 I think, hello. First of all, sorry, we're just trying to get the microphone to work. Hello. Hello. Good evening, everyone. So welcome to our PVUSD board meeting. We do have translation in Spanish. Please if you need that support, please see Orania Lopez, she's in the little room over there. So tenemos traducción en español, si necesita este servicio, por favor, pase con Orania Lopez. If someone would like to speak on an item on the agenda, please complete a speaker card and put it in the basket, or, okay, so it'll be over here near Julian, and then Julian will bring it to Eva. Each item will have, but it needs to be completed before the item begins, and each speaker will have two minutes. We will go on to item 3.2, our Pledge of Allegiance, and I will ask Trustee DeSerpa, please lead us into the pledge. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We will now move on to our superintendent comments. Yes, thank you very much. So I just want to give an update to everyone regarding Pajaro, and just really extend some thank yous to our staff. So everyone knows we serve a little over 1,600 students who live in the Monterey area, and a few that also go to Watsonville High School. We have really seen great attendance these last couple of days, and so I'm proud to report that PMS is now having an attendance rate of approximately 90%. Aloni is up to 75%, and Hall has maintained strong at about 93%. And all of that is due to the fact that we have staff who have individually called each and every family who did not show up. So we have healthy start staff, our parent engagement staff, special education, special services staff, and student services that have all come together to really support. And so I just want to give you a little glimpse into some of the things that our teams have done at the shelters. So we actually have staff that every morning at 6 a.m. go to the shelters to help wake children up and get them on the right bus. So that is mostly our extended learning staff, our parent engagement staff, and our staff from student services. We also have, we're individually, as I mentioned, connecting with families. If they can't get there, we're providing them with short-term independent study. We are providing learning options, provided our technology department went out and gave all of our students that didn't have Chromebooks, their Chromebooks, and hotspots. And the last thing I just want to mention is our M&O staff have done some really miraculous work at Lakeview. I won't go into that because I know that's going to be later, I don't want to burst their bubble, but done some really great stuff. And then now we're trying to help the community get back to Bajro. And one of the things that's getting in the way is that there is not sewer and water there. So we, they started it, so Clint Rucker, our CBO, and Sergio and Herlindo worked, and I believe Ruth as well, worked with the county of Monterey to within 24 hours have an agreement. And our parking lot and our basketball courts are going to be used for, they call them comfort stations, but they're basically showers, toilets, and hand washing stations, so that people can get back to their homes and get back into Bajro. And so I just want to say a deep appreciation for all the staff that have come together and done that work. This right here, so thank you. These pictures, these pictures that you see are the many organizations that are donating. So we have, we have really happy students, all these students are from Maloney Elementary. They were getting treated by the PVHS drama team. So a picture prior to that, this is the PVHS drama team that came out and really wanted to lift the spirits of all of our students. And then if you click back, these are all Amazon donations. So they had this really wonderful idea of doing Amazon wish list. And we have been having both name donors and anonymous donors who daily are coming and sending our students, our staff, our families, things that they had asked for off of the wish list. And so, and then they also developed a room where parents can come in and basically we're telling people you don't have shoes, you don't have clothes, you don't have diapers, whatever you need, come to the school site and we will actually clothe you, feed you and make sure that you're ready for school. So thank you to everyone. Thank you. All right, we will move on to item 3.4, our governing board comments, reports on standing committee meetings. And this is the opportunity for each board member to make a few comments. And I usually start outside in, but I'll reverse that since our student trustee is not here with us this evening. We'll start with trustee scow. Good evening everybody. And to everybody watching on YouTube, we have a lot of people who watch our meetings on YouTube. And so thank you for doing that. Thank you for staying in touch with the district. These are obviously very difficult times for our community. It's been very heartening to see a lot of generosity, people caring, putting in their own time, their own money into helping with the tragedy in Pajaro. And I've been really heartened to see a lot of good connections between leaders, elected leaders from both Santa Cruz County, Monterey County. Those connections have been getting stronger. Thank you to our superintendent for the work you've been doing. I know you've been putting in the next two hours and helping out with the difficult transitions that you just described. I want to thank our teachers at Lakeview and Pajaro Middle School who have had to absorb another school and had to adjust on the fly. And it's not going to be a perfect without incident, but it hats off to their work, their effort in adjusting on the fly. And your work is appreciated. Something that struck me is, and I know there's a lot of uncertainty about the rebuild and how long that's going to take and who's going to pay for it. And I think it's just important to remember this happened amidst an already a cost of living crisis in our region. This is going to hurt some of the most low income folks in our region, but we've already had a cost of living crisis in our region. And as our district grapples with salaries and raises and all these things, I do feel personally that those of us and those who make less money frankly have a harder time. And so it's a collective responsibility. It's something that as a board trustee, it's a lens I keep on with respect to inequality within our own district, which has long been the case. And I'm not saying that everybody's going to make the same salary, but we have to find a way so that people can actually survive here and stay here and want to stay here. And I know that we have an ongoing staffing challenges with respect to that, whether that's classified teachers and principals as well to be fair. And so that's a lens I'm looking at. And as we tackle those challenges going forward, and I really want it to be fair and to be and to work for our district, a principal told me the other week, and I'm not going to name the principal, that they were concerned about both principal salaries and teacher salaries. And the principal told me one of his younger teachers, one of the more promising teachers, I was concerned about their ability to stay with our district. And to my concern, the principal said, eh, this district doesn't have a history of treating our young teachers well. I don't blame you if you leave. It made me very sad and disconcerted, and I just hope that we can turn this around. This board of trustees working with this administration can turn this around and figure out a way to maximize our budget so that we can deliver the services we must deliver at our school sites. Thank you very much. Thank you. Vice President Acosta. Good evening. Everyone, welcome to tonight's meeting. I, when was it? Last week, I think it was, attended our district safety committee meeting. It was good to hear that the doors at the towers have been updated, and that employees who work at the district towers have been given their access cards to the building. It would also be great if we can have an update to the board at a future board meeting about the continued security efforts of the towers and the public's access into the towers. As I recall from, when a previous board, a few boards back, we approved the purchase of the towers building. We had discussions about security measures at the towers, and it would be good to have an update on that brought to this board. I also had the opportunity, and I attended our intergovernmental committee meeting, which I believe that was also last week. It was also great to see the attendance of myself, my colleague, Trustee Flores, as well as other elected officials from the city of Watsonville, Councilwoman Parker, and Councilwoman Orozco. In that meeting, we discussed several important matters regarding the district and the city of Watsonville, including the recent flood issues in our community, as well as safe roadways in our community, including city and county roadways that lead into our district schools. We also discussed that that meeting the importance of looking at including elected officials in Monterey County that represent in that area of our district's boundaries, since our district does have boundaries throughout Monterey County, especially in light of the recent flood issues that have impacted our families of this community in that area. I just wanted to make a note to my colleagues as well in public that I was unable to attend our agenda-setting committee meeting regarding the scheduling of our upcoming special board meetings that are on tonight's agenda, since that meeting was not scheduled at our regular agenda-setting committee meeting date and time, and I had other previous schedule conflicts. And again, welcome. Glad everyone's here. Thank you. And Trustee D'Serpa. Thank you. Thanks, everyone, for being here tonight. I want to thank our colleagues in Monterey County for their continuing advocacy efforts on behalf of our families in the Pajaro, as well as our colleagues here in Watsonville. Thank you very, very much for advocating for our families. I know there was a town hall meeting last night that was very heated, and people really want to get back into their homes, and we don't blame them. I want to thank, in particular, a retired teacher from Pajaro Valley who had a long and illustrious career with us at Pajaro Middle School, Margie Jennings. She was a PE teacher. She's a wonderful human being, and she's raised $30,000 for the kids and families. Finally, for Pajaro Middle School, because they're displaced from their school and now sharing a campus with Lakeview. So I'm helping create a very special gift on behalf of the kids there, and we'll be unveiling that soon. So thank you, Margie, for all of your efforts. Finally, continue to participate in meetings with Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance. And I was at another board meeting, which I am, committee meeting, which I'm forgetting, so I'm sorry. That's it for me tonight. Thank you. Trustee Flores. Hello, everyone. Thank you for being here tonight. This last couple weeks, I also was able to attend the end of the Intergovernmental Meeting, and that was really nice to see how all of the members of our community are coming together to make our community the best that it can be in talking about how we could help Pajaro. I also want to say how proud I am of our city and how we've all been able to come together and help all those that have been affected by these floodings. Myself and Trustee Dodge Jr. were working together a couple nights out at the fairgrounds, and it was really hard to see all the people coming in with wet feet. So I just thank everyone who is doing their part to help anyone who's in need of shoes, clothing, diapers, food, all of that. There's lots of ways for all of us to help. If you want to know more ways, reach out to anyone up here. We'd gladly let you know how you can help. I did get to do some rather fun things these last couple weeks. I was a judge for the Invention Convention at WCSA. I personally love Invention Convention, and I hope to see all of our fourth, fifth, and sixth graders participating in that in PVUSD. It's a great time for our children. And I love seeing the excitement in their faces when they're explaining their inventions and how they came up with their ideas. And so that was a really fun event. I was also asked to be a judge for a cupcake contest, which I gladly obliged. That was for Paro Valley Little League. And it was nice to see 280 of our PVUSD students out there and join the nice weather that we got that one day and ready to have a great season. So it was really exciting to see that. Thank you. Thank you. I wanted to extend Trustee Soto's regrets. Unfortunately, yesterday's high winds took down several trees across the road from Saz and he is unable to leave his home. His road is completely blocked, but he extended his regrets and very much wishes he could be joining us this evening, but is unable to be here. I went out to the fairgrounds on Friday with Trustee Dodge Jr. And it's interesting conversations about preparedness, about ways to streamline processes, about just the chaos of initial responses in the face of disaster, and also just what it means to come together as a community. And just talking about the importance of school being a safe place. And just had an opportunity to talk to our Assistant Superintendent of Elementary and just the importance. And I just appreciate what we're doing as a district to ensure that our students who are out there at the fairgrounds right now have a safe place to be and learn and know that they're safe. So thank you to all of our classified staff, to our certificated staff, to our admin staff who are working tirelessly, especially for those who are displaced to ensure that our Pajaro Middle School students are integrated into the site at Lakeview Middle School. Thank you for all the work that you're doing. It's welcoming. Thank you. I also, at the next agenda setting meeting, we have a new board. Right? You know, we have two new board members. We've had a lot of, there's a lot to learn in that. So one of the things, we'll be discussing a couple of special board sessions. But one of the things I'm going to be recommending at the next agenda setting meeting is having a discussion around another special study session. But again, around the Brown Act and around, you know, just to ensure that we are following proper procedures around discussions, just so that we all have a good understanding of how to conduct the business of the board, to ensure we're following proper procedure and everybody's on the same page on how to conduct that business. So I'm going to go for that. All right? So that's my comments for the evening. And we'll move on to item 3.5 and our high school student board representatives. And we have a video presentation from Aptos High School. Correct? New school? Okay. We have a presentation from New School. Excellent. Welcome and thank you. This is our slideshow for New School Community Day School. Lift Up and Never Give Up is one of the best day, world wetlands day celebration. We basically did our fair share of community hours and basically did like Garden Day and we just helped out the community. Also, the Clay Thompson organization had donated to us tickets to go see the Golden State Warriors game. We have also finished the basketball season where every Friday for sports, we go to the YMCA and we have games on basketball. We're doing soccer and soccer starts next Friday. This month we have students of the month and today, I mean this month is Dominique Ortega and Diana Arroyo. And every Friday, half of the school goes to science workshop and this quarter, I mean last quarter we were doing guitars and this Friday we're going to finish making our guitars. And the rest of the other students stay at New School and do music and dance. Sometimes art. And then we have White Tri where in the mornings in advisory, we basically work on our self-esteem and basically like our mental health. We also have restorative justice training where the school makes a circle and we just talk about different things. And each Monday and Tuesday in the morning, we also have Santa Cruz County sexual health class and basically covers like the basic sexual health class. Also, California Continuation Education Association, where our teachers go and they basically get to learn about different stuff. And our English teacher, Jodi Richardson, is going to be presenting next month. We also have at New School our garden and we had the opportunity to have Golden Love be there and guide us and basically give us a few tips on how to keep our garden thriving and growing. And we're looking forward to our 10th outdoor school and character development program where we basically go on different field trips and we basically work on like our social skills and learn plenty of new stuff. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We do have an Aptos type. Okay, renaissance. Keeping it real, keeping it fresh. You have renaissance here? Okay. We want to try the Aptos high video again. Once more with feeling. Okay. Well, our apologies to the Aptos high students because we're having some technical difficulties but the time that you put into the presentation. We will move on to item 4.1 then and if so our approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I have a second. Second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0-2. Moving on to item 5.1, approval of the minutes. Can I have a motion? A motion. I have a motion. Can I have a second? Second. Can I have a first and a second? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0-2. We'll move on to item 6.1, our proposed comprehensive energy structure renewal and power resiliency program amendment 1. A report will be presented by Clint Rucker. Thank you President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. So as some of you may remember back in 2021, which seems like forever ago now, we actually did an RFQ to get energy services to help provide our sites with better really green energy for our sites as well as improving our costs, improving cost savings throughout the district. Back in 2021, we did do that in October of 2021. We brought to the Board for Climatech, who's with me, Tyler Gertman from Climatech. We selected them to be a partner with us and help us move towards more green energy across our district. In August of 2022, we brought forward to the Board our first phase 1, which included solar at Calabasas as well as energy backups at Calabasas and Bradley, as well as some redoing of our sensors, our controls, and our HVAC at our district office. Tonight I have for you an amendment to that contract, so an additional what we've called in the past phase 2 with the Board. Phase 2 is now looking at what other measures can we put in place to help the district not only go green, but save energy as well. So at this time, we are proposing a few things. One is new solar PV shade structures at our district office. This is actually one of the biggest cost savings we'll see to our district as our district office is one of our biggest consumers of energy across the district. We're also looking at the potential of adding in EV charging stations at our district office so that the district can pursue purchasing green vehicles in the future for some of our migrant programs as well as some of our delivery vehicles. And then we have LED modernization and lighting at 11 of our sites as well as some exterior LED at six of our sites. The great thing is this actually encompasses all of our trustee areas. So every trustee area will actually be getting some new LED lighting and after working with Tyler and checking in, it will also put all of our sites at LED lighting. So we will no longer be using the, you know, those fluorescent bulbs will be using LED which will save us quite a bit. Overall, the life cycle savings is $18 million. In our first year, we should see general fund unrestricted relief of around $380,000. Just so the board knows the reason we're bringing this back as we're still working with Calabasas, everything's been going great. We've had a great partnership with Climate Tech. They actually let us know that this recently the state has actually changed the way that we get refunds on energy. So they did what they called net and energy metering. They used to have it as 2.0. They're moving to 3.0. So any projects that are actually approved and sent in for completion prior to April 14th will still be on this old 2.0. 3.0 would mean we'd lose about 25 to 30% of the savings. So we lose quite a bit of savings from actually moving to solar. So we're recommending to actually move forward this later in the board meeting with an action item so that we can maximize our savings. One of the other great things in working with Climate Tech, we talked about the Inflation Reduction Act, which is a federal act that in the past did not apply to government agencies. So many of the board members who have been here, you may have heard we did power purchase agreements in the past. So we did those to be able to take advantage of these tax credits that we actually couldn't get as a government agency, which now with recent changes, we're able to access that. So while the overall project would be 5.7 million, we actually see about 25 to 30% savings in terms of a refund after the project is complete. This overall, what we're looking at doing is, of course, creating a more green school district, trying to save energy. The biggest, I think, most exciting thing, and I worked with Tyler on this because there was a big push from Dr. Rodriguez, and I know a lot of the board. We actually, if we move forward with this later in the agenda, we will actually have the district office at net zero energy. So the district office will actually be providing all of its own energy for that building, which is always great news. It's what we're kind of looking at at Calabasas right now. It's really a huge win, I think, for us. And again, just better for the environment and everything. I really, it's been really a pleasure to work with Tyler on this. And again, we're just, for the public hearing, this is just for public to have any questions or the board to ask any questions about the upcoming resolution. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes, we do. We have three. And I'll call up all three if you could come up. And also, if I mispronounce anyone's name this evening, please feel free to correct me. Pam Sexton, Chris Webb, and Marilyn, is it Garrett? Item 6.1, that's the item we're on right now. It's public comments at 7.1. Thank you. Each speaker gets two minutes. Thank you. Hi, I'm here tonight, both as a teacher and also on this issue as a volunteer with Re Generación, Pajaro Valley Climate Action. And I just want to say what you know, but I think it is useful to repeat. It's super important not just to think about going green because it's a nice thing to do, but the importance of making these transitions as soon as possible. They should have been done already because people's lives are at stake. And this is... So we know that those who have least contributed to climate change are now the ones who are most impacted by it. And we can see that right here in Pajaro. We know it's happening around the world. South Africa right now is facing extreme storms and it's directly related to climate change. So I appreciate... One of the questions I was going to ask was when the district might get to net zero... net zero carbon. And so that was nice to hear. Actually, I think you just mentioned for the district office, but I wonder for the district as a whole. And I assume that you're working together with the 3CE locally on these things. And yeah, I just want to thank you and say it's an urgent matter. And yeah, continue on. Good evening. In light of recent weather disasters that I think we could maybe think are possibly climate change enhanced, I think this is great to see as a starting point at the DO and then later to throughout the district. And I want to reiterate something, especially since the Inflation Reduction Act came up. The last time this item came up, I had suggested that we adjust the way we do our superintendent, stipend for the vehicle, switch it to a green vehicle. And I think that's still a good idea. I think especially with the Inflation Reduction Act, there's savings to be had there. And then also if we did just have a district asset right there, we could save costs over time. And before I had mentioned the Rivian as a truck as something you could carry around sandbags and you could go up high, wade through water. I think that would still be good, but that would probably not qualify for the 7,500 Elbe Tax Credit. But it did come out as a car and driver 10 best. But there's another EV that is also a car and driver 10 best. You could do an IONIC. So there's, I think we should consider doing that as a matter of fiscal savings. Instead of having that ongoing money of the 600-ish, whatever dollars it is, every month, if we instead invested in a vehicle that would be a district asset, we could probably have some savings over time. So I think this is great to see and I hope to see the solar and the sustainability push continue throughout the district. And also I think it's important on the superintendent compensation point because the superintendent's a leader and they are a symbol of the district. So if they are going around in a vehicle of the future, I think that's good for the district. Thank you. Marilyn Garrett. I taught in this district for 20 years and retired in 2000. And you notice I have tremors. My health provider believes it's from working next to fields of pesticides at a MST school and also the microwave radiation from all these wireless antennas, Wi-Fi causes similar neurological effects. So I wanted to explain why I'm like this, likely. In terms of this proposal, it all sounds very good and very green, but is it really how biologically harmful are these LED lights? For instance, you need to have someone here explain that because your primary obligation here is to provide a safe and healthy learning and working environment and the LED lights, among other things, are a problem. In my own house, I still have some old incandescent lights and I turn off the circuit breakers at night. Electrohypersensitivity is a growing problem from exposure to all this radiation and electricity. A book I recommend on that is called The Invisible Rainbow, A History of Electricity in Life. And that book documents each time there's been an increase in electrical pollution. There have been corresponding illnesses and increased mortality rate. So this is a problem in terms of climate change. I recommend a source, geoengineeringwatch.org with Dane Wiggington on weather intervention patterns. Thank you. Do we have any discussion from the board? Questions or comments from board members? I do. I actually just recently started looking into solar and I definitely learned about the new NEM 3.0 and it definitely is going to change the incentive to doing solar. I was told the cutoff was April 1st, so I'm glad it's April 12th, so it gives us a little bit of time, but if we get to it now, it's a one-to-one ratio when we have to buy back from PG&E or any overages that we go. But then after that, it's going to be a much larger, smaller, the ratio changes, not to our benefit. And so I definitely like that we're thinking about that now. Trustee Scow. Yeah, thank you for presenting. This sounds great. Great start. Thank the public speakers who are also commending this effort and the idea of a eventual greater partnership with our Central Coast Community Energy, Central Coast Clean Power. Those of us who live in unincorporated parts of our district in this county have often suffered from PG&E outages and the more local energy we can generate and the way we can look at our county, our school districts and cities as partners in that, it's very exciting. So this is a great step in that direction. Thank you. Anyone else? Trustee Disarpa. So just so I and the public can understand, so are we being asked tonight to enter into a new contract with PG&E or climate change or what will happen? Yeah, so right now we have the public hearing for obviously questions from the public as well as the board. We do have a resolution to continue our work with Climate Tech because we brought a resolution before that was only focused on phase one. Each time we do this partnership with Climate Tech, we have to create another resolution saying that we are going into this partnership where they will serve as our, effectively as our liaison and our general contractor for all of our improvements. And again, that's what we did with Calabasas and Bradley and the DO before and it's been working out great. So it will be in Action Item 9.2, I believe, what will be actually asked. And so I heard you talking about the DO in particular, but did we look across the district to see other schools that could also benefit from this? Absolutely. So I talked to Tyler actually about that this morning as well as in the past weeks looking at what about our other sites that don't have solar at this moment. So one of the things that Tyler and his team did for us was actually in this application, they'll include Pajaro Valley High School. As many of you know, anything at Pajaro Valley High School, we have to work with the Pirates Association and talk to them before we do anything. So if we weren't to include Pajaro Valley in the actual application, they would, to Trustee Flores' point, be under that new NAM 3.0 where we would lose it. Thankfully, we are putting it in here since they're already doing the application process for the DO. They'll put it in there for Pajaro Valley High, so we have that option. I've been in contact with the Watsonville Pilot Association to discuss this. We're actually working on setting up a meeting with myself, Tyler, and our legal to talk about the ability to put solar as well at PV High in the future. There are other sites that could benefit from solar as well. However, the overall savings is much smaller because their footprint is much smaller. So what we're looking at with the district office is it's the best way to see as much savings as soon as possible. Those savings could, if the board desired in the future, be put towards more projects to create more solar because we'll actually be seeing savings immediately by going this route. And is the money for the project then coming out of the COPs? So we actually have three sources. One is general fund. It was already budgeted under general fund. And again, we'll see kind of that savings right off the bat to start reimbursing the general fund. We also have measure L funding for across the district from our measure L for the entire district. It wasn't for one site, but for our district-wide improvements. And since this is hitting the majority of our sites, we'll be using some of that as well as some of that OPSC or the Office of Public School Construction Funding. We'll be utilizing some of that funding as well. And so for people's private homes, there's a giant, I heard you talk about this a second ago, there's these big rebates that people could get like up to, I think, 35% back on the cost of the whole project. Is that something similar? Did I hear 25%? So I'll let Tyler speak a little bit more to the IRA. Yeah, on the Inflation Reduction Act, both on a personal level and on a commercial solar, you can gain those benefits from them. And it can range from 6% all the way up to 70% in terms of your incentives. The federal government is still fine-tuning all the little rules and regulations because this is the first time that public entities will have the direct pay option, which you can get the incentives yourself. But in the range of 25% to 30% is a good estimate. It even could be higher that your district could get on the personal side too, just as a side comment. When the CPUC did make the change to go to what they're calling a net billing tariff, which is also called NEM 3.0, they put quite a bit of funding, hundreds of millions of dollars into residential battery storage and incentives for that. So on the personal side, definitely good to look at solar in combination with battery. And that was one of the elements that CPUC did politically to help drive more on the residential side for renewable and battery storage. So in terms of the rebate, so we put out a certain dollar amount and then we'll have that rebated in cash. It'll be refunded? Yeah, refunded over a certain number of years or all at once or how does it work? So there's actually two programs that you could go through. It's the ITC, which is more of the investment side. That's more of a lump sum funding right after the project is up and running and you fill in all the paperwork which we would assist with. And there's also another program that's the production tax credit, which means that you would get paid over 10 years for the production of the system. They both kind of work out very similar, but you get more capital up front with the investment tax credit versus over a 10 year period of time. So you guys will have those options once the details are set in stone by the by the federal government and the federal treasury. And then you guys can deem which refund you want to go after. Great. Thank you. Anyone else? All right. Thank you very much. And I've got a procedural motion I'm going to make real quick. I was just informed that our Renaissance high student is actually here and that our tech issues with Aptos high, the presentation was worked out. So I would like to make a motion that we briefly return to 3.5 so we can hear those presentations. Can I have a second for that? I have a second, first and second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries 5-0-2. So could I have our Renaissance high student come up and can we have that presentation for Renaissance? Good afternoon. My name is Juan Mora and I'm a student representative for Renaissance High School. This month for school we didn't have any students of the month due to weather reasons and school being canceled. Sports, for our basketball team we had a pretty solid season. We went 3-5 and we got a win in the semi-finals but unfortunately we did end up losing in the finals to Seaside and that's with back-to-back games so we're tired. We did earn second place in the league though and now we're looking forward to having a soccer season which hopefully can happen. Me and a lot of students, a lot of seniors from our school are really hoping to have one after being told that we can't really have one because we don't really have a field and it's dangerous to play and there's those conditions that the field has. So we're hoping that you guys could fund us or something to be able to rent a par hur or indoor any other place, any field so we could get the opportunity to have our final soccer season in high school. In academics we're doing some aspect testing and they just got postponed a bit due to the weather conditions and school being canceled but we're starting to continue it. We got the return of after school program which a lot of our students are really excited for which would have PE, English, math and edginuity. For our cast testing we're pretty much 90% completed with it and we did reclassify two students prior to the LPAC testing and recently we've been having so far in our school we have 22 total graduates and there's a couple of the names there. I thank you guys for having us and giving us the opportunity to talk to you guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. We've got our Aptos high working now. Good evening school board members and superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Cheshawk Mainz, senior class president here at Aptos high school and a school board student representative. Thank you so much for your time and for your interest in Aptos high school events. In the arts Aptos high school has raised 8,968 meals for second harvest food bank and received the hunger hero school spirit award. In addition a Santa Cruz County art exhibit is planned in the Santa Cruz government center. Dates are to be determined but Aptos high school will be bringing art to the event. The Aptos high school, no the Aptos Grange small business fair for the National Art Honor Society has a sponsored exhibit and sale from April 29th 11 to 4. AP art students are also creating the backdrop for the Santa Cruz County fashion teen steam expo which has been rescheduled to this Friday the 24th at the Rio theater. Congrats to these students and their teacher Berenique Marx for their incredible work. In spite of illnesses and bad weather we at Aptos high presented our newest musical head over heels to enthusiastic audiences in February. Also in February the theater arts and drama production classes will be a field trip to San Francisco to see the Broadway musical Mean Girls at the Golden Gate Theater. The drama department is currently working on a new comedy Radio Days to be presented in mid April. This comedy comedy is set at a radio soap opera in New York City during World War II and has plenty of comedy, action and funny scenes. Be sure to check it out. Additionally we are very proud to announce that some amazing Aptos High students have won a local video contest put on by Your Future is Our Business. A big congratulations to Kenzie Smith, Monribe Maguire and Karina Kessler. Here's some more about activities at Aptos High School. Our migrant debate team took third place in a competition at Salinas. Our Red Cross blood drive is happening on March 31st and we already have more than enough donors and 5-star Tuesdays are coming once a month on March 28th. Spring Fever Spirit Week ended successfully. There was no dance or cheer team at our rally but we had a beautiful performance by Vale Floplorico led by Nancy Lejes and a performance by Spanish teacher Martel Mora and synergy specialist Albert Lambert. We also held our first ever Noche de Baile last Friday. The Roaring 20s prom tickets are selling. Currently over 300 tickets have been sold for the April 21st dance at Cocoa Nicaragua. Hi, good board representatives. My name is Emily and I'm a student board rep for Aptos High School and I'm going to talk to you a little bit about our athletics currently going on. So after a very fun and exciting fall and winter sports season, spring sports are now in full swing all over campus and every facility is in use every day after school. Our spring sport offerings include ball, beach volleyball, boys golf, boys and girls lacrosse, softball, boys tennis, boys and girls track and field and boys indoor volleyball. We have almost 400 students competing in our 10 spring sports programs which brings us to over 800 students involved in athletics this year alone. This helps provide a positive energy on campus after school for games and practices in what we like to call the last class of the day. We're also very proud to announce that we've officially added three new girls sports over the last two years. Last year, Beach Volleyball and this year Girls Lacrosse have each officially started competitions in the Central Coast section and have nearly 70 girls participating between the two sports. Additionally, in the fall of 2023, along with the CIF and CCS, Aptos will be adding girls flag football both at the varsity and JV levels as an additional opportunity for students on campus. Thank you. Thank you Aptos High students. All right. Returning to our regularly scheduled programming. Item 6.2, resolution 22-23-39. Temporary borrowing between funds for fiscal year 2023-2024. Report will be presented by Clint Rocker, our chief business officer. Thank you President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. So every year we bring forward three different funds for borrowing. This is one of them. This resolution actually does require a public hearing. So this is the public hearing for the public to be able to see the resolution being presented to the Board and for approval later this evening. This resolution is to allow borrowing between our own funds. Specifically for us, that typically is our bond fund and then our general fund. To be clear, just as this often comes up with the question of is this a sign of financial distress? Is this a sign that we don't have financial distress? Is this not the case? This has more to do with cash timing than necessarily do we have the cash. So for the Board members who know, I know you're aware of how we receive most of our allocations for the new Board members, the majority of our funding comes at two times. And those two times you can probably guess, which is property tax time. So we see a large amount of cash in December and a large amount of cash in April. So between the months of April and December we tend to see dips in our cash only because of the fact that we haven't got those large allocations from the state. Once we get those allocations we're typically fine and don't need to borrow. In the past few years, due to the fact that we had some additional funding, we actually didn't need to always utilize these actual resolutions. However, they're more of just safety that every district puts in place so that when the state does have delays in allocations we have a way to continue to pay the bills and continue to pay our employees. So again this is not anything that's abnormal. We do this every year. It is just to allow us to continue business and be able to work and have the flexibility of where we can draw cash from. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do not. Do we have any discussion from the Board? Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. We will move on to our visitor non-agenda items. We have 7.1 via public comments. So this is an opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda. And as I say every time this is, please know that although the Brown Act does prohibit members of the Board from engaging in discussion for non-agendaized items just know that we are listening. So do we have any public comments? Yes, we do. We have 14 comments. Good evening. And I again will call on the names by three. Please come up in that order. And again if I do mispronounce your name please feel free to correct me. And each speaker gets two minutes. Maria Rosas, Bill Beecher and Chris Webb. Good evening members of the Board and Superintendent Rodriguez. My name is Maria Rosas and I am here today as a teacher, PVST parent and alumni. I have a 4.5% wage increase to our administrators. I have been witness to their work ethic, passion and perseverance. During the past two years at least one of my administrators at the site that I work on has had to teach a class and do their administrative duties. If I was in their shoes I don't know if I would be a PVST employee next year since you've essentially given them a pay cut given the current inflation rate. Food prices alone have risen 7.8% over the past year as well as I said I am speaking on behalf of administration while our teacher contract is being negotiated. I will not and urge others not to play into your divisive rhetoric. It will not be them versus us when it comes to having a livable wage. Education is a very demanding job regardless of the area that you specialize in. Administrators deserve a raise as well as teachers and classified employees do. I know you are aware of the current teacher shortage. In fact today there were 35 credential and two admin positions that I joined. Administrators have had to lead schools that are not fully staffed, often taken on the tasks of vacant positions. How are you going to attract employees when your actions are showing them that you do not value them? In fact on September 9, 2022 this very board passed resolution number 22-23-11 proclaiming week of the school administrator. Sorry. And which you stated that the average administrator has served in public education for more than a decade and that such experience is beneficial in their work to effectively lead public education and improve student achievement. You also stated that school leaders depend on a network of support from school communities which include the board of trustees to promote ongoing student achievement and school success. Finally you stated that the future of California's public education system depends upon the quality of its leadership. Was this resolution just for show? If you actually meant what you wrote then do what is right by our administrators who do the very hard job and demanding job and approve their very much to serve Bay race. Thank you. Good evening Madam President, Dr. Rodriguez staff. This is a school board meeting so I thought maybe a history lesson might be a thing to do. Ten years ago this district was rated at 12 percentile in academic performance. Today we're at 50 percent. I think this is due because of the hard work of the administrators and thank you for commenting about that work. During the COVID-19 shutdown our district's academic performance did not drop. Most districts in this state and across the nation did drop. Some of them badly. The number changing subjects, the number of new teachers graduating every year has decreased for over 15 years. A math teacher at a past board meeting said we're losing 8 percent of our teachers each year but we're only able to hire 3 percent back in. That's a net loss of 5 percent or 50 teachers a year. This problem is not just PVUSD it's a nationwide problem. Your duty as a board is to work with the administration and PVFT on how to teach with fewer teachers. There aren't enough teachers. This probably means rethinking how we teach. Perhaps what we did during COVID-19 could be a teaching moment. What do you do next year when we're down 100 teachers or 150 teachers the following year? Now I believe in rewarding good performance. So don't hold back races for your administration or suggest that their pay should be cut. Thank you. I actually want to commend the board for their decision at that last board meeting because I agree with supporting people who are doing a good job too but not everyone has and sometimes we follow leadership down the wrong path and the administrators who are doing that have made life at Renaissance and other sites very difficult. So I'd like to do a little history lesson of my own a reading from the 2018 WASC report which was the last year that Renaissance WASC and it was our last year's model continuation school. Areas of strength for standards-based student learning instruction. The school has a level program and students can move up and down levels depending on their credit earning, behavior and attendance. Another section, using assessment to analyze monitoring and report student progress criteria. Students and parents are informed of individual students' academic progress as they transition through the level system. As a student administrator under the misinformed guidance, I believe of you Dr. Rodriguez got rid of that and as a result in one of the last FAQs we saw Question 7 was from a parent reporting about how her students didn't want to come to school anymore. That's the culture that has come from the absence of that kind of regular progress monitoring and report. I think the idea and those administrators who carried out those orders they've since left the district. They broke something and then they walked away. In the meantime we the teachers who are dedicated we're struggling to keep up. The student here was late because I didn't have the time to pick him up and drive him over here this time and I didn't have as much time because grades are due for me. I don't want to go over the extra work I would normally do. Those are the kind of things we need to keep in mind when we let people who maybe have a fancier title make the decisions but they don't always know what's the best at the site. Thank you. Our next three it's Diana Nichol, Pam Sexton and Manuel Serrano. I'm going to pull up my notes here. I'm not feeling well tonight so I apologize for trying to talk a little bit about Diana, can you speak into the microphone please? Thank you. Hi. Diana, can you hear me now? It's cutting out an ability to last until action 9.16 which is about the rate category to network installation projects. But I do want to comment about related items to that. As you know that's to put in wireless network in Aptos High to be a hub for many wireless activities. So I want to talk to you tonight about a recent landmark court ruling in a case brought by Children's Health Defense against the Federal Communications Commission. This is August. I have the court opinion here. This is the court of appeal opinion in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and they basically ruled that the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission which has been you know the regulator for wireless for decades this court ruled so 40 page decision but I'm just going to cut to the chase here if I can find it excuse me the commissioners failure, the FCC commissioners failure to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that exposure to RF radiation at levels below its current limits does not cause negative health effects members of the order arbitrary and capricious and three additional respects and one of those I'm going to read right now the commissioner failed to provide a reasoned explanation for brushing off record evidence addressing non-cancer related health effects from the impact of radio frequency radiation on children okay so just want you to consider that because the FCC is a captured agency when you put in the wireless hub when you put in the wireless hub it affects people I suggest you go wired and use that measured money for wired thank you hi sorry I'm back and I don't mean to speak too much but I wanted to thank you for at the last I think it was at the last school board meeting which I did not attend I know that you passed resolution that this week is adult education week and I am an adult education teacher and let's hear it for adult Ed like I know in the resolution you recognized the importance of adult Ed and it serves not just the students who come into my classroom but it serves their kids it serves their families and and it's really important and I just wanted to remind you I know this has been brought to your attention before but adult education teachers do not get paid prep time so any prep that I do for my class which is quite a lot because I love my students and I love to be a good teacher any of my prep time is on my own clock we're dedicated but it's been a long time that we've had no prep time so that's one of the things that we're we're looking for in the current negotiations and I also wanted to speak on one other issue in my time lifelong learning ECE to adult Ed in this district and I've written to you and thank you I heard back from a few I really want to give my strong solidarity to our ECE workers who are living basically at minimum wage and just make it emphasize how critical what they give is there's this archaic idea that early childhood educators are babysitters they're not they're doing the front line core work that helps all of the grades that follow them lifelong learning hello, Manuel Serrano what's in the children's center I want to tell you that I have 47 students 47 students but we celebrate every day and for example today is my birthday and we celebrate my birthday with my students and I talk with them about I invite them to come in the circle time and share about their birthdays and I talk to them about what does that mean to be 1 year old, 2 year old, 3, 4, 5 and I tell them they're ready to go to kindergarten because they know how to write their name they know the colors they know the numbers, their shapes many of them are bilingual better than me and I do a lot curriculum, like emerging curriculum because we're in crisis and the emerging curriculum is very important even though sometimes my administration wants me to follow exactly what is the mass production of education but I do this because it's very important and also for 20 years I have been accepting any invitation for any birthday party because I want to treat all my students with respect and dignity and I want to make anybody different and for 20 years I have not accepted any birthday party, sorry but that's what I do and I do this because I believe that we need to be neutral sometimes with all the students and I'm here because I want to ask you please consider race for the early childhood educators and also I learn the son of my administrators lower levels they make less money than me and it's incredible but thank you so much and thank you for listening, bye-bye our next three are Marta Balayich, Bridget Felder and Megan Scott good evening members of the board my name is Marta Balayich during the February 28th Watsonville City Council meeting Sabah Charter School principal Josh Ripp maintained he would enforce the city's prohibition on student drop-off and pickup activity no time in violating this policy and another policy the very next day Sabah used both highway 129 and its highway access driveway for student loading to Monterey County office of education buses were chartered by Sabah for a field trip transporting 80 students at approximately 3 p.m. the two buses dropped off students along the shoulder of highway 129 in a 45 mile an hour zone in front of the golden brands building located at 270 St. Louis Riverside Drive there were no flashing red lights on the bus nor did there appear to be a bus driver directing student traffic Sabah students disembarked and entered the Sabah campus on the highway 129 access driveway in the February 28th 2023 City Council agenda packet City staff set forth conditions 27 and 29 forbidding the use of highway 129 for student drop-off and pickup and Sabah highway access driveway both of these conditions of approval were ignored and violated although the Monterey County office of education provided the buses for the hazardous drop-off and pickup procedure that office has thus far stonewalled on providing the designated drop-off and pickup addresses for that day Sabah's reckless student drop-off and pickup protocols pose ongoing threats to students neighborhood stakeholders and all drivers using public roadways the dangers posed to the community are unprecedented for any school in Watsonville Sabah continues to be a detriment to the neighborhood here's a copy of my letter to the Watsonville City Council detailing Sabah's ongoing safety violations thank you I'm here again on behalf of the parents at Virtual Academy I'm feeling increasingly frustrated that we're not being acknowledged or taken seriously about our desire to find a way to continue our children's education through VA I know that you might feel that we're just a couple of parents whose same faces you see here every other week but we're representing a larger group of parents that are unable to make it here for the meetings I provided a survey last month that reflects some of the other parents' feelings and concerns as well as their important reasons for sending their kids to VA I'm not understanding why no one is addressing this issue or communicating with us there is no response to emails nor is the topic being added to the agenda at subsequent meetings and I'm unsure as to why that's not able to be accommodated considering we are already unaccredited and functioning well I might add school that has been funded for several more years Dr. Rodriguez herself was quoted in the Pajronian saying launching the online academy on the other hand estimated at just over 1.9 million will be cost neutral since no facility is necessary and the district can use existing per pupil funding we're wondering what's changed when this was published parents were then also considering leaving the district if this was not going to be an option why were they accommodated then and we aren't now we're here for the same reasons that parents were when this was published each meeting I have attended I am hearing these overtired and overworked teachers come and express their need for help support and better pay and it feels like all of this is just falling on deaf ears why would you suggest piling on more students for them to try and accommodate when we have them currently enrolled in a program that works for us in teaching staff this program is one of the only schools where you will find not only the parents and kids but also the faculty happy there are no known complaints from the teaching staff or families we have proven ourselves in our test scores and we will do whatever it takes to stay open instead of pushing us into a failing in person format or a charter school with lower test scores why not allow us to stay open and absorb some of the workload from the other systems that are struggling currently we have shown that our children are succeeding please please don't take those parents don't give up easy we're trying to get the VHS day open one teacher for 35 students four teachers got reassigned on the 15th to different schools I don't think four teachers is really going to help your teacher crisis but hopefully you know you guys will let us keep one teacher and that will take care of 35 students our students are doing really well and we don't require much as parents get time to bond with our children over teaching we have help from the teachers if we need it the teachers are there to guide us but we only need one we're not asking for very much and I think that it's going to be really sad for these children to leave each other they're very attached to each other they made their own little family they go online to meet just to meet we meet outside of school just so they have time to meet they enjoy going to school that's the bottom line how many kids can say they enjoy going to school they want to be with each other their structure is working for them and working for our families you were talking about low-income families this is great for low-income families for kids that are displaced a lot of schools shut down last week due to weather our schools stayed open we know exactly what to do when the weather is bad we know nothing changes for our students everything's consistent we just really hope you guys reconsider and just give us at least one teacher for 35 students our next three speakers Anthony Felder Bobby excuse me Marshall and Jorge Rojas good evening board members so let me just start off by saying every other week I'm here fighting for my daughter's future and nothing changes and there's no real good explanation why you need to close the VA I just want to know why we can't have at least one teacher exactly what Megan said so anyways we just need one teacher to continue this very successful program and it's kind of beyond me how you guys would cancel a program where kids are excelling and on another note during these past couple of weeks with all the flooding that is happening several schools were put online during that time because it works so VA doesn't get disrupted because we already using the program that we're already online so therefore like Megan said also no distraction so VA was never supposed to be a temporary thing it was designed to be an alternate program for people who did not plan to return to in person for many legitimate reasons COVID whatever name it you name it and last week 10 teachers and faculty members received reassignments reassignments showing us parents that are pleased to keep our school are not being heard there's 35 children in the K-5 grades that may not seem like very many kids for you to consider keeping the school open for but that is 35 families that are being harmed by this decision that is not a small number however all we need to be able to accommodate these 35 children is one teacher and I don't think that's a whole lot to ask of so if you guys would reconsider again and keep our school open that would be great thank you hello everyone Bobby Marchasal teacher and parent here in the district good to be with you I'm one of those people who doesn't make it out every time but who trustee was talking about that I am often following along on YouTube so first I just did want to say thank you for your care and communication over the storms in the past week I know our community has gone through a lot you all have gone through a lot and just appreciate compassion and also I think the communication from our office has been is one of the strengths hearing what's going to be happening was coming so I appreciate it thank you I know there's several teachers at our site who also have expressed gratitude for the after school pay that teachers are getting to be involved and thank you for recently continuing that for our summer school I know we're hopeful that you will also keep it if at all possible for next year as it provides a rate that actually makes our teachers feel valued in the work that they're doing after school and they have measurable positive impacts on the students performance as a teacher I know much of our school board has talked recently and ran recently on the importance of making sure that our teachers keep their prep time and so I'm kind of dismayed and disappointed that I'm hearing that we're struggling to get any language in our new contract to protect that prep time you know I said listen and last week I'm like maybe I should have come but I was tired I was at home had stuff I wanted to say and then the next day I went to school and many of us had to had to sub on our prep time but the next day it's happened since and we already know it's happening again tomorrow because teachers gone and I know the morale killer that is on our teachers and honestly I know that there's other campuses that have it much worse than our site because I talked to friends and so I can't imagine what it's like across the district so just really want to advocate for that you know some of the passion that I heard defending people a couple weeks ago in the meeting I would love to hear that for our teachers even just to hear hey I don't know how we're going to do it but we're going to find a way to keep your prep time even with the raises on the table you know our salary rates will still struggle to attract and retain teachers and that's part of why the whole package is so important to improve teacher retention is teachers knowing that they will have prep time that they'll be honored for bilingual skills which they use regularly to help staff and families and they have a district that recognizes that class size does have an effect on student outcome and teacher satisfaction. Thank you. Good evening Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez, cabinet members school board trustees my name is Jorge Rojas and recently separated service member as an officer with family readiness program and I come before you because I'm following the chain of command I have made calls requested a meeting a phone call to discuss an MOU that was made between the Power Valley Unified School District and non-profit organization known as activities for all which is run by one of your employees and so I looked at this MOU and I found a lot of ambiguity for example it said that they are supposed to be using the facility which is a turf at E.A. Hall on Sundays every other Sunday and it's right now for my understanding it's being reserved till May 28th and the reason why I come before you is because I'm representing the community of Watsonville which is about 600 displaced children that belong to your district that have no place to play. Why? Because this organization has a lock on it without allowing anyone to get on the field because of this MOU so I wanted to change that because it doesn't make any sense why it's not being used for kids that should be there for practice and on the games and then on section 5 it says that this term shall not commence more than five years but the MOU has it that the organization shall have it from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2027 so that really is more than five years it talked about a termination clause that NEA act by A48, Irrational Housing District to liability to others for personal injury can be a cause for termination a person placed a lock on his own on a Saturday costing their kids to jump over the fence which posed a liability for the district another thing about section 16 insurance requires you to have 2 million liability hoping this would be placed on agenda action item but I will pursue this thank you and our last two speakers under public comment Marilyn Garrett and Donna Lafever and I would just like to note that we did receive another card but it was after item 7.1 had started and speaker cards do need to be in before that item is started so that one won't be asked to come up that's a rule that discourages and from the speaking every other city council meeting or school board meeting I've been to people get up and they address the item including the board of supervisors that's a discouraging rule you should remove it's outrageous education not radiation education not microwave radiation I will leave you with a medical advisory wifi and children's health international agency for research on cancer of the world health organization classified radio frequency electromagnetic field submitted by wireless communications devices as type 2B possible carcinogen cancer rescue units the whom report advised the public particularly young adults and children should quote take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure as as affirmed by Dr. Robert Bond of IARC this classification 2B possible carcinogenic is not limited to cell phone radiation quote it holds all types of radiation within the radio frequency part of the electromagnetic spectrum including the radiation emitted by base station antennas radio TV towers radar wifi smart meters other commonly known carcinogens under 2B classification include LED DDT mercury and I will also leave you with this attention all parents is wifi making your child sick and have parents give informed consent to this exposure thank you my name is Donna LeFever I'm a teacher at Watsonville high school as a trained professional I know that when you notice that the information hasn't really gotten through it's important to revisit so we're looking at a visual that I provided with the board last time we have some new people so you get to see my visual again you get to see my visual for the first time this is a breakdown of why we don't have a successful lesson to provide the kids with the learning that they deserve it's also absurd that adult education teachers aren't paid for their prep time teachers are required to have prep time so that's just something that we really need to consider also I've already lost my prep this week on our little sub rotation list it's looks like I'm probably going to lose it again tomorrow and we are not going to be able to get this done so it's really really important that you take this seriously that you stop taking away the time that teachers need to provide this learning that the kids are craving they're in there they want to be there they want to be there in person with us they want to have engaging lessons and we cannot do it if you do not give us the time and this is just I mean I'm saying five when you're making copies it's not going to take you five minutes to make copies if you've worked with a copy machine those things always break so come on it's it's we need the prep time you cannot take it away the other piece is like we have to be paying for these day-to-day subs so that people will come and be substitutes in our district if we're not paying that money then it's not we're going to be stuck losing our prep time all the time and so I just really want to urge you to look at that language we shouldn't be required to sub in any capacity but if we're looking at the language that's in there it says reasonable basis and this is not reasonable losing my prep in the same week on when grades are due is not reasonable thank you all right we're going to move on to item 8 our employee organization comments so now is the time that we hear from our employee organizations and we'll be back in five minutes so we'll start with Paaro Valley Federation of Teachers good evening board I want to start first by saying that we are really saddened by the tragic impact that the Paaro Valley breaking has had on our families and our students and I want to say that thanks to all the organizations that rush to help and to some of our teachers who really rallied and volunteered I got to see the we have a couple of teachers that speak misteco and they were such a valuable asset to the fairgrounds evacuation site when they showed up and helped many families with translations we also want to thank Lakeview for welcoming Paaro staff and students to their site I've been out there several times and things have been going well there's just so much to say and I only have very little bit of time educators were strong proponents of what students deserve so you heard what I had to say on March 8th I hope but we rally for what students deserve they deserve a fully staffed school site with and supports to guide them through their learning journey we are special need students deserve to receive supports from those qualified educators and support systems but instead the district proposes to increase case loads for teachers working with children with autism preschool children with autism how is that helpful IEP's individual education plans for the public those are legal documents and so our families with special needs children I hope you're listening the district wants to impact a teacher's case load and that means that the time that they can address the needs for your student for your child is then also impacted we're asking for an 11% increase it's a 1% difference from what the district has offered is willing to go they keep telling us that the county office of education is has told them that they cannot offer us more than 10% so that's what we have been told at the table the county office of education has stated that they will not approve a 10 greater than 10% increase to our unit we also know that what we negotiate our CSEA brothers and sisters will also benefit from so this is all important to us because we believe that what we fight for is for the good of our students and our students feel it when we when teachers and administrators are not at school I stepped into the classroom last week to help out when teachers were stuck in traffic for many hours due to the roads being closed and only having one road way in I saw immediately the impact of not having a fully staff support staff there are support staff are those our custodians our instructional assistants as soon as I walked into the classroom I can tell that that classroom had not had the opportunity to be vacuumed in a long time that's what our students are walking into they feel that they're still upwards to what 10 classrooms at Watsonville high school that do not have a hired teacher this year this is a second year in a row that Watsonville high school students do not have a hired certificated teacher we have subs coming in many of our subs aren't trained in physics or in trigonometry and we have our teachers losing their prep and still expected to grade 175 papers to enter 175 grades into a grade system to communicate with parents when the parents are asking for them to communicate with them to speak to communicate with students and so much more writing our high school teachers especially they spend time writing around this time writing letters of recommendation we don't like wage theft as well so when you're asking the teacher to work outside of their contract time we don't ask our support staffs at medical offices to take papers home and do the medical billing at home and not get paid for it so we're asking for 11% we believe that our students that the district can find that 1% extra because that's what our students deserve our students also deserve smaller class sizes all we're asking for a reduction of two our schools and this is for the fourth and fifth grade classes fifth grades and then whatever site that has like this is an elementary so some sites do have sixth grade and so that's inclusive of them so from they go from 24 students in third grade to 34 students in fourth fifth and then some sixth grade that's an increase of 10 students and our students feel it I taught those grades as well so 32 that's a reduction of two I think our students deserve that so that they have that time from their teachers prep time a cap on prep that's what we want a cap on we don't want a cap on health benefits we want a cap on the amount of time that our teachers lose to from their prep time so we want to put a limit on the number of times that they're asked to be to step into another classroom during a month our students deserve that so I just want to point out what Mr. Beecher said earlier that you know where he gives the district kudos of our students during that year that we were closed that their scores remain the same that was the teachers and you know who negotiated that contract to make that happen we did they went to school online half the day and the other half of the day they had teacher conferences thank you so Mr I'm going to give some history really know it we have any public speakers we have three Bill Beecher Roddy Kirkman and Martha Vega good evening thank you for that wonderful warm introduction yes COVID-19 the real fact is this district put one heck of an effort into putting all that stuff online that's the administration the teachers executed well it was a joint effort so at the last meeting I made a mistake I told you that CalPERS had raised to 28% I was wrong Nellie was right it was 19% plus however it does mean that our teachers got more than a 13% raise over the last 10 years however that retirement plan took all the money and it was not available that 13% available for teachers raises now the state budget has a shortfall as we've heard and the poor performance of the CalPERS investment portfolio is terrible so we can expect to see rate increases and the CalPERS rate going forward now also at the last meeting the PVFT speaker told you how many teacher openings there were at some adjacent schools Salinas High has 2668 students much less than PVUSD so their teacher openings on a prorated basis is more than ours actually more than three times higher openings than we have this is true for the other districts that she mentioned so her comments were misleading and dishonest they were intended to make our district look bad and negotiating with PVFT shame now bunches of budget numbers were also verbally presented there was no presentation to check them or question their origin that is shoddy I can't check them you can't check them Clint can't check them I expect better from PVFT thank you good evening Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez we are in negotiations and I think you've heard both an adult Ed member of ours and an ECE member come up and speak to you tonight I just want to elaborate a little bit on what we are attempting to negotiate for those two units that we represent you've heard me speak to this item before but our ECE folks work on a poverty wage currently our assistant teachers are making minimum wage we actually had to adjust the salary schedule to meet minimum wage on January 1st it is incredibly disheartening to hear that their own source of funding won't provide them a sufficient raise and our district cannot work to do that with our general fund to lift up those members of our community because they are members of our community our adult Ed unit serves the entire county as we heard Pam speak to they do that without any compensated prep time that is one of the biggest asks that we have gone forward with in their contract Mr. Beecher up here talked about Salinas Union High School District they also have an adult Ed unit they serve about roughly 2,000 students which I believe and I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head but I believe that's similar to what our district serves in our adult Ed unit Salinas Union High actually provides prep time to their teachers we were told that our adult Ed unit could not afford to do so so I ask why not why not I also just want to speak to you I know a couple of people talked about the admin raises Nellie spoke to our agreement with providing our administrators an increase at the last meeting two minutes right yes good evening my name is Martha Vega I'm a resident here in the city of Watsonville and district 2 I'm here today I worked for the city of Watsonville for close to 20 years and I made a transition to do a career change and it's heartbreaking to see what's been going on in our community regarding the flood I want to thank you Alicia I know you've been wonderful putting out information as well as the board showing that you care attending events working with various stakeholders to include non-profit organizations as well as our public safety teams governmental officials to be able to put out the information through media to keep our community safe we had gridlock traffic with highway 1 southbound and southbound it forced everyone on highway 129 what normally would take a short distance it took over two hours or more it impacted students staff and now we have individuals that are not only affected because of the flood but they're without a home we have individuals that are not going to be able to work the land because it's contaminated, it's real it's heartbreaking and that they're not earning enough money classified staff, teachers and principals all deserve a raise I have a niece she is no longer she put in her notice two weeks ago she's no longer going to be working with the Paro Valley Unified School District she's a kindergarten teacher for Radcliffe and she loves working with kids and it just doesn't pay enough so I'm saddened to see that she's not going to be able to continue in our community it's heartbreaking and it's heartbreaking all the way around thank you that it for public speakers that it for public speakers thank you everyone so item 8.2 California School Employees Association do we have any representatives from CSEA do we have anyone from Paro Valley Association of Managers good evening President Holmes Dr. Rodriguez it's actually my first time speaking up here I've been in this for 24 years first time I get to speak to you so I am the proud principal of Paro Middle School and as you guys know we had a couple incidents over there that did not allow us to go back to school last last Saturday I was talking to many people who got involved and were trying to figure out what do we do with their students how do we bring them back and it's amazing how many members of the community are out there trying to help out Paro Middle School get back on track Lakeview Middle School under the leadership of Elaine Lageretta Interim Principal and Judy Woods and their staff was reaching out to Dr. Rodriguez because they had 14 spaces open for us we spoke with our staff at Paro Middle School through a zoom and they wanted to stay together but we needed like 22 spaces or 23 spaces and in a matter of 48 hours Dr. Rodriguez made everybody available for us which was beautiful M&O through my shout out to my people who I know personally Erlindo, Sergio, Saulo walked the premises on Monday morning at Lakeview had been there for 7 years came with the plan to divide some sections into classrooms viable classroom, not small little classes viable classrooms and within 48 hours we had 23 classrooms we had everybody on board curriculum, instruction led under Claudia and Tosa's classrooms made sure that we had enough enough materials and curriculum for our teachers to come and be ready to teach our teachers showed up on Monday to try to organize their classrooms have it ready for their students everyone was on board and we turned walls that looked like walls into classrooms we had the tech department with Dan and Ji Ool and Jason getting us the technology we need for teachers to teach we had every person possible all hands on deck the people that put those walls up were there until 1 in the morning paint department was there on Monday night painting at 10 o'clock at night just to make sure that the students had somewhere to learn I talked to a couple of people that were helping wipe off desk and wipe off boards they said we want to make sure that when the teachers show up they have one less thing to worry about and our students the students need a place that's respectable for them to learn in and it was done under a lot of work many long hours this is L1 that was divided into two sections if you continue you'll see what came out of those and if you walk right now it doesn't look like that spaces that didn't have like I said technology have technology we have everybody in the district pushing and supporting to make this happen our staff is happy to be at Lakeview we're very very grateful to their staff for allowing us to be there for walking with us we had meetings with the students they were a little bit nervous but right now they're starting to fit in it's been a lot of work it's been a lot of 12 or 14 hour days but when you see the band play it's good stuff I'm very proud of all the work being done I'm grateful to even the food service at Lakeview showed up like I said I worked there for 7 years Veronica was like how many kids are you bringing I'm about 447 so they were from serving students about 440 students to serving 880 students they were within two other days alright so like I said it's a group effort and I know people say sometimes we try to divide but this is a very unified effort I can't thank everybody enough from my custodian my stool the custodians came over from a lonely from hall they were all out there I know Peggy was out there I know Lisa always checked on me every single day we have retired teachers Jackie who used to be a principal at Pajaro they're out there volunteering making sure transitions are fine they're loving it they still want to go back to Pajaro as soon as they're back they're ready to go back but they're excited to meet new kids and we run on an offset schedule we start a little bit earlier so the kids don't really see each other and because I was there the Lakeview kids are my kids and because I'm a Pajaro the Pajaro kids are my kids they're like hey when do we get to see your students I'm like they're here because you can't tell us 880 students on that campus right now because we have an offset schedule and it's been beautiful to see the kids come back at being at the very end on Wednesday when they came back and the kids walked out and there was a hug oh my god you're here right it was like you made it out and we're here so we had a joint meeting we had an assembly with our students to tell them how things were going to go talked about perseverance and lessons to be learned from this experience Elaine LaGuereta spoke with her students regarding empathy so everyone pulls their weight and like I said this stuff wasn't there 8 days ago none of this was there so it's amazing how everybody pulled and did their thing I'm totally grateful my staff is grateful I know they're rich Mariano made everything possible also with the opening number whatever you guys need make it happen all these schools rich now Real Del Mar, EA Hall they're setting up our entire office here what do you guys need it's colega con colega friends with friends helping friends I know you're the administrative secretary I got you an office manager you guys need a coffee pot because coffee is important in the main office and all that stuff is coming around and now our school is also becoming a community school we have people with organizing donations are showing up we have a meeting called now and we wanted normalcy for our students we wanted to be sure we needed assistance and now that we have it we know who needs assistance we're able to pull them out of class talk to parents, provide what they need it's been great and thank you everybody I appreciate all the work that's been done do we have anyone from communication workers of America thank you to all our employee organizations for your comments and your work moving on to our action items item 9.1 our mental health clinician and school resource officer program the report will be presented by Dr. Yvonne Alcaraz our director of student services good evening president home board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez I am Dr. Alcaraz the director of student services and I get the privilege of giving you an update on our SRL mental health clinician program as well as some data that we've been collecting this year just to get us started a little bit about the history from previous board approval this was a board meeting in May that was held to improve the continuation of our pairing of the school resource officer and the mental health clinician with some recommendations for the team these recommendations included data collection so continuing to log all of the interactions there are mental health clinicians as well as our SRL we're having as part of this program we've had those interactions as well in that recommendation there is also progress monitoring giving opportunities for students families and staff to give input as part of the process as well as some cross collaboration between the teams that were already in place and that at that time it was Aptos high school and Watsonville high school for SRL mental health clinician we also wanted to document the process and procedures that our mental health clinician and our SRL were following we needed to hire a new mental health clinician or SRL so that there was some fundamental understanding of what that looked like at our sites some training opportunities to include restorative practices and school-based interventions as we were embarking on our MTSS framework as well as our PBIS initiatives and then lastly to do some cross collaboration with a Watsonville police department and the sheriff's department center Cruz county with our SRL assignments so just so that we know that these people are doing this school year and trying to guide our practice and the things that we're doing at the site so what I'm about to share with you it's the interaction logs this is the data that was collected from August 15 to March 12 this is families and students that we actually had some level of interaction at Aptos high school and Watsonville high school so look here at the data Aptos high school 76 referrals while Watsonville high school recorded 145 referrals when you look at the per capita kind of percentage it's kind of very similar 5.7 for Aptos high school and 6.7 for Watsonville high something to know our resource officer for Watsonville high school has been assisting other sites often times they do assist PB high school as well other local schools like Renaissance as well as some of our middle schools that support and assistance as well as Aptos high school I know that they've been supporting our Aptos senior high school in some types of events those were not recorded on these on this data report these were more of just the support that was provided outside of Watsonville high school and Aptos high a quick look at the referral source so we wanted to track what where these referrals were coming from out of the 76 5 of the referrals were initiated by the school administrator while 33.8 were referred by others these are typically staff members like our teachers our counselors perhaps some of our support staff at the site that made of encounter something to make that referral you might ask yourself why more than half of the referrals are coming from administration typically are the first line of response so if there's some problem with the school campus your administrators are typically the ones who have that first encounter that's not very different than for Watsonville high school because of that first response is our administration 62.5% of the referrals are coming from school administrators while 33.6 are coming from other staff so very similar data trends on this one in terms of the grade level this is you know very high school level 70.2% were from 9th and 10th grade if you look at the population it is a little over you know 50% on Aptos high school 54.8% of Aptos student population right so we try to figure out why we want to try to make sure that those kind of aligned with each other those percentages but typically you know traditionally we do have a lot more referrals coming from 9th and 10th grade typically is the adjustment of the change of a new environment right so they're transitioning from 8th grade to 9th grade vice versa there's some changes in their academics with more rigorous course work in 10th grade as well so there's lots of factors that contribute to that heightened you know behaviors on campuses similarly at Watsonville high school 57.9% with 9th and 10th grade more than half and then more than half is the population at their site for 9th and 10th grade as well so the data points that we're looking at and we wanted to continue to look at is whether the referrals were coming in from students who had a special circumstance whether they have a 504 plan or receive special services through an IEP Aptos high school 50.7% of the referrals that came in did have or were students that had a 504 plan to end or an IEP just to note the 19% of Aptos student population has a 504 plan again you might ask yourself why the you know the response time in here sorry the referrals are more than about half the referrals are from students with the 504 plan or IEP the reason here is one thing that we did take a look at is whether the referrals were coming in as more preventative whether response and what we want to take a look at and you'll see later slides as we take a look at whether more of the referrals were from a response approach versus meaning they actually had a violation education code or more of a preventative measure someone reporting something anonymously and then getting some support from the mental health condition so in this case a lot of the referrals that were coming in were very more preventative seeking support for a friend or and or an incident that required just more preventative support. At Watsonville high school 26.9% of the referrals came from students who identified as Hispanic or Latino at 63.6% and then 27.3% were referrals that were from students who identified as white. Again, you might ask yourself what what is what what is it the reason for that. We are also tracking the ethnicity right. So where are the referrals coming from more than half of the referrals for the SRO mental health condition at Aptos high school came from what is what what is it the reason behind some of these numbers or percentages. What we take a look at here is again the preventative versus response. And so on this one in particular about 20% of the referrals so 11 out of the 49 referrals on Hispanic War in response to a violation to an education code that resulted perhaps in more of a more an encounter with the SRO versus the preventative measures that was about 78% of those responses. For Watsonville high school the ethnicity breakdown 92.8% Hispanic Latino just noting that their Hispanic population at Watsonville high school is 95.6%. 4.6% were from students who identified as white so that's very it matches closely to the population at that high school. So when we looked at where the referrals how do we address the interactions or what is the outcome in terms of who is supporting that incident or that referral at Aptos high school 55.8% of the referrals were addressed collaboratively with the SRO mental health condition. 41.6% of the referrals were actually just addressed by the mental health clinician and 2.6% of the referrals were addressed only by the SRO. And so this is something that we like to see right because we do have this pairing of the SRO mental health condition is that we do want to see either the mental health condition doing that preventative work or collectively collaboratively with the mental health condition at SRO. So looking at these numbers for the SRO only are positive thing on our end. Similarly at Watsonville high school 73% were collaboratively addressed by the SRO mental health condition 25% only by the mental health condition and then 2% only by the SRO. So what I was alluding to is we're looking at the violations or in terms of the incidents whether it's preventative or response referral. When we're talking about non-violations typically our referrals that come in because there's a loss of a family member or a loved one perhaps it has to do with a suicide risk assessment that was conducted perhaps there was a threat assessment that was also led to peer conflict was one of the top one referrals for Aptos high school so 75% of the referrals were intended to be more preventative rather than a response to something that was immediately happening at that moment in time that violated one of the education codes. The top three referrals for Aptos high school that were non-violations more preventative or peer conflict victim of a crime or social anxiety for those that were violations that are actually more preventative rather than a response in terms of actually revolving in education code were 25% of the referrals with mostly coming into the 4900A1 or A2 which is physical altercations or physical fights in that regard. Similarly for Wantsville high school 62.2% were intended to be more preventative rather than response with the top three referrals coming for victim of crime or social anxiety. You'll see in there there's a big one for mental health needs so there's again there's more of that either peer referral system self-referraled and or others staff members referring to the mental condition and the SRO for some help and support. For Wantsville high school in terms of the response there was about 33.8% of the referrals were students who actually violated education code again very similar to the after high school trend. It's the 4800A1 or A2 which are addressing our physical altercations or fights. For interventions provided so we're not only looking at what are the referrals coming to us who's actually initiating the referrals but we're also taking a look at what happens after the referrals and what are some of the common kind of supports or additional interventions that are associated with the assessment from the mental health condition and the SRO. For Aptos high school the top three interventions included safety plan development, student parent conferencing and repairing harm. The safety plan is a very common step when there is for instance a threat assessment that's conducted at the site leading to need a safety plan. It could also look more like a peer-to-peer conflict that leads into creating a safety plan for both Aptos and Aptos high school. The top three interventions included the student parent conferencing, repairing harm and referral to additional support. The difference here at Aptos high school is the referral for additional support. We do know that Aptos high school does have a case manager that is assigned to them that is also supporting this process as well. That is available for instance at Wantsumah high school that may be as a referral mechanism for this program. In addition to just looking at the referral system, the recommendations was to survey the families and students that actually had an interaction to kind of understand a little bit about their interaction with the SRO mental clinician and kind of figure out if there was any changes that we needed to make quickly. We have done by every Aptos high school and Wantsumah high school identified a staff member who was reaching out to these families post the interaction and or encounter with the SRO mental health clinician and we actually had 84 total responses. In here you'll see that 23.2% were family members of a guarding of Aptos high, 23.2% were a family member of a guarding of Wantsumah high school and then 30.5% were student at Aptos high school. And so the questions that were asked by this person who was initiating the survey was how they felt or if they felt understood during their interaction with the mental health condition in SRO. What we're looking is either strongly agree or agree. In this case for that particular survey question, 73.8% of the responses indicated that they felt heard and understood during the interaction with the mental health condition in the SRO. Only 3.6% disagree or strongly disagree. For the question I know what resources and or options are available to me to assist in my situation, one thing that we want to make sure is our families and students are actually knowing how to proceed post the interaction with the mental health condition in SRO and so we want to make sure that they understand the resources available to them. We also asked just their overall feeling about the interaction whether it was respectful and positive. We did get an 82.2% of the response indicating that they strongly agree, agree to being respectful and positive while only 4.8% disagree and strongly disagree. We also asked just their overall feeling about the interaction whether it was respectful and positive while only 4.8% disagree and strongly disagree. That is our first recommendation as part of the approval for this year's programming that included the interaction log and the experience survey. We also did put out a survey for our students. We put out a family survey as well as surveyed our staff in terms of how we actually had more engagement in responses than we previously had the previous years. We actually had more parents responding to our survey, more students responding to our survey and then our staff also more responses. So kudos to our teams that were out there trying to push this survey so that we get a good comprehensive understanding of the thoughts and opinions of our family students and staff. We also did a survey that was more open-ended questions. What we tried to do is we did try to put themes around the questions and try to capture and encapsulate what the responses would look like for us. For the students survey, we were looking at safety perceptions experience with the SRL mental health condition as well as a relationship with the SRL mental health condition. We had 369 surveys. As well as the end of the year again. Parents survey, we had 444 total surveys. We looked at safety perceptions and importance of the SRL mental health condition team. For staff, we had 141 total surveys looking at the perceptions around safety, the relationship with the SRL mental health condition as well as the importance of the SRL mental health condition on that campus. And then finally with the focus groups we're looking at the three again surveys with the SRL mental health condition and the relationship that they had with the SRL mental health condition. Looking at the first survey for our students, we asked first question whether our students that were surveyed or responded to a survey ever had contact with the SRL mental health clinician. And so 84.7% indicated that they have not had an interaction with the SRL mental health condition and did indicate some contact with the SRL mental health clinician. I look at this as a good thing because we were serving already those that had interactions with the SRL mental health condition so we're also looking at those that have not to encapsulate both populations that are in our student representation as well. So in terms of whether the perception of the SRL making their school feel safer, we had 37.7% of our responses indicated that yes, they agree with the statement that they made them feel safer while only 5.2% disagree. When we looked at whether they were distracted from their school work because there was a presence of a mental condition SRL team at their campus, 68.8% disagree that the SRL mental health condition team was a distraction to them and 3.9% agree that their team was a distraction to them at school. When we're looking at the relationship and whether they feel comfortable speaking to or with the presence of the mental health condition, 49.3% indicated that they feel comfortable with the presence and 3.8% indicated not feeling comfortable. In terms of reaching out to the mental health condition and the SRL about safety concerns involving themselves and other friends, 38.1% responded that they do feel comfortable talking to the SRL mental health condition about their safety concerns and 12.7% indicated not feeling comfortable speaking to the SRL mental health condition about their safety concerns. When we looked at our family surveys, we looked at whether they thought the relationship between the SRL and the student was beneficial. 83% of our responses for families indicated that the relationship between the SRL and the students was beneficial while only 4.4% did not believe that that relationship was positive. When we asked about the perceptions of safety in terms of whether they thought having this team at their campus made the campus safer, 82% agree that having the SRL mental health condition team make the school safer while only 4.9% agree that having the SRL mental health condition made that school safer. We wanted to also learn from the parents whether they felt that the SRL mental health condition pairing was an intricate part in the overall safety of the campus. 84.3% believed that they were an intricate part of the school safety and 5.1% did not believe the SRL mental health team played an intricate part in the school safety. We asked whether they felt it would be a detriment if the school and mental health the school mental health clinician and the SRL team was eliminated from the campus. 89.3% believed that it would be a detriment in believing that this team at their campus was important while 3.7% did not believe it would be a detrimental school if the team was eliminated. We asked our staff would you describe the relationship between the school resource officer and student beneficial while 64.1% of the staff who responded felt the relationship was beneficial while 11.5% indicated not believing that it was beneficial. We asked as well whether their perceptions about safety 65.6% agreed that having the SRL mental health clinician on their campus made the school feel safer while only 7.6% disagree that that was the case. We asked whether in terms of helping de-escalate situations on campuses and what the staff believe if they were effective or not in this process 58.8% of the responses indicated that the SRL mental health clinician team was effective in de-escalating situation while 9.2% did not believe that they were effective in the de-escalation process. When we asked staff if they felt that the team played an intricate part in the overall safety of the campus, a 67.4% believe that it was an intricate part of the school safety while 7% believe that it was not an intricate part in the school safety. When we asked about whether they felt that it would be a detriment if the school eliminated the team from their site, 68.5% believe that it would be a detriment to the school if the team was eliminated 8.5% did not believe it would be a detriment to the school if the team was eliminated. The fun part for me was meeting with the groups out at the site because that's typically where I get to engage in more open-ended questions I get to elicit more feedback from them and it just sometimes becomes a very kind of fun process to really get in their thought process and figuring out what their what their wishes are and or what their thoughts are about the team. These were some of the quotes that were recorded as part of the notes and in the interview process we followed the same basic model in terms of the questionings that we were asking our students so we asked about whether they felt that the SRL mental condition was an intricate part in the safety of their campus. We also asked whether they felt that they were comfortable speaking to an SRL mental condition about their safety concerns. There was questions around any incident in which they witnessed any interaction or not with the SRL mental health condition and what did that look like for them as a just a bystander from the situation. There's lots of positive remarks from the student focus group I'll read just a couple and I'll provide some context to one of them that it needs context. I feel it definitely helps and I feel they are not having a negative impact. When I see an officer I feel more protected makes the campus safer because if they are in an emergency it makes their response faster. Security do a good job but sometimes we need police and I'll provide a little bit of context on the one that it says it was scary because there were so many cops at the same time it was reassuring that things would be handled. This was a student who from Walterville high school who was witnessing an officer responding to a community incident while she was there was an SRL on campus that could have close communication they made comments about how that communication between Watsonville police department and having radios and they said they have radios right so they can easily communicate if something's happening. There was actually an incident that occurred near the neighborhood of the day prior to me visiting for the focus group and the students actually made some positive comments of how quickly the SRL was able to provide assistance to WPD in addressing that so that it didn't become a bigger issue for the campus. So in terms of our training and cross-site collaboration we continue to work with Deputy Lopez and Officer Johnson in our threat assessment protocols. There is going to be some changes in our threat assessment protocol assessment in the future as laws are changing and so they're going to be even more of an integral part in our threat assessment process so we'll definitely continue to work with them on threat assessments. Safety Care Training these are often used to intervene for de-escalations and supporting students. Alice Training Certification they're becoming an integral part in our trainings as well as understanding how to respond from their end and integrating them in our Alice protocols. Safe Schools Conference Deputy Lopez had an opportunity to attend the Safe Schools Conference last summer. We have plans to attend Safe Schools Conference this summer hopefully with the team so that we can all learn together. Team Shadow Days these were super successful so we had the Aptos High School SRO Mental Health Condition coming over to Wontownville High School shadowing our SRLs there and then learning how their process is at that school and then vice versa Wontownville High kind of cross-sharing best practices and aligning our practices. Our site progress monitoring I do meet regularly with the teams to just kind of figure out how things are going. We also our sites presented a progress update to our school site councils this year and provided an opportunity for input through there as well and then our team collaborations that help kind of review our data and look at our next steps if we needed to adjust or make some changes. Some additional supports that our community engagement that our SRLs are involved in they're typically since now they've become a part of the school they're providing some coverage and or supervision and support our athletic and activity events often times they the students even ask themselves whether they are coming to their dance and or if they're coming to school they don't even know about games. I'll have to share because I do tell one of the students in my focus group relay this message was very concerned about whether they would be losing the partnership that they have Wontownville High school and I said I would relay that message to the community that they were very concerned about that program being eliminated because they felt that both that team were very strong and were concerned that either one of to visit the space that the Estrell Mental Health Conditioned has at Wontownville High School. I highly recommend that you do so. They've converted that space to be a very safe space for students. Maria has done an awesome job out there to create this space where students are feeling comfortable going to them. Support SEO learning through conferencing, connecting students to resources, and delivering SEO lesson plans in the classroom. This is what we've been talking about, making sure that they're integrated in our processes. So at Wontownville High School, our Estrell Mental Health Conditioned participating in our wellness teams, as well as supporting the site with the delivery of lessons in the classroom. Responding to after-hours stop-its and other tools that we have in place to support us in tracking incidents. So they're always available to support us in responding to anonymous reports through stop-it or gaggle alerts, and any other reports that are coming through after-hours as well. Collaborative with School Administration and Comprehensive Safety Plan, this was huge this year around. We met with both of the SROs as a review of our safety plans. They offered great feedback to us, which helped us adjust and make some adjustments to our Comprehensive Safety Plan. So they've become a very important piece of our Comprehensive Safety Plans. And then, you know, they're members of the Wontownville and Aptos communities. So they're always looking for volunteer opportunities, mentoring students, as well as just participating in any school activity that they may have. I think you saw some photos of some of our officers participating in some of our ASB activities and just being a part of that. In terms of the cost, I wanted to just share with the board in terms of what the program is costing us and the implications of finance if the board approves the continuation of the pairing. Our mental health condition for three mental health conditions, assuming that this would be at PV High School, Wontownville High School, and Apto High School, would cost about $507,487, while only two mental health conditions would be a cost of $343,833. I will share with you that we have yet not been successful at hiring our SRO for PV High School. We're actively working with our Wontownville Police Department to support in that, as well as our mental condition for PV High. Our school resource officer cost is about $526,474 for three SROs, $342,474 for two SROs. And then you'll see the total cost there for over $1 million for three sites and $686,307 for two sites. Some of the recommendations that our team has come up for if the board approves the continuation of the pairing, we do believe that it is important to continue to log the interactions that our students are having with the SRO mental health condition and continuing to survey those students who are actually having those interactions. We would also like to take a look at the questions that were previously developed as part of that survey, maybe to adjust and make some adjustments to them. But we do feel that it is important to continue to survey those students. We want to continue the cross-collaboration with the team meetings, the shadow days, and then alignment of the best practices. So this year, the shadow days revealed great opportunities for us to align practices between the sites. Collaboration with Wontownville Police Department and our Sheriff's Department in terms of a hiring and assignment details. This year, we did participate in the hiring of the SRO at Wontownville High School, so we're very fortunate and we want to continue that with Wontownville Police Department. Continue with the threat assessments, as I mentioned before. They've been instrumental in assessing our threats that have come away, whether most of them turn out to be non-credible, but still it's reassuring that we do have some support with our SROs. The School of Comprehensive Safety Plan, it is an ongoing assessment as we experience new things in our community, and so it's always helpful to consult with them and help us be, have them be part of our discussion in terms of adjustments to our safety plans. And then the alignment of incident response. This was more in terms of, the team felt that both SROs have been embedded long enough in our school systems to understand our system in the education. And sometimes it became challenging when either Officer Johnson or Deputy Lopez was not on campus and having to call an officer from Wontownville Police Department. So we're wanting to collaborate with the department so that they also understand our SRO Mental Condition Programming so that they, whenever another officer that is not embedded in our school can also have the same level of response as they do or knowledge and notion of the program. Incorporating our SRO Mental Condition Team in our MTSS process, so there's lots of teams that are happening to help already identify students, whether it's the PBIS team or the wellness team, so recommendations for incorporating them in that regard. Document process and procedures for the Mental Health and SRO Program. This year we took a lot of just time to assess our programming, align our practices, but felt shy on documentation. So we have some fundamental documents that provide some guidance, but we definitely want to make it more robust. I do want to commend our district. I typically, as a director of student services, get requests from other districts of information of our SRO Mental Health Condition because we are one, yes, that is the first that has this pairing. And so typically when I get requests from other districts and other directors, this is where I think we can provide some additional guidance and share the wealth that we do have. And with that, I leave it up to questions and also I would like to request that we approve the continuation of the SRO Mental Health Condition Program. Thank you, Dr. Arquez. Do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes, we do. We have 10 and I will call again up by three. And again, if I do pronounce your name incorrectly, please correct me. Chris Webb, Pam Sexton, and Bobby Marshall. Marshall Saltz, thank you. And each speaker again gets two minutes. Good evening, I would request we not squander scarce education dollars on what could be a free service. Also part of the problem here is I'm not, I've seen from some of the meetings related to this consistent lack of any transparency on use of forest data. Also I'm not hearing anything about protections of teachers who might have to intervene if we have some kind of situation where an SRO is violating student rights. And I don't bring that up lightly. If you've been paying attention to the news, you know that there's been some major incidences in our country and the people who are surrounding cops acting badly are being brought up on charges. So I wanna know how you're gonna protect teachers. I also don't bring that up lightly because a Renaissance student from Watsonville reported to my class at one time saying that she or they watched the fight. Another kid who wasn't a part of the fight got dragged by the SRO by their hoodie. And I didn't hear that the mental health clinician stopped this or anything. I'm wondering if a teacher had had intervened would they get brought up on some kind of charges? Is the district gonna protect them? So those are the, and I actually had the opportunity to go to Watsonville High and verify later about that story. Cause I was subbing at Watsonville High. I also had the opportunity to ask, do a little survey myself and of the students in the two sections that I subbed for, only 20% wanted to keep the SRO, 40% were neutral, 30% did not wanna keep the SRO, 10% declined to say. Of the people who didn't wanna keep the SRO, the number one reason was they had no relationship with the SRO and the SRO had no real impact. And they were also bringing up particularly the point that I saw a bathroom closed due to vandalism. So the prevention argument didn't really carry a lot of weight with me. Also when I see mostly Latino kids, mostly special ed kids getting interactions doesn't seem too novel to me. Thank you. Hi, Pam Sexton. And here I'm also coming to you to urge you not to continue. And I understand that what you've just seen points to continuing, but I really need to ask you to look critically at this data, which is questionable. So I've also been at Watsonville High many times in the last, since the May decision. And in the conversations I've had with students, it is not 100% positive comments as was given from the focus groups. I'm not sure how the focus group makeup was decided or how the surveys were distributed, but from my personal experience, I can't dive with what I just saw. But beyond that, we need to think about what our funding straps school district, how we can spend our money the most effectively. And when we do look at data on that, it is in supporting the, having full staffing, having enough social emotional counselors that one doesn't have hundreds that they're having to serve. And we can use this money more. One thing that teachers, parents, and students that I've talked to have said is having school campus supervisors. Campus supervisors have been there a long time and there's that developed relationship. Now there is a relationship developing and this is not against the individual SROs who are there. This is about normalizing having armed police in our educational facilities. Watsonville, hi parent. I was on the SRO committee last year. Also a former member of the Watsonville policing committee and I knew when I joined I needed to be open and even willing to change my mind. I'm pretty disenfranchised in feeling that that was a one-sided endeavor. We discussed the importance of a survey back then of the wider school community, decided there wasn't enough time but as approached the board wanted it so it went forth without our input. After the fact, we've voiced several concerns. The data should be separated out by schools, it wasn't. We should know, we should ask by the SRO and mental health clinicians separately. You still didn't. Last year, quote from my student, are you comfortable talking to the team? How do I answer that? They're two different people and one has a gun. I never saw the email, by the way, I didn't get to take that because it came from the principal. I simply just said, let's see, no context. Just said, we wanna hear from you, here's a survey. Didn't even know what it was. I heard of one class where the students began to talk about it when they received it because they just learned about surveys and polls and they discovered that it did not meet any of the requirements to be a scientific or reliable study so it was a teaching tool. Focus groups, not a single student with a negative opinion, that is not representative from my experience. What atmosphere was created even to make it safe for dissenting opinions to be expressed. It really feels to me like there is zero interest from this district in hearing anything aside from what we want to hear to maintain the status quo. Did you ever reach out to Milpa or Barrios Unidos or anybody to hear a perspective from those who are advocating for formerly incarcerated youth? We haven't seen evidence that an SRO on campus has been effective in stopping school shootings and another gun and criminalizing students is not the answer. At the very least, please show that you want to hear another perspective rather than cherry picking data that reinforces the one we have. Our perceived safety is not worth the cost of a positive learning environment for vulnerable and marginalized students on campus. Also, there were raises not approved last meeting out of concern for the budget and it seems like this is far more money than those and at least those were directed at directly education. I have other, well, I'll keep going because I got a couple seconds. If there's an offener, officer, let's reimagine not having a gun. I got other thoughts, I'll email you. Thank you. Our next three, Roddy Kirkman, Providence, Martinez, and Martha Vega. Good evening again. I want to speak to specifically the budget aspect of this item on the agenda, mostly because I'm the chief negotiator for PVFT and we are in contract negotiations. Police account for 40% of the Watsonville city budget. We are a public school district. So why are we contributing to an already inflated budget? The Watsonville police department can supply that out of their own funding. We are always talking about what we cannot afford in this district. What are the more important things that we need to spend that money on? The cost of three SROs would actually fund a two student reduction from 34 students to 32 which is what we've been advocating for in four through six grades. Just wanted to point that out. Is Providence in the room? I'll set it aside, maybe she stepped out for a minute. Sorry, Ms. Vega, you'll come on up. Thank you. My name is Martha Vega and all the voices that are being heard are valid. Budget is one of them. It would be great to be able to see the document of the budget so everyone could see the budget. So there's clarity for all. Classified staff, right? In order for everything to function, there's various facets so we could see success. A working building, a principal, a vice principal, staff, custodian, cafeteria staff, repairs to be made. Social and emotional counselor, guidance, counselors. Campus security, mental health. It's also vital to have programs for success for our students, such as music programs, sports. And as well as credit recovery, study halls. It provides all that but I don't want it for us to be divided. I'm in support of all that. I transition leaving the city. I used to work at the courthouse. I used to work at the district attorney's office. I used to respond going to autopsies and processing crime scenes. I did a career change and I'm a teacher. I live here, work here. And I am in support of the SRO and the mental health. So I don't want us to be divided. Thank you so much for the report. I hope you're in favor but we need to be in favor of supporting all. You know, for individuals to be earning $19. It's not enough without having to indicate who they are. So various facets need to be in play. And growing up here, I used to be involved. I used to play the saxophone. I just, I want us to be one community with various things in play so we could be successful. And thank you. Our next three, Donna LaFever, Karina Moreno and Bernie Gomez. Hello again, Donna LaFever. I'm a teacher at Watsonville High School. I just want to first point out the questions in the survey. I just finished a unit with my math students earlier this semester about bias in statistical questions and the questions were extremely biased. So just to point out, do you feel that the SRO mental health clinician contribute to safety or do you feel there would be a detriment if they left? I mean, yeah, we want more adults on campus and we want, if we took them away, that would be a detriment to safety, sure. What if the question instead said, how should the district prioritize funding to ensure safety at our site? And then we could maybe have a better picture of would we fund mental health support or would we fund having a police officer on campus? So that question already you should be really concerned at the data that we're seeing in that whole presentation. Second, I recently had an incident that occurred in my class where I had to step outside and normally handle everything in my class but there was something that came up I had to reach out. Unfortunately, when I was needing support over several days, the mental health staff at our site were not there for variety of reasons. So the SRO was not paired with a mental health clinician and so there weren't those supports brought in to the incident. The students came right back into my class without having interacted with any kind of mental health support. I had to push for it actively all the time and barely. I was just, I was so horrified at the lack of restorative practices that are implemented at our site and then to see that most of the referrals are happening with grade nine and grade 10 and it's on preventative measures. I mean, if you had smaller class sizes or you had instructional assistants pushing into the classes to support those kids, the needs of those kids and building those relationships which we know is key to help support the well-being, the safety and the really, the learning community of our school like we need those relationships. And so if we invest our funding into the teachers and making sure we have people in class supporting those kids, then that's gonna be how we keep our schools safe. Hi, buenas tardes, my name is Karina Moreno and I also really thought that this data and this presentation was irresponsible for its lack of transparency, but also because of its bias. You had ninth grade, ninth and 10th graders being referred at the highest rates. Youth who are at this age going through new stages of development, also coming out of COVID and a lot of stressors, right? And at that age, your brain, your prefrontal cortex, the science proves, hasn't been developed. And so your judgment, your problem solving and your emotional processing also isn't developed. And this coincides also with the data that the top three reasons that students were referred was for peer conflict, being a potential victim and social anxiety. And I thought it was irresponsible to not highlight that at Watsonville High School, 32 youth were referred for mental health concerns, almost triple those other top three reasons that were listed. But this also coincides with what happened last year. It was students with these issues being referred and also students with disabilities and special needs. Last year it was nine students. This year it's four times that, just at Watsonville High School alone. And that scares me, right? Because it's everything that we see data, right? That SROs are targeting students of color or people of color, people with disabilities and LGBTQ students. And yet none of that makeup was identified in the students, but you had 84.6% of students that didn't even have an interaction with the SROs and whose makeup we don't know, talking about how they're comfortable with SROs on campus and mental health clinicians. And then you have a one-to-one ratio at Aptos High School of Hispanic to white students, but you have double the Hispanic students being referred to these SROs and mental health clinicians. And so, I mean, yeah, if we can support a mental health and also the additional supports, I think that's worth the money, thank you. Good evening, boards. I just want to thank the prior speakers for articulating that, right? Because I was thinking, man, how can I articulate or go or just kind of try to challenge something, right? When a picture was painted so fine, you know? That everything's okay. But you heard that, so what I'm gonna say is what I heard in the beginning. I heard a Renaissance student coming up here asking for a soccer field so they can play soccer. I seen a video of Aptos with golf, soccer, all the type of sports, right? You know, good, well-placed high school, you know? Understanding Renaissance is a continuation. I came from Renaissance from new school, right? And I understand the need for services supports, right, for safety. But I think when we think about safety is having well-resourced schools, well-funded teachers, right? Happy teachers, happy students, you know? Of course, we don't have no control over the the lateral violence that might happen at school, right? We don't have control of people's emotions, you know, things like that, you know? But I think that if we create a culture in schools where you have smaller classes, smaller class sizes, just different services in the schools, community, involvement, right? Also the mental health counselors, just a wraparound type of approach, you know, that I think that's, it's just better for everybody. But right now we're just focusing on two, just on mental health and the SRO, right? And it's just, it's not cost effective, you know? You're going to, you know, the teachers are asking for raising all that stuff, you know? So I just think, you know, there's a better approach, you know, so know on SROs and keep the mental health. And Susan Cohen, and I'll make another call for Providence Martinez if she's still here. Oh, is this working? Hi, so I also want to say that I am not for the SRO being in the school. And I, everybody, again, spoke so well and said so many things. And I just want to be another voice that is saying I have concerns that we're not really analyzing. What is safety? What keeps our kids safe? What do they really want? And well, does the teacher, I mean, we're really clear hearing what the teachers need. And I have been a teacher and hope to be serving actually in PVSD soon. And, you know, I know from my past teaching that spending time with the kids, talking about issues in the classroom, not to have to be a therapist, but just making space in the classroom. But there can't be like, if you're going from 34 to 32 kids and that's a stretch, 32 is still a huge class size. I can't believe that that is even, if I have notes about my phone's going to die. We all know, you all know all the research, I'm just gonna repeat things, that shows that armed police officers on campus, who that impacts disproportionately, negatively affects students of color, students with learning disabilities and LGBTQ students. This report shows this. I'm also so concerned about how just this glorification of having like the relationships and how the relationships with WPD and the relationships of having, again, not the individual SROs and I'm sure they're wonderful, but people, but just having this like glorification of a militarization of police in general and having them on our campuses and, okay, thanks. Thank you. Do we have any discussion from the board? Mr. Diaz, Jr.? I would just like to say thank you, Mr. Arlencraz, for the research that you've done. As everybody knows, I have a bunch of little eyes and little ears on what's behind. They see when you're there and they know how proactive you are with meeting each other. I 110% support the SRO and the Mental Health Clinician that are there. They're born and raised. They know the pulse of our community. I'm able to talk to them whenever I can. But I also like to play a clip that recently came out. It came out last year, an incident that happened at Coastal Watsonville High School. And if we could play that for a couple of minutes. We're on the Watsonville and 1-3 to cover. Subject with a gun, negative 417 on Riverside brakes. On Riverside 2-1, Riverside has a march and union. We're still landmines with the Spanish speaker. The, about a minute ago, RPSALT somebody with a gun in the apartment complex. We're still getting further right now. Coming. In Watsonville, was there another unit with traffic? Was it 5-6-8-9? Dark blue jeans and the gun was probably a 45. Copy that. And our most recent update is the RP said if an officer approaches from Riverside and then another one from the alley, we would probably be able to find him. The 1-1? What was the description one more time? Looks like it's unknown race male wearing a black sweater, black beanie, dark jeans. And he's coming back and forth from the park in the complex. We got one running towards the high school. He locked down the high school. There's actually three running. Be one running towards the high school and they're locked down the high school. The high school is reaching into place there. Running towards Lincoln there. Puppy jacket, black hair, white emblem. Copy. Blue jeans, puppy jacket, running towards the high school and on the one on Marching. I don't think you've got that. Towards Riverside, back to Riverside. Copy, another towards Riverside. He's near Brock, on Marching towards Beach. The third subject. Copy, you got him in front of Copy and you got him in front of 240 Blackies. Maple on Code 4. George 106 copy, Marching Maple on your Code 4. Up to a George 116. I got one for 240 Blackies. George 110 has another one. George 106 has a third. We have three, we got all of them to take. Running towards once on the high school on Blackies. Suspects caught on Blackies. Blackies is not even a block way for multiple high school. A call had to be made to an SRO to lock down multiple high school. And I support this program. Thank you. Trustee Scow. Thank you. Piece of chocolate. Keep me going. Thank you for all the public comment. Thank you for the presentation. This is an issue that stirs up a lot of emotions and feelings. I've had my own views on this over the years. I've had family, many more teachers, but some who are law enforcement as well. And I think they did a very good job serving their community. I've heard a lot of feedback from my area and the good folks at Pajaro Valley High School who are upset that they haven't gotten an SRO yet and are concerned about that. And really liked the officer that I think CJ was there before and they really had some positive relationships with him. And it does take a community. It's not, I don't believe that one officer alone is the superhero and those comments are on correct. When you go to PV High, you'll find the classified staff, counselors, the principal, everybody's out there creating a very positive vibe. And that's very important to building the culture of safety. But I've heard from a lot of them that they do want an SRO. I want to say something else about Special Ed and for those who are concerned about the School to Prison Pipeline. The School to Prison Pipeline, a lot of the data shows around the country that originates in problems with special education. And we have problems with our special education program in this district if we're just gonna be honest about it. And that's why we need more resources. We need to have the prep time honored. We need to have the classified staff there. If we want to think about prevention, we need to make sure our kids are getting the services they need from early on. And so that's how everything's connected. And I know some of you see the connections and I feel your frustration because you're like, well, look, you guys are gonna wanna fund this, but we're not adequately funding that. And you're right, but I reject that everything's in either or proposition. And in my previous comments with, whether it's administration, I reject either or propositions. I know things get framed that way that way, but if we're gonna be a successful district, we have to find a way, this is the business of the district to fund the people who are serviting our kids at all levels. I do wanna say that, and this is the last thing, but it's important, I feel our community, I've had a lot of conversations with people about Watsonville PD and I gotta say, most of them people respect Watsonville PD, they feel their local people who serve us treat us fairly well, relative to other police stories that we hear. And I've also heard negative stories as well, as you would expect in any of the community. I do think there is something to fairness going forward about how we pay for this program should we vote to continue it. Because our community has voted to fund Watsonville PD, some of you feel at a too high of a rate, some people feel at just the right amount. Our community also votes to fund the sheriff, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff. And I think there is something to knowing that we're primarily in the business of providing good education and everything that goes with that. So I just wonder in moving this forward, can we find a way to negotiate fairly? I know our board and our leadership has great relationships with the Watsonville City Council, the mayor and with the county leaders. I would like to support this, but I would like to support it, understanding that we can work with them to negotiate in good faith to find a way to pay for this in a way, I'm not saying it's 50-50 necessarily, but that it would be nice if they could cover it because the people who are funding those, it's all the same people, right? It's the public, the public is PVSD, the public is Watsonville, the public is Santa Cruz County. So if those people are already funding those departments, and we have 4,000 kids in Watsonville at both Pajaro Valley High School and Watsonville High School every day, certainly it's the purview of the police department to protect, should be already in the mission to help provide the coverage. We're asking for a little more with ESRI, I understand that. So there's a fairness thing, but I would like to support that if we continue this, could we negotiate something, a little of some kind of cost sharing agreement with these agencies in good faith? And I understand we can't do that right now, but I would like to, I would be supportive of a motion that could include that type of language and also reviewing it with the public. There should be accountability, law enforcement, our public servants as well. They also, accountability, we need to have a feedback mechanism within our district that include people on campus to ensure that the SROs are truly being productive and helping. And I believe they are for the most part, but there's always more feedback is a good thing. So if we can kind of institutes some kind of feedback mechanism, maybe it will exist, but I'm not sure if it does beyond the survey we actually have a committee where we are getting back from the board is hearing ongoing and yearly about how it's going. I think that would be helpful as well. Thank you. You guys, did you wanna clarify? So last year, the board made that request. So we did engage in conversations. Doesn't mean that we can't re-engage in conversations. I did just wanna make a point. If this was approved tonight, we are planning on going after the Department of Justice grant, which would pay 125,000 per each one of the pairings. And so we have not gone after that grant at this point, but we would do so upon the approval of the board. And that would help support a portion of that cost. Any other questions or comments? Just before I wanna just have a question. Steve? For us? Yes. Thank you. Thank you everyone who did come forward and speak. We definitely, I definitely am hearing your concerns. And I also, I'd like to echo what, sorry, Trustee Skull also said, as far as it, it doesn't have to be just because we would fund this, we're not wanting to fund anything else. I firmly agree that class sizes is something we need to address. I feel like it's, there's a lot we need to address. We are going to, if I would like to take it one step at a time, right now our focus, my focus at Leetwell, our teacher crisis is one. But also, when I was running for this position, safety was a huge concern of mine as a parent. And speaking to other parents, it's a huge concern for a lot of parents. And so I feel like, we definitely have to make sure our children are protected. I grew up on Bacchus. So to hear that was a little frightening. I brought back some memories. I saw some things when I lived there. My father grew up on Bacchus. We call ourselves Bacchus Bruisers. It's a big community, but it's, it's, I feel that the program that we've created is very unique and I feel like it's working. I've talked to several students at Watsonville High School, particularly, that said that they do, in fact, feel better knowing that there is an officer there. And they do have a good relationship with that officer. I had a great relationship with the SRO that was on campus when I was at Watsonville High School. I also, like Trustee Skow, have had several people from Pajaro Valley High School ask, you know, why are, why were we left out? You know, we, we would like to have this as well. So I just want to say that I did definitely listen and hear all the comments tonight, but I will be voting in support of this. Dr. Alcaraz, I had a couple of clarifying questions. One, thank you for addressing about the admin referrals and the higher percentage. I just wanted to know if you could just expand on that a little further on admin being a first line because I'm not sure members of the public might understand that. Like why might, when we see a referral coming from admin, like why might it come from admin versus, you know, like a higher percentage from admin? Like why would they be the first line? Can you expand on that a little bit? So we have several mechanisms in place to report things. So whether it's stop it, whether they're using their Chromebook to search something of that nature, those alerts typically go to administration. And so typically we then respond to those alerts. I mean, we are the first ones in terms of administration to get those. And I as a director of student services also get, in fact, like I get one every five minutes and we have to, you know, assess the seriousness of those reports. And so that's typically a lot of the reports that are coming through our anonymous reporting mechanisms as well through our gaggle tools that monitor there. We also get some through Sohn to Grow, which is our other programming that alerts us to any specific issues that may be coming up on campus, whether it's a peer conflict that somebody's reporting on, stop it, whether it's a suicide risk assessment that falls through a note that they wrote on their computer while they're, you know, at school and gaggle pick that up. So those are the kinds of things that are coming through a lot of our monitoring tools and we, administration is the first one to respond to that. Thank you. And just to, you know, on slides nine and 10, with our special education students, you know, with getting that data broken down further, you know, the types of referrals that they're getting, you know, because of those percentages, you know, we're seeing that difference at Aptos High and the difference, you know, at Watsonville High, but then also seeing that difference, you know, at Aptos High where, you know, we were seeing like 41.8%, you know, we're getting covered by the mental health clinician, whereas, you know, there was that higher percentage there. You know, is there, are those two data points linked? Is that a linked correlation? You know, because you were talking about it being, you know, preventative versus response, but are we seeing, you know, with that higher percentage of our special ed students, are we seeing, you know, more special ed referrals on the mental health side or, you know, is it SRO side? You know, where's that? Yeah, so the team has the ability to sort the data in many ways, right? And so we typically do when we see something of that nature. So we do, we did take a look at where are those referrals essentially coming from? What are the referral reasons and then who's addressing that referral? And so to your point, many of the referrals with both of these groups are being addressed solely by the mental health clinician and or with the collaboration of the SRO, but I think I saw one that was just strictly from the SRO, which is what we typically don't want to see. So there wasn't like a huge alert on our end when we review that data and sorted in that regard as something concerning that the SRO was the only person assisting this event or referrals that were coming in. Okay. And then on like slides, I think I was at 11 and 12 about, you know, the ethnicity data, you know, so with Watsonville's referrals being relatively proportional and, you know, Aptos High is not to what are you attributing that difference? Yeah, so the Aptos High School team does have a data team that's looking at some of these. So Katie, Chris Kunis with the assistant principal there is working with some of their teachers as well as their support staff to, there's lots of theories of why this could possibly come about. What are concerned as a team is again, what are the referrals, who's making contact and what is the outcome, right? So the, I know that there's, you know, major concerns in previously about the school to prison nexus, right? And so we did add this pairing with the mental condition to circumvent that. And so part of this process in looking and digesting the data is to ensure that is not the SRO who's, you know, addressing these referrals that in fact is our mental health condition first. And if the mental health condition believes that there is a violation of education code or a Pino code, that that's when the collaboration happens with the SRO to address that matter. And where, what happened with the SRO committee? Like where did that? Yeah, so there was no recommendation on the board approval on May 11 to continue a committee or it was just to continue the progress monitoring. So there is a team that meet internally. And then the feedback and input comes from the surveys for all three entities, plus the focus group. In addition to that, this year we did present back to school side council as another avenue for input as well as sharing progress and updates on our SRO mental condition program. Vice President Acosta. Hello, thank you for your presentation. And I do also think that it's quite fitting that this seems to now be following under the care of you and your department. It was formerly a cabinet member, but I think it is most fitting that it's falling under you and your department now. So I would give kudos to that. And there's a lot said by my other colleagues here that I can definitely echo and agree with. I do have a question and I think that this, but it's gonna be before you were here. So I think I'll direct it to Dr. Rodriguez to see if we might be able to answer it. I remember before the SROs were removed, right? That it had been discussed about in our budget, the line item in our budget for SROs about the cost associated with the SROs. And I don't, off the top of my head, remember what that number was, but it was much lower than this now. So what happened? So I think two things. One, prior, we didn't have the pairing. So we did select to do the pairing. So when we were going through COVID, there was, as I should have been, there was a lot of significant concern about the social-emotional needs of our students. So during the times of COVID, we actually decided to take the money because at that point we didn't have all the one-time monies that we currently have, but we decided to take that money and not use it on an SRO and use it instead on a mental health clinician. After we returned back to in-person, there was a decision to bring back that, but we really wanted to, and I was the one that presented much of the data on it, or much of the research on it. I mean, there is significant research about disproportionality of impact. And so we decided that we, a kind of why do we have to have an either or proposition, and so we decided on this pairing. So it is fairly unique. People have followed suit with us, but we were the first that I'm aware of of actually doing this pairing. So one of the reasons why it's so much more is that there is now the pairing that wasn't. So you used to have three people, now you would have six people, right, because of the pairing, and then also costs have just continued to increase. So just as our costs have continued to increase, meaning with salary increases, then the costs increase, those costs increases are increasing for law enforcement as well. And so that would be the reason for the increase. And so I wouldn't, there's no other reason other than those two factors that I can think of. Well yeah, and I appreciate the way you all broke this out so we could see the cost for the mental health clinician and the cost for the school resource officer. And I'm just looking at that one cost because right, we didn't have the pairing, but the school resource officer cost does seem like it went up from what I recall it was in our budget line item from before. Again, I don't remember, I'm not gonna quote a number because I don't remember that number specifically, but just looking at that cost, I'm saying. If I didn't look at the mental health clinician, that seems like it's just gone up. But there's also a lot of logic behind what you just said, also about cost of salaries and things that have gone up. So I appreciate it. And also thank you for telling and informing us that if this is approved tonight, that about the grant, I think that's- We will definitely, our grant writer will go after it in conjunction with Dakaraka's. Yes, I think that's great. And again, in agreeing with, I agree with the point that Trustee Skow Milano brought up about maybe having a conversation with these other agencies about some, just at least having a conversation about what we could do with potentially a shared cost. And I think maybe a good place to start to possibly bring that up might be in the Intergovernmental Committee. Since we are meeting with city officials, city staff and county officials are requested to be there with their staff, that that might be a good place for us to start that conversation there. So if, when you're asked what to put on the agenda next time, maybe if we could get that on there, that would be great, I think. Yeah, I agree. And the only thing I'd recommend is, and I'm sure they'll ask them is it would just be to have Jorge Zamora there if we're making those conversations so that the chief is able to provide input as well. Yes, and probably Sheriff Hart, and also if we could get our county elected leaders there as well. Yeah. Thank you for the elaboration. I'm just gonna interrupt the discussion for one moment to make a procedural motion to extend the meeting till one. One a.m. Is that what you said? You know what? It's 10.15 and we're on action item number one. Okay, I'll second. First and the second, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 6-0-1. Okay, so. So we've got the, do I have, so Trustee D'Sirpa, did you? I was just gonna say, so again, thank you. I just wanted to end it with a thank you. So most of you out there might know I'm a mental health professional. I'm a licensed clinical social worker. I work now in a hospital, but as a manager, but in my career I worked at Child Welfare, otherwise known as CPS in this county and others. And I have had this sad job of conducting investigations including sexual abuse investigations alongside law enforcement. So just so you know, that's where I come from. I have a very healthy respect for law enforcement colleagues because with them I have seen and experienced the worst of humanity, the harming of young children and youth. Although I am aware of the harm, the historical harm of law enforcement and the harm that sometimes happens today in our countries with our country's citizens. Jen Holm and I participated and maybe some others of you participated in a training probably two years ago or a year ago with our state superintendent, Tony Thurman, where they laid out a very compelling call for the harm that has been done in our schools as a result of policing. We listened to that and I think we were very moved by that presentation. So I sit in an interesting spot because on one hand I have a respect for law enforcement, on the other hand I know the harm that it can cause. And that's why I think as a country we've called for reform and in this community we've called for reform. And in building the program where we're pairing a mental licensed mental health professional alongside of a police officer or a sheriff's deputy, we're trying to make reforms so that that service can be helpful so that we can intervene on things before violence happens, before kids take their own lives, that we can get kids the help that they need. After one of the horrible things that's happened at Aptos High, the stabbing where a child lost his life, a young man lost his life, I spoke to principals in our three comprehensive high schools and assistant principals all together and I asked what they thought of having an SRO back on campus and in every instance they're in favor of having an SRO on campus and welcomed a mental health professional to that dyad. I also have the very unpleasant chore and job of serving on the child death review committee. I don't know if you guys know that these are committees that every county has to have where we review every single death of young people under the age of 21. Try to find out if there was anything that we could have done to prevent those deaths and that is infants, neonates, all the way up through young people and oftentimes we have findings or conclusions about what could have been done to prevent those deaths. I sat on the board the year that three students took their lives through suicide at Aptos High and I think often could we have done anything to intervene on those kids because we did not have a lot of mental health professionals in our schools at that time because our budgets could not afford those. I think about the young man who lost his life at the stabbing and then in the community in Aptos, a youth was beat up with pipes. I mean there's just one thing after another that I think about like what could we have done to intervene earlier. So having said everything I think that I just said, I'm in support of having a pairing. I know it's very expensive. We, Sheriff Hart in one of his statements on camera told us that his budget, he has a giant budget, it's not a problem if he would potentially pay for this position and then I know we've asked him more than once, I've asked the superintendent to go back to him again and again to ask him to put his money where his mouth is and he has not offered a cent to help pay for this program. So I'm really happy to hear we'll go after some grants and hopefully we are a deserving community and hopefully we'll get money to help pay for this very important program. So I'm in full support tonight. Thank you. Trustee Dyes, Jr. I just wanted to ask if instead of making this a yearly thing we can make it every two years. Trustee Scow. Procedurally, can I actually make some comments and also respond to him or do I need to respond to that first and then ask you for permission to make some comments? Your comments. Thank you, thank you, learning this thick. I'm in favor, I would like to make a motion that we continue the pairing but without making a financial commitment just yet because I believe that our board trustees and our superintendent, I called the mayor today, I don't want to see and I said the people of Watsonville voted overwhelmingly to support Watsonville PD a couple of years ago. It's only fair, can we talk about cost sharing in a fair way? I don't know what a breakdown is and maybe it's unfeasible but I think it's worth trying. It's worth trying that our school board work with our city, it's worth trying that our school board work with the sheriff. And every governmental agency says we don't have any money, we all say that. Every agency says that we need you to pay us an entire. But I think there is a fairness thing there where our community, our public, we are supporting the sheriff and Watsonville PD and if the mayor and I think other council members we have good relationships with, if we can have constructive conversations about exploring cost sharing. So I guess I would like to make a, I don't know about two years at this point but maybe if we can have, if we could explore cost sharing first that would make me more comfortable. Dr. Rodriguez, did you wanna speak to that? So I want us to caution of not having a Brown Act violation by doing some of the things that you're suggesting due to just having serial meetings if you do that. So staff, that is the job of staff to have those conversations. And so if you do so, you need to tread very lightly because you will be creating a serial meeting by doing exactly what you're talking about and then voting on it. So you just need to be cautious and use staff to have those conversations and trust staff to do the work because there is a reason why you can't have quorum and discuss action items. Even if it's individuals that wind up having those conversations, if you create a nexus and a hub, then you will wind up having a Brown Act violation which we would learn if we wind up having the special board study session. I appreciate that but I don't think I did that. I don't think I violated the Brown Act like on mayor. I'm not informing you that you did a Brown Act violation. I'm saying if you have the conversations that you're referring to and each board member has conversations with individual counsel, then you do have the opportunity to have a Brown Act violation. You of course as an individual talking to one person, not, but suggesting that other board members have conversations, you do have the opportunity to create a Brown Act violation. Point taken. That's an interesting question. Yeah, so I think that this comes back to a full circle that I think it's a good, I think it's a good idea to have the conversation. I think a good place for that conversation to start so there is no Brown Act violation is in our governmental committee meeting and then that can be brought back and any of us who sit on that can speak to that in our board comments when we deliver out of committee report and also to possibly give direction for the future for this, if again, if it's gonna be approved tonight for that direction. To Trustee Dodge Jr's point, I think that unless there's some significant change with the cost and a cost sharing agreed upon potentially between the district and the city and the district and the county, I think that bringing this back in the future as a report and discussion item but not necessarily needing to be an action item is a place for it, right, really. And we have that a lot when things we approve and we ask for reports and discussions to come back to not necessarily having to vote on it every year. I agree about that unless there was some significant reason and then any board member can request that as well as a public member of the agenda setting committee to agendize it as an action item. To clarify, because Trustee Scott did make a motion, am I understanding that you would prefer? I'm concerned of what we will do to the district administrations team to be able to move forward in what are they contracts, MOUs that we have with PD and the sheriff. If we vote on it and we vote yes, but we will hold back the money and restrict it, I don't, I think then that's holding it back and not allowing it to go forward. And I'm all for going forward with the conversation. Again, I think we should start that conversation in our governmental committee meeting. That's what part that meeting is there for is to have some of these discussions. And that's where I feel we should go. I don't see how the district administration can move forward with the contracts and the MOUs with these other agencies if we hold back the money. Do you wish to amend that motion? Or do you? Let me, if I can respond and maybe clarify. What I'm, what my motion, my motion is to direct our administration to with the policy of continuing the program, first of all, the SRO and the parent of the mental health clinician to continue the policy that program and to direct our administration to enter into contract negotiations with Watsonville PD and the city of Watsonville rather, and we're Watsonville PD and Santa Cruz County Sheriff's office in hopes of finding some cost sharing that we haven't had in the previous contract because we do need to have a lot of things to pay for and that the administration negotiate that and bring that back to us next meet whenever it's feasible. And if it's nothing there, I think it's worth trying. That's my motion and you might disagree, but that's my motion. I'm just not sure if I understand. So you're not voting ask in your motion. You're not suggesting that we hold back money. You're saying let's move forward but also you're wanting to direct the administration to negotiate the money and then bring it back to us for a final, here's what the money is. Here's exactly our financial commitment from PVSD and then we'll approve it then. I don't know if that's the point of order. Emotions on the table. If no one seconds it, it just goes away and then someone else can make a new motion. So why don't we entertain the motion? I think it was just trying to understand his motion. Yeah, I get it. I really am. I appreciate that. And if that motion is to move forward and to give the district administration the ability to move forward with it as it is, but to start those conversations, I'm fine with seconding that motion if that's what the motion is. I'm just not sure I'm clear on that. It's to direct the administration to enter negotiations and to try to find a cost sharing agreement with the two entities, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's. And if there's, and to bring back the final costs for us for approval for the financial approval. So it's moving the policy forward without making, because otherwise what's the point of, then there's no negotiation. There's no, if we just say here's all the money now, then there's no incentive to negotiate, then it's like a done deal. So we're just, we're trying to save a little money, right, that's my thinking. But we've already done that. We've been trying to do that. And respectfully, I understand the intent behind the motion. I would be voting no on that, not because I, but because it's a directive for a negotiation that we've already agreed to talk about in the governmental, but it says that we have to enter into a negotiation and bring it back, but it's like, worth it we're already doing. We might disagree, but that's my motion. There's an alternative proposal there. I say, but that's my motion is what it is. Was that an official second? So we have a motion on the floor. Do we have a second? The motion dies for lack of a second. I'd like to make, try to make a meeting in the middle of the road on this. I'd like to make a motion that we move forward and approve action item 9.1, the pairing of our mental health clinician with our school resource officer program, but also to give the district administration the direction to move forward with the city of Watsonville when creating the agenda for Intergovernmental Relations Committee to have this be an agendized item and to have all the important people that would be key players in that, the chief of police, Sheriff Hart, our two county supervisors, as well as the elected city officials in the school or trustees and staff and administration. So that's my motion. Do we have a second? I'm confused, Georgia. I made a motion to approve it as it is. It's not that hard, I'm sorry. It was a lot of words, I'll clean it up. I made a motion to approve 9.1, move forward on it, right, as is, as was presented. And I don't know also, were we getting clarification on that, that we are, do you need clarification on the direction of three versus two? Because for me, that's a huge equity issue for folks at PV High, not having this. Yeah, we've always won in three. Watsonville PD has tried significantly this year to provide PVHS one. Unfortunately, they also are experiencing staffing challenges. So it's expensive for everyone to live here. Michelle. Because of that, they haven't had enough staff to be able to do that. I'll say my cousin was the sheriff in Monterey County and I even reached out to the sheriff's department to see if they could staff it. They didn't have enough staff either. So we've been trying to staff this PV High SRO and there isn't, there's some new, I think cadets coming forward, et cetera. So hopefully this year we'll get one but it wasn't for lack of trying. We really tried. Right, and I just, so I just wanna make sure that we're moving forward with the intent for three, right, at all three contemporary high schools. So my motion is to approve this action item 9.1 as is to move forward with hopefully the hope that we're gonna eventually have it at all three contemporary high schools. And just also to provide the superintendent with direction to get this negotiation matter on the Intergovernmental Relations Committee meeting. Point, before we second that, does that sound appropriate to give that type of a direction in this particular item? Yes, I think it's fine. I would just encourage us to be cautious with other communication for the Brownoff violation that I mentioned. I'm just trying to safeguard everyone. Okay, I'll second. Thank you. All right, so I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Thank you. All right, moving on to item 9.2, approve resolution number 222347 energy services contract for amendment one of Comprehensive Energy Infrastructure Renewal and Power Resiliency Program. Kent Rocker, it's you. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. So as I presented at the public hearing earlier, this is the actual resolution that we will adopt to allow us to move forward with the amendment to Climatex original phase one commitment that we made. For Trustee Dodge, I know you came in a little late, so I'll just briefly remind the Board what this is regarding. It's regarding providing solar as well as new LED lighting to sites across our district. The solar will be at the district office and actually will result in savings to the district. And the LED lighting will actually be at sites across our district that actually sit in all of our trustees boundaries. So each site will be getting LED lighting. It'll bring us to full LED lighting across our district, as well as bring the district office to net zero energy. And before I ask the Board to approve this resolution, I also just wanna say a thank you to Tyler who sat here waiting for it to make sure that he was here for any questions. And as well as Rob reading who joined us from Climatex as well, he was at Santa Cruz City, it's Board meeting, but wanted to come here as soon as he finished to support. So appreciate both of them being here and just request the Board approve this resolution. Thank you. Thank you for the endurance. Do we have any public speakers to this item? Seems like a waste of money to me with no guarantee of savings and a lot of questions. And I'm reminded of a statement by a public relations firm talking about, get this, the role of our communication is to motivate behavior, to create certain perceptions, to create business results, that's close to the quote. So what business interests are benefiting from this? I wanna refer you to a couple of sources of information that have made me rethink about solar because it sounds so good. One is C, a documentary called The Dimming and it's on Dean Wiggington's site, biogeoengineeringwatch.org. And he lives up in the Shasta area where they used to get a lot of sunlight with what is coming out of the planes now and the atmosphere, he is not giving the sunlight they used to get. So that questions the solar in part functioning. Planet of the humans is another one to see. Solar arrays at Cabrillo College where I know someone who works just recently, they cut down 100 trees by the technology lab and the children's center there to put these solar arrays over the parking lot. That's very, very destructive. Another place where they changed lighting, all this asbestos came down. That was two minutes. Big problems. If I were there, I would vote no, but I'm not. Any discussion from the board? Trustee Dodge Jr. Thank you for being here. You know, I've known when you've had this conversation before and I appreciate you being here so we could see you. I remember when I first came here, consulting this and that and like, where are we at? Where are we handing out these contracts that they can't even show up? So I just like to say thank you for always showing up to the meetings. If it's appropriate, is this the same thing as Watsonville High? Is this, if I could ask that question, if it's not going too far off? Is this something related to that? So in what way? Just to clarify. We have solar at Watsonville High in the parking lot, but is this like the same type of program where cost savings? Yeah, so I'll dip in a little bit to what we talked about during the public hearing. What we did with Watsonville High was a power purchase agreement. Laws have now changed where we're actually able to directly receive those savings. So on top of the fact that we'll be saving, as you see in the item, about $380,000 in the first year, we also have the potential of receiving about 25 to 30% back from installing the solar at the district office. So similar process in terms of installing the solar at DO, a little bit different of a rebate the way we'll receive it. And for the LED lighting, Watsonville High actually will receive new LED lighting as one of the sites to now fully be LED lit. Thank you. And thank you for being, you know, we have long meetings, but I know you stay the whole time, so I would just like to say thank you. Anyone else? Trustee Flores? Quickly, I'll make a little comment. So for the solar panels, I know the initial cost can be quite a lot and it takes a good amount of years to recoup those costs. And then after that is savings, which is great. I just recently learned though, that if because of this change that's happening in a month, would there be the opportunity to get solar panel like an additional sites, if we have sites available, get somewhere where not leasing them, it's kind of like there's, so the one, the program that I was looking at, they come put them on, they own the solar panels, but there's always that option to buy them out in later years, but the reason that we're doing it now is because we can lock it in now without having the upfront costs. We are locking in that other thing. Great question. In the future, yes, under NEM 3.0 or net billing tariff, you can definitely look at renewable energy at other sites and there's multiple different ways that you could fund that. You could fund that through what is traditionally called the municipal lease. You can do a power purchase agreement where somebody else owns it, maintains it and you get a benefit of it or you can buy them out. Or you could use capital, which all the savings drops to the bottom line like in this instance and then you're getting a refund. So there's multiple different programs moving forward to look at some of your smaller sites, but as Clint mentioned, PV High, which is the engineering is part of this program for the NEM 2.0 and for the district office for the engineering and the implementation, there are the two highest sites of utility expenditures left at your district. So that's why they were focused on. Can I make a motion to support this item? Thank you. All right, I've got a first. Do I have a second? I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on to item 9.3, resolution 22, 23, 39 temporary borrowing between funds for fiscal year 2023-2024. Clint, still you. Thank you so much, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez and Board of Trustees. So as I presented during the public hearing, this is a resolution to be able to transfer cash between funds. Again, our own funds, typically our bond fund, fund 21. As I noted before, this is not anything abnormal for a district. This does not show any signs of fiscal distress. It's simply a way that we can continue to ensure that when we receive those large payments of property tax in December and April, if we ever have a cash shortage in between those two months, we're able to borrow from other funds to ensure that we're able to make all of our payments. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do not. Any discussion from the board? I'll entertain a motion. The motion to approve. I have a first. Do I have a second? I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 403. Onto item 9.4, resolution 222338, temporary cash borrowing from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education fiscal year 2023-24. I'll tell you. Thank you, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez and Board of Trustees. This resolution is one more of our borrowing resolutions of the three. This one is actually borrowing from our County Office of Education. And the reason we do this one is, as you'll see in the upcoming one, from the County Treasury, we're only able to actually borrow from the County Office versus the County Treasury during certain times. So this one actually allows us to kind of, with the County Office of Education, to be able to cover the time that the Treasury will not allow us to actually borrow from the Treasury, which is between April and June 30th. Any public speakers to this item? No, we do not. Any discussion from the board? Trustee Dyer Jr.? I'll throw you a curve ball. When we pull these kind of loans, does the County ever ask, why are you doing this? No, so as I mentioned before, with school districts, we get two very large allocations after property tax. So December and April is when we see those big, large payments. So in between those months, all school districts across the county, across the state, can tend to see some cash deficiencies in those months. We actually haven't had to borrow from the County Office in years because of the fact that we have that bond fund. But typically we pay it back before there's, again, it's not really a loan where you were paying interest. It's simply borrowing cash until our cash comes in. The County Office is aware when our cash comes in. So they're always willing to support us and they understand, really it's just the nature of doing business in a school district. Just throwing you a curve ball. Of course, appreciate it. Can I have a motion? All right, you've got a motion. Can I have a second? Second. Can I have a first and a second? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Yay. All right. Okay, motion carries, 502. Going on to item 9.5, Resolution 222348, temporary cash borrowing from Santa Cruz County Treasurer for Fiscal Year 2023-24. A little click on that. Thank you once again, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. So the last of the three borrowing resolutions, this one as I noted in the prior one, this is actually the one from the Treasury, so the Santa Cruz Treasury. This one allows us to do borrowing up until the end of April. Again, so when we do need to borrow, typically our stance is we start with our funds, then we go to the Treasury, then we go to the County Office as our last resort, if it's in that last month. As I noted before, we typically do not have to borrow from any of these or utilize these resolutions. They are just typical resolutions we have in place, just in case cash flow becomes an issue in the future. As I noted, we haven't had that problem in the past few years. Any public speakers to this item? And we do not. Any discussion from the board? And I have a motion. Motion to approve. All right. Okay, so I've got a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item 9.6, resolution 22, 23, 43. Our after-school professionals appreciation week, April 25th through April 29th, report will be presented by Jennifer Littleton Bruno, our director of expanded learning. Please, I'm Jen Littleton Bruno, the director of expanded learning. And I'm pleased to bring to you tonight a resolution for after-school professionals week. And I'm joined with a couple of our after-school staff members tonight. Whereas from April 25th through April 29th, after-school programs across the nation will observe after-school professionals appreciation week. Pajaro Valley Unified School District trustees and staff acknowledge that our after-school professionals will provide a variety of extended learning opportunities during out of school hours have a positive effect on our children's families and communities. Whereas the after-school professionals of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District are fully committed to providing meaningful academic and enrichment opportunities for our students. We ask that you approve this resolution to honor the work that after-school program providers are providing across our district daily to over 4,000 students at 30 different school sites from that hours of 6.50 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do not. Do we have any discussion from the board? Trustee Dautz-Schöner? I would just like to say thank you for many years, not just this year, but many years. I used to go to the after-school program at Minnie White, me and my brothers, and we were always well fed and taken care of. But I also see too when I pass by Minnie White currently and I happen to pass by Radcliffe and see the children after school and then I see the children playing four or five o'clock and thank you for feeding. I like to say us because I was a product of that myself. So just thank you for all you guys, hard work, all the people that are teaching and cooking the food. It's an important role. So I just like to say thank you very much and I'd like to make a motion to support this agenda item. First or second, but do we have any other comments? Just in great, amazing support for the work that you do to help keep kids safe. A lot of kids used to go home to empty homes and get a bad things happen to them or get into trouble or be bored or whatever and the enrichment that you provide across the district for families and children is amazing. So thank you very, very much. And I just wanted to add, I've had three kids who have benefited from the after-school programs and they come home and they're like, Mom, I know how to make tortillas and they're like making like flour tortillas and we had burritos from the tortillas for many nights in a row, but they were really excited. So we had, it was great, but the love of that and them enjoying that and then the art and that expanded opportunity for them to learn and love learning and Lego club and just like all sorts of just that opportunity to kind of explore interests and to get help if they were struggling with homework and things like that. So thank you. So we have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Thank you. All right, resolution 22, 2344, National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Clint, it's back to you. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. Yes, I have the honor of presenting the resolution for National, for a resolution for the Board to approve April as the month for National Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month. I thought of coming up and reading the where as is. I think what really stuck out to me is last year when we did this resolution, there were 391,470 reported cases in 2020. This year we're up to 416,970. So it's about 25,000 more cases reported this year. So I think that alone speaks impacts of why this is so important and why the work we do to ensure that our children's safety is so important. I could speak about this resolution and speak more, but I think after hearing Trustee D'Sirpa speak about her experiences and I'm sure all of your experiences, I would like to just open it up to the Board to make comments, because I'm sure all of you have a lot to say about this amazing resolution and I would ask that you approve it. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do, we have one. Marilyn? 9.7? Marilyn? Yeah, Garrett. National Child Abuse Prevention Month, right? There are many ways children's are abused. And we know some of the well-publicized ways that are valid. However, in addition, I consider poisoning children, harming children as abusive, especially when you've been informed of the harm. And I refer to several things here. I gave you a while ago, Esquela's seen Wi-Fi in Spanish and it's Wi-Fi and school making your child sick. That's the last thing I would wanna do is to make children sick in any way with pesticides or anything. When I was teaching at Calabasas, I remember going out the door standing there as the groundsperson is spraying herbicide and I had to stop him and go into the principal's office. It was considered routine. Here, this non-ionizing radiation has been confirmed through thousands of scientific studies to cause a whole list of symptoms. You've been repeatedly provided documentation over 20 years of the harm by me. All of the above symptoms and chronic cumulative exposure can lead to serious life-threatening health problems such as cancer, leukemia, brain tumors and diabetes. There's a real easy way you can prevent this kind of abuse. Remove the Wi-Fi, replace it with wired internet. Thank you. I'm very serious. Do we have any discussion from the board? I just wanted to say in the patient care that I did, the health outcomes that I saw, the long-term health effects I saw from patients who had history of drug use, homelessness, all had long-term trauma. It started somewhere and a lot of times it started with childhood trauma. And if passing a resolution is a little tiny step, a little tiny drop in the bucket that can help, of course. Does anybody else have anything they want to say? Quickly. I will say that I believe during the COVID times in the counties in our region, child abuse reports were down because we didn't have a staff with eyes on children. And so as a protective factor, our schools help report abuse to children. And so thanks to all of our staff and to the training that they get in order to identify and intervene on child abuse. So I'll make a motion to support this. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye is 601. Thank you. Um, going on to item 9.8, Approved Resolution 222345, recognizing April as National Bilingual Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month, and report will be presented by Michael Burman, our Director of Equity, State, and Federal Program and Accountability. Good evening President, home members of the Board, Dr. Rodriguez. It is once again my honor to bring forth the resolution to recognize April as National Bilingual Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month. Just a couple, whereas National Bilingual Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month is an opportunity to draw attention to the persistent inequities between multilingual learners and native English-speaking students. And then also that it recognizes the significant linguistic and cultural assets that bilingual and multilingual learners bring to our schools. So I hope that it's resolved that Pahora Valley Unified School District will proclaim April 2023 as National Bilingual Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month and continue to strengthen our education and focus on bilingual multilingual learners. And just a quick plug, we are launching it with our next Monday mini, which celebrates our dual language programs and our seal of biliteracy for our parents. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do. We have one, Roddy. Good evening again. So I would love to stand up here and wholeheartedly support this resolution. Unfortunately, it just seems like it is empty words at this point. So PVFT has been proposing for many, many, many years, long before I was part of the negotiations team or in this role as chief negotiator. I bilingual stipend for our bilingual educators. Currently, we have a stipend in contract where if you have a B-clad, meaning a bilingual credential, and you are in a designated bilingual program, you receive a very small stipend for that amount of extra work. However, this does not provide any stipend to the numerous positions that we have that utilize their bilingual skills. We have positions like SLPs, RSPs, psychologists, counselors, and numerous bilingual teachers who are not teaching in designated bilingual programs who do not receive that stipend. So hearing that we are designating this month as bilingual educators and in the support of bilingual learners while we have been refuted a stipend for those people who are providing a valuable contribution to our schools and communities, seems like empty words and ways for you to pat yourselves on the back without really doing anything about creating an actual bilingual community. That's respected and supported. Do we have any discussion from the board? You guys, Junior? First of all, that's a great point. Maybe that's something we can look into bilingual stipend. But also, I'd like to say thank you Michael Barman for recognizing the biliteracy seal. I haven't been here that long, but when I get to go to the graduations at Watsonville High, how proud students are to have their seal. And also, to go along with the district, I know when the floods first happened, I know Spanish teachers that wanted to go to their fairgrounds and volunteer with translation services. And I believe we sent staff to speak. And I have a lot of issues of what happened with the fairground, but we'll just keep it positive. But I just wanted to thank PVZ for sending translation staff and a teacher at Watsonville High who, after the levy busted, I believe it was Friday night or Saturday night. The next day, there was a Spanish teacher who emailed me and said, Danny, I want to go. We have lots of students who want to go translate. And so I just wanted to say thank you for our program and for the teacher and the students who wanted to go volunteer. Like I said, Monterey County and the shelter. Frustrating, but I'll just keep it positive. And thank you PVZ students and teachers. Thank you. I have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. I have a first. Do I have a second? I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries 601. Very much. All right. We've got item 9.9, Resolution 2346, Autism Acceptance Month. Report will be presented by Heather Gorman, SELPA Director, and Special Services. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees. We are here to present Autism Acceptance Month. And I'm going to hand this over to Mark Wentzler, our lead behaviorist in the district. Good evening, President Holm, board members, and Dr. Rodriguez. I prepared this last long speech, but I've decided to shorten it a little bit, given the hour. But I'm going to start off with I'm here tonight to present a resolution to make April 2023 Autism Acceptance Month. Last year, Heather Gorman presented to you the importance of changing it from Autism Awareness Month to Autism Acceptance. It's an important change to supporting inclusivity and acceptance of the neurodiversity for individuals with autism. Since it's my first year working in PV as a lead behaviorist, I'm just going to share just a little bit of my experience related to autism to just shed some light on this topic. I began working with individuals with autism back 23 years ago. I was a UCSC student, and I was hired as a behavior therapist to use Applied Behavior Analysis, or ABA, to teach young children important communication, social, and life skills. When I took the position with Easter Seals, I had never really heard of autism. I'll never forget the first boy I worked with. He was a cute little blue-eyed. He had little blonde curls. He couldn't talk. I called him Little Man. We bonded, and he made a lot of progress in the ABA therapy, and it kind of just committed me to this work. I mean, I've been doing it for 23 years now. He benefited from the structured ABA, but he also benefited just from the relationships we had and the connection that we made and just when we played together. Going to skip ahead a little bit. The big news back then when I started, this was in the year 2000, was one in 150 children being born were diagnosed with autism. That was like shocking news back then. Now, today, it's one in 44 children are being diagnosed. In 1970, it was one to two in 10,000, so I think that should just make us all pause a little bit. Those numbers are also reflected in the increasing numbers of students with autism that require specialized evidence-based practices for us to support their intensive individualized needs. But the whole idea of acceptance is just that they have things that are valuable and strengths, and we just need to also, as we want to support them and teach them with these evidence-based practices, real value that they have as individuals. So I think that's important for us to think about. Just one other thing. They also used to have the puzzle piece, but it's now the infinity symbol, the rainbow infinity symbol, just to also kind of symbolizes that diversity and understanding the neurodiversity and the importance and what these individuals bring is valuable. Just one other thing about me, I also am a parent. I have two adult sons with autism who I love a lot, and they have all these amazing qualities and things that I cherish, but they're always going to need a lot of a little extra support. I'm lucky to say they're thriving right now. They get support from Santa Cruz Supported Living and from the Community Life Services. They are living independently with that support, and it's funded by San Andreas Regional Center. And I just want to say that my wife and I have so many things that we celebrate about our two boys, but we have to learn that it's really through accepting them that we just find value. And I'm just proud to say PV is, the PVUSD Selpa is celebrating Autism Acceptance Month by promoting a variety of activities for all students to learn about accepting and celebrating individuals with autism in our district. I'll just do a couple of the whereases. Supporters can participate, whereas supporters can participate in a World Autism Month by taking the pledge to create a world where all people with autism can reach their full potential by increasing understanding and acceptance, whereas students with ASD can achieve success in school when provided with well-implemented evidence-based practices and inclusive educational opportunities. So I propose that the PVUSD Board of Education declares the month of April 2023 as Autism Acceptance Month. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do. We have one. Marilyn. Maybe this should be titled, and it's a tragic. All the autism when I started teaching in 1965, you never heard of autism. There's something that some factors of toxicity affecting these children that has increased dramatically over the years. And it corresponds to vaccines, and it corresponds to the microwave radiation. In terms of the microwaves, I want to refer you to the work of Dr. Dietrich Klinghart, who looked at 10 mothers who had autistic children and 10 mothers who had normal children. The key factor was the sleeping location of the mother during pregnancy, being in the high electromagnetic fields like Wi-Fi. That didn't happen when I had my daughter, who is now 55, because this was not around on the Wi-Fi. Serious factor. I'm going to give you a couple of pieces of information also when my daughter graduated high school from Aptus High in 1985. It was not mandatory to have vaccines. I signed a form objecting. Now they're forcing these injections on children, so I'm going to give you vaccination. The greatest lie ever told that vaccines are safe and effective. This is from Weston A. Price Foundation, not from the vaccine manufacturers, and it has important facts related to autism. Also one called Co-Chance for adults and children, what we now know. Thank you. Children should not be poisoned. Do we have any discussion from the board? I would just like to say that there's the conversation, the shift from awareness to acceptance. I said this last year, but I'm going to repeat it because it's so important. I have a couple of friends on the spectrum who weren't diagnosed until well into adulthood, well after I knew them, and it was like, ah, this explains so much. And it's like, folks on the spectrum have been here for a long time. We're, you know, a lot of the number increases because we're recognizing it. That needs to be taken into account for the numbers as well. And when we look at acceptance, when we recognize the beauty that is neurodiversity, when we start looking at things about universal design that allows for diversity and differences, there's something synergistic and beautiful that can happen for everybody. And I've been learning about that as an educator, you know, as I'm changing my own design curriculum. And it's very powerful. And so thank you. Busty Dusserpe, did you have something you wanted to say? Thank you for waiting so long tonight. Thank you for being the parent of two awesome kids. I'm also a parent of a special needs kid. And families are very special as well. And yeah, yes. So anyway, thank you for being here tonight. And I appreciate you coming to present this with Heather. I really do. I'd like to make a motion to support. The first and the second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Motion carries 601. Moving on to item 9.10, approved memorandum of understanding between PVSD and PVFT, emergency flood evacuation days and impacts for 2022-23. Report will be presented by Allison Yosawa, our Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. Yes. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. So I actually have two MOUs to present to you tonight with PVFT. We wanted, for this last, I guess, atmospheric river, and the impact it had, as we saw in Pajaro, provided an additional three days for those employees who are affected by the mandatory evacuations. So it's very similar. It's almost lifted off the MOU that we did in January. So we were able to work quickly with PVFT to put this one together. And then a couple days later, put the second one together with, as we saw that what happened when the levee broke and that this was going to take families and our staff a little bit longer to recover from, we pulled some language from the CZ Fire MOU that we had done before. So in the contract, it says that employees can only use up to 10 personal necessity days of their own in a school year. So the second MOU that's also attached extends that so they can go beyond 10 days of their own if they have that in order to continue to get paid and take the time. In addition, the pieces that we lifted from the other MOU was about if that still isn't enough or they run out of time, that being able to go on an unpaid leave but still benefited for up to a month or take a personal leave to the end of the school year. So right now, the timelines for certificated employees to ask for a personal leave have lapsed. So this MOU actually allows for them to get it and kind of wave those timelines. So again, super appreciate the conversations we were speaking on Friday night, Nellie and I, trying to put these together for her members. So I respectfully request that the board approve these this evening. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes, we do. One Nellie. Glad I stayed awake for this. Good evening, board. Yes, thank you to Allison, to Dr. Rodriguez, for being receptive and wanting to work on an MOU to address the storm that came through and did some pretty serious damage. We are, the counties were in a state of emergency. And so the only thing that I would like to see is for those teachers who were blocked by downed trees from their streets and not being able to basically leave their neighborhood to get to work, to not have to use their personal necessity day for that. Because the MOU is specifically written to address floods, the evacuation mandate. So when you're prevented from getting to work due to road closures, it's not an evacuation mandate. So that's the only ask. Allison was gracious enough to, we had a conversation about that as we were working on this MOU and that it would be like hearing on a case by case. But there's, I think, a lot of cases. And so I think in regards to it being a state of emergency and there only being one roadway open for a couple days between Monterey and Santa Cruz that also just prevented. So I do appreciate as well, I had a conversation with Dr. Rodriguez in acknowledging that we have members who dropped their children off at school in the morning and or daycare. And so they don't have the ability on a moment's notice to change their schedule to try to get on the road one or two hours earlier to get to work on time. So I stepped into the classroom on Wednesday to help at Watsonville High for a teacher that was stuck in traffic. And so we definitely appreciated that on that day teachers that were showing up many hours late were not going to be docked any of their leave. That was important. So thank you for that. And then just thanks for, I hope that you approve this. And yeah, our people can't fly. We're working on it, though. Technologies, it's on its way. Thanks. Do you have any public? That was public speaking. It's getting a little late. All right, do we have any discussion from the board? I'd like to make a motion to approve. First and a second. Totally agree with all this, but I'd just like to, if we could ask Gavin Newsom to hurry up and please declare of a state an emergency so our teachers can get FEMA help. I know there's an issue in Monterey County again. Gavin Newsom, please declare of a state emergency for our teachers. Thank you. We have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. All right, going on to item 9.11, approve memorandum of understanding between PVSD and CSCA chapter 132, emergency flood of actuation days and impacts 2022, 23. Allison? Yes, thank you, President Holm. Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. These are identical EMUs I just presented, but for our CSCA members. So again, additional evacuation days for those that were in evacuation zones, as well as similar language with regards to waiving the amount of PN days and reasons for taking personal necessity, as well as unpaid leaves with benefits for up to a month and then unpaid leaves. Classified contract is a teensy bit different where they can apply for a personal leave whenever throughout the year, but it's not a guarantee. And so this is providing them some precaution that if they did apply for it or ask it or requested, it would be granted. So that's a little bit of a difference, but same language. So I respectfully leave requests that you approve these two EMUs as well. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do not. Any discussion from the board? Trustee Dodge, Jr.? Just the same thing. Governor Newsom, please declare a state emergency for Monterey County. I received a lot of messages of people who were evacuated that work in the district as classified workers. One specifically, she lived in San Juan Road. She's in the hotel. She needs help with food. And a lot of stories that we all have heard about Monterey County, they can't go back home. There's people right now on the bridge waiting to go home. A lot of our workers, bus drivers and I just, hopefully the governor, somehow some way we could find a way to make sure we could get our classified workers back home, let them go home. Thank you. That emotion? Yes, Kami. I want to support that. Thank you. I'll second that. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Item 9.12, approve emergency flood of actuation days and impacts for the 2022-2023 school year for unrepresented management employees. Yes, thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. So not an MOU, but an item to approve for unrepresented employees, yard duties, our confidential employees and our professional services as well as our management. So again, additional three evacuation days for those in the evacuation zones, use of personal necessity and unpaid leave options. So I respectfully request that you approve this item for those employees in our district as well. Thank you. Any public speakers to this item? No, we do not have any. Any discussion from the board? I have a motion. Second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Item 9.13, approve total compensation for non-management confidential employees for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years. Alison, it's still you. Yes, it's me and the last one. So you can, yes. So thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. This is the total compensation for our confidential employees. Again, these are our non-management. They are classified employees, but they are unrepresented due to the nature of their positions, which are governed by Ed Code of that they need to be unrepresented. It cannot be unionized. So again, this is for a four and a half percent for 2021-22 with an $1,800 one-time payment and a 10% for 2022-23 with a $1,500 payment. One-time payment as well as the addition of Juneteenth as a holiday. Again, this is the exact same agreement we entered into with CSEA. And so I think there's also some additional information. Sylvester, if you wouldn't mind just scrolling down the item a little bit too, to just show some comparable data with regards to these two positions and others in the area. Sylvester, sorry. Yep, just you don't have to open them just, or you can, but I was just, just on the item. Yeah, just right there. Perfect, just right there. Thank you. Thank you. All right, do we have any public speakers to this item? We do. We have one. Roddy, is she still here? Do we have any discussion from the board? All right, let's see. So, Trustee Dodge Jr. I received a lot of comments and emails. I even received a handwritten letter from a constituent of my district and I just wanted to say, thank you for that handwritten letter. We had some good conversations. And I listened, you know, I listened to my constituents and my neighbors and they said that this is important, it's an important step in our district. So I'd like to make a motion to support this agenda item. Okay. I'll second that, but I did have a comment. Okay, go ahead. Question. Because we had talked about, this is actually four positions and we see what those four positions are. And two of them are vacant or not filled and then there's just two employees right now and two of those positions. But my question that I had in regards to non-management, confidential employees, what category does the district's PIO fall into? She's management, classified manager. Oh, that's classified management. Okay, because I just almost thought that the nature of that would have been confidential. But thank you for the clarification. Yeah, so just to further clarify, so technically all of us are confidential employees, right? I mean, we have private student information that we're purvy to or personnel data, right, that we all have. The thing about confidential employees is that you know the position of the district with negotiations. So obviously Lindsay in my office works, I work with HR. She sits in negotiations with us to take notes and stuff like that. That's what makes her a confidential employee in that sense. And then Eva being, or the executive assistant too, to the superintendent, you are also again, purvy to different information or positions of the district that you wouldn't know. That's what classifies them as confidential and there's ed code around governing those positions. So I just didn't bring that up maybe last time, but just to understand the difference between confidentiality as we all are actually, confidential in terms of the information that we receive with student data, but these ones are specifically governed by ed code. Right, and part of my curiosity in clarifying that is because it's also about who sits in closed session. And so there's lots of, as you were saying, confidential employees in this district, but they're not all invited into closed session. So I was just wanting, I didn't know if there was something around that as well or not. But thank you for the clarification. Absolutely. Appreciate it. So you have a first and second. And then I also have some more comments to the trustee to serve her. Yeah, thank you to my fellow board members for supporting this item. These are two people that are not very high paid that this money will mean a lot to. And they're also very hard workers, very, very hard workers and I feel badly that we didn't approve this in the last meeting. And so thank you to my fellow board members for recognizing that this is important to two people that are very hard workers for us. Are there any further comments? We have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 601. Item 9.14, High School Physics Adoption Report will be presented by Michael Russo, our science director. Hi, good evening. Board President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I'm Michael Russo, the science director. And in our ongoing transition to the next generation science standards, our physics teachers have recently evaluated new instructional materials. And I'm here tonight to provide you with a quick overview of that selection process, emphasis on quick, and our teacher's recommendation for the board. Here you can see a timeline. They spent about four months screening publishers. I'll show you the publishers in a minute and analyzing the data from that screening. This is, we had all the physics teachers in the comprehensive high schools were involved. They were on the adoption team, two from MAPTOS, one from PVHI, and one from Watsonville. We looked at these four different publishers and those are the names of their physics texts. And the process we use was similar what I've presented in the past around for our chemistry adoption and our biology adoption. And environmental studies was the last one that I was presented. So there are the four texts that we evaluated. The teachers evaluated. And here are the tools that we use. This is the main tool we use. And it's called the time toolkit or a toolkit for instructional material evaluation. And we evaluated each of the publisher texts across these five different criteria. So use of phenomenon as an engaging question along an inquiry for students to explore and motivate them to dig deeper and explore the content. Presence of a logical instructional sequence, very important for teachers and student understanding. Criteria three is critical and that's a focus of ours is having students do the thinking and figuring it out. And then criteria four deals with the three dimensions of the NGSS. So skills and cross cutting concepts and the content core ideas. Criteria five is our district specific lens. And the next slide talks about that in detail. This is, this was developed by teachers and district leaders years ago to highlight adoption considerations for our diverse students. So that was the fifth criteria. The next thing I'm gonna show you is the time protocol actually collects both quantitative and qualitative data. And here is a slide showing the scores. There's a lot of information up there. But each of the four teachers evaluated all four publishers across the five criteria on the top row. In addition, they gave an overall score. Each teacher did. And they also gave a recommendation on whether we should move forward with that text and possibly adopt that text. So the scoring kind of rubric is on the left. If in criteria one under the use of phenomena, if that text showed strong evidence, teacher gave it a score of a three. If it showed adequate a two and limited or no evidence a one. So we had four teachers, so a total score of 12. And you could see McGraw Hill on the first criteria scored nine out of 12. So that will explain the rest. And then on the recommendation on the far right column, the Y indicates a yes and the small S indicates strongly. So two teachers strongly recommended that we adopt McGraw Hill and two teachers said yes, we should adopt it. So you could see and my highlighting makes it pretty obvious that McGraw Hill scored the highest across all the criteria. And so I just wanna share a few of the strengths of the McGraw Hill Inspire Physics text. The first one is that it uses a 5e lesson in instructional model and that's engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate. And this is one of the best practices around NGSS for increasing student engagement, critical thinking. And it also aligns nicely with our biology adoption and our chemistry adoption also uses that 5e lesson model, which is nice so when students transition to the next grade, they're familiar with that model. McGraw Hill Inspire Physics also has a number of digital tools that really allow students to access understanding of the curriculum. And then the last, the teacher comment there just talks about how it's really helps students understand phenomena and the content and that's what we're looking for in a text. And so the physics adoption team recommends and asked the school board to please approve McGraw Hill California Inspire Physics as our new high school adoption starting next year. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do not. Any discussion or comments from the board? I have a motion. A motion to approve. I have a first, do I have a second? Okay, I've got a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries 601. Thank you on behalf of our physics teachers, I appreciate it. So item 9.15, PBOC transportation plan. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Katie Bejazi. For those of you who don't know me, I'm the director of transportation. I first wanted to apologize that I couldn't be here at the last meeting to present the transportation plan. To you, I am grateful for Mark Amona stepping up in my absence. I'm here this evening before you to report that we did not receive any feedback on the plan as presented. And as mentioned on March 8th, this is a living document that can be, or that will be brought back annually for your approval. And as a department, we will continually collaborate with CSEA and our other stakeholders to ensure that the plan is up to date relevant and encompasses the totality of the plan requirements. So staff respectfully request your approval of the plan as presented this evening. Yeah, do we have any public speakers to this item? We do not. Any discussion from the board? Trustee Dodg, Jr. Well, did you just say you had no feedback from your workers? From what I've been hearing the last year, you've had some angry workers. And no one gave any feedback. Thank you. I have a question. Some of the parents in my area, some of the schools have released early start times, like 730 in some schools. And I've been told it's a function of the transportation. If we were able to change that in the future, what was that a function of not enough drivers or if at some point in the future, or is there, what would that take to be? It would take a lot more drivers actually. It's a function of our tiered bell schedule because of the new law that required our junior high and high schools to start later. As a result, because our buses have to service several schools, we had to move some of our elementary schools to earlier start time because we had to shift those junior high and high schools to the later start time. And see, did you have a comment? I was just gonna make a motion to approve. I'll take it. So I've got a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Thank you. Have a good evening. All right, take care. Item 9.16, E-rate category two, network installation projects. Report will be presented by Dan Weiser, our technology director. To be able to raise this up. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. Before I present our category two E-rate projects, I just wanted to take a quick second and wish a happy birthday to our own Sylvester Montajano, who is spending his birthday evening with us. And we're almost done with your birthday, but happy birthday Sylvester. So I'm bringing forward tonight our annual category two E-rate application. This is our infrastructure application. So this covers cabling, installation of equipment, purchase of equipment, configuration of equipment, as you know, in order to maintain the robust network infrastructure to support all of our staff and students. It's a never ending, ongoing process of upgrade. And so these upgrades are, well I'll go through them really quickly. So we have core network infrastructure upgrades and these are to support the 10 gig connections that we were approved a few board meetings ago. And then we have some new infrastructure to connect our Aptos High Athletic Field. This is something that we've been wanting to do for a long time. So this would allow the connection across the street that separates the Performing Arts Center and the Athletic Field to finally be connected to the network so we could broadcast wireless in the Athletic Field and provide paging and other services there. And then wireless infrastructure for two schools, Loni and Pajaro Middle. And this is just to keep them up to speed with our current infrastructure. All of these projects are paid for by E-rate, which is a federal discount program. So it winds up costing the district 15% of the cost of the equipment and installation. And then that 15% is actually paid for with measure L bond funds. So it's a great program that allows us to leverage those bond funds and get more for our money and then also leverage the E-rate funds to really make sure that our network infrastructure is up to speed. So the total cost of the project is about 300,000 and the cost of the district is about 45,000 and that 45 is paid for with those measure L bond funds. So tonight I bring these projects forward and ask for your approval and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do one, but I think she may be gone. Marilyn? I know, I was amazed. All right, do we have any discussion or comments from the board? Can I have a motion? I'll make a motion, I'm sorry. Yeah. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Hi. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. Thank you. Thanks, Dan. Get in there. 9.17, approve the addition of a special board meeting to review administrative salaries on March 29th, 2023. Report will be presented by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Yes, thank you very much. So as the board requested at the last board meeting, the agenda setting committee got together and identified this upcoming Wednesday, which is March 29th as a date for us to be able to review administrative salaries. I do want to just make a note that because it is a special board meeting, we actually won't take action that night. We're not allowed to take action because of the fact that it's a special board meeting and you can't do administrative salaries on special board meetings, but we would like to present the information as requested. So I know several board members have given me feedback on what they would like to have included in that presentation. So I appreciate that feedback. If other board members that haven't had the opportunity can give that to me, that way that can ensure that I provide all the information that is requested. And so we are requesting on March 29th, so that we can do it before the spring break. Otherwise, because of special student recognition and all the other events that are happening, we wouldn't be able to do it till later. And I do feel that there's urgency on this matter. So request the approval of March 29th for the special board meeting. Do we have any public speakers to this item? No, we do not. Any discussion from the board? And I have a motion. Oh, okay. Well, it's a great idea. I know this came out of our last meeting and I understand there's a date and the agenda setting committee came up with something. I appreciate the effort. I cannot make that date. I have a work commitment. I would like to be able to attend. So there's six of us here and it would be nice to find a date that works for everybody who wants to attend. But if that date works for the rest of you, great. It doesn't work for me. I can watch it later on YouTube. And certainly provide some feedback before and after, but we're also here right now too. So if we could find another Wednesday, that'd be cool too. Or at Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'll make a motion to approve. I have a motion. Second? I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those opposed? Sure. Absolutely. We can discuss it, yeah. I just, nobody was raising hands, so. There's no discussion, I can't, you know. Point of order though. We did have a vote on the table. Should we finish that first? We should. Okay. Then, we can still have it. Well. I don't think we can amend their motion. Sure. What's happening? I'm sorry. I'm just trying to go by the rules right now. You could still have discussion after a motion's been made and it's been seconded. We started the vote though. So you can retract your request if you want. That's up to you. Or you can retract your motion. Or you can vote on it. But if you vote on it and it fails. I guess I'll retract my motion until further discussion. Okay. Okay. I'm like the rule so. Do we have further discussion? Anyone? Trustee Dodge Jr.? We do the 30th. Management can make that happen. We actually have a parent LCAP meeting that night but we can, it hasn't been broadcasted so we can make that shift. I have a question. And this would be a special study session that we have in the week. We usually have them at start at six, right? It's a special board meeting. It's not a study session. It's a special board meeting. It would start at six p.m. Yes. Six p.m., right? Mm-hmm. Trustee Skal, the 30th. I could be there at 6.45. You can start earlier or you can start at seven. Would you be able to do the 28th? Cannot do the 28th. The 30th, I'll get there. If that works, if that's good for you, the rest of y'all. Well, maybe we can move the start time. Maybe it's a 6.30, seven. 6.30 would be nice. So the 30th at 6.30? Is that acceptable? Thank you, yeah. So a motion to have the special study session on... So, okay, I'll make a motion to have the special board study session to review administrative salaries on March 30th at 6.30. Does that sound acceptable? Yeah. Good work. I'll second that. I need a second. Oh, sorry. All right, so I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries 601. All right. Item 9.18, approve the addition of a special board study session to review PVSD's budget on May 20th, 2023. Rodriguez? Yes, thank you. So this one actually is on a Saturday. The reason for that is we actually have graduations even starting in May this year. So when we looked at the calendar, we have 14 key events that are happening in the month of May, including everything from the Seal of Ilydercy to our Oscars night, to our graduations, to equity council, to our CGTK donor spring visit. So we have some significant events going on and because of that almost every night it's taken up with something. And so we are requesting that the special board study session be after the May revise, which is why it is the date that it is. So it's later on, but before we actually present the LCAP, which will occur in June. And so we are requesting Saturday, May 20th as the special board study session. Do we have any public speakers to that item? We do not. Any discussion from the board? Yeah, I actually have a comment. You know, with regards to this special board study session for Saturday, May 20th, in the interest of transparency and for the public and concerns that have been brought forward from both our collective bargaining units. For this special study session on the district's budget, I am calling for us to have an outside independent third party auditor that is of this board selection to conduct an audit on our district's budget and present their findings at this meeting and to the board in that public session. So we would have to defer to Clint whether or not that type of timeline could even happen in that short period of time because we do have an independent auditor that actually audits our books, but that generally takes pretty significant time. And so I'll speak to possibly that. Yeah, so we do have an independent auditor that audits our budget every year. They do it a year in review. So right now they're actually finishing up 2122 at the moment. To do a full audit usually takes them about, probably I would guess about two to three months to review everything, to spot check things. Again, our independent auditors are looking at making sure that we're doing everything legally, that everything's falling within line. They're not necessarily looking at how we're budgeting in different objects. They're more looking at, are we doing it per egg code following all the right rules and regulations? As the board may remember, our past at least five years of audits have all been fiscally free of findings. So we've had no findings. In terms of having a third-party review our budget, I wouldn't know other than the COE, but the COE again reviews our budgets every single year. President Holm, could you, can I ask a question? Yeah. What's the cost of having an audit to this? So for our audit, roughly it's about $60,000 for them to do our annual audit each year. So I guess I would ask Trustee Acosta, like what is the purpose of this request? Where is it coming from? This same purpose is what my comments were at the last board meeting, just in the interest of transparency, concerns that have been brought forward by the public. There's also been concerns that both collective bargaining units have brought up in sessions about items in the budget. And again, this isn't our money per se. I mean, well, we are all taxpayers out in the district or we wouldn't be sitting up here, but this is again, it's public funds, public's money, and just in the interest of that good stewardship and transparency. Well, we already have an audit that happens every year, and the COE looks at our budgets routinely and gives us a qualification. So I'm actually not in favor of spending an additional $60,000 when we already have these important audits and reviews happening of our budget every year. And every time they've come up, there are no, I think, no findings, if I remember correctly. Correct, again, for the past five years at least, there have been no fiscal findings. Again, when I say no fiscal findings, we do have other findings. We did have a finding last year on our facility inspection tool. It's not a fiscal finding. It was simply based on how they were submitted to CDE, and we just changed our process, but it wasn't actually a fiscal finding. And when I've questioned the auditors who've stood at the podium, other districts have findings, so it's, we've always had excellent findings year to year, and we haven't, sometimes we've used different auditing firms. In my 12 years on the board, we haven't always used the same firm, so it's multiple firms. Yeah, so we're actually required every four years, even though we have used iBailey, we're required every four years to actually change who our lead auditor is to ensure that they're switching up their auditor process as well and giving us new auditors. Even though we have the same firm, they're different actual auditors who do the work. When are we due to change auditors again? So again, we, I think, let's see, we had a mod two years ago, so I think we have another two years with Joy, who's our current auditor. Again, we don't necessarily change firms, but we change the lead auditor to ensure that it is somebody new who's actually doing the audit. And the reason that we typically don't change firms is they understand our district, they know our processes, they know our system, so they know what to look for versus bringing in a brand new firm who's gonna have a harder time actually understanding your district. And again, this isn't just Pajaro Valley. All the districts in the county continue to use the same firm, just changing actual auditors. Any... Do you scale? I just an idea question. I mean, I think it's an important meeting, big meeting, and I think I, as a board member, would like to discuss the agenda. I don't think we have to figure it out right now, but there's gonna be some ideas, concepts coming forward. And if we could just find some, at a future board meeting, talk about it and get some feedback input from the board, that would be nice. Maybe that's already gonna happen, but I just think that would be my request. Best of your odds, Junior. Is it possible to have that meeting here? Yeah, we could usually, when we're doing special board study sessions, it's a little bit more informal. The structure of it generally is so that it's more at tables so that we could have kind of dive in to it, but we could of course do it here. Or we could do it like we've done in other special board study sessions where we anticipate a lot of people. We've done it in Landmark, for instance, is what we did the one time when we had special, we did one on special services and we thought we were gonna get a lot of people. And so we did it there. Sometimes this isn't as congruent to having an actual dive in session, but I mean, we can always do that if that's what we wanna do. Except to my colleagues, it was just an idea. We've also had one at EA Hall and also at the Mellow Center, so which we may have a little more say over and EA Hall's moved nice big. I like EA Hall, too. Yeah, whichever. We did Landmark the second time because people complained that the parking was challenging at EA Hall. That's why we went to Landmark, but really it's a dime or dozen. Trustee Acosta, what do you think, EA Hall? I think EA Hall or the Mellow Center, I think. And I think if it's a Saturday, it might be hard to secure this venue per se, too, because of the city and them having to get staff. So I think EA Hall or the Mellow Center, it'll be a Saturday. Trustee Flores? Will we be able to discuss, like Trustee Skaal said, like the agenda? You asked for input for this special one, but for, okay, because yeah, I mean, when I first came on, I was presented a budget presentation and then we had one recently, but I want something a lot deeper than that. For sure, yeah, usually those happen during the one-on-ones, but we can agendize it, too. Dr. Junior? To follow up, I think EA Hall wouldn't be great, because I know we just had an event in EA Hall. Apparent comments, yep. Which was a great event. Yeah, I think about four of us made it to that event. No brown-back violation, though. Like two and two, two in the morning, two in the later. Do I actually have a motion? Oh, yeah. Generally, we do nine o'clock for Saturdays, but we can do it earlier or later. That time? I would say we'd started at 10 the last time on a Saturday, or it was actually 11. It was 10. 10 or 11. The one we did for February. In February. Yeah, that was 10 o'clock. 10 a.m. And it's fine. That's good. So, Saturday May 20th at 10 a.m., hopefully at all, or the Mello Center. I'll make a motion to approve the addition of a special board study session to review PVSD's budget on May 20th, 2023, at 10 a.m. at EA Hall. That's what's to make sure. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 6-0-1. All right, consent agenda. So, these are routine items coming before the board. Any public speakers to the consent agenda? Oh, no. I know there's not, sorry. It seemed to be so abrupt about that. Sorry, no, there's not. I just realized you're looking at me. No worries. Okay. Are there any items that the board wishes to defer? Can I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda, as is. I have a first to have a second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Carries, 6-0-1. Keeping past the closed session to the deferred. So, item 13.1, our action and report on closed session. Yes, we do have a report out of closed session. With regards to item 2.1 expulsion under closed and, under the closed, ah, let me get my words out of my mouth, hold on. Under closed session agenda item number 2.1, I move to approve the recommendation by district administration of a full expulsion until December 2023 for student number 22-23-009. I need a second. Okay, thank you. First and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 6-0-1. I move, under closed session to item 2.2, I move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on March 22nd, 2023 with seven and nine additional action items. A first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 6-0-1. Under closed session item 2.3, I move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration on March 22nd, 2023 with seven and 11 additional action items. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 6-0-1. Under closed session item 2.6, the board of trustees voted 5-0-2 to approve a settlement agreement between PBUSD and CSEA and classified employee number 4-2-0-3. Under closed session item number 2.7, the board of trustees voted 5-0-2 to reject a liability claim and have a few announcements. The Pajaro Valley School District is pleased to announce Marina Maldonado as the new academic coordinator of Amesti Elementary. Marina began her career in PBUSD as a teacher at many white elementary and has also been a teacher at Amesti, a teacher on special assignment for the PBUSD Technology Department and an assistant principal for the extended learning program. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from UCSC, a master's in education from UCSC, and a bilingual authorization in Spanish. She also holds a multiple subjects teaching credential and an administrative services credential. We are excited to welcome this highly accomplished administrator to her new role with PBUSD, Go Eagles. And then second announcement, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce Katie Kriskunas as the new principal of Lakeview Middle School for the 2023-2024 school year. Katie began her career teaching science at North Monterey County High School and in 2015 moved to Aptos High to continue her teaching career. In 2019, she moved into an administrative role at Aptos High as the assistant principal of student services. Katie holds a bachelor's of science degree from San Jose State, a single subject credential in science with specializations in science and chemistry from San Jose State, and a master's in educational leadership and administration from UMass Global. We are excited to welcome this highly accomplished administrator to her new role with PBUSD, Go Eagles. I know, I suppose it's okay. I was just making sure. I thought it was me and it was late. Welcome. Great, all right. So our next board meeting will be a special board meeting on March 30th, 2023, and a regular board meeting on April 26th, 2023. And the meeting is adjourned at 11.57 p.m. My goodness.