 I'm going to wait for them to come back from the rest of the room. Hello everybody and welcome. Today is May 9th, 2018. Welcome to the PVSD school board meeting. Happy to see our visitors here with us this evening. We're going to go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance. And Trustee Acosta is going to lead us. Please rise. And the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. So again, I just wanted to welcome everybody and we will go ahead and move on to Superintendent Comments. Thank you. Yes, sorry, I'm trying to log in. If anybody here would like translation services, you can come over here and we have equipment for you so you can have a real-time translation for the meeting. Thank you. Okay. So thank you. So today is Day of the Teacher, and upcoming is Classified Week. So on behalf of the Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and myself, today we celebrated our staff and the work that they do every day. Together we prepare our students to reach their greatness. Their daily contribution to our district makes an impact on our students. Today members have expanded Cabinet, all over there, hand delivered and assortment of delicious cookies to each site or department. So on behalf of the Board of Trustees, today we celebrate our staff and the work they do every day. Together we prepare our students to reach their greatness. Their daily contribution to our district makes an impact on our students. So whatever you do every day, regardless of your role, it matters. Together everything is possible. So cualquier cosa que hagan todos los días independientemente de su papel, importa. Juntos todo es posible. And on Monday, April 30th, I had the great pleasure to spend the day in the life of an occupational therapist with Susan Ramos. I traveled with her as she went to three schools, Rio de Mar, Amesti, and Mar Vista. We saw individual students and students in small group. She showed such kindness and expertise with our students, ensuring that she met every student at their point of need. And so we're so fortunate to have Susan Ramos on our team. So on Monday, April 30th, I had the great pleasure to spend the day in the life of an occupational therapist with Susan Ramos. I traveled with her as she went to three schools, Rio de Mar, Amesti, and Mar Vista. We saw individual students and students in small group. She showed such kindness and experience with our students, ensuring that she met every student at their point of need. We're so fortunate to have Susan Ramos on our team. So thank you. Thank you. Item 3.4 is student recognition. I don't see a lot of people out there, so I'm hoping. Bradley Elementary, Greer Hambly. Everybody who's here to support you, Greer, bring them up. Congratulations. So Greer happens to be my sister's name too. It is not very common, so I was really pleased to see that there. You may have to lean in a little bit. Yeah, I can just. Whoa. All right, thank you. All right, good evening. My name is Brian Saxon. I'm the principal at Bradley. So good evening, President DeRose, board members, and Superintendent Rodriguez. It's my pleasure tonight to introduce to you Greer Hambly. So Greer is right here. Greer is a sixth grader at Bradley Elementary, and she embodies the spirit of Bradley. She is a young lady who is polite, respectful, always willing to help and try her best. She's supported by her mom and dad, Justin and Jen. We're here. And by her brother's Declan and Callum, all Bradley graduates, well, almost. And Ms. Parker, her sixth grade teacher, is here as well. And so she's talked to me a little bit about what she's going to miss, what she's looking forward to, and as she moves on from Bradley, she's been there since second grade. She said she's going to miss the teachers, especially Ms. Parker. She's going to miss the positive atmosphere that we have at Bradley. And she's really going to miss the library. Greer spends a lot of time in the library. She's a junior library league helper, helps plan events in the library, hangs out there. You can pretty much find her all the time with a book in her hand. Continuing on to the junior high next year at Aptos Junior, she's going to enjoy, and she's looking forward to the variety of teachers. The language art classes, she's excited, she got to test for Accelerated, so she's hoping to get in there. And I know that she'll get along well with Megan Fuller, the librarian up there, who will probably take her under her wing and use all of her excellent skills. In her spare time, and this is pretty cool, she plays the cello. And we've heard her play in our talent show. She's very talented. She said that she enjoys playing classical jazz, and every once in a while, she throws in a rock and roll cello song, all right? She went to, what was it? The concert of the Avid brothers? Avid brothers, and said, what's that big thing that guy's playing? And her dad said, it's a bass. And she said, well, I want one. And they got her a cello, because she's not that big, all right? In her spare time, she enjoys going to the beach with her family, and you can always find her reading. She reads and reads and reads. She enjoys Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and any type of fantasy. We are gonna miss her. She's a very smiling face. She's a student who always says hi to you, is always willing to help out. We're proud of everything she's accomplished at Bradley. We look forward to hearing all about what you're gonna do next. All right, so thank you, Greer, who is named after Greer Garson. Garson? Garson, who's an actress. Her name's Scottish, and then Declan and Callum are Irish. So I did a little research there, all right? So Greer, thank you very much. We're very proud of you, and go Bears, all right? Not gonna say anything tonight. On behalf of the Pahero Valley Unified School District, I wanna congratulate you, your family, who's very proud of you, your brothers, and your teachers. Thank you to Ms. Parker and your wonderful principal. We're very proud of you. Keep up the good work, and the good news is next year at Junior High, there is band. So if you are interested in music, keep it up, and we'll be very happy to see you in the band next year. Congratulations, sweetheart. Thank you, go stand over here. We're gonna go stand over here and take this presentation. Oh, we should forget about it. Congratulations again. And next we have Lynn Scott, Jocelyn Carrera. Come on up with all of your supporters. Good evening, I'm Julie Wiley, Principal at Lynn Scott Charter School. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Jocelyn Carrera, our outstanding student of the year. She is an eighth grader, and she's gonna be leaving us in just a few weeks and heading to Watsonville High School. She has set a very high bar for her two brothers, who are also students at Lynn Scott, and her mom, Yvonne and Mario, are also here, very proud of her. I'm gonna let her math and science teacher, Brett Hagerman, tell you a little bit more about all of her wonderful qualities. So the excerpt I have here is written from a teaching colleague of mine and a few other extra words that I have included. Jocelyn Carrera, you have been selected as Lynn Scott Charter student of the year for 2017-18. In a class of many outstanding and high-achieving students, you stand apart as not only an exemplary student, but an all-around fine person. Every student at Lynn Scott knows that you will lend a helping hand if they are in need. You are kind-hearted, empathetic, and have a great moral compass. When it comes to your academics, you are no sense, no nonsense kind of woman. You attack your academics with tenacity. You are inquisitive and a determined learner and have consistently earned top grades in all subjects. You are an avid reader, enthusiastic writer, and a critical thinker and are steadily increasing your insight and awareness of the world. All of us at Lynn Scott look forward to hearing of the great things that you will accomplish in your life. Congratulations. I need a microphone for this. Us, Pahoa Valley Unified School District. Congratulations. And next from Pahoa Valley High School, we have Evelyn Torres-Topete. Is Evelyn and her family here? Oh no, okay. Well, if they come, give us a signal and we will move them right to where we are on the agenda. President DeRose, they're in route. Okay, so just let me know when they get here. Oh, hopefully they'll be here. Okay, great, thank you. Okay, so we will be moving back to that item. So let's go to 3.5, and this is reports from the Board and Standing Committee. So I'll start on this end. Anything, Jeff? No. Trustee Acosta? No. Karen? I have a word. A what? Back to where I started. So I went to the Children's Day at Alianza, and actually rode my bike there, and I actually climbed the climbing, I actually, I rode my bike there to the Children's Day Alianza, and I actually climbed the climbing wall that they had there too. I did, so that was good too. And I went to the open house for Hall School, and it was really wonderful because they had their band, they had the band that was playing there, it was so wonderful, and they had Mexican folklore dancers that were from in the kindergarten, and then they had a whole choir that sang for us, a whole choir. It was really great. I went to the SELPA meeting, the last meeting where they had programs that people put out for, you can go and learn all the things you can do for the summertime for your special ed students. That was good. I went to this SELPA Biliteracy celebration last night. It was pretty exciting, it was at the Mellow Center that it's usually outside at our district office. So this time it was at the Mellow Center, and they actually celebrated all the elementary school students that are fully bilingual from kindergarten all the way to fifth grade. It was pretty cool. So each school came up and had all their language ambassadors, as they called them, up to the stage to celebrate them too. And it was pretty awesome, because I was able to, with Michelle, to put the necklace medal over their, over each student's head, over their head, the medals that they wear for their graduation. That was pretty awesome. And the last one, I went to the Teacher Appreciation Day today, was at four o'clock at Jalisco's, and there were three teachers of the year that were celebrated. Two of them were special education teachers, and the other one was a really fabulous activist, kind of a teacher, because she stopped them from using pesticides at a Loni. She got the whole statewide thing. It was part of what she did to make sure that they had borders around where they were gonna spray the pesticides. She really worked on that. And she was teacher of the year from a Loni. So that was, that's what I did. And really quickly, I'm gonna go down to the Earth Women event tomorrow for the Farm Bureau. And then on Friday, I have to go to, it's a weird time that they have it, migrant head start meeting the next day. So, and in all of these events, Michelle was there too. Michelle was there at the Children's Day. She was at the Seal of Biliteracy, and she was at Teacher Appreciation Day, and so was Maria. Thank you, Karen. Thank you for going to all of those. That's amazing. Karen, that's great. Yesterday was a very special day at Aptos High. We dedicated the baseball fields to Robert and Paul Bailey, who have done a tremendous amount for the Aptos community through the Aptos Sports Foundation. And thank you, Mark Brewer, for being there. We thank Peggy Pugh, our Aptos High Principal, and Mark Dorfman for organizing a beautiful dedication. The grounds look beautiful, and I wanna congratulate and with deep, deep gratitude to Robert and Paul Bailey for the hours of dedication they've put into improving our school community. We really benefit from that, so thank you. I was able to attend the countywide youth art show at the Art League. My daughter had a piece of art in it, and I was just blown away by the unbelievable talent of young people in our county. I mean, it was just really beautiful. I was disappointed, however, to see that our Pajaro Valley High School was not included in any of the submissions, and I'm hoping to see that they have submissions next year as the art show is juried and there are many awards. So I think that's something that we need to work on for next year. Yesterday I attended the Valencia Home and School Club, and it was wonderful to be back. I used to serve on the Home and School Club as their fund development officer. So that was a lot of fun and a lot of questions, and so I was very, very happy to attend. And I will also be joining you, as usual, at the Down to Earth Women's Luncheon to support agriculture and the Farm Bureau in their efforts to raise money for scholarships for kids in the Pajaro Valley, so thank you very much. So just to prefix what Karen mentioned, we also attended the Hellie Schools Reception hosted by Cave and PVFT. I want to accept my congratulations to those teachers that were selected and recognized as teachers of the year. But in addition to that, being the week of the teacher, I do want to thank all of our PVGUS teachers, our migrant teachers, for your contributions to our PVGUSU community and for your commitment to the success of all our students. Thank you so much and congratulations and this week we celebrate you actually every day because you impact student lives every single day in many different ways. So thank you for all that you do. And in addition to that, I am looking forward to the D-LAC meeting that I will be attending next Tuesday. Thank you. Thank you, Maria. So real quickly, I also want to recognize day of the teacher every day. Our teachers are there supporting our students and our community, so we're all very proud of them and I just want to reiterate that. Since the last board meeting, PVPSA, Pearl Valley Prevention Student Assistance, which is our non-profit partner that provides mental health services for our students and our families, held a capital campaign event for community members at the airport. So I wanted to say thank you very much to ELLA's for hosting but of course to the leadership of PVPSA for all of the wonderful work that they do every day but especially on this capital campaign which our intended outcome is to provide more support for more community. So that was great. And then I also attended the ACSA Awards which was an awards presentation for administrators throughout the three county region or is it five counties? Jack Sherman from Special Ed and Marcy Keller from Diamond Technology Institute each were awarded and it was a fabulous event and it was really nice to be there to support them as well. And that's it for me. We'll go to Willie and then I was just informed that we have Evelyn right from Pearl Valley High School so we'll go to her next. Thank you. In a couple of weeks we will be attending the eighth grade graduations and in each year they are outstanding but I never did understand the shrieking, the sharpness, the yelling and stuff. Last Friday night or Saturday night I was able to attend my daughter's master's graduation down in Irvine and I was probably with the family and we were probably the loudest shriekers in this whole place and now I get it, you know? Get it, you gotta be on that side of the aisle to understand that it was a moment that we all enjoyed because of our daughter's hard work. She was a preschool student here, Minty White, EA Hall, Watsonville High School, UC Irvine, Cal State LA and was awarded her a master's at Conde Cobia, Hordia High School University and she is a fourth grade teacher in Tustin Unified, so very, very proud of her. I understand the yelling because I was probably yelling with a lower voice, thank goodness. Thank all of you very much. Thank you very much, Willie. So Evelyn Torres-Tepete, are you here with your family? Come on up and get the recognition. Student of the year. Good evening, I'm Matt Levy, I'm a principal of Pajaro Valley High School, newly and I'm so new that I still thought the board meetings were at the district office, so that's where we all went. So I apologize for that, sorry for the delay but I wanted to say a few things and introduce you to Evelyn Torres-Tepete. We're really proud of her, she's actually our student of the year at PV High School and I've personally known Evelyn for seven years now, this is my seventh year knowing her, I knew her as a sixth grader at EA Hall and she was a bright young little thing in seventh grade, she's grown up and just a wonderful student, a ball of energy and she came as a sixth grader with a lot of challenges in her life and she's overcome all of them, even beginning in sixth grade. She's been at PV High for the last four years and she's achieved a 3.6 GPA and last night, she was honored with one of the 60 plus Seal of Biliteracy students we had at PV High School last night. So that was a fabulous ceremony, yeah. She along with her hardworking father helped have raised three? Five. Five, sorry, wow, I haven't even met them all, boys, two of which are at PV High currently and they work hard to keep on those boys. Words like persistent and driven are used by staff to describe Evelyn and hardworking and resilient, I would add. She's a role model for her siblings and her peers alike, showing strong leadership skills. She'll be attending San Francisco State in the fall and she wants to focus on psychology and brain development research at this point. And on a personal note, she is a huge inspiration to me having known her for the last seven years. She's overcome so much and shown me so much and I always tell her that someday she's gonna run the world and we're just gonna all be working for Evelyn here so it's gonna be fabulous. So the Grizzly Nation is really proud of Evelyn's accomplishments and we're so honored that we get to honor her here in front of the board. And now, being so Ricky, I don't know, do we allow Evelyn to say some words? Thank you, okay, there you go, just anything you want. Well, first of all, I wanna thank Mr. Matt Levy for being such a great support in my journey. I've encountered many challenges throughout my life, which I've learned a lot and I've considered as great experience and I look forward to the future and what it has to bring and I am very appreciative for all my teachers and the people around me that have supported me and helped me and guide me through hard times. Thank you. With the board, just to, I'm sure you, is this your proud papa? Yes, this is my dad. Congratulations. Have something to commemorate. Okay, congratulations again to all of our students who are recognized tonight. We're gonna move on to item four and that's approval of tonight's agenda. Do I have a motion? Move approval. And second? Second. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Aye, any opposed? Motion passes unanimously, thank you. Item five is approval of the minutes for our last meeting of April 25th. Do our, is there a motion to approve? Move approval. Second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye, any opposed? Abstain. Okay, motion passes 502. Thank you. And item six is our high school board representatives report. What schools do we have here tonight? All right, okay, Pearl Valley, come on up. Are you all from Pearl Valley? Okay, great. Thanks for being here. Okay, so we're students from Pearl Valley, hi. And this year I was ASB president. My name is Josec Gonzalez and it's my honor to introduce next year's representatives that will be coming to these board meetings. My name's Daniel Rocha, I'm the ASB vice president. My name's Jayleen Solarsano and I am the ASB president for the following year. My name is Sofia Avalos and I'm class vice president for the following year. She's a senior and this is gonna be for 2018, 2019 year. So recently we've had track seasons coming to an end and the mastermind is on Friday. Caitlin Strader who's a sophomore just tied the school record in the high jump, jumping four feet, 10 inches. Luis Leonor broke the school record for poble with a record of 12 feet and then the relay team, which I'm part of. Alexandra Romero, Emma Arroyo, and Caitlin Pat. We recently broke the school record with 54 seconds and we're all gonna be competing this Friday at the mastermind. So election convention took place for class and this is how all of these students were elected for the next following year. And we actually did it like if they were voting, students got to pre-register and we borrowed the voting spooks from Santa Cruz County. So last week we had a game of kickball between the teachers and it took place during lunch and we call it battle of the buildings as the H building teachers play against the E building. And this Friday students will play versus students and then the winner will win a prize. And the winner of the students versus the students will go up against the H building because that is the building that went against the two buildings. So now it's spirit week and spirit week takes off on May 14th through the 18th. The theme is board games and the days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Monday theme is Jumanji. Tuesday's theme is Candyland. Wednesday's theme is Monopoly. Thursday's theme is the life game of life. I'm sorry, Friday is class colors. This is typically how students just for class colors, the posters on the wall are coordinated to the theme of the rally. And then these are a few of the classes who dress in their class colors. We have the class of 2018 in yellow, the class of 2020 in green, the freshman class in orange and then finally the junior class in purple. And then also a little more about ASBB since we don't really talk about what the students actually do other than the events is that we do hold events to help students become involved. The other day we had Loteria on the lawn and that is like the Mexican bingo. And then we also provided food to the students who came out and joined us and we also gave them popsicles because it was a warm week. And we also had cornhole, as you can see the students, I don't know how to use this, but the students on the right hand side are playing cornhole. Cornhole. It's where you throw the bean bag into the hole. And then a senior year does come to an end for each season. We had senior nights. We had soccer senior nights, football. We had the basketball senior nights, the volleyball senior nights. We had cheer senior nights and then today was softball senior night and then on Friday we are gonna have baseball senior night and that will conclude the senior nights for the year. And that is all for the presentation. We wanna thank you for giving us your attention. Okay, thanks again for being here. We always enjoy your presentations. We're gonna move to item 7.1 and this is Visitor Non-Agenda Items public comment. And I believe we have 22 speakers. This is generally a 20 minute item, but we'll go a minute and a half per speaker. And what Maria will do is she'll call out three names at a time. If speakers can line up and be ready to come to the podium, that would be great. We're looking forward to hearing what you have to say. Have we got one with no number? We do. So we have a speaker card that was submitted by Carlos Cruz, but there's no item. So I'm trying to... Is it for 7.1? See? Nomás quería verificar que el número en la agenda es 7.1. ¿Verdad? Okay. Okay. So we have James Lody followed by Maria Hernandez followed by Rosa Segura. Hi, I'm James Lody. I've been a second grade teacher at Hollister Prep School for four going on five years. I came to the school fresh off subbing in a district in Southern California. I subbed for just one semester, but contrary to the advice of my professors and mentor teachers did not feel that I was improving the following year. I accepted a position at HPS and in just a few months grew more than I ever had as a sub. One source of this change was the rigorous coaching provided at navigator schools. Each week I would sit down with my coach and look at video of my classroom practices. Through the eyes of a more experienced teacher, I was able to identify areas of growth. We set achievable action steps that enabled me to improve quickly and knowledgeably. My improvement as an educator highlights one of the qualities essential to navigator schools growth mindset. We are always striving to identify areas of growth and find means of improvement. Another essential quality of navigator schools is adaptability. The after school intervention program offered to our first and second grade students is a great example of both adaptability and growth mindset. The focus in first and second grade is on learning how to read, increasing fluency and building reading comprehension skills. To this end, after the normal school day is done every day except Wednesday, there will be a selection of students who stay in my classroom to practice reading. This intervention block was piloted my first year at HPS and had not previously been a part of the educational model. But after seeing the wonderful results it has continued every year since. At the beginning of this current school year, sorry. All right, thank you. Good evening. I will be translating for her so when she is done then I will complete the translation. Hola, buenas noches. Mi nombre es María. Yo estoy aquí en representación de muchos padres que quisieran estar aquí y no pueden para exigirles un cambio. Y es que en estos momentos todos estamos conscientes de que la educación académica que nuestros hijos están recibiendo no es la mejor ni la adecuada ni la correcta. Los tiempos están cambiando y las estadísticas demuestran que nuestros escuelas están quedando atrás debido a la manera antigua y caduca que se les está impartiendo las materias. Y por esa razón los estudiantes se quedan atrás sin la oportunidad de poder competir a un nivel superior. Y si ustedes le dicen a what's on the prep no, solo nos estarán dando un impulso a nosotros los padres para luchar por la educación de nuestros hijos. Muchísimas gracias. Good evening Mrs. Rodriguez and the board members. My name is Mari Hernandez. I am here representing many parents who would like to be here to demand a change. And at this time we all are aware that the academic education that our children are receiving is not the best, nor the right nor the correct. Times are changing and statistics show that our schools are falling behind due to old and outdated ways in which subjects are being taught. And for that reason students are left behind without the opportunity to compete at a higher level. And if you say no to Watsonville prep you are giving me a bigger push to fight for my children and their education. Thank you. Good evening Mr. Lieutenant Rodriguez and board members. My name is Rosa Segura and I have a daughter in second grade at Hollister Prep School. We initially registered her in a private school and they evaluate her and told us that she will need a speech and occupational therapy service that they didn't have. So essentially the private school reject my daughter. We had also registered her at Hollister Prep School but she didn't initially get into the lottery for Kinder. So she started the Hollister School District. My daughter is a special needs student and Hollister School District trying to send her to the special day class. We didn't agree with that because our psychologists at Kaiser told us developmentally that will not help her. A couple months later Hollister Prep School called to inform us that they had a spot available. So we decided to transfer her and that was the best decision that we had ever made. Navigator school have been great with her. They provide the therapy and evaluation she needs and they're always searching for different ways to help her succeed. I love the way that the school is a full inclusion school. They don't separate the students with the special needs from the rest of the kids. I feel that it's very important for the kids to learn how to be respectful and how help kids with the special needs. The teachers and the paraprofessionals never give up and they constantly motivate her to continue to do her best. I really believe the Navigator School has a lot of good things to offer to any community. Thank you so much Navigator Schools. Thank you Sharon. I'm always, as my daughter always say, you don't give up, you can do it. Thank you. Okay, so next up we have Nora Cravello, followed by Gilberto Pozos, followed by Carlos Cruz, followed by Neftali Castañada. Good evening board members. My name is Nora Cravello. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you tonight. I will try my best to condense it down. I'd like to speak on behalf of Watsonville Prep Charter Application and I speak to you both as a parent of the school and as a current member of the Board of Directors of Navigator Schools. So I have a really holistic approach of what's going on at the schools. There are some comments made at the board meeting last week that were based on hyperbole and they were not factual and I was hoping to address a couple of those kind of set the record straight. One of them was that as a charter school we have the ability to deny special needs kids and therefore have the funds go somewhere else. My daughter is legally blind and the school not only provides for everything she needs, she's thriving there. And as Rosa just said, Sharon and her team are excellent about making sure that our special needs kids thrive at the school and our sped population is the same as the county and the state levels. Two other things I wanted to address both had to do with the board. One of them was that we don't have community representation. As I said, I myself am a parent and on the board. There's another parent representative from Gilroy Prep. We have two other additional community members. One's a leader in the Gilroy area and one is actually a leader in the Watsonville area. She's Fia as the current President of the Chamber of Commerce. In addition to that, we have four charter school subject matter experts. So we have a great board that work well together. Another kind of board centric thing I wanted to address was the issue of transparency. Our board, just like yours, follows the Brown Act. We follow all the rules for quorum. Our meetings are published. They are agendized. They are publicized. They are on Zoom. They are full inclusion. They are multilingual and they're broadcast. And the next one is next Tuesday. So I'd like to invite all of you to attend that board meeting and I'd like to personally invite you to come tour any one of the schools. I'll personally take a day off work. Come down. You can meet my daughter and all of her friends. And if I were in your shoes, I'd want to make this vote based on the most factual observations that I could possibly have. I think that that would include a visit to the school. So please come on out and visit. Willie, you asked how we're getting the results. We'd love to show you. So thank you for the time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Again, I will be translating when he is completed with his speech. Good evening, Mrs. Rodriguez and members of the Student Council. My name is Gilberto Pozos. With a few words, I've decided to come here, to stand here in front of you. Only to remind you that a good education begins with a specific curriculum. That is to say, to follow the rules of teaching with the impeccable quality that it deserves and the focus on the student's needs. Therefore, I'm supporting Watsonville Prep School to open this new student center that offers that curriculum or teaching rules that have not been seen in the existing schools of the district. Yo como padre de familia, no podría conformarme con la educación que recibiría mi hija en estas escuelas y tampoco quisiera estar en el lugar de muchos padres que están pasando por momentos difíciles, por las formas y el tipo de educación que sus hijos están recibiendo. Yo al igual que muchos otros padres de familia exigimos el derecho que nos corresponde para elegir a qué escuela podemos llevar e involucrarnos con nuestros hijos. No queremos que ustedes decidan el futuro de nuestros hijos negándoles oportunidades nuevas. Somos nosotros como padres que queremos lo mejor y por ende luchamos para que hayan más opciones, más oportunidades para un mejor futuro para nuestros hijos. Good evening, Mrs. Rodriguez, board members. My name is Gilberto Pozos. With the few words I have decided to come and stand here in front of you, only to remind you that a good student education begins with a specific curriculum that is, follow the teacher standards with the impeccable quality it deserves and the focus on the student's need, for which I am supporting Watsonville Prep School to open. This new charter that offers that curriculum or teaching standards that have not been seen in the existing schools of the district. As a parent, I would not settle for the education that my daughter would receive in these schools and I would not like to be in the place of many parents who are going through difficult times because of the forms and types of education their children are currently receiving. And I, like many parents, we demand our rights to choose which school we can take and get involved with our children. We do not want you to decide the future of our children, putting them in places that are nothing else for them. We are the parents that want the best and that is why we fight so that there are more options, more opportunities. Thank you. Trustee, I mean, President DeRose, we have our own district translator that we are paying to translate what the members of the public are saying and I don't think it's appropriate for them to have this translator because she's not using the proper tone that the speaker is using. And so I'm asking that our district translator translates what the members of the public are saying unless she can actually translate a tone that is more in line with what the actual person is speaking. I'm not sure that we have the ability to deny translation from the public. I don't, is there any precedence for that that you know of? This translator's tone is not matching what these parents are saying. I do understand that. Right. So it's not congruent and so I would just ask either we use our own translator or that she translates appropriately. Apologize, I will follow the, I'll get the translation to how they're reading. Match their tone. I know you probably, I think what Trustee D'Serpa is saying is it's clear that you have a strong opinion as well but if you could reflect the speaker's opinion instead of your own. My apologies. I'll let you go ahead and move forward with the translation. Okay. So I decided to write to my daughter in Ninscot Charter School and she stayed in the place number 35 of the waiting list and the waiting list in total is 61 children waiting for a place. So I ask you to allow us to form this school because we do need it. Because there are many children waiting for a type of this school. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Carlos Cruz. Thank you for letting me be heard. I just want to demand you to allow us to open navigator schools in our community. I have three daughters, one is five years old, the second is three and six month baby girl. Since I became a parent I wanted my children to attend a charter school. I enrolled my five year old daughter to Ninscot Charter School but she has got on the waiting list there is number 61 on the list and my daughter got 35 place. So I know we need a navigator school here in Watsonville. Thank you. Good evening board members and superintendent. My name is Natalia Casaneda. Today I want to share with you at a glance my personal and academic growth as a seventh grade student at GPS. I started GPS in second grade. I was an hour student, you know the type of student that below grade average in both ELA and mathematics? The type of student that people tend to give up on? Yes, well that was me in the girl unified school district. I was just another number that was overlooked at. Everything changed when I came to GPS. My teachers have worked extra hard by my side since day one always striving for my academic success. Here at GPS I have a strong support system from my teachers and registration and other school staff members that allow me to prosper academically, personally, emotionally and always make me feel like I am part of a community but most importantly a family. I have seen major majority of my growth now that I have embarked on my middle school journey. I have been given many opportunities inside and outside the classroom that have helped me improve my academics, communication with peers and adults, my abilities and contributions when working in small groups but most importantly and developing leadership skills that I never would have imagined I could have nor did I ever think I had. I would like to share with you my greatest accomplishment so far this year. This student that was below grade average and that was given no hope for academic achievement tested at a 10th grade in mathematics. I will keep beating the odds because students like me myself, like myself at GPS have learned to never give up and always work hard because we are capable of closing the achievement gap. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Okay, so we have Vanessa Gastañada followed by Kendra Stone, followed by Lisa Griffith, followed by Heather Parsons. I had a call me after my sister went up, oh man, just got so emotional. Sorry, good evening board members and superintendent. My name is Vanessa Gastañada and I'm a sixth grade math teacher and navigator schools. As educators we have a high regard for education and its power to transform individuals, families, communities and society for the better. Reflecting on my educational experience, navigator schools is the foundation I wish I had growing up. Going through school is difficult. Not because I wasn't smart enough because people did not believe in me. Being of Hispanic descent allowed many of my educators to feel like I was not worth the effort since my kind never prospers. I was left to fight the odds alone. I worked extra hard to stand out academically because I knew that doing my best in school and achieving academic success was the only way of giving back to my parents. It was the only way of reassuring them that the purpose of immigrating to the U.S. was not in vain and that it would prosper and help them achieve the American dream. I'm a first generation college student, college graduate from both of my families. All of my cousins could have pursued a college education but they fell at an academic disadvantage, leaving them discouraged within the educational system. Students are faced with many obstacles every day. It being academically, financially, socially, emotionally, et cetera. However, I'm honored to say that on navigator school campuses every child is equipped to prosper regardless of their circumstances and we do this by ensuring that educators are continuously improving to deliver the best quality education and support students actually deserve. I'm grateful of the coaching I receive on navigator schools and I'm thankful that I'm cultivated in a working environment where everyone's encouraged and supported to improve because at the end of the day we want to cater to the students. I aspire to be a founding teacher for WPS because I want to make sure that every student is able to close the achieving gap just like I was but actually feel supported. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Before you go, just a quick comment. So after we start discussing a certain agenda item we are no longer taking speaker cards, okay? So it's really, you have to submit one before the item begins. Okay, so at this point we're not taking any more speaker cards. Hi, I'm not sure if it was quite my turn. My name is Lisa Griffith. I live in the Rio del Mar area. I've noticed many signs on my street urging people to support the teachers in our area. I've seen teachers with signs on my commute to work. I looked up the teacher salary schedule on the district website and was appalled at what I saw. Teachers have the most important job in our community. They're teaching and caring for our future. People are the most important part of any organization and making sure employees are valued should be priority number one. I do not have a child in a school in this district. I am simply a resident that lives within the borders of the school district and I pay taxes into this community. As a resident of this area, I'm here tonight because I see something that is not right in my neighborhood and I want to see change in the budgeting priority of this school district to pay teachers a fair salary. I ask this school district to pay the teachers who serve the children in my community a wage that is more aligned with our cost of living in this area and for the incredibly hard work that they do. I ask the teachers if there any here tonight, what can I do to support you? What else can I talk to my neighbors and friends about to support you? Most importantly, I would like to say I'm sorry to these teachers and thank you. I pass those signs and the teachers and only waved to them and honked my heart without researching what was going on in my neighborhood. What they've been asking for these past few months, now I know and I also thank you very much for educating our children. So there were two other names that I called. Are they not here? Hi, I'm Heather Parsons. The passion you have heard and will continue to hear tonight is fueled by our knowledge that the navigator model works. It works because there's a level of personalization in this learning at Navigator that I have never encountered in my entire career and this personalization leads to incredible student outcomes. For us, personalization means that every student and every staff member gets exactly what they need when they need it. How do we personalize learning? Small group instruction. We don't just do centers. We have dynamic and differentiated instruction that is tailored to the students' needs. Coaching. We coach every teacher and every leader every single week and personalize action steps for them. Intervention. Intervention groups are daily and they're changed daily based on yesterday's data. That's incredible. Technology. We don't just buy tech. We assign personalized programs and goals based on student gaps. Inclusion. Our staff personalizes push-in learning for students with special needs. We did not invent this level of personalization. We went out across the country and we found high-performing schools that are doing this and we use their ingredients to form our recipe for success. Thank you. Next up we have Martha Denny, followed by Kendra Stone, followed by Becky Steenburner and Melissa LaTorre-Andas. Good evening. My name is Martha Denny. I am a president and CEO of two local businesses. I'm proud to be a member of this community and I am committed to continue my work mentoring others to succeed as well. As a parent and business owner, I'm troubled with the overall low academic performance of many of the students at the PVUSD and very alarmed about the even lower academic performance of the students who are Hispanic. According to the state, 84% of PVUSD Hispanic third graders were not proficient in English-language arts, meaning they're reading far below grade leveled. 85% of your fourth graders are not proficient. 81% of fifth graders are not proficient. 78% of sixth graders are not proficient and by eighth grade the percentage decreases to 76% of Hispanic students not proficient. What that means is out of the 7,667 third to eighth graders, PVUSD Hispanic students tested, 6,024 of them are not proficient in English-language art last year. In the area of math, out of the 7,667 students from third to eighth grade, 6,493 of these students were not proficient. This scores are extremely disturbing. I have a daughter who is Hispanic and is said to go to kindergarten and the fall. And I do not want her to be a statistic. I want a better choice and this is your status. I understand PVUSD challenges, then yet again, I believe all Watsonville youth are capable, able and should have the opportunity to a good education because I know this will lead to a better life. I want to have a choice when it comes to my daughter's education and I believe we need to have more schools that will prepare our children for a great future. Don't deprive our children for the opportunity you cannot provide. For my daughter and for many other students, I'm asking you to support Watsonville Prep School. Thank you. So I do want to ask for our parents and community members who are here to speak. When I call out your names in three, please make sure that you line up, okay, so that we can move along the process. Good evening. My name is Melissa Alatorre-Alnes and I am the director of HR for Navigator Schools. I have 20 plus years experience as an educator and have served not only here at Navigator, but as a bilingual teacher and site principal in a public school district. When I came to Navigator in 2016, my eyes were opened to the support and choice that Navigator Public Schools offers both adults and children in our community. Tonight I'm going to share with you a bit of how we support our staff through coaching which provides the tools that they need to support students. Our Navigator teammates or employees live in the communities of our two existing schools and have chosen to join our mission driven organization that provides personalized support through coaching. All staff participate in weekly coaching in a weekly coaching cycle that results in accelerated professional growth which in turn results in accelerated student growth. When a staff member struggles, there are safety nets in place including high impact coaching, mentoring and if necessary performance improvement plans. We do not give up on our staff. At our core, we believe in continuous growth and provide every opportunity to thrive and when staff thrive, students thrive. These continuous efforts have led to high retention and staff satisfaction rates. I am proud to share that our staff retention rate is 93.5% and in a recent survey, Navigator staff reported that 90% of Navigator staff, excuse me, would recommend Navigator employment to a friend. I asked that you give families and students the over 200 families that have asked for and deserve the choice of a Navigator school. Please approve the petition for Watsonville Prep to open in fall 2019. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm really tired. Am I correct that Becky Steinbrunner may as the next one? Thank you very much and thank you for accepting my card. I had to work late so I arrived late. Thank you very much. My name is Becky Steinbrunner. I'm here to speak on a different topic but I'm very interested in what I hear here tonight. What I wanna talk with you about tonight is the cliff swallow nesting going on at Pahoe Valley High School. Those swallows have been there since the school was built. It's a flock of over 1,000 that returns to this area every year from South America to build their nests and raise their young and eat a lot of mosquitoes. Unfortunately what has happened is the district has paid a lot of money to have someone put in lexan strips to preclude the birds from being able to nest under the eaves of this school. It's a lot of money. The birds have returned and they're still trying to nest and it's very tragic to watch them try to build their nests. The school district has given permission for the operations and facilities to knock the nests down with water in an area that is overdrafted. We're using water to knock down bird nests. I have spoken with several biologists, Dr. Brown from Tulsa University in Oklahoma who is a cliff swallow specialist. I have communicated with Ms. Veronica Bowers at the Native Songbird Rescue Service in Sonoma. She assures me that the birds will not just go away. What will happen is that they won't be able to raise their young and their population will decline. They are genetically imprinted on the school just like salmon are genetically imprinted on sites where they return to lay their eggs. They recognize the structures, the shadows, the colors and that is where they have to go. They're still trying to go to the school to nest. They're not going to go away to some other place as I've been told by a school district official. They're going to die. Their population will die. Now I don't think this is what we really want to be giving our students and our staff and our community the message. There is a group of biologists that's willing to, for free, put up structures, alternate nesting structures but in order for the birds to use them they have to be nearby. All we need is the district's permission. We'll do the work, we'll supply the materials and the birds will use them if they're in the proper place. The Mosquito Vector Agency was begun in 1994 because of mosquito problems. These birds are helping to control the mosquitoes. Please, all we need is your permission to build alternate structures. They have been done. We can show you the structures. All we need is your permission and these birds will very happily use them and we will send a better message, an opportunity to learn for our students, staff and community. I have to ask you to wrap it up. Thank you. Okay, so we have Amy and Bella Brown followed by Guadalupe, Gallardo followed by Indra Carr, I'm sorry, Kirsten Carr, followed by Alexandra Eredia. Hi, my name is Bella Brown. The reason why I love GPS is because the teachers are incredible and they help me if I guess I can work that. I don't really know how to do and the second reason why I love GPS is because it's a safe school and they do a good job of making me, making sure I'm okay and safe. My friends at GPS are the nicest people that I've ever met in my life. I was the dance team last year and it was so much fun. First, we are dance practice and got to do dance at the basketball games and I was really excited. I went to science campus there and we got to eat awesome food and have cookies. We had story time and it was really fun. Thank you for your time. Bella's a seventh grader at GPS and I'm her mother, Amy Brown. I wanted to just say what a life-changing experience it's been for Bella to be at GPS. She started our local elementary school for kindergarten and I was told that I needed to come to terms with her limitations and that she should be in a special day class. This wasn't how I saw Bella nor where I thought she should be placed so we transferred to the first year at GPS as a first grader and the first thing that they said was they saw her potential and what she could accomplish and she's accomplished more than I could possibly have imagined, even as her parents and I just hope for some of the other kids in Watsonville they have the opportunity to blossom like she has. Thank you. Thank you. Buenas noches. Mi nombre es Guadalupe Gallardo. Hoy estoy aquí otra vez pidiendo su apoyo para Watsonville Prep y estoy aquí luchando y seguiré luchando por el futuro de mi pequeñito de tres años y por todos los niños de mi comunidad. Hoy en día tengo un niño de 15 años que está en high school y que lamentablemente no está leyendo como un niño de high school debería estar leyendo. Toda su vida escolar aquí en Watsonville año tras año lo he mirado batallar y sufrir por no poder leer bien ni escribir bien. No quiero la misma historia para mi niño que ahorita tiene tres años. Siento que como mamá es mi deber luchar por darle una mejor educación y estoy segura que con Watsonville Prep lo voy a lograr porque en primer lugar ellos tienen la mejor tecnología. Navigator schools tienen grupos más pequeños. Esto significa muchísima más atención para los niños y lo último por lo que a mí me fascinó me encantó fue mirar a los niños de Kinder leyendo que eso con mi niño de 15 que ahorita tiene 15 años nunca pasó y yo quiero que mi niño de tres años le esté leyendo cuando está en Kinder. Quiero una página nueva para su vida. No quiero que la misma historia se repita con con él la misma historia que le pasó a mi niño que ahorita está en high school. Yo confío que ustedes me van a ayudar. Muchísimas gracias por escucharme. Good evening. My name is Guadalupe Gallardo and I'm here once again today. I am here again asking for your support for Watsonville Prep school. I am here fighting and I'll keep fighting for the future of my three year old boy and for all the children in my community. I have a 15 year old boy in high school and unfortunately he's not reading at a high school. Kid should be reading all of his school life here in Watsonville year after year I watched him struggle and suffer because he cannot read well or write well. I do not want the same story to repeat itself with my little one and I feel that as a mom it is my duty to fight to give him a better education and I'm sure that with Watsonville Prep school it will be achieved. They have the best technology navigator schools have smaller groups and this means a lot more attention for the children. Finally what I loved was to look at how kindergartners were already reading something that with my first child never had and I want to look out for my three year old. I want a new chapter for his life and I trust that you will help me. Hi I'm Kirsten Carr with the bad handwriting sorry about that. I am a huge college sports fan so often rely on the wisdom of coaches who have led championship teams and John Wooden of UCLA basketball fame has one of my favorite quotes. Do not be afraid of failure but learn from it. For us at Navigator that translates to continuous improvement. Continuous improvement isn't just a catchphrase we use it isn't just a slogan on the wall. We live it every day and that is something that has brought us to you here today asking for your support for Watsonville Prep school. We opened in Guillory in 2011 and upon request by the former superintendent opened HPS in 2013. Then in our haste to afford equal opportunity to a larger number of students to the Navigator schools model we made mistakes in moving too quickly but the mistakes are not what defines us what defines us is what we did next. We stopped we learned and we continuously improved on our own performance. We did that by deliberately slowing growth and focusing on our organizational health. We strengthened our two current schools and solidified a process before we would even think about a new charter submission and we learned from our failed attempts. That learning process ensured we were ready when Watsonville parents and community members asked for our assistance and that process has me here tonight standing before you asking for your support to help us ensure every child in Watsonville has a chance. Please join us and let us become the educational equivalent of John Wooden's basketball legacy here with Watsonville Prep School and PVUSD. Thank you. Hello. Tonight I come to you not as an employee who happens to be a parent. What is your name? Alexandra Haradia. But I come to you as a parent who is so inspired by the mission to further my own education and come back to a Navigator school because I believe in the mission. I believe in the mission because my child was a was in the first class of Kinder at GPS when it opened. She was far behind grade level and James and Sharon held after school intervention for her and for children in the similar situation not only for the kids but for the parents too to learn how to teach their children at home. My daughter managed to edge out just enough in mathematics to move on to first grade. By second grade she reached great grade level. Not only did she close the achievement gap but now she is in sixth grade. She is a student that leads small group discussions. She is one of the top in her class. Not only did she close the achievement gap but now has a goal. She started at Navigator she always her at Navigator she always her college. Now she tries to get the highest grades she possibly can and get the classes that she to get the classes that she wants in high school in order to go to university and become an engineer. She has a goal. She's 11 years old. She's sixth grader. My second grader is now reading at a fourth grade level and scored a 4.7 nearly fifth grade in mathematics. And in ELA she was a fourth grade and she's only a second grade. For these reasons I am proud I made the choice and that is why tonight I ask that if these parents want a choice let them have a choice. Thank you. All right we have Scott Parsons. Debbie Benitez Luis Carrillo and Gravella Roldan. Good evening I'm Scott Parsons. In the late 1970s the NFL teams had a very basic offense. They did this because it's what they learned. It's what they were coached to do. It's what they knew for the previous 20 30 40 years of their NFL or football careers. In 1979 the San Francisco 49ers hired Bill Walls to be their head coach. He brought an innovative and complex West Coast offense to the 49ers and in three of the last next eight years they won the Super Bowl. But this is not his greatest feat. Bill Walls taught his other coaches and players how to run the West Coast offense. They in turn took that information to other teams and were successful in one Super Bowl. His legacy and his greatest feat was passing that on and not making the 49ers great but making the whole NFL great. I served this community from 2007 2014 as an officer for the Watsonville Police Department. Four of those years on the gang task force and I was here for that last meeting in April and what I heard frustrated me. What I heard in my opinion is instead of being focused on how all educators can work together to ensure top quality education for their students. There seem to be a self preservation based on fear. In most other walks of life whether it's business the NFL teaching. If somebody comes up with a better way of doing it you either learn from that or you sink. Not done judging by the publicized test scores. The local students they're sinking. That won't change if we continue to try the same thing again and again. You have a proven entity here in Navigator schools that want to come to your community and help the students. But you don't want them. As an officer if Watsonville Police Department had another outside entity that knew how to keep gang crime down in this community. And they didn't allow them into their community. How would you feel about that. Would you be happy about that? I don't think so. I ask you to vote for Navigator schools. Have them come to your community and help them educate your children. Just like Bill Walsh this district and Navigator schools can also leave a legacy a legacy of impacting every child you come across. Thank you. Good evening I stand before you tonight as both a proud Navigator employee and as a former district employee of 18 years who was unsure of this new organization Navigator who was coming to my town to show us where we what we were doing wrong. My team and I at the time felt as many of you what many of you are feeling tonight as if our hard work and dedication to our students was being questioned. We were working our fingers to the bone late hours weekends and holidays yet our students were not achieving the levels we knew they were capable of. My defensiveness cut me from viewing Navigator's arrival as an opportunity instead of a threat. So what did we do. We reached out to Navigator because we knew if they could do it so could we. We toured GPS and what we found shocked us. We found that all the reasons we had made up in our heads about Navigator's success were simply not true. From the moment I walked into their classrooms I realized how wrong I was. Yes there were lots of similarities between what I was doing in my classroom and what I was seeing in their classroom but there were differences as well and these differences were where I gravitated. I had a million questions but I also had the thought there's no way I can do this in my classroom but that is where I was even more wrong. They handed me everything take this use this ask us and boy did I my team and I brought this information back to our school and implemented the model as much as we could in a traditional public classroom and had amazing success. It is this commitment to collaboration that attracted me to become a navigator. We stand shoulder to shoulder with your teachers. We are all here for our children and we ask that you vote for Navigator and vote for Watsonville Prep to give your students a choice and your teachers another teammate to work with. Thank you. Good evening. Superintendent Rodriguez and Board of Education members. My name is Luis Carrillo. I'm a retired school principal. I was at the school was Rod Kelly school. I was a school principal for 21 years and I'd like to give you a perspective from a public school in terms of that benefited from the collaboration with navigator schools. Our school Rod Kelly school has seen phenomenal growth since 2010 and the reason is because of the innovative practices that have been implemented through the collaboration with James Dent and Navigator schools. And some of the best practices that were implemented are empowered teacher leadership and grade level collaboration, student engagement through hope ring teaching, integration of technology, alignment and pacing of grade level common core state standards, creation and use of curriculum apps, free frequent common formative assessments, data analysis of student results, a high level of rigor in the classroom, high expectations for all students, including the adults where everyone was accountable, a school culture focus on student learning. So Rod Kelly has been extremely fortunate to have this collaboration with navigator schools and the difference there's the difference with this charter school is that they want to share these best practices with all of your school leaders. They're willing to do that. It's a matter of changing our mindset about charter schools. They are not all the same. You have an opportunity to be a partner and share these best practices. You have an opportunity to improve your academic achievement outcomes for all your students. Your students deserve this opportunity. I just want to share this next thing with you is just that Rod Kelly received outstanding recognition and we received many prestigious awards. We received the California State Department of Education Golden Ribbon School, the title one academic achievement award and also recognized by Innovate Public Schools as a top barrier school for underserved students and other awards. And this is my second year being retired and the school was just recognized as being a California Distinguished School Award. My point is that the school continues to excel because of all these practices that have been implemented. So I urge you to support navigator school. Thank you. So I need to please remind everybody to please stay to your time. I don't want to be rude and cut you off. But if you can all be respectful of the next person's time, that would be really helpful. Thank you. Hi, my name is Gabriella Roldon and I'm a sixth grade teacher with navigator schools in Hollister expressing support for navigator schools in Watsonville. I'm a first generation Mexican American from a single parent household. I was an English language learner and I'm a family's first and only college graduate. The last statement is why I'm here tonight. I have two very bright siblings, siblings who are all of those things I mentioned but without a college degree. Siblings whose educational experience as an elementary middle and high school left them feeling inadequate to attend college. There are gaps in their learning that were never met. They viewed themselves and were viewed by quantitative data as poor performing students. Here's past and unfortunately my siblings became part of the very statistic we are trying to change. Most of the students I work with share my familial background so I can relate to the hardships and difficulties they have to face because I too have lived many of their experiences. And yet educational statistics, their educational statistics don't seem to align with those of my families. What do I mean by this last statement? I mean that when my current sixth graders were fifth graders last year 43 of those 60 students were were classified as English language learners. That's about 72 percent and of those same 60 students 90 percent of them scored proficient or advanced on the ELA portion of the SBAC. Is that not incredible? They're so cool. To an end, quantitative data matters in education, especially in college admission. And these students are being shown that it will not be their numbers or statistics that will hold them back from college admission. What's the difference between my siblings experience and those of my students? Navigator schools, their young lives and their hard work have been given a platform at HPS, at GPS. Please support Navigator's petition and allow this to be the experience of the children of Watsonville. Thank you. So we have Sharon Wailer followed by Andrea Hernandez, Mariah Butron and James Stent. Good evening. I'm Sharon Waller, one of the founders of Navigator Schools, director of student services. After analyzing years of data from statewide testing and from our own experiences in the local schools we worked in for dozens of years, we saw an urgent need for better school outcomes for children in this area and beyond. With inspiration from our families, other school founders and great civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, we decided to, as Mahatma Gandhi said, be the change you wish to see in the world. GPS was founded in 2011 with two goals in mind, closing the achievement gap and providing a school of full inclusion. The instructional model was created after studying many high performing schools and what we found was alignment and consistency. The alignment was between leaders and staff in the implementation of best practices. And the consistency was in academics and behavioral standards for all students. We, you heard some of the instructional strategies, early intervention were relying a lot on multi tiered systems of supports. We recently were awarded a grant from Orange County for social emotional learning, an area of growth for us, but an area of urgent need for our students. I believe the model of education that navigator adheres to, which has proven to eliminate the achievement gap amongst subgroups of children and which provides a full inclusion special education program for students with all types of disabilities will benefit students in Watsonville. I know from examples of other great civil rights movements that great change can come from seemingly small steps. The lives of 180 students can be likened to the pebble in the pond. You guys have that choice whose ripples might come to mirror a change in thousands of students lives. Small things come from small things come great, great changes. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Andrea Hernandez. Last meeting I spoke about our model. Tonight I want to explain with you my why. Why do I want to be a part of the effort to open Watsonville Prep School? Why am I working alongside our wonderful parent volunteers who are fighting for this choice? And why am I so honored and so humbled to have been chosen to be the founding principle of WPS? Like all of you, I'm here for the kids. The future students of Watsonville Prep School are my reason, inspiration and motivation. I know the impact we can have on the on their lives because I see it every day at Hollister Prep. I see the faces of my original class of kindergarteners who are now fourth grade students reading on grade level and confidently leading guided reading discussions. I see the face of Gabriel who came to HPS as a as our founding second grade class, reading below a first grade level. Entering sixth grade, Gabriel scored advanced in both mathematics and language arts. This year he is a student leader. He's a participant on our basketball team. He takes part in our public speaking elective, which has led him to speak in front of many different groups to advocate for Hollister Prep students. He also wanted to make sure everyone knows tonight that he's on the principles on a roll. And this is not an isolated story. Our focus on data driven instruction, coaching, daily intervention and small group instruction makes a difference. The model makes us who we are and the model allows us to be successful. As a former college athlete, I know the importance of teamwork and with your support on the 23rd, we can come apart of your team, the PVUSD team, working together to provide the top quality education for all Watsonville students. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Mariah Butron and I'm a fifth grade teacher at Gilroy Prep School. I graduated from UC Santa Cruz Masters and credentialing program in 2015 with an unsettling idea that my first year of teaching would be comparable to a fraternity hazing. My cooperating teacher said that if my first year was anything like hers, I'd be shoved into a classroom with more responsibility than I know what to do with and I'd be expected to just figure it out. My first year of teaching was three years ago and it was nothing like that desperate picture that was painted for me. The administration and expert teachers at GPS ensured this by starting me off with a two week professional development program known as Navi 101. I was quickly immersed in the school's phenomenal culture, all while building relationships and collaborating with new and returning staff. I received systematic and intense weekly mentoring from an academic coach that was truly invested in me and my practice. Not one day went by where I wasn't receiving some type of in the moment feedback and I never felt alone. Despite my class's diverse needs, including students with perceived developmental disabilities, language barriers, socioeconomic disadvantages, my instruction in my first year of teaching resulted in 81% of my students meeting or exceeding standards and last year they got 93% on the SBAC. Over the next two years that support never faltered. I no longer just received weekly feedback on my teaching. I am now learning how to be a mentor teacher and have run my own professional development courses at Navigator as well. Navigator schools is a phenomenal school and I am honored to work for them and to be part of their team. Thank you. Didn't do this last time. Hello, I'm James Dent, one of the co-founders of Navigator schools and for the past seven years Gilroy and Hollister prep schools have closed the achievement gap for low come low income Latino students. For decades, it's been the number one highest educational call in our nation. And it occurs so rarely. Then some conversations and some circles the conversation has died out, but not at Navigator schools. Just a week ago on Saturday Navigator was honored as the Bay Area's top school for underserved students. You're seeing that report come to you now. GPS was number one in ELA and mathematics out of 729 schools serving a significant number of low income Latino students. What do we do differently? We run engaged scholarly classrooms to get results for traditionally underserved students. Our students are well behaved, positive citizens all over our campuses. Navigator is also missing driven. We're driven to help any and all organizations to close the achievement gap. You heard from Luis Carrillo, retired GSD principal. His school, Rod Kelly, a traditional district school with a unionized staff has made the top 10 school lists three years in a row because of their growth mindset, willingness to collaborate with Navigator and learn from each other. It's why charter schools were created in the first place. I'm going to finish off with the Dalai Lama tonight. Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far reaching effects. I implore each of you, Board of Trustees, be that agent of change. It's a series of small things that can achieve the previously impossible. Give us a chance to be part of the solution in Watsonville with 180 students launching Watsonville prep. Amazing things have started from much less. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, that concludes the Visitor Non-Agenda Items public comment. And we'll go to item eight, Employee Organization Comments and 8.1 is PVFT. And good afternoon, Francisco Rodriguez with the Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers. Just wanted to again acknowledge the day of the teacher, congratulate all of the teachers and those of you who were in attendance earlier today. Thank you for for attending. I want to remind you as well that we have a very important meeting tomorrow with fact-finding. We are hopeful that you will take a look at your priorities and make sure that your teachers have the compensation and working conditions that we've been asking. It's important that at this time we work together. As you know, there are a number of organizations that are looking to take advantage of additional funding that is provided or meant to educate English language learners, to educate foster children and to educate children who are received or are eligible for free and reduced meals. Unfortunately, it's easy to point out statistics. It reminds me that we here in our district have several schools that have been blue ribbon schools. They don't happen to be in the Watsonville area, as you know. But we do have them. The teachers said that those schools work under the same contracts that the teachers in Watsonville. They work under the same schedule, salary schedule. They work under the same professional development programs. And the results are very differently, just like the zip codes, I guess. Thank you. And CSEA. Welcome. Good evening, Board of Trustees, President DeRose and Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Esther Murillo and I'm the interim CSEA president for Chapter 132. I would like to give a brief report of what Chapter 132 has been doing lately. We have resumed our meetings with Dr. Rodriguez. We will be ratifying and voting next week with the Transportation Department on adding two days to the bus driver's calendar due to the fact that the first day of each semester is pretty hectic. The bus drivers are given new routes and the normal chaos. So thank you very much, Dr. Rodriguez, for your support and making sure this goes through. Next, our meetings, our weekly meetings with HR have been very... What do I want to say? It's been a really good experience for me. I've received lots of support from Chona and helping making sure that I understand the process, also along with our labor rep. We've been dealing with numerous issues and they've been dealt with in a timely fashion. So thank you very much. Let's see. Negotiations will be starting for Chapter 132 next week on May 16th. We are hoping and know that we will start off on a positive note. Some of our members have shared some concerns in regards to the implementation of the new program that will be taking place, I believe next school year, with just energy. I look forward to meeting with Mark Brewer and making sure that all our staff that come into hand and having to use that program are fully trained. Good evening. Diana Martinez. I'm the treasurer for Chapter 132 and attendance specialist at E.A. Hall Middle School. Chapter 132 would like to express the gratitude to all the teachers of PVUSD. I personally would like to thank the many educators who touch my own children's lives. For example, my daughter will be graduating from Cabrillo this May. As for my son, he started in special ed at four years old in S.D.C. classes up until eighth grade. And there was there was guidance from Mr. Cannon at E.A. Hall who helped them advance three grade levels. So my son went from S.D.C. to RSP in ninth grade. And at the end of my son's senior year, he mainstreamed all of his classes except for one, the federal government and economics class. And so God willing, he will also graduate from Cabrillo next May. My children's accomplishments are also their teachers' accomplishments. I am forever, forever, ever, ever grateful and thankful to all of them. Thank you. Do we have anyone from Pavem here tonight? Thank you. Hi, good evening. Uli Kumaro at Radcliffe Elementary. This has been really enlightening tonight. And I want to talk a little bit about collaboration and teachers working together as well. We have a wonderful collaboration with technology and a technology Tosa, who has really propelled our school forward in terms of not just students using technology, but the integration of technology into the, you know, into our English language arts area, into our mathematics area. So right now we are have the fortune of having Madina Maldonado. She is a technology Tosa. We pay a quarter of her salary and Ann Solder pays the other quarter of her salary and technology graciously pays for half her salary. But we get her half time. So it's been really wonderful to have a person on our site working directly with teachers. There's nothing like a coach on site where she can actually go into the classroom and work directly with teachers. So she does, of course, all her charting of what she does is all tracked electronically. And she's made lots of wonderful charts and she couldn't be here tonight. But she's done coaching. She served 24 teachers during the first semester, 32 teachers. She's had 32 sessions with teachers from grades K through five, including our reading intervention teachers and our librarian. She works directly with students modeling and alongside with teachers. There's been 42 sessions the second semester. And she integrates the technology into all the subject areas. The greatest impact has been into English language arts and ELD. So it's really, it's a new way of getting teachers excited about using some of the same materials, but presenting them in different ways, giving students opportunities to share their knowledge using technology, having second graders do a book report live on TV, on camera, telling other students why they should enjoy, why they would enjoy reading this book. We have students who are struggling students but have an opportunity to demonstrate via technology what they've learned. So it's been really wonderful and we hope to continue this collaboration. So thank you very much and come and visit us. Thank you. Thank you. CWA. Do we have a representative from CWA? Okay, seeing none. I will move to item 9.0. And these are action items. 9.1 is summer in the city internship program. And this is a report by Superintendent Rodriguez. Yes. So as I had mentioned to the board, we are doing many things to try to provide students with hands-on activities and internships. And so this is one of the two brand new opportunities that we have for students. So 21 high school students. This is the first phase. We'll increase it after this year if everything goes as we plan. And so we've been working with the city. We had a collaboration with them of about probably five months. So we've met multiple times. And what we are. So what is going to happen is the students will be able to come. They will spend the day with our teachers learning about civic engagement, learning about what it is to be a responsible citizen in a 21st century global environment. And then they will spend the afternoon actually within one of the departments of the city. So it will be everything from parks and recreation to the to the managers, city managers office. The city will be providing the five hundred dollars stipend to the students. So the funding that funding will come from the city. What we are providing is 2.5 percent elective credit to our high school students because of the hours that they're doing in the morning. We are also providing the transportation for students because we want to make sure that that's not a barrier. We're providing the lunches and we are providing the two teachers. And so we really work together to identify which budgets could apply, could pay for which ones and we're really excited to start it. And next year we'll roll out even more students and more locations for this year. It's primarily our three comprehensive high schools that are receiving it. And we'll open it up to additional alternative high schools after following the process this year. Great. Do we have any speakers to this item? We do not. And are there any questions or comments from the board? Michelle have the candidates been chosen yet for the internships? No, we're still in the application process and so we're going through at this point. We still have spaces. So our college and career centers are working on it. So at this point at this point if they've applied then they are pretty much a shoe in, but we're doing a second move forward. There is, they do have to do letter of recommendation. They also have to do an essay. So there is some elements involved in it, but the deadline is not passed yet. I think this would be a great opportunity especially for our foster kids. So I don't know if we could do a special reach out to that group of kids to offer this opportunity. We certainly can. We will. Thank you. So this is a great opportunity and I'm wondering are there plans for the college and career centers to work with the students following the internship program to show them how, how and where that should show up on their resumes? So the college and career centers are the ones that are doing the recruitment. So we definitely will know who those students are and we can follow up with that for sure. Right. Yeah, because that is definitely something that we know employers. This has been a barrier for students who come out of school with education, but with no experience. That's employers are telling us us that all the time. And internships are a known way to get their resumes up to the top of the pile because it shows experience and education. No problem. So I think it's great. We can consider it done. Thanks. Any other comments? I do. So you mentioned that eventually will be expanded to include comprehensive and alternative. It includes comprehensive so far, but then it will be expanded to include also alternative schools. Exactly. So what type of criteria do you look when students are selected? So right now you said, you know, it's based on the application. So essentially you apply, you get in and the letter recommendation following the essay and so forth. But when he gets, let's say that you receive more than the 25 applications, how would then you select who will be participating in the program? Yeah, so I can, I can provide it to you. There's actually a rubric in which provides one thing that is a criteria point is attendance. So we worked with students as well and did focus groups. We took off the requirement of the GPA because some of the students were mentioning to us that the very students that would like to be engaged in this may be disconnected from their school experience. And so another reason why we're doing both juniors and seniors is to look to reengage students that maybe are not currently engaged in the process, but I can definitely provide you the rubric so that you have it. Thank you. I like that approach. Great. Thank you. I look for now and will we get a report after the summer on how this went? Exactly. We'll even bring some students into a presentation for you. Okay, excellent. Thank you. I'm really happy with that. I'd like to make a motion to support this. This is an action item, correct? Yeah, this this is a wonderful program. I will second that motion. So we have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Not surprisingly, passes unanimously. Thank you. Item 9.2, and I think these next four are all Dr. Colleen, if I'm not mistaken, this is a resolution acknowledging May 9th, 2018 as Teacher Appreciation Day, as we've heard many times throughout the evening. Go ahead, Dr. Colleen. Yes, President DeRose, Board Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, it's an honor and a privilege to present this resolution for Teacher Appreciation Day. Great to visit sites and departments this week, seeing students, administrators, parents, classified staff, teachers, themselves, community celebrating the dedicated work of our teachers with a number of fun things, celebration breakfast and luncheons, and I personally vouch for the cookies at the dessert bar. I am on my 12th, but I did save some for my PVFT President, Francisco Rodriguez. He gets one. Gift cards, appreciation banners, cards, staff gifts, including teacher supplies. And there were some cool interactive posters with teacher's pictures on them, and students were writing messages, you know, with messages from the students. And the resolution reads, resolution declaring May 9th, 2018, as day of the teacher, whereas the contribution of the teachers is crucial to the lives of students of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, the economic, political, and cultural well-being of this nation is enriched through public education and its teachers. The Pajaro Valley Unified School District has over 1,300 certificated employees and the Board of Trustees and citizens of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District are gratified by the dedicated hard work of our teachers. And now, therefore, it is resolved that the Pajaro Valley Unified School District salutes its teachers and declares May 9th, 2019, day of the teacher. And further resolved that the Board of Trustees urges students, parents, and community members to take measures to give special meaning to the significant celebration. Awesome. Thank you very much. So are there any speakers to decide them? None. And any? Well, I'm actually 9.2. Dr. Lupe Rivas. Hi, Lupe. Come on up. Well, thank you. Hello, Dr. Rodriguez and the rest of the board members. It's nice to be here. Feels like a reunion here. But today I'm here to represent California Retired Teachers Association. I am the current president of the Santa Cruz division. And as a retired teacher, I want to join you in honoring our teachers. I really appreciate the work they do. And I don't think we could exist in the world without teachers. So I really would like to join you and and also to announce that we used to give cookies to the teachers also. But we decided it was a lot of work for some of our seniors to go out there to the schools. So this year we decided to give out teacherships. And we've designated 15 $100 teacherships for teachers to use in any way they want to use them in the classroom, whether it's for supplies, for its field trips, whatever they want to use it for. So we would like to encourage the school district to make that announcement to the teachers to apply. They can contact me personally or they can go on our CalRTA website. There is a section there for teacherships. So thank you for supporting our teachers and honoring them. They do a lot of hard work. And I belong to the group that most of us are retired, but all of us are working in different capacities as volunteers, as substitutes. So we're teachers for lifetime. We help in the community. And I still substitute. So I enjoy that part. And it's kind of nice to walk in, do your thing, and walk out. So it's nice. Thank you. Thank you. And then Joe, Kim and then Joe, go ahead, Joe. First, Kim. Well, you can make the motion all second. The I think this is wonderful. You know, of course, who won on our teachers is the right thing to do. I'm married to a teacher. So of course, I'm going to support this 100 percent. My only concern is I really wish we could roll these kind of things out beforehand. It's a little bit instead of it may 9th at 9 o'clock, I wish we could have voted on this two weeks ago. And that way teachers could have seen gotten the support two weeks. They've known they got our voice support a week ago or two weeks ago. That's my only do better next time or do over as I think that we need to start voting on these things before they actually happen. I'm so happy to see we're voting on a resolution that happens in May later on in the month in a few moments. So of course, I think this is a one of I think we need to honor teachers. They do do a lot of hard work, but I wish we could have given that support as a board or voted to acknowledge them two weeks ago. I can see Willie is going to say something to make and see it on his face. Thank you. I think you should make a motion while you're. I will make a motion to approve teacher appreciation day for May 9th. I'll second the resolution. And did you have a comment? No, just that we're so happy and thrilled to be bringing this forward and and support and have much, much gratitude for the teachers in this district, including the retired teachers and with much gratitude, Dr. Rivas, for your teacherships and gets a wonderful, wonderful gift. Thank you. Okay, so we've got a motion and a second. So all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Of course none. Motion passes unanimously. Congratulations. Please share. You will. I know. Okay. Item nine point three is also a resolution and this is in recognition, recognition of classified employee week. Week of, it doesn't have a week of, but I will let Dr. Colleen. Yes, President DeRose, Board Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, taking a cue from Trustee Rossino. We're presenting this a couple of weeks early. So this is a resolution acknowledging May 20th to 26th as classified school employees week and my classified director Pam Shanks has been bugging me all week because she wanted to share this and present it into the board. So I'm going to give her the opportunity to do so. Thank you very much. I'm Pam Shanks, the classified human resources director. And when I'm tell people what I do for a living, they say, well, it's school districts. Everyone just thinks of teachers which are great. And then they forget, oh, yeah, we have almost a thousand classified employees that help support those teachers every single day and help support student learning from the bus driver in the morning who greets the student first thing to the cafeteria worker who serves them their lunch. The office staff who helps them to the district office where we have human resources, where we hire all of our employees to our finance department, our payroll department. There's a lot of work that goes into supporting our school district and our classified school employees are a very big part of that. So it's a privilege to talk to the public about what I do and what our classified employees do in the district and the support that they provide. So I am here to present that and also before they snuck out, Esther and Diana, I asked them to come up with me and if they would like to talk a little bit about classified school employee week, we'll be celebrating that in a couple of weeks. So we will be celebrating the 21st on Monday at the VFW. We're going to be having an ice cream social to celebrate our classified. As Pam mentioned, we start the day off and we end the day helping our students and our children of our community and we're very proud of it. Thank you very much. That's it. If we just ask you, do you want me to read the resolution? Okay, I will do that. Whereas the classified employees of the district support a positive instructional environment in a variety of ways each day and whereas the contribution of classified staff are invaluable to the PVUSD, whereas almost half of the employees of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District are classified workers and whereas the Pajaro Valley Unified School District has almost a thousand dedicated and hardworking classified employees. Now therefore it be resolved that the Pajaro Valley Unified School District salutes its classified employees and declares May 20th through the 26th as classified school employee week and be it further resolved that the Board of Trustees of the PVUSD urges students, parents and community members to take measures to give special meaning to this significant celebration. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any speakers to decide them? We do not. Okay. And any comments or questions from the Board? Okay. I'll entertain a motion. I'd like to make a motion to support this resolution and thank all of our classified staff. We could not do it without you. You guys are amazing. Thank you. I will second that motion. Okay. Great. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? And seeing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much for everything you do. And next item 9.4. This is also a report prepared by Dr. Colleen on the addition of Cesar Chavez Day Holiday to the CSEA and PVUSD Collective Bargaining Agreements. President DuRose Bortristis, Dr. Rodriguez, we ask approval of the addition of the Cesar Chavez Day Holiday to the CSEA and PVUSD Collective Bargaining Agreement based on the attached tentative agreement that was ratified by CSEA on March 2018. This tentative agreement concludes the 2016-17 negotiations with CSEA. And the holiday is in honor of Cesar Chavez, who gave our nation and each of us a unique example to live our lives by. His selfless dedication for farm workers, economic justice, civil rights, environmental justice, peace, nonviolent empowerment of poor and disenfranchised, leave a monumental legacy that will inspire all in the generations to come. Okay, thank you. Do we have any speakers to this item? No. And any questions, comments from the board? Come on up. On it. Chapter 132 of CSEA would thank you very much for another holiday. Any comments? Okay, I have a question first. So this isn't explaining to me what happens after this. Does this go into because isn't this negotiated if we're adding something to the calendar? So can you just explain what what this would mean? This would be an additional holiday. We listed all the 14 holidays for CSEA and this holiday will be during spring break. So it's I think the Friday or the Monday of spring break. So would that be an additional day of pay for them? Yes. Because, okay, and this is for all bargaining units? Yeah, it's it's it's scheduled for a haul. It's for CSEA because this was what we negotiated with CSEA. So it's just you know, for the CSEA. But we will be honoring. We will be having the holiday for Caesar Chavez, you know, during the spring break. So it's another holiday for them. Okay, it does say CSEA and PVFT though. So I'm just it's PVUSD. Oh, it is. Did I read that wrong? I did. Sorry about that. Okay. Okay, great. Any other questions? I have a comment. I think this is a really wonderful way to honor both our staff and the memory of Caesar Chavez. A great man who organized for the rights of many, many people and we're grateful to his activism. And I'm very happy to support this resolution or this. Is this a resolution or an action item? Action item to provide this holiday to our classified staff. So I'm in support. So do we have a motion? I'd like to make a motion. I think Willie had made the motion. Oh, Willie had made. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I'll second then. Great. Okay. And any other? No, okay. Seeing none, I will ask for a vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes unanimous. This is a really nice agenda tonight, isn't it? This is great. So my kind of board meeting. What was that? Okay. Okay. Oh, now I'm worried. Okay. Item 9.5. And this is approving a recommendation to approve an MOU between Santa Cruz Silicon Valley New Teacher Project and PVUSD. Yes, President DeRose, Board Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, me again, requesting approval of the memorandum of understanding for the new teacher project in our school district. And the goal of this partnership between our district and NTP is to increase student achievement through the implementation of quality research-based teacher induction programs while nurturing the growth and development of participating teachers in the district in a sustained and systematic manner. The partnership will allow us to conduct induction programs for our probationary teachers that meet legislatively mandated requirements for state approved induction programs. We are grateful for the board for approving the MOU with PVFT to compensate our teachers who have reached out earlier to our intern, to teachers and intern programs and those with teaching permits. And we will continue to provide further support with our collaborative efforts with PVFT on the mentoring article in addition to the MOU. Thank you. Any speakers to this item? None. Okay. And any comments or questions? Question. Is this the same program as the UC run project that we have been with for many, many years? No. It's Santa Cruz with Silicon Valley. It's the new teacher project. So it's a problem. No. There used to be one through. Yeah, we had that partnership with UC Santa Cruz, I believe. But it's not the same. Yeah, no, this is through the new teacher project, which we have used for years. However, it's not through the UC system. Yeah. So just for, yeah, for clarification, because we're all confused about that, because we have used the new teacher project. Always it's been hubbed at UC Santa Cruz. So for all of our leadership and our mentors and new teachers and all of that, it's run through UC Santa Cruz. So have we broken ties with that new teacher project? This is the same one. It's the same one. It's the same one. It's moved over there. It's moved or it's just a different. It's it's an it's independent of that. So it's both Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz. And it's the new teacher project that I've known since I've got here. So it's been an existence. It's not linked to UCSC. OK, it never was. No, I think it at least currently is not. I'm not sure the history of if and when it was connected. That would just be good to get clarification later because I'm confused. This is great. I mean, this is this is great. And of course, I'm going to support it. But just for for curiosity, I'd like to know what was happening with that. Are there any more comments or questions from the board? OK, I'll motion. I'll make a motion. I'll. OK. Motion by Trustee Osmondson and second by Maria Orozco. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. And item 9.6 is second reading of board policy on general obligation bonds. And Dr. Rodriguez has this presentation. Yes. So this is this is a second reading of this. This is what I brought last board meeting in which everything that's in yellow is the new language that is required by the law. And so there were there was a law which was passed, which is AB 2 2 2 1 1 6 and then also 2 7 3 8, which required us to add additional language. It's actually the law actually passed in 2016. However, we did not update our board policy as required. So one thing that was has was requested by President DeRose was that each board meeting I bring a board policy which needs to be updated, which is what we've been doing. So we bring it the first time as a first reading to give everybody the opportunity to look at it and then provide me input. If they have any requested changes, all of it is done through gamut. So basically that is through the school board association looks at the laws and identifies language, which complies with that. And then we generally use their language. And in this case, we did. So anything that is struck out is past language and anything that is highlighted yellow is the new so that you can easily see what changes were made. And as you can see, we had to add quite a bit because we didn't have all the required language from those two laws. And are there just a second. Are there any speakers to this item? None. OK. Karen. So I moved to approve second reading of the board policy on the obligation bonds. OK. Is there a second? And any discussion? OK. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you for bringing these forward. And report and discussion items. Item 10.1 is Power Valley High School football field and track project options, which is very exciting to see on our agenda. Finally, very big. So our CBO Joe Dominguez is going to give us this report. Thank you. Well, good evening, members of the board. This evening, we're excited to present, you know, how we move forward with our project. There's various public construction delivery methods. And it's our role as a district and in my role to find the right fit to move a project forward. And so this evening, we want to provide information on two delivery methods that we are considering. This will be an action item at a future board meeting. And in partnership with our Facilities Legal Council, we'll overview and review the delivery methods or options that we have. So with that being said, we have Deidre Sakai with Dennis Wallover Kelly. And I'll hand it over to her now. Good evening. Let's see, starting with the project delivery method options for the field and track project. Just as a general overview, the two project methods that we'll be talking about is a traditional project delivery method, which most people are familiar with. We also call it design bid build. That's a sequence in which it happens. That's sometimes used with an option called CMASS. CMASS is the California Multiple Award Schedule where the state does certain bids and sets certain prices that public entities can use. And then the alternative is also to this project is at least the back. This is just a diagram to show how the relationships are between the parties in design bid build. As you see districts in the middle and you have a separate contract with the architect. And then there's a separate contract with the contractor who then contracts with their subcontractors. There's an option for a construction manager. It's not always applicable in every situation. For procurement of of design bid build projects, you have a situation where the architect completes the plans that means the DSA goes through and improves it all the way through that. Then it goes out to bid. Once it goes out to bid, it would be awarded to the lowest responsive responsible bidder, which is based only on price. And then what you have is a lump sum. So what we wanted to do. So I'm sorry, I just wanted to go through this really quickly. This idea of California multiple award schedules is something that set up the DGS does bids so that even if for the district it's a no bid contract, it has been bid by somebody else. And it's a lot of times used in conjunction with design bid build, because if you can buy a portion of the project, say for your field project, if you get the field through one of the CMAS contracts, and that price is lower than you could get out on the market, there is a positive benefit in terms of price for the district. But you can only use what's already been built or what's listed in the contracts. So depending on the scope of your project, you know, the buildings might be left out, so that might have to go out through design bid build, as opposed to doing everything under CMAS contract or some other similar cooperative purchasing. Cooperative purchasing is sort of this idea where you have a lot of smaller school districts who wouldn't necessarily be able to get really good prices because you're not one of the big players. So you kind of all get together, they bid these things out, and the people who respond to it, they understand that they'll get more business by doing this, so they give better prices. And that's the way that districts often leverage their money to try to get the best price possible for the project because nowadays it's always really important. I won't go through this now to use CMAS contracts, but it's in there if you wanted to know the procedures for using it. We're comparing design bid build with lease, lease back. And so I'm talking so quickly, I don't have a lot of time, and I want to make sure I get through all of this. Again, if you notice the structure is very similar to design bid build. You have the district in the middle, you have a separate contract with the architect and a separate contract with the builder and they have subcontractors, trade contractors that they work with. So the idea of lease, lease back, it's a name that's bandied about all the time and nobody really stops explaining what that means. What happens is that at the beginning, the district does a slight lease to the builder for one dollar. And then in exchange, the builder builds tenant improvements on that lot. And when it's completed, they lease back the completed tenant improvements to the district. That's the general structure of what it is. You know, there's a lot of it's come a long way from the initial thought of what it was before was it was a way to have the developer finance the construction. Today, nobody really has a developer to finance, you know, like 100 percent of the project that's almost unheard of. So there is a lot of questions about lease, lease back, because there is a case that came out 2015. It was Davis versus Fresno Unified School District. Up until this time, all of the cases have had upheld the legality of lease, lease back. And not that Davis said that lease, lease back contracts are illegal, but they said that they wanted to look at certain factual issues when it goes to trial. This case was decided on a demur and for people who aren't lawyers, it means it was based only on the facts and the complaint. There was no proving up of the facts. So right now, until it is back in trial court and until it's done, there's not going to be any final decision on it one way or another. Davis versus Fresno Unified is an appellate court case. So the two things that really came out of it was they tried to say that to use lease, lease back, you have to have financing as part of it in order for it to be a genuine lease. And then the second part of it really involves the conflict of interest, because the way that lease-lease contracts were done is you had a preliminary services agreement before you entered into the leases so that you could get input from the builder, which was a benefit to the project. And the reason why we had to split it up is because the field act requires that you have DSE approved plans before you enter into a contract for construction. So we couldn't put it together. I just wanted to note after Davis versus Fresno, there's been two cases, McGee versus Balfour Beatty, which is Torrance Unified School District and California Taxpayers Action Network versus Tabor Construction, which is Mount Diablo. They've kind of held the opposite of Davis, where it said that you need to have financing in order for it to be a genuine lease. But the issue that remains consistent is the idea of a conflict of interest. So what the legislature did is they passed AB 2316. And so Education Code 17406, which was the least least backed statute, used to be like one paragraph. That's all it was. So there was no rules and any people could make up whatever rules they wanted. And what happened is the legislature went back and a lot of the things that were brought up in the litigation were addressed. So now they set up very specific selection procedures because a lot of people said, oh, it's no bid. Some people did do RFPs across their proposals anyway, which is competitive selection. Now the legislature requires that they require it to be advertised. They brought in stuff regarding listing rights or subcontractors. A lot of the things that were brought up in the litigation and an important thing that they did is that for lease, lease back, they provided a situation where districts can enter into the contract early before DSA approval so that you can get the benefit of having constructability review of your plans or value engineering. But you don't have to wait for DSA to approve the plans already in order to do that. And they put a safeguard in there. You can't start building until DSA approves your plans. So although you enter in early and get the benefit of the builder's input, you can't start until the plans are approved. Okay, so I kind of went through some of the lists here of things about procurement. Like I said, one thing I did want to point out is when you compare it to design bid build, as soon as you get the bids from design bid build almost immediately, you start shoveling the dirt. With lease, lease back, you can get into your contract earlier with the builder, but until DSA approves the plans, you have to wait too. So it's it's like a two-step process because you enter into the contract without having a set guaranteed maximum price. What you have is usually what we call price points. And it's the margins. It's a fee for service that the developer charges you. And it after the DSA approves the plans, they bid the subcontracts and then the margin that you negotiated earlier is applied to those subcontracts. And that's how you guarantee maximum prices put together. So, you know, in terms of it's faster to get into a contract with lease, lease back, but you won't find out about you're finding out about the prices about the same time and shovel to dirt roughly around the same time. So some of the advantages of lease, lease back is that it's a best value selection. So it's not based on price alone. It can be price, technical experience and safety. Those are the required minimums. But I've had seen other people put in things about schedule, what kind of subcontractors to use. There's a lot of different other factors that people can add into the situation. For lease, lease back, there can be more cost control because of the fee for services where you have the margins and when you negotiate certain things is it's standardized. If you have a lump sum, you don't know if the general contractor marks up 15% on one sub and 5% on another. You know, it's just a set even percentage. There's it helps with schedule control because sometimes what happens after you bid the documents and the contractor looks at it, they find things in there that there might be that need to be either addressed in the plans. If you get into it sooner, it won't delay your project later on this kind of part of the benefit of getting early builder involvement. And then the last thing is that just generally, I mean, this is I don't have any statistics on it. Some of the people who I work with who use it, they really like it. I also work with people who use design build and they're happy with that too. It's just a matter of opinion for some people. I mean, because the idea of lease, lease back is supposed to encourage partnership so that there's less you're less split on sides between the district and the contractor. Some of the challenges with lease these back is that there's a skilled and trained workforce requirement. And really what that is is it's about having a certain number of journey persons who work on the project who've graduated from an apprenticeship program that's certified by the state. There's already some, you know, there's a certain level of apprenticeship requirements in the labor code already just to do a public works project. This is kind of a higher level. And then for lease, lease back, oftentimes when you get the initial contract where you negotiate the price, the price is higher. And then throughout the project, because you catch the change, the potential change orders upfront, so you negotiate it because you have it all at one time. As opposed to design build where you don't find out about it until you go along throughout the project, so the only way to really see which one is higher is to compare them at the end, because upfront is not going to be the same. If you're just to do design build and you bid it out, that price is probably going to be lower than doing a GMP for a lease, lease back. And then if you do lease these back, there is the potential for legal challenges designed to build as the traditional default method for doing construction, people don't challenge that. And they do challenge, they have challenged lease lease back, but I haven't heard of any new litigation after the statute's been changed, because it does give a lot more procedures that address the items that people in the litigation were bringing up. So when we talk about projects that are suited to lease lease back, where experience is more important than the lowest cost upfront, and I think I've touched on that a little bit. When you have scheduled occupancy is critical, because you're more scheduled control, I'm sorry. And then if cost control, not the price itself is important, that when it's critical, that's when you'd like to use lease, lease back, and for some people it's a less adversarial structure. OK, projects that are less suited to lease lease back are the kind of projects that are very rote or that you do them all the time. They're very building classrooms, these are things that you guys do all the time and there's a certain amount of experience already. It's about doing it, so it doesn't require a lot of expertise, not expertise, but the same kind of expertise. And then it's just sort of the opposite of the other stuff where I said where cost control isn't as important or if you having the project done at a critical time isn't as important. And that's kind of, yeah, I'm sorry. That's great, thank you. So the general overview for for the within the presentation, myself and facility staff along with Facilities Council will be bringing a recommendation at the next board meeting for approval to proceed. And in the overview, see some of the benefits and the pros of both delivery methods. Right now, we need to confirm with under the CMAS delivery method is the football field covered under that. And if that's a yes, then are the portables also included in that. So that's kind of the big question mark there. With least least back, we can also go out to bid prior to getting DSA approval, but then once DSA plans are approved, then we can go out and move forward. But we could start the process earlier. So that's where we're analyzing that internally. Okay. So I just want to make a point that originally the project was already DSA approved. However, you will remember you will remember that through conversations we've had, we had to make significant changes with working with the city. So we submitted our plans on December 9th and between December 9th and the April where they approved it, we were required to make significant changes. Those significant changes required us to resubmit to DSA. And so that that means that that's why we're bringing this to you tonight, because we, you know, it is one thing that we need to consider. Also, predictability and being able to schedule, predict about per schedule, predictably is very important because of the fact that we are in the coastal zone. And so there is a significant time period in which we cannot do specific time types of engineering and construction. And so we do need to be able to very much plan out and predict the schedules so that we can move the project forward. So I wanted to to make that clarification because as you all knew, we originally had submitted to the city our DSA approval. But we had to resubmit because of the significant changes that we were asked to make. OK. Are there speakers to this item? No. OK. Questions, comments from the board. Can I ask a question? Let's go. OK, Willie, Maria and Kim. Thank you. Michelle, who who asks us to make the changes? Federal Commission? No. So city staff thoroughly reviewed it and worked with their engineers and in turn worked with our engineers. So all those changes were done so that we could receive a positive staff recommendation from the city. Was that was that was that before or after we made the presentation to the city and the city basically said OK, unless the pilots are not going to sue us. So that was I believe you're talking about the original conversation, which was the auditorium. And so we that conversation has been put on hold. We didn't want what we did is we put that on hold to then do phase one with the Pilots Association, which included the athletic field. So we didn't do a technical presentation. We submitted the required documentation for the permit. And then there was several months of back and forth. And as I had mentioned before, Victor and his and his team worked many weekends in order to do the requirement. So one of the things that we were required to do is reverse engineering, which usually takes three to four months. And Victor worked with staff and our consultants and did it in four weeks. And so but it is those very changes that were required of us that required us to go back to DSA. So really quick, let me just how long do you think it's going to take to get DSA approval on the changes? No, Joe would probably be able to answer that better. The estimate that we got from our architects is about 45 days. In that meantime, within that window, we would come back to the board for recommendation to move forward. And so that's the other component is while we're waiting, we're doing something. And so that's what we like to bring forward at the next meeting. Yeah, just really quick. I'm just curious, would project labor agreements be something that we can consider? Yes, that's something that districts review and throughout the state review and assess by district. So that's something that we can look at. And some districts, it's always discretion to the district, but that's something that districts can look at. Yeah, so when you're bringing it back, I would like more information on that. Can I just say, though, I mean, if you wanted to move this forward quickly and we can get you all the information you want on project labor agreements, it usually requires a negotiation. So I mean, it doesn't it's not something that gets done quickly, like in a month or something like that. It usually takes a longer period of time. Well, along with that report, I would like a timeframe. Well, how about could potentially look like I just want to see what options we have? We'll do. Thank you. Yep. Yeah, I'm on. So. We have architects, we've paid tremendous amounts of money to design, redesign, we've submitted, we filed for fees, we've submitted again, filed more fees. So it the design is done, right? We don't need to do. This these other actually through the city permitting process and the coastal commission, there's a dindum. So we had to add or redesign. I wouldn't say a full redesign. Right. But it's been redesigned now and submitted to the DSA. Correct. And now we have to make additional edits. OK. So the other thing is when we when we passed Measure L, we made a promise to the voters that we would try as hard as as we could to use local firms to do most of our bills here in this district. We've really not had to date any report back to this board on how what the percentage of work that's been done to date under Measure L, the percentage of local firms that have been used. So I think I'd like that. I'd like to see that come back potentially to the board or definitely to the oversight committee because I'm not sure that we get a regular report on that. But is it possible to use anyone local to build the football field? It depends on the delivery method. There is negotiated items that we can take. In some scenarios where you request a portion of the the local market to be used. So that's something that we can like the subs and everything. Yeah. Correct. OK. So that was a very lengthy legal presentation, which was, I think, over. My head for sure. And I was pretty zoned out in it. And I think you guys coming back with what recommendation the administration would have for us would have been more helpful than having to sit through this presentation about this and that and this and that, which I have no foundational knowledge about. So it was not helpful for me as a board member. Just FYI. So the the subject tonight is least but least least back versus the other options. So if we pass Measure L and we have the money. Is it is it now a question of which of these two methods is is the most advantageous for us to use that money and maintain control of the project? Is that is that we're talking about? Oh, it's yes. And it's what delivery method best fits the project, given the concerns of in either scenario, timeline, cost and scope and the relationship to get that done. OK, so so so the question that we have is what should these methods would be used to build a football field the fastest? This is that that's the next step for that. We're evaluating right now. We just wanted to inform the board that these are the two that we are looking at. One of the question marks is that under the CMAS component, the can the entire project be covered under that delivery method? One of the things that we have to still dig into is the the work on the portables and the portion of the parking lot on the upper yard area and then least least back, it can all be covered within that. So we're looking at those components. Is is the sense of urgency here that we want to feel ready by football season? That's so both of them would also have done. We talk about the timeline have an impact on our time project. So that's something else that we're also working with the architect saying if we chose this path and delivery method, what does that timeline look like? And what does it look like if we chose this other scenario and what's that timeline look like? OK, fair enough. OK, so we would expect these answers by when by the next board meeting by the next board meeting. Summer's almost here. We get to start working on that field. Yes, we do. Just really quick. I'm sorry. We had a little bit of confusion here. You went from the field to portables. Are those two separate projects? No, it's the same project. OK. There are some portables located by the track. OK. That also have to be relocated. And so it's part of that scope. Got it. So if you remember when we had the initial first challenge, we tried to, in order to get a regulation track and field, we were trying at first to go up on the easement and to use a portion of the easement. And so we went to the Coastal Commission and they said absolutely not that it is for imperfectivity, that we could never use that easement. So what we had to decide to do was to take out a portion of the hill that's right there. So if you look at the field and you're looking at it from like the road, what those portables that are up there and that hill that's right there would be taken out. Got it. So those portables would need to be moved and we've already have a location identified, but we'd have to move those in order to be able to have enough space and not touch the easement. Thank you for that clarification. OK. Are there any more comments or questions? OK. Well, thank you for that presentation. I appreciate you coming. And we look forward to the recommendation and follow-up information at the next meeting. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. OK. Our next item is a report on the state seal of biliteracy and we have Dr. Gottlob here to give us this presentation. Thank you. Perfect. Good evening, President DeRose, Superintendent Rodriguez and trustees. I am here to give a brief report on Pajaro Valley Unified School District and the state seal of biliteracy. So as was mentioned already, last night or yesterday evening, we had our ceremony to recognize our students, our graduating seniors who qualified for the state seal of biliteracy and we also took advantage of the occasion to recognize our elementary language ambassadors who are elementary students who are on the way to becoming bilingual. So it was an opportunity for them to go to the mellow center to be on stage to be recognized and also to watch the graduating seniors get their medals. So that was very exciting. In order to get this state seal of biliteracy, students have to demonstrate high levels of proficiency in English and another language and these qualifications are set by the state and you have them in the PowerPoint. They are high standards. So I just want to emphasize that. If the primary language of the student is other than English, the student also has to demonstrate English proficiency on the state assessment of English proficiency. So we always want to look at our numbers. So I have here the numbers, how the high schools did for 2018. You can see Aptos High 18, PV High 55 students qualified for Watsonville High 36. And we have eight students that are waiting for their AP exam results. So one or two students who are waiting for a certain grade in the second semester for one of their classes. So when those students meet those requirements, they can come back and get the seal and the medal. They still qualify. They just don't qualify in time for graduation. And you can see we have 107 students in English and Spanish, and two students in English and Tagalog this year. Two. I thought it would also be interesting to look at the number of students we have who are current or former English learners. So this is kind of a new classification from the state talking about ever ELs or ever English learners. And these are students who were at one time or currently English learners. So they are students who are now English learners who were English learners and have been reclassified as fluid English proficient. So when we look at the numbers and we do a little subtraction, we can see that 11 students from Aptos High would be considered English-only students. And four students from PV High, five students from Watsonville High, and three from the pending students are students who came to school speaking English and learned another language. So I thought that was worth mentioning. And all the other students came in speaking another language and maybe another language and English and received a high level of proficiency in that other language as well. I have our numbers here so you can see a little trip down memory lane. I know that I stated in the blurb that our district was the first to award the Seal of Biliteracy in the county. And you can see how our numbers have grown from 2012. When we had 45 students to right now and we're looking at 117 for this year. That's my report. I know it's quick. Thank you so much. That's great to see that growth. And I hope more students we continue to see that growth. It's just going to be better for them in their future years. Do we have any speakers to this item? No. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Karen? I was just going to say that we're not only the only district in the county but we were one of the first districts in the entire state that had a you know that had that did this whole Seal of Biliteracy because we actually did it before the legislation was passed in order to do it. We did it before then. So we were very good at doing that. I remember I was really trying to do it back in the day when we were working on getting it done. Yeah. So yeah, we were not one of them. We're not just the first in the county. One of the first in the whole state. That's true. And I just want to add if I may on what Karen said. I'm sorry. That when Susan Perez and Ilda Nogeta brought this program to the board, Susan, I wasn't sure about this thing as you probably recall. And it actually turned out to be one of the best motivational programs over the years. And I think that this is one that worked. Thank you for bringing it. You're welcome. So you know, I'm looking at the numbers of students that we've had over the years and we're actually down this year. So we're not as high as last year. But it seems like we have so many kids that are actually more eligible for the sale of biliteracy. Is there a reason that more kids don't actually go for this? Not that hard. Well, it is it is a high level. I mean, let's see if I can. It's like a two point no grade point average. It's not very high. Well, it's a 2.0 in English. Answer, right? It's a 3.0 in the foreign language. If they qualify through four years of the foreign language, and they also have to have or a three or higher on the AP test, or they can also get a 600 or higher on the SAT. So it is a high level of proficiency in both languages. We also have that they have to have met the standard on the SBAC in 11th grade. So for example, some of the students who were waiting to see, we have a couple students who need to have an A in there. It's actually for Spanish for the second semester. And also they're waiting for the results of their AP tests. Got it, Kim. Ed Maria. OK. The 600 is pretty high. This is a piggyback on, well, I think this is an excellent program. Let me say that. But to piggyback on what Kim had asked about, to me, I would think that over the years, it will be far more improvement as far as the numbers of students who receive the seal by literacy. So if we look in 2012, there's been a constant increase throughout the years. So I'm wondering what was done differently then that maybe we're not doing now or areas in growth as far as how we as a district can support these students to ensure that they get the opportunity to receive the seal by literacy. Right. And I think that would be at the high school level with the counselors and with the students. I know that there was a change in that for some of the years, it was the KC. And now that the level of English proficiency is higher that the students have to demonstrate on the SBAC. So there have been a few changes over the years. But I agree. We have many, many students who come into our school speaking languages other than English and to really encourage them to become multilingual. Right. And so what were your recommendations be as far as if it's promoting? I think it's promoting. I think it's having a stronger push. It's something that we've also started doing with the language ambassadors, right? So now the students in elementary have that. And they say, well, we saw those seniors getting those medals. So we also hope that that's going to be an incentive for them. The superintendent wanted to chime in here just one second. So I was going to piggyback on the language ambassadors. And if you saw how many students in fifth grade received their medal for the pathway, for already being on the pathway. Also, we are going to be bringing back later part of the A through G change of trying to change the requirements for our students is looking at using their assets that they're bringing. So right now a student does not have to take foreign language. They can choose between taking one year of language other than English and then one year of VAPA. And we're really looking at changing that and looking at increasing that so that the students are in fact taking a language other than English. And it's not really just for the Seal of Biliteracy, of course, it's because we know in the global community that bilingualism and multilingualism is important. But that will definitely spearhead it. So not only do we have kids that are at the lower grades that are having aspirations towards that, but we're also setting up the system to where they can take those classes and then get themselves to AP Spanish. Because right now we're not. The third thing I'd say is with the creation of the second dual immersion school, we're looking towards really creating that true pathway so that we have biliterate students so that they're taking not only AP language, but also AP Lit, which will help to really get their AP scores up and then increase the number of students as well. Thank you. Well, after Michelle said kind of what I was hoping to hear is we really need to differentiate the experience. If we really want to build a successful biliteracy program, the Seal of Biliteracy program, we really need to make these kids feel special. So I think the Seal is great in the senior year of high school, but it really starts in fifth grade, right? That's when we differentiate that experience for those kids so kids want it. They aspire to it. That's when you're really going to start to see the growth of the numbers. What I'm so glad you didn't say, because I was worried I was going to hear from somebody, is we need to keep those standards high. We need to have kids shoot for the highest standards they can. And when you can differentiate the experience and yet still have very high standards, that's when you're really going to see a difference. So thank you for your work. In my personal opinion, that's how you do it. Start with kids in the fifth grade. And it's just it's starting with TK and kindergarten students. And that's even better. And that's even better. Great. OK, great. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. So that was just a report and discussion. I had no action, so we'll move on. Next is the PVSD employee recognition. And this is, I would think, Dr. Colleen. Again. President DeRose, board trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, I would like to call upon Pam Shanks, our HR director, to come back to share the activity plan for the upcoming employee recognition. Good evening. I'm here to present the item for employee recognition that we do annually in our district. Recognizing and honoring employees of the district is one of the board's fundamental goals. Employees who have worked for a remarkable number of years for the district are to be committed for their service. And we will be honoring them again this year by recognizing employees who have reached different milestones with their employment with the district, starting with 10 years, 15, 20, and so forth. During the week of May 21st, we're going to be honoring our employees for their years of service with the lapel pen and certificates that will be sent out to their site so that their site co-workers and administrators can honor them for their years of service. Additionally, we'll be holding a special recognition for those who have served for 40 years in our district. And we have about seven people who have served for that number of years in our district. And I just want to make a note also that five of those seven are classified employees. So it really shows the dedication of our classified staff in our community. And so the reception will be on Wednesday, May 23rd. There's actually the time is wrong in the board backup. It's actually going to be at 3.30 in the boardroom. It's not 5 o'clock as it's noted in there. So if you can just make a note of that change, you will also be sent that information as well. So you'll get the correct information. But it will be May 23rd in the boardroom. And you're all welcome to attend. So is it going to be here or at the district office? At the district office. OK. So after that celebration, then the board members would come here for the board meeting. Yeah, it'll be from probably about an hour or so. So 3.30 to 4.30. OK, perfect. And that's where we will also be honoring our retirees this year as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's a great celebration every year. So thanks for doing that. And I'm always so impressed with the number of long term employees that we have here. That's just amazing to me. So it says a lot about this district. Yes. So for the numbers this year, we're going to be honoring about 300 employees that have hit those milestones, the 10, 15, 20, et cetera. So. Right. Are there speakers to this item? None. OK. And are there any more comments from the board? OK, great. We look forward to it. OK. Our next item is our wellness policy. Mark Brewer, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary. Good evening, President DeRose, members of the board, and Dr. Rodriguez. It's my pleasure to present to you this evening the wellness policy update. We're required every three years to update the policy. Included in your packet is the work that was done by Linda Liu. She did most of the editing and gathered input from the Consolidated Health Committee that works through the district, as well as administrators, and then updated the policy we shared with you tonight. Areas in red with a strike to line through them, which are areas that were removed from the policy. And then areas that were added and updated in the policy are noted in blue on the document. So we wanted to present that to you and let you have time to review that and ask any questions about the process or input. I'd invite Linda to come up to the podium in case you have specific questions for her. And also we've kind of transitioned Joe into this process as well. Moving forward, so three years from now he will work to coordinate the update. So we just wanted to present it to you and get your feedback or answer any questions you might have at this point. OK. Are there any speakers? No. No, I don't see cards. OK. And are there any questions, comments from the board? I see none. Yeah, I have one. OK. You've got to say yes or no. I was nodding. I can't tell unless you don't say something. Go ahead, Jeff. And then Karen and Kim. We had a couple years ago. And I don't know if this plays into this. But we had a couple years ago. I had a discussion. I remember it as heated with your predecessor, I believe, about cupcakes in school and birthday cakes and all that. And Susan's nodding her head so it was heated. I'm not wrong. And the other piece of this is that there's a lot. I remember a lot of fundraising on campus with food. People sell cupcakes, whatever they may sell. It seems to me that we are still under those constraints. First, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Linda Liu. I'm the Director of Food and Nutrition Services. Linda, how are you? Thank you. Was I directed to the wrong person? No, no. Linda can answer me. OK, Linda. You can directly do that in the fundraising component. But it's a good question. Thank you. And I believe I was at that board meeting where you had the discussion. It was heated, wasn't it? No, I wasn't the director at the time. Yes. So we have, I would say, in speaking with the principals and getting feedback about the wellness policy, that some of the biggest questions revolved around the two things you just brought up right now. So I would say classroom celebrations and fundraising. So a lot of that feedback was taken into some of the revisions in the wellness policy now. What I did was, because the wellness policy rules are passed from USDA through CDE in the nutrition services division, which is where most of my training is coming on wellness policy final rules. So all of those rules I'm receiving through trainings and all of that federal and state-required rules are in the language of the wellness policy. And I did explain to everyone that took part in the feedback on the wellness policy that things that are given to students are not part of those rules. And so what we decide about some of the rules regarding classroom celebrations, meaning things that we have parents bring in or what teachers may provide free to students, is a local policy. And so actually there was a decision to loosen some of the language. And that was part of the updates to this policy. However, it is still, there's most of the language is there. But it's been loosened to, I think, give principals and teachers the ability to maybe kind of allow certain events, but still not have their school overrun with cupcakes on a daily basis. We've moved to the middle, is what I'm hearing you say. And I think that's good. Because I do think you don't want to go overboard. I think the other, but I think that's good to hear. I know there's some concerns around peanut allergies, which I don't remember as a kid, and some other things. So we need to make sure that all of our students are safe. But at the same time, if a parent wants to bring cupcakes on somebody's birthday, I don't want to make that into a federal offense over. So thank you. Thank you for listening to what's going on and giving the local sites some flexibility. So just as an example, if you look at page 6F, which talks about food rewards, that shows you what was put in previously and what we took out. For example, it used to just say school staff will be instructed to not use food as a reward. And now it's as a general rule should not. We also changed it limited to one time per month to one to two times a month. And then we also, instead of high sugar items are not allowed, it's are discouraged. So you'll see that that's just a concrete example of how we tried to meet in the middle, but still do what's in the best health interest of our students. And I would say even though you're feeling relieved that maybe some of the language is loose, and I also get that feedback from certain parties that they're very upset about it. So I think to them, I say, to them, I say for school sites that want to support the stricter version, they definitely have all the power to do that. And then the sites that would have an issue implementing this right off the bat have a little bit of leeway and can kind of work that in. So I think it's a good starting point for everyone to, like you said, meet in the middle. I think the flexibilities are really important. You're right, if there are, if a school site really does, really has a problem with some of these issues, and if they want to be stricter, that's fine. But some school sites want the flexibility, maybe they don't have some of the issues that are trying to be addressed here, then give them flexibility. I think that's a perfect solution. Okay, and Carrie? I heard that they were gonna try to, I don't know why I heard this, but they were gonna try to do it so that children's birthdays, they would do them, all the children that had birthdays in one month, they would maybe do it on one day of the month, as opposed to all the children's birthday, bringing the cakes, the cake, whatever, all the, I don't know why I've heard this, but that they would do a birthday for all the children that had their birthdays in that month. So then they can, so that the cakes, so they're not bringing cakes three or four or five or six times a month, they're just bringing cakes or cupcakes one day, and they're gonna celebrate all the children that had their birthdays on that one month. So Karen, on item F on the second paragraph, it does mention that, it says classroom celebrations for holidays, birthdays, or other events will be limited to one to two times a month, so they can do that. Oh, so they're not saying that. Yeah, because maybe I read it here too, but I've heard people talk about that, but I probably read it, I read this too, I'm sure I probably read it. Right. Yeah, so that's a, what I think is a very good idea to me, I think that's a really good idea. And then you're just limiting the amount of sweets to one day a month, as opposed to a lot of days. Yes, for someone that celebrates their staff birthdays in the office when we have a week after week and that I'm doing birthday events, I also think about that, is there a way I can just combine them into once a month? But yeah, I think that's, I can only imagine for a teacher with that many students and you have almost every day covered for the month. So celebrating by month is a great way to kind of model that sweets are treats and there's definitely a place for them in your life, but it does not mean that it's a daily thing that you eat and I think that's part of the modeling that can happen. Or once a week even, yeah. Right. But I'm trying to think, did all of you, I can't remember exactly what the letter said, but I got a letter from a teacher about food and it was about something about, something about some kind of plastics to you that we use to cover them that are very toxic. Do you know what I'm talking about? Do you remember, did you get that letter? Not that I recall. Letter from a teacher that talked about food and talked about, yes. You got that letter? Yeah. And he was talking about something about plastic. We got a complaint from a student that all, that the food that is heated up in the cafeteria ovens is all completely ensconced in plastic and he didn't feel like that was very healthy. Yeah, something like that was really super unhealthy. He thought the plastic that used was pretty even toxic and that we need to figure out something to do so that the food's not. Is that something you can speak to? Are there any regulations around the kind of plastics that are used? Anything that we use is definitely food grade level. So there should not be any issue with that. We do hear issues with packaging. I actually hear more about issues with packaging and waste in general and not about any toxic level of wrap that we use. And I kind of thought, whoa, I kind of agree. Well, maybe I agree with what he's saying. That doesn't sound good. I just remember reading his letter and thinking. Right, anything that we're procuring is all through mostly the typical child nutrition companies that all the local districts use and so they're all definitely safe in food grade. But part of the reason that anything is covered is just for protecting health actually. So any kind of food cannot be served open unless there's, if you have a kind of covering over the area, there's kind of a safe way to serve it open but when you're portioning out food and then if there's any kind of transport like our elementary schools are satellite it out from the district office to 15 elementary schools. So in that case, food cannot remain exposed. And so that's the reason for that. Sorry to interrupt you, but I think we get the idea on that. I'm just concerned was this students concerns addressed. I mean, that student should probably get information about what are our practices and what are the products that we are using. So if the trustees that received the letter or if Dr. Rodriguez did, they could forward that maybe to Dr. Rodriguez and follow up with that student. So for me, I have a question on page nine under school health and safety regarding counseling, psychological and social services. Is that new ed code or is that local policy? I mean, I like it, let me just preface that with that we shall partner with programs to provide counseling services to students. All schools shall provide professionals qualified to provide student counseling services to promote social and emotional wellbeing. So I wouldn't be able to speak to anything really far outside of what's required in the wellness policy and what regulations pertain to nutrition services and nutrition meals and the required language. However, part of the reason that the section was added is that in the rules for creating a local school wellness policy, we are required to incorporate what they say is eight components of school health. So what goes into the wellness policy is more than cupcakes at a party. It's eight different components thinking about student wellness overall, right? So how they, safe streets, clean classrooms and it's all of that and not just kind of food related. And so there was discussion from the coordinated school health group about somehow making sure that all eight components had language within the document to kind of highlight this overall well-rounded wellness idea. So that's where the language was added from. And we did have directors from each of those topics add that language. Okay. Is that the counseling, who can answer that more clearly? Because I understand that's not your area. It's one of the eight components. So we added the counseling because we provide those services in the district. So when working with the consolidated health committee, we have representatives from PVPSA. We brought in social emotional counselors so they asked us to add that as part of our policy so that it's an overall encompassing plan that's more as she spoke to than just changing the food rules every three years, but incorporating the physical aspects, the physical activity and PE, nutrition in general, and part of it was counseling services. So we added that language to our policy, which we're allowed to do. Right. So I understand that, but my question was, and I guess you're answering it in a roundabout way, that's a local policy. It's not ed code that says we have to put that in there. I would love it to be our policy because I support that. There's no specific thing around health and safety that it dictates you need to have that section, but what we construct in that section would be up to local control. Thank you. Oh, I was just gonna ask. Okay. Yes. So if we have one more question, then we're gonna have to move forward because we do have much more to do. And our, I'm sorry, Billy's one something, Maria and me. But you can go after, yes, our final comments. I'm not saying you can't speak. Oh, okay. First. So I just want, yeah, and where it says here that health education curriculum should include a variety of topics such as personal health, family health, community health, consumer health, environmental health, sexuality, education, mental and emotional health, and so that has all that kind of stuff in there as far as it says that the curriculum should have that kind of stuff in it. Yes, and that comes out of ed code. That's what we have to cover in health classes. And that is specified in ed code. So we put that into the plan. So students get that during their health education. Okay. So all that's in there. Okay. Thank you. A lot of my questions were already answered. And there's a lot of questions. A lot of my questions were already answered. And there's this whole thing on professional development and PE which I was curious about. I was hoping that our elementary teachers were getting professional development and PE so they know how to keep their kids active. One of the things I've long been concerned about both as a board member but mostly as a parent is that we had cut back recess hours. I mean hours. I wish it were hours, minutes at one time. It was probably before Michelle came and I don't think we've ever put them back in. It says that our kids should have at least 20 minutes of recess per day which seems like such a small amount really for children. So I'm wondering if somebody could speak to that. So I'll say that we actually have more than most. So most school districts only either have a morning or afternoon recess. We have both. The reason why generally it's challenging to put additional minutes in there is because that extends the day for everyone. We're required to have so many instructional minutes. I will say that our students definitely receive their PE minutes because we've had litigation on that and then they do receive both morning and afternoon recess which in most school districts that is not the norm. So by EDCO they have to have at least 20. Our students in general have 30 if not more. Most of them have 40. Does every elementary school have the exact same amount of minutes for their lunch and their recesses? They do not. There's a lot of variability in this school district. Most school districts have all your elementary schools have the exact same instructional minutes and pretty close to have the exact same sequence. Now we do because of transportation almost all school districts have some you know some shuffling of start times but we have a lot more variability than most school districts. Okay and I like that. I like the language in here about not denying children recess based on punishment because kids really need to exercise and there's so much research recently. I just got something yesterday, this big study about when you let kids actually have more recess they can attend and focus better. I think we all know that. The one thing I didn't see in here is just some kind of acknowledgement that we should have later start times for our teenage students even though we don't. But it would be nice to acknowledge that that is a known fact that kids need more sleep and they do better if they have later start times. Their mental health and their depression actually is alleviated if they can sleep in later. So anyway. No you don't have to respond. Thank you. Thank you. I think it was two years ago that two of our schools decided to pull out of the lunch program and went to a private vendor. Do you know if that is still working? As far as I know we feed every school at PVUSD with the exception of SEBA and SEBA has never been part of our school program as long as I've been here which is five years. We actually gained Watsonville Charter and Lynn Scott in the past few years. So we actually added schools that we're feeding. So they're not under contract with the private anymore? Anymore. Thank you. A comment is that if our health insurance premiums are going up six percent whatever. That's like 2.4 million dollars. One of the things that we're trying now in the private industry is for a corporation to put in a very strict wellness plan for everyone. Not only the students but the faculty and so forth to keep everybody healthy, to prevent illnesses. You know we're always going to have some of course that keeping everybody as healthy as we can to reduce claims which reduces premiums. I don't know if that makes sense. The other item is that back in 1990 when we first had the financial crisis the one cut that we made was the laundry service. What does that have to do with fitness? Laundry service provided the kids with a dry towel every day which meant that they showered which meant they exercised. When you take one of those things out it was amazing how taking out the laundry service which saved us a hundred thousand dollars a year reduced the number of kids that actually showered which meant that this whole P.E. program went to a non-sweat program. And so the very thing that we wanted we cut because of that one service. So maybe we should look at again bringing back that type of laundry service which would help us all. This is the institutional knowledge so great because I wouldn't have thought about that. I'm not prepared to talk about the laundry service at this moment but what I am and you'll be proud of us what I am prepared to talk about is we are going to be a recipient or we are a recipient of a grant through Kaiser Permanente through the Alliances of Healthier Tomorrow in which it is all about not only professional development for our teachers around fitness and healthier eating but it also is a staff component for staff health and really promoting events such as jogathons, 5Ks, those type of things and other challenges so health challenges which is paid out of this grant so it's not paid out of the district but really in an effort to promote health and wellness of everyone. And so Kaiser Permanente tapped us as one of the people and so we just had a meeting with them on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday I think it was, I can't remember I think it was, it was Monday. So anyway, so we're working on that the towels I'll give back to you. Okay, Maria. Well before I go I do want to make a motion to extend the meeting to 1045. Okay, we just have after this item the consent agenda and then read out unclosed so I think that sounds good so is there a second? Second. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, motion passes 6-0-1. Okay, so for me I just want to highlight a change that I really like under the parental support it's nice to see that we included collaboration with community partners and connecting parents to community food gardening resources, local nonprofits and providing nutrition education and my question to that is what are we doing to do that? Well could you state the page? Yeah, it's page 8 and it's B is the first paragraph under parental support. I don't have all the resources prepared today but there's definitely working with Second Harvest Food Bank working with Life Lab there's a lot of nutrition education that's available and provided for parents there's food that is food programs that are provided for parents as well we partner with Second Harvest and the CalFresh which is food stamps outreach program when we do meal applications to start the year we link to them on our website so if you want to have something listed I can definitely do some more research to see what's happening outside of my department but I definitely have already attended and been able to see a lot of great things by other departments as well. Yeah, so I think there's just a lot of information to cover tonight to go into much detail so I would recommend to bring back and actually it's Kim's recommendation to come back and give a full presentation on food service and just a lot a little bit more time for us to be able to ask questions. What are health? Another point too to speak to that we also partner with local community non-profit we have community gardens right behind Diamond Tech Bowling Hills Middle and Pajaro Middle School all have pretty thriving community garden programs that support people growing their own vegetables and one at Diamond Tech has grown tremendously so we'll continue those partnerships as well. Yeah, well we have a lot of community garden we have Brad Cliff, Loni has a big community garden a lot of community garden. Can I just ask the point of clarification would you like just the presentation to focus solely on food services or would you like to bring back this entire topic and be able to focus additional attention to the entire document? Not just food but health. We can't hear you Karen can you speak into the microphone? I'm just saying no I hope we do it on health too just not food but just health. Food and health, food and health, yeah. I want the towels. And the towels. Okay, okay. Alright thank you so much for coming and staying late to help us understand this and we look forward to hearing more. So we'll move on to item 11 the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? Move approval. I'm calling for a motion. Are you making a motion? I made the motion. Okay wait, wait hold on. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Okay is there a second? Then discussion. Okay so. Do I wait now to do the full items? You can say that you want to pull an item tell me the item number and then I'll ask for a revised motion and second. Well I was going to just just a couple questions about migrant programs. Which number is that? The 11.4. That's speech and debate. Yeah and then the leadership institute. That's mostly. What numbers? Okay so 11.4 and 5. Yeah. Okay so we will defer those items and then before we take a vote I just wanted to make mention of the purchase orders. I think that's really important for the public to see a lot of times when we give our budget reports it's a really high level and this is a really good way to see, I mean looking at this one for this month it's a really good way to see where our money is going. It's going into the classrooms. It's going into facilities. It's going into furniture replacement and it's going where our student staff and families have asked us to put our money and that's proof of it. So if anyone's interested in reading a very long what seems like a dry but really exciting to see the good things that's happening. So with that I will ask for a vote on the consent agenda with items 11.4 and 5 deferred. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Item 11.4. Go ahead Karen. Come up here. What was your question on 11.4 Karen? Okay well I'll ask him. But I'm just so impressed that you have about 5 things for migrant students during the summer. 5 different programs that are migrant students are all going to. I was going to ask you a couple of things. How do you figure out which migrant students go to which incredible programs? The my national one I know that they do that one. Yes specific one about you were talking about the speech and debate. So I did first to... We're on speech and debate right now. We're on speech and debate right now. So the students are selected to go and we won sometimes? This is a state level competition. It's set up by the California Department of Education Migrant Program. It happens every year during the week of May 5th. It actually already happened last week. We took 28 students. They were selected throughout the year. There were some coaches that trained some of the students. 34 students were selected. Only 28 ended up going. It's during the weekend. There's the four teams for the debate. Two middle school and two high school. The middle school is composed of one Spanish debate team and one English debate team. High school is the same thing. One Spanish and one English. High schools and middle schools were represented. In the speech format there's two pro grade level two and six all the way through 12th grade. One in Spanish and one in English. In terms of the competition the the in terms of speech senior from PD High placed second place in the debate Spanish competition in terms of the debate. The middle school level they were from four kids from Rowling Hills and one from Pajaro middle school. They took first place in the debate competition at the state level. So they were amazing. I thought the high school level should replace but it will brand new in this competition. We're lacking coaches who went to their presentations in their debate and I feel like they won their competitions but there were some issues in regards to the protocols that were not followed in regards to our team. They lost points and that's the reason why they didn't play. So we're trying to kind of get a coach that actually not a coach but a coordinator that actually can coordinate all the middle schools in high school and be able to get all the unnecessary coaches to get our team better prepared. Our kids were amazing. They did really well. They behaved really well. They represented PVUSD in Netslyn matter. So we're happy to let you know that we did bring a first place in the middle school debate competition in the Spanish session of it. Will they have a comment too? Yes. The migrant banquet is Saturday. So I just wanted to help and make that announcement and the banquet of course will serve non-fat foods. They'll go be salad. That's too funny. Okay. And it's all at Lakeview this year, not at Mellow in the Lakeview. So 11.5 I just want to ask you so they go to the LA area for the Leadership Institute, right? Because they're going to the Channel Islands. They go to the Channel Islands. Are they connected to UCLA? No. It used to be many, many years ago. It used to be a UCLA program. They moved there many years back. They took it over to Channel Islands. They took it over. What's the university that they work with? The Channel Islands. There's a university there? CSU Channel Islands? I'll be darned. Didn't even know there's a CSU Channel Island. Okay. So that's the university that they work with when they do the Leadership Institute. That's where they are. All right. Thanks. And they're selected. All three comprehensive high schools get to pick. We get 10 slots. They're in application. So who selects the students? The counselors, the migrant counselors at the high school level. So there's a process. They're in application. The old three high schools are represented. And it's based on numbers. What's the largest number of migrant students? So they get five slots. PEI has three. And Aptosize has two. Okay. Five, three and two. Okay. Are there any other questions that you can also notice? We didn't pull it, but the summer program at Cabrillo is on there. And as you know, I got... If you notice that we're adding one more and that's working with Gene in regards to the middle school growth and engineering and voice and engineering. And it's all provided by Cabrillo. They provide the professors, the curriculum, the whatever they ask for. Transportation or something. Transportation is in the Watsonville Center so we don't pay for that. It's working. It's great that all this great work is being done every year. And thank you so much for your leadership on that. Okay, so I'm looking for a motion for item 11.4. I'll make a motion. I'll second. She pulled them so I'll give her the motion and you the second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously and I'm looking for a motion on item 11.5. Make a motion on 11.5. Second that motion. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Okay, so we are going to move to close session items. Item 13 or actually 14. Close session reconvene if necessary and we do not have to. So item 14 is action on closed session. And we're going to start with expulsions and trustee Asmanson. I move to approve the recommendation of the district administration for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of 2017-2018 school year and the fall semester of 2018-2019 school year for 17-18-036. Is there a second? All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. I move to approve the recommendation of the district administration for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of 2017-2018 school year and the fall semester of 2018-2019 school year with the placement of the same school for 17-18-037. Second. Thank you. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. I move to approve the recommendation of the district administration for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of 2017-2018 year and the fall semester of 2018-2019 school year with the placement of another school for 17-18-038. Second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Karen. And now for the rest of our closed items, Trustee Orozco. Under item 2.2, I move to approve the district's administration I'm sorry, I move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by the district administration with the addition of what administrative appointment, three new hires and three separations? Is there a second? Trustee Orozco, no second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. I move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by the district's administration with the addition of one new provisionary hire, one separation and one separation from service. Is there a second? Second by Kim. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. And under item 2.6, the board approved a workers compensation claim settlement for authority claim number 806-01-0037. And under item 2.7, the board approved an MOU with LIBO school district with PVUS day for one special education student. Thank you very much. And upcoming board meetings May 23rd is the next meeting and it will be held here and just as a reminder the employee celebration will be held at the district office board room at 3.30 and then closed session will be here at 6 and open session at 7. Thank you everybody for coming. Have a good evening.