 Okay you guys ready go okay is there anybody would like to speak to us tonight okay we're gonna be going to close session with 2.1 which is one expulsion referral we almost never have any it's good 2.2 certificate of public employee appointment government code section 54957 2.3 classified public employment and government code section 54957 2.4 negotiations update 2.5 public employee discipline dismissal release leaves 2.6 existing pending anticipated litigation and there we go we'll see you it's seven come back whatever hello hello hola hola como estas todos hello hello welcome welcome everybody welcome welcome hello welcome everybody welcome welcome bienvenidos welcome bienvenidos we are calling to order now our board meeting of November 13th 2019 welcome and bienvenidos we're going to do the pledge of allegiance and I will ask Maria is Virginia here para los que quieren traducciones tenemos Virginia Virginia levanta su mano donde está ahí y se puede pedir no sé como se llaman un aparato de ella con ella para poder hacerlo so if you would like to speak on the agenda obviously we've got a lot of them already you need to fill out the little yellow little card here and each speaker will have two minutes we're gonna have quite a few speakers si este quieres hablar sobre la agenda tiene que conseguir una tarjetita Maria y llenarlo para poder hablar y cada persona que va a hablar tiene dos minutos ok now for the superintendent comments doctor Rodriguez ok so well I hope everyone had a wonderful veterans day thank you to the men and women that have served our country and have given the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom so espero que todos hayan tenido un día maravilloso de veteranos gracias a todos los hombres y mujeres que han servido a nuestro país y aquellos que han dado el máximo sacrificio para nuestra libertad so on october 31st and so you see picture up there I spent the day in the life of a behavior tech at rolling hills merosco with Nick Ariano in the rice program I chose this day because I thought it was going to be a super challenging day however because of the great staff we had a really calm day with very minimum incident so el 31 de octubre pasé un día en la vida de un técnico de comportamiento en la escuela secundaria de rolling hills con Nick Ariano in a program rise elegí este día porque pensé que iba a ser un día muy difícil pero debido a todos los empleados tuvimos un día muy tranquilo sin incidentes mínimos I was able to work with students and observe Nick as he expertly redirected behaviors established connection with students and recognized appropriate behavior we're really lucky to have Nick who's been with our district many years and chose great dedication to his work so pude trabajar con estudiantes de observar a Nick mientras redigía comportamiento en una manera experta establecía un conexión con los estudiantes y reconocí el comportamiento apropiado somos muy afortunado a tener a Nick que ha estado con el distrito por muchos años y muestra un gran dedicación a su trabajo we also celebrated our second caught you being all in by a recognizing ester Murillo from Diamond Tech she we surprised her at her site at Diamond Tech and brought her a flowering plant and we're also going to give her one of our all in every day shirts so thank you to Esther for being all in every day and if you go to the next one you'll see we had students go and be there and surprise her as well so so también celebramos nuestro segundo reconocimiento de con ganas todos los días a reconocer a ester Murillo de Diamond Tech la sobriendimos en su oficina y llevamos una planta gracias a ester por siempre ser presente y con ganas todos los días and enclosing this is the only meeting in the of the board in November so I wish to wish all of our students and families a peaceful thanksgiving so I'll find al fin de sard and ya que es la única junta que vamos a tener en novembre espero a todos nuestros estudiantes y familias que tengan un día de acción de gracias lleno de paz gracias ok I'm now going to have governing board comments and I always start at the end with Georgia thank you Karen hello all good evening and welcome everyone I'd like to chime with our superintendent and thank all the men and women of our military services for their service and some for their ultimate sacrifice in serving our country it feels like it's been a long time since our last board meeting since then a lot has happened my colleague trustee dodge jr. and I attended a local event in which assembly member Robert Revis for 80 30 was the guest and keynote speaker and trustee dodge jr. and I had the opportunity to have a follow-up conversation with him discussing our local public K-12 educational funding needs and our continual strive to ensure equality for all of our students and our local educational system here in the Pajaro Valley we also attended the Pajaro Valley community health trust fundraising event education and health are two very important pillars in any community that is going to thrive and it's important for us to remember as that we need to support these fellow community partners in their efforts in our community local community as well additionally I would like to also make a brief comment regarding a comment that I made at the October 9th board meeting during the discussion portion of the SELPA presentation I made a comment regarding a situation in which I had only one-sided information from a mother of SELPA a SELPA student who had spoken during the public comment portion of that meeting I was aired to speak on a topic which I had only one side story of the situation additionally my comment was not meant directly to the concern of that one situation but to the growing concern my colleagues and I have been receiving from other stakeholders within our community regarding SELPA as a whole however nonetheless I was aired and speaking to a topic that I only had one side of the story surely if I had both sides of the story at the time to that situation it would have been handled very differently if a brilliant and intelligent mind of someone such as Bill Gates can admit and own when a situation had should have been dealt with and handled differently certainly I am capable of doing that as well I would like to add that it is important for all of our stakeholders of our community to understand that my colleagues and I are mere human beings as such we are fallible a district of our size has multiple stakeholders from the thousands of employees to the 20,000 plus students their parents their families the multiple thousands as taxpayers in our community and I would never intentionally or deliberately intend to offend any one of these stakeholders and I actually strive to ensure equality in the representation of all these multiple stakeholders as I full well believe my colleagues do as well thank you for your time and I wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving thank you good evening thank you all of you for taking time out of your day to be here this evening thank you to all of those who have served our country also as I have had family members who've passed away serving our country so definitely realize what a great sacrifice it is and it's been very busy so our safe night to school ecology action committees have been working with Watsonville Intergovernmental Committee and we're working on safe routes to schools there will be changes coming up to 15 of our public schools to make routes safer for those kids to get to school the changes will also include some changes for landmine landmark starlight pv high and ha hide the changes that landmark will also help some of the students at new school who have trouble crossing the crosswalk across harkenslough and I was able to visit starlight elementary school and for their reading program kickoff with Watsonville High School and it's a wonderful event a wonderful reading program I was able to actually sit down and read a story to a few first graders and I also intended some of the harvest festivals at our local schools here supporting the students and all their hard work and efforts they did to put on wonderful harvest festivals along with their teachers and I also went to the day a day Los Muertos event of Watsonville Plaza where they had an altar that was set up to honor people who have passed so it's been very busy I also went to the health committee meeting and saw presentations from fitness for life and also parro valley prevention services I want to thank patty modda for all of her hard work she's done at getting the vaping van here in the city of Watsonville also as a reminder kids teachers if you're a vegan or vegetarian and you want to order lunches that are vegan and vegetarian you can do so on the district website you do not need a doctor's note and those can happen any day of the week and I was also able to speak with h.a. hide self of staff about some of their concerns and upcoming issues and find out how their meetings have gone with the salpa task force I will be addressing that later intended a salpa services meeting at e a hall I was also able to visit the migrant ed make lab at e a hall and I'm working with them to get them some more engineering support and I intended the aptos sports foundation anniversary event that honored student athletes for aptos and I've also been making phone calls and meeting with some of our legislators including those who are running for congress and running for u.s. Senate dealing with our education issues that we have here and our need for fair funding in order to support our district thank you I know we have a lot of folks who want to speak tonight I'm going to just keep it to one highlight and that was the attending of the aptos sports foundation gala and what I was particularly moved by and I wanted to share was the story of Gina Castaneda former aptos high student and just her you know her participation in sports you know how that helped her overcome you know gang entrenchment and that she's been taking her experiences and given back to the community through the azteca youth soccer program and so just you know everybody who has been a part of our schools and whatever capacity and used their experiences to give back to the community and continue that growth and development thank you thank you Karen good evening everyone thank you for joining us at tonight's meeting I attended a parent community meeting at freedom elementary school regarding the possible sports field in collaboration with some community partners so I do want to thank the families and students who attended that meeting we appreciated their feedback and the insightful questions that they had around this sports field that hopefully will be coming for board approval in the near future I also attended the education equity blueprint meeting it was great to see the amazing collaboration among staff developing their action plan action plans to address some other student needs at their school size from credit recovery to the implementation of student led conferences and greater access to electives among other other topics and yesterday in celebration of school psychologist week I spent my morning with Duncan Holver staff I got a tour of the facility and walked away with a deeper understanding of the challenges that our staff are facing but also about the many wonderful things taking place throughout several department and just so that you know for some health reasons I will be leaving early today so if I leave during the time that you're speaking please don't take that as me being disrespectful and with that happy Thanksgiving to everyone present and to families thank you hi I'm Stella Sierra and I am the student trustee I'm from Aftos high school and so last Friday I participated in collecting donations for second harvest food bank at the football game and this is something that we do at our school and it's sort of a part of our interact club and this organization we've been doing this for the past couple years and we've always tried to raise money for them and also we've tried to make it a contest between classes which gets students more involved so this is just like a great way for students to get involved with the community and yeah thank you thanks Karen welcome it's great to see everybody turned out tonight I was away for a couple of weeks I have a daughter who's finishing a full bright scholarship over in Southeast Asia and I was able to go over and visit her site and see her finish the culmination of a long year and so it was very special to be immersed in a different culture and and I'm just really proud of her efforts when I came back I was jet lagged but I did go to the Santa Cruz School Board Association meeting where John Laird was our free featured presenter and he's running for State Senate and I did advocate for more dollars for facilities as you know our bond has done some improvement in our facilities but we need more as everybody here knows and so we just don't have it in our budget so this we're looking to the state to try to increase our funding for facilities in the future and John knows that very well so between that I did also advocate for increased funding just for salaries and for increased retirement and health care costs so just know that your board is always advocating to try to get more money to come to this district so that we can retain you guys so thank you the other thing I would just like to point out is that we have a number of fall sports which are coming sorted to the end of their seasons and we have a lot of student athletes that have worked very hard this year and as a district we're very proud of our sports programs and for all of the coaches and the assistant coaches and the volunteer coaches and all the effort that the student athletes have put in over this semester I just want to commend everybody and thank you all very much good evening everybody I'm glad to see everybody here I just wanted to start off saying that I want to acknowledge as a board member I should have never provided information on personal matters or matters under investigation I have learned from this experience and I will be mindful not to discuss personal matters in the future again I apologize I came in as a trustee wanting to do the best that I can right away and sometimes I don't always follow rules and I apologize for that so just quickly I'm always busy I'm always out in the community I'm always trying to learn from everybody trying to do that at best that I can I try to hear from you guys so I could come up and do it the best that I can to represent you just a couple events adult ed mr. Dr. Nancy Bilcich had an adult ed where a lot of us community members came and listened to what's going on adult education I attended the veterans march which was held a couple days ago at behind St. Patrick's and walked with the veterans all the way to the vet hall I also just want to acknowledge council members Felipe Hernandez and Aurelio Gonzalez who are on the wild city council who were you know dedicated their time in their service in Iraq and I also wanted to say happy veterans day to all the generations of what's all high school wild cats who served in World War one to Korea Vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan I also attended the last football game between what's all high and Seneca's or what's all high one I attended the what's all city council meeting where they talked about measure G measure G is a tax that would allow us to keep our all of our police officers and firefighters so I hope you guys could think about support measure G I also attended many why and how I checked in with them to see I'm how I think how everything is going with the field and their portables and I know the district and Joe and Michelle are doing that the best that they can to get these schools fixed and I also wanted to say thank you as demoria for all your years of dedication to this district I was part of this district when we'll wait before well you started way before I was even in the school so I just wanted to thank you for your many years of service thank you well to me just briefly well I haven't done so many things that other people have done oh well very impressive I did go to a labor breakfast which had Mark Stone there and he was he's a really great assembly person and each of us were asked to talk but I was the last person that was going to talk and I wasn't able to stay as long as I would have had to stay to be able to talk about our school district so that was kind of a bummer but that's okay but tomorrow I'm going to go to the migrant head start meeting and then Friday there's going to be a really wonderful event at the Elks Lodge for the end of their migrant season which they have every year and it's very special special event and people are recognized for all the work that they've done and it's you know music food and all that stuff it's a really great event so I'm going to go to that too on Friday okay we're going to do the high school students board representative report and I think we have unless you're going to say no I think we have Watsonville high school Aptos high school and new school am I correct thank you so we'll start with Watsonville high is pve high here too okay you should have told me pve high raise your hand pve high now there you go thank you okay good evening everyone my name is omat kasey as I come from Watsonville high school I'm their representative so first I'd like to start off by mentioning breast cancer awareness month uh last month as I mentioned before we went to football games as we asked for donations and just whatever people could give to support breast cancer research we had games where we would let students in work are free and we asked staff members and students to wear pink on Wednesdays and on other events we raised over $250 in that month and we will be donating and presenting that check in the following weeks last month we also had our college and career week and we have to finish it off we had 28 schools come and visit and have a college fair excuse me and a lot of the students got to learn about different schools that we usually don't ignore like in the area because the youth system is so dominant here and we even had a presentation from UC Santa Cruz which is really informative about our options and how lucky we are to nearby last month well it's October so it's Halloween and we had a lot of students dress out for Halloween and we even had our Halloween spirit week consisting of like sock and headwear day and like things such like that that people could enjoy we had a pumpkin decorating workshop two days after school and during our food day so and people students really enjoyed getting just a pink pumpkin that they could just share with the memory with their friends at the end of the week we had our pumpkin I'm sorry a food day sale and the bottom picture with Angel Garcia is at the food day sale we had a little like place where people could take just pictures and like enjoy it with their friends at the at the November 8th because November 1st there was no school we didn't get to celebrate the adult closer to this data was but on November 8th the dream club along with the Spanish department well foreign language department specifically the Spanish department because they take care of culture events regarding like Spanish speaking countries they set up the de los muertos event which consists of like a cafeteria where they offer a free meal for family to their students to bring their families and the some students put up a play along with mr. pozo and it's always very fun and very nice to see the students in touch with their culture that they might lose being Mexican-Americans or Chicano and then we also had our senior nights last Friday whether there's our football senior night they won and they really enjoyed it and had fun at their last game and got I believe one of the parents got them free dinner at carmonas because it was like their tradition to always go to carmonas after school the volleyball girls really had four but they really enjoyed their senior night and it was really special to them because a lot of them have been playing for multiple years and it was like just to congratulate them for their dedication to watsonville high school last month we really focused on stress awareness considering that stress awareness date did land on november 6 asb has started something called intentional planning in which we find something we all have an idea of something that we're truly passionate about so that we can portray our best in that project lily molina instead of a national stress awareness day that was her event it was a really fun day where students got to just during break lunch and after school play with like giant jenga or giant connect for it just kind of have like a de-stressing day we haven't we had we also had a poster which you can see in the back and the smaller picture in the bottom and you just stick up your stressors and like just a fun way to like identify them and have fun student stress is such a big thing like nowadays that colleges require a well-rounded student and it's really important us to like help students have a great mental health we also ask that you guys look for more social emotional counselors considering that we only have one for a population of around 2300 you're the biggest high school the biggest high school we have we have miss daisy new year's and while she is amazing at her job she is only one and she can only help so many students and the time it takes for her to build the trust find the core issue and help the student deal with that issue is just too long for her to be able to attend all the students that need the help so we really ask that you guys take that into consideration and follow and meet the demand for social emotional counselors as long as other mental health help starting tomorrow on november 14th or the what the w-h his drama production is of the outsiders they did a little twist on it they switched the genders of the role were very fluid with the genders offered about it and these are the dates for the play they really appreciate support and they really like it when people go and see and like just enjoy what they work so hard to present a lot of these students do stay up very late to finish their work after extensive rehearsals because they are a lot of them are perfectionists and they like to just have the best production for you so we really appreciate when people come and show up and start your support and then lastly november 22nd we will be hosting a staff giving for those unreparably and truly underrepresented staff members such as our custodial staff and our kitchen staff they are the people that stay there the latest get there the earliest and we really wanted to say thank you to them and show our appreciation so we will be having a staff giving them and their families will them and their families have been invited to a dinner and our ASB will have will volunteer to help them that day cleanup so they can go home and get changed and come back to school and enjoy the dinner and they can have a day that where they're a little less stressed even this morning I was talking to one of our staff members and he was sorry his name was George and he was saying how he was short three people last night and we're really hoping that we could help support them by hiring more custodial staff thank you okay aptos good evening I'm Oscar I'm Marlena I'm Josh and I'm Stella I can start uh so we are currently working on the second harvest food bank fundraiser it's a pretty big event this is our fourth year and one of our main biggest fundraisers is the empty bowls fundraiser this year will be held November 19th and students from the ceramics classes make bowls and the rop cooking class will make the food and it is a fundraiser for the second harvest food bank and with this we had two students including myself go to the second harvest luncheon to present to the donors and the participants about what aptos does to fundraise for this event so we have a lot of sporting sporting teams who are now in the ccs including football volleyball and a couple of our tennis players football is a game on Friday and volleyball plays tomorrow up in Marin and so we've had a lot of a lot of good luck and a lot a lot of great seasons with these teams we have winter ball coming up it is on it's on what February 1st sorry um and we also oh wait sorry um sorry we also have senior sunrise this Saturday um and this is something that everyone's been looking forward to because we had to postpone it due to um making our quad different and we like had construction for that so all of the seniors are really excited for that and we have I think ASB were doing like a potluck kind of thing for it and um yeah um recently we just had our singing in the rain um play and musical and it went really well and it was definitely one of the most successful plays aptos high has had so far and everybody had a really good time and yeah it was just really great so this Friday we will be holding our second club carnival of the semester uh clubs come out uh there are I believe over 20 clubs this year um and uh this is a fundraising event uh one of the four we can have during the year to sell food um and it's just a nice community event there's a lot of clubs for students to join and it is a big recruitment event for the students and the clubs and a big fundraiser so being ASB president I was trying to think of a way to better get back to our teachers because they're awesome and they you know without them we aren't going to be learning so for our final for the past couple years we've been doing a staff luncheon as our final so at the end of the semester we stay after school we put on a big lunch and we have a little cahoo with says a couple things about a teacher and the teachers get to play and they all have a really great time and they get to see that we're giving back to them and that we care about them so that's a really great event that we're going to be doing at the end of the semester that the staff at all all of aptos high school so the custodians the teachers um all the administration everybody they all get to see how much we care for them and how much we're thankful for them there just really quick about pbis we have expanded on the posters around the school and just creating this really community at aptos and being part of pbis we have tried to get more students involved and just make them feel like they're a part of the community tell us what tell us all right so it's just creating a more positive community at the high schools i think it might be at all the schools i'm not sure about that at all the schools um and just creating a community a sense of community for all the students uh no matter where they come from uh what their sexual orientation might be their gender um just really taking that barrier down and creating a community for everyone thank you thank you that's all oh sorry um so the last thing we wanted to touch on is um aptos has a little bit of a littering problem and so um thankfully though there are a bunch of students and a bunch of people that are trying to proactively fix this problem um the um a few of the clubs that are involved with it is um the sustainability and surf rider clubs and those clubs are just trying to help clean up our campus and so we have a beautification project that is going on on saturdays and after school where we're just like cleaning up our campus to make it look nice so yeah thank you thank you pahato valley high school good evening board members fellow students parents and peers my name is adam tingonin the aesp president and i am a representative or some representative for pahato valley high school for activities another milestone was accomplished by outstanding leadership classes in the aspect of the food drive which ended recently each student in the class was given the responsibility to raise at least ten dollars by soliciting for donations from people our persistence into helping those in need pulled through as we raised over nine hundred seventy nine dollars which translated to more than roughly three thousand nine hundred meals this success was not primarily achieved from or for our own satisfaction but rather with the insight of having the opportunity to contribute to our community in the best way possible for the second week now the link group members of our school have been chaperones for freshman students that went to the monterey bay aquarium it was an educational opportunity that benefited most of the students as shown on our instagram accounts if you are interested to follow the account uh follow our account at part of valley aesp give us double taps please to support us nonetheless the aesp class is worried that miss brusa may actually have back problems for not only carrying the link crew team but as well as her baby the dream club of our school participated in the walkout event that took place on november 8th at santa cruz ramiro medrano the freshman counselor was one of the main heads for this major event lady lee a student at our school she is the president of the dream club invited me to one of the meetings they were having and when i went to this meeting it was amazing because i was able to slightly interact and witness the california state organizer for united we dream gabriella cruz she came to speak with the club members and educate us more insightfully to daca and the situation our country is for the immigrants the leadership of all the youth involved truly expressed the powerful dream the immigrants of this country year in four as we currently face nightmares for this country to honor the lgbtq community at our school the gsa club organized an event inviting those who are part of this amazing group and those who participated these people for the national coming out this year which showed the type of bonds we share with one another those who participated were awarded were rewarded with points through the five star app athletics as the month of october came to an end the fall sports came to an end as well and sadly it was an actual fall for the records of the boys football boys football teams and girls volleyball teams however they played hard enough and try to go as tough as they can until the end especially the seniors who played their sport for the last time in their high school career when wonder closes another opens this means that the end of fall sports is only the beginning of winter sports including boys and girls basketball soccer and wrestling this is yet another opportunity for our student athletes to show how much grisly pride we have however their wins don't become hopefully we hope that their wins don't become as low as the weather's of mother temperatures of winter then academics for some pv students sadly including myself we did not manage our time properly and we took the act on october 26th and the sat on november 2nd it was only one week of a split one week some had a motivational mindset saying hey at least it's not a break of two weeks since we are not two week that was not one week pun yet two week puns all right with more seriousness i truly hope our seniors are pushing hard before any of the deadlines for colleges they are applying to furthermore several of the seniors have been spending most of their time after school at our college center to obtain proper guidance for submitting college applications despite how stressful it is with the help of reliable teachers and mentors some have already successfully submitted their csu applications crossing our fingers we hope to get accepted into the universities we desire to attend thank you all for listening my self-esteem is higher now because of the respect and support you give me i hope you all have a good night and thank you one last school new school good evening everybody my name is kimberley lopez and i am seeing class president at new school my name is millie masiel and i'm the secretary hello my name is josh lopez and i'm a junior at new school community high school for our for our second day of outdoor science and character development development we went to wellans watch and we restored a a parcel of agriculture land by removing non-native plants on beach street san lorenzo valley it was extremely hot but we made it through the day and worked together as a team and for the food well harvest festival we headed to ucsc and we had two stations where where we made corn husk dogs and esquebiche and for halloween we had several activities which were door decorating pumpkin carving and bobbing for apples as you could see oh oh we also have some packets for you guys for our outdoor science of last year from spring we headed to the wine and roses event held by pahoe valley community health trust and we had eight new school students and two staff members of new school who volunteered and helped clean up after the event on fridays we go to digital nest and um at the fifth year anniversary our work was displayed at uh we also go to um environmental workshop and we work on many science projects this week we will we will be building um science um rockets sorry on october 29th and 30th um we had student-led conferences um where the students talked about credit recovery improving behavior setting goals um and what they learned and they talked about their attendance they should they had conferences with their parents and they talked about the Aztec avenues and their achievements we are doing we're doing this two more times hello good evening i'm going to be talking about the roadie students of the month uh two students sorry about that two students selected every month uh by the staff uh the students are selected based on their efforts with the Aztec achievements um each each receives a certificate and it's it's invited to have uh lunch um people uh this month uh two students were elected it was a Jackie and uh Raul Ortiz and um and um we'll be talking about the outdoor science and character development uh we made uh tight eye shirts with the community between all the students and the teachers and just had fun between all of us and um we went out to the slew uh labeled the storm drains and um cleaned the whole slew around and we're surprised by how many trash was around and it just made us realize to uh keep the environment more clean and um and uh we also um had fixed our garden painted it fixed it just working together and motivating each other and uh we also had a we had a van for a school and uh we had a signage which was donated by uh art and sports and it was it was like a school model that we had for us and it was important and um yeah there you go not not much but pretty motivation you know and um uh we had a we had a visitor that came to our school and it was a Cabrillo EOPs she uh visited our school during college and career uh work she had us apply for for if we decide to attend we have all the EOP support structures that's all and thank you for having us here have a good evening okay we're gonna do the more boring part of the agenda now but um um we're gonna actually move one of the subjects up a little earlier before even before visiting on agenda items and Maddie can tell you why we're gonna do it but it's up to her um I was gonna actually make a motion I think you need to call for a motion board president right it's kind of our call yeah no she's order of protocol that you need to call for a motion yeah we will because there was I had a motion for that as well so your role is to just call for a motion not to dictate what's going to happen well she has told me that she's interested in doing it that's what I said so um can I have a motion for approval of the agenda I'd like to move to approve the agenda with moving item all action all items from nine action items 10 consent agenda 11 deferred consent agenda and 13 action report on closed session to be after approval of the minutes action item item number five and if you need an elaboration for me about an explanation as to why I could do that okay is that because I think these items take less than 30 minutes and these are all action items that deal with the board the district's business and we also have one trustee that is going to be leaving early and not be able to vote on these action items it is lauded for less than 30 minutes of our agenda and given the pack I think that we should move these items to before so she can hear those be present to vote on them as well as so it can clear for all of us seven sitting here our district business that we have to attend to clear that from our minds so we can hear the report and discussion and the community input items do I have a second on that one I'll second her can I have a point of order yeah were we were we going to move a part of the agenda forward separate from what Georgia just moved was there a request for that yeah which item was it I think Maria wanted yeah so I wanted to move give me one second here let me find just item 8.3 before public comment so that was the initial motion that I was going to be making given that I won't be staying long enough to actually vote on the rest of the items and I also want to be respectful of everyone that's here present and I was hoping to listen to some of you before I left well given that the items that I requested to move forward are an allotment of approximately 30 minutes of time and then the item you're asking for 8.3 is approximately 25 I mean I think there would still be plenty of coverage to do that and we have a fairly good timekeeper with our vice president and chair so I'm willing to amend that motion to also include your 8.3 Maria and I think it's just better because it clears the district's business off of the table so we can all focus on not only the report and discussion items but the public comment otherwise we're moved into a position of having to extend the meeting we have a second from trustee shocker no I know I'm going to okay we have a first and a second can I have a vote on this one all those in favor aye aye all those opposed nay nay so so what's the vote so we why don't you do a roll call on that vote so we could be clarified please yeah okay clerk can you call a roll call either call i'm trustee acosta your vote yay trustee shocker yay trustee home nay trustee otoschool nay trustee to serpa nay president osmondson no trustee dodge yes so it's um the vote vote dice okay another three three four zero okay so um I would like to uh move to approve the agenda with the following like modification moving item um 8.3 prior to public comment a second okay can I have a vote on that one all those in favor aye aye aye all those opposed aye six zero one okay now I am approving the minutes I'm approving the october 23 board minute meeting minutes can I have a motion I'll move to approve the board meeting minutes second all those in favor aye aye all those opposed Karen I'll be abstaining okay because you weren't there right yeah she because it was she wasn't there yeah I'm also abstaining okay yeah there's two of us that weren't two that weren't able to be there so we're um 502 502 those things are hard to figure out how to do 502 okay um no we're gonna do hers now so we're gonna do now 8.3 do we have Lisa Aguirre so she's our superintendent of no no she's our curriculum and instruction yeah superintendent curriculum instruction there you go good evening president osmondson board of trustees audience and superintendent rodriguez thank you very much tonight um this evening I'll be presenting a little bit about the academic counseling that's taking place in pahoa valley unified school district um I want to start off by uh sharing the current counseling services that are offered at our various sites throughout pahoa valley unified school district um there are a lot of different services that are offered tonight they'll be focusing on the academic counselors on the secondary level that happens without um on this at the middle schools the junior high and the high schools so in um when was it so in june of 2017 the ed trust was published pahoa valleys educational equity audit and one of the key findings was the role of the high school counselor needs to be an advocate for and supporter of college and career readiness for all students and that needs to be clearly defined in the role and the support getting all students there so the journey for the academic counselors last year they started attending the hatching academy there were three different sessions that they went to for the hatching academy they've attended one um session this year and they'll be attending two more the um the rest of this year um so within the national model the the counselors within the national model the counselors there are three different domains there are um college and career social emotional development and academics um so within the counseling realm you all counselors are to address all three domains in pahoa valley unified school district we do it a little differently on our school sites where our academic counselors serve as your tier one where they meet with every single student or their caseload on the school campus and then if students are having additional social emotional problems then our social emotional counselor kind of comes in as the tier two so it is a model that's unique to our district based on the need of our students and the need that we are hearing from our school sites um so that's what we do the model there is a paradigm shift so from the old school counselor some of you may have had in the as you are growing up to the new shift um within it the calls for a paradigm shift in the counselor role to be more essential in the school setting being proactive with systems of delivery that's based on student data that is relevant um to all students it makes them a relevant and key stakeholder on that campus and promote systematic change um so they are agents in the school for all students so in the past if you remember school counselors had different functionalities whether it was looking at building student schedules whether it was looking at doing um even for example um report cards or doing supervision now it's more focused on being with the students and looking at the different needs of students and supporting all students and getting to become um college and career ready so the big question um with looking at it is how so the academic counselors when they were the counselors when they look at it how is my work on the school site making a difference for students on our campus and they do this not um in different ways but they're really looking at in the individuality of the students because all students have different needs which is a big task for the um the counselors to take on the four components of the program there's a foundation the foundational work there's delivery system management system and accountability the foundation is really looking at the vision mission and the goals of the counseling services provided on that school campus so here's two examples if you go to Aptos High you have the vision mission and some of the work that's being done by the the counselors um on the right hand side EA Hall's mission statement for their counseling service department you go on the websites of our different secondary schools you'll find many different um missions and visions one of the key things is that the vision mission aligns with the school's vision and mission at the same time though looks at addressing the needs of the students on that campus to be college and career ready the delivery system is really looking at if you're looking at it the um the guidance curriculum that is used the curriculum that's used we use Naviance and we also use the ASCA which is the American School Counseling Association resources and um counselors go into classrooms and they present whole group different uh lesson plans for students um individual student planning because we talked about every student has different needs so there are some school sites that work with families there's also school sites where the the guidance counselor the counselor works with the student one-on-one um and then there's a responsive student so on any given day something can happen to a student whether it's at home coming to school or something once they get to arrive on that school campus that's an immediate need and so that's also responsive in time that has to be done with students and then the system support that's looking at the school climate as a whole what activities are done during lunch what activities are promoted how is college week going and system-wide things that counselors put in place so if we look for example if you can go on to the guidance curriculum if you click on that link if you go to like if you look at aptos high their presentations that are done this was one that was done um in october for all sophomores um they go into classes one time per well they see all students per grade one time per month um what they do is they give a presentation for students and then they publish it on their website so if you go to the next slide you'll look in october what they were talking about go to one more have the objectives and then it has requirements for college admission so this is their sophomore year the things that they're starting to talk about and then getting the students to think about college and what are the different things that are needed so aptos high not only do they deliver it to the students the counselors within the classrooms then they place it on the school website so if a student was absent or if they want to go back and review because they were that day they didn't catch all the information they can go back and then at the end of every presentation if you skip to the end there is always for more information from your school counselor and it tells you exactly who you need to go to for that um for that grade level and it says make an appointment and please contact us so they're really trying to get into the classroom meeting with students with one one on one we can switch back to the other presentation please i think we're there so the next part is the management system and so really with the counselors what you're doing is you're looking at your backwards mapping from the senior year what is it as seniors what is the timeline that they need to do in terms of applying for different colleges for writing their personal um narrative for applying for financial aid and they backward all the way to the freshman year in high school and um so really they're looking at what do they need to do to deliver for every single class year and then also then they put it on a calendar and then they do a time allotment to look at where they're spending their time the reason why they do that is because that 80 percent of school counselors time is supposed to be devoted to direct and indirect student services with the planning with the program planning and school support activities being only 20 percent this is program management professional development data analysis and management should only be 20 of their time so we're really doing within the hatching's work we're also looking at the time that counselors spend on different activities to see where our so see where we're aligned and see what shifts need to be made the accountability system um really it's the accountability is set in place because we're looking at it and what what has been found national is that when data is taken and counselors really look at the effectiveness of the work that they're doing on the school sites the ones that look at this there is higher student achievement so for example in the um past um from what I heard from counselors is that they were just told to do certain things by administration when that was happening they had no idea whether this was really making an impact on students future or not so one of the things is the accountability looking at for a counselor is the work that I'm doing every day really making an impact on the students if so how can I increase this if it's not what do I need to do differently to make sure that it is happening so some of the positive outcomes and um where I receive this data is that I went out and I actually went to different um schools and I spoke to um the academic counselors and I've had different meetings so I this is where I've gathered the information so four years ago high school counselors met with students two times per year now fast forward four years later it's a one time per month and that's the work changing to really looking at their new role um and then it was canned presentations that were given by teachers so that the counselors would spend would creating the presentations handing it off to the classroom teachers and the teachers would deliver it or be an administrator delivering it now that the the counselors that they've been involved in this work they actually look at the presentations and they look at what they need to change and so they're customized presentations using different resources that they deliver within the classrooms they deliver themselves they deliver themselves so some of the barriers okay so at the high school level you um students are broken out by um grade level and or alphabetical by their last name and talking to the counselors academic counselors what we found number one is classroom time so they're saying um really it takes they're saying we understand what our role is in this new role in looking at the national map model what we're supposed to be doing sometimes our administration doesn't fully understand the role that we're supposed to be playing on the school campus being an integral stakeholder and so it's getting in and fighting with classroom time to have to see be able to see the students and be with them and deliver the information to the students second thing that was mentioned was the engagement with the students some of them said you know what I've never been a classroom teacher and so when I do deliver those lesson plans number one I'm completely nervous number two I've never been trained and so sometimes student engagement I may be I'm a great counselor but when I have to present the plans I just I fail and I feel like I I need to learn how to do more student engagement when I'm delivering the lesson plans and then the last thing is that the high school counselors talk about is that they really want to be with the students and sometimes the clerical tasks that are asked of them is taking up too much of their time for middle school um some of the barriers that I've heard was the um the administration expectations so it's really what it is what we're looking at doing is um educating the middle school administration to make sure that they truly understand the role of the academic counselor and what they should be doing at the middle school um there is one academic counselor but we also have gear up at almost all of the schools so gear up works with all of our seventh and eighth grade students so the academic counselor partners with our gear up to not only hold parent meetings in the evening but then also meet with students during the day many school counselors on the middle school level experience role stress and confusion during due to the conflicting and incongruent messages that they receive from administrators and other stakeholders who fail to understand the actual role of the school counselor the other thing that we're looking at is the barriers that hyper focus on at-risk students and I'll talk a little more about that and then time time to make sure that they are seen because really with the school counselor when the students leave then they don't have that opportunity to meet with the students when they go home for the day so some of the next steps um we'll start with the middle school when we looked at there's a hyper focus on the at-risk students and the reason why is because of our own district policy district policies almost that counselors feel at the middle school level it mandates them to have to have this focus on the at-risk students and make sure that they're informing the parents and so what this does is it detracts from looking at the entire population and figuring out what can be put in place for everybody and not just the at-risk students it starts actually in august their checklist of as they go through the year of looking at at-risk students so looking at what we can do with the district policies to um kind of loosen to figure out how we can change that so that all students are addressed look at middle school alignment of practices to ensure that um counselors what they're being asked at all the sites are the same for example at some middle schools they were asked to do grades where this is keeping them away from students instead they should be focusing on working with the students and then at high schools look at the instructional practices how do we support them in feeling more confident in delivering the different curriculums that they deliver inside the classrooms and then also look at um clerical help and with that today is world kindness day and on this day i want to take a moment to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of our academic counselors and just share a smidgen of the work that they do in their integral role in the social emotional and academic learning of all pv usd students and there you go can you go back to slide six for me i just wanted to make make a comment on that so i think there's two things that are really unique about pv usd that i just want to mention one is the board did approve to maintain um eop or gear up at the high school level so we we do contribute 1.5 million dollars a year for to maintain the college and career centers open at the high school level so as you know gear up grant how it goes is it cyclical right it's cohort driven so it starts at the middle school level it follows that cohort all the way to 12th grade so what had what would have happened if we hadn't contributed that is we would have um taken away we would have closed all of our college and career centers we did for the first time in 10 years we did open back up the college and career center at um at aptos high because aptos high did not have the support of gear up because they are not a title one school the second thing i just want to mention is the significant support that we have from pv psa so we literally are one of the only models that we have within the state of california where that has a non-profit that specifically only supports the school site so as we know our counselors with a pps credential legally can only provide a certain level of support the benefit of pv psa is that we are able which i know we're not going into pv psa but it it fits in that circle right is that it allows our our students who need ongoing support right to have that support um and so i do want to mention that because those are two things that um are unique to us and um and we've dedicated significant resources to to both of those partnerships okay any speakers to this one item okay so board comments jennifer schachter so you mentioned that um the counselors felt that district policy was hindering their work yes so um you said that there are some things that are going to be done about that what is going to be done about that well we're gonna we're gonna pull out all of the policies which they feel they're bound to looking at the at risk students every all the time and looking at the time allotment to see how we change that where they're still addressing the needs of the at risk students but at the same time opens up space where they can address all students um just to piggyback on that what are we what steps do we have in place to ensure that um administration is it's respecting the rules of the the academic counselors so and clear to me yeah so in the hatchings academy um an administrator um is invited to go and some school sites they send an administrator um what i need to do is actually go back and find out more exactly which of the administration doesn't have a clear role for example at the last principal meeting i did have a conversation with one of the principals who asked me why this couldn't happen anymore and my answer was because the counselors need to be with the students and that's detracting from the time so it's really going back and almost cleaning up the practices that were inherent that's been for the long standing time within the counselors and it's really my role to go back and work with the administrators and do we find that that's the case across middle schools um some middle school administration does understand the role but that's that's where the probably the least um understanding is is occurs and the most um education needs to happen okay um and then what benchmarks that we have in place to measure success of the new direction so each of the counselors are actually taking their own data and they're um looking at what they've chosen one thing that they're really looking at and taking data for it to see how it has made an impact so part of the program is that they really do have to focus on something and so um it's in the works and depending on what they chose to look at with the data and then we'll have that at the end of this year okay so it'll be great to uh bring that back as an item for discussion I just really do want to highlight the the um how I'm so happy that we're finally sort of attempting to align right the the role of the academic counselor across the district I think before it was really sporadic and people were doing different things and then the other thing is also really um defining the responsibilities of a social emotional versus academic I think before they have always been intertwined and I think that's probably one of the major reasons why academic counselors were not able to do the work that they were supposed to be doing so I'm really happy to see that we're shifting directions and I'm looking forward to a report on the impact that this change is bringing thank you could I comment um would it be more beneficial if the counselors met with seniors closer to like application time like twice a month because I know that it's like harder like closer to the beginning of the year when because being met like one time in a class with like multiple people sometimes they aren't able to get around to every single student because I go to Aptos and I've like I'm not a senior but I'd like for the times in class where they give us presentations they don't get to meet with everyone because class periods are 45 minutes it's just a great um so looking at the timeline of when they go in and what they present and how they can be more effective with meeting with smaller groups or okay thank you that's awesome I mean I was gonna I I wanted to see I I don't know if you can go back to not the slide that where you talked about middle school but the other slide about the issues kind of problems that um that they're having let's see not that one the barriers yeah for middle school or high school high school I I know what the middle schools kind of are so I just so you're seeing also that they okay so they they need more clerical tasks done by other people not them is that one of the ones so what is being said now but within the time management like looking at the time but that could be useful for them yeah that was mentioned and I just wanted to share their voice yeah so they didn't want to spend a lot of time to clerical making passes looking at the list of who needs to be called out for the specific group that's coming yeah so um when um let's see engagement student during so are I was confused because I I guess I don't understand completely their role they're actually providing them curriculum each month for the high school they go into different classrooms um with students and provide um different presentations on how to apply for colleges what do you need at this point how do you apply for a college or college financial aid okay that kind of stuff yeah okay because I was talking about curriculum kind of curriculum I was confused about what that curriculum was oh because that that kind of stuff yeah it's a lesson plan that they develop and they deliver okay um when you were talking about with Maria that they think of stuff that they're going to present that they feel like they're doing well just give me an example of what they might look at in terms of you know what they might look at their year and see I'm just for fun but just for this example um are you talking about like the different things that they do in the classroom you were talking to media about that they will look at what they've done well and kind of monitor what they've done well by the end of the year so for example um what miss sierra said was that um it's possible that it's not as effective when they go into the classroom and do one um lesson right with it with the entire class and then that's it once a month yeah so if we go through and if we look that as compared to last year versus this year when they're doing it that it has not made a difference in the number of students applying for college application then maybe that um delivery needs to be changed and needs to be looked at what um but for example if it jumped by tenfold then possibly that could be something that was just an example so um but when they're having a presentations with the classroom they're also meeting with each student they have to figure out not only making the presentation for the classroom but figure no they don't meet with um every single student um they meet as a group they sometimes meet small groups and sometimes they meet with individual students it all depends on the individual need if the parents reach out if the student reach out there's different factors that determine if they meet with individual students okay so it could be the parents or they could be just them i just need to meet with you because i have this and then they do meet with the student if the student requests and they need to sit down with them and go over yes okay but other than that they do make presentations once a month yes and so it's one time per week that they're doing a presentation because a lot of times they support each other and so they're going into the classrooms all of the classrooms obviously because you have four different years the high school exactly okay um i got the one about middle school and dealing with at-risk and all of them i got that part um so and then you talk about the gear up support so that they don't think they might not have they might not be able to participate in all the ways that they would like to but they have gear up doing some of the work too is that what you're saying yeah the middle school they're partnering with the gear up counselors and so they're really looking at and working together to do the work so the they're looking at so right so yes they're they're partnering with the gear up so is that the same in the in the high schools as well when yes when the gear ups are on the high school they do there's a lot of if we go back to that slide of all the different counseling the academic counselor also doesn't work in isolation and they work with all the different counseling services that are in pv usd oh migrant counselors scholarship coordinator family oh that's a lot of stuff to yeah that's i saw that i thought okay that's a lot of ways to do you know work all right thank you thank you so much okay maria's still with us now we're going to uh visitor non-agenda items so we need to do hopefully three at a time and um we're trying not to have to vote on staying longer so we're two minutes so we're we're we really want to try to see if you can really try to do the two minutes i mean and we're gonna we're gonna be on everybody the people making the presentations had they had a only certain amount of time and we would have cut them off too the people that are doing the other presentations so the first three we have is ediberto astrada erica murphy and amy laura be close together you three so you can come up right after the other one after the other yeah put pull it down pull it down pull it down there you go hi my name is ediberto astrada i am a sixth grader at sesar chavez middle school and my mom is a union member and teacher at h.a. high elementary school she works in the district where she grew up and uh she's been a teacher for almost 20 years she loves working here because she sees herself in her students she was an english learner a daughter of migra workers and now my mom i'm proud of her because she has a lot of responsibility works hard and late every day she sometimes have to work through the weekend please i am asking for the board and district support i want my family to be able to afford living here um i want my mom and other educators to be valued and be a priority budgeting for a proper teacher raise is one way to show that they're the ones instructing inspiring and motivating us supporting teachers directly supports us the students thank you it's a hard act to follow so i wanted to speak up for i'm i wanted to speak up for sped and specifically yeah a different kind of counselor that we have in the district the mental health clinicians who serve the special ed students with emotional disturbances and provide what is called educationally related mental health services or irms i've worked as a social emotional counselor and as a guidance counselor for years in the district and in these roles i relied heavily on the irms counselors and the others in the special ed department the school psychologists and the case managers and the rsp teachers sdc teachers when i saw students in my office presenting with serious mental health issues i needed their help i needed these special programs to refer the students to the irms counselors provided consultation and advice and they helped me identify signs of serious mental illness and to distinguish these serious conditions from more common discipline problems or academic issues and they helped me respond appropriately um i needed the ear of the school psychologists to elevate these very serious cases too so that they could be assessed and given the special services they needed and i needed the case managers to provide accommodations and advocate for these students as a social emotional counselor at pv high my caseload was the entire school i could not serve the highest need students alone i relied on the expertise and the programs of the special education department many students who came to my office were really suffering and unable to access their education due to anxiety ptsd depression bipolar disorder and schizophrenia because of special education experts those students got the services they needed before i had the training that expert experience i did not recognize when a student was having symptoms of a psychotic break or what to do about it but the irms therapists did and they were able to respond appropriately and protect the students and others from harm these cases of severe mental illnesses often end up in the lap of the student services directors and these were the cases that the irms therapists were able to handle the irms therapists add value not just to the sped department but to the district as a whole the district is very fortunate to have an in-house team of mental health experts at their disposal the irms therapists are partnering with sites and departments across the district to provide mental health education to students staff and parents irms counselors have drawn forces with the social-emotional counselors to respond to crises such as the death of a student they are providing direct treatment to student to students in these areas for providing parenting classes and condensings with the star process uh parent um participating in autism research and providing teachers and admin with expert consultation services two minutes thank you good evening my name is amy lauta i'm here with some of my esteemed colleagues from duncan holbert we want to take the time to thank mr roscoe for visiting our school yesterday for seeing the wonderful work that we do and hearing some of our concerns duncan holbert is an amazing community of educators students and families that partner together to support our special education students in early intervention as i'm sure you know there's much evidence to support early intervention and its positive outcomes early intervention when implemented correctly greatly impacts student development and access to general curriculum research shows that it also benefits districts financially as many students after receiving intensive early intervention services need less tier three support less intervention and some students exit special education altogether we would like to take this time to inform you that currently almost 50 percent of our preschool students are not receiving speech and occupational therapy services that are specified in their ips this is due to a lack of specialists assigned to the school and an unprecedented number of students that are qualifying for special education by not fulfilling the legal obligation to provide said services to our students we are concerned that this will not only impact these students but the district as a whole we are out of compliance and legal action could result with projections of up to at least 32 students per teacher by spring of 2020 safety is of utmost concern this is our top priority we have a commitment to the families that we serve when their children come to school at pahero valley unified we will afford them a safe and education i'm sorry that we will afford them a safe and engaging learning environment thank you very much for your time and consideration thank you up next we have graciela and lorenco julie valence and laura azzaro so i'm gonna see that are you still here yeah gracelia okay julie valence my name is julie valence and i teach third grade at amesti school i want to share my concern about how our students have not been receiving speech services this entire school year i have two students who qualify for speech services one of them comes from a family that speaks mix tecco in spanish he has been in speech since he started school in first grade he was silent most of the year in second grade he started to say a few things but was very difficult to understand he sat by himself on the playground because it was too hard for his classmates to understand him by the end of second grade he would say a few words but still was very shy this year in third grade he has been starting to open up more one day around halloween another student at his table group was on her chromebook and it we the chromebook made a weird noise i was trying to help her figure out what it was this little guy came over to her side of the table put his head near the computer like he was going to listen for it and mumbled it's chucky we started laughing surprised by his joke this might sound like this might not sound like a big deal it's a tiny little story but for me it was amazing for several reasons first of all he made a joke out loud without any prompting secondly he demonstrated that he had the cultural capital to know who chucky is i had no idea he knew that third he was interacting playfully with a classmate when in the past he has struggled to make friends my next thought was imagine how much more he could be improving if he was getting the services that he's qualified for next week is conference week i'll be telling his parents that he's making progress that he hasn't had any speech services yet this year because we don't have a speech teacher through our mix techo translator they'll probably say okay maestro está bien cuando piensa que va a empezar when do you think that's fine when do you think he'll start which they tell them thank you thank you Laura Azaro Laura Iceland Laura Azaro Melissa Dennis and Erica Torres good evening dr. Rodriguez and the board and i just want to thank you for all your hard work that you're doing i haven't shadowed any of you but i imagine you're working very hard i've been an elementary school teacher here in pvusd for 26 years and i've really enjoyed the family connections i really value and treasure that i work in a cooperative environment instead of a competitive environment i do really appreciate the benefits and and i do appreciate dr. Rodriguez that you are making yourself available you're a strong leader i know we don't always agree on everything you know metaphorically speaking but i really do appreciate that you are making yourself visible and you've really you're doing a lot um the thing that i'm here to talk about though is that as i've been teaching over the years there's just a lot more hats that i'm having to wear and part of it is because we are in a profession that is more people centered and it takes money to pay the people and there's been a lot of reduction of services provided by people and where i'm seeing it the most at the elementary level is there's a lot more emotional instability in our students because of mental illness or um family issues or community stressors and um they're just not getting the services that they need we used to have paraprofessionals that were in our classrooms and they slowly got diminished and you know what the test scores don't show is what those other people were doing during the day to help support those students on those days that they were melting down because they had to take a math test and the rigor is just it's very intense for elementary school kids and we all take it very sincerely and work very hard to help them pass their tests but when you're having to help a child who's under the desk in fourth grade screaming and crying because they are perceiving that they can't do the the task and i'm the only one there that can sue that child where does that leave the rest of the students where are those academics going to be so those don't show up on those bar graphs that we look at every year for the test scores what's going on between those bars and behind those bars we do we do need more people and and it would be very nice to have a raise just to appreciate what we've been trying to do thank you might these are broad but they're not that broad hi i'm a teacher at aloni elementary school i'm also a proud member of pvft um i'd like to talk about our contract but unfortunately i'm here again for the fourth time in a row to talk to you about chromium six in the drinking water at aloni for those of you who don't know chromium six is linked to increased levels of cancer and uh our level of chromium six is 500 times higher than california's level for public health in fact there's so much carcinogenic chromium six in our water that the state water board has offered our school free water service and that's offer has been made to us for many months and we still have not taken advantage of it um we have still not received one long term or short short term plan or solution from the district we'd like to accept the water services ourselves but it needs to be administered through the district so we feel stuck why don't we take advantage of this solution do you have a different plan and if so what is it um last night at the parent school school site council some parents offered to bring gallon jugs of water into their students classroom but i just don't see that being a good solution what we need at aloni is leadership we need solutions i had one suggestion include us in your planning and in your solutions um include one parent and one teacher because we're the ones drinking the water and so far we have no idea what the plan is to get clean water thank you thank you hi my name is erica i am here um because i have a freshman daughter in high school and i am worried uh about the safe about the supervision of pv students in the morning i found out this morning that my daughter and other pv students uh got dropped off by the school bus while there is no supervision and will walk off campus to nearby places i am concerned not only for the safety of my daughter but also the safety of any student that used campus i talked to the student principal today and he informed me that there is no supervision from the time the students get dropped off until staff gets there at about seven fifteen or so although it might not be a long period of time it's still concerning to me and it's something that i was not aware of that was happening the answer that i got from him was you may not like the answer but it is reality that's what's going on and there's no one there in the morning which was very disappointing i hope something can be done about this um so that the kids are safe and they're not leaving campus and something happens to them while the parents think they're at school thank you so next up we have amily rodriguez brandon denise denise and elie reynolds good evening my name is amily elizabeth rodriguez i am a student at mccudy elementary school some of my favorite things about mccudy are teachers teachers are very kind and helpful what would you do what would what would it be what what would a school be without teachers counselors and nurses a challenge for my family is the cost of living since we live in selenus and community every day i am asking for your support um good evening i'd like to thank the board again for affording me the opportunity to speak to you tonight um a lot has happened since i last spoke here uh matter of fact i got married to the woman that i love um so that's pretty awesome um so i feel like i'm on the cusp of this area of time in my life where i have some personal and professional questions that need answering sooner or later um so professionally i serve on the california federation of teachers special committee on special education so i recognize that a lot of these issues that we face are not just district level not just state level but they're also nation level issues and so that begs the question that i asked myself am i at a district that's at the forefront of providing students and meeting the diverse needs of our student population or am i at a district that prioritizes pocket books and political agendas after five years in the district i'm not quite sure i haven't answered that question personally i wonder if i can support a family in this district or should i make the most financially prudent decision and take a job over the hill um i don't want to leave so that's why i continue to do what i do and i advocate and i fight until i can confidently answer these questions does this district put their students first and does the district support and empower their teachers and enable us to set down roots and grow together and that's what i want to do in this district is grow together and i'm asking for your support and recognition of all that we do so thank you thank you i'm a teacher at bradley elementary life skills um when i woke up this morning and got to school at seven a.m please believe the first thing i didn't think was i would love to be speaking to you guys at this time and miss putting my 13 month old daughter to bed and eating dinner with my wife but i come here because i want to be here because i want you guys to hear what we do every day um and we work hard every day we don't ever stop it doesn't matter what's happening out there we put our students first and um it's it's it's it's discouraging when i go to a rep meeting and you are offering a one percent raise with the contingency of getting the students to come to school like it's our job to go jump in the buses and pick up students and get the uh 97 percent ab whatever it's called you want how is that us teachers why why would our raise be contingent on that it doesn't make any sense whatsoever and i'm we're not in it for the pay you know we know that but we are in it to live and when me and my wife who's a speech therapist for the best district have to think about going to live somewhere else or going back to live with our parents because we can't afford to raise our child here it doesn't make any sense to me we love being here we want to be professionals we want to be adults but i feel like i'm getting out of college right now and i don't have a job that can pay for what i need um i will give you guys props that i there is a tentative agreement to give fml a time family bonding time to both of your employees because when we had our first daughter i had to split my family bonding time with my wife because we both work for you and doesn't make a lot of sense either there because yeah we both want to be with our so i do want to give you props for doing that but if we end up having a second kid before we figure all this out what's going to happen do i get my time with my family or do i not so uh but thank you thank you thank you our next three are stacy detrick laura zucker and chris webb my name is stacy detrick i'm a speech language pathologist i've been working at a lonely elementary for about 10 years laura zucker and i um spoke previously at the board meeting on october 9th about our concerns with the augmentative and alternative communication system within our district from the feedback we received after we spoke um perhaps we didn't make ourselves clear that we were talking about concerns with the policies in place with this the department and not the people that were doing the jobs themselves we had previously spoken to administration about our concerns and nothing had happened so we decided to talk to the board last week laura and i were able to meet with bridgina bower and angeli butler and expressed our concerns about these issues the policies that we are concerned about are as follows number one the aac team is working off the candidacy model and not the participation model the participation may participation model is them but the american speech and hearing association states is the best practices at this time and the candidacy model should no longer be used number two the site slp and the classroom teachers have more interaction and more current knowledge of the students that are being assessed for augmentative communication but they are given little or no input more collaboration between all of the team members are as important to get what is best for these students number three site slps and classroom teachers should have input on what words are on the device so they are able to access the classroom academic vocabulary and participate where it is appropriate in the classroom most importantly the aac specialists are part of the iep team and not a standalone service the whole team needs to be able to collaborate and figure out how it's best to meet each individual student's needs thank you thank you laura zooker speech pathologist at high school at any rate when we spoke to continue when we spoke with eugenia bowyer and angeli butler last week eugenia is our boss and angeli butler is our program specialist we discussed possibilities on how to make this progress this process work better one idea was to have a more flexible process in place in regard to the augmentative and alternative communication assessment process and services for instance some ip teams may feel more comfortable with augmentative and alternative communications and with the speech generating devices themselves some speech pathologists in our district may want to be more involved in the assessment and feel comfortable with the report writing and acquisition of the speech generating devices some teams may also want to be in charge of adding words on the devices but may just need help from the specialist with updating devices now other teams may have a more hands-off approach there are slps in our district that have stated that they like having a specialist who can help them navigate through the process the ac specialist having unique set of skills and those skills can be used in a variety of ways if they're not if they are not having to do the job of programming words on the devices for some students in other words if those of us who are able to program words on the devices which is not hard to learn how to do um could add words had permission to add words to the devices the ac specialist would not feel overwhelmed and they would have more time to devote to the devote to the slps and the teams that need more help this would put benefit everyone by putting the resources where they're most needed what we need is there for there to be flexibility within the process one size does not fit all in this situation to better serve our students the IEP team should have input in what is best in in their situations IEPs should be individualized and so how we serve our students with and so should be how we serve our students with complex communication needs the last thing I'd say is yes true collaborations what we need we always talk about retention and I mean attracting and retaining teachers and we know we have a problem with turnover and our special ed department our sdc teachers and our specialists so this would be a great example where we could actually go ahead and collaborate truly on this item thank you thank you good evening i'm chris webb with renaissance high school i have many teacher friends across districts and grade levels very few of them work in alternative ed it's just not for everybody and one thing i'm noticing at renaissance is that sometimes we have trouble retaining the strongest teachers or hiring the strongest teachers which means we might start a school year with a vacancy and then it becomes even more challenging because we have a sub and the the standards are not quite the same as they would be normally and then when a new teacher is finally hired it's even harder for them the normal testing that any teacher gets at that school is harder because suddenly the kids are rebelling against the raising of standards beyond what a normal sub would do considering uh i you know dr red rigors you came by today had a good presentation i really appreciate the point about electives and like boosting attendance that way and i think if we are to attract teachers to pull them away from the private sector we're going to have to give some serious thought about uh you know the wages that is going to really do that and the the wages that are going to keep people around this is my fifth year at the renaissance and i'm just talking about the teaching part at renaissance we have other hats that we're wearing we're advisors we're counselors sometimes we're like borderline parents um there's times when the teachers will give of themselves all the time they do it it's it's beyond contract it's going to these extra meetings it's sometimes driving kids around um i jumped a kid's car like you know before there's all these different things that happen and i think the teachers were willing to do it but it's it would be wrong to take advantage of the generosity or and and the other thing is if we're really serious about the high expectations um you know i mean there's a reason ceo pays so high if the logic is with ceo's you the more you pay the better quality you get you would think that that would translate here so i just hope that you'll keep these considerations and challenges in mind uh during the negotiations thank you thank you very much next three we have whitney damiani manuel serrano and mary joe silva thank you hi thank you my name is whitney damiani i'm a math teacher at optos hi i have a bunch of my students here i'm really proud to see you guys here um i'm also one of the department chairs um and sit on the data committee this is my third year at optos as a teacher in my fifth year teaching um as far as department chair duties go part of my job is to hire teachers it's been very challenging to hire qualified credential math teachers um we went through many rounds of of interviews this year and we have some two great new teachers but they don't have credentials so we really want to have a a pay a living wage that supports teachers coming into our district and staying um beyond that i would like to say personally that i'm an optos hi alumni i love this community i love the school these kids know that i love to go to everything i can um but i'm sleeping on a couch i'm at my parents house on a couch i cannot afford to live here and um as much loyalty as i have to my school to my you know my home for four years as a student my home for three years as a teacher i cannot stay here because i cannot live here and i cannot continue as a 33-year-old woman living on my parents couch having a professional job having a degree and post credentials and having to be forced to live at home it's not reasonable so i ask you consider that um and consider that we have this reputation for turnover and that's it's embarrassing for me i want my students to know that we have teachers that are here for them that are going to be there here for them and that are going to continue to work to collaborate and um continue to improve our school and all of the expectations that we have for them i want to be able to hold for ourselves and we can do that better if we pay our teachers better thank you thank you good night sir um my name is manuel serrano i'm the one of the teachers for the briley school and i'm here because i'm part of the briley group um but i sound an early child with educator and thank you and but i i want to tell you the a big crisis is happening right now in my department and the whole county i think um we have many programs head start my migrant head start and the state preschools and there's no more teachers there's no more early child with educators educators teachers and one of the big situations is the salary and but i want to tell you that we're very important for the district and um i think we're the first people who they take um um early intervention for the students and also we are the ones who we help the students for example uh last year i have 48 students at bradley and i want to tell you two stories about the outlarks and the data uh one student for sweden in my classroom and two homeless students in my classroom and thanks to my advocacy and for the district they they have you have the services um five of my students has the services for for ear impairment speech speech and behavior and stuff and thank you so much for the duncan hover people really professional eip s i show them i show up to the ip s and really wonderful results and this year we're moving and i hope next year i will talk to you about good stuff from there but uh but i also want to tell you that it's really hard to find now early childhood educated teacher because we're really the poorest teachers in the district and um head start teachers are moving to the district because you thank you you give us son um for the last uh negotiation you give us a increment of 13 percent in our salaries but many of the head start teachers start moving to the district but now head start is no uh covering the the necessity for the county because it's no teachers and here we have problems to have substitutes in our early childhood education because it's no teachers but it's no problem to hire um administrators or or um coordinators there is a lot of coordinators and it's good they help us a lot but i want to tell you there's some kind of disparity disparity or well but there is something there's there's no matching because i'm i see that in the classroom and hey i'm 55 i'm ready to retire but maybe i don't know who's coming behind me maybe nobody but uh i feel i'm doing a good job over there at bradley bradley is incredible place to to to work like any other place i have been working in other places thank you um but i hear that i hear the problems about 50 percent of the preschoolers that all have the services for speech and i and it's really sad and the wider problem and or lony wow i see there's a lot of study i didn't think about it but um please support your teachers thank you so much good evening members of the board dr roger igus my name is mary joe silva i'm with manuel with early childhood education and i'm here to advocate for the entire ec department um i hear time and time again how these teachers just love what they do their early child educators they continued their um 105 hours of continued education uh parents love the teachers the students love the teachers the teachers are so pleased and and happy with what they do but the biggest challenge is the salary and the cost of living thank you for the the 13 percent increase and it's still not enough we're still one of the lowest ranked early childhood education salary bases in comparison to others like north monterey county over the hill at gilroy perhaps even san jose i don't know i have to do a little bit more homework but i'm here to ask for your support uh i hear is yes we're probably hours probably lower than than the rest of the other regions but again my message is clear please give us a little bit more money thank you thank you all right we have two more people left it's maya lord and sonia quintero maya okay maya lord did she left okay sonia sonia quintero hello my name is sonia quintero i want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk and i'm i'm a teacher from calabasas elementary school i'm a first grade teacher i've been a teacher there for well in the district for 20 years i've also been um a support teacher our teachers eight for six years parent teacher parent volunteer for six years and uh during the process well if you hear my voice it's a little scratchy because i teach with one vocal cord all day long um but i love working with my students and that's why i work what i've been doing right now and the kids ask me you know why are do you talk like that i said well i love working here but i i needed to you know deal with what i had to do to work and the other day i was talking to my students and i asked them what's part of our career you know um consciousness about what do you want to do when you grow up and usually we have more students that reply that they want to be teachers but we only had two students that replied they want to be a teacher and i was wondering why you know a lot of kids don't want to be think about being teachers anymore because they see all the hard work we do and we don't get very much pay and i tell them i love working with you because you guys are the tomorrow you guys are our future you guys are going to be figuring out how to figure out the problems in the world so you guys have a lot to give but what i like about here about my my favorite things here about the the district are my students as you notice i really love to work with them the health care benefits i think we a lot of us we work here because of the health benefits um and the families just working with the families here it's very rewarding but um the challenges here working in barter valley other services for the kids we're seeing that they're lacking a lot of resources we have our speech therapist that that is overloaded and uh the cost of living is giving us a hard time to stay here and keep the quality teachers and that's what we need we need to invest in putting the money to supporting the students and to keeping quality teachers and that big part of it is a living wage thank you thank you miss hono kinteto for all your years to the district and it's one reason why that i'm here because of all those years as a student and many way thank you now we're going to have the unions come up barter valley federation of teachers gracias um hello i'm nellie good evening Dr. Rodriguez um i'm actually going to give my time to one of our negotiation members um Greg Tucker and um i hope you've been enjoying our family that we brought along hi dr. Rodriguez hello board members um i first want to i want to thank the board for kind of noticing the fact that the room was full of people who were here for the public comment session and not bumping us who the majority of us who have to go to work tomorrow you know educating students not bumping us back an entire hour plus perhaps if people ran over um the 25 minutes or so you know was was more than enough um we've been in the negotiations process since last february or so and um we've we've t8 about a bunch of things but all the financials were pushed at the end of last year over to this year and the board has a has a responsibility to kind of question everything and allocate all funds and approve all financial expenses and and i think that the board also really needs to pay attention to the fact that teachers are are fleeing this district and yeah we have some really good benefits and that is important but we have really low salaries at least the teachers do compared to like sized districts um the the business of a school district is educating students and the people directly responsible for the education of students are teachers and if we as a district and you as a board cannot invest right there then then the district and the board are failing it's that simple um we have a negotiations session tomorrow you guys had a closed session today for some reason i guess because i'm a teacher i'm still hopeful that even though every time we get very little i'm still hopeful that maybe tomorrow's the day maybe tomorrow's the day or maybe i wrote sub plans for no reason again and hope that whoever happens to work for our our ridiculously low sub rate and shows up in my classroom tomorrow doesn't blow things up um you know we have a really i feel reasonable request on the table of a twenty five hundred dollar across the pay scale raise for teachers we know that the budget is tight we didn't ask for the fifteen percent or so that we actually legitimately should be asking for we asked for twenty five hundred bucks and and for myself who's like twenty three years in as a teacher um that percentage wise is really small because we also know that we really need to kind of pay the people who are sleeping on their parents couches and living like you know in ridiculous kind of situations rolling into our school's parking lots in their home you know um so you know perhaps tomorrow we're going to see something other than a one percent raise in exchange for doing something that isn't really our job um that's my hope because i am still hopeful but you know as you've heard from a lot of my colleagues today that that hope is sort of starting to wither and if teachers don't have hope they can't transmit hope to their students and the students can't have hope and again the district fails so please you know do what you can find money where you can and put it where it really needs to go thank you you guys okay california school employees union anybody here um how about the managers oh there you go there's california school employees yay hi hi how you guys doing what good evening president osmo and mrs. rodriguez dr. rodriguez and the trustees and the cabinet so my name is richard martinez i'm a district electrician and i would like to thank all you guys for listening from everyone else here everyone behind me we support our teachers we support our members i'm also thankful for some of you guys that listen to us this osman i talked to you this weekend it was great to talk to you also i'm truly appreciative what you guys try to do for us but sometimes it ain't enough i do have one question this is for dr. rodriguez our new school lots of oprep they're teaching k through what right now k through k through two what is it that they're going to be doing next year and how much is that going to take from us 60 more students and 240 so far that we know for a fact okay thank you thank you richard now for the managers potto valley association managers no manager coming up here okay how about communication workers of america i've never seen them probably not okay now now we're going to go to the 8.1 which is the annual williams report and it's going to be presented by thomas tatum which he's the county office of education he's the williams coordinator there good evening everyone board members madam president dr. rodriguez cabinet members it's nice to be back here i'm a retired pvsd teacher and administrator and i'm back representing the county office of ed to present the as the williams coordinator and i'm going to present the results of the williams inspection this year i'll be brief i just have to read every single one of these i'm not kidding i we conducted the williams inspections as they have been going on in the last 15 years i think it's a new experience for me and it was a wonderful experience for me because i got to be back in schools and i've been away for about eight years and it was just a real treat to be in all the schools and there's the from my perspective there was such a sense of vitality and newness and togetherness in the way the schools looked and also in the way that the way this the the administrators and teachers responded to our visit uh it was really a pleasant experience to be back in the classroom i just wanted to say that the williams settlement legislation requires the county superintendent of schools to annually monitor report on schools ranked in desiles one through three based upon the 2012 base api the santa christ county superintendent of schools and staff at the county office of ed are responsible for determining if students have sufficient standard aligned instructional materials in four core subject areas english language arts mathematics history social science and science including science laboratory equipment in grades nine through twelve and as appropriate in foreign languages and health to determining if there's any facility conditions that poses an emergency or urgent threat to health safety and the people of the pupils or staff three determining if the school has provided accurate data on the annual school accountability report the sarc for ensuring that a uniform complaint process the ucp policy is in use that's that the sign that you see in all the classrooms the notices have to be posted in all classrooms in spanish and in english determining if there are any teacher misassignments or teacher vacancies at these schools this report presents the results of our visits and review at power valley unified school district for the period of august through october 2019 the following we visited 19 schools and they were all the they were all the the schools that get visited every year amesty and soldo calabasas caesar chavez ea hall freedom ha hide hall district lakeview landmark mcquitty minty white aloni elementary power middle power valley high radcliffe elementary rolling hills middle starlight elementary in watsonville high school each principal received the summary report plus the f it the fit report which is the report that describes what issues or difficulties we're seeing at the school's facilities uh george lowpass is the director of the county office of ed maintenance operations department and he accompanied me on those visits he went off and visited the classrooms i checked uh the same ones i checked and he also visited some restrooms and it's a random visit to classrooms that we just select our findings for each area are as follows instructional materials the team found that all students had access to sufficient instructional materials including textbooks in the core subject areas including science laboratory materials at the secondary schools all 19 schools reviewed for instructional materials textbook sufficiency fully complied with the william settlement uh facility inspections utilizing the facilities inspection tool the f it as developed by the office of public schools construction to determine if a school facility is in good repair as defined by education code uh one seven zero zero two d and one and to rate the facility pursuant to ec section one seven zero zero two d and two a school facility's inspection was completed at each school site our visiting team reviewed the previous years f it reports fit reports annual fit reports submitted by the district and inspected restrooms common areas kitchen multipurpose facilities and 25 percent of the school's classrooms five of the 19 schools were determined to be an exemplary repair that's that's an improvement over last year 13 were in good repair and one school scored fair no schools pose an emergency or urgent threat to health and safety of the pupils or the staff the william settlement included language regarding the accuracy of data reported in the school accountability report card the sark the 2017 and 18 sarks for each school are available on the pv usd uh website in reviewing the 2017 18 reports all 19 schools sarks accurately reflect the findings of the william's committee members the teacher assignments and misassignments during our visit the 2019-20 master schedule or teacher assignment listing was collected and has been submitted to the santa cruz county office of ed human resources department the human resources department in pv usd has worked collaboratively with the santa cruz county office of education to ensure that teachers are appropriately credentialed and placed in the correct teaching assignments in 2018 and 19 there were 12 teacher mis assignments at the start of the school year all 12 of those misassignments were corrected within 30 calendar days all classrooms must have the uniform complaint uh classroom notice posted the team found that 25 percent of the classrooms visited each site had all current notices posted in both spanish and english and that is the formal report from the williams uh coordinator that's me oh and it was a very much of a treat for me to do that this year and i appreciate your time thank you very much thank you for coming to our schools but we have questions no there's no speakers obviously no so board comments oh yeah sorry about that i noticed that one of our schools got a fair rating and i'm wondering if you can speak to that about what what was um what were some of the issues the problems are i can i can well all i can do is just um just repeat the report um i should have had that go do you remember what school yes i have i have it right here lake view right yeah i have to pull out the lake view we've got lake view we've got it so what was the my recollection tells me that was uh george uh lopez was the person that completed this aspect of the report and and my recollection is that there was an electrical issue on a wall of one of the classrooms that he visited but i'll tell you in a second when i pull out the lake view page so specifically is deficiencies in classroom f3 that's it and it was two areas interior surfaces found to be deficient and then in walkways um there was some housekeeping prep that um immuno prep that was not done um two proficiency so there were two deficient areas thank you dr okay so one classroom can have a couple of deficient areas and lead to a fair rating on the ones yes okay um so i'm guessing that we've made uh efforts to to rectify this let me speak to that i i received from musley today the just to kind of review almost all the items on that report have been i'll read some of them oh good tall bookshelf not anchored done done done done done done done every item that i see on here has been addressed by the staff at the school or by uh mr uh mr domingas domingas department that's great i have a couple that were that were just it just indicates that they were they were informed about uh difficulty or fire fire extinguisher not updated that sort of thing so as far as i can see you know i'll i'll i'll go over this carefully with my colleagues when i go back but things are looking pretty good okay i have one further question this is probably best answered by dr cling there were like 13 teachers that were misaligned or i don't know the misassigned um can you talk a little bit about what that means and what and apparently that's been rectified according to the report but can you tell us a little bit more about that we can get a working microphone in our microphone but we want you on the community tv feed so in in case the community cares to you could come up to the podium that's the alternative i guess right just said to put a way down for her thank you um basically i think so i think those were my two questions so yeah um so basically when teachers are misassigned it could be for a variety of reasons but the main the the basic reason is that we have a uh an individual in the classroom that does not have a credential to teach the class nor uh an approved credential waiver to teach the class in the past that would be like an emergency credential yes but that the emergency credential if it's approved like a stip pip or an intern those are you know those don't uh the interns don't go for the you know on the misassignment um and when you have vacancies and it's typically a classroom that would have a sub that doesn't have a credential like if it's a science classroom they would not have a science credential so we um we've done better um uh you know in in uh in current years because we continue to recruit um and we recruit early and we recruit often and we're pretty assertive and there are a number of things that um we work together with PBFT and and thanks to the board um that we do um that's unique to our district for example the mentor MOU where we do give uh teachers um who have uh a lot of experience um we give them a stipend to help our new teachers especially those on stips pips and um interns you know and those credential waivers and we also have the the typical you know NTP for our bits at teachers so there's a number of things that we do that is unique um and you know thanks to the board for continuing to support that and I think that's gone a long way in helping us and we have also given signing bonuses there's MOUs for teachers um that want to pursue a credential in special ed and hard to fill positions um and like science and math and we give them uh tuition reimbursement for pursuing those kinds of things and I think that's helped um with regard to being able to address uh the misassignments but what I really I mean that's wonderful I think we all know that stuff but just in terms of this particular issue for Williams in plain language we had 13 teachers that were misassigned so what what what was that about like and what happened to those teachers or did they get reassigned to a more appropriate classroom or did they get their credentials or did we prove that they had a special waiver like can you just plainly tell the community what most of those um I don't have the specific teachers but we can we can um you know provide that information but I would probably um say that a lot of those were vacancies where we had substitute teachers in them until we were able to fill them with a teacher who had a credential or a credential waiver okay thank you I can you can talk in the microphone because we're on a community tv feed I could see when I uh when I when I traveled around this inspection I could there's a very familiar pattern where that does happen and I saw that this year what we just reported wasn't from this year it was from the year before right and I'm I can only assume that that will hopefully that will get corrected whatever issues existed this year will get corrected I just get the data from the HR department that the county office of that HR department they do a pretty thorough job of checking credentials and doing all that and basically all I have is their summary right okay thank you any other questions no thanks for waiting thank you thank you so um we're now on 8.2 which is an important issue the safe routes to school draft plan which is presented by Amelia Conlin transportation planner good evening superintendent board members members of the public thank you for receiving this presentation tonight my name is Amelia Conlin and I'm a transportation planner with ecology action here to present to you on the draft recommendations from the safe routes to school's plan for both unincorporated county of Santa Cruz and the city of Watsonville do I tell you why I have it I have it here so we have been fortunate to be working on two Caltrans plan and grants for safe routes to school's plans for 15 schools within the city of Watsonville as well as six schools within unincorporated Santa Cruz county so that's Aptos Real Del Mar and um this plan covers those 15 schools and has the overall goal of identifying barriers to walking and biking at each of those schools and then developing a list of recommendations to improve access for students walking and biking to each of those schools we kicked off this planning process about a year ago um you may remember we are here presenting the beginning of the process and we hosted three community meetings um two in Watsonville and one at Marvis to elementary and Aptos we followed that up with walking audits at each of the 21 schools and that was an opportunity to observe the morning drop-off and the traffic around each of the school sites and start the conversation about possible recommendations after those recommendations were developed we presented them back at a parent meeting at each of the school sites with the goal of hearing from school staff and parents on whether these were the right set of recommendations for their school we're here before you tonight to present the draft recommendations and we'll come back before you in early 2020 to present the draft plan and before we go any further I just want to say that there are a lot of recommendations in your packet tonight um some of them are on city property some of them are on county property and some of them are on district property the district is under no obligation to implement these recommendations we know that funding is tight um this is a big picture long-range vision for the future of transportation around schools and this is meant to guide future projects and to be implemented as funding becomes available so to back up a little bit the trip to school in the morning is a small part of a student's day but it's something that can really have a big impact walking and biking to school is a great way to build exercise into the daily routine help improve student health um it's also a great way to build student independence and one of our big goals with this project is to reduce the congestion that we see around every school in the county not just pbsd schools and if we can shift some of those car trips to walking and biking we can help to improve air quality around schools we can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we can help make our neighborhoods safer so i i really want to emphasize that community input was the foundation of the safe routes schools plan uh we had good participation at the public meetings we received lots of comments from parents about the issues that they're having with getting to school we made a point of talking to parents during the walking audits so that we can hear more about the challenges that they face we also handed out surveys to parents at each of these 21 schools which provided another opportunity for them to give input and i do want to highlight some of the early wins some of the projects that have been happening over the course of the past year to improve student safety um you may have seen the sidewalks that have recently been installed on east lake uh to provide access to lake view middle school that's a huge win that's an amazing improvement for safety and caltrans is also planning to install a bridge over corelitos creek starting in 2022 which will provide a continuous pedestrian route to lake view middle school so that's very exciting um i wanted to commend the district for a few of your parking lot improvement projects that have happened over the summer the project at freedom elementary and then equity those are both great improvements to the school drop off to increase efficiency and student safety and then finally wanted to highlight the green lanes project that's being done by the city watsonville to install green lane striping on bike lanes throughout the city starting with bridge street near anseldo elementary so there are some great things happening now and i wanted to let you know that the city of watsonville is considering a couple of draft community goals through implementation of the safe routes to school's plan the first is to increase the number of students who are walking and biking to school by five percent um watsonville already does have tremendously high rates of students walking and biking which is something to be celebrated and so this is a goal for all of the school sites to increase by five percent and then the city of watsonville has also approved a vision zero policy which has set a goal to eliminate traffic injuries and fatalities throughout the city so that's a goal that they're working towards and we see the safe routes to school's plan is contributing to that so we do not have time to go through all of the recommendations for each of the 21 schools and i won't even try but wanted to give you an overview of some of the common recommendations that are included in your packet the first is curb extensions and these are an extension of the sidewalk at the curb which help to make pedestrians more visible when they're waiting to cross so rather than having to peek out from behind a parked car when you're waiting to cross the street pedestrians are clearly visible to drivers you'll see recommendations in your packet for safe routes to school's corridors and connectors and these are the primary streets that students are using to get to school that we've identified and the recommendation is to use a menu of options for these streets to slow down traffic speeds and to improve the safety of intersections and crossings so we're looking to slow down traffic on these streets as much as possible and to make it safe to cross the street we have recommendations for our rfbs or rectangular rapid flashing beacons these are pedestrian activated lights that are installed at uncontrolled crossings and help to highlight the pedestrians who are waiting to cross we have recommendations for two-stage crosswalks or offset crosswalks and this is a crosswalk with a jog in the middle that through its design basically forces a pedestrian to check for traffic before they enter the second leg of the intersection we have recommendations for raised crosswalks which are basically a speed hump with a crosswalk striped on top help to elevate pedestrians increase the visibility and slow down traffic and we have a few recommendations for protected bikeways which have some kind of physical barrier between the bike lane and moving traffic throughout the country we've seen that when there's some kind of barrier between people biking and moving traffic people are much more likely to bike feel much more comfortable doing so so these are some of the types of recommendations that are included in the plan and i did want to go in detail through the recommendations for one school ha hide elementary to give you more of a sense of what we're talking about here this is a map of the recommendations and as you may know many ha hide students live on the north side of freedom boulevard and so need to cross freedom to get to school and so the first recommendation we've identified the crossing of freedom at cliford and gardener as the safest crossing now and so looking to make some more improvements there to improve the safety and the first piece is to install high visibility crosswalks and a leading pedestrian interval and this is a change in the signal timing that gives pedestrians a little head start when they're going through the intersection so that they should be in the middle of the intersection clearly visible to drivers who may be making a turn and that final piece here is to consider a no right turn on red at all approaches of this intersection to prevent any conflicts with right turning drivers and pedestrians in the crosswalk the second recommendation here is for the crosswalk right in front of the school on altavista and that's to upgrade that crosswalk to a raised crosswalk to install a high visibility crosswalk across the school driveway and to install curb extensions on either side of that crosswalk and the third recommendation here is for a treatment similar to what was just implemented at Mcquitty this is a pretty chaotic drop-off area there's lots of double parking lots of students being let out in the street and needing to run across traffic to get to school and so implementing a formal loading loop in front of the school with some kind of separation between the loading zone and the traveling and a conversation that's been going on for the school at the school for some time is the expansion of parking in the back of the school and so we wanted to formalize that within this plan the fourth recommendation here is for the intersection of Santa Clara and altavista and it's to install curb extensions on all four corners of the intersection and to strike that fourth leg of the intersection with a high visibility crosswalk and the fifth recommendation here is for Santa Clara and it's to look at those safe routes to school's corridors treatments that I was talking about so looking for ways to slow down traffic on Santa Clara and then looking at either expanding the sidewalk adjacent to the school or relocating some of the utility poles that are currently blocking portions of the sidewalk so that gives you a sense of the details of what we're talking about for these schools and so in addition to infrastructure recommendations there are some non-infrastructure some program recommendations and I wanted to highlight a few of the recommendations that involve the district again these are suggestions for you to consider the first is for the district to approve a district-wide policy of support for active transportation this is largely a symbolic gesture just to say that walking and biking is a good thing and then that we should be doing more of it the second you know there are a variety of programs that are run by local nonprofits in the county public health department they're coordinating with various school staff often that staff person is confused about the wealth of programs that are out there and and who is contacting them about what and so the recommendation is to designate a specific staff person to each school to be a safe route so schools contact the third and this is this is a big picture idea but for some of the school sites we saw that the district boundaries required students who lived farther from their school to be bused to school or driven to school and that's a relatively quick that's a I'm not going to say that's a simple fix but that's that's something that can be done without infrastructure improvements and it's looking at the district boundaries and ensuring that students are attending the school closest to their home and one thing we saw at a few schools was that a bus stop safe for the middle school a bus stop near Radcliffe Elementary was picking up students right during the middle of the pickup or the drop-off so the school bus is in the midst of all the parent traffic it's getting stuck in the parent traffic or it's adding to the parent traffic and so the recommendation is to move school bus stops perhaps around the corner maybe a block away from other schools or look at the timing so that the school bus is not impacting the school drop-off traffic in the morning the third next one I'll talk about here we know this is a tough one we saw some amazing crossing guards at schools around the district and we saw some schools who were having a really hard time attracting crossing guards and the recommendation is that find a way to have a crossing guard at each school before or after schools and one of the options there could be to look at a volunteer program to look at recent high school graduates who may not have found a path yet maybe looking for something to do find some creative ways to find people to fill those roles and then finally a small and simple thing just ensuring that all parking lot signages bilingual and understandable for everyone so the next steps on this plan we presented this to city council last night and we anticipate bringing the final plan to city council in early 2020 and the city is already looking ahead to possible grant funding sources and thinking about how to bring in money to implement some of the projects within this plan so with that I'll wrap up my presentation and I welcome any comments or feedback you have on any of the recommendations that are in your packet the speaker so we have Murray Fontez good evening madam chair members of the board dr. Rodriguez I'm Murray fonts I work with the city of Watsonville as a in the public works department and I would like to express appreciation for the collaboration that's gone on between the district and the city for one of the complete streets to school grants that of me it's just reported on the one that involves 15 schools within the city limits unfortunately Watsonville scores high when it comes to accidents involving pedestrians 15 years or younger and one of the ways that we're trying to address this is to collaborate with those who can share our concerns and so we've reached out to the school district and together we sit with your support we secured this grant which is which has allowed us to draft this plan the success of the plan has been largely because of the input of your staff as well as the volunteers and parents who made many suggestions I would encourage you to pass on your suggestions as well so that the so that the report can be as complete as possible and then we would like to reach out to try and secure transportation funding funding one of the rules of transportation funding is the golden rule those who have the gold make the rules and one of the rules currently is collaboration collaboration collaboration so when the time comes for the city when they identify grants that would support these kind of improvements we will reach out to you once more and ask if if not to partner to show support so that we might submit applications for the funding and if possible share in the development of those improvements thank you thank you next up we have Gina Cole thank you board appreciate your time today my name is Gina Cole I'm the director at bike Santa Cruz County we do a lot of work with ecology action and this is a fantastic report they really did a a great job with the community outreach I participated as a parent at EA hall with the maps and identifying places that where it was rough to get to school hard for students to get to school I stood on the corners at Watsonville High and watched the way kids came to school how the cars trans you know how the cars traveled to drop kids off what that looked like at some of the different school sites I drug my kids down to EA hall so that they could identify places where it was the sidewalk was hard to skateboard or hard to ride their bikes to to schools this is a very well thought out very well researched plan the the recommendations that they've put forward for the schools will take will take capital that's all there is to it and and just to echo what Murray said collaboration is key and I know you guys have an outstanding grant rider and so I'm sure that between all of the advocacy groups and ecology action and the school district will be able to really come up with some great routes for our kids so that they feel safe so that their parents like and I was one of those parents driving my car with one child out to charter school of the arts because she couldn't ride her bike out there by herself and so now that they're closer they walk to school they both my kids walk to Watsonville High they walk home or skateboard home as well and I'm appreciative of that they wine as kids will but it's because it's a change for them but I am really appreciative of the plan and the efforts that are are put forth to keep our kids safer thank you thank you thank you okay you know yeah so so comments and now comments from the board I just wanted to say thank you for all the work that you've been doing you know Danny and I have had the privilege of attending a meeting and you know we have had a lot of concerns about crosswalks especially with some of the schools and I know the city of Watsonville has already started implementing some crosswalk changes that'll help keep kids safe as well as some bike lanes that are already painted green and being used but you mentioned about encouraging kids also to walk or bike to school one of the issues is I don't know if a lot of people know this but in Watsonville there's a lot of kids that don't know how to ride a bike and so possibly in encouraging the kids to bike and walk to school especially kids that are living long distances as maybe looking at helping them learn to ride a bike safely thank you thanks it was great I live in the Valencia area which is a really hard spot for kids there's essentially no walkers except from siesta at this point I know there are kids in the village and kids up cathedral that would love to walk to school but it's pretty dangerous I wanted to thank Marie your last name is Fontes or fonts fonts thank you for being here tonight and we can't do it without partnerships because we just don't we don't have the the capital to do it but we're happy to collaborate and offer whatever we can when we can one of the questions I have is for our area you mentioned that where we have two we have well one is too many but how many accidents have we had concerning kids under the age of 15 over and over what period of time because I don't think I know that information I mean I see in the media we've had a lot of adult pedestrian deaths and accidents between cars and pedestrians but I'm not sure about how many children have been injured well I've come up to say I don't know but I can find out I let you know that the accident data that is collected is released in a way that we're usually two years behind but for a city the size of Watsonville which is approximately 50 000 people with comparable cities in the state of california which are about 100 we've rated in the top five over the last five years and the number of accidents has been between five and ten a year okay thanks and if you happen to put your fingers on that data our administration will we'll make sure we get it but I appreciate you being here this late I know it's it's a late night for everybody so great report and thank you to Gina Cole for all your advocacy with bikes yeah I appreciate that you're here I'm just real quick I saw the presentation last night at the Watsonville City Council I thought it was great thank you Amelia and Juno for putting this together I was there last year at E Hall it was a great event with the maps it it gave it put things into perspective you know the way where the all the population was were what was needed the most and do you still have that slide where it shows where the percentages of children that walk do you have that on you or was I I don't have that okay that was added after this presentation um it shows that many white Watsonville E Hall and Radcliffe had some of the highest walking percentage rates you know between 50-55 a lot of these recommendations I was allowed to put input about Rodriguez Walker you know very dangerous streets no lights very dark so I think that you know when it gets dark in the evening children don't want to walk to school or well come after children have always walked to many white E Hall I always have and so all of these recommendations on Lincoln are are great and so I just wanted to thank you guys on that and hopefully we can put this together I'm just hoping I mean there's stuff that we could do that didn't I and I think I talked to Dr. Rodriguez about the that there is some things that we can do that doesn't cost as much money that we can do to make sooner to make you know things safer that are not as costly I think I talked to you about that even and you know the idea of seeing I don't know if our grant writer can work on stuff like that is that a possibility yeah and the grants that you could get as well we can share with each other in order to get some of these things done looking forward to that thank you I actually had some questions sometimes she doesn't look down here but I'm curious as to why there were only 21 schools involved when we have well over 30 schools were chosen that are located within the urban services boundary so within the city Watsonville it was all 15 public schools and within the county because unincorporated Santa Cruz county includes very rural areas like Bonnie Dune happy valley they selected the schools that are within the urban services boundary which means that the schools are in more urban areas and there's more opportunities for students to walk and bike so students in very rural areas schools in very rural areas where there's less infrastructure and where students are living farther from school we're not included in the plan well I just I think I find that very concerning that that's the reason for the basis of that decision as if somehow the balance of those other schools and the hundreds and hundreds of students that walk or ride bikes or commute however to those schools are not part of this factor as if they are somehow any less important not as significant I mean that is definitely not an equitable situation and this district has in this board has been on a continuum of you know approaching equity for all of our students across the district so that's very concerning for me that we have a significant number of our schools that are not having this address and um and just also to add back on to what you said trustee dodge jr um I think ha hide if I recollect correctly is also an all walking school other than special ed I think right I don't think we have bus service there I don't think yeah so it's a high walking school too as well all right thank you okay now we're going to do 8.4 which is a measure ill bond program update and you know what I wanted to do because I kind of forgot to do this before when I should have because we're going to do a bus tour we're going to announce we're going to do a bus tour of our measure ill this year's bus tour taking place it's going to be taking place on Wednesday November 27th from those of you who are still here they could go from 9 a.m. to noon and we will visit Aptos High Mar Vista Eloni Pajaro middle McQuitty and and soldo to see the wonderful upgrades to those school sites so for those of you still here and you can come that would be great sorry I should have done it earlier thank you all right Joe well good evening uh madam president members of the board and administration dr. Rodriguez very excited to be here this evening um uh really captures our summer success in our measure ill bond program and making sure that we maximize our tax dollars and invest those dollars throughout our district and making sure that it's students for our students centered um with me this evening because I'm it's the work and the commitment I'm not alone we have a great team in our facilities division and I'd like to introduce the team we have Ryan who's our senior project manager uh Pam Harnett who's a project manager for our department Randy uh recently just joined the team as a planning specialist her lendo uh also has just joined the team and then served as an interim basis as well and then Connor uh as well is a planning specialist who was instrumental with aptos high school in the student quad unfortunately he was unable to join us this evening for a conflict with a family schedule with that being said I'm going to go ahead and hand it off to uh Ryan and he'll um in the team so they can outline the progress and the success that we had good evening everyone thank you all for allowing us to present tonight um with that being said quick agenda for what we're going to cover we're going to start off with pv high playfield update we're going to cover all the different zones that we did construction over north central and south we're also going to go over the endowment projects and some non bond bond fund projects we're going to then jump into the financial reports and show all the costs for the completed projects this year as well as our remaining fund balance for our current bond and then we'll give you some other updates including the facilities bus tour and the facility master plan with that being said I'm going to hand it off to Pam um I am managing the Pajaro Valley High School Playfields project and um I will skip to the second note due to we probably already know the first Kent submitted final guaranteed maximum jam paper the 12.8 plus million board approval contract with Kent construction on March 13th proceed Kent construction in April construction phase of the playfields project began in March uh 20 27 2019 can I can I just say one thing yes we're being recorded and this is on community tv so when you're rushing through it I think our viewers aren't going to be able to understand you very well so if you could just enunciate very clearly that would be great sorry no that's okay okay so um we are well underway with the playfields project and um rough grading and site retaining wall construction will continue into winter of 2019 uh the first top photo there on the right is a shot of the retaining walls from the driveway of the road and that is the second photo on the bottom is the um is the vehicular driveway going in but um yes we are well underway with the project and there's lots of grading that has been already done and it's primarily site site work and um yeah so we're doing well you think uh we're looking at some we're looking at summer of 2020 mm-hmm okay does all construction need to stop during the winter months no no we can go through yeah yeah they're going to winterize the the project so they'll still be able to get their trucks around and um the foundations of the buildings that are on the site should be able to continue so yeah they're still we're very helpful to keep some construction going during the winter okay oh sorry so we've done a whole slew of different types of projects this summer including perimeter safety fencing uh roofing and hvac replacement some site safety improvements um some place structure upgrades some quad upgrades um flooring replacement and ADA accessibility improvements um in the north zone at atos high we are still currently working on the structural repair and roofing replacement um as well as we completed the shade structure and quad upgrades um at bradley we installed a walking track and we also did a admin upgrade at marvista and then i like to bring randy up a little board my name is randy canady um today i'm talking about the central zone so at first we have a pv high we have the track and field installation progress um as well as the science room renovation that happened over the summer and the new band room renovation that also occurred um at calabas elementary um we have the exterior painting and drywall repair that is coming to completion um and sold elementary we have the playground safety upgrades as well as the exterior painting and drywall repair and uh freedom elementary we also have the drop-off and site safety fencing project and then uh at lakeview middle school we have the multi-use pavilion shade structure that's going to be going up um over the winter break um as well as a few ADA upgrades uh rolling hills elementary school um the npr re-roofing and interior upgrades and hvac replacement is uh the picture that you're actually seeing right there um we've done it we did that yes this is actually complete um as well as a starlight elementary school we're going to do uh roofing we've already completed the roofing improvement and dry rot repair as well there um for our south zones we have lindscott charter school um we had the perimeter safety fencing and site improvements that have taken place there and that is the top right photo you're seeing as well as the um equity elementary school perimeter safety fencing and site improvements which is the bottom right picture and uh for our south zones uh aloni elementary uh we did the perimeter safety fencing as well as site improvements um that's going to be your bottom photo on the right and then pahoro middle school we uh also tackled the perimeter safety fencing and site improvements good evening everybody um one of the endowment fund summer projects so what is your name my name is elindo fernandez i've been with the district for 30 years um i'm going to be covering the endowment fund summer projects um door hardware replacement at four sites and sold to elementary school marvista elementary school real demar elementary school valencia elementary school the flooring replacement phase six alianza charter school amesti elementary school calabasas school eahall middle school hall district elementary school minty white elementary school radcliffe elementary school aloni elementary school wasabel high school the picture you're looking at was uh eahall the hallway other non-bond summer projects prop 39 energy efficiency h-back upgrade for charter schools and interior and exterior lighting upgrades those charter schools were watsonville charter school of the arts alianza school lynn scott and alianza child development watsonville charter center flooring replacement new cvt and carpet eahall middle school prop 39 charter navigator charter portable restroom building uh this is the total current expenditures that we spent over this last summer a majority of them being our our bond fund 21 um total project cost was 29 746 000 um and of that 28 371 was all bond fund projects um the other funding sources were child development and prop 39 and that was 1.3 million um this is a picture of our original mesreal bond allocations for each site and this is our current um funding that we have left all together we have 25 745 000 left um and we also be celebrating and by doing a facilities bus tour um november 27 from 9 to 12 30 um visiting these six sites um and then we also are putting together our master facilities plan um on september 25 the board approved maddie architect groups to start working on the master plan um their scope of work includes um assessment of our district properties so that's a look at the age and condition of all of our current buildings and utilities um our educational program needs assessment to make sure that we're using the classrooms um that we have the right size and the right configuration um integrating facilities master plan that's looking at our basic needs such as water lines lights restrooms hvac and so on we're also going to be assessing a landscape we're looking uh forward to move towards low maintenance and drought tolerant plants um we're also going to assess uh all existing portables to get an updated inventory and check on all the current conditions of the portables we'll be doing a lot of community outreach and i'll talk more about that towards the end of this slide um they'll be putting together an enrollment projection and demographic study which we'll look at uh three year and ten year plans um and they'll be doing a ton of coordination for all these steps with the district as well as providing a five-year deferred maintenance plan so that we can have a game plan in place to replace all of our aging and outdated utilities since then the facility department um has sent all of our as-built and site plans to maddie architect group uh we held a kickoff meeting and we are coordinating uh setting up community outreach sessions um and with those sessions we plan to visit each site two to three times and hear from the community what their needs are for each site um we plan to do this at the first or yeah the first quarter of next year um and all this is in order to produce a new and updated master facility plan so that we can go out to for a community bond november 2020 with that being said are there any questions i just wanted to clarify the facilities master plan was to align for state funding um the state bond uh the state of california is going for a state bond in march and so it aligns us to receive potentially matching funds from the state and so the facilities master plan is a requirement to receive a state bond next year um and then potentially at a future timeline look internally uh as a district when uh if we pursue a future bond um so just a point of clarification there but uh now we're open for questions um from the board um for our team i just wanted to ask you um i mean the bond i don't know future bonds hopefully but um so what have we done that will explain to me again what have we done already having our measure l would help us get the matching funds for the state bond is that what you're saying so we as a district qualify for modernization funding uh the state is going out for a new state bond yeah so previous was prop 51 but districts in california um as you know there is a great need and it's competitive so a lot of districts applied for prop 51 and those funds are no longer available because they've been allocated and so the state and governor new some has um committed in running a new state bond next year and so once that state bond is if it does pass it opens up another funding source for facilities but districts to align to receive funding must complete a facilities master plan and a deferred maintenance plan and so we're already in the process of doing that um and then it also it'll it meets those two requirements but then also the third requirement is if we pursue a bond in the future as a district we've already completed our facilities master plan to do that as well but I just so there isn't there isn't anything that makes us more qualified to get the the state bond than in other places I mean the fact that we already had we've already had measure l funding that we're already working really hard to benefit all of our schools could that help us with the fact that we you know we still need a little bit more money to complete the projects would that help us with getting the state bond I was just state bond was that's what I'm just asking if there's anything that qualifies us a little bit more than other places so the requirement from the state is matching funds so the remaining bond balance that we do have will assist us next year in the following year to match and then it's going to be allocated by site and um but we have the ability to match those all is with our current bond balance so our current bond program does assist us in receiving state funding yeah that throws funding for sure okay thank you you're welcome thanks for that presentation um so I thought gavin or newson had um unlocked some money for this coming january to be right to be dispersed for the last bond correct because they only they only right there was how much let's just start with how much was that state bond the last one the last one and let me pull it up but there is a minimal amount remaining and that's what um it's being allocated already and then along with that is the um the full day k um funding which we submitted 17 applications to receive funding we did not we were not one of the districts to receive that but we are working on submitting a new round of applications in january so april 1st is the new deadline for the full day k uh grants uh for school districts and he's announced the re uh establishment of that funding um so that's the big portion of that the original prop 51 in 2016 was nine billion dollars but i think not all nine billion was released i think they released it a little at a time and i think there's a big chunk of it um that he's releasing again in jan this january right i think that i've read that he has okay so i guess the next one is going to be a 15 billion dollar education construction bond so that's one of the things i talked to john layered about because we didn't get a piece of it even though apparently we had um projects that had been submitted for reimbursement is that right correct um go ahead but we were um alec or awarded three sites uh or no i'm sorry four uh sites were awarded or four projects but the funding was not available so we are now approved and now for the new state bond we will be one of the many districts that have their projects funded so of the four projects how much money are we talking about let me pull that up and we are it's a moving target because we are submitting you can just ballpark in several applications i would say a minimum of 20 million okay because i think when we sold the last bond to the public you know one of the things that we were hoping for was the matching dollars we that's one of the the things that we were able to tell people is that we would get try to match the money that we got from our local um voters to state and federal dollars there was never any federal match at all even offered and then um with the state we were hoping we would get that um but you know what's interesting to me is we did hundreds of projects across this district why did we only submit for four for the reimbursement we have submitted we're ongoing so we're submitting for more than issues we've been awarded for um from the state so do we have some that are still pending or do we have the rest of them that were rejected no none of them have been on the modernization none of them have been rejected they're all pending okay great well that's good news so i i only sorry so i wanted to make a correction so it's 2.2 million for aptos jr 1.4 for valencia elementary 1.9 million for paharo valley high school and 1.8 million for a j hide and i'm guessing with the paharo valley project we'll be submitting a much larger um footprint right because it's 12 million dollars but remember it has to be for classroom yes it's regarding classrooms uh cafeteria multi-purpose rooms etc so it has to be um more of the infrastructure and classroom facilities okay but we are um compiling all of our science career tech ed modernization uh projects throughout the district our um salpa modernization so we're compiling all that and trying to uh lump all that together so it wouldn't it wouldn't include auditoriums you know paharo valley high school auditoriums would that be considered like a classroom that's something we're also looking at as well yeah it hasn't been built yet though so i know but it's our next project okay well thank you for keeping your finger um on the pulse of that because that will bring more money to our district so that we could do more facility maintenance and upgrade thank you that's not a quick question i'm not sure if it might be my laptop but how can we weren't allowed to have that presentation i'm not sure if it's my i'm not sure if we else got it the slide presentation we uploaded it um earlier today we were working on the final uh items on several of the slides but we um i think it was the pictures the before and after pictures we're also working on uh i think those numbers would have been important for me to read as well i think for my colleagues too so if we could get that next time thank you okay um i just want to um thank you joe for providing that clarification at the end of the presentation on with your comment regarding to the statement being made that pb usd is pursuing a bond on the november 2020 ballot um because if that the direction of that and the steps to move in that direction haven't been made by this governing body then that's very presumptive of people to say because over the last few weeks i have been getting inundated with phone calls about that so there seems to be some sort of buzz out there in the community but it hasn't been brought forth to this governing body correct to be for those steps correct to start that so really that comment shouldn't be being made by anybody from this district until that happens okay thank you for your clarification on that you're welcome i guess i'd like to echo that in that there are multiple things that are being planned to now for upcoming ballots and depending on what if we're going to go out for a bond and then the county needs to know that the city of watsonville needs to know that because there are other taxes and parcel taxes and other things being proposed and everybody wants to know are we going out the answer that i got when i asked was no so this was came as a surprise to me tonight that we are going to potentially go out for a bond so are we or are we not we are not going out for a bond i do not believe it would pass okay so i think we also need to see what happens with the we need it desperately so there's no so it's not about the need we need another bond to continue upgrading and maintaining our very old infrastructure every i think everybody here can agree on that i'm concerned about cabrio college bond is so large it's what 220 million they're going out for i'm worried that that that will put a damper on any bond that we try to push forward and get passed so i am concerned about about the outcome of all of the other bond measures taxes and parcels post taxes that are coming up yeah there's a lot to consider and and numerous other measures i know the city is going in march for their local tax and then the 10 minute discussion as well and then numerous other measures that we don't know about it for november but as the board has mentioned there's a lot of preliminary work that still needs to go if we were even to consider but as of right now we are not you're welcome i i just like to piggyback on that since both you joe as our cbo and the superintendent have now spoken to this and you've made the public statements here that with regards to the november 2020 ballot pvusd is not going forward with the bond i understand you've made both of you made those statements but since as i've stated there's this buzz that we are which is creating confusion for our community if we could get and i know we have a member of our press here tonight but if we could get a formal statement hopefully in the rp to announce that to just dispel that just so it just doesn't create any more added confusion to members of the community so it's just crystal clear i need to yeah i'm going to make a motion to extend our meeting to 11 30 i now we're going to 9.1 approve ea hall middle school sports field project option c and joe demingas again cbo so pleased to announce um um uh we had a very successful for ea hall um middle school we had a very successful community town hall meeting on on the 27th of august um the community parents students uh faculty both certificate and classified uh were present and they were provided three options um in alignment with their school priority list and so um we wanted to make sure that there was transparency of not only the the budget uh and remaining bond uh dollars and balance but also what we can get with those dollars and so the staff uh in partnership with our architect worked on uh compiling and doing cost estimating and so we came up with the the various three options that aligned to their priority list and um that was a very critical piece is making sure that it was in alignment to the priority list so first option was the classroom renovation and the a wing and that was only approximately uh about 16 classrooms and it was a modernization interior modernization of those of that area the option b was a rubberized track with natural turf field and then option c is a synthetic turf field uh with a rectangular curb with no track and um overwhelmingly we had 170 uh community members uh president at the town hall and 159 voted for option c and um so overwhelmingly we had full support um and we had opportunity for questions and answers in a group conversation and i'd like to thank uh david our site uh leadership and our assistant soup christin for her support and we had a very successful uh meeting um after that we took it uh to the school site council and our principal had a unanimous vote for option c from his school site council and his elac council and then on october 30th our facility staff uh ryan block and others uh presented at the citizens bond oversight committee and overwhelmingly a unanimous vote to approve option c in alignment to ea hall's site priority list so this evening we are following board policy and procedures and coming before the board this evening uh for final approval to move forward with option c uh so that our facilities team here this evening can meet with our architect and move forward with option c one of the positive things with the field project is this is a project we will not have to wait for summer we will implement as soon as possible and so once board approved we have a meeting actually tomorrow pending to look at the logistics are also like to commend uh mark edwards and his team they're actually last week working on prepping um the current baseball fields um and we're also look we'll work with school site leadership because once we start if board approved and we do start the synthetic synthetic turf construction then we need to have our students play in the baseball field area so we need to make sure that's prepped and it's safe to play on uh while construction is going on because we're not going to wait for summer and that summarizes it um we're very excited and I think the community and school site uh and our students are very excited so are there any questions okay so no public speakers question from the board I just make a make a comment um this has been a long time in the making you know thank you to my predecessor who put this together um this was this was his project so thank you Michelle Joe um the community members who showed up almost 200 people at e hall it was it was a good site thank you you know trustees who helped me also get this along so thank you guys very much thank you any other speakers from the board yeah yeah Joe I wanted to ask so what um did you get any sort of consensus as to why the option c over the option b with the track I think um the real want was the say play field for soccer um for other after school programs and physical activities for the students and and that was the main piece was the play field we will do our best um mentioning with the track on option b was a rubberized track similar to that you see at some high schools so option c we're probably going to go with a non-rubberized track but do like a walking track um with like a hard scape and we're going to try to see what we can come up with to give the students some type of walking surface but the main request was to definitely have a play field and so we're excited to do that yeah I could see that I just um I mean being an avid runner and having a family of avid runners that have been raised on that very track field that's you know heartbreaking for me to see that the track may be going if I could also answer a lot of people were concerned about losing the baseball fields and you know there's some portables right there and some people were concerned because of that expansion yeah so well hopefully it works out that you can incorporate some sort of hard service track still around there that would be great if that works out and so you're saying that um you you don't have to wait till summer but are you planning on doing this over winter months with the rain season or waiting until spring season the winter season will actually give our architect and the team to develop the plans uh so it'll take about anywhere six to nine well hopefully not nine months but six months to process through the state and hopefully and we're using um preliminary plans that we had already so hopefully that'll save us time so we're going to use the winter to work with the state submit our plans and hopefully we can get this in start spring and this was money that was allotted from measure l2 correct isn't it yes it's measure l that's that uh allocated to ea hall right because I remember we hadn't spent that down there correct okay thank you you're welcome I know in previous meetings we've talked about like gopher issues is there less of a gopher issue with the the synthetic turf than there is with the natural turf there is less issues so there's less ongoing maintenance and does that reduce overall cost long term correct and and we're also looking at uh not only the gopher some maintenance but water right on another cost and so that was one of the key drivers that were prepping the baseball fields and making sure that those are safe to play so once we start construction yeah just one more comment I just on the record I I understand synthetic fields because they're safer for rolling ankles etc than turf however I think for the environment they're not great and I would I think it would be better to have the rubberized track and the grass fields with gopher protection so anyway it's not up to me it's already been decided but I don't I really don't like synthetic fields I don't think they're they're hygienic I think they gas off I think they're bad for the environment and and that's how I feel about it thanks and to back on what trustee to surface said they also need to be replaced they don't have them you know infinite lifespan so correct they have to be maintained as well maintained as well it's a I don't know how to explain this but a large vacuum type machine that needs to be treated and it also needs to have applied moisture a mist or or light sprinkle of water so it does have treatment but not as and then the life expectancy depends on the the materials and fabric that we use and the different vendors have different quality products so it ranges from I would say eight years up to 15 years it just ranges maybe you could report back to a center future date just an update on that even if it's in the backup like on a B2B or something that'd be great thank you and and we will bring this back to the board once so as we do after our other projects the award of the contract the price timeline all that will be brought back to the board for approval as well so we'll have an update as well so just just to also echo trustee accustomed to serve but I also mentioned that at the beginning I was a supporter of a but you know this has already been in an effect for a long time and you know a hundred you know almost 200 people at e-haul I mean that's what they said and that's what they said online and yeah thank you comments no more comments okay thank you Joe you're welcome thank you so all um I have a motion do I have a motion make motion to accept item 9.1 second all those in favor aye all those opposed okay the next one is an action item 9.2 and this is what we've kind of done before the MOU with PBS due in San Francisco State University's teaching program intern replacements like we did last time quite a few yes this isn't a new item in terms of the topic correct so good evening President Almson board of trustees Dr. Rodriguez the MOU in front of you is a renewal for our ability to hire interns from San Francisco State University and we currently have one who is actually working through her internship and so we would appreciate an approval in this MOU to extend our MOU with San Francisco State for another three years there you go okay no comments right you have a comment oh okay just okay I have a motion just a quick question um is there anything going on with the GIRA program UCSC I mean is there any interest from UCSC coming now UCSC actually doesn't do internships with their credentials because it's more of an intensive program and linked with the masters they don't offer okay thank you you're welcome okay I wish they did it's another pool but no they don't oh that would be great I did for us so close I know okay do I have a motion move to approve second second okay all those in favor hi all those opposed okay 9.3 we're gonna approve um hydration statement station for and soldo elementary freedom elementary ha hide elementary and pattle valley high school and we kind of wish you know because all the aloni issues we could get them a hydration statement I know they're not in the city all right thanks report represented by Dan wiser director of technology oh wiser no you're here instead okay give us your name give us your name good evening I'm rich ariano I'm the director of director of purchasing yeah okay I don't know what what's wrong name here that's okay I've been called worse so um tonight we'll be asking for your approval of the agreements to accept a donation of bottle filling stations for five of our sites the stations are going to be donated by tap water watch and tap water watch has partnered with the city of Watsonville and their plastic free Watsonville initiative um and between them they identified pahero valley unified as um a great recipient of those stations so the start of this we have five sites they would receive a total of seven stations and they're listed out uh pahero valley high school ha hide and soldo freedom and Watsonville high school so that'll take up seven of the ten that we are allotted the sites were determined by our M&O and facility staff is having the best infrastructure so taking into consideration the available plumbing electrical wall materials that need to be accessed to install them we found these sites as the ones that would allow our staff to install them and we wouldn't have to contract out for the services the stations themselves are lk easy h2o stations and they'll provide chilled and filtered water through either a bottle filler or a regular water fountain and then they also have a feature to keep track of how many 20 ounce bottles they've kept out of our kids hands and out of the trash so um if there's any questions you have about the stations i hope i have the answers for them but i just have one um do you know you are Dr. Rodriguez is this a comm also with offering um because President Trustee Osmondson and I had had a discussion with this with the superintendent about the um stainless steel bottles the reusable will they be coming with that or is it possible for us we talked about seeing if we could get our grant writer to write a grant for that so we could continue to try to create that equity across the board for our students so do I there would be able to answer about that so the group that has come to us in terms of aloni has connected us they actually just emailed me today um connected us up with a group who is willing to help um sponsor a grant for that for the bottles just for the stainless steel yep okay so we will um they just they just provided us the link today so we'll make sure and apply but it's not coming with these water stations it's not coming with these water stations at this time but we are um we're progressively moving forward on that okay great thank you so we're approving this too can i have a motion i make a motion to approve by second all those in favor all those opposed when will these be put in by um so i will place the order with tap water watch tomorrow they should arrive within 10 days installation because installation has been a bug in the past we've had a lot of these waiting to be installed so when can we expect installation um so the first one that is scheduled is calabasas and we have that over Thanksgiving break scheduled and we're using internal staff and so we uh her lendo from our facilities team is now the point lead and has done an assessment with our electrical and plumbing team and so they find they have found locations at the sites that uh match the infrastructure electrical and plumbing and so we work calabasas to confirm two locations there and so that's what we're that's great thank you you're welcome and the other ones are gonna be soon after and the other ones will be soon after and we're phasing those in uh but we like to complete them uh by the first of the year oh that's soon pretty good that's pretty good isn't it kim okay um so we voted on that already yeah okay um now is the consent agenda i'd like to move to approve the consent agenda with moving item 10.13 10.14 10.16 to deferred consent 10 point say that again one three one four and one six one four and one six i have an item i'd like moved to 10.7 i'll amend my motion to um include 10.7 thank you second okay thank i would just like to knowledge la rosa tortilla factory de la colmenna and starbucks on freedom and this is for the generous donations for pastry water milk and coffee for a state of the district breakfast event thank you all of these places for giving us all you know these food places they're all food places mostly and coffee places so thank you for helping us for the state of the district breakfast thank you all these organizations and places okay um we're gonna have a motion in a second and then we're gonna do the okay okay so we're gonna call for a vote on the remaining items then we're gonna go defer to dissent okay all those in favor for all the remaining items i i all those opposed okay so we're starting with 10.3 seven oh 10 point you just did 10.3 okay oh yeah obviously okay so and we're not going to do 10.4 oh 10.3 10.13 oh so we're on 10.7 right now okay well i'm confused here sorry about that 10.13 10.14 and 10.15 okay 10.7 so do people can you can talk about that yeah thank you louise sorry i just wanted to ask a question louise um especially after having seen the make lab in action um are the mostly the students from the make lab gonna be able to go are you pulling we we do invite the similar uh the or the first session the the winter one it'll be girls the ladies for middle school girls we invite about 20 to 25 ladies for from all the middle schools um and some of them will be some of the same students that did participate in the make academy for the assignment will be the voice and it'll be between 20 and 35 boys and some of those uh students that did participate in the make academy will be there as well okay thank you that's all i wanted to know i saw that program it was a great program i never knew it existed you know maybe down the road you know the teacher or whoever heads the program can show us what they do yeah i did talk to patricia about the possibility of presenting to the board and she's more than willing to come and present some of the approval that she's actually running yeah i the only reason why i found is i walked in on accident and i'm not sure mr chastity shocker walked in on accident either so okay i wasn't invited i walked on an accident but i'm thank you thank you invite everybody that like right through there yes yes yeah that's a great program thank you yes i make a motion to approve item 10.7 second i i could clump my questions they're very similar so i could clump my questions for them all together and i think would i be directing these to you joe right yes um so i just wanted um you know this has been an sort of an ongoing issue it was an ongoing issue with the passport with concerns from the previous board being concerned about the number of change orders that we see um it's been addressed by this new governing board as well over this past year so i'm gonna ask the question again why are we having so many change orders and the one 10.116 it's the second time we're having a change order on it um for 1013 um for seeing conditions um as we know some of our sites are older and so we have our architectural plans and then we have what are called asbuilds uh plans which are marked up by our staff that have plumbing electrical lines and that is as good as uh how we upkeep them so those could be 20 years 30 years old um and in this case from equity we uncovered electrical or plumbing lines that were not in those plans and so that's what the change order one of the main change orders in 10.13 and then one of the other items that we uh did to the benefit uh of Mcquitty was the parent uh drop-off area so we had to change the cement uh slope or ad accessibility so actually that was uh it was a i wouldn't say uh it was a uh district request change order so that it had more benefit to the school site and it wasn't this was just not something we first saw that we wanted to do before that and the preliminary uh planning it was not included and once we realized it could be accomplished with the setback and we had to meet with the city on the setback requirements so at first we thought we did not have the clearance but once we realized we did have the clearance then we moved forward and I um and the site was pretty happy and then 1016 for pvi uh the main uh change order there was when we removed the portables um what was not in the plans was a um a plastic uh lining uh that was about two feet in the ground that was like a honeycomb mesh uh that held the slope together so that wasn't something that we reviewed so that was there and it was there and so when we dug with the backhoe and the the um the construction equipment when they dug it out they realized that there was a material down there so that was an unforeseen condition and um and so that was a part of it and the other component of that is if you recall um the portables uh one other piece that was captured was enhancing the band room uh at pvi so that work was captured within the scope of the work because we eliminated those portables so we had to make space in another classroom and so that's part of this change order as well and so are these changes coming out of the measure l yes all of them exclusively are coming from measure l it's coming out of measure l and it's within the uh percentage and budgeted amount for the project okay and and it's just you know because even with the previous director for maintenance and his previous assistant I mean that was the you know the same excuse we've got we we understand that yes we have a lot of very very old aging buildings with aging pipes and electrical underneath but I mean these contractors if they know they're dealing with buildings that are 30 40 years old I mean is there really no way on their end to foresee some of these probabilities that these things come up it's the review on the planning side um but I think uh commend the team were under 10 percent I think one was at eight percent um and then the change orders themselves we have a contingency uh fund based by the project site so that little contingency fund that we have on the project is used to offset the change orders and whether they in some change orders are district requested and others are surprises that we come along in construction but we are I think doing more due diligence and I think one of the pieces that we've done recently and I appreciate the board's support as we increased our pool of architects so it's making sure that we have a quality pool of architects that partner with the district to not only design but also review the plans with the contractors um and I think um you'll see other projects that um I believe there was one um on the agenda that had no change orders and so we're trying to work very hard to make sure we continue that yes and we've had change orders in the past that have worked to our benefit so I do recognize that but just wanted to address it so unless any of my other colleagues have any questions I'll make a motion to approve 10.13 second those in favor I okay 10 point I'll make a motion to approve 10.14 second all those in favor I 10.16 I'll make a motion to provide them 10.16 all those in favor I right post so it's been 601 for all of them okay um we're gonna do closed session um somebody can talk about the want to talk about the I got the expulsion one expulsion okay so it's my first time doing expulsion one with a recommendation of district administration student number 19-2099 it's recommended that suspend suspended expulsion from the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year with placement at another school in the district on a strict behavior contract can I have a motion oh we already did it yeah excuse me no we already did oh sorry yeah we already did it yeah I know we used to always do it if we always used to do it out here okay it was a unanimous vote so yeah close okay the rest of closed session okay so motion number one closed session item 2.2 I moved to approve the certificated personal report as presented by district administration on November 13, 2019 with seven and eight additional action items a motion second all those in favor I motion number two closed session item 2.3 I moved to approve the classified personal report as presented by district administration on November 13th with 10 and three additional action items okay second I second all those in favor hi okay our next meeting will be on December 11th here in the district board room thank you