 You can do the spulsion if you want. All right, is anybody here to speak to the board? Are you here to speak to the board? Are you here? Go ahead. So go up and say who you are, what your name is. I'm Stacy Anderson, and I have a concern that I would, just like you guys all, hear out. Currently, we have about 47 BTs, which are behavioral texts in the classroom that are out on medical. We have five. Yeah, there's a lot. And these SELPA kids, they can be a lot. I'm not going to lie. I have two daughters in this SELPA program. And currently, we have five subs for the 40 plus positions that are out on medical. My concern is that there's no way there's a lack of available BTs. And you can't have floaters. You can't change out behavioral texts. And we're not accessing the BTs that we need to be. Currently, I have, on my insurance, we have the access to have. Well, 30 or 32 to put, we have for our own ABA and BTs. I could put my own BT in the classroom, which wouldn't cost the school any money. But it's a union issue because they're not under contract. And you guys, it's really disheartening for me to see that these kids aren't being serviced. There's a lack of BTs in the classrooms. They're not getting adequate care. The staff isn't getting breaks. It's just a horrible circle of what's going on. And a lot of it could be avoided if you brought in outside vendors and just let our insurances bill it out. So many of us have it. And it really needs to be accessed. We have hours that aren't being used every single month because we can't do it after school. We only have two, three hours after school you can do at home, a BBA. So you have your BTs. Use them in the classroom. I know so many companies that would be willing to collaborate. And it's not being utilized. And it's all because of either a union issue or you guys don't want to. I don't know what it is. But kids are getting hurt. Kids, my daughter in particular, has a severe pica. She's swallowed toys out on the playground and passed them. It's frightening. She's eaten plastic baggies out at Hyde. The BT does her best. But unfortunately, she needs someone super, super fast. And I just don't think this one is fast enough for her. Super late, great lady, lover to death. But I need somebody else. There's nobody else in our district. It's not being, it's not beneficial to anybody. So how do we go about getting this fixed? Because it's broken. The system is broken. We need to be able to help each other. I mean, I know several parents that would be like, yeah, I have hours. Here's my BT. Here's access. Help us help you. And right now, our kids are just suffering. Everybody is. In the two minutes, thank you very much. Thank you. OK. We haven't been able to. So we'll talk about our expulsion referral when we get back to closed session. And we're going to be talking about our certificated public employment employment government code 54957, which is always that one. Classified public employment employment government code 54957. And 2.4 is negotiations update. 2.5 is public employee dismissal release leaves. 2.6 is existing pending anticipated litigation. 2.7 is final settlement agreement and release of one special education student. And that's what we'll be doing in closed session. Thank you. Ready. Listos. OK. We're going to have the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm going to have generous shocker. To the republic for which it stands, one nation under God is indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Welcome, everyone. Bienvenidos. So we have translation in the back with Virginia. Tenemos un traductor, Virginia. Y si necesitas los aparatos para que se puede oírlo en español, este pregúntale a ella. If you would like to speak on the agenda, remember to have, are they all yellow ones? Or blue. OK. If you're going to speak on the agenda, you have to give us a form, a little card. And si quieres hablar en la agenda, tiene que llenar la tarjetita a Maria o Azul. And each speaker will have two minutes. We're now going to have student performances from HA Hyde. From HA Hyde, and the teacher is named. I'm Paul Diaz. I'm Paul Diaz. I'm the music teacher at HA Hyde. This is the Hyde Hornet Band. They've been playing their instruments since September. They made a lot of progress. And this is just one third of the HA Hyde Band. We have 38 fifth graders playing. And it's standards-based instruction. And we're going to do five numbers for you. So enjoy. Thank you. Still have to get those off. All right. So thank you so much for HA Hyde. Wonderful performance. It's absolutely great. I'm so proud of our school district with all the bands we have. Now we're going to have the superintendent comments from Dr. Rodriguez. Yeah, thank you. So today must be HA Hyde Day. So we had a great start of a Tuesday, yesterday, visiting Mr. Evan Siegsman's fourth to fifth grade combination class at HA Hyde. We were able to surprise him as this month caught you being all in every day. As you can see from the picture, he's an enthusiastic and committed teacher. He's not only taking on a combination class this year, but he's also built a very inclusive and supportive classroom. So thank you to him for being all in every day if he's here. So tuvimos un gran comienzo de nuestro martes esta semana. Pudimos visitar el salón de grados combinación de cuarto y quinto grado de el Sr. Siegsman en la escuela de HA Hyde para sorprenderlo como el gano para el mes de con ganas todos los días. Como podemos ver en las fotos, él es un maestro con mucho entusiasmo y comprometido. No solo ha tomado una clase de combinación este año, pero también ha construido un salón inclusivo y de apoyo. Eso gracias por el por tener ganas todos los días. Over the last several weeks, we have had 16,298 PVUSD students, staff, and parents take the youth truth survey. So you'll see that we focus on several of our areas of growth. And we have made progress. We saw improved results in communication and feedback and culture with our parents. So you see that in the top left-hand side, belonging with peer support with our students, as well as professional development and support with our staff. We did see in the area of academic rigor. So you'll see up towards the top. It's actually at the top right. That although our staff and families report higher expectations over time for students, students actually reported lower expectations than last year. So durante las últimas semanas, más de 16,298 estudiantes personal y también padres del distrito tomaron la encuesta de youth truth. So verá que hemos centrado en varias de nuestras áreas de crecimiento y hemos progresado. Vimos mejores resultados en comunicación y cultura con nuestras familias, pertenecer y apoyo entre compañeros con nuestros estudiantes y así como desarrollo profesional y apoyo de nuestro personal. Vimos en el área de rigor académico. El personal y las familias informaron que las expectivas más altas con el tiempo, pero los estudiantes informaron expectivas más bajas comparado del año pasado. So thank you. Thank you. So now we're going to have board comments. And I'm starting again with Georgia. Georgia. Thank you, Karen. Hello, all. Good evening and welcome. We're sorry we are late. So I'm going to keep this short. But I did want to take a moment to acknowledge some important events in our community that have transpired with some of our other locally elected officials. Yesterday evening, my colleague Trustee Dodge Jr. and I had the privilege to attend the first Watsonville graduation ceremony for the Watsonville Academy leadership program with over 20 graduates. Additionally, at this meeting for the city council, we witnessed the transition of our mayor, our millennial mayor for the past year, Paco Estrada, who received two standing ovations, which is a real testimony to his leadership in our city this past year. And he is here tonight, so I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge him and thank him for his leadership. Thank you, Paco. Well, it was sad to see the transition in such a way, but we also witnessed Rebecca Garcia being sworn in as our mayor. And just a little side note, a factoid about the significance of this. In the last 151 years of Watsonville, Rebecca Garcia represents being only the third female mayor to represent the city of Watsonville as a mayor. So I would like to just take a moment and really wish Mayor Rebecca Garcia and Mayor Pro Tem Trina Kauffman-Gomez all the best for these two females as they lead our city over the next year. Thank you. Jennifer Schachter. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being patient and coming tonight. So I'd like to take a moment to offer my condolences and support for the family of the two boys who were hit in the intersection. Crosswalk on Walker Street. This is a crosswalk that the city has attention on. And it is our goal, both as city officials and board members, that children and pedestrians are protected, especially on their way to school. So we do take things like this seriously. And we will rectify the situation. I'd also like to take a moment to congratulate Yaslyn Gonzalez, who was the winner of the Mayor for a day contest. So she got to hang out with Francisco Paco Estrada on Wednesday, right? Next Wednesday? Yes. So she's looking forward to that. I have been through various events and meetings with parents. I'm not going to go over that right now for shortness of time. I would like to address the situation at Cesar Chavez. I know that the students are without heat. I find this as unacceptable. I know that there is problems today with map testing, with the heaters having to be turned off due to shortages in computers and Wi-Fi. The board does not support this. We are looking for solutions to these problems. It is not OK for students and teachers to be subjected to these conditions. We are working hard to find a solution. I hope that all of you have been informed that the district has taken this very seriously. And there are new gas lines that are going in for the protection of students and staff. This work is going to be taken over winter break, just so that we don't have any situations on campus. Because the safety of our students and staff is an utmost importance and concerns for us. So thank you, teachers, for continuing to show up and give your all in every day, despite this situation. And thank you for all the students who have shown up. Jennifer Holm. Good evening. I first want to express my gratitude to the county board of supervisors for yesterday approving funding for a project to improve crosswalks, curb extensions, and sidewalk repairs around Rio de Mar Elementary. That's a safety concern for our students and staff and area residents walking in that area. I also want to mention a few weeks back, I was able to attend the California Democratic Convention. And that gave me an opportunity to reach out to our local state senators, our assembly members, and just urge them to support fair funding for schools so that we have the funding to do what we want to do in our district. And I also attended the Measure L bus tour. I did site visits to Aptos Junior High and our SELPA community advisory council meeting. Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Karen. Thank you for joining us at tonight's meeting. I would like to ask staff and the Agenda Setting Committee to consider drafting of a solution in support of schools and communities' first initiative in collaboration with PVFT. Schools and communities versus a first structural and equitable tax reporting for decades that will be in the November ballot. If passed, it will reclaim over $11 billion for schools and local communities. So this is something that I think as a board, we need to fall behind and fully endorse in moving this initiative forward. We recognize the need for additional funding not only to address the issues that we have with structure in our schools, but also, again, while you guys are here, to for your pay and so forth. And just overall, just improve the educational experience of all of our students at all of our schools. In addition to that, I do want to congratulate our superintendent in receiving the United Way Hero Award. And I also want to share with all of you that we welcomed my new family member into our family this past month. So I wasn't here for most of the board meeting last time, and that was the reason why. So again, thank you so much for joining us today. And I look forward to working with all of you moving forward. Thank you. Kim, the server. Thank you. Congratulations, Maria, to your little baby boy. Can you guys believe she's here? She gets up every two hours and nurses her baby. So I just, in the essence of time, I just want to welcome everybody to the board meeting tonight. We're glad you're here. We're looking forward to hearing what you have to say. And I concur with the colleagues who have spoken before me. And so I will yield my time. Thank you. Good evening, everybody, and glad to see everybody here. Just to keep it brief, if you haven't bought your Christmas tree, Eastlake Village, there's only Christmas trees, Gus Passes, families. They've been selling trees there for 30 years, support local businesses. Just number two, as Trustee Schacher said, I think it's sad that our students are still facing these kind of incidents. So I know we have one council member here, and I urge the other city council members to please do what you can to get lights, new stop signs, repaint the crosswalks, because this is happening on a fairly regular basis. It looks like we're having a child or two every month getting hit. I know this was a serious one. And I just also wanted to say, rest in peace, Mr. Callahan, the oyster man at Watsonville High School. He was one of my teachers when I was there in the 99, 2000. I just wanted to say that, so thank you. I forgot to say that. Yes, I'm glad to see all of you here tonight, too. Bienvenidos. Welcome. So the only things I'll talk about I've done, because everybody talked about all these other great things. So I went to the D-LAC, which is the District English Language. I'm going to say that for the news. Advisory Council meeting, and they talked about all their stuff that they want to teach new D-LAC members and so on about the goals of the committee and what the committee is all about, and so on. And like Jennifer Shockter and also Danny, I went on the bus tour, and we were able to see all the wonderful work that we've been able to accomplish with Measure L at about six different schools, which was great. And I also went to the California School Board's Association conference. And I went to a lot of great workshops about family engagement, parent and family. I went to this one that talked about parent ambassadors, which I think would be cool to have here, too. And a lot of other things. I went to a couple of special education workshops. And I went to another one about student voices. So it was great workshops. Thank you. And now I'm going to have the high school student representatives report. And we have three high schools, Aptos High, Watsonville High School, and New School. So I'll start with Aptos High School if you want to come forward. Oh, no. PV High School, see? Didn't tell me again. OK, so somebody told me they gave me the list of the high schools that are here, and nobody gave me Pahdow Valley High School. I'm so, so sorry. Aptos High School, we're going to start with you. So this semester, we're wrapping up getting ready for finals. And as many seniors have finished their applications for UC and CSUs, the stress kind of died down, but it's back up with finals. And we had over 700 students take the PSAT this past month at Aptos High School. In the arts, our empty Bulls fundraiser was a big success with the art department, the ceramics class, and specifically making the Bulls and our choir performing at that event. And ASB was also a part of that. And this Saturday, we have our dance showcase with the dance team. In activities, we finally had our senior sunrise with the completion of our new quad. Thanks to Measure L. And the first annual multicultural day took place at Aptos High School just to show the diversity that is at that school, because so many communities come together there. And we have kicked off our winter spirit week. And there are some pictures of our mascot dressed up and our principal. And in athletics, our girls volleyball team went on to division four CIF championships and one state. And our fall sports are often running with soccer, wrestling, girl soccer as well, the cross-country team, and the cheer team is, of course, always there in supporting our sports. And that is it. Thank you. I'm going to just interrupt for a minute. If you have an empty chair that you're sitting next to, can you raise your hands so some of the teachers want to get off their feet in the back? They can sit, please. Thank you. I don't know if there's any extra chairs. Other? There you go. And that's good. I'm glad you got that chair. Now I'm going to do Watsonville High School. Watsonville High School. So introduce yourself always. Good evening, everyone. My name is Omar Casillas. I'm the board representative from Watsonville High School. So to start off, I want to start off by saying that last week we had our winter spirit week. We have it the first week of the month to avoid, like, interferences with dead week and finals week. It was a very nice success. It was very enjoyable. We had pajama day, final day, amongst others. We even had an ugly sweater day. And those three girls were the winners of the ugly sweater contest. To end the week, we had Winter Wonderland, which is a free event put on by ASB. And in that event, people could make gingerbread houses, play games. And we had movies like Elf and Home Alone, which are traditionally very holiday-attached movies. It was very enjoyable. We had a great turnout. And everyone had fun. So finals week are coming up. We're all very stressed after college applications. But it's fine. It's dead week. We're all reviewing and doing everything. Next Monday, we will also have our annual Cocoa Cram, which is to help the freshmen, because they are having their first finals. Well, like, their first official finals. I don't know what they did in middle school. But they get their hot cocoa and pizza. And a lot of their teachers show up to support them and help them study. We also have our college and career center go. And they're really good at helping them with the nerves and just having the test-taking abilities. Over the past few weeks, we had some safety issues at Watsonville High. And I would just like to say that, thank you to the board for approving for additional security guards, which has happened over the last couple of weeks. We will not be approved for five, which is very necessary in this day and age where schools have taken a turn into, unfortunately, being not safe spaces for students or teachers. Now our gates are locked. And we have noticed that there are less trespassers, because we are an open campus integrated into the city. So we have a lot of people go by. And it's, well, it's illegal for them to cross by without a guest pass. And it's nice to know that the school is taking action and taking our safety into more consideration. So we have some construction that has been going on since the beginning of the year. Like Cesar Chavez, we were left without heat in the main part of campus. And it is not very nice to be cold in the morning. So we thank everyone for approving that the pipes be fixed by the start of next semester. And being still there in time for the fall. We also are thankful for our new cafeteria that will be available next fall, even though I won't get turned right at it, but it's OK, because everyone else will. I would also like to thank the board for approving our food truck, which is going to be purchased by the food department to park at Wildcats Way. This is very nice, considering we do have a body of 2,300 students. And our campus is split amongst two blocks sometimes. And because of our schedule, the students from across campus are very limited to get to time and food for break and break time. So having that will very much easier like way to get food and access to food before their next class, which is very lovely. Because a lot of the times, like I remember in past years, I had a class very far from the cafeteria. It was very hard for me to get to food in time and in time to eat it before my next class started. Unfortunately, this last Friday, we lost one of our staff members from many years, Mr. Callahan, also known as Billy Oysterman. Mr. Callahan was a great mentor, teacher, member of the community, and friend to many. He was a co-founder of the Bata Academy, which is a business and technology academy at Watson-Mohai. We will miss him dearly and hope to guide his light in heaven. This past summer, Watson-Mohai also lost another Wildcat, Vanessa Samora. She was involved in a tragic accident, which will lead to her death. And a lot of her friends got together and have been planning and working very hard to fundraise a memorial and plant everything. Yesterday, actually, they got to reveal the plaque and the rock and they also planted a tree in her honor. Upcoming will be the finishing of her memorial. I personally got to work with the students. And it was a privilege to see them come together and plant everything. When I got them, it was still very recent from the loss. And it's just been great to see them grow, like not only like what they now form, the Hope Club to help the students in grief, but it was also great to see them grow as individuals and see them mature, even though they should have the opportunity to be children. Thank you. I'll do new school and then Pahato Valley High School. I'm sorry. I will definitely glad that you're here. New school first. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for having us. My name is Kimberly Lopez, senior class president at new school. And my name is Edith. I'm a junior at new school. On November to last month, we had every month, teachers get together and nominate two students to go to the Rotary Club as students of the month. And we were the students picked. You too. Hey, thank you. On November 21, our school went to the second harvest food bank to help package food to give out for the people for Thanksgiving. As part of our school participates in Monterey Bay Alternative Schools Athletic League. This year, we were champions of division two and three. This also was the first year of us getting both. Wow, good for you guys. In return, we got to shave Mr. Love's head. And this year, we won both. So we got to shave his beard as well. On November 26, we had a Thanksgiving feast. We asked parents and students to bring a dish to share. We invited families and district members to join us. On December 6, the Digital Nest planned a field trip to the Museum of Art Downtown Santa Cruz. And Mr. Amiris was able to book nine lanes at the Boardwalk Bowl. As part of our outdoor school and character development program, our incentive trip was to Camp Cuenonia. At the camp, we were part of the, well, we did part of the rope course, which includes zip lining. And then we played laser tag with our staff and students. Tomorrow is our end of program, which will include service learning projects, barbecue, meditation, journaling, and then team bonding. Our outdoor science and character development program won the first Jacob Young Innovate Educational Enrichment sponsorship. And we think they're going to give us a big check on Monday. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, Pahadu Valley High School. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Good evening, board members, fellow students, parents, and teachers. My name is Angelina Larente, the ASB vice president. And I'm Madam Tengodin, the ASB president, and we are the student representatives from Pahadu Valley High School. Last week, we had our winter spirit week, and it was filled with exciting noontime activities and spirit days. Despite not having our activities director, Ms. Brusa, the leaders of our student body pulled through a successful event with the help of one another. During this week, we ASB leaders had to take the initiative to plan and organize activities that would enable anyone to join for fun. One of the highlights was when the special ed department participated in the family photo day, which meant dressing up the same with a group of friends or peers. Significantly, last week, allowed students to gain more points with a five star system by dressing up according to the spirit day or by participating in the events. Speaking of five star, the seniors are now in first place. And surprisingly, the freshmen are in second place. This tells us that it is crucial to implement ideas and events that will encourage the freshmen to be more active participants, not only at our school but outside of her campus as well. And up next, starting, we started this on mid-November until last week. We started the PV Gives campaign, which was designed to help raise money for our adopted families, which was a total of six families. And then each tutorial class received a box where students and teachers can donate money that they were willing to offer for the needy. And we highly encouraged everyone to show some Christmas spirit by being generous and compassionate. We witnessed some of the kindness acts our community at our school were capable of doing, especially when a couple of our teachers were actually donating 20 or more dollars from their own pockets. And at the end of this campaign, we raised a total of $464.64 to help provide for the six adopted families. Huge thanks to our Grizzlies. And then for athletics, this winter season, the Boys and Girls basketball, soccer, and wrestling sports have already begun. Our student athletes were continuously working to improve their skills and strength during practices, even when practice times were unbearable. They may complain, but this dilemma only boosts them to exceed their limits whenever they play. It was profound that even when the varsity boys basketball team lost against Carmel, they maintained a positive perspective on the outcome because they did better than what they expected, because this was the toughest team in the area. And against other teams, Carmel would usually win by 30 plus points, but we actually pulled through to only lose by 11 points. That's a win, I guess. And then as for the soccer and wrestling teams, we have yet to see the greatness that they can do for our school. And before we even had the chance to enjoy our Thanksgiving break, several seniors were still stressed out on submitting their CSU and UC applications before the deadline. And the college center alleviated our pressure by reviewing our apps and revising our responses before submission. Most of those who applied were able to enjoy their Thanksgiving and actually be thankful for the amount of coffee and patience we acquired throughout the whole process. However, some students will have to worry about applying to private universities and more scholarships. While others are excited to hear back from four-year colleges, majority of the seniors are planning on going to Cabrillo first before transferring. Thus, our counselors and the college center have been setting the Cabrillo workshops to provide for more information and guidance to the seniors. And outside of college apps, we actually had a panel for today for IT Essentials class. And two out of five people from the panel were actually a part of this district. And there's also one person who had a tie with Steve Jobs. It was really bewildering to several of us. And this person had six kids and all had careers that did not need a typical college pathway. So a general idea that came out of all the panelists was that they really tried to enforce the flexibility and adaptability that's needed when you're trying to pursue your ambition. And aside from all of that, one concern is that we do like the safety precautions regarding the constant traffic happening at our campus. And I'm part of the safety club. And one of the main advisors or connections that I have is with the security guard who's in charge of us. And he spoke to me about the situation, about the risk on their lives when it comes to the traffic and how they sometimes have actually got almost hit. And with our security guards, while they've been doing that, they've also been doing it for all the students, and not only students as well, but also for all the people who are driving. And so we ask for a true investment of time that could actually be put into implementing an improved system to maintain safety at our school. We hope you all have a good night. Thank you. Two chairs for teachers. Two chairs. Any more? OK. Now the more boring part of the agenda, the approval of the agenda. Before we approve the agenda, I would like to make a motion to move up 7.1. So we can have the teacher speak first. I see there's some homework checking going on right here. I second. I would like to ask that you could, I would like to ask that you can amend that to also add items 8, 7 and 8 before 6. I second. Sounds good. Thank you. OK. All those in favor of that one? Aye. Aye. So we're approving the agenda also, first and second on that one, the rest of the agenda. I make a motion to approve it, John Dock, with those amendments. OK. The minutes. So we're not going to approve the minutes. We're going to have a motion. The approval. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. OK, we're going to now have a, are we going to do the public hearing? Oh, we're going to do the public comment now. OK. So I'm going to call out three names so if you guys can line up so we can hear everybody and keep everybody moving. So first off, we have Debbie Stefanko and then Marcella Rosales and Becca Lamont. Line up, line up, everybody. Hi, my name is Debbie Stefanko. I'm a second grade teacher of equity elementary. I have two things I'd like to speak to tonight. The first one is the union and the negotiations that are going on. I actually just learned that 1% has been offered up and that the benefits are up for negotiation. And I'm just quite shocked at that because 1% doesn't even come close to cost of living. And also, when did benefits become a negotiation tool? So I would hope you would consider that. I also hope that you come to an agreement swiftly and it doesn't get dragged out. The other thing that I would like to speak to is the Good News Club. It's a Christian organization that has been on our campus for 10 years. It's a wonderful organization. The parents and the kids love it. It's a place to, the kids feel safe. There is, it's just a wonderful environment where the kids grow and they learn and they have wonderful character development exercises that they do. I know that our district puts a lot of money into bully prevention packages and training for teachers. This is free what they do. They come to your campus and it's free. And the kids learn ways to deal with bullies. They learn character development. It's just a wonderful organization and I would encourage any teacher that's here to allow them on campus. And that brings me to the reason I'm even speaking about this. There seems to be a miscommunication or misunderstanding at McQuitty between our principal and the board. She has told me, we have a new principal and she has told me that the Good News Club is welcome on campus. But apparently the board has denied the facilities use, not once but twice. Two minutes. May have an extension. I think for time. Okay, I would just like you to please clarify this with our principal. She has told me they are welcome and I'm hoping that that is in fact the case and that you folks would follow up with that. Thank you very much. Thank you. So next we have Debbie Stavanko. Okay, I'm sorry. Marcella. Marcella, sorry. Okay, good evening. This is my first time as my visitor. My name is Marcella Rosales and I come because I am concerned about the hours being changed or reduced to my kid or the new kids coming to the autism program at Duncan. I am not happy with that because obviously five hours were given to him and his IEP and now they want me to change it and agree for three hours. I understand that there's so many issues about safety and the capacity. I think I would be happy if you tried to create more programs to another schools maybe so that we can still get the five hours in a different school or something like that. My kids do not like to routine kids. Like, you know, they tend to sleep late and work up late. So, you know, it's hard for me to get two kids with autism to school at the same time. So I would like you to consider to find a way, you know, to increase more programs so that we don't get that reduction. Hopefully you take that into account and I'm right now the only one coming as a parent but I know there are a lot of parents concerned about that. So thank you and thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now back to Lama. Good evening. I am here as a guest. I've emailed most of you in the last month or so. I'm a local director of Child of Agilism Fellowship who puts on the Good News Clubs that Mr. Van Gogh was speaking to. I'm in charge of San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. We're an after-school program. We train and screen our volunteers to teach this optional extracurricular program. In order to attend the program, students do need parental permission. And although we've been serving this district for 12 years, for some reason this year, my request to return to McQuitty have been denied. Mr. Van Gogh didn't get a chance to tell you but her room, Room 6A, has been made available to us and Principal Biddy is aware of that situation. Throughout California and the nation, Good News Clubs are provided in public schools thanks to a landmark Supreme Court case called Good News Club versus Milford Central School District in 2001. The case opened up public schools to Good News Clubs to provide equal access for other community groups and to avoid discrimination. I have a copy of that case in this that I'll be leaving with you. Good News Clubs does not require any time of your staff. It does not cost the district any money and we have space that's being volunteered at a site specifically McQuitty. We respect the rights of parents and guardians to make the decision about if Good News Club is appropriate for their student. Our parental registration form, which is also provided in this folder, clearly states who we are, what we teach and we are very clear that we are not supported by the school site or the school district. We are a separate entity. All we want is to be able to use your facilities which is available to all public constituents. It's my sincere hope that Superintendent Rodriguez with the full endorsement of the board will agree that a Good News Club can resume at McQuitty after being there for the last eight years and will process the facility request that is also included in here. This is the third request I've filled out this school year that prior to have been denied. We really look forward to resuming this program. We love the kids in your community. We love building community with those kids. So I'm gonna be leaving all sorts of things for you in here if I can present that to Dr. Rodriguez right now. That's okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So the next three we have Gary Martindale, Melissa Dennis and Karen Gill. Hello everybody, I'm Gary Martindale. Many of you know me. I've been in the district for a very long time. I'm a PV high school founder. So I worked with the superintendent to help found PV high school. I'm also very proud to have worked on other community building events. I worked with the Watsonville Wetlands Watch and out of I was a founder of the Wetlands Watch Education Committee and we started that and now we have a beautiful work center at our school where the Wetlands Watch is partnered with the district, the city of Watsonville and our school. And so I'm proud of that. I would also like to comment on some data. We're always working with data with our students. I look down this on the PV website today and it said that beginning teachers make about 11.1% below the state average. The teachers at the top end of the salary make about 11.3% below the state average. So this was pulled from the SARC from the district website. State average for budget for teacher salary, 29% of the district budget goes towards teacher salary. The state average is 36%. We are minus 7%. So I wanted to point that out. The budget towards administrative salary is 6% whereas the state average is five which puts you guys a percent above the state average. So I wanted to just use some data because we tell our students if they're going to make a point we need to support it with evidence. So I took that from the PV website. So I also wanted to point out that as a teacher who's getting close to retirement we'll have to replace me as the watch teacher. We also have that beautiful partnership with Monterey Bay Aquarium. We've got a watch class at PV High. Now we have one at Watson Mill High and now we have one at Aptus High. Each of those students gets $1,000 scholarship. They get honors credit for a coastal ecology course. And so then the program during the school year they pay somewhere on the order of about $8,000 to $9,000 per student for field trips, materials and so on and so forth feeding the kids. What a great partnership. It's hard to get great teachers to stay and I need someone to replace me. So you got to do something to keep teachers here. Thank you very much. Next we have Melissa Dennis. All right, hello. I'm a proud union member and I would normally be here to talk on behalf of the union but unfortunately there's some things going on at a Loni Elementary School that's more important for me personally right now. For those of you who don't know, we have Chromium 6 in the drinking water at a Loni. Chromium 6 is a known carcinogen and recently the teachers and the staff at a Loni wrote a letter together and signed it. There's 49 signatures from the teachers and the staff at a Loni and I'd like to give it to you right now. The most recent maximum contaminant level for Chromium 6 in California was 10 parts per billion. Over the years our average level has been 13 parts per billion and the most recent test was 10 parts per billion. 10 parts per billion of Chromium 6 is not a good amount to have in your drinking water. It's 500 times higher than the California's level for public health set by the Office of Environmental Health. In fact, it's high enough that we qualify for free emergency water service through the state of California. I was told that we will not be applying for the emergency water because the district does not want to admit to being out of compliance on a state form. Now, I'm a tap water advocate and I don't like using plastics. I don't like using fossil fuels to truck water jugs around, but I do think there are times when it is necessary to temporarily use water service, especially if the state is offering to pay for it, our portables are already using a water service that's been vetted and comes from an excellent source. And finally, I read in the paper in the Pajaronian some more information about what's going on with the Loni's water. And I heard from district officials that we will be getting a filtered water filling station which is great news, but unfortunately it doesn't filter Chromium 6. So I wish there was a way that we could find a cost effective way to add reverse osmosis to the filling station. And I would love, like the letter says, we would love to work with you to find solutions that are affordable. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next we have Carrie Gill. My name is Carrie Gill. I'm a teacher at Aptos Junior and my two children attend Marvista. I'm the PBIS coordinator for my site. I'm on school site council and home in school club and I run the GSA at Aptos Junior. I think we can all agree that attendance and funding that comes from attendance are critical for success for our students and our district. I recently attended my second PBIS conference in Sacramento representing my school. And the keywords I hear over and over again related to PBIS are research data and fidelity. We are collecting data on behavior now and using research proven methods for behavior with fidelity from our staff. All of this is a positive change for our district but I do have one question. I would like to know what research proves that holding teachers and their salaries accountable for attendance is a route that has been proven successful. There are many research based avenues that we could explore related to attendance. For example, what if we had an in school suspension slash cool down room on every secondary campus? Students who would normally be suspended from school fall behind in their academic work and stay home playing video games would then instead be able to attend school separated from their peers where they could focus and work with an adult to not fall behind on their academic work. Students who are dealing with multiple traumas, students who need conflict mediation, students who are freaking out and need a structured break could all use this room to manage their behaviors and return to their classrooms as quickly as possible. We simply don't have the staffing or the funding to run such a resource. We hear a lot about the social emotional health of our students and we all know research shows the supporting students in that way results in more successful students. We simply don't have the funding to make these ideas a reality in our district. For example, my own daughter has been struggling on the transition to kindergarten. When I reached out to the school to ask for support I was told that at Marvista kids corner can only support four students out of 500. When I spoke to the one social emotional counselor I was told that five elementary schools share that counselor and she is available only once every three weeks to meet with my daughter. As a parent, I find that type of support to be less than the bare minimum. Our teachers have a lot of great ideas on how to improve our schools in attendance but in reality what a family chooses to do with their own child is simply out of my control. I cannot make a family who does not trust the educational system send their child to school. I cannot go pick up those students from my personal vehicle and drive them to school for my own liability. I cannot go into their homes, wake them up, feed them breakfast and help them get ready for school because I already donate hundreds of hours of my time to our students in our district and my own children need me as well. I drop my children off 30 minutes before their classes start so I can spend 45 minutes before school mentoring a student who needs tier three interventions and support. I'm so close to being done. I cannot give more to this district to my school or my community but the teachers in our district go far and beyond what is required of our contracts. I find it simply insulting that we are being asked to somehow magically impact attendance. This seems par for the course. I'm so close. This seems par for the course in my experience. New programs like PBIS are rolled out without the funding we need to implement the program well and we don't have the manpower or the funding or to use many of the ideas that I've gotten at that conference. So teachers are not magicians. Improvement in attendance needs to come from the district level because frankly teachers are doing everything they can to ensure students come to school every day. Thank you. Next three speakers. We have David Patino, Jennifer Nathan and Susan Monabin and please keep it to two minutes. David Patino, Jennifer Nathan and Susan Monabin. Well hello. Thank you board members. Hope you're all having a great evening. I came to make some positive suggestions to improve our facilities and work environment. I'm David Patino. I worked in the PVSD for 10 years. Now I'm at Watsonville High School. Work orders seem to get lost in the quagmire of facilities. I oversaw a facilities program at San Jose State. We did 10,000 work orders a year. There's a public website that you could actually submit your work orders to. Then people sorted through those work orders and we reconciled them every year. I think it was in year three I put in a work request to get some light bulbs fixed. By year six, those light bulbs got fixed in my classroom. Every year the work order was canceled. It was never actually accomplished. But they did get fixed. I almost cried that day. When I went in my classroom and they had lights. The software division and technology is doing much better. They have a transparent system that has a work order serialization and I'm still trying to deploy this wonderful software that Dr. Rodriguez purchased for my students. About halfway into the year, my administrator is asking me why the students aren't designing their own projects to run on the machinery. And my answer is, because the software hasn't been deployed to the computers. Now I would be happy to stay after and do that for myself at smaller sites we are allowed to manage ourselves. But at larger sites we are not. So I struggle with trying to give the best to my students every day. I did want to say that I'd like some help with that if someone could look into that. Renaissance High School Shop. I taught at Renaissance for two years and we have a shop program. Took $100,000 out of our LCAP. And we got a new ventilation system. That ventilation system is working but the shop is closed. Two minutes. I would love to see that shop opened again. And I'd be willing to help in any way possible. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we have Jennifer Nathan. Good evening. I teach at Alianza. I have taught at Macquarie and Calabasas. And I've been here at the board meeting too many times to say, please keep our salary up with cost of living. Please don't let us fall farther behind. And it's really hard for teachers to make it to night meetings. We are often doing planning at home besides managing our family. So please figure this out so that we're not here every year, every other year, for 1% yikes. I'm also here to say that at Macquarie Elementary, Good News Club was in my classroom after school for, I don't know, about five years before I took another position at Alianza. And I saw students go through it. Students could just attend. They could attend once. They could attend multiple times. They got to choose. And it was a place where they felt like they were supported by community volunteers. The Macquarie Club was sponsored by First Baptist Watsonville. The Real Del Mar Club was sponsored by Twin Lakes Church. There's a San Lorenzo and a Good News Club. And here are volunteers. Our community partnership who want to come in, donate to our school. And why can't we have more clubs? Places where students feel like they really belong. Where students, people who care, are there to donate their time and support them. Let's try to do more to get these kind of community partnerships into our schools because I had to read a book on leadership team at Macquarie about how teachers should mentor students. And we have about 30 each. And here are volunteers who want to come in and mentor our students. People who really care from whatever organizations that do good for our community. And we can be, work together for this. So, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next we have Susan Manabe. Hi, good evening. First of all, my name is Susan Manabe and I'm a science teacher at Diamond Technology Institute. And first of all, I want to thank you for helping us find seats because we worked all day and our feet are tired and moving the agenda because as the previous speaker said, I've got work to do at home. I'm in the middle of writing my chemistry final. I'm trying to make it successful for my students, but yet here I am. And the reason why I'm here is I want to support my fellow teachers and my union. When I first heard the proposed on the table at the moment, 1% with us trying to help enrollment. Quite honestly, I was actually hurt. I was insulted, but mostly I was hurt. I have been in this district for 15 years when I taught fifth grade science. I brought more students to the county science fair and had them not just go but place with ribbons. I've had students at the high school level go to the state science fair and had been recognized there. And I oversee the online math courses at my school because we don't have a math teacher, but even so, I'm strong. I used to be a chemist and I love math. And our students at Diamond Tech have made on their math scores some of the biggest jumps at the secondary level in our district. And I don't know what the idea was to have teachers increase enrollment. I'm doing everything I can. And my understanding is several years ago, the district hired a PR person, which is great, making a good salary. I don't disagree with that. They should get a good salary. But my understanding that was their job to help advertise our district and to get enrollment up and using that person. The teachers, we are doing everything we can. And I was just curious to know what the reasoning was for teachers to increase the enrollment. I didn't know that was in my job description. And I don't know how I would actually do that other than taking out ads in the local newspaper, telling what I do as a teacher. I was just a little bit hurt, and I just wanted the board to know that. So thank you for listening. Thank you very much. So next three, we have Tammy Harkins, Joanne Tabas, and Ramiro Madrano. Good evening, I'm Tammy Harkins and I teach English at Pajaro Valley. And I remember meeting some of you at the Climate Rally at the beginning of the year. Forgive me, I'm not totally prepared, but I do wanna say that it sounds to me like there's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul stuff. And somebody pays, Peter or Paul. But the teachers, if we can think about all of us as a big family and we really have the ethic of the connection between teachers needing pay to sustain their life here or to even put all in every day, we have to honor that. We're professionals. I don't know very too many other careers outside of there that where they don't actually raise the cost of living and the salaries at the same time. And I do think we can get creative as a district in terms of revenue generation. I go into the science department, thank you Gary for your wonderful statistics because that says it all and I did owe to that. But every day it's freezing in there, there's North winds coming in, there's an air conditioning going on. I can just imagine what the, we should do some energy audits in this district. You know I'm passionate about climate change, but not just spending more, but thinking about prioritizing where we're spending, thinking about our procurement policies for this district, what we're prioritizing, why do we keep purchasing huge programs that may or may not work or are leaving a bunch of computers for our freshmen that don't work at all. I've been teaching 172 freshmen this year and almost every computer has broken down. What happened there? So I think, and this isn't a blame situation, this is we need to all work together because we are definitely living in a culture right now in a division and I don't wanna have an us and them thing, but to sit down, put the transparency of the budget out and solve the problems together because we need students who are strong and eloquent and can persuade in the time right now that's pretty scary for them and for us, but certainly for them they're inheriting a crazy future and we need high quality education where these kids can run for public office, run for city council and school board and have that kind of strong education where the teachers are honored like they are in Finland and Japan and globally, really Costa Rica. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Joanne. Hi, my name is Joanne Tabaz and I'm a first grade teacher at Marvista Elementary School and I have 30 years of service as a teacher in the Pajar Valley Unified School District. And I'm here to make two points today. I've committed my entire career, my entire adult working life to the school district. I've been here since the 1989 earthquake when I comforted traumatized students in the classroom. I learned Spanish to become a bilingual educator and serve students. I worked in South County and North County and I've been through lean times and the flesh times and I've made my commitment to the school district every day that I show up and serve my students. However, I'm continually let down by this district's commitment to me. I've committed to contracts only to realize that you're not committed to honoring the contract with me as well. And while I'm not shocked by this attitude anymore towards loyal employees, I'm here to tell you that I feel really disrespected. I feel insulted, that you feel that the time and experience that I have to offer is worth so little to you. And the current offer of tying salary and benefits to student attendance, that's absurd. I beg you to reconsider that and I put a serious offer on the table. The other thing that I have issue that I wanna bring up is the need for more social and emotional counselors at our schools. The students are coming to school with more needs than ever before and they're here in our classrooms and they're needing help and there's not enough providers to serve them. And this is preventing our students from learning. We're just teachers. We don't have the training to help students with psychological problems. We need help. We need mental health counselors and psychologists full time on each site and one on one support in our classrooms for these students so we can keep everybody safe and learning. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ramilo. Good evening. My name is Ramilo Medrano. I am a counselor at PV High School. We are the counselors at PVUSD. I'm also a rep from PVFT along with Wendy. This is the first year that as counselors we have a voice and we are represented for PVFT. No longer will you not hear about from the counselors. So we are here to say that 1% raise contingent on raising ADA is a slap in the face. It's a slap in the face to teachers is a slap in the face of counselors. And I'm going to tell you why it also tells me that you guys are disconnected from this community because there are many reasons why students do not attend school. Right. I mean we can tell you every day most of us talk to I would say all of us talk to parents on a daily basis. Personally I've done home visits. I talk to my students. We're talking about families dealing with deportation. We're talking about families that have students that have mental health issues, anxiety. We're talking about single parents who are working multiple jobs, multiple families living in one household. I invite you to come walk our neighborhoods. I invite you to come and do home visits and really get to know our families and really get to know our students of why they are not attending school. So to put that on us is ridiculous. I'm sorry. It's ridiculous because we are doing everything we can. Personally at PV High School, along with our social emotional counselors at PV High we have brought in five different community organizations to do groups with students, to check in one-on-one with students. That's from the direct results of our work, not administration, not the district. So we need to see more support from you guys. We need to see more support from the district, right? If you want to see a higher attendance then you need to really put the money where your mouth is. So. Two minutes. I want to thank you and I want to, you know, this is, I agree with Tammy. This is, you know, working together. We need to work together. But you telling us that it's contingent is you're not working with us. Thank you. Thank you very much. So the next three speakers, we have Esmeralda Sanchez, Angelica Lopez and Caitlin Johnson. Good evening, my name is Angelica Lopez. It's my first time to be here. My concern is about the Fridon School where there is no teacher in the special education class. We have from September to today. My name is Angelica Lopez. My name is Angelica Lopez. This is my first time here. It's my first time here. I come here to put a problem that exists. I'm here to tell you about a problem that exists. In the Fridon School, in the special education class, in freedom school, special education, no hay maestros desde el mes de septiembre. There aren't any teachers in September. Hay diferentes sustitutos. There are different substitutes. Y creemos que no es una educación adecuada para nuestros niños. And we believe that it's not an adequate education for our children. Queremos que ustedes hagan algo. We want you to do something. No sé si me distrae. My name is Esmeralda Sanchez. And I am also a parent of the Fridon. And my friend said, since September, the teacher was removed because one of his credentials, as you know, you're familiar with the son, Rika, she didn't have. So she had to be removed from the class. Since then, until now, the students have been different substitutes of every day. The teacher is working in his exam. And this week, she knows she passed. She'll pass, she'll come back on January. But our worry says that I do some research on this exam. And the study says that, honestly, this exam doesn't do a better teacher. It's a reading test. And also, it's many possibilities that people who, the English is their second language, fall this test. So you, as a district, can do something about this test so we can all lose our teacher. You know, we have our teacher, Ellie, she's a wonderful teacher. And we have to keep our teachers. We know that you have a problem hiding teachers, not only in class, in many classes. You have a problem hiding teachers. It's my first time here. And I will be surprised all these things that didn't all happen in our community. I think we, as a parent, also had to put more attention on these things. Because honestly, I didn't know all these problems. I just thought that we have our own problem. I know that you have a lot of problems in mind, right? It is not like you have to solve. You have to have priority. But think in mind that you can do something about this exam. Recon, if you could do, we really appreciate it. Because I think, since September until now, our kids lost all his education. Having a SAT every day, it is not. And they had that IEP. They are a special education student. So they had to be familiar with the teacher in order to understand the teacher and everything. You know, I think this could affect the regular student for more, our special education teacher. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Caitlin Johnson. Hi. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez and the school board for allowing us to speak. My name's Caitlin Johnston. And I've been a proud Arama Dio, a teacher at Alianza School for 24 or 25 years now. And I'm here to, a lot of what I wanted to say has already been said, so considered an underline. I'm here to share, from my own experience, some of the main reasons why students miss school and why it's absurd to put the onus on myself and my colleagues to try to make them come. The first reason they miss school is because they're sick. Now, I don't want them to come to school when they're sick. And I'm really grateful that you're not going to touch our benefits. And I'm going to need it, those benefits even more, those health benefits even more, if we're going to start encouraging sick children to come to school. So if they do come to school sick, we don't have enough nurses to help them. If they do come to school sick, we don't have this custodial staff to actually clean the classrooms. They vacuum and they empty the trash. And we're not allowed to clean them ourselves with those clocks wipes anymore. So there's not much I can do about students being sick. But if we had more nurses, rooms that weren't 85 degrees in the summer and 55 degrees in the winter, where they might not be as sick as often, there's not much that I can do about it. But there are things that you can do about it. Another reason that students miss is family upheaval, divorced parents to households homelessness. I can't do anything about that. I'm not sure you can either. But I also want to address mental health. We have a number of students who are frequently absent because of their own or their parents' mental health issues. I can't do anything about that, but that you can. You can hire more social-emotional counselors. You can hire more school psychologists. With kids who had a more supportive environment at school to come to, they might not be absent as often. So, and the last reason that kids miss our school frequently is transportation issues. One of the things that could help that would be to have the district work with the city to re-establish a public bus service out to our school. We have parents who have car trouble, et cetera. So, again, if you're serious about student attendance, there's a lot that you can do, and there's almost nothing I can't do that I don't already do. And yes, I do welcome them back with a smile and say that I miss them. Thank you. Thank you. So, the next three speakers are Ann Twitchell, Melinda Luna, and Erin Levy. Levy. Hi, good evening. I'm Ann Twitchell. I'm a second grade teacher at Mar Vista. And a lot of what I wanted to say has already been said. So, again, I'm underlying that. I want you to know that I drove here from Monterey tonight because that's where I live and that's where I commute from every day for an hour to and from school because I can't afford to live in this community. So, I left and the impact is huge on me. It's extra stressor in my life, daily commute, and it's huge on my class because that time that I'm on the road driving, I could be working in my classroom. So, I need a raise. I work in the least affordable community, I think, period, period. It's the least affordable community for teachers to live in. And we need a raise. Other places that are equally as expensive pay their teachers more. So, why would teachers that we need and mental health counselors that we need and psychologists that we need stay when they can work in a neighboring district and make more money? Also, I think there's a misconception that, well, you get a raise every year because you have your step increase. I don't, I have 20 years. So, 20 years and I can't afford to live here and I don't get a raise because I am at a place where I'm not gonna get a raise for three years. I didn't get a raise this year, I won't get a raise next year. So, you don't automatically get a raise, you don't automatically get more money, you don't automatically get your step increase. Also, I'm all the way over in columns, I have all my units. So, that's it for me until I do another three years. Something I wasn't gonna touch on because I was gonna wait for the word meeting next week. I understand there's a special board meeting, but since it's already come up twice, we need more mental health professionals. PBIS, part of implementing PBIS is counselors and social and emotional groups and our students desperately need that support. We desperately need that support at Maravista. I invite you to come to Maravista to connect with the teachers, to connect with the parent community and talk to them about this need and we'll be back next week, I think, to tell you more. Thank you. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez, members of the board and superintendents. Thank you very much. My name is Melinda Luna, I am a kindergarten bilingual teacher at Starlight Elementary, all in every day. For me, that means 8 a.m. to about 5.30 p.m. on a regular basis. That means my husband working at Watsonville High School as a p.m. custodian. That means my son being enrolled at Allianza Elementary School as a third grader. That means my mom coming in at minimum twice a week in my classroom as a volunteer. My whole family is all in every day for this district, for our students, for what we believe in that our students deserve. Currently, I believe that our school district is putting curriculum above the kids. I believe that our school district is also not treating teachers as professionals. We are currently, I believe that schools are a service industry. Teaching is an act of hospitality. You have to invite your students and you have to keep your clients. Now, I can do a little bit about that in attendance. If I have a student who doesn't want to come to school, I can call every day and say, hey, I can't wait to see you. I miss you when you weren't here. All of those things, right? But when it's because mom can't have transportation, dad can't have transportation, both parents are working, no one else can bring child. Big brother is watching child, can't bring child. That's not on me. We need more support when we put students in SARB. I have students who have missed over 25% of the school year this year and haven't even received a letter. Haven't even received a phone call. Only because I asked my administrator to be at a meeting are hearing that they are having attendance issues. I bring these things up again and again. I am doing everything I humanly possibly can to be all in every day for my students. And yes, they get sick. Guess what, once upon a time, we used to have nurses teach children how to wash hands. My candidates don't have time to wash hands. Two minutes. We have antibacterial gel. Two minutes, two minutes. Thank you. From the vibe. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez. Thank you, school board for being here. My name is Erin Levi. I'm a second grade bilingual teacher at Starlight Elementary. I have committed 17 years of being a bilingual teacher at Starlight. I have been everything from a math science teacher to I'm on the ELAC committee. I have taught after school program. Every year I am teaching somewhere extra just to put my food on the table for my kids and pay my bills. I volunteer as a soccer coach just to get my kids in soccer. I can't afford all these extracurricular activities as a teacher in PUSD unless I volunteer to do these things. I'm 47 years old almost in January, 46 years old. I'm struggling. And I stand here tonight with my kids at home with my husband who's in college. We're on one income and I'm barely making it. And you want me to tie my attendance to my raise? I want to cry. It is deplorable. And honestly, I'm offended and it hurts me. I manage, I do the pump system. I do the high five. I hug half my students every morning. Ask Jackie. She's been there. Ask Jackie Medina. I mean, I'm there every morning to hug every kid who walks in the door. And I check out with them every day. I'm a science teacher. I'm a science lead. I'll do everything in anything. I'm on the school board. I'm on the ELAC committee. I'm a site rep. I am all in every day. And I think it is so humiliating to come here every two years to ask and beg you for a raise. You hear it in my voice. I want to cry in front of you. So please consider our raise sooner than later so that we don't have to be here correcting our papers and crying to you because we're poor and we're barely surviving in our communities. Two minutes. It's expensive to live here. Please consider that. Thank you. All right. The next three speakers are Greg Tuckett, Maya Unsweld and Nancy Jackson. It looks like I have three forever. That's there for me to know my time, right? Two minutes. Timer. All right. Greg Tucker, teacher at Power Valley High School, part of the negotiations team. I've been teaching 23 years. And the only reason I don't have the same monthly worry about rent that everyone in this room seems to have is because when there was that financial crisis, I got to feed on somebody else's suffering, right? I got the opportunity to get a home. And that allows me to stay in this community and be able to afford a little bit better lifestyle than everybody who has seen rents just boom, boom, boom, boom while raises are going. And in all honesty, I'm just waiting for my wife to say, I want to move because she kind of wants to move. And if she makes that decision, then I'm moving. And I love the students here. They're amazing students. When they're not in my classroom, I assume it is because they have some struggle that they are dealing with that gives them a legitimate reason not to be there. It might not be legitimate in everyone's eyes, but it's legitimate in their eyes in that moment of their life. And as a teacher, I have to be understanding of that. And I think the board, I think the district needs to be understanding of that as well. That is not on me as an educator. What I can do is when they come back, welcome them back, not question them about why they've been absent for so long and why they are a failure as a student for being absent and now I'm not gonna get a raise because you were out too long. That's idiocy. To ask it is more than insulting. And honestly, you can afford to get the time refixed. Thanks. Hello, my name is Maya and I'm a second grade bilingual teacher at Landmark Elementary. I'm new to this district. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm not having been a teacher for that long and I want to honor everyone who's been in this district for so long. But the people who came in with me, my cohort, we're not gonna be able to stay. The people from my graduating class at UCSC who went over the hill for the same amount of commute time are making $30,000 a year more than me. And we're talking about it. We're open and honest and that's hard to hear, especially when it's being tied to attendance for students and Dr. Rodriguez came to our site last week and said it is mostly special ed students who are out, who are being absent. Why should they come to school? If they're one-on-one, eight is gone and there's no substitute. Why should they come to school? If there's different 30-day subs every day in their autism classroom. My site right now, we have a new group of newcomers who have come, we have over five and I was told there are no services for them because they speak Spanish. If they speak Zapotec as their first language, Mixtecco, Arabic, then they could receive services. We have students who came straight from detention centers to our school and they are receiving nothing in additional services. Why should they come to school when they don't understand anything that's going on? And we are giving them nothing. That's all. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. It's been a long day. It's my morning. Good evening, board members, superintendents. Thank you. You can tell him along my day's been. I'm at my, well I guess I'm at my 15th hour right now is what I'm at. And I would like to address this notion of being all in every day. And I say, what the heck? Of course. I am a fourth and fifth grade by literacy teacher. I've been working for the district for 30 years. My name is Nancy Jackson. I work at Starlight. And I'm all in every day two, three, four hours over my contract hours every day. Four or five days a week. I am working on Sundays for five hours and most of my colleagues are as well. I'd like to acknowledge all of my colleagues who have come out tonight and expressed the different ways that of course they're all in every day. But it's with a great sense of dismay and alarm that I'm coming before you to talk about treatment of teachers. I have been through so many contract cycles in 30 years and every three years it's the same thing. My question to you is, are you all in with the teachers? Are you all in with your students? Are you all in with your community? That's the ask here. 1% tied to attendance, that's not all in. That's not all in with me. That's not all in with my colleagues. I also with a great sense of dismay say, wow, I'm going to have to pull off of being all in in my classroom to organize informational pickets in front of my classroom. I'm gonna have to pull off of my classroom to come to board meetings when I'm normally in bed so I can get up at five tomorrow morning and be all in for my classroom. I have to pull off of being all in when I have to organize demonstrations at the corner of Maine and Green Valley and most importantly, I'm definitely not all in when I have to work the contract. When I have to stop my work and go home at 3.30 to force the acknowledgement of the value of my labor and the value of my colleagues' labor. And I can't tell you how discouraged I feel about doing this again. Two minutes. Again. However, we carry on because we're teachers and we are all in and we are all in every day and I'd really like you to be all in with us and our students and our communities. Thank you. Hello. So the next three speakers are Myra Hernandez, Kathleen Kilpatrick and Sophia Diaz. Hello, good evening. My name is Myra Hernandez and I am a community organizer with Community Water Center. I was last here in October and I spoke about who CWC is and the work that we do and the resources that we help connect schools and communities to. And I'm here today to let you all know that Community Water Center supports alone parents and teachers and the requests that they are making tonight and the information that they are giving to you all. And just to remind you all that we are here as a resource. We've been working on water quality issues for more than 13 years and we are looking forward to working with all of you and everyone in the community to obtain safe and affordable drinking water for our schools and communities that need it. Thank you. Hello. Kathleen Kilpatrick, retired school nurse. I didn't expect to see all these wonderful teachers here but salary increase using ADA to pay for it and expecting teachers to do that. Whoa, I have worked 20 years with this district on health issues, student and staff health issues and those reasons including chronic truancy programs which never quite got off the talked stage and yeah, all those things that people said about why students don't come to school all true. I've seen those stories. The best way to increase your ADA, focus on health and safety on campus and provide adequate resources, nurses, psychologists, counselors for your students. But I'm here about alone water again. I read the Paronian article and it contained the same misinformation that was shared with teachers at Aloni in early October. The district has been approved for water. It's not true that they're not. Yes, there is some confusion about the standards. There's a standard for total chromium and not for chromium six but Aloni has been at or in excess consistently with the state standard that was set at one time for chromium six. In other words, their water is not considered safe by the state and it's not a unique problem. It is true that it's widespread around the country and concentrated in this area because of our soil types but what that means is that the state needs to reinstate the maximum contaminant level and I did ask you before if you would support that and you haven't done that yet trustees. This discussion has been going on since April and I know transparency has been promised in the paper at the meeting. It hasn't been forthcoming. So school board, it's on you now. You need to insist that this problem be addressed at Aloni and that a long-term solution be seriously considered and explained so that teachers and students know that their water is safe to drink. Thank you. Thank you. Buenas noches. Mi nombre es Sofía. Vengo de la escuela Aloni. Señora puede estar acá. Okay. Okay. Good evening. Dice que fue el que va a dar Aloni. Uh-huh. Soy la mamá de un estudiante de la escuela Aloni. I am the mother of a student at Aloni. Soy y vengo a... Estoy al tanto del cromo seis a la escuela y es... I'm aware of the chromium six at the school and the water. Aloni y vengo a dejar eso a saber que estoy preocupada por la salud de mi hija. Me gustaría que el distito provee a garafones de agua. I'm here to tell you that I am worried about the water and I'm hoping that you would provide a water for the schools and that they inform us of the progress of what is going on. And that it happened as soon as possible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So the last three we have right here are Hilda Yuvano, Ariel Benson and Graciela Vega. Hilda. Buenas noches. Mi nombre es Hilda Lujano. Un momento, ya va a venir ella para traducir. Good evening. Mi nombre es Hilda Lujano. My name is Hilda Lujano. Estoy en la mesa directiva de la escuela Aloni. I'm on the board of directors at Aloni school. Y estamos enterados sobre el cromo six en el agua. And we are aware of chromium six in the water. Y estamos preocupados por los niños. We are worried about the children. Por el problema que pueda ocasionarle estar tomando esta agua a largo plazo. The problem that they could have in the future for drinking this water. Y estamos aquí para dejarles saber que me gustaría que el distrito provee agua, garrafones de agua para todos los salones. And I would like for the school to provide jugs of water for the classes. Y nos estén informando si hay soluciones para este problema. And that they inform us if there are solutions for this problem. Porque ayer hubo una junta y una madre de familia. There was a meeting yesterday and a mother. Su hija escuchó sobre este problema. Her daughter heard about this problem. Y dejó de tomar agua. And she stopped drinking water. Porque no quiere enfermarse. Because she does not want to get sick. Y tuvo que llevarle al doctor para hacer entender a la niña que tenía que tomar agua. And she had to take her to the doctor to make the child understand that she had to drink water. Thank you for your attention. And I hope that you keep us informed regarding this problem. No, thank you. Hi, good evening to all in attendance, including those relegated to the HR conference room. Please put the tables and chairs back when you leave. Just kidding. To our elected officials, thank you for your service to our community, as well as the district leadership. I know you will continue to address important business long after I leave this meeting tonight. Your commitment and wherewithal is appreciated. My name is Ariel Benson. I'm a teacher and special assignment under the supervision of Director Michael Berman. I can help coordinate over 8,500 LPAC tests annually with English learner students. Though my job is not classroom based, it does give me a unique perspective on student attendance, which brings me to my reason for speaking to you tonight. I will slightly go over my allotted time, but please hear me out as I have several solution-oriented ideas I'd like to share. I found it rather shocking to learn that the district is tying any increase in teacher salary to student attendance. In my 20 years of employment in two different districts, I have never experienced such a proposal. I understand the math behind the district's intention, but I also know firsthand from tracking down each year dozens and dozens and dozens of absent students to complete their LPAC test that many factors affect student attendance, some possibly within the teacher's sphere of influence, and others mostly not. I've seen some very extreme cases of why students don't attend school regularly, and it's beyond what a teacher can fix. I read the district's email sent the day before yesterday to the PVUSD family that provides background information and data about attendance, and greatly admired the graphic design skills of whoever put together the flyer. The email laid out the problem quite well, but did not include recommendations as to what we can do about it, so here are some ideas I have of how we can be all in every day to improve student attendance over time. Number one, examine district data to isolate where attendance is highest and examine what can be replicated possibly elsewhere. Number two, create written, tier-based protocol as to how all district staff should respond to absenteeism. Number three, have site admin release teachers for a few minutes once or twice weekly to make calls home in cases where that might make a difference. Number four, create a plan in which subs go from site to site over a period of time, perhaps a semester, releasing teachers so they can call home and then collect the data to see what effect this has on attendance. Two minutes. Number five, number six, oh, number five, then design and deliver professional development on how to handle absences. Number six, evaluate the efficacy of systems currently in place that are responsible for addressing truancy. Number seven, decrease the time that elapses between when a student begins to be chronically absent and when they enroll in a program that better suits their needs. I've seen students go months and months and months too many times without attending and everyone wonders why. I urge the board to show us that you value us teachers by asking the district to not hold our livelihood hostage without first identifying concrete ways in which all stakeholders can collaborate to affect the positive change we need to see in student attendance. Two minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Graciela Vega. My name is Graciela Vega and I am a community member here, a teacher in Alianza but definitely a teacher within the school district over 20 years and I've been all in every day from the beginning. From the time that I was a student at EA Hall I dreamed of becoming a teacher and I am going to start with the poem. The hour has come to gather together to support our teacher's dreams of living in the central coast to serve our students present and future. A living wage? Yes, a living wage but why? A raise? Yes, a raise but why? It is necessary to survive the rents that keep on rising in exchange. There are no benefits for the renters and many of the teachers here present are renters. No tax break for them. No tax benefit for the teachers. No tax break on a federal or state level if you rent. In a home with a roof to dream of better lives for our students to find solutions to the problems and future problems in our rooms are the future leaders, the future FBI agents, the future city councilmen, the future students that will be sitting in this boardroom, the future superintendents, the future congressmen and congresswomen that is who in our classroom. And yes, we want their attendance to go up but we have no control over that. We care for our students. We care for our families just as much as you do. Together I ask you to give our teachers a raise so we don't have to be here every time that we need to negotiate a contract because we care for them just like you. Just like you ran that campaign because you care, we care too and together we will make it happen. But with the whooping cough and the flu, I can't control my students' health. That is beyond my control. Please consider giving us a raise and do the right decision. Thank you so much for your time. Very much. And that is it for item 7.1 of speakers. Okay. No, I'm at 8.8. Okay, employee organizations. PVFT. Hello, board. I brought some props different from the rest of my group. So I have a wonderful family. I'm really proud and happy to be, I'm honored to have them support all of us. We are all in every day. And I think that you were able to witness that. And what does that mean to be all in every day? You heard all of that too, I don't need to go through that list. But the important part that is missing in the all in every day is you guys. So in order to justify supporting our students, you need to support the people who work with them directly. We have teachers who have been here for 30 plus years who have established programs in this district who need somebody to hand that baton to to continue that. We want teachers who are gonna be able to establish their roots here now that are young and ready to do so much more in our district as opposed to get their experience and then realize I can take what I have and make more elsewhere. We want that for our community here. Part of being all in every day for our students is making sure that they have teachers who are established, counselors, nurses, psychologists, all those resources available to them who are invested in our communities. So that's what you heard here today and that's what our people give every single day. And so along the lines of what we are asking for and for the arrays and services for our students that support for services for our students, I'm here to talk about schools and communities first. Yeah, it is an initiative that is backed by CFT and other big organizations. And what it is, is an initiative to help close some tax loopholes. It is something that is not gonna affect the homeowner. You know, it's something that I'm a homeowner so I ask that question like hey, I believe in paying my taxes and I do because I also wanna have a fireman and a policeman and teachers. So schools and communities first is our way of demonstrating that we're also all in. We're asking our state to be all in every day for our students. So it's a potential $12 billion that can be brought in through this closing of the tax loopholes for major commerce. Not, you don't need to worry. I mean, if you're making three million bucks, cool. But it doesn't affect residential or agricultural. I know that in Watsonville, we're an ag community that would be something that would come up and it would not affect the ag community in that sense. But it would bring in money to the state every year to the tune of close to $12 billion. That then is sent out to communities and to schools. So I am going to share with you through email a resolution that I hope that the board will be able to support that they will support. I would hope so. Your trustees, you're here for the students. And I also brought some petitions. So if you have not signed the petition for the schools and communities first, I would like for you to sign this petition to show your solidarity in our cause for asking for more money for public education. So thank you. And thank you to all of our wonderful members who have spent hours out of their personal time, their parents, their kids, their spouses, their partners, they're waiting for them at home. And, but they took their time here to let you know, because you should, you need to know, you are our elected officials to hold our, to represent our community of learners and hold the district accountable for prioritizing their students. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ask the petition. Good evening. My name is Esther Murillo. I'm Chief Jobs Tour for CACA Chapter 132. No, nice to see you. Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees and Cabinet. I'm here because I have several concerns. The first one being the total disregard of our union contract and lack of transparency with the transportation department. Right now, there are the lack of drivers have caused many issues. One of them being we have drivers doubling up on routes, making it unsafe for our students and the drivers. We have drivers driving for five hours straight without a lunch break and a break, which is a huge concern. Our drivers are all in. They're committed to our community and to our district. One of our drivers, Barbie Gomez, was elected Woman of the Year by the Watsmell Chamber of Commerce. She was also a community hero of United Way. She is dedicated along with many other drivers. Right now, we're having issues because the drivers select routes every semester. The first semester was extremely hard because we felt that the district was not holding to seniority. Seniority being very important to our drivers, being able to pick the routes that vary anywhere from six to eight hours. The senior drivers get to select those routes that have more hours. That wasn't abide by this semester. We had to go back several times, many times this semester, along with all of last year. This year, for whatever reason, this second semester bid has created so many drastic changes that our bus drivers are not set to make a decision. The transportation department is setting tomorrow as the day to select the routes. We're feeling that because there have been so many drastic changes, I'm asking that that bid not happen tomorrow, that it be extended to mid-week Wednesday. Today alone, five changes were made. Yes, it's true, changes happen from the first time the routes come out and up for bid until the last day that you bid on. But for whatever reason, there have been so many changes that honestly truly, a driver cannot make a choice in two minutes because that's what they're given to select a proper route. It's not like they can go to the route that they selected the first semester. They can't because the routes have been drastically changed. We don't understand why. I've asked that question and have not gotten an answer from the director. I've got an answer from the supervisor, but the email went out to Katie. So I'm asking for a decision tonight that they postpone the bid today so that I can notify the drivers to give ample time to look at what needs to be done and to give them the opportunity on all fairness to be able to select the route that they so choose. Right now, because the lack of drivers, they're having to contract out, which we understand. Not only that, we have trainers, supervisors, and mechanics driving routes, okay? And because of that, we have buses that are not being serviced. We have drivers that maybe want to become drivers with no trainers. This is an issue that belongs to the community and to our board members. They need to address the reasons why we are lacking drivers. What can we do to make sure that we will have applicants to come in and help the situation? What can you do to help support our drivers and make sure that they're safe, that our students are safe? Because right now it's not. They've made several cutbacks. For instance, one of the things that were done three years ago, and now that we have our new director, she stopped offering that, are EVACs. EVACs are important, especially to elementary, to show the students on how they're supposed to properly evacuate a bus in case of emergency. That's not happening right now. We were told by the director that per the law, all they had to do is read the instructions to the students. How can you do that to an elementary student without showing them the proper procedure? We were told that they only had to abide by the minimum. I feel that that's an unsafe call, something that needs to be brought back. There was a situation that just happened this week where a student was pulling, running in between the bus and was almost hit. Again, we have not had any EVACs happening for the last three years. Again, we need to make sure that this department is held accountable and make sure that they're following the contract and that they are transparent with us when making decisions. It's been over a year that I've been bringing issues to the superintendent, to the assistant soup, to the CBO, and I feel that we're not being heard. And we need to. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Richard Martinez, and I'm stored. I think that was the five minutes for the CSEA. Okay. Sorry about that. All right. I'd like to pause. I think we down here had a question that we wanted to direct to the secretary of the board of the superintendent. With regards to this issue, this is very concerning to hear the immediate concerns of safety with our transportation department, given the number of our 20,000 students that are transported on a daily basis through there, as well as the concerns with the school bus drivers and the other staff, that seems to also subsequently be driving. This request to ask the board to make a decision tonight, an action item to postpone the bidding of the routes till next week, since it's not agendized on our agenda, can we make any movement on that here tonight? No, the board wouldn't be able to make a decision on it. What I would say is it is inaccurate that this was brought to my attention. So I did not know about it until this very moment. I will say that on the spot decision will not be made. I will ask Joe Dominguez to go out and meet with them, but he needs to be here for his action items first. And so if they wish to stay till after his action items, he can go out to do that. I was not informed of any issues with the bids by either email, phone call, text, or in person. Is it after Joe speaks with them and you were able to have a conversation with Joe, is it possible for you as a superintendent tomorrow if you find need to administratively to move that decision to suspend the bidding process for the school bus drivers till next week? Can you do that independent? Dr. Rodriguez, you're correct. You weren't aware of the bidding, but you have been notified about ongoing issues for quite some time. The bidding was just brought to my attention today numerous times while we were at the chapter meeting by several different drivers who were drastically wanting something to happen before tomorrow because the bidding starts at six in the morning. We don't go back and forth between here, but what I will say is Joe will be happy to work with you, but you would need to wait until after his action items because he needs to present. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez. Okay, the last two are PIVAM 8.3 Pato Valley Association of Managers. It's not a manager here. Then we will, a manager's gonna come up here? No, okay. 8.4, Communication Workers of America. Which is regarding the substitutes. They're not here, never here. Okay, now we are, we're gonna do the 6.1, I think. Before we get started, I just, I have one more cart, Jack Buck. He put down item number eight, so I'm not sure if he was still here. I wanted to speak. Jack, fourth grade teacher, Radcliffe. Okay, sorry, just says item eight, so I just wanted to ask for him. Item eight. Okay. We're gonna go back to 6.1, which is the Sunshine Proposal for a Multi-Year Agreement for the California School Employees Association, Chapter 132, to be presented by Dr. Chona Killeen. Yes, thank you, President Osmondson. I'm gonna do this, knock, knock, knock. Oh, open it. I can't. So thank you, President Osmondson, Board Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. The Rata Act requires the parties in a collective bargaining process to sunshine an initial proposal so that the public has an opportunity to comment on the proposals prior to the commencement of negotiations. And the district in accordance with the Rata Act is sunshining additional items to their proposal to include the current school year 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 school years as per the following. Article 14, health and welfare benefits. The district desires a multi-year agreement, not just for the current year, for both financial flexibility and to ensure contractual and statutory compliance for both the 2019 to 2020 school year and the 2020 to the 2021 school year. Article 15, pay and allowances, same. We would desire multi-year contract for the same reasons. And finally, Article 23, layoff and re-employment. The district is interested in revising current contract language for clarification and compliance. And this proposal does not include additional articles which may be sunshine in the future during the course of negotiation as needed. Okay, I'm gonna knock, knock, knock. Okay. Do you have any speakers? No, no, no, I'm going to. I'm definitely going to go too. So do we have any public comments, Danny? And any comments or questions from the board? Okay, I'm gonna go to 9.1, which is the first, I already did that. Okay, I'm doing it again. So 9.1 is gonna be presented by the CBO, Joe Dominguez and Helen. All right, so good evening, board president, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Rodriguez and members of the public. Tonight, pleased to present our 2019-20 first interim report with the recommendation of a positive certification. And we have a PowerPoint presentation to walk us through this evening, how we got there. And then also to share concerns and also assumptions within our first interim. So as we previously presented, our interim reports and certifications are required by EDCODE. It's a mandatory state legal requirement by EDCODE 42130 and 42131. I wanna stress that the first interim covers July one through October 31st is the timeframe for the first interim. It is not a document that, as our annual budget, is not a document that is an opportunity for our board or for us as a district to prioritize budgeting or items that we like to prioritize throughout as a district. It is only to measure our expenditures and revenues within that period of time. And then, according to, we present that information to the board and then to the county. Once it's submitted to the county, then it goes through to the state. There are some districts in our state of California that are required to do a third interim. And hopefully we are never in that position because those districts are usually qualified or negative certification. The certification, as I mentioned before, is based on EDCODE. And we're pleased this evening that we will be providing recommendation for a positive certification, which we will meet our financial obligations for the current and two subsequent fiscal years. A qualified certification, we may not meet our financial obligations for the current or out going out year. And a negative certification is we are unable to meet our financial obligations. So we are positive. The timeline is outlined there that we reviewed in our previous budget presentations. And so by December 15th, we have to provide and approve our first interim. And then as you know, our March 15th is our second interim. Between that timeframe adjustments will be made from the first interim to the second interim because it covers a different period of time. And it's also an opportunity more specifically to look at enrollment and our ADA. And I already mentioned about the third interim. Helen will touch on the cycle and where we're at and how we're moving forward. So as we go through the year, we are now at December where we are presenting our first interim. We're also working with our auditors to finish our audit report. And that will be presented in January. And as Joseph said, so in January we'll go see, go visit the Sacramento and get the governor's proposal for the new budget. And then we'll bring the second interim to you in March. And then the cycle continues. And as it is, it's a living document and it's also a living process. So as you remember last year around the governor and our legislature presented a state budget but then the May revise. And so we're gonna go through that process again but we just wanted to show that so you understand that the process is always moving. One of the things that for 1920 are assumptions and when Governor Newsom came into office, Governor Brown pushed forward the implementation of our local control funding formula two years ahead of time. And with that, our LCFF is fully funded, effective in 18, 19 fiscal year. And then our COLA of 3.26 for 1920, 2021 at 3%. And 21, 22 at 2.8. And then we are 100% funded through LCFF. So this slide shows kind of what the funding was like over the past several years. And we are a high on duplicated counts district. And so as you can see in 13, 14, 15, 15, 16 we had huge increases because of our unduplicated count and our ADA. And then as the gap funding got closer to the end we didn't get quite as much money. And then this year we're only getting the COLA and that will be what we'll be getting in the future years also. And for our revenue assumptions, it's we try to summarize it as easy as possible. Our enrollment is the 180 instructional days. Our the enrollment itself, we project it's gonna decline. One of the items, the biggest items we had to adjust for in the business office and just operations as the district was the loss of 369 students in 1920. We are in on the agenda later than this evening. We also have an update information item of Navigator Charter School, requesting an additional 57 students. So we have those students for 2021 that loss and they have that waiting list and we'll talk about that later on the agenda. But we see the decline of enrollment. We're also doing an analysis right now of our five year enrollment trend to confirm and adjust and get as consistent as we can on that projection of enrollment. And so we're working on that. And we're also analyzing housing development within the city of Watsonville or district boundaries and confirming the enrollment impact or non impact to enrollment. Our ADA at P2 is 16899.41 for 1920. And then stress this point is that even though we're declining enrollment, we are all in every day. The attendance campaign is making sure the students that we do have in our district that we increase our average daily attendance. So enhancing Saturday Academy, doing other attendance initiatives to make sure that our students attendance is up. And so we're working pretty hard on that and we're projecting that we're gonna have gains. And then Helen touched on the funded LCFF at 100% per ADA underneath the shaded area. So we receive 11296 per student in 1920 and that's the average that we receive. And then you see the out years. And then as I mentioned, the declining enrollment and where we're at for our LCFF and our average daily attendance. The loss for 57 students is approximately $670,000 to the district. So we are very focused on our analysis and doing the five year trend that I mentioned. And our P2 ADA period ends prior to April 15th. So we're also focused on that date as well. And we're working in partnership with our other assistant soups and school sites to work on our average daily attendance. Our projected enrollment, as I mentioned, will be updated at the second interim. But this slide shows the, our average daily attendance for 1920. We have made, let me go back to 18-19 in the middle. It was 95.8% and we made progress for this year at 1920 at 96.6%. So we're on the positive trend there. And hopefully we can continue that trend. And so for 2021, we're projecting that we'll reach at 96.8. And then 21-22 as a district, we are hopeful that we can hit 97% average daily attendance. This chart shows the declining enrollment. And this, again, will be updated at second interim. And this just shows the trend. And at 14-15, we were over approximately 18,341 students to what we're projecting in 21-22 of a little bit over 17,000 students. And so we're definitely, as I mentioned, doing a deeper analysis on this and making sure that we do the five-year trend, look at housing. One of the areas that we've also discussed internally is why our students are leaving our district or parents choose to leave. Is it to enroll in private? Is it to enroll in charter? Is it moving out of the area, et cetera? So we're gonna do a deeper dive on this. So every year, we hear about health and welfare increases throughout the state. And this current year, we had an increase of 7.1% compared to the prior year of a 0.8% increase, which was very shocking to us. We are estimating an additional 5% in each additional year. And we've been instructed by CISC, our carrier and a consultant we have that is about what we'll have. And our estimated health and welfare expense each year is about $48 to $49 million. Our financial team, I'd like to commend our team and CISC. We are trying to be very proactive in this area as well. This range is, as Helen mentioned, we did receive a little bit over 7% actual cost increase in our health and welfare benefits. And so we just wanna make sure, as we move forward, that we have an average budgeted set aside whether that increases, again, that we can take on that fiscal impact. And so that's where you see for 2021, we set aside the 5% for that adjustment and 21-22. Our district payroll contributions, as I mentioned in our previous budget presentations, STRS and PERS rates are increasing and that is a concern throughout California and districts filling that impact. And so I just wanted to show the outline of what our employer rates are specific to payroll from Medicare, Social Security, retiree benefits is another item that we have to cover and workers' compensation. And so those are areas that we're also focused on. There's some that we can't control and there's some that we cannot, but workers' compensation is an area that we are working very hard with our new risk and safety manager and we have seen some positive trends and making an impact in reducing workplace injuries and providing additional training. So we are required each year to have a routine restricted maintenance account contribution by the state. During 1718 and 1819, we were able to have that, we didn't have to have the full 3%, but as of this year, the state is requiring us to have the additional, or the full 3%. The district contribution is about 8.3 million and that goes to just regular routine maintenance of, can't think of all the stuff, but... Changing air filters, just routine maintenance. It is not major deferred maintenance repairs like gas line repairs or plumbing, it's specifically the day-to-day maintenance items. So for our multi-year projections, I just really wanted to stress on this and I would also like to thank Union Leadership for the opportunity to explain this piece. Our projections are not forecast, they're given with the current data that we have on hand at that point in time and we do our best to try to use those projections and implement those. They do change and various factors contribute to that so when they do, we adjust and there are mathematical results today's decisions within our budget and so that fiscal impact or that mathematical decision, it rolls into our current and our out year and two years out and we wanna make sure there's a high implied reliability factor within our assumptions and our projections and that's why I mentioned we need to dig deeper on our enrollment and we're in the process of doing that and once again, it's a living document so as we get new information like the state budget, the May revise, we will adjust accordingly. But for our multi-year fiscal projection for unrestricted in the general fund, I would like to also commend the team, we've done a great job in our variants and really double triple checking our budget items, line items, but for 1920, you see our beginning balance of 24.9 million, our revenues of 197.9, our expenditures at 174.6. Then you see the contribution for all years of 38.8 and it's consistent and then 21-22 goes to 39.8. The majority of that is the contribution to SELPA and we'll have a slide to break that down as well. And then you have our deficit spending for 1920, we're at 15.6, 2021 though we reduced it to 0.53 and then we're 21-22, we're projecting, we're not gonna have a deficit. So it's definitely becoming the internal efficiencies, reviewing processes and systems and continuing doing that and just in layman's terms is just making sure that we stay within our budget and living within our budget. But a point of caution, if you look at our ending balance for 1920, it's at 9.34, then the assumption is, well you have 9.3 million that you can spend and that's not true because 3% of that, 8.08 of that is our 3% state mandated reserve. So by law, we have to have that 3%. If we do not have a 3% reserve, we are fiscally insolvent and then we'll be taken over by the state. And so we have approximately less, about 900,000 in our ending unrestricted balance at the assigned fund balance. So I just wanted to point that out. And then in the out years, you see that same trend. And so we are very thin on the unrestricted side. So Joe, I just wanted to make a point. So you may, I want to direct your attention to the committed fund balance and the restricted fund balance. So that is also now gone. So some of the deficit spending that you see is due to the obligations that we put aside. So as you know, we put aside funds for to complete PVHS field, right? So some of that, we were calling it plan deficit spending, but basically it was monies that the board through the resolution that we did a year and a half ago now, that was monies that we put aside, whether it was for the new sewers, the roofs that we put on, the finishing of PVHS, some of, not all, but some of that 15 million is for those things that we put aside. So they were the one-time expenses that we had that are not continuing on. And so if you're wondering, okay, so how do you jump from that to the other portion of that is are those commitments that we had put forth that used to be where it says committed fund balance? Thank you. And the other piece is just really stressed that we have in the 1920 and all the years we do not have our committed additional 3% reserve. So that is gone in all three years. And then the other pieces are assigned fund balance. We have that for the emergency unforeseen and we're going through that right now with the gas line repair at Watsonville High School. The bids opened up and that's also an item tonight. That's 270,000. And that's an example of something that was unforeseen, but we have something a little to handle that. General fund restricted and Helen will go with this piece. Okay, so these are for grants and other federal, state and local grants and entitlements that we get from that have restrictions attached to them. We get a lot of local grants throughout the years. The schools get a lot of donations from local people and for both facilities, for athletics and other things that they do. And we do have a fund balance there, but that is, as we said, it's a restricted fund balance that is for specific things. Part of that is the special ed mental health and there's the California Clean Energy Act. We have some money left in that that they are spending this year, but we don't know exactly what on, so we haven't budgeted it yet. And so that's specific to Prop 39 energy efficiency funding. And so we wrapped up the project of last week. And so combined, both the unrestricted and restricted, you see here in this slide, and it shows you once again, the beginning balance for the current and outgoing years, our revenues and expenditures. You see the deficit spending in the current at 17.35. For the upcoming year, we reduce the deficit to 0.53. You look at the ending balance and then it shows that we are very thin with our ending fund balance. And we do not have the additional 3% reserve. We only have the minimum state requirement and it is a very lean budget. And I apologize for the print here, but I'm gonna go. So for our 1920 projected expenditures, 269.2 million of that salary and benefits is 83.4%. Total salary and benefits, as I mentioned, is at 83.4. Our capital outlay is at 1.7. You look at supplies, that's about 5.3%. A little bit over 14.5 million. And books at 0.75, a little bit close to two. And classified management salaries is at 1.21%. 3.2 million. Classified salaries is at 14.3 and 38.7 million. And certificated management is at 4% at 10.8 million. For our 1920 projected salaries, we broke this from a request from our last presentation. So we broke down the salaries. So total salaries is 134.4 million with classified management at 2.4%, at 3.2 million. And then certificated salaries, you see that at 60.73% at 81.6 million. Cite certificated management, and that was something that we need to express, is that site-based leadership is at 5.49%, and that's a little bit over 7.3 million. And then for our projected benefits. So this pie chart reflects both our retiree benefits, our PERS and STRS Medicare, and overall is at 90.1 million as a district. So this is an area that is consistently going up, and it's a major fiscal expenditure. So required contributions from the unrestricted general fund to restricted. As I mentioned, this multi-year shows for 1920, 2021, and 2122. You see our special education program, SELPA current at 29.72, and then 2021, 29.75, and then 2122 at 30.5. So we see the consistent contribution, and it is going up. And the other component that Helen touched on regarding the required state routine restricted maintenance is set there, and we're making sure to maximize and doing what we can throughout the sites. Other component that we do not receive enough funding from the state is our transportation department. And so we have the contribution from our unrestricted general fund to transportation and then other state and local funding. Our special education contribution, as I mentioned, is moving up. And for 1718, from 1617, it was a $487,000 increase. 1819 actual increase was $404,000. And for first interim, 1920, a $2.5 million increase, which brings it to 29.7. What's also included in this number is the new state funding one time for SELPA and special ed programs. So that's included, and so that also assists with the amount we have to contribute. So it reduced it, but it's still a major contribution from the general fund. So our budget assumptions, as I mentioned earlier, we are projecting declining enrollment. We are doing a deeper dive analysis on that to make sure we can get that as tight as we can. However, since we are declining, we're also making sure that we increase our average daily attendance. Kids show up to school and we're making sure, we're projecting that we can increase that by 0.5%. And with our campaign of all in every day, show up, connect and learn. And we're also assuming in the upcoming years and a staff recommendation, and we really stress this, is that we align staffing to declining enrollment. And then if we, on vice versa, if we are growing enrollment, I would also recommend that we align staffing to growing enrollment. One of the items that the fiscal team, and I'd like to thank our superintendent's leadership, is we took some fiscal internal efficiencies to maintain positive certification, is reduced our OPEP contribution. And then also we looked at our technology refresh funding that we provide as a district, and we did an assessment in what could we afford and what's out there at sites or through the district. And of Chromebooks, how many Chromebooks are we buying? How many are sitting on the shelf? How many are actually being used by students? And so can we scale back the inventory? And so this is the inventory. It's not the devices in students' hands. And so we trimmed that back. And then also we also reduced our legal services invoices. I believe total was about 75,000 to 100,000. And so we're continuing to work on that as well. We are continuing to maximize our supplemental and concentration of funding within the LCAP. And we're continuous working with our departments and maximizing our LCAP funding and making sure that we use it on investing those dollars throughout our district. One of the other things that we did not touch, but we're continuing is professional development, both for certificated and classified staff and making sure that we continue to do that investment. The budget reflects positive certification and we'll meet our current financial obligations and given the assumptions and current data for the two out years as well. However, I'd like to caution the district and maintaining our fiscal solvency road map. The team, internal team is dedicated to continue meeting with school sites and departments. It's important that we stay within our budget and live within our means. We spend accordingly with the allocated fiscal year and we develop a budget plan accordingly and make sure that we meet and stay within our deadlines, whether that's purchasing and procurement or other departments. I mentioned on enhanced internal efficiencies or as our enrollment campaign and then increasing our average daily attendance, our Saturday academies. Definitely look at SELPA and our special education task force both on the program side and both on the fiscal operation side of that. And then how can we be more efficient in transportation? And so we're looking on those areas as well. One of the things that we're also recommending is developing a fiscal recovery plan. What would it look like? Or could we reestablish our ending fund balance? Currently the recommendation from the Government Finance Officers Association in the state, it's about to have two months of operating expenditures to take that on. We currently do not have that. Deficit spending, we are continue to make strides in reducing our contributions and expenses. And as I mentioned, focus on the task force and special ed general fund contribution. And then also I will, Hal and I are preparing for the district looking internally for a short term or long term loan if necessary. And I just want to prep the board that if we do the cash flow, we might have to do an internal loan. That will be our first priority and we would do that from our bond program. That would be for a period of time. And then once we have the funds or cash on hand, we pay back ourselves. So that's what we're going to planning to do and just be in preparation for that. With that, I'm pleased to announce a positive certification, but however I'd like to caution the board that we have to make sure that we maintain our roadmap and stay fiscally solvent. Thank you. We'll stay up there. Oh, I forgot, we have a special guest in the house. So I'd like to at this point in time introduce Mary Hart, or the county CBO and she would like to provide some input and some guidance. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Hopefully to be back. So I was asked to come just to kind of talk about your budget a little bit. Joe and Helen have done a great job. I've briefly gone through it. I can't tell you what my letter will say in a few weeks, but I do agree with most of their numbers in there at a quick glance for sure. We wanted to talk about long-term deficit spending and the effect on it, of that on your, I'm sorry, this feels like it's in my face. That Joe was talking about and how you are cutting back on that in your budget and it sounds like there are a lot of one-time expenditures, which is great. I understand that you're in declining enrollment and you are redosing your teachers next year according to your budget documentation if necessary to blind that with your class sizes. That's a move in the right direction that would be very helpful for your district. I wanted to talk a little bit about the declining enrollment and how it affects special ed in the future. What happens with that is your special ed funding is actually based on your regular enrollment for your general student population and as you decline, you bring in less dollars in special ed, which will affect your bottom line because then you'll have more contributions. Just, I want to bring that awareness to you. I also wanted to bring to your awareness that the LAO's report says that instead of 2% for a COLA next year, it's more like 1.79, so it's dropping. And I did look at your health welfare and you do have the 5%, I had heard that you had 2% in the past, so 5% is pretty reasonable, although health welfare is on a rise, not declining. So you might want to look at that in the future as well. I had had some questions about what would happen if the district were to become negative and basically the county office and the state would come in and take over the district and control your spending. If you want a little history on that, in 92, 93, you did have state-imposed budget review committee come into the district, you didn't have to get a loan, that was the good news, like a few others. That's when AB 1200 actually came in, was in 92, 93, and this particular district happened to have been a sample district for that because of what was happening. They did a great job bringing in consultants and being able to pull the district out and move forward and you've been in good shape other than in the really, really bad years that we had about 10 years ago. So if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them, but I just wanted to bring those things to your attention. They've done a great job. I think you're going in the right direction with the budget and I'm here to help. Yes. Okay, well, I have heard, and it's kind of a bummer that because of declining enrollment, we will lose perhaps up to $4 million, is that correct? $4 million because of 350, 51 students we don't have any longer. Yes, as your enrollment, it's actually your ADA, so as your ADA declines, your funding that comes into your district declines. But 4 million is probably approximately because of declining enrollment, we would lose, that's what I'm hearing. That's what I'm being told. 4 million dollars. They've done the math. Yeah. Right. That's just this year alone. Right, and then your budget shows that you actually are gonna hold relatively steady in the future. I think it said 57 student loss. So we have to hope and pray that that happens so that all the other stars align in your budget. So that every student, every day campaign is very important to your district. And I would just ask you, how much, I know it's going, are there stirs and peres going up that we're having to pay more each year? I believe Joe had a screen on that. Did you have that? Thanks. Why the heck is it? There you go. So yeah, so you can see there that in 1920, your stirs rate is 17.1 in that very top row and your peres rate is 19.72. And then the next year goes to 18.4 and 18.1 in 2122. And then in classified or peres, it goes to 22.8 and 24.9. Now the state is talking about potentially taking some of the funds for this year, like they did last year and putting it towards reducing the stirs and peres rates. That's one of the ideas on the table. Another one is to help with special ed funding. Both of those would be significant for any district. So how much it increased in terms of financially is the stirs and peres just money wise? How would you say that? So a 1% increase in your salaries, I would have to defer to Helen off the top. Oh, not 1% increase, I'm just starting that. Because you're, because it's, well that's what it's equivalent to. When every time that goes up by 1%, that's worth 1% of salary in price. Okay. 1.74 million every 1%. And that's only, yeah, that's just for one year. For the next year it goes up again. For just this year. For any year, right now 1% of salary. Yeah, 1% right, 1.7, 1% of salary here, right. I believe we have more questions, Donnie. Yes, go ahead. Mary, you mentioned that there was some talk about the 2% increase for the health and wellness, but that was from a year ago. Right, I was saying that you have 5% in your budget now and that's a much better number. But I just want to, the 5% that we're seeing now is based on the discussions we've had in multiple meetings about the SISC increase. Is that correct? Okay. You just don't know those increases until much later in the year. And you never quite know what the increase is going to be. So even though you try to project what the increase might be, you just don't know. Like this last year it was 7%, which was a huge fiscal impact to us. So, Joe, can we go back to the, and Mary, I want to thank you for being here. You sat through a very interesting meeting tonight. You can see the pressure that this board, this administration is under, and indeed most districts in the state are under because of the STRS and PERS contributions, our special ed, our transportation. We're not funded adequately still. Right, and your teachers are very appreciated and they deserve a raise. It's just, we're in a very hard, difficult place to be able to. And I think it's, you know, again, statewide. I was just reading an article about Sacramento Unified, which gave a 15% raise in 2017 and they have excellent benefits like we have. And now they're negative and the state is going in and taking over unless they make some drastic financial decisions, I think. Yes. So, we have been a very cautious, isn't the right, maybe that is the right word. We've tried to keep fiscal solvency for Pajaro Valley given the set of circumstances that we're under. I feel like this year, last year too, our budgets were so clean. We went line item by line item by line item and just really got rid of duplications and everything. I'm wondering about, we used to have an additional rainy day 3%. Joe, can you tell us, because we have the 3% that we are required by the state, but can you tell us what happened to the additional rainy day 3%? Because I see that it's gone and I think I know what we used it for, but just for the public. Yeah, so because of the deficit spending and the costs and not being properly funded by the state, so it's a multiple factors. There's one not being funded enough by the state to run our district, whether it's transportation, SELPA, et cetera. And the impact of that deficit and cost of doing business, we had to use the additional 3% of the current and outgoing years to help us take on that deficit. Because the deficit would not, so your beginning balance and your ending balance in that current year, that alone, that 9.71, which is the beginning of next year's beginning balance, would not be able to handle it on its own without the 3%. We couldn't have made that payroll. Correct, we wouldn't be able to make it, we would be qualified potentially negative. And so because of using the 3% additional reserve, we're able to maintain a positive certification, but with the other items that I mentioned of other adjustments we have to make. So I do see budget reductions. Can you be very specific about where we think those budget reductions are gonna come from? Because we use the 3% to make our budget for this fiscal year, or is it this one or next one? This one? This fiscal year. So how are we going to make our budget the next fiscal year without that additional 3%? The component, as I mentioned at the end of the slide, is the technology refresh or contribution to our, we call it pay as you go for our health and welfare liability, is reduce that amount that we contribute and do an actuarial study, which we're in the process of doing, and then look at our legal services and reduce that amount as well. And really ask our management team and staff internally, is making sure when we do use legal counsel that it's where it is an assessment inappropriate and where we can take things on ourselves internally. So we were able to reduce that. What else we did with the additional 3% reserve? We also protected additional cuts. So using the additional 3% reserve actually allowed us not to cut certain positions. And so I also wanted to stress that, but we are looking at other items, and as I believe it's four teachers in the upcoming year, that is due to the declining enrollment. Depending on the enrollment projection or actual amounts, we are unable to determine right now is that elementary, middle, or high school until that happens. And so it's just a projection, but that's another area. So can you be very clear with us and the public about what aligning staffing means? What does that mean? So given our contractual arrangements with both union leaderships, it's just making sure that we are staffed accordingly for our classroom ratios and that we have the right amount of teachers for the right amount of students. And so if we're declining students, and I'm just saying hypothetically, if we lose the 57 students to Navigator, are those 57 students at third grade or fourth grade? Are they second grade? So once we confirm where we're losing them, then making sure do we need that additional classroom or maintain our staffing, say it's 10 third grade classrooms. So do we need nine now or eight? It depends based on that enrollment. And so making sure that we adjust staffing to enrollment. And then also the support services that are attached to that for declining enrollment. And then vice versa, as I mentioned, if we're growing enrollment, I would also recommend we adjust staffing for growing enrollment. But right now it's declining, and so we would do so. So I know that they're projecting 57 additional students for next fiscal year, but won't it be every year after they're gonna be adding classrooms ongoing? So won't we see a bigger fiscal impact, like millions of dollars when this is all said and done, when they're fully... The potential is there for the out years. It depends, I think it's a big question mark, and I know we're working on it with our team, is what they are in this later on this evening, you'll see their Prop 39 information request for expansion at EA Hall. And that's two grade levels in a special ed classroom. In the out years, there's potential that they can increase more, but there's also potential for us as a district to be more competitive and share the positive strides we make on double digit growth in our student data and performance. So really sharing awareness to parents saying, stay in our school district, and we have competitive programs and or better programs. And so I think there's an opportunity for both. I think I have more questions, but I'll allow my colleagues to ask questions too. Anyone has a question? No, okay, I'll keep going. In terms of our health and welfare benefits, let's talk about total compensation. So we had a teacher come up tonight and talk about from our own website, I think it was the SARC report, and they listed a percentage of our total budget. I think, what did they say? I don't even remember, 29% or something. But that's not true because the total compensation is much, much greater than that. So can you tell us between health and welfare benefits and salary, what percentage of our budget is that? Like what is customary? Like what is the benchmark supposed to be and what is PVUSD for comparison? We haven't done an assessment, but the average has been recently has been about 80% in the state salary and benefits. So that's kind of like what's out there throughout the state, approximately 80% give or take. And right now we're at 83.4%, I'm sorry. This is where we're at as a district. And so that represents total compensation, salary and benefits. When we are compared to other districts, and I heard a lot of the speakers and I do understand salary to salary. This is how much I make on my paycheck. This is my salary. This is my salary schedule in this district. What's not mentioned is the total compensation of the benefit package added on top of that. And so because of that, that's where we're at, at 83.4. Last year in fact finding, we were the highest tiered district in combined total compensation in the region. I believe it was us in another district in Santa Clara. I believe it was the closest, but we'll also review that right now as well. So I understand the fiscal pressures we're under. This is my, going into my 11th year on the board or maybe 12th, no, what year are we in? Thank God, anyway. I mean, I understand what the fiscal pressures are, but the state gives a COLA every year. It sounds to, I thought the projection was 3% and then Mary just said it's actually like 1.87 or something. What did you say, Mary? 1.79. So why can't as a district we protect those COLA's and pass those on as raises to our hardworking teachers and staff? This is, and I know what the answer is, but I want you to say it so that other people can understand. I think every decision, fiscal decision has a impact positive or negative, just on debits and credits, just on the books. And so right now we have a deficit. And so if we have an allocation and expenditure and we still have a liability on the books as a deficit or other potential liability, we're just adding on to that deficit. And so it's a balance between fiscal solvency and insolvency. And that's a decision that as a district we need to have a conversation on. And I can't make that determination, but I could tell you it has an impact. The fiscal decision has a fiscal impact. So how I would say it simply put is the increases do not outweigh the increased costs. So we have 1.7, 1.79 that comes in. When you look at our expenses and how much the expenses are going up, that 1.79 does not allow for that increase because the increases, everything is stable, right? Everything is stable. That increase of 1.79 is overshadowed by the extreme increase in other costs, right? So even if we're not talking programs, we're just talking regular employee expenses. That is overshadowed by the increased costs in person's thers, health and welfare, right? And I understand what some are saying but the grand majority of our teachers do get step and column as well. So all of those things are expenses which are adding up to more than 1.79. So we don't have the money in order to be able to increase without, which is what Joe is talking about, decreasing something else. So we have to figure out what else can we decrease so that we can in turn make an increase. So in the past, we've offered like early retirement for veteran employees, like a golden handshake. Mary, you've sat through many of those in your jobs. Do those actually save money in the long run? Sorry, we're televised. We're on TV, right? Just a quick reminder, that was a 15 minute discussion due to a 20 minute report. Okay, thank you. Real quick, so generally if you have a lot of teachers in the higher ranges on your salary schedule that are getting close to retirement age, you will have a savings for certificated teachers. I don't know at this point if you're at that point. When we did them before, you had a lot of teachers that were at that range, right? And each district is a case by case scenario. In some districts, they moved forward with a golden handshake or a golden apple, et cetera, and the savings did not come to fruition. And so then they were put into position to make additional cuts because what happened is it was a change in enrollment or a grade span. And so the teachers that retired, they were replaced. So it just depends and it's an analysis that's case by case for each district. I believe there was one offered for this district several years ago and the cost savings were not brought to fruition as expected. So I have a couple of quick questions for you, Joe, and kind of just somewhat clarifying. So approximately 20,000 students with over 17,000 on average daily attendance per, right? And we've talked a lot about the declining enrollment, but I wanted to see if you could address the other issue, especially with what we've heard here tonight when we're asked, there's this asking teachers to be all in every day and to help with the average daily attendance issue. What is it that we are actually losing in our average daily attendance? If you could give us an idea of what that looks like, whether it's on a daily, a weekly, a monthly, an annual, what is that number? What are we losing? So in simple terms. And I know that's gonna be real rough, but I mean. In simple terms, we are losing our students. We've got chronic absenteeism. So 10 plus days, but it's the instruction, not only the instructional time, but the funding that goes with our average daily attendance. So students just showing up to school and we are discussions with student services of different initiatives. For example, having parents scheduling their doctor's appointments later in the afternoon rather than in the morning so that we capture our attendance and that we also capture the funding and our superintendent will talk a little bit more about the total loss. So what we put in, what we provide the teachers it was referenced that we provided some information to the teachers we created to one cheaters in English and Spanish. One of them speaks to the 95.5%, which is what our current ADA is. So that's the amount of students that comes. It sounds like a pretty good amount if you think of it like a test, but that's over a thousand students that don't come to school every day. 1,025 students do not come to school every day. If we were raised it to 97%, then we would get $2.7 million ongoing of funding. So the reason why it's contingent, where reason why the 1% is contingent is not really a direct correlation as much as the fact that we don't have to give it unless we find another way in order to increase in attendance. I will say that I agree that we serve vulnerable students. That is why I'm superintendent here. But, and I wrote down that we need to do a presentation for you all on it. But our students are gone on Mondays and Fridays. Kids that are not coming to school for mental health issues, probably Mondays and Fridays are more challenging because of transition periods. I'm not saying that that's not true. But there is strategies that we can use that will help get our students to school. Our students are coming to school Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for the most part. They're not coming to school on Mondays and Fridays, right? So there are ways in which we can encourage students to come to school, encourage parents to do it. So we're trying a lot of different things. One, to show the academic challenges. For every day a child misses one day of school, they lose three days of instruction. And so that's what our second cheater is that was sent out that you all received. So what we're, the problem is, is that we know that it is extremely expensive to live here in this district. We know it, the whole county is extremely expensive. However, at this point, we, unless we find a way to add revenue, we cannot add expenditures. You saw from the numbers, we just do not have it. So there are a lot of school districts, especially in Southern California, that have done contingent based on ADA and all that. It's not actually that novel of an approach. And it's based on everyone, not just teachers, but everyone putting forth their best effort to try to get students to come to school. One thing, and you'll wind up seeing it when we show the report is another thing is, is our three weeks working at Christmas, right? Or winter break, right? So we did the three weeks off because we said it will increase attendance, but when you look at it, it's just not true. So we have, our parents have unfortunately decided that missing one or two weeks of school is not gonna hurt their kid. And they, we are pure red, which means that we have over 1,100 kids absent in one day. We are pure red the week before our three week break, and we're pure red the week after our three week break. So we have approximately 1,300, 1,400 students that are gone the week before our three week break and the week after. So we need to look at those things because we also have pure red on the days leading up to Thanksgiving, right? But we're required by law to do 180 days. So then the question is, is how do we change that? But that's why we did it directly linked to ADA because it's a source of income. And if we don't have that source of income, if we don't increase ADA, then we don't have it to give. One minute, it's over discussion. In our past board, we had discussed our attendance recovery. How are we doing with that? Well, so we're doing, that's what was referenced in the last slide. So we are doing Saturday school now at all of our schools, which will allow to increase that. But that's, and that's one way in which staff in general can support because we need staff that's willing to work those Saturdays, right? In order to be able to recover. One other thing I think that is unique to hear that we need to look at is usually our secondary has a lower ADA, lower attendance rate than elementary. That is not the case. And it's very close. It's by like a percent or a point, a point one, the difference between elementary and middle, but elementary currently has the lowest ADA at this time. So that is unique. Usually you can get your elementary students there much more than you can your secondary. In this case, that's not accurate. Okay. We have the hardest time in elementary. I just have two quick last and elaborating question actually on something that Mary had mentioned and probably you or Joe can answer it. The way I had heard when she talked about the declining enrollment that our special education contribution goes down with that as well. So, oh, okay. So, so is that that, but those contributions are looked at case by case, correct? Well, actually it's as our total enrollment. So if our total enrollment declines, but our special ed contribution, our cost of special ed continues to rise. So that increases the contribution that we've got to chip into to cover that. Our contribution, but what we're getting in also for those, those go by case by case, right? As case was a whole. It's a whole. It's a whole. The whole contribution for the whole program. That's the way I had understood it. That's okay. Thank you for the clarification. It's the way I started. And then you'd also talked about some of the things you've done to decline with regards to also outside legal counsel. I know everybody hates to hear this about, you know, potentially bringing on more administration, but if we had internal legal counsel, would that help with that at all? I think to a portion it might have or could. The other component of that is there's not a general council that specializes in construction. There's not a general council that specializes in workers compensation. Also different facets. We would still probably have to contract or subcontract out the specialized attorneys. But for general council, that probably could be, we could look at that. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. I'll make the motion to pass this agenda item. Okay, she makes the motion to pass that second. So all those in favor of our interim budget, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. A post? A close. All those opposed? No, I know. Aye. Oh, two opposed? Okay. Okay, it's four, two, zero. So I think before we continue, we should extend the meeting given that we have other items to discuss. So with that, I would like to extend it to 1130. Just in case. Hopefully not. Okay, do I have a second? A second. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Aye. Aye. Okay, four, two, zero. Okay, the next one is on report on the use of developer fees, and we've already, okay, and that's by Joe Dominguez CBO and Helen. Okay, so good evening, President Austinson, Dr. Rodriguez, board members, community members. We're bringing you the accounting for the developer fees tonight. So just quickly, you were brought the actual developer fee rates in July and September, and they were approved, and so I know all of you are aware of it, so I'm gonna kind of skip over this slide a little bit. One of the things that we do wanna kind of concentrate on is what the projects have been spent on or plant some of our future ones. So we did have the Aptos High Special Ed classroom that we modernized. We have the Watsonville High Varsity Softball Field and the PV High Portable Modernization and the Aptos High Tennis Court refurbishment. We are also looking at doing Starlight's Cafeteria in this coming year. So if you have any questions, you can ask them at the end. And so the developer fees, we started the year with a balance of 1.2 million. We received fees of 484,000 in the 1819 school year and we were instructed by our auditors because in the fund where these are at, we also have property taxes that come in. Those need to be split out and so we went through and did like a 10-year report of how the funds were spent and so 1.3 million of the total was four developer fees. We received 30,000 in interest and as you can see we have portable buildings that we pay for in the amount of 400,000. We installed some new portables for 465,000. We paid for the removal of some portables and we had some roof replacements this year for total expenditures of 985,000, leaving us a balance of a little over 2 million. And with the remaining balance of the 2.1, we are, as Helen mentioned, dedicating those to classroom modernizations but that'll help us cover the costs for the Aptos-Sulpa modernization classroom and then the Watsonville High softball field and so those are projects and we'd like to thank the board for your support and with developer fees and we're making sure we invest those dollars. If we did not have developer fees we would have to commit from the general fund on the unrestricted site so that would also be another fiscal impact and because developer fees we're able to get these projects going and then continue the leasing of our portables and then looking at purchasing permanent portables of long term. So I'd like to thank you and that concludes our report. Thank you. I'm hoping we're gonna just have not too many comments so we can vote. Could we? No. So you've mentioned you had to break out developer fees and property taxes. What was our revenue from property taxes? I don't have it off the top of my head but it's around half a million dollars. It's mine off the top of my head. Thank you. And that does go towards facilities also. I just wanted to clarify that I think a lot of people think that much more of property taxes go to support schools when realities they don't. Well and this property taxes mainly redevelopment property taxes not the property taxes that we get for the general fund. Any other comments? Katie, I have a motion. Like the motion. Second. All second. All those in favor. Aye. All those opposed. Okay. 9.3 is something that we've already talked about today. It's now we're gonna vote on it. It's the sunshine proposal for the multi-year agreement. So Chona Colleen can talk about it or we can just vote on it or whatever. Okay, go ahead and vote on it. Yeah. I'd like to move approval. Second. I'll second. All those in favor. Aye. Aye. All those opposed. Okay, 9.4. This is something we've done many, many times before to talk about providing intern placements. And this time it's with the Santa Clara County Office of Education by Allison Nizawa, Director of Human Resources. Yes, good night. Or good night. Good night, I'm done. No. Good evening. Sorry. Good evening, President Osmondson. It's just what I do up here apparently. I just want to end it right away. No, Dr. Rodriguez in board. Just stop laughing, yeah, I know. Yes, it's another MOU to make sure that we can also hire interns through Santa Clara as well as maintain the ones that we currently have that are interns with us. So it's an extension of the one we've already have going. So it's taking us through 2021. Okay, I don't have any comments. All those, I mean, a motion. Make a motion. Second. All those in favor. Aye. Aye. All those opposed. Okay, the next one is with our exciting program for the Starlight kitchen. It's 9.5 Lagasse Foundation Grant Agreement and Michelle, Dr. Rodriguez. Yes. So this is just acceptance of the half a million dollars so we did receive the grant. This is so that they can give us the half a million dollars so that we can begin the construction of his signature kitchen. And so we ask that the board accept the grant money. This is really exciting as if there's no public comment or board comments. I would like to make a motion to approve this item. I just have one question. Yeah. Really quick. Will we have the potential to rent out this kitchen? Yes, we will. We first want to use it for our signature culinary pathways for our high school students and for some community partner work that we wish to do. But if there is time and space after all that happens, we definitely could. I second the motion to approve. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. All those opposed. Okay. And now we have 9.6 call for nominations to CSBA's delicate assembly by Dr. Rodriguez. Yes, so very similar to last year. We have the opportunity to try to submit names for the CSBA delicate assembly. There are two positions that are going to be opening. So there are two current people from our area, which is region 9A, who will their time will be expiring. The requirement is that the person has to be able to go and attend the two sessions that occur. There, it's a pretty quick timeline. So it needs to be postmarked by January 7th. And so we are doing the vote today so that we can help the board, whoever is chosen to submit. We can list multiple nominees. So it isn't just one, we are able to do more than just one. The dates are there so that people know when they would have to come. The 2020 dates are May 16th or 17th in Sacramento and December 2nd and 3rd in Anaheim. Those are the dates that people would need to be able to attend because that is one of the requirements to be with the delegate assembly. So I would be happy to run it if you would like, but if there's any nominations for people from our board, you are allowed to nominate anyone within our region. You cannot nominate anyone from outside of our region, but our region is basically us up to Santa Cruz. So any school district within that area, you would be able to nominate either from our board or someone from the other. One of the requirements is that the person knows about the nomination. So prior, and agrees, so prior to submitting the January 7th, we would need to ensure that the person is agreeable and willing to do it. So generally it's done from our board, but that's not a requirement. So is there a nomination? Is there anybody up here who is interested? I think Maria Roscoe was interested last year, but I understand her paperwork was not received by the delegate assembly. How that happened. So I would use her paperwork. So I'm guessing Maria, you're not interested this year just because you have the new baby, but I'm gonna just double check with you. We can have multiple nominations, right? Yes, it does say that we can. I do, for sure. So I'd be happy to help as many people that would like to do it. I would be interested, but I would also like to nominate Jennifer Holm. Is she interested? Are you interested? I can explore that further. So we have two delegates from the North County that are wonderful about bringing back information from those meetings and like they get alerts and then they sort of push them out to other people. So it'd be great if whoever goes from our area, if you wouldn't mind doing those things, just letting us know what sort of the trends are and things we need to know from CSBA. So you're accepting the nomination? Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Karen, are you interested? I could be interested, yeah, because I've been on the board a long time. Do you, are you interested in being a delegate? So we can nominate two people. Is there anyone else? It says multiple, so whoever, if Maria would like to do it as well, we can, it doesn't say there's no limit. We haven't had anyone from Pajaro in a long time to this delegate assembly. Yeah, currently it's SoCal, Santa Cruz, and San Lorenzo. San Lorenzo is George, he will stay on for one more year. Phil and Deborah are the two that are, their term is expiring. I think we definitely need someone from PVUSD. All three? We can increase our chances. We can increase our chances. Okay, no problem. So how does it happen in terms of us who do it at all? So we'll need to have a first, a second, and a vote on it. If you would prefer, we could do it individually or we could do it as a group. That's up to how you all want to do it. Then once it's decided, I would be happy to help support each and every one. Figure out what happened. I'd like to make a motion to support the nomination of three members of our Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board, Karen Osmondson, Maria Roscoe, and Jennifer Holm to be on the ballot for delegate assembly to CSBA. So, okay, everybody voting for us three, say aye. Aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? Thank you for volunteering. Okay, the next four. It's interesting, you'll learn along. Yeah, no, it's handable. Two meetings can handle. Okay, so item 10 is we're now discussing not taking action and we're doing the 10.1 Watsonville Prep School, which is actually navigator for the Proposition 39 Facilities Request. I will go ahead and take it on because Joe is out of working currently and so I'll go ahead and take it on. So part of one of the requirements is that by November 1st, by November 1st, they were required Watsonville Prep, which is also we call navigator, was required by Ed Code to provide us the request for facilities. So if you wanna take over, you can. I was just getting you started. So one thing that we are doing currently is just trying to be transparent with the board. There is no current vote that needs to happen. It's just making sure that in a public forum, the board is aware that they did make the request. So you'll see attached that they made the facilities request. As you know, they are growing to classrooms a year. So the answer to if they will continue to have a fiscal impact on this is yes, right? Because those students will continue to get older and move through the system. So this right here is just letting you all know that they did request. They requested two additional classrooms as well as the special education classroom. And we are required when you look at the results were required to do a preliminary offer by February 1st. So if everything continues to move forward, we would have to bring you on the January 11th board meeting. We would have to bring you what our preliminary offer is. And then the final would have to occur before March 1st. And so the additional portables would be hooked up to the current footprint at EA hall. And it would at the end, if the expansion were to go through, it would bring their current enrollment of 159.76 up to 227.28 students. And that 57 additional student lost to the district is approximately $670,000. And the overall agreement would maintain the same as far as the cafeteria, lunch services, et cetera. The only thing that we would probably revisit is the bell schedule because of the influx of traffic and kind of what we've noticed this year. So that would be something that we would also negotiate. But other than that, that's the fiscal impact. It would add on to the current portables. And as our superintendent mentioned, we've come back around with the legal requirement, whether navigator chooses to expand at this current site or an offsite that is still to be determined, but we have our legal obligation in January to the board. So I just wanted to ask you, not only are we gonna lose over $600,000, but we would have to spend money in order to get the more portables and all that, right? So how much would that be? Approximately, what do you think? How much more money would we have to spend on that? It approximately about $600,000, depending. And that we're also- $600,000 plus losing it because of the students? Another $600,000. Correct. But what we are currently in the process is we will negotiate with navigator of what costs they can incur and what the cost of the district will incur. So potentially navigator may be able or willing to pay for a portion of it or all of it. One of the areas that they have looked into as a playground, they don't have a playground. It's a grass area. So one of the items that they discuss is installing a new playground for their students. That would be a cost that they would incur. But it just depends. We'll go through negotiations. Wow. That's a lot of money. Joe, how has there been any conversation about them purchasing the, there's the building, the Porter building through the city of Watsonville. I know that was up for sale. And I know that was one of the agenda items for discussion for their board, I think a couple of months ago. So I'm wondering if that's something that they're considering that you know of. So the answer is yes. That's one of the locations that they are considering. And I understand that they're also looking at other properties, but that is probably the number one property that they're working on right now. However, they are on a parallel track, submitting the prop 39 with us to make sure that they have the opportunity to expand at EA Hall and or do they expand or acquire an offsite property, whether that's the, that building or another building. So if that was to be the case, then would we be then providing funding, like funding, fully funding that location if they were to. So we would not be on the hook or liable for the expansion offsite. Okay. Well, that's good. Thank you. You're welcome. Your comments. Go ahead. This is very frustrating. I thought that they were not going to ask. I know they kept the option always open, but I thought that the whole pitch test was that they were not going to ask for facilities. That was the original conversation with them. And I believe they are kind of holding true to it. I think they are trying to pursue other properties. I would be saying in the conversations we've had, they do not want to be on our property. They do not want to be at EA Hall. Yeah, and they shouldn't be. I mean, that's a middle school. It should not hold elementary schools, children. And I think all of us want, and I'll speak for myself, I don't want elementary school children on that campus. So the middle school campus. I do know they want to grow and they want to grow on their own location. And so that's something that they're working on. But they did put this in there. I'm sorry, I wasn't paying that close of attention. Are they asking us for a playground? The playground has been in conversation. It's part of their footprint, but they're also open to, and the conversations is to pay for their own playground, but that's still part of this process. So as a parent who actually wrote hundreds of grants and put in a playground defalencia all by myself, that makes me very angry that they would come to us and ask us for a playground. It's many hundreds, thousands of dollars to do that. And I would not be in support of that. Yeah, and as a district, we're going through the charter prop 39 process and the legalities of that. We have to follow the lay of the law. And so we are doing so, but we're also having an open dialogue with navigator. And I can, I can state that we are having that open dialogue. And so they've also shared that they are pursuing offsite properties. And I thought that was, that was a positive thing to share with us because they did not have to share that. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. I mean, I was just gonna say, you know, I'm surprised, you know, so there was all this effort to deal with charter schools in terms of legislation and stuff. I'm surprised that one of the pieces of legislation would have been, I'm surprised it couldn't have been to deal with this 39, Proposition 39 issue because the fact that the Proposition 39 like almost requires us to go get them whatever they need in terms of to be able to have a facility. I don't think that's, I don't like that. That we should be required to, you know what I'm saying? Support that. So that's too bad. It's not, that's, that's, you know, cause there's been some movement in terms of charter schools surprised that they, we haven't dealt with that. This one 39 Proposition 39 so far. And the way the law is written, and I'll see comments, but it's 80% of their student population is PVSD students. So as long as they can continue to hit 80% of their student enrollment, then they can continue doing the facilities requests. If it dips below 80%, then we have leverage to, you know, to reduce that. Oh really? Yes. 80%. Okay, go ahead. I also heard the same thing that the, they really don't want to be there that long. I just stepped away for some water. Once they leave, do we, does E-Hog get to keep those properties on those portables? Yeah, that's something, good question. We're actually looking at that with Navigator, what's that timeline potentially look like? And we're assessing what those portables can be used for. And that's also being looked into in our facilities master plan. I would like to see those facilities stay in many way or E-Hog, all of our works, so. Okay, so this is a discussion item. We're gonna go to 10.2 reading of the board policy and travel expenses by Dr. Rodriguez. Thanks. So this is, it actually is such a small change that I almost put it in consent, but we have a process. So I'm following the process of doing the first read and then bringing it back as an action item for the second read. When we were going through as we have been doing and as we've been requested, we've been going through board policies. We've been looking at things that are out of date that are no longer in accordance with best practice. One of the things that we had in there was that it would not include tips and gratuities. For our staff when they're out and about, that includes everyone from a teacher to an administrator that goes on conference. This is built on the belief that, well, it's just trying, it's built on the belief that tips and gratuities aren't something that's mandatory, which is not mandatory, but it's definitely customary when you're going to an establishment that you actually provide tips and gratuities. So this would allow people to be reimbursed for both tips and gratuities as well, as long as it's on itemized receipt. So it's not something that you could do. In addition, the second change is it would allow myself to authorize overnight stays within a 60 mile radius. So I'll give you just a recent example of when that happened. So we received a grant to allow our teachers to go to the Solomar math conference. It is very close. However, as many of you know that drive up the one, though it's close, it's not easy. And so one of the things that was requested was that the teachers would be allowed to stay at the hotel. It was covered by grant funds. It wasn't even district funds, but because the district was gonna be reimbursing, it was going to be an issue. So I did authorize that stay. So the teachers actually stayed up there. However, it is technically within this. It's smaller than 60 miles. And so this would allow me or my designee to make those type of decisions. So in general, if it's under 60 miles, you can't stay in a hotel. You have to come back and forth. But in special circumstances, we would allow it such as we did with the math conference so that we could get enough participation. And so I'm asking, while I'm just showing you these two changes, what I have always do is I ask, either you express now or before the next board meeting, official board meeting, not the 18th, but January 11th, if you have concerns with either one of these changes to please let me know. And we can have a discussion about that. Okay, now we're gonna go to item 11 which is the Consent Agenda. Now, Maria's behalf, I will just say on the expulsions, we voted for them already in closed session. There was two. I know this is a consent. The two expulsions are on the consent. No, it's not. So any public speakers for the Consent Agenda, and do I have any deferred items? Defer two items, 11.6 and 11.8. And I just wanted to quickly pull 11.12. I'm sorry, I need to make a correction. I'm 11.5 and 11.8, sorry. No, 11.6, okay, sorry about that. 11.5, 11.8, and Dany's. I'd actually, I'm sorry. Yeah. I think we're gonna pull a lot, actually. Maybe we should just go one by one. Okay, so we're pulling, we're pulling at this point. At this point, we're pulling 11.5, 11.8, and 11.12. I would like to pull 11.6, because I need to abstain from that, because I'm on the board of ETR. And all the construction ones do not indicate whether or not they're measure L projects. And I feel like I wanna ask the questions about those, all the construction projects. So. The awards, the awards, the awards, yeah, sure. Okay, so hopefully I've got it correctly, correct. So is there a motion and a second, and we'll say all the deferred items? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with removal of 11.6, 11.14, 11.15, 11.16, oh, also 11.8, and 11.12. And 11.5. And 11.5. I second. And 11.5, okay, yeah. Okay, all those in favor for the rest of the ones that are on there. Hi. Hi. Hi. All those opposed. Okay, so I'm gonna start with the lowest, which is 11.5. Okay, so 11.5, it's a renewal with some of the VAPA contracts, right? VAPA, I should say. Yeah, so. Sorry. This is a bit tired. So my question is, are the teachers, Carol, are these just the programs like El Sistema, where they come in with their own teachers where we're not gonna run into a problem with some of the issues that we've had with different things going on? Yes, that's correct. So we contract out with the Santa Cruz Cultural Council, and then they hire their staff, and they're already certified staff that they have on their list of spectra artists and whatnot, and then they go and provide services at the sites. Okay, so they're all independent coming into the sites, okay? No, that was my question. I love that so many things are being able to be offered to our students, and I think we need to bring on an additional grant writer so we can offer more things to our students. Thank you. That's a great idea. Okay, so we're gonna vote on that one. Move up here and roll. Second. All those in favor? Aye. So we're gonna go to 11.6, so I don't know who can talk about it. Oh, sorry, I pulled that. I just can't vote on it, so I need to abstain. So you guys can just move to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Abstain? And she, one abstention. Thank you. 11.5, 11.6, 11.8. Is there somebody who can talk about it? Yes. Okay, go ahead. Okay, so Lisa, I know there's been a lot of concern about the new law that's forcing these changes I've had. I've heard from numerous parents about the sexual health instruction and things that students will be taught. Can we make sure that we include parent information, whether it's a parent information night at schools or a specific email that goes out so that they're informed about what the actual instruction is in the program? Yes, absolutely. And part of our timeline, our elementary schools especially cannot and the middle schools cannot actually teach the sexual health curriculum without first the parent preview. Cardiac services actually supports the teachers in that and having them at the nights so that if the teachers are unavailable to be there at the nights, the Cardiac services will also be there. And parents have the ability to opt out in certain portions, correct? Yes, it's an opt out, yes, they can opt out. And for elementary, we actually come through the curriculum to make sure that it is age appropriate. So it's not just exactly what the publisher gives us. There's a team of us that went through the materials last year and we did decide to take out some of the content because we believe that it was too mature for our fifth grade students. I know, because there was some concern because I know other districts haven't taken out that and so I know some parents were worried because they had seen things that weren't adjusted. So thank you for clarifying that. Just had a quick question also. Don't permission slips go home? I thought I'd seen something. What happens, it's a reverse permission slip, so it's an opt out. And so, but all parents are notified that the curriculum's coming out, but it's an opt out. Thank you. So how did we choose Cardia as a vendor? Like how did that even happen? The Cardia services, we partnered with them last year so I wasn't in at the very beginning if you'd like, I can do research for you. I don't know, but we've been working with them. This is our second year working with them with working with the curriculum that we have. So they're not tied to a specific curriculum. They're just... They're like technical assistance. Yes. Got it. Okay. I never have heard of them, so I was curious. Okay, thanks. Okay, so we're gonna vote on 11.8. We'll vote for both. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those opposed? No. Okay. That's right. Oh, I don't know. I mean, I have no idea about them. Okay, let's move on. 11.8, let's see. 11.12, I guess that's the next highest, 11.12. Well, I'm not sure who this question is. Jones, is this your question? Yes. Of course, I support this item, but I remember within the first couple of months when I was elected, I received a call from Assembly Member Robert Reed, business office, and I talked to Michelle about this too. I guess there were some neighbors behind the, I guess there's like a pig area or just some other animals. I guess some of the neighbors in the back, I'm not sure if it's a business or, but they were complaining because of the smell. Does this somehow? Yes, so this will, this addresses, so this consultant, ATI Architects, is part of a solution, provide, review current architect solutions, but also complete a peer review and look at underground septic tanks, which would assist with the smell or odor of our FFA program or animals in the area. So it's part of that sanitary sewer and or septic system. So I also wanna note that a portion of the smell that we found out was from the composting that we're now doing with the city. So although this will deter some of the smell from the animals, the composting smell will still be there. I just wanna make sure that we're clear so that, cause it's the head start. So when the head start complains again about smell, there is various composting that we're now doing with the city that is causing smell. And so it will help with one, but it won't help with the other. So we still may have some issues from the smell of the composting. This is a great site. So thank you. Welcome. Okay, now we're voting on 11.12 of a motion. Move up here a little. That's it. All those in favor. Aye. So 11.12, 11.14. So these are all the Potta Valley award things. So 11.14 for PV High. This is our maintenance endowment, part of our bond program, but under the maintenance endowment, the low bid was legacy roofing and waterproofing at $175,000. And currently the issue is that it's a foam type style roofing material. And now rainwater has now intruded in it. And so under the membrane of the roof, so we have like a layer of water captured in the roof above the library. And so approving this project will make sure that we take care of this and repair it and make sure it doesn't happen again. Okay, got it. So how are we paying for this? This is under our maintenance endowment within the bond program. But it's the bond program. So it is measure L. Correct, measure L. Thank you. Yes. Since we've pulled these items as we go through, can you tell us which ones are union and which ones aren't? Which ones that I'm... For the wards that we're giving. Okay, yes. Next one. Yeah, so this one is internal legacy roofing. They have the internal capacity to do it themselves. So they do not subcontract out any of the work. So this is a non-union. Okay, are you done? Okay, we're voting on 11.14 motion. Make a motion to approve. Thank you. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed, 11.15. So 11.15 is Watsonville High School. This, I'd like to commend Elaine and site leadership. This was and Linda Liu from our Nutrition Services program. Definitely a great partnership, but this is for a cafeteria of modernization and renovation. And this is one of the items we're trying to focus on increasing student participation in our lunch and our meals program there. So Avala Construction Company was the lowest bidder at $3.1 to $9 million. Avala Construction, this will be both a non-union and union job because their subcontractors are both. So this will be completed. And we're looking forward to getting this piece done and long overdue if you have been in the cafeteria. I just want to like the comments. They thank you guys for making this happen. The community is excited and I'm excited as well to see this happen. Okay, motion to approve. Second. I have a question before we move on. Yes. So in the past, we didn't always go with the lowest bidder, I don't think. I thought we went with like the most competent company. Are we still subscribing to that? Are we being very careful? Cause we've used a Sonya multiple times and they're local and I, where's Avala out of? Cause we made a promise to our voters that we were going to try to use local companies whenever possible. Yeah, and I believe overall, and I can go back in previous presentations, but I believe we're over like 70% local. So we're doing an amazing job of providing local contractors or local work to local. So we are doing a really good job there. They're for monitoring. I was just going to say, I believe they're with it. I believe so. I'm not too sure though. Okay. But this is a measure of bond program. Okay. And yes, I just confirmed they are out of Monterey. Okay. A motion to approve. All those in favor. Aye. And this is the last one, 11.16 piping replacement. So this one is a sense of urgency where Watsonville High School approximate age of the infrastructure of gas lines, I would say 70 plus years minimum. We repaired several gas leaks on the campus and we did continued testing, pressure testing and it continued to fail. We realized that majority portions of the leaks were in the student quad area. And so the lowest bidder for this one is GOH Wilson at 370,000. And GO Wilson is 100% union. And this is also the same firm that is doing the work at Cesar Chavez Middle School. And work is underway right now there. And it's 100% union. And this is a maintenance endowment under measure L. And they're also in Monterey. Okay. Last one motion. Make a motion to approve. Okay. All those in favor. Aye. All those opposed. Okay, now we're gonna finish the closed session items. All right, that's my part, right? Okay. Motion. Do we start with the expulsion? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. So for under item 2.1, the board approved a suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 1920 school year with placement at another school in the district on a strict behavior contract for student number 1920-010. The board also approved a full expulsion for the remainder of the 1920 school year with placement at another school site outside the district on a strict behavior contract for student number 1920-011 with a 601 vote. Go ahead. All right. All right, motion number one, closed session item 2.2, I move to approve the certificated personal report as presented by district administration on December 11th, 2019. 19 and eight additional action items. Second. All those in favor. Aye. Aye. Motion number two, closed session item 2.3, I move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration with 29 and three additional action items. Second. All those in favor. Aye. Announcement number one, the PVUSD Governing Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Richard Reid to director maintenance operations. Mr. Reid brings to the Pajaro Valley and the Fyte School District a wide breadth of experience in maintenance, operation and facilities. He comes to the district from the Santa Clara County Office of Education where he built his career for 19 years in the maintenance and operations field. Mr. Reid directed the activities and operations of the Walden West Center, directed the staff in the maintenance and operations department, developed bids, supervised the construction of two plane grounds and organized office moves, classroom moves and repairs to equipment and buildings. He lives in Aptos and has two students attending the schools in our district and credits his daughter for encouraging him to apply and use his expertise in making PVUSD a greater place to come to school. He looks forward to serving his community and continuing the good work on improving district facilities. We are proud to welcome Mr. Reid to our district as a new director maintenance and operations. Announcement number two, the governing board of trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs. Priscilla Sanchez to controller. Mrs. Sanchez brings to the Pajaro Valley Unified School District many years of experience implementing systems, developing process workflows and creating best practices to improve internal efficiencies. Mrs. Sanchez holds a BA in economics with a minor in business administration from the University of California Berkeley. Mrs. Sanchez has brought experience training in place and implementation of business systems. She shares her expertise by training employees in the United States as well as Mexico and France. Is it exciting to see the success of Mrs. Sanchez following her graduation of Watsonville High School? We look forward to one of our own former students becoming part of the PVUSD family and welcome Mrs. Sanchez to our district as a new controller. Okay, we're finally done. I just have a suggestion. Our next meeting, we have a special session with Selpa, I'm wondering if we want to look at a change of venue, considering all the community public comments we've had? We definitely can check with the city to see if the city is available. It's expensive, right, the city? There is a cost, yeah. What about E.A. Hall? So we can, it's a special board study session, so generally the, we're gonna do it in here, but we're gonna have the tables, like our usual tables for a special board study session because it's more presentation style. The problem with E.A. Hall, I just have to see if, I guess we could figure out if we could clear the stage. I'm just not sure how wide the stage is at E.A. Hall, but we can try to find out larger venues that's the desire. Well, Jess, if we have tables in here, and then we have a large community outpouring, it's going to be very crowded and not very safe. Yeah, so the tables would be here, and we can look at a different location. Or if we do do it here, maybe scrap the table idea and figure out a different presentation route. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so our next meeting will be next week. It's gonna be a quick, sooner board meeting, December 18th, we'll see where we're gonna do it, and we're gonna have our annual organizational meeting and a special board study on special education.