanmar, Guatemala, and California. His roles include teacher, principal, assistant, principal, and director. He received his bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies from Cal Berkeley and his master's in administration from Cal State, LA. His various teaching experiences will serve him well in his new position. We are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to his new administrative role. Announcement number four, the Parho Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Nazarano Rossi as a new assistant principal for Watsonville High School. Nazarano has taught at various levels during his educational career, ranging from elementary PE to high school Spanish. He has a degree in Latin American history from UCFD, a PE teaching credential from San Jose State, a master's in physiology from Fresno Pacific and his administrative credential from San Jose State. He has been part of the leadership committees and ELAC at various schools as well as a member of the districtwide wellness committee in PDUSC. We are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to his new administrative role. And last, the Parho Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Dorado Morales as the new principal for Freedom Elementary. Dorado Jerry comes from to his new role with a broth of experience, having served as a teacher, English language learner specialist ELD teacher, counselor, summer school principal and assistant principal. He has earned his degree from Cal State, Fresno and Liberal and Chicano and Latin American Studies, a BCLD credential from CSUMD and a master's degree in education from San Jose State. He's a native of the Monterey Bay area and is excited to continue his educational career in this area. We are proud to welcome a highly accomplished educator in his new administrative role. Alright, our next meeting will be on September 8, 2021. And with that, the meeting is adjourned at 10.38pm.