 I think we need to, I think we need to start off. Good evening. Welcome to our PVUSD board meeting. We do have a translation in Spanish. You can please see Marginia at the back table there. If anyone would like to speak to an item on the agenda, they must complete a speaker card and hand it in to Eva Renteria down there prior to the start of the agenda item. Each speaker will have two minutes and we know that it is very easy to lose track of time and how long you've been speaking, especially if you're unaccustomed to speaking in public. So Vice President Shocker has a 30 seconds warning card just to kind of help keep you on track. So each speaker has two minutes and it's limited to two minutes. So I do see some new faces here this evening and I wanna take a moment to just establish some ground rules. There may be differences of opinion, sometimes strong differences, and please give those speaking the same respect that you would like to receive when you are speaking. This will allow everyone to be heard and the board to conduct its necessary business. So we will move to 3.2, the Pledge of Allegiance. Trustee Soto, would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? 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'll move on to item 3.3, our Superintendent Comments. Dr. Rodriguez. Thank you so much. So in just a minute, I'm gonna share some exciting information that's up on the screen but prior to doing that, I just wanted to provide some context and information. So as we know, we unfortunately, we do continue to have some vacancies and so due to that, we are asking our many teachers to be able to work during their prep time in order to be able to cover those classes. And so one thing though that I did want to do is I am trying to be data-driven and so we have looked at, we review the numbers of the subbing on prep between August 16th and September 17th. And due to the timing of the supplemental payroll periods, all teachers who subbed during this time were actually paid on October 10th payroll, so that should have just happened. The district required each teacher to sub on their prep and went through the contractual allowable rotation. Each teacher would cover approximately four periods over five weeks, which is less than one prep period a week. The district also required in the contract does offer teachers the opportunity to volunteer to cover through their prep and so many teachers volunteered to cover these periods for the additional pay. One thing that I do want to mention is there is currently only nine teachers during that period who covered over 10 periods over the five week period. So while I understand that there are many who are providing support during their prep, only nine of them covered more than two preps per a week. And so I wanted to provide that information. We are starting employees of the month, so we're really excited. We did, I embody CARES, PVUSD CARES, which stands for Connect Accelerate Recover in Rich and Succeeds. So we went and surprised people, it was really great. Our classified staff member of the month was Veronica Moran, who is the executive assistant for business services. Our certificated staff was Jack Bookie, who's a teacher at Radcliffe Elementary. And you can see in the picture, his whole class came out and celebrated with him. And then our administrator was Peggy Pugh, who is the principal at Aptos High. And with us you'll see her office staff came and celebrated with her. So we appreciate those three staff members and look forward to continuing to recognize people throughout the month. And this is on our PVUSD website, so if you want to go see them throughout the month, they'll be there for us. And that is all. So we'll move on to item 3.4, our governing board comments and our reports on standing committees. So this is an opportunity for each of the board members to make a few comments. And I just wanna acknowledge that trustees Acosta and Dodge Jr. have sent their regrets and will not be attending this evening. But in terms of making comments, we'll start with Trustee Orozco. Good evening everyone and thank you for joining us tonight. I wanna start off my comments by thanking our community, our teachers, and PVUSD students and families for supporting our Nervell Manicolony event. This past October, it was well received by our community and we had over 800 people participate. Please make sure to save the date. We plan on having an even bigger event, with even more family friendly activities on May 1st, 2022. As a one, I thank you, thank our district for cosponsoring this past event and the one in May. I am also working with our city of Watsonville and city mayor, Jimmy Dutra on an evening with a mayor event intended to raise funds to decorate the polls in downtown Watsonville for the holidays. So please stop by this Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at staff of a live parking lot for our wine and beer tasting event. And if you're interested in sponsoring even a light poll decoration or a banner, please make sure to get in contact with me. And lastly, I am looking forward to our Parallel Valley Education Foundation meeting in the next week or so, in addition to our Supreme Team Committee meeting and D-LAC. And lastly, I do wanna wish Dr. Michelle Rodriguez a happy birthday today. Thank you. Thank you. Trustee D'Sarpa, did you have anything you wanted to say? Okay, Trustee Soto. Thank you for my comment, thank you. No Vice President Shocker. Good evening everyone, thank you for being here. It's been a busy couple of weeks since our last meeting. Migrant Head Start Committee meeting was last week. We discussed the needs, or actually earlier this week, of the program specifically repairs at sites, computers that are needed and new printers. I was also able to attend the Women in Leadership Conference put on by former clerk Gail Pellerin and I had some fellow women in that seminar which was very interesting and very informative. I've had some meetings with various community members. Planning visits to sites now that we can safely visit sites again. And discussions range from needs in the community, planning fun art events for kids, upcoming city events. And then I also wanna thank Gary Vargas and his team who are working hard and working on a plan at Renaissance to get the field reconditioned. So thank you very much, Gary Vargas and his team. I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge some donations that are in our consent agenda items. Much of what we do is based on the generosity of our community members. And for an exciting project that we've had ongoing for the Emeril Lagasse Culinary Garden and Teaching Kitchen project, we've continued to have an outpouring of generosity from community partners. Melissa and Dean Walker donated $1,000, Kurt Schmidt $500, Jeff and Adele Talmadge $1,500 and Rebecca Garcia $150. And I just wanna again extend my gratitude to everybody who's making these kind of innovative projects possible. Item 3.3, our high school students board representatives report. See, do we have any high school representatives? Okay. Aptos High, all right. We are the student representatives from Aptos High School. My name is Mia Archuleta and I am the ASB treasurer. My name is Alex Aspecia and I'm the ASB secretary. I'm Chloe Chasi Garrett and I'm the ASB president. And I'm Jackson Miller, the junior vice president. Alrighty, so we're gonna give you like a little rundown of the academics, arts, activities and athletics that are happening here at Aptos High. Firstly with academics, we just finished our first quarter of school, which is very exciting. I know that a lot of seniors are hard at work at their college applications and the English department has been helping us or guiding us through the essay writing process by creating assignments for the UC personal insight questions as well as the common app essays just to help us in case that we need questions or some revisions. The counselors have also been coming in to our social study classes to talk to us a bit about the application process and how to navigate Naviance as well as talking about letters of recommendation and FAFSA and all that college stuff. As far as like students coming into like school after a year off, I think everyone is kind of struggling a little bit, but that's as we expected after having a year off. So we're all just kind of adjusting. And I think the teachers and staff are doing a really great job at working with us instead of working against us. As far as the arts at our school, the drama and theater department are working on their production of a Midsummer Night's Dream which will take place outside due to COVID and that will start October 29th. So as far as activities go at Aptos High School in the month of September, Aptos High has done a homecoming spirit week, a homecoming parade, a homecoming dance and a homecoming football game. In September, we also held elections for all the grades and starting October 18th will be our college and career week where colleges will be coming to do presentations and students can rep their college gear. The week following the college and career week is our Halloween spirit week where we will have Halloween themed spirit days and fun Halloween themed lunchtime activities. We also had a huge success with our club Carnival with 25 clubs participating and we are still doing our making waves weekly announcements and we usually show them every Wednesdays in our tutorial class and we will be starting the second harvest food bank with the interact club. As far as athletics go, our boys football team have had a great season. Our girls volleyball team are nearing the end of their season. Our girls golf team has been doing great as well and both of our water polo teams have started their own seasons. We're also about to start going into the basketball seasons both boys and girls, which is gonna be a great time for the winter sports. And of course, all of our sports are continuing under correct policies and staying safe. And that's us from Aptos High. Thank you. Thank you, Melissa Miller again with just a few things that I didn't add to the sports section. The first thing is that our football team is actually currently six and one, which is at the top of the standings. Our cross country is doing great with many of our girls competing for first, which is great. A new team, yes, the surf team is starting this weekend. And our girls tennis is actually undefeated in lead play. Our girls water polo team has a pretty good shot at CCS this year. And when it comes to dance, cheer and song form, our dance program is the best in the county. Our cheer is competing in December and our song form actually just qualified for nationals, which is great. But that's it. Thank you again. Great. Well, go Mariners. All right. Do we have any other high score presenters to speak? Okay. All right. So move on to item 4.1, our approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? We have a public comment. Oh, okay. Sorry. Chris Webb. I'm just wondering if it's at all possible to move the reporting discussion items as early as you possibly can. If not, I understand. He requested to remove report and discussion items. I had to move them up. To move them up. I'll entertain a motion from. I'd like to keep the agenda intact. I don't feel like it's packed with a lot of things. It's essentially we're gonna go through our regular items and then we go directly to report. So I don't think we need to change anything actually. Chris, I think it'll be okay. Do I have a motion? Make a motion to approve the agenda. I'll second. All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 502. All right. Item 5.1, approval of September 15th, 2021 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Move to approve. Do I have a second? A second. All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 502. For 5.2, approval of the September 22nd, 2021 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Move to approve. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion also carries 502. All right. Item 6.1, our public disclosure of collective bargaining agreement between PVUSD and CSEA. Report will be presented by Clint Rucker, our CBO. Thank you, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez and Board of Trustees. Tonight we are going to present to you the AB 1200, which is also known as the public disclosure. Government code actually requires that, due to the fact that we have a COE as our fiscal oversight, anytime we come into an agreement with either bargaining units, we must actually bring it for a public hearing and available for public comment. So we are bringing our AB 1200, which you'll see if you look through the entire document, is an increase for classified, a one-time payment of roughly around $2.2 million with statutorys of, if I remember correctly, about $770,000 puts you to total cost of about $2.9 million for the classified unit. The majority of this is one time. It is not ongoing, so we're using our fund balance to pay for this. There's a small ongoing increase due to vacation ratio that we did give classified employees two extra days of vacation. As some of you may know, our 11 month employees are not actually granted time to take vacation, but rather paid out for that vacation. So they did have that small increase to ongoing pay, but overall, the majority of this agreement is in one time payments. Because this was not in our initial adopted budget in July, there is a budget revision that the board will also be approving as they approve the TA upcoming if they do so in the action item. So just be aware that we will be doing a budget revision that you'll see at first interim to go along with this report. And at this time, I'm happy to take any questions from the board or if the public has any comments. Do we have any speakers on this item? We have no speakers. Any questions or comments from the board? Okay. I just have one question. So we added two extra vacation days. And I saw that on the report, it said that there would be no costs to the district, but really there is a liability later on if those are accrued over time, right? Absolutely. And the letter that actually came from the COE does address that there could be a potential liability from those two days, but in terms of ongoing costs that the district will see, we would more see it in a one-time payment out if an employee left with those days, but we won't see an ongoing hit to our budget each year. So yes, the liability side increases, but we won't see a increase, of course. I guess just one last comment for him. Just happy that we're settling and that we're providing that $2,100 stipend to our classified employees. So thank you for all your hard work. Of course. Thank you so much. Thank you, Clint. And I know there was some activity in the back. If you're here to speak on item 7.1, which is visitor non-agenda items, the cars need to be in now. So going on to item 7.1, public comment, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda item. Our agenda for this evening, please know that though the Brown Act prohibits the board from engaging in discussion for non-agendaized items, we are listening. Do we have any public speakers? We do, wasn't at home. So I'm gonna call three speakers up and just stand please six feet apart and then take your turns at the podium. First, Carol Bjorn, Carolyn West, and Matt Montgomery. Good evening, my name is Carol Bjorn. I'm here tonight to oppose all California Department of Public Health mandates that have been implemented in our schools, including facial coverings, quarantines, testing and vaccinations. The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers. It started with one party controlling the media and information. The same is happening here in America today. There is no isolated SARS-CoV-2 virus. Thus, it cannot be said that the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes the disease COVID-19. Thus, the mandates that tell us so the spread of COVID-19 are meaningless and ineffective. I provided for you tonight the instructions for the PCR test. I got this from the FDA's website. It's on your name on every one of them. And I printed three pages from the instruction to the PCR test, which is a CDC document. I'll point you to page 38. Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the causative agent for clinical symptoms. Further, this test cannot rule out other diseases caused by bacterial or viral pathogens. So even in this document, if you get a positive PCR test, it doesn't rule out something else causing the positive PCR test. So this has actually been a more, sorry, I want to point your attention to page 40. It also says there has been no quantified virus isolates. Further, Christine Massa has documented on fluoride-free peel. Over 100 public record requests has been issued to over 100 governmental agencies around the world asking for an isolated virus. Everyone has responded they don't have it. In the packet I provided on the last page, you'll see my friend submitted a records request from California Department of Health. They do not have a SARS-CoV-2 virus. So all the mandates that they're issuing to you all, they don't have the backup to provide proof if anybody goes to court and people say, okay, show me the isolated virus, it's not there. So I would like for you tonight to listen all mandates. Thank you. Hello, I'm Carolyn West. I'm one of your school nurses. I'm not quite sure how to follow something like that. I've been a nurse for 20 years and I support science, I believe in science. I believe it's the basis of my career and I have seen people with COVID. I have had people who've lost family members to COVID. We are working desperately in the school district to protect our students and protect our staff as much as possible. Is it worth negotiating this in lieu of something that has been proven to make a point? This is not a Holocaust. And I think that's offensive to people who actually experience a Holocaust to draw that analogy. Everybody is working really hard. I am working really hard. We are all doing the best that we can. And to support pseudo science like that and misinterpret things that are out there is not science. Our teachers are working so hard. I love the teachers. I love you guys. You guys are all working so hard. And I, yeah, they are. I have five schools. I have five schools that I go to and everybody is really working hard. My health assistants are working hard. And for somebody to downplay how serious this is is very upsetting for me. We're all pushing through and we're all doing the best that we can. I don't know that I had any point, but I did want to acknowledge the teachers. So. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. May I begin? Thank you. Good evening, board. Two months ago we saw this board, which discredited I think endorse a motion in support of the failed California Department of Public Health's mask mandate. Board President Holm, you brought up your medical background and said something along the lines of I've never heard someone ask a surgeon to remove their mask. That got me interested. I looked up masks and surgeons, masks in the operating room. What are their effects? If anything, we should expect a mask to have a big effect in the operating room. 1991 study in the World Journal of Surgery by Tuniball looked at over 3,000 operations. After operations performed with face masks, 4.7% rate of wound infections were recorded, but only 3.5% had infections in the no mask group. This difference was not statistically significant. 2009 review by Bali found, quote, no significant difference in the incidence of post-operative wound infection was observed between masks group and groups operated on with no masks. 2013 review of surgical masks by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies and Health. The use of surgical face masks by staff in the operating room is presumed to reduce the frequency of surgical site infections. The evidence identified and included in this report finds no evidence basis for this presumption. 2016 study in the Cochrane Review by Lip and Edwards found, I quote, three trials were included involving a total of 2,113 participants. There was no statistically significant difference in infection rates between the masked and unmasked group in any of the trials. The evidence is clear that masks have no effect even with trained medical staff, but somehow six-year-olds are going to wear them properly and they'll have an effect this time around. That is the real pseudoscience. Thank you. Next speakers, Courtney Beam, Elizabeth Thorn, and Lucia Martinez. Hi, my name is Courtney Beam, and as a parent of a child that I'm constantly getting comments or calls from the office at the school because she's not wanting to wear her mask or she's saying her mask is uncomfortable, I have to agree with everyone that has come up here and said something about the mask policy. I mean, it's gotta go. I mean, you're not, it's too much for our children. The way that they spread it is so minimal. I mean, for us also to have the lowest rate right now of transmission and we're still requiring it, but yet we are allowed to have businesses that are open. If you're fully vaccinated, you can walk into without a mask, but you can't walk into a school. It doesn't make any sense. It's double standard, and that needs to be addressed on the next board meeting is the mask again. I mean, it's not okay. My six-year-old is tired of wearing them. Hello, I'm Elizabeth Thorn. I'm one of your nurses, but you guys already know that. I'm actually here to represent Watsonville High School. I'm one of the Indian reps for Watsonville High, as well as some nurses. I'll get to the nursing part in just a second. There are over 100 teachers at Watsonville High. How many teachers do we have here from Watsonville High tonight? The reason why we have these guys is because they wanna see change. They wanna see that they are supported, that our board is supporting Watsonville High School teachers. Give us the call the money that you guys got. Give us a raise, okay? Yes? Give us a raise. Give us a raise. Each one person who's going to come up here, they're going to say the same thing. We need to see change. I have at least 80 other teachers who would love to be here, but they're burnt out, and they are disappointed and disheartened right now because they don't think change is possible. And that is very disheartening. It's very disheartening to me, and I know it's very disheartening to them, okay? So please, give them a raise. That's all I'm asking. Improve the working conditions would be great, but give them a raise. Don't use the cola for the SROs. Do not use the cola to provide something else other than a raise for our teachers, okay? All right, now I'm gonna talk about the mask thing. A study in nature says exactly the opposite of what these guys have been saying, but you guys already know that. I'm grateful that you are having us wear masks. Our rates are down in our schools because of mask wearing and vaccinations, okay? Watsonville High School, I'm happy to say out of the 2,500 students, only 1,000 are unvaccinated. Out of 2,500 students. That's amazing, and I'm extremely grateful for that one as well. We're also 99.9% in alignment with the mandated vaccines at Watsonville High. Yay. Thank you all for the work you do. Keep up the good fight. Calling people up. Is that turned on their cards? I'm Lucia, you call my name. Did I say, I'm sorry, Lucia, I apologize too. Hello, good evening, Superintendent and board members. My name is Lucia and Mackie Martinez. I go by any pronouns, and I'm ASB co-president of Watsonville High, as well as the Sexuality and Gender Acceptance Club, president and proud member of the LGBTQ plus community. Sorry, this is gonna be very emotional. Being an LGBTQ student is very difficult. Many of the transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in particular at school can attest to this fact. When there are no locker rooms for gender non-conforming students only for boys and girls, making PE a very uncomfortable experience to change when you don't have a locker room that fits your gender identity. When the gender-neutral bathrooms are always locked on campus, students like myself are forced to use bathrooms that don't fit our gender identity. It is painful and something I personally struggle with daily. So, PVC passed a resolution about recognizing October, excuse me, October is LGBTQ plus history month. I do not believe PVC has followed up on the promises about supporting and uplifting the queer and trans community, like in that resolution. This month, as well as June, PVC said they're going to raise the progress by like every day for the rest of the month. At school, they started putting the flags on Monday. This is almost two weeks of no pride flag up. And I know other campuses have done so too. Being the LGBTQ plus community we are often forgotten about and it was hurtful to see that PVC forgot to put up the flag and not fooling through on their promises to support my community. My question is why do we not have the flag up all year round? Why don't we only support our students for four years? I mean, four days in June and only half of October it's really disheartening to see and it makes me super emotional to know that or to see that, to not see the support from y'all. When y'all said you would do that, in June I spoke at the district pride flag raising as well as Watson, Ohio. And that was super amazing to see, but now it's like months later I'm not seeing the same thing as I saw in June. Thank you. Okay, I apologize if I mispronounce your name. It was hard to read for me. So, Elmone Gonzalez, Karen Osmondson and Isaiah Castro. Hello, my name is Hermand Rafael Gonzalez and I'm here on behalf of Empower Watsonville. Before that, and before I talk about that, I'd just like to thank my co-president, Lucia Mekka Martinez for giving that really powerful speech I believe that her message, their message incredibly, incredibly important and important for all of you to follow up on. I'd like to share with you a bit about Empower Watsonville and I want to announce to the board of trustees and all of the members of our community that we will be holding a conference the 23rd of October. Me and my peers in Empower Watsonville have been working really hard starting since the summer to bring this conference titled The Power of Healing to sort of support this healing that we as students as members of the PVSD community, especially hit by COVID and all of the different tensions and circumstances that have arise in this past year have brought. So I'd like to invite the board members and everyone here to join and come to our conference the 23rd of October. It will be starting at 9 a.m. and going to 2 p.m. Thank you. Oh, that's my bad. It will be at the Watsonville High School, registration will be at the cafeteria and the actual spoken portion keynote speakers will be in the Mellis Center. Just wanted to share. Thank you so much. My next. Hi, my name is Karen Osnason and I am an ex board member of 16 years and I'm here to talk about Dr. Rodriguez. So when we first interviewed her, all seven of us voted for her. One was considering somebody else when we talked her out of it. So all seven of us voted for her. And I think she came when she was first here. She actually drove to Watsonville before she interviewed and actually stayed here pretty sure four days to learn all about our schools, all about our district, all about our programs. Pretty cool. Hopefully you can do this too. She always went to my committee meetings, especially for D-LAC and in Spanish, obviously. She speaks Spanish. We haven't had a superintendent who can do that. She does, I'm trying to list it all. She's the only superintendent who does the state of the district where we have our state of the district. We have all kinds of community members, people from all over the community there and it's really a wonderful thing the speaker is and it's great. She actually gives a presentation for her evaluation which we have never had before. We never had that happen. She has a new curriculum. That she has organized and put in our school district and our students are advancing every single year. She has a Ask Dr. Rodriguez, which you've never had before, so people can ask her all kinds of questions and she answers them. She has done so many things. She's also received all kinds of kudos from organizations here in the Watsonville County area and also she's received kudos from all over the country about all of her work. She has, let's see. It's time. She works harder and longer than any other superintendent we've ever had. We haven't had superintendents that work as hard as long. Okay, thank you, sorry. I was gonna do it too, thank you. Hello, hi, my name is Isaiah Castro. I'm a teacher at Watsonville High School and proud member of PVFT. My first comment that kind of got brought on by things that were said before. I find when people speak on COVID and try to liken it to horrific events that happened in the past, they tend to come from people who have not, one, experienced these type of things or come from people who have never been a minority who have been marginalized and left on the side to not have the same values as everyone else. I understand masks are a pain. I hate having to wear a mask all the time because I like to see the smiles of my students or the mean faces they make at me sometimes if I'm giving them too much homework. But it is what it is. And for people to say that masks are uncomfortable, think of the children, my daughter's five years old and goes to kindergarten and wears a mask in a school where they have school mandates and mask mandates and they wear them all and I have yet to hear any of her friends or herself say masks hurt themselves or they make them feel uncomfortable. So I just wanted to get that out of the way that if most kids can wear them, I think all kids can wear them. It's not that big of a deal. We all had to wear them for over a year and a half. The second thing is PBSD cares. And I see that everywhere. I see that on my students laptops when they open them up and my students look me in the face and laugh and say, do they really? And I have no answer for them because I feel like we preach at a high level that PBSD cares and we implement, connect, accelerate, recover, enrich, succeed. But when they're teaching positions that are left vacant, classes that are being converted to edge annuity for credit recovery because they cannot be filled, that's not caring. And I feel like if we really did care about how our students are doing, we would provide adequate funds in order to make sure that teachers can be hired and that teachers that are already here, like myself, don't feel like they're burned out every Monday of the week. And I know the union has- Isaiah, we're at time. Oh, awesome. Thank you. We have meetings. Please come join us for members. Thank you. Okay, next. Emily Kaver. Oh, I was gonna speak to a specific issue which is, is this for everybody? Okay. I was gonna speak to the 7th, 9.2. 9.2, okay. We just got- 9.0, or was it 9.3? 3. 9.3, that's exactly what we- Okay, no problem. I'll go back to 9.3. So, Jessica, Travis Walker, and Allie. Hello, everybody. I had to write something down because I'm super tired, so. Hello, everybody. My name is Jessica Carrasco. I'm a social studies teacher at Watsonville High School. I teach 10th and 11th grade World History and US History. This is my third year teaching at PVUSD. So, I'm a fairly new teacher. But even so, my relationship to this community is incredibly strong. Many of you on the board already know me and the work that I do in Watsonville. But for those of you who don't, I'm a local artist that creates visual art and uses parts of the profit to create scholarships for high school seniors, students that attend PVUSD. I'm a community organizer, and I have been advocating for the arts youth and in better all, quality of life for those that live and work here in Watsonville. I grew up here, I played soccer here, and I attended all PVUSD schools. I specifically came back to Watsonville after graduating from Sousa State because I wanted to work in my community. I wanted to specifically work with students that look like me, spoke like me, and who shared similar struggles through our educational experience. I believe that because I was once a student of this district, I myself would be able to assist them in a very unique way. I'm here today to share with you that I do have many concerns about teacher vacancies, COVID, and campus safety. But my primary concern is teacher pay. The reason why is because I would want to stay in this district and work for many years. But in order to do that, I need to be able to provide for me and my family. Since I got to this district, I keep hearing teachers say how we're the lowest paying district to teachers and how eventually they'll find something better. Often teachers, often students ask, why do you teach here? Don't they pay more in Salinas and Santa Cruz? This year Watsonville High School lost about half of its social studies department. There were teachers who I was very excited to work with in person because I heard they were brilliant at their job. Unfortunately, many of those teachers are gone. They left because there was way too much being asked and too little pay. I generally want to work here, but if the board can't prove to me with their votes that I matter and that my work matters and don't increase teacher pay, I don't think I'm going to be here very soon. I asked that the district increase teacher pay immediately. Thank you. Hello, my name is Travis Walker. I'm also a teacher at Watsonville High School. I've been here for a few years and so I remember the 2018 WASC report of Watsonville High School and one of the suggestions in there was that Watsonville High School needed to do a better job at recruiting and retaining qualified staff. What have you done to address that issue? Because the problem has only got worse since I've been here. In your most recent house release, you at least suggested that Watsonville High or PBSD's teacher shortage is a result of the pandemic and the statewide teacher shortage. We've been in a pandemic for not even two years. There's been this issue at this district for a long time. The need for teachers shouldn't be something that we have to come here and ask you to do something about. I asked my students how they felt about the education that they were receiving at PBSD. And in that conversation, one of my students said, I just don't feel like anybody cares about me here. And that was a shocking comment to me. And so I asked the rest of my class, how many of you feel cared for in this district that this district cares about you and your education? Not a single student raised their hand. So I asked my students to share why they felt like they weren't being cared about in this district. Students talked about not being able to access social emotional cancers. The school board just decided to bring back SROs instead of providing social emotional cancers. They talked about, I had a student who talked about she's been here for four years, she's a senior. She has never started a single school year with a math teacher. Every single year she hasn't had a teacher. I had students who talked about how they had to stand in our quad for the entire 110 minute block because they didn't have a cell and they didn't have a teacher. And there were so many classes that didn't have subs and didn't have teachers that there was nowhere left to sit in the quad. How can we say we're doing what we're supposed to be doing here? If we can't even put teachers in a classroom with students. Hello. So I got here and I saw everybody sitting down and I was so impressed with everybody on their laptops. I was like, dang, the teachers are organized. They're ready to speak to the board. And it took me a second to realize that they're all working. They're grading and they're planning. They don't have time to rest because y'all don't provide them with that aid, right? There's a huddle of teachers back down the floor working on their laps with pencils, right? That speaks on y'all and how you continue to fail the district in so many different aspects. How many teachers aren't here because they're too busy and this meeting is not accessible? How many aren't here because they don't believe in y'all? Like most of us really don't believe in y'all. And how many aren't here because they're scared of the consequences because bullying goes all the way to the highest level, Michelle Rodriguez, right? And then her superintendents and then everybody else. The teachers feel like they can't come to the administrative because they're going to have consequences for speaking out. That's how you show that you care. That's the environment that you've built and that's the reality of it. The money used for SRLs must go to teachers. You all know that. You know the data. You know that SRLs don't prevent. What you call conflict and you know who does, teachers. My kid is in Baltimore High School. They were found supporting teachers but they have no counselors. So how many of the teachers are also being counselors? How many of the teachers are doing everything? And you're not paying them enough, you're devaluing them and I know plenty of teachers that have left this last year alone because of it. So you're doing a disservice to my children and it's harmful and you want me to change before they leave us. My kid is a fourth grader and they have SPD which is a sensory processing disorder and she loves wearing her mask. It does not bother her in any sort of way. It makes her feel safe. There's been no cases and I have not been worried about my daughter's safety in the schools. So I appreciate the mask mandate and I know that at least in that aspect we can count on you. I just wish that we could count on you for everything else. Jorge, Bernie Gomez, and Jenna. Is that Manriquez? Yeah. Okay. Okay, my name is Jorge Manriquez. I work for Watsonville High School, my department and I have been there maybe 20, some 10 years, 23. I am a teacher and I don't know how to count. Okay, since I got to Watsonville High School, 1998, the next year we needed one or two teachers to make the sure every single year we needed one, two, three, up to four teachers in my mother's apartment every single year. The only year that I remember that we didn't hire any new teacher was when PV High School opened because they got 400 something students for us. And that's great. But now things are kind of looking different. Now we don't need only teachers every year. We used to cover them, we used to get them. Now we need a teacher and we cannot get them. And then the problem is that as a math teacher I see firsthand that academic struggles for those students with subs, subs, subs, that whole year long. And nobody, none of those students fell. All of them passed to the next level. And then I get them. But I have to review fractures, I have to review number sense, I have to review fifth grade math sometimes. You know what, guys, this cannot continue like that. Can you please do something that other districts are doing to get a teacher? Or do something that other districts are not doing? Do something, please. Because this is a disservice to students, a disservice to the community. Thank you. Hello, buenas tardes, y'all. I ain't been letting prepare anything, kind of just listening what the teachers and students are saying, right? And a couple of things come to mind. Here teachers asking for help for better raise, right? They're overworked, they're stretched thin, right? Yet you drag your feet, right? We hear from the LGBTQ community, my relatives, right? For help, for assistance, for acknowledgement, and you drag your feet. We experienced lateral violence in Aftos last month. And you were quick to jump on the cop bang, right? As a solution, spending $1.2 million on a practice that even the superintendent provided y'all with some concrete data saying that SROs are actually harmful, right? But I mean, who's to ignore data, right? Who's to ignore the facts? Also, you know, Rodriguez, she gets paid a hefty salary. I believe like $140,000 salary or something like that. You know, give or take. I wonder how much the teachers are getting paid, right? I wonder how much those SROs are gonna be getting paid. I think your decision to bring the SROs back was, again, it was a hard position for anybody to be in, but it was the wrong position for you to be in. I think the same way you were ready to jump on that bandwagon is you should be ready to jump on supporting teachers and students, you know? You have $36 million that came down from the ARPA funding, right? So I'm wondering, what are you doing with that money? What's your vision for it? Also, in regards to the MOU for the SROs, where's it at? We wanna see it, we wanna read it. What are the safeguards, you know? Are the students gonna be given the, you know, provided with the rights, you know, that parents would be contacted when they get harassed and interrogated by these SROs, right? So I just, thank you. Marilyn Garrett and Chris Webb. Researcher and art author Arthur Firstenburg, what a book called The Invisible Rainbow, A History of Electricity and Disease, which shows each time there's an increase in electroplotion in the environment, there's been corresponding illness and mortality rates. He wrote an article called The Wrong Pandemic, and he speaks of wireless microwave technology, the launching of thousands of satellites into the ionosphere, which have set the electric circuit of the earth, which provides energy for all life. I've been coming here for years talking about and calling for removal of Wi-Fi, massive harm to the students and staff alike. Here's some facts. Cell phones, cell towers, Wi-Fi, wireless smart motors, the new microwave radio frequency radiation. Independent research shows this radiation causes cellular stress and damage, DNA damage, blood, brain failure, disruption, increased cancer, and tumor risk, decreased melatonin, insomnia, abnormal heart rhythm, strokes, ultra brain waves, cognitive difficulties, memory and concentration. Headaches, most all timers, and impacts to wildlife, and children are especially vulnerable, just to one side some mention. SopSmartMeters.org and CelfoneTalesForce.org, and it turns out that graphene oxide is in the vaccines. Who will tell that graphene oxide is a conductor so people become like walking cell towers. Graphene oxide, never heard of it till this last year. Thank you. I wanted to express my appreciation for Trustee Disciple's willingness of private entities experimenting on our students. And I'd like to see the board do more of that, like being cautious when it comes to initiatives coming from the district office. I say this in reference to the multi-tiered support system supplanting Renaissance High School's model continuation school award-winning student progress modeling system. I'm also referring to standard goal or sort of practices and PBIS, not because those initiatives are bad, but because the implementation of them could have been better. And to the extent that they displace effective structures, that is bad. Teachers should be trained fully on these initiatives before they're rolled out. And school site leadership should be worked with to implement these initiatives to the extent that they can bring positive change. I also wanted to say that I thought it was wrong at the last board meeting for Dr. Rodriguez to put a sort of babe and switch on the issue of teacher vacancies. A handful of teachers exercising no right to use personal days is not why the district has vacancies. They're struggling to fill. A genuine answer on that would have shown not sub-pay relative to other districts, but teacher pay. And going back to my earlier point on undermining effective structures at sites, that's another genuine factor that's driven teachers away, at least in my site. And exacerbate stress put on teachers, which would make them want to use more personal days. Teacher and education vacancies may be a state and national problem, but the low base teacher pay is a particular PVST problem. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to section eight, our employee organization comments. Now is the time we hear from our employee organizations. Each will have five minutes. Do we have anyone from PVFT? Hi Nellie. First I just want to say thank you to the teachers who are here and the parents in support of the teachers and students as well. It's late, we're tired. Thank you for being here, it's important. Good evening board, Dr. Rodriguez. The dedication and commitment of our students is evident as we spend time visiting sites and our teachers, students and teachers, and support staff. This is a wonderful experience to witness this, but then as we go dove deeper into the surface when we do our site visits, we see the emotional toll the school year has taken on everyone. Being back in person is not as smooth as we had hoped. We are short staffed as you were hearing tonight. We see many site administrators who have also stepped up to be in the classroom and we appreciate you for having doing, carrying the support of your teachers at your site and trying to protect some of their prep release time. So thank you. We feel for the hundreds of students who have yet to have a permanent teacher of record to provide consistent standards based instruction and most importantly for them to build a relationship with during the school year. This has us thinking about the medical process of continuity of care. Continuity of care is concerned with the quality of care over time. It's the process by which the patient and the medical care team work towards a shared goal of high quality care. Well our students need program trained credentialed teachers to guide and empower them with high quality instruction. Having a permanent teacher of record for the class is the first step in demonstrating that the student is valued. The PBFT has shared many times that our working environment is our students learning environment. We base our advocacy on the belief that it is our students who win when we win. The district has not only received close to 100 million in COVID funding, the additional 5% cost of living adjustment to the base funding for the 21-22 school year alone is nine million extra dollars. Funds that should go to salaries. To put that in context, a 1% raise for our unit is under a million. That is inclusive of all statuatories and help benefits according to the CBO. Again, this benefits our students when they have teachers. Prioritize our students, invest in the educators that work directly with them. Tonight there are a couple of MLUs on the agenda when addressing increase of pay during the teacher's loss of prep. We had also asked for a monthly during Wednesday's afternoons, every site all the teachers have time, at least once a month, two hours, to be able to address that loss of prep and release by having that opportunity to be in the classrooms, complete their grading, plan their lessons, communicate, but that was denied, that we are continuing to address the increase. We're gonna continue to advocate for this with the district on providing time on a restructured Wednesday for teachers to have that uninterrupted prep that goes beyond the guaranteed four hours that we have in our contract for the school year on a Wednesday. Another is a bonus for new hires. We appreciate the district realizing that they need to add some strobe lights to the help wanted ad, but would have been slightly flashier had they agreed to compound the other hiring bonus for the hard to fill positions in math, science, and SEPA to an additional 2,500. And to really round out the party, there could have been an increase on the salary schedule from the start of the year to help control the hemorrhage that we felt and are still feeling from this loss of teachers who went on to work in other surrounding districts. Item 9.13, the continuity of service plan is about how the district will maintain the health and safety of students and staff. Last month, we submitted a proposal asking the district to extend COVID leave for members who are either following the health systems checklist and staying home when they fail the screener or those who must stay home with their young child if their child has to quarantine. The response was that they are not interested in covering this and that teachers can use their sick leave because it's the teachers that create the absences. Why are teachers being punished for following the quarantine guidelines? If a teacher loses their allotted 10 days for PN for personal necessity to care for their young child more than once, what happens then? It is concerning that there is no willingness to work towards an agreement to protect a teacher's leave bank which ultimately is about ensuring people aren't showing up to work sick. Extending COVID leave can be covered by the COVID funding. To close, as we continue this year's short staffed and instead continually blaming the cost of healthcare especially during this pandemic and when the district refuses to protect the leave bank of its employees who are working in person it does not paint a caring picture to address our health benefits on the agenda. We will work, continue to work with the district and hope that they are willing to collaborate with us. Thank you. So onto item 8.2, CSEA. Do we have anyone from CSEA? Hi. Are you representing the California School Employees Association? I am, yes. My name is Mark Lowenthal. I was invited by the administration. Oh, no, we're going to be out of report discussion. Oh. All right. We'll see you shortly. Any of the union leadership from CSEA? Okay. Anyone from PAVAM? And, oh, okay. I'm a little shorter than everybody else. Even with Hills. So good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, Cabinet and community members. Well, Parah Valley Unified School District has 19 licensed facilities for child care and state preschools. I'm going to focus on our migrant programs. Currently shared between Child Development Department and Migrant Seasonal Head Start, we are serving over 150 agricultural migrant families and center-based programs. I'd like to share through the required licensing, daily health checks, temperature checks and increased health and safety precautions we have been successful to not have to have any COVID related closures, keeping our children and our staff safe. Our programs are going to end in just about two weeks. We are currently putting together some learning packets for our students to take with them as they exit our programs. So they may continue their learning from November to April. And we are excited to see their growth come April. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Lisa Sandoval. Hello, guys. Here's Anya, how are you guys? Good evening, President Holm. Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez and Cabinet. Just to add to what Lisa just shared, I just wanted to bring to your attention that in family childcare homes, between the two programs, we serve about 700 children during the season and some of them a year around. We contract in a combination with more than 90 licensed family childcare homes in Watsonville. And depending on funding, many of these children receive services up to 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday. As Lisa mentioned, in spite of the pandemic, we have been able to successfully serve the families during the peak agricultural season. Also, with Casey's support, we're working hard to standardize systems and protocols, especially with goal setting as it relates to curriculum practices. And as we work with families and children on mental health issues. I really want to thank you for allowing us to open the program this year as families go to work every single day. Thankful and happy for those services being provided. Thank you. Thank you. All right, do we have anyone from CWA? Okay. We'll move on to our action items and start with item 9.1, approve tentative agreements with CSEA chapter 132 and the report will be presented by Alison Niezawa. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. I have tonight a tentative agreement with CSEA for the 2021 school year. So we opened negotiations with CSEA on May 13th and we came to closure on August 4th. We did take a little bit of time off for the summer so we weren't negotiating all the way through. But we did get to wrap it up right before the school year started. So the articles that we had, we did total compensation, leaves, and then we actually came back and sunshineed vacation to help settle this out. So the agreements were for you. We did settle on a one-time payment of $2,100 to all unit members prorated by FTE as well as their calendar. We did settle on two additional vacation days and as you heard from the public hearing that's also the vacation ratio for the 181 employees who don't actually get the days but get it paid out as well as we updated some language in the leaves article around absence reporting. We're moving to an online absence reporting system and the language in the contract was a little old and outdated. So we were able to come pretty quickly actually to some resolution on updating that so we can increase efficiencies of making sure that when we know employees are out we can get coverage needed in a much more efficient manner. So we definitely appreciate CSCA's collaboration with us on it and bringing it to closure rather quickly. So I hope to or move to hope you approve the TA tonight. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to 9.1? No speakers. Do we have any discussion from the board? I'd like to make a motion to approve. I'll second. I have a motion and a second. If there's no further discussion, I'll call the vote. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries, 5-0-2. All right, 9.2, one-time payment for management, confidential and professional services employees groups. Report will be presented by Allison. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. We have before you tonight our unrepresented employees. So those are our professionals like our occupational therapists, our athletic trainers, ones that don't fall under the CSCA or PVFT bargaining unit as well as our confidential employees and our management. So we are presenting to you tonight, again, a 2,100 payment similar to that of CSCA for those groups, provided based on FTE and their calendar as well. So I request that you please approve this tonight as well. Do we have any public speakers to this item? No speakers. Any questions or comments from the board? I'd like to make a motion to approve. All right. Any, a second? I'll second. Okay, first and second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 5-0-2. All right, item 9.3, our LGBTQ plus history month resolution. The report will be presented by Kristen Schaus, our assistant superintendent of secondary education. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. The few folks with me today, so a little different than our typical resolutions as we've gone through them, really in response to our student voices too. So it would be hard to stand up here and not acknowledge Lucia's comments in regards to what she has felt like and what has occurred on a campus. And we can do better. It's also a reminder that our efforts in writing also need to make sure that they match when we're out at our sites. So I had an opportunity to talk to her as well as Rojillo as we were talking outside. They'd like to still be part of our presentation this evening. Really, I'm looking forward to saying we're making commitments. Now we gotta make sure that the student voices are still coming forward when those things aren't necessarily being executed the same way that we have intended as a Board of Trustees and others. So with that said, we're gonna read through our lines of our resolution. We each have parts and moves as well. So we hope that you will enjoy some additional education in the area and really why we're moving forward to place additional supports in here. Whereas LGBTQ History Month is an annual month log long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender history and the history of gay rights and related civil rights movements which was founded in 1994 by a Missouri high school history teacher, Rodney Wilson. So shout out to the teachers that have all been involved in the process along the way. Whereas Pahoa Valley Unified School District Board believes that the rich variety of diversity of families and communities is one of our strengths. And furthermore believes that the strong community consists of supportive unit composed of various genders, orientations, cultures, races, ethnicities. And whereas Pahoa Valley Unified School District Board of Education values, honors and welcomes the diversity of our student body, our teachers, our staff and our administrators including the diversity of sexual orientation and the identity of our community. And whereas Pahoa Valley Unified School District Board of Education recognizes that we have students and staff of all different grade levels and within the organization that are LGBTQ plus and or have LGBTQ plus family members and they deserve to be recognized and valued. Whereas Pahoa Valley Unified School District has through our resolutions and our actions made a commitment to achieving acceptance through fostering diversity and inclusion in our staff, our school population and in our curriculum. And whereas on July 14th, 2011, the fair, accurate, inclusive and respectable Fair Education Act was passed and signed into law in California and mandates the inclusion of the political, economic and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the social studies and history curricula in California public schools. And whereas on July 14th, 2016, the California State Board of Education passed a new history social science framework that includes LGBTQ plus American history content to be taught in K through 12 classrooms. And whereas the Pahoa Valley Unified School District recognizes the important contributions of local, state and national LGBTQ plus people to the history of the United States by promoting social justice, enhancing health and wellbeing and building a sense of community for LGBTQ plus people. And whereas Sylvia Ravel and Martha P. Johnson, two trans women of color, were some of the significant individuals who stood up for LGBTQ. Let me continue. The LGBTQ rights at Stonewall, riots in New York City in 1969. And whereas Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California. And whereas local LGBTQ plus activists and allies for more than 45 years have preserved to transform the annual pride marches from tense rallies, needing police and parade monitor protection into one of Santa Cruz's most joyful and beloved community celebrations. And whereas the local LGBTQ plus community and its allies rose up to meet the challenges of the AIDS epidemic, helped lead the state and nation in developing community based strategies for reducing pain and suffering and took major roles in the statewide resistance of political attacks on people with AIDS, including teachers that all despite suffering great and unrecoverable losses of friends and loved ones. And whereas LGBTQ plus individuals continue to make noteworthy and important contributions that have led and will continue to have great impact on our history, culture and society. To summarize the major pieces within this resolution, whereas LGBTQ individuals continue to make the noteworthy contributions that our district supports, the rights, the freedoms, the equality of those that are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, pansexual and asexual. And whereas Pahua Valley Unified School District affirms its role and its commitment to continuing the historical progress of transforming the educational system to ensure inclusiveness, safety and a sense of belonging that all LGBTQ students, teachers, staff and families. And therefore, be it resolved, the Pahua Valley Unified School District Board of Education celebrates the accomplishments of LGBTQ people in history, encourages all schools to celebrate October as the LGBTQ plus history month and encourages teachers to teach lessons about LGBTQ plus history in their classrooms aligned with the state history framework, not just in October, but all year long. And with that, staff recommends approval of the resolution. Thank you. Why we have public speakers to this item. Yes, we have public speakers. First, I have a question. Chris Kirby, are you speaking to 9.3 or 9.7? I wasn't sure of your. Three. 9.3, okay. So you'll be coming up. Chris Kirby, Emily Kaver. Oh, sorry, Emily Kazar. Thank you, Jennifer, for the invitation and thank you for the board. I first want to just say, we believe our God, our creator is an awesome, perfect father and he loves us all. Yes, God loves gays, God loves lesbians, he loves transgenders and he loves straight people. We all have massive faults. And if I am a true believer of Jesus Christ, I should gladly give my life to save a transgender, a lesbian, a gay. That is what God Almighty would want me to do as stated in our Bible in John 15, 13. What our local Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists are asking the school board is that our public schools stop promoting and teaching our children to become gay, lesbian, or transgender for the simple reason of what happened to Kara Bell. This is Kara Bell and the disinformation she read on the internet and social medias. Thanks to this information from gender identity, development services, Kara thus started to take puberty blockers, cross sex hormones at age 15 and had irreversible lifelong consequences. Kara then took her case to the United Kingdom's High Court and won a landmark case against England's only gender identifying development service. You're not here about Kara Bell and CNN, Facebook, or anywhere else. This is the same type of disinformation that Maria Risa just received a noble peace prize for her work on disinformation on Facebook and other social medias in the Philippines. Our children live off Facebook and social medias. Then you add a school with a transgender flag promoting transgenders. God loves us and he loves you. And I love our children. And I want to see our children healthy. I'm Tom, Tom Myers. I just want to read you something out of the scriptures that the scriptures here that Simon referred to. This is right in Genesis. It said, then the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, he made into a woman and he brought her to the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones. In flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh. Well, that's God's perfect plan for mankind, for man to marry a woman. And you see that woman was taken out of a man and then because it was the part of a man was taken out and God formed a woman out of that. And then the wonderful thing about marriage between a man and a woman is that that is joined again. Part of Adam that was taken out of him is then joined to him again. And there's a complimentary thing that happens, you see. A wife brings certain attributes to the marriage and a husband brings certain attributes to the marriage and they become one being and they complement each other. You see with a gay marriage or that type of a situation you have a woman and a woman and a man and a man and that compliment doesn't happen, so thank you. All right, so I got one other, I better move on. All right, Anne, first Corinthians, here we are. This is what it says. This is Paul speaking to his congregation there in Corinth. He said, do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomates, nor thieves, covetous. Time is up. Time is up. All right, we'll not enter the kingdom of God. Time is up, please, thank you. Hi, I'm Emily Gassar. I'm a middle school teacher in this district. I've been teaching here for 20 years and I wanted to share a little bit about what I see in my school of what's going on. In my school, we are definitely the, the progress flag flies every single day. It has not stopped once. So it is definitely up there. My understanding is that it is there because there's a very high suicide rate amongst trans kids that they are marginalized. In my school, what I have seen is that they are not marginalized at the school. They are the popular kids. They are the most popular kids. There are a large number of trans kids and they're generally girls. Even though in the past, they were usually boys. This is all girls and they are the most popular girls. The gay club is the most popular club in the school. The kids, they get a host of privileges. They get to use the teacher's bathroom where nobody else can use the teacher's bathroom, which is never locked. The teacher, the students use it all the time. And many, and like I said, they're the popular group. The flag for my kids gives a different message of what you'd expect it to do. What my kids pick up is that to be successful, to be popular, you need to be a trans. You need to be in there because those are the ones who are accepted in the school. But it is, is this a good thing for them? Oh, not really long-term. It's not good for them. If they end up going farther and taking puberty blockers, that is not a good thing. It damages their body quite a bit and it really has no proof that it can be reversed. So we are in many ways sacrificing our healthy puberty just so that the kids, so that these kids can feel accepted when already they are very, very accepted there. The kids are being, hearing the message of the LGBTQ, a huge amount for most days in the announcement, probably two-thirds of the days. There are announcements about it. There are classes. The leadership class covers mainly that and your lot. Thank you very much. Okay, next, Courtney Beam. Leah Sugarman, Jen Salinas-Holt. You had called me earlier, can I go up first? Yes, come on. Hi. My name's Chris Kirby. Well, I'm a parent, but I've grown children. I went through PVUSD, graduated in 02, 04, 09, and 15. So I'm surprised to find myself here, but I think it's important to talk about this K through 12. I have no problem with people and their choices of life. I mean, I understand it, I know people, I get it, I understand it. But I think the schools need to concentrate on teaching the subjects. I don't think the flag should be flying, especially in elementary school and junior high. Let these kids be kids. We're putting too much on them too early and I don't think they understand it. It really freaks me out what these... I was at the fair at a booth last month. We had three different groups of girls come up to us, in eighth grade and freshmen, and they were so confused, but they thought it just really saddened my heart. You guys, I think K through 12 is way too early, or at least elementary and junior high is too early. Let them be kids. Let them, I don't know, it just really hurts my heart what's being taught. And I will say the school district is even more screwed up than when my kids were here and I thought things were looking okay. You got it, I think we should restructure these schools and start with the pay of the teachers and then whatever's left at the top, you people all get. These teachers deserve our support. They are, it's a battleground out there and they are doing their best. I think we need more counselors to help these kids and it just really, I think it's very confusing for children nowadays. So that's my deal and I, I don't know, I know you guys are doing, you're doing your best, but it needs to be better for these teachers and the children. Thank you. Hi, my name is Courtney Beam. And I want to thank you for being brave enough to come up here and speak and say what you said earlier. It takes, that was really hard for someone your age to do. As you guys see in here, it says a Missouri high school teacher, high school. I am not okay with finding out that a school employee that my daughter attends a K through eighth grade, a school employee went on Amazon and purchased my daughter a lesbian flag without notifying me. This has got to end. This is not okay. You want to know that my daughter, my eighth grader while picking up her friend today and my second grader, the coming out day where my daughter at a K through eighth school, this is young girls that haven't even hit puberty are still attending there. That have not even gotten their peers. The voice hasn't, like men haven't, like really, like this is not okay. My daughter tells me, mom, I went to the arch today and I came out. I said, what's that mean? She goes, well, it's where you tell everybody what you are. You're either a lesbian or you're gay or and you want to know what my second grader says? I want to go through the arch. That tells you right now that you guys are pushing this on these young little kids, PVUSD cares. That's what you guys are handing out at an elementary school. This is not okay. High schoolers, that is okay. Why? Because they know and are way more educated. 30 seconds. They're way more educated, okay? They have hit puberty. They can make sound decisions. But these second graders and eighth graders that you guys are giving incentive goody bags for, they're presigning up early for an event is not okay. And I will go to the next higher level. I'll say what you guys are doing. And now for something completely different. Good evening, trustees. My name is Leah Sugarman-Rodriguez. My pronouns are she, my pronouns are she, her and aga. I'm a parent, a special educator, a PVFT member. And I want to thank you all tonight for your leadership and advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ plus students and families and their allies in recognizing October's LGBTQ plus month. I brought some props. My daughter made this. And my husband in Francisco and I are proud parents of a first grader and a third grader at Alianza Charter School. And we are really so fortunate to be at a school that celebrates LGBTQ plus community and in events and where the whole school community feels supportive of all different kinds of families and students. I also want to introduce Wolfie. I wouldn't let my daughter come. This is Wolfie. Wolfie uses they, them pronouns after her favorite character from the Percy Jackson universe, Alex Fierro. I think it's really important that students learn about all different kinds of experiences. And I'm here tonight to urge you to include LGBTQ plus history in the primary curriculum. What do you second? California law not only supports LGBTQ plus students but mandates that LGBTQ plus people are included in public school curriculum and that parents do not have the right to opt their children out of anti-biased education. It should be up to individual, it shouldn't be up to individual teachers and principals to inform parents about this. This message needs to come from a lot of time so that families hear loud and clear that PVUST supports all LGBTQ students, families, staff and all students. Good evening. I was going to bring some students with me tonight and I'm so glad they didn't come and have to hear this kind of hate speech. I'd like to thank you for supporting LGBTQ plus students in our district and voting to affirm their identities by recognizing October is LGBTQ History Month. Visibility is crucial to the wellbeing of LGBTQ plus students and seeing themselves reflected in their school curriculum has a lasting positive impact on their mental health and their sense of safety at school. Seeing the pride flag flying at school sites which you all unanimously supported with the board resolution in February is an important show of support and has contributed to student sense of inclusion and safety at school which directly impacts their academic success. We currently have gay straight alliance clubs in our high schools and middle schools. GSAs provide safe spaces for LGBTQ plus students and their allies to feel supported and valued. I have the honor of advising elementary and middle school GSAs at three school sites. Our clubs at Allianza and WCSA are the first elementary school GSAs in our district and we have a number of elementary kids at both schools who identify as LGBTQ plus. Kids know who they are at a young age and many queer and trans people know about themselves as young as preschool. Our GSA clubs are a lifeline for some of these students. LGBTQ plus issues are absolutely relevant to elementary school students. I have worked with students as young as kindergarten who identify as LGBTQ plus as well as students of all ages who have LGBTQ plus family members. Including LGBTQ plus people in curriculum is mandated by the Fair Education Act but more importantly, it affirms the identities of students and their families. This is literally life saving work. LGBTQ plus students whose identities are validated and celebrated are at lower risk for suicide, self-harm, substance abuse and other negative outcomes. Now is the time for the board to make a strong public statement in support of LGBTQ plus students. It's crucial that parents, families, community members and staff hear from our district leadership that PBSD supports LGBTQ students and that parents do not have the right to opt out of anti-bias curriculum. I urge you to follow through with your commitment to supporting LGBTQ plus students by making a public statement to the community in support of LGBTQ students not just for the month of October but year round. These brave students here are my heroes. Thank you. Elias Gonzalez and Allie. Good afternoon everybody. I wasn't intending to talk about, after hearing our young folks talk over here, it's actually important that we talk about it and it's unfortunate that we sit here in these types of spaces and I can't even imagine what they're going through. And that's in fact in front of all of us here that are adults and dealing with this. They deal with this shit, excuse my language on a daily basis. So first of all, thank you Ms. Shouse. I think it's important that you mention our words. Must match our actions. PDUSD cares. I see a young lady here crying, breaking, I wasn't gonna talk but that is why we're here. Because of young people that are speaking up and talking about this. So I wanna say first of all to all y'all, I hear you, I see you, I admire you and I love you, I see you. That is what our students need. Our students need this type of support. They don't need this bullshit over here, hate crime and all this stuff coming into them. That's what they're dealing on a daily basis. On a daily basis they deal with this. So when we vote for SROs, we take this away from them. It's right here in front of you all. Whereas the Paro Valley Unified School District affirms its role and its commitment to continuing the historical process of transforming. Transforming, what does transforming mean? Make a thorough or dramatic change in the forming of peers or character of. That's what they're asking for. They're asking for that transformation from you all. We can't give it to them. We've been here as a community. We've showed up as parents. We've showed up with their research but we're not getting that here. I'll close it with this. Individuals, whereas LGBTQ plus individuals continue to make note worthy and important contributions that have led and will continue to have great impact in our history. You made an impact on me. That's why I spoke up. Okay. That is, we are trying to create leaders. We want to create leaders and not followers. So let's stop stepping away from the status quo of funding SROs and start funding young people that are meeting with us. I swear at time. Thank you. My name is Annie and my pronouns are she, her, hers. I studied the Bible until I was 16 years old extensively so I can tell you, you take what you want from the Bible and you'll choose hate. Girls have crushes on boys and kinder and y'all are fine with that. Frankly, y'all sound a little ridiculous and you should be embarrassed. People like you are why I fear for my child's safety every day, every minute. Because, I'm talking. Because of the hate that you spread, I have to fear for my child's safety. I am speaking and you will be quiet. You should leave. We would all be better off if y'all just left. To the board, I recommend the book Red by Michael Hall. I read it to my six year old and she understood gender identity just fine. Ignoring them, y'all need to train your teachers and your administrator. I had to pull my child out of the district for transphobic comments and because they were not safe in school. The gender neutral locker rooms is one single room. My kid doesn't want to do PE. They want to do sports. The teacher tells them, you have to go to your assigned gender. You need to train teachers to understand how harmful that is. You need to tell that to our students. And we need to have gender neutral restrooms that are accessible and open so that nobody has to be asking for a key. And I don't have to be worried that my child is gonna get a bladder infection because they refuse to go to the restroom the entire time they're on campus because y'all do not make that accessible. Okay, so I really need y'all to train your teachers. I need you to support our students. I need you to make a safe environment. Y'all have so much. I wish I would not have gotten disrupted by this hate because we really need to highlight our students and how amazing they are. And my kid showed me videos of the national coming out on campus and I was filled with glee because I remember it in high school and I know the difference that it's made in the last 20 years. So I hope that we can continue to support our LGBT students because you are not doing enough and I wish they would do more. All right, do we have any discussion from the board? Okay, go ahead. I would just like to make a comment. I was partially responsible for bringing our Pride Resolution flag forward in February and I stand by that decision. And I think it's important to honor all of our students and I am touched by their bravery today and every day that they live. I'm not gonna force students to fit inside a box. They are old enough to express themselves. They're old enough to have their own thoughts. And I hope for this world, not just our community but this world that someday we can find ways to accept each other. So with that, I would like to recommend passing this resolution today. And I'll make a motion, sorry. I'll make a motion. Anyone else? Yeah. Tosti Dusserba, did you have a comment? Thank you for bringing the resolution forward. I'm in full support. Did we get a second yet? Not yet. Okay, I'd like to make the second. I was proud to stand with y'all and I'm sorry for some of the ugly comments that were made here tonight because that does not represent our district or our administration or the people on this board. Okay, thank you for being brave. And thank you, Kristen, for bringing that forward. I have a comment as well. And first, when I was growing up as a kid, it's like my confusion wasn't about who I was. My confusion was about what society wanted me to be. And when I got to adulthood and was able to acknowledge myself as somebody who is bisexual and to gain acceptance for that, that's where I found freedom and acceptance. And I have been very fortunate that I had parental acceptance, although that took some time, that I married somebody whose own identity is not threatened because they don't have a straight wife. This is incredibly important. And I have received quite a few emails in the past few days objecting to the measures that we have put in place to include the LGBTQ plus members of our PVSD community and particularly against flying the progress flag. When I compare these to the outpouring of support we received earlier this year in favor of our measures, especially from those who have been the targets of homophobic and transphobic actions and speech. I am reminded of just why we need a resolution like this. These measures are a way of actively including a historically marginalized segment of our community. There are LGBTQ plus members of every religious denomination, racial group, ethnicity, whether or not they are safe to be public about it. This isn't about one group. It isn't about promoting one group over another. This is about recognizing the wide diversity of our entire community and welcoming all of its members. I will be enthusiastically voting in support of this resolution. Thank you. Are there any other comments? We have a first, yeah? I have one more thing to add. I just want to add one more thing. Thank you, Trustee Holm, for being brave and thank you for leading the way. And I have a name to share, Matthew Shepard. And many of those of you in this room will know who I'm talking about when I speak his name and let's not forget all that he went through so that students could be here today and we can move forward and hopefully accept it. So thank you. We have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 5-0-2. And I'll give you a hug too. For item 9.4, our wave mobile safety application contract report will be presented by Kristin Schaus. Good evening, once again, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. In resolution of the September 15th Board meeting, it was decided that through that action, it actually increased part of our safety measures. This is one of those applications that I'm bringing forward this evening, which fits in alignment with what was presented that evening as well. So what is rave panic button? It actually is an application piece. It runs on all cellular devices. The way that it works is that it instantly communicates through 911 simultaneously to staff on campus as well. So what that basically means is that as we are actually making the 911 call from our cell phones using the panic button, it actually is moving forward with whether it is fire department, health, or PD response. That response is going into dispatch. It does not impact any of their operations, but what it does do is push out to all of our staff that are identified for each one of those threats. So for instance, if we had a larger active incident, that would go to all of our staff through cell phone pieces in addition. If it was something that was a lower health status piece, but maybe a seizure or a piece that yes, we need others to know, it is applicable to all of our healthcare folks that are on campus in addition to our site administration, campus security, anybody that we put into the system to be notified for each one of those calls. Couple of pieces that you should know in terms of product value of what we're actually looking at. Rave is in over 10,000 K through 12 school districts. So you can imagine the gravity of the number of schools that it actually currently exists in. Couple of things that you may or may not be aware of. So first net is a listed platform. So what that basically means is that it's certified after already going through a peer evaluation to be fully interoperable. That means that it's actually talking to the authorities at the same time that it's talking to us to be able to connect those dots more seamlessly. It's also approved in the countries, our countries, so the United States of America, public safety communications platform. So it has been approved for use. This as well is something that came out of Stoneman Douglas. So if you recall, an active incident in a shooting occurred in Florida in 2018. Legislation came forward to Florida as well as New Jersey. Both of those states have accepted it. This actually hit the house floor as well in 2019. There's anticipation that this will go through. If this goes through, a product of such will have to be required for districts anyway. So at this point, California is not one of those states, but as it has hit the house floor with anticipated legislation, we would actually be in front of the curve on this piece as well. And then lastly, Homeland Security has also certified the device as a safety act piece within anti-terrorism as an effective use of technology for such. Easiest way to be able to give you a little bit of feedback as to how this actually occurs and we'll play the video here for you. It's embedded on the top link. In today's world, time is everything. Can we get volume on that please? When a critical situation occurs, every second matters. How do you know when and where an emergency is happening? How quickly are you informing others about an incident? How can you help 911 handle an influx of emergency calls? Do first responders know what's happening before they arrive on scene? How do they know what resources they need? Do they know the closest and safest access point to an emergency call? How do you know when and where an emergency is happening? How quickly are you informing others about an incident? How can you help 911 handle an influx of emergency calls? Do first responders know what's happening and where the access point to the emergency. The rave panic button app is fully integrated with 911 centers. With a push of a button, the panic button app begins a communication workflow, instantly connecting you with 911 first responders and necessary personnel. Streamlining your emergency response. The app delivers critical response data, including details about the type of emergency and the location to 911 and first responders for a more coordinated response. First responders can quickly determine to go and who needs help as they arrive on scene. An alert also automatically triggers mass notifications, digital signage and more. Live streaming video allows 911 and first responders to view an emergency in real time to gather more critical information. Key stakeholders can initiate status checks with those at the scene to find out what's happening, where they are located and who is injured. The staff assist feature allows authorized employees to communicate non-emergency information such as minor medical incidents, security disruptions and administrative updates to specific groups without calling 911. A customized content director gets employees, teachers and staff access to important information like active assailant incident procedures, wellness guidelines and quarantine protocols so they'll be ready to act when the time comes. Stakeholders like you can also perform wellness checks with employees. Communicating instantly will improve your response times. The panic button mobile app is Safety Act certified by the Department of Homeland Security and the only solution with statewide deployments. You'll have the confidence knowing that you are doing all that you can to keep people safe and informed. So again that's intro to rave. It does allow us to geofence properties as well so I know Dr. Rodriguez spoke previously about that. That is a process piece that we will be going through so if it's accepted essentially each one of the buildings that we have within our campuses it will take us time to do the geofencing but that will also when you're using the panic button alert to where that actual location is as well. And with that I will open for questions. All right do we have any public speakers to 9.4? No public speakers. Any questions or comments from the board? Just one for me and that's just you know we've been hearing about you know 1.2 million dollars for the SROs but it was you know a whole comprehensive you know program that we were talking about on the 15th. This is part of that? That's accurate. The same piece that Dr. Rodriguez spoke to that evening on the 15th is rave. We actually had the dollar value in that as well so the 1.2 that was approved includes this it would not be an additional cost this evening. It was more for you guys as well as the public to be aware of where we're headed with the communications piece. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to approve. All right I have a first to have a second. I'll second. All right so I've got a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0-2. Thank you. All right item 9.5 resolution 21-22-15 in support of designating October 19th through the 29th as college and career awareness weeks. Go ahead Lisa. Thank you good evening president home board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. College awareness week is observed annually during the full week prior to Cabrio colleges college and career night. This year PVSD has chosen to expand to two weeks to move towards the county's alignment of the entire month of October. Cabrio college will participate with several events they call college and career chats and UCSC EOP access centers will participate with college activities in our family nights. The celebration is sponsored by the Santa Cruz County College and Career Collaborative which offers additional resources to students and families related to college and career readiness. The little history with the college week in PVSD. It started a while ago the first resolution and only resolution that I found was in 2016 by Dr. Rodriguez when she first arrived here in PVSD. In the fall of 2017 we held our kickoff annual kickoff event this was co-created and collaborated with UCSC EOP access center to decide on which events would be held and like I mentioned it aligns with the early decision college application process and Cabrio colleges career awareness night. This year we are expanding it to two weeks and to move towards the full month. The county it was about three weeks ago announced that they were going through the full month. We want to move towards that for next year why we didn't do it this year for the full month is because it is our staff who's putting out the resources in the time and we want to make sure that we do it the correct way the right way with the available resources and we just don't throw it together so we're doing it in a slow two weeks to a month next year. Some of the activities that are going to be occurring throughout the district for the full two weeks there's going to be career exploration there will be chats with the Cabrio college there'll be student question and answers college virtual tours there'll be door decoration contests there'll be teachers sharing their experiences about colleges there'll be information about financial aid availability about the college application process the A through G alignment and many many other items and options available. There's a full website put on through the the county career and college collaborative that was put up that are resources for school sites as well as many different additional resources that have been sent to school sites for ideas and different things that they can do. In addition this year we're doing two college and career awareness nights for parents they're going to be held on the Monday and the Thursday for this week October 8th or for next October 18th and the 22nd the 18th is going to be in English and the 22nd is going to be in Spanish so that all of our families have access and we're it's going to be in partnership with UCSC EOP office as well as our family engagement center. In the future we do look forward to expanding it to a full month to align with the county and with that the resolution the Pajaro Valley Unified School District acknowledges that college and career awareness is central to our expanded definition of student success and an important part of promoting a college going culture and serving the needs of all students and families in the districts and whereas the vision of Pajaro Valley Unified School District is to graduate all students college career and life ready and whereas PDUSD has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to establishing a college-prepared culture through our yearly partnership with UCSC EOP to establish access college and career centers in every middle school and high school regardless of gear up funding and whereas PDUSD has established both dual enrollment courses and articulated courses with Cabrillo College to provide PDUSD students with an opportunity to earn college credit while in high school whereas PDUSD believes in the family and community partnerships to support students in their post-graduation plans therefore be it resolved that the Pajaro Valley Unified Board of Trustees proclaims October 18th through October 29th 2021 to be College and Career Awareness Weeks and be it further resolved that the Pajaro Valley Board of Trustees strongly encourages all members of our community to join with its and its personally expressing the importance of an education behind beyond high school in order to fully contribute to the vitality of their community thank you and with that I ask for the approval for college and career readiness weeks great thank you so much do we have any public speakers to this item no public speaker any discussion from the board like to make a motion to support this resolution it's very exciting and thank you very much for all the hard work from to support opportunity for our students I have a first do I have a second I'll second and I just want to elaborate I think as we explore extending this to a full month I think the financial aid literacy piece is going to be key I think families need more than just a presentation on what financial is they need a presentation on how it works and what it means when they receive their aid offer and I think that's I am often the the missing piece that we failed to address so with that I'll second the motion I don't think I had already made a second but thank you I just have one comment to add knowing how important this is and there's always a lot of questions from students and parents I think it's great that you have some online components and so next year when we expand it to a month going off of what trustee Roscoe said to make sure that we have a couple different areas that we have a couple different dates for and just allowing students I think online's a lot easier than in person for most people so making sure that we continue those options online next year absolutely all right we have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries 502 thank you all right item 9.6 approved job descriptions our adult education transition specialist and adult education counselor report will be presented by Dr. Nancy Bilsich good evening this is a great opportunity to have a transition specialist the transition specialist now is at the consortium level we have one at Cabrera College they have one at Santa Cruz County office and we need one in PVUSD this person is a little bit different than the counselor because their focus is working with the college personnel and trying to get that transition the warm handoff the building the rapport with the student getting them ready to go to Cabrera College and they have transitioned specialist meetings right now and so we are looking forward to having our own too we think it'll be a real positive experience for our students so with that I would appreciate your support do you have any public speakers to the side of we have no public speakers any questions or comments from the board trustee to serve what a great idea I think this will really provide extra opportunity for people to move on to different careers and higher education so thank you for bringing it forward I'd like to make a motion to support thank you all right I have a first do I have a second I'll second if there's no further comments I'll call for the vote all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries 502 thank you so much all right item 9.7 resolution 21-22-13 our Williams textbooks sufficiency report will be presented by Lisa Gary good evening again board of President home board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez on September 22nd 2021 the public hearing was held for the sufficiency of textbooks at per the Williams Act this action items to prove the resolution of sufficiency of textbooks that was presented at the public hearing thank you any public speakers to the side of no speakers um all right so any discussion from the board make a motion to approve I have a first second I'll the I'll call for the vote all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries 403 thank you all right item 9.8 Williams quarterly report in July August September of 2021 report will be presented by Allison Nezawa assistant superintendent of human resources thank you President home board of trustees Dr. Rodriguez yes I have the Williams quarterly report so from the Williams settlement districts are required to adopt a complaint procedure process which we do have as well as report on any um um complaints we have received and as you see for July August September we have received zero complaints so I move to have you approve our quarterly report all right do we have any public speakers to this item yes we have one Radhika Kirkman good evening board of trustees Dr. Rodriguez so I'm here to speak on the Williams complaint well yes there were no complaints filed I do want to explain that because it's a little misleading when we put that out to the public the definition according to the Williams report of a teacher vacancy which is one of the things that is um what that is complained upon in this report is a position to which a single designated certificated employee has not been assigned at the beginning of the year for an entire year or for a semester if that's what that position entails so we started our school year with close to 40 I believe vacancies of positions in classrooms so we worked with the district we have been um trying to encourage teachers to come and work here it's been a difficult process we put our tosas in classrooms to help with the vacancies that we have um but we continue to have close to two dozen classroom vacancies which would in fact be a violation of this Williams report so I just want to make that on public record thank you all right any discussion from the board all right I'd like to make a motion to accept this Williams report as reported by administration all right to the second second all those in favor aye and opposed motion carries 403 item 9.9 approve the appointment of a teacher on a provisional internship permit report will be presented by Allison Diazawa assistant superintendent of human resources yes thank you again president home board of trustees dr. Rodriguez we have a provisional intern permit a pip for one of our employees um Thomas Hinga he is a special ed teacher at pv high school um he has been with us since the 2021 school year and we'd like to continue with him and we appreciate his service to our students and so I request that you approve his provisional intern permit tonight any public speakers to this item no no public speakers okay um any discussion from the board all right nine point this is nine point nine nine point nine I'd like to make a motion to approve there are public speakers oh I'm sorry nine okay I missed it sorry um Mariah for Mariah sorry if I mispronounced your name this is my first time at a board meeting so I'm not even sure how to read off I obviously think that special ed teacher deserves the pay um but I think that this is a broader issue that we shouldn't entice the teachers that are here we should raise a pay scale so that we not just attract other teachers but we retain them so that they don't need a a stipend to continue to work here um I think if you raise a pay scale you wouldn't need to entice with these one-time payments you wouldn't need to hire sub par teachers that have not yet met the requirements and don't they don't even have a provisional license yet this does such a disservice to students I think our students need experienced teachers not teachers on a permit um approving teachers on a permit because the ones that live down the street are burnt out or that they would literally rather drive two and a half hours to make a livable wage is like a slap in the face I've met occupational therapists that are here on the travel contract they say oh I know Watsonville they offer a lot to work there and they move from places like North Carolina to become travel therapists and to help out places like this PBSD is nationwide known for and famous for this and it's sad when we could increase the pay scale and could retain and have the people that are teaching here that already live here lastly you guys banned healing balloons because you care for the environment but if you truly cared you would raise a rate so that educators that are driving on highway one every day would not contribute to congestion and traffic every single day so when I see signs like we will train anyone to work as a bus driver when I see you guys advertise that you will hire unlicensed teachers and retain them on a provisional license it feels like a huge slap in the face when we live three minutes away from public schools and PBSD that we could service my dad wakes up at five a.m. every morning and gets home at five p.m. because he wants to make a livable wage as a bus driver and he would drive rather drive to Morgan Hill than PBSD when he lives right here near Safeway driving to Morgan Hill and he turns 60 soon so how long can you continue to do this you guys receive 77 million and COVID relief funding whereas other school districts only got three to four thousand sorry three to four million so you guys got 77 million so raise a pay scale so that we can continue to to say that we live work and play in PBSD like someone said before me the schools are hemorrhaging and this is clearly an emergency provision in which a raise is not just needed but desperately warranted thank you any discussion from the board I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to support hiring of Thomas Hinga on a provisional status thank him for his decision and his interest in working with kids in the special ed department all right I've got a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries uh 502 item 9.10 approved the memorandum of understanding between PVFT and PBSD increased subbing on the prep rate um report will be presented by Alison Yosella yes thank you president home board of trustees dr. Rodriguez we have an MOU for you tonight that we worked on with PVFT to increase the subbing on prep rate so in the contract it's already negotiated that there is an additional rate if teachers either cover a class while they're on their release time their prep time or even if they assume other students in their class we work with PVFT on increasing that rate to help incentivize more teachers to maybe volunteer to do it it's already part of the contract that we ask for volunteers first and so we do recognize that there has been an increased amount of time and effort put in by our teachers and so we want to recognize their hard work and try to incentivize them as well as commentate them more for for the time that they're spending after hours for doing their prepping because they're covering the classes so um I request that you please approve this MOU tonight thank you do we have any public speakers to this item yes we do Helmone and Claudia Vargas hello my name is Herman Rafael Gonzalez community advocate and ASB co-president of watsonville high school now I'd like to speak today about the necessary support for our teachers in this and how shortcomings often fall upon our students because I want to give you all the students perspective I want to listen to them and you know advocate on their behalf and doing that includes advocating for teachers I remember hearing in the first few days upon our return to school about schedules and seeing schedules that just had blank spaces where teachers name would be and in the first few days students who didn't have substitutes or teachers just being funneled into the new gym without a classroom to be in and without a place to learn and this was really really disheartening for me to see for seeing my peers miss out on the education that they need and the classroom setting that they need but so many of my peers echoed that sentiment and I actually spoke to a lot of our long-term substitutes and the new teachers that we have and I'm very very very thankful to have them especially in our social studies department I know a lot of people left watsonville high school social studies department and have been able to come back and I'm happy that they're there but so many of my teachers I had to fill in for substituting positions my AP Spanish language teacher had to fill in for a math class my former AP Human Geography teacher had to fill in for a ceramics class so I say all of this so I can ask you to please please please make quick effort as soon as possible to ensure that my peers have a teacher that they can have consistently and have the proper support through substitutes I'm thanking you for the increase in pay I'm not sure if that's what's being voted on or not but if it is please please please vote on it if not if it's already been passed then I hope you continue to support our teachers and support them even I hope you support them through increase in payments through when they have to substitute thank you hello my name is Claudia I'm a parent two high school juniors a community member in a pvc employee I work directly with students and teachers in the classroom and have worked with some wonderful and qualified teachers just to see them go to other districts or other positions due to the uncompetitive pay the district offers and our students are negative negatively impacted directly I have seen it myself the significant decline in student education and the negative impact it has in the classroom when a teacher leaves and is left with the revolving door of subs and currently no sub at all they're in the outdoors you know administrators and other teachers are missing out on their prep time pitching in where they can and they're exhausted I'm in support of our teachers and future teachers offering them competitive pay sign-on bonuses incentives and benefits to keep them to keep them and to recruit new teachers to our district's classrooms and give our students the quality education the dessert and furthermore competitive pay and benefits shouldn't be such a battle but a norm for our district and our students thank you thank you any discussion from the board can I have a motion make a motion to approve all second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries five zero two all right nine point eleven approve memorandum of understanding between PVUSD and PVFT classroom teaching position signing bonus yes me again thank you president home board of trustees dr. I guess I have an MOU for you tonight again that we worked in collaboration with PVFT on to expand our our signing bonus to classroom positions we are finding that all of our teaching positions are hard to fill the original one that we put through was to address math and science and special ed and we are finding the same challenges with foreign language art bilingual classes second grade and so we we want to be able to put this out there we want to be able to get people to come to our district we're we're heavily recruiting to do so and this would be another tool for us to use to bring people to PVUSD so I request that you approve this MOU tonight all right do we have any public speakers to this side yes we do Travis Walker hi there I'll try to keep it short of this time because I feel like I said most of what I needed to say last time but um obviously I hope you pass this uh to get more teachers in this district and fill the vacancies but I also hope that you don't go home and feel like you solve the problem if you do twenty five hundred dollars over the span of two years that will this will be paid out is not enough and it's only for new teachers um if you thought that the amount of teachers that left last year was rough and hard to handle let me tell you from the conversations that I've been having this year wait until next year also since I have extra time I'd love to comment on one of my amazing students Lucia's comments earlier it was heartbreaking to listen to those comments because all of the things that Lucia was saying were the exact same things that one a student a queer student I was close to that my first year in the district was saying it's just another example of how little has changed in this district over my time being here issues over the only non-gender bathroom before they straight up wasn't a door on it and now there is a door and it's always locked honestly couldn't tell you which one was worse um I hope that you all will take steps to address these things instead of letting them be ongoing issues forever and ever thank you did Lucia leave the shoes on here she did okay because she uh hello once again my name is Herman Rafael Gonzalez ASP co-president with Lucia Mcky Martinez who has been amazing tonight and uh I'd like to talk about hoping that you all pass this I of course I hope you pass this I of course I hope that the vacancies throughout our whole district get filled I really really really really think you will and I hope you will but I also hope that you keep in mind the need for and further working on retaining these teachers and I know that this is a really really really big priority but from once again from a student's perspective from my peers perspective it feels like some of our favorite teachers teachers that we've gone close to just come and go all the time like I've I remember being here in my first year in Watsonville freshman meeting a first year teacher and then now I've been at Watsonville high school longer than I have and that's that's really disheartening to see because we do have a strong community at Watsonville throughout this district and so many of our schools but it's just not manageable for a lot of them to live here and that's uh because of a combination of a lot of problems and like high cost of living here and all these different aspects but I hope that passing this you help you help bring in new teachers and I hope that you really really focus on retaining these teachers and support our students through supporting our teachers through higher pay through caring for them and caring for our students thank you all right do we have any discussion from the board okay uh Trustee Scherker I just have a clarifying question here so all new eligible teachers new hires being are these including our math and science teachers so would they qualify for the 2500 and then also qualify for the 2500 it's not compounding it's an expansion of what's already there so we already have one for math science and special ed but like we're saying we're we're trying to expand that because all of our positions are equally hard to fill so that one is still in place under the what's the current mo you that we have that's written actually into the contract but it does have expiring language so that would still apply um this one is in addition to and it's trying to really fill our vacancies that we have for this current school year okay so if we're still having problems filling these positions that's something that can be brought back to extend to the bonus for math and science and sell back yeah we can look at it if that's what we feel we need to do just one yeah yeah thank you any other questions or comments thank thank you um for bringing this forward was this a negotiated item or are we just offering it um pbfda and the district has worked together to bring different solutions to some of the problems so we brought this to them they brought the subbing one to us so we're trying to work at mitigating kind of all the things we've been hearing tonight to try to address it as best we can together so yeah yeah we worked with them of course so i'm on an association with um all the different school boards in this county and indeed that feeds into um a statewide organization and so this is a problem all across our state other people have said it but it is like a huge problem it's not a small problem it's a huge problem i know a lot of teachers have left this district over the years um due to many different ideas about things being better in other districts but the truth is is that this district pays the best benefits and retirement um relative so when people leave they go other places and they often see that they don't have great benefits or they have to pay tremendous costs to cover their whole families um so i think we try to do the best we can with what we have and i look forward to negotiations um with pbft so that um so that we can come to some conclusion about um increasing salaries if possible so i wanted to say thank you very much for bringing this forward and i hope can can you just talk a tiny bit about recruitment about your recruitment efforts that we are under that we have underway and what's happening yeah we actually are going to a um a lot of stuff has stayed virtual through covet and it's actually been there's there's some good byproducts of it right of being able to outreach a little bit further than we would sometimes in person um we're working with ed week they're doing they do four virtual um recruitment fairs a year october uh january july and march sorry skipped march um and we're but we've just partnered with them to get our like virtual booths set up and videos so that we can go to the october one in a couple weeks um we're looking into linkedin and some other places that are not just educational based because we do hire a lot of employees that are not teachers and not of certificated natures nurses occupational therapists bust out like all of those things and so we're trying to get out to other job boards that where the employees are and meeting them and finding ways that we can actually proactively tap them or head hunt them instead of waiting for them to come to us so my department is working my executive assistance taking it on to help find other means that are going to be beneficial to us to find the employees instead of waiting for them to come to us i know that in the like the bay area region i can't i think it's oakland or san francisco the the city's actually putting money into the pot for teacher salaries do we have we talked to the county have we talked to the county about can they supplement our budget and i'm not talking about the coe but i mean like the county of sanikers yeah i haven't explored that i don't know if that's an option but we can reach out likely it's not an option but i think we need to explore it just because i've heard that other communities are doing it because of the um crisis that they're facing mm-hmm okay yeah and you know i think our number one priority is to get the best teachers that we can get and also to retain our quality and 100 so anyway thank you yep i'd like to make support this i'll second that motion and echo what she said all right we have a first and a second um all those in favor i i any opposed motion carries five zero two all right item nine point twelve eligibility determination and funding authorization to sign applications and associated documents report will be presented by clint wrecker cbo good evening president home board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez um this resolution is actually one that you have seen before but in a slightly different format um we've always bring them forward with uh the current cbo as one of the allowed signers what this is is the office of public school construction actually offers up um different grants effectively they just like we have bonds at times so does the state the state uses those bonds to look at eligibility requirements across districts and then approve certain projects for new construction or modernization for those districts utilizing state funding so what this resolution allows us to do is to streamline the process and rather than each time we apply for um these eligibility for all of our sites it allows myself and dr. Rodriguez to sign on behalf of the board to say that yes we do want to be put into the eligibility pool and try and to get get as much of this public money as possible so I would recommend the board approve this resolution as it is one more vehicle for us to try and get more funds for construction all right uh any public speakers to this item no speakers all right any questions or comments from the board uh trusty soto I just have a question clint do we have any particular projects earmarked for this money or is this just a general so every time great question every time we do a uh project we actually work with school facility consultants which is one of our vendors who looks at the project and then helps us determine eligibility requirements right now the um mpr modernization that was at aptos jr that was that is one of the projects that's being considered the portables at duncan that we are doing we're actually submitting to them um hopefully next week for that one to be considered so anytime we do a project regardless of the funding we use we always apply for this funding to effectively offset what we're going to spend so typically it's projects that we're doing whether it's with esser funding or if it's with um our developer fees we end up sending these for approval to see if the state will actually reimburse us for the project all right um I'll entertain a motion I'll move to approve I have a first I'll second I have a second all those in favor aye aye aye any opposed motion carries 502 thank you so much all right so um item 9.13 approval of pvsd safe return to in person instruction and continuity of services plan report will be presented by dr michelle rodriguez our superintendent yeah thanks so much so as has been stated um we have been receiving esser funding um so we received esser one two and three um now several months ago these the state determined that in order for us to be able to receive this funding we have to have a safer return and caught a safer turn to in person instruction and continuity of services plan so it's a fairly lengthy plan so we won't go through um the entire plan what you will notice as you're looking through it I know that the board reviews the documents prior is that you'll notice that it's it's very similar to something you have seen before and that is because this is our ccp plan for the majority of it um one of the options that we had which is both in the narrative and within the opening of this document is that we could use the ccp which we approved prior to march 11th as the base of the program and then what we're required to do is every six months which is meaning we had to do it six months um from march um to now and then we're also required um from now on every six months to also um update this plan and we're assuming that that will happen until the funding ends which is in 2024 so you will wind up seeing this document and any of its modifications every six months um one thing that you'll see is you'll see some um minor changes if you look at physical distancing requirements that has been updated the only thing that was really updated from what was the previous plan the ccp plan was actually signed by myself um and the president of pvft and president of csa um in this plan it's wasn't required to have those signatures and so therefore we don't have it i did provide the draft um most of what you will see is completely the same as at ccp um you will see some changes to the physical distancing another change that you will see is it asks us to include the information regarding continuity of services and so that information has now been included that you will notice if we look at it that it seems very familiar yet again and that is because that information is the information that i provided when we did the expanded learning opportunities grant so all this information has at one time or the other been approved by the board um but this is a logistical requirement um for us to be able to receive all the esser funds which of course is important to the district and we want to make sure that we can use that upon this approval we will place it on our website and we will translate it so that it is available in english and spanish and then once again um six months from today or before you will again see this document with any modifications to it that are happening because of changing circumstances so i um ask that you approve um this document thank you do you have any public speakers to this item yes we have one chris web i wanted to say i i appreciate that we've got on-site testing and we've been providing some teach some mass to teachers um the night that we had all those belligerent anti-maskers i spoke to a couple in the parking lot who are kind of reasonable it took away two good points one being that teacher should be especially elementary teachers should be provided mass specifically for students and that sometimes they would direct students to switch mass if their old mask has been soiled and then the other thing was about like certain masks were being denigrated so maybe we should have better masks like n95s or kn95s i'd rather trade in all of the free cocks the cloth ones i have to get one or two of those those kind because the cloth ones they when i'm teaching they come down off my nose it's a hassle um additionally i think the uh district could show that they truly care by taking some of these covid funds and funding covid leave through the rest of the pandemic and providing rapid testing for any students or teachers in the same class as a covid positive student and that being in the same class as a covid positive student should automatically count as a close contact and um let's see uh also i some students have brought this up they they feel like having to wait a day while they're at school with we had a positive case they had to wait and they felt like they're being uh i'd say like it's endangered um the other thing is that i'm going to be going on family leave i don't have sick days to spare and as a result i'm not i even know that testing is optional for me at this point i'm not going to take any tests i used to take tests but i won't be doing because i can't afford the sick days and we got no covid leave i think the pvc could show they care by following the suit of a similar district nearby they do an enhanced family leave one week of paid family leave for each year of service in the district i feel like that'd be a good way to promote a safe environment you'll get me back doing my thing of testing even though i don't have to and you'll also have a more another tool for recruitment and another way to help keep those teachers you have thank you all right um any discussion from the board all right make a motion to approve all right got a motion a second it's a tremendous amount of work that went into this document so i don't know michelle who dr edery is who helped you write it yeah i figured um it's a tremendous amount of work and so thank thank you all right we have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries five zero two i am nine point fourteen pvcd and digital nest partnership internship program for signature cte pathways nest on campus clubs for over presented by dr michelle rodriguez yeah thanks um so nestled in the program that i i was just speaking about um the expanded learning opportunities grant funding highlighted five key partners that we wanted to continue to expand the opportunities for our students this is the last and final of the five um so we have now done um agreements with all five of the partners in which we um supported so what this will and this is a perfect location so thank you um what this will do is it will provide fun um two years of additional support from digital nest so one thing that we're already doing is um doing a summer internship program this would actually increase significantly on the number so currently they do have an summer internship program but it's not directly linked with pvusd or funded in any way this would allow us to ensure that 20 incoming seniors and juniors would be able to be part of that program we've heard from our students that it's definitely a desired position to be working in digital nest it would also help to link the work that's happening in the summer with the work that is half or the the programming that is happening from fall and spring um and allow our students to participate in the various areas within digital nest whether it's nest flight or um digital's nest um youth workforce and probably the most important is number four that you see up there which is they have and continue to help support our students to get our students in paid entry-level positions in local companies and also paid internships um through um business and other areas within digital nest and so um duly edwards who's in the back has done a fantastic job on um supporting our cte programming this would be another way to continue to support that programming and i do want to note that through the work that julie's been doing we have not only been able to really capitalize on our ct work but also capitalize on our partnerships including the partnership with digital nest that now services paharo valley high school aptos high watsonville high and renaissance um and so i hope that you approve this um which is part of the monies for expanded learning opportunities grant which has to be for something over and above what we had already done um and so it cannot be used for um current staffing but rather something that we're going to be supporting over and above and i ask for your approval all right any public speakers to this item no speakers any discussion from the board uh can i have a motion i'll make the motion a second all right all those in favor any opposed motion carries uh five zero two president home i'd like to make a motion to extend the meeting to midnight all right i have a first to have a second second all right first second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries five zero two all right so item uh 10.1 pvsd health and welfare benefit provider review report will be presented by clint rucker cbo and mark london our health care consultant thank you president home board of trustees and dr rodriguez um a few board meetings again actually multiple board meetings you have heard public ask about our current benefit plans and if we can do anything potentially going to self-insured like we used to be we're switching to a different provider to save money on benefits currently the district spends almost 50 million dollars on health and welfare benefits kind of to uh trustee discerpas point earlier we do spend quite a bit on health and welfare in order to address this we really wanted to bring someone in who has expertise across the state on benefits and what they look like at districts our size as well as kind of the different pools that would be available so with us we actually have mark willenthal from school employees association of california to clarify he does not work for sisk who we currently actually is our current provider he is a neutral third party who actually provides the district with benefit um advice options on ways to adjust plans or adjust our providers he really is looking out for a way for the district to be able to save money he serves on our benefits committee for those of you who have been at our benefits meetings he does provide us with information does a lot of research on our behalf so with um an attorney over to mark so he can kind of discuss the options that we have in front of us in terms of would it be viable or would it be prudent for the district to look at switching providers or potentially going to a self-insured plan so with that mark thank you so much um welcome to power of valley mark thank you so much sorry you had to sit through that sorry i'm sorry you had to sit through that exciting meeting no it's uh it's good to be here it's it's actually good to address this with all of you it's something that actually we have discussed in committee um over time uh actually a few times in terms of this it really is a a profound question that i think every school district needs to ask are we actually purchasing the health care that we have at the best price it's a very simple and direct question and i'm pleased to say not to bury the lead that in this case you are uh purchasing from sisk is really the best way to purchase health care in the state today but uh i wanted was asked to begin with an introduction so i think you should know that my background is analytical and actuarial prior to working with school districts i managed an actuarial firm it was really on the east coast concentrating on the private sector uh large large uh private employees but since 2001 i've been involved with school districts my first assignment was in conjunction with the justice department in the new orleans new orleans school parish um and the superintendent from there ultimately there i was in charge of a fraud investigation um we returned about 20 million dollars to the school district primarily this was based on health care or health insurance fraud but not only that the superintendent ultimately went to stockton from new orleans you may have known dr amato um at the time he uh when when he went to stockton he was greeted with a 33 increase in health care and so he called and that brought me to the state of california and working with two not-for-profits the first not-for-profit the california education for health care uh california education coalition for health care reform was joint labor management um 501c3 a subgroup of the center for collaborative solutions and the organization i work for now which is also not-for-profit the school employers association of california which deals with labor and management issues um and and the focus of these endeavors was really how to reduce costs and improve outcomes for uh for health care for school districts statewide and individual school districts you should also know that during my tenure i've been hired by cta i've been hired by csa i have been hired by sisk and california value trust and cal pers and viva there's barely an entity that deals with school districts that have not hired me from time to time for specific uh projects but i don't accept commissions never have i'm not a licensed broker i'm not a salesperson um so i don't derive any income from making any recommendations and i've been pleased to work with the district um for a little over four years in terms of advising the committee which is also a joint labor and management uh uh committee so um in terms of the question can we purchase uh better or can we do better than sisk uh really the question becomes uh you know we think about health care but uh health care sorry thank you uh health care is not really a purchase so much of health care but it's a purchase of risk someone is deciding deciding what is our risk and how much might that cost us in terms of health care as you may know health care is now has an unlimited risk used to be that health plans had lifetime maximals but with the affordable care act often called obama care that's been eliminated um just because it's baseball season but if you'll remember some time ago uh there was a san francisco giant fan who went to los angeles stadium dodger stadium and was terribly beaten up that was a 25 million dollar claim right um uh we have had districts actually you have a neighboring district that had you know premature triplets that that led to a 26 percent increase in health care right um there's a district with hemophilia twins right this is a million dollars a year for the life of of these children um and so it has always been our advice that school districts get out of the risk business the risk business is terribly unpredictable and very very expensive in what is a for-profit industry anytime we purchase insurance an insurance company earns money typically around 15 percent of that risk and so the less risk we assume the better off we are you're a very large school district but as a risk pool you are tiny right actually we like to see groups of at least a hundred thousand members at a hundred thousand members we get we get various aspects of predictability and economy of scale which help us um you had actually um been self-funded it's long before i got here but before you moved to sisk you were self-funded and unfortunately for you you were underfunded and you were running at a deficit uh you wouldn't be the first district that this happened to i've actually worked with several and which have reduced pahoro excuse me not pahoro uh it'll come to me anyway they had eight furlough days to pay for their for their risk um uh but at the time and i'm again it predated me but i was reminded that it was actually brought up to the administration by the certificated group that the service was poor and you did not have access to pamp or solder hospitals and currently half of your members choose to use those those providers so you were in really a very challenging situation but then you went to sisk which is something that i wasn't involved in but would be would have been a decision that i would have recommended at the time or supported at the time so the advantages of the large uh purchasing pools are pretty much self-evident in many instances because of the economy of scale so all the administrative fees are less it's sort of like casco or walmart things simply cost less in terms of it but you may not know in terms of pharmaceutical purchasing uh larger purchasers will get tremendous discounts often 20 or maybe 25 percent better than what you would purchase if you were purchasing by yourselves the most important aspect of it is the predictability um the uh predictability of the large group the axiom of large numbers this is a little perverse but it lets us know the larger we are we can tell within really one percent how many of us will get seriously ill um how many of us will have um serious complications and uh the larger we are the more predictable we are the more predictable we are we don't need to purchase additional insurance to protect us against catastrophic um outcomes and again as i mentioned anytime we purchase additional insurance we're paying a for-profit company um you know to assume that risk as they assume that risk uh we we we pay for it so um uh sisk on the other hand i was very large uh i think 360 thousand members at this particular point um they offer multiple plan designs and networks and that's without adverse selection adverse selection is you know when we're a small group we offer sometimes a higher plan and a lower plan while the sicker people go to the higher plan those rates then increase faster as their risk improves or their risk increases and sisk is fully reserved when you're self-funded you need to be able to be fully reserved and sisk is so in effect you married wealthy when you joined sisk right um you know because it was a fully insured group you no longer needed your reserve should you become self-funded yourself you will need to establish a reserve fund and those reserve funds are not funds that you can use for other other things right they have to stay as the reserve only for health care um there sorry um so then the question is of the large pools is sisk the best right if you agree with me that in no school district should be self-funded and you found sisk well then well but is sisk the better best pool the best large pool um and really in the state there are only two um pools that would assume your risk in entirety right there are other pools but you retain some of your risk the story of the premature triplets and the 26 percent increase that happened in another pool not sisk not cow pairs the two pools in california we're very fortunate in california to have two alternatives like this um you're protected completely against your own uh uh adverse uh utilization right if you all get sick or if everyone here gets sick at one time our rates don't go up any higher than the whole rest of the of the of the statewide school pool that sisk includes you in so it's sisk and cow pairs cow pairs is really the same way um but when we compare the two pools sisk is far superior and that's for a couple of reasons the first is is that in general school workers are healthier than state workers um primarily because you're younger right school districts in general hire more and younger um and the younger you are in health care the less expensive you are where four times more expensive when we're 60 than when we're 20 in terms of health care so if you wanted to marry a pool you'd want to marry wealthy and younger right um right because the healthier you are the less money you'll pay also cow pairs is required state legislation and we're actually very pleased about this i personally have brought numerous districts to cow pairs when they're the right choice for them um cow pairs as a state agency is required to accept all school districts um all public agencies for that matter sisk does not so sisk actually looks at each school district before they let them into the pool and they reject about half that want to join that being said they've had about 80 000 new members over the past four years um and it's primarily because they are the best of these choices cow pairs permits members to opt out um anytime you permit members to opt out sisk does not sisk requires full-time members to stay in the pool anytime you permit members to opt out it's typically the healthier members opt out so they don't have to pay for their health care um but then when they get sick they come back in so it's a significant disadvantage and the result of that is that um oh i'll keep going here but but just but you know is that sisk actually for the same level of plan is 15 less than cow pairs so um if you ever had a choice or a question should cow pairs be preferred over sisk and i would suggest to you there is no third option any third option would mean you would be accepting your own risk um and that's that's really problematic for school districts it's very hard for you to raise money to uh to pay for sick employees or for for sick dependents um but here's just some other things um cow pairs offers only two uh levels of coverage for ppo plans you're primarily a ppo district sisk offers uh many um as i mentioned when we do an actuarial evaluation of the plans that would be most similar again it's it's not really it's significantly less of a benefit than what you currently offer but when we equate the two sisk is 15 percent better um also sisk provides you numerous additional value added value plans employee assistance program telemedicine expert medical second opinions virtual physical therapy chronic care management wellness and lifestyle coaching that's all included in your premium if you wanted to replace those you obviously would be paying for those um so um and for the past seven years sisk has averaged about a 3.8 percent increase which is actually better than the statewide average and in the past two years it's been less than two percent we've actually we meaning school districts in general have actually been very very fortunate in terms of our covet experience compared to the state and compared to the nation in general school districts have done better um in terms of not having many terribly sick people um with covid and as a result again if you were going to pick a pool to be in you'd want to pick one particularly during this pandemic wealthier younger and and a group that is not so subject to the terrible uh aspects of the pandemic so uh i think that's really all i had yeah so all right do we have any public speakers to this item yes chris webb well that's good to hear we have such a good plan um i i was concerned that we might re bring up some old bad ideas like capping or cutting our healthcare benefits which just before anybody possibly thinks of this um i just wanted to know like what a terrible this idea this would be especially given um the pandemic and the lack of teachers so if you took away the benefits some of our teachers who've been here the longest would have less incentive to stay um so i want to just make sure we got that out in the air and um that we we didn't do anything to make teachers not want to stay um i think we need to do we need to i just want to reiterate again how we need to add the cola and um to to the teacher salary schedules and that when we didn't allocate the cola to the salary schedules it seems kind of like misuse of those funds and then and even more so with the s ro thing if that's how you're going to fund s ro's so i just want to bring those those two points up for the person that from the public who was like the spearhead behind this i appreciate the appeal to transparency and efficiency and i would suggest my own efficiency uh measure for transparency of transparency of budgets and that would be at the site level i'd like to see an administrative regulation um require site administrators to present their site budgets to their their leadership teams or their staff at large so we can make sure that resources at the site level are being used efficiency efficiently and equitably thank you anyone else all right any questions or comments from the board trustee to serpa thank you this is a great conversation thank you for being here so late tonight um so i heard what you said about sisk so i'm glad we're in it i didn't realize that they turn other school districts down that was news to me um so i feel grateful that we are in um could they at any time decide that our risk no once we're in we're in okay great um but so one of the things i want to talk about is the way that we structure all of the benefits we have ppo's i think not just one multiple we have hmo's we have epo's we have different products to choose from within the sisk program that's correct and that is where it's costing this district tremendous amounts of money so for example i have worked in health care all of my career just about and years ago years ago um they have moved us to where you can have a ppo but if you want that you will have to pay extra and if you want the free plan you'll have to stay with a managed care plan in hmo so my family because we couldn't afford anything else we always chose the hmo in this district we're not asking people to choose an hmo we are essentially that's a negotiated item with the union but it would save us tremendous amounts of money if we move to a model like that and then we could essentially give that money in salary you know salary instead so i i'm wondering do you have any recommendations about that or moving to a kaiser plan or anything that's much more affordable the district does offer a kaiser plan right the district does offer a health savings account qualified plan that's a high deductible ppo the district does offer two hmo's and actually the district incents members they provide a financial incentive for members who decide to choose those um you know to your point about offering different plans or uh you know we actually offer at this particular point at least one of the kinds of plans that you have mentioned that sisk offers um and and frankly newer teachers in general or newer employees not just teachers have been opting for the plans where there are incentives right and the incentives are financial you've negotiated that um in terms of what those incentives should be in in the committee we have discussed the numerous other alternatives within the sisk um menu i guess is the way to say that and we have discussed how much less money that would cost and i think we continue to do that within your committee um i would say relative not to that i'm changing the subject a little bit but there are new federal dollars available to individuals which will also discuss in the committee um for members who are part time through the california exchange which are something that i think the committee will be pleased to to deal with and you probably want to hear about it at some particular point right now you are uh outliers in the state in terms of offering um the level of benefit that you offer to part time employees and to uh seasonal employees that makes you uh unique right i'm not saying that's a bad thing i'm just saying that's makes you slightly different than other school districts um and so there are avenues uh within the sisk offerings to find less expensive plans but again these are things that we have been discussing in committee for some time now and uh continue to do so yeah anyone else like trustee schacher just to clarify clint these plans are negotiated through csea and pvft along with the district right so the plans that are up for choices are negotiated items absolutely so again we have two different we're talking about two different things here one is the pool that we're in which is sisk which i think mark did a good job of explaining is our best option and as the public brought up are we doing what's best in terms of where we buy our benefits from yes we are buying them from the best source now are we buying the best plans to save money and to be able to most of most find the most affordable plans that is negotiated so that's with csea and pvft we talk about different plans as mark noted in the benefits committee we talk about what options could be brought to the table for negotiations what um plan changes could we make what kind of savings would that look like to the district overall and what could we do with those savings that piece is all negotiated thank you but of course and i wanted to echo um trustee to serpa's expression of gratitude for sitting you know through a long meeting and for for coming out to you know explain some of these it's um you know as i've mentioned you know on another occasion it's like i'm in a doctoral program right now and dealing with statistics classes and it's like the bigger the pool the less you know individual risks so it's like it it makes sense to me and i think that's it okay thank you pleasure all right thank you so much thank you all all right we will move on to item 10.2 um parro valley prevention and student assistance prevention on the 2020-2021 california healthy kids survey the report will be presented by sophia ramirez and tiffani brilland good night everybody um thank you guys for having us here um i'm going to read some of my information just because my brain stopped functioning um 10 minutes ago so my name is sophia ramirez and i'm the new tupi coordinator tupi stands for tobacco use prevention education and um my colleague here is tiffani and she's a program manager at pbpsa um our presentation today is the california healthy kids survey of 2020-2021 we do this survey every other year let me use this and our presentation will go as followed first we're going to talk about what is the california healthy kids survey what is our role in pbpsa and the great implementation modules and then we will compare our data to the data of the previous um survey so the survey is frequently cited by state policy makers and media as a critical and critical component of school improvement efforts to help guide the development of more effective health prevention and youth development programs with the california healthy kids schools districts counties and the state have a standard tool that promotes the collection of uniform data within and across local education agencies that they are also comparable to existing state and national surveys results all at pbpsa we are lead and implementing the survey or administrating the survey to the schools at pbusd under the 2p program and we are also take lead on writing and submitting grants that fund the implementation of the survey the california healthy kids data is used to assess the process local control accountability plan and area of the goal number six for pahar valley unified school district which promotes a safe supportive and positive school environment that encourages positive behavior increases students sense of connectedness pbpsa acts acts as a liaison between west ed and the school district to obtain reports west ed is who provides the reports and great implementation california healthy kids targets major transitional years for students fifth grade and seventh grade are natural baseland baselines for a comparison with within teenage populations sixth grade is typically the first year of high school and there is a high prevalence of alcohol or drugs 11th grade was elected because research shows that students who initiate alcohol or drug use in secondary school have done so by the end of 11th grade the california healthy kids on another note is also implemented in fifth grade however this for this reporting period we don't have data for fifth grade and in the question section i can explain a little more on that for secondary school modules we have first core module second alcohol and other drugs thirdly drug-free communities and fourth social emotional modules and tiffany will show the numbers now all right good evening everyone i am a program manager for a few of our youth prevention programs with pvpsa so i'll just go through a few numbers with you bear with me simplify it but here you see a few numbers these are final numbers for the student survey sample size and is by grade now we're comparing 2018-19 period with the 2020-21 period as well you can see nt that's non-traditional student so these are this is including continuation community day or other alternative school types so we see in the previous period the highest response rates for the student surveys is 85 and for the 2020-21 period is about 62 and for the lowest rate lowest response rate is 44 percent for the previous period and for the current is 38 percent so across the school grades you can see that it's a lower response rate in this recent reporting period aside from 11th grade having a higher response rate all right so just to go through school engagement supports module this includes results about school connectedness so the results here show that fewer students who agree or strongly agree to feeling connected in school grades across grades seventh ninth and eleventh you can see that there is a decrease there's a slight decrease here and the variation is about to the nine percent a question that's also asked is about caring adults in schools so there's about an average of about 63 percent of students across all school grades that feel that there are teachers or other adults on campus who care about them um so comparing that with the previous period that's showing about a nine percent increase looking at all grades but just looking at seventh ninth and eleventh you also see an increase as well about two percent all right so now here we have results showing school safety so it shows an increase in students feeling very safe or safe at schools across most grades aside from 11th grade students showing a decrease from 63 percent to 50 percent so that's about a 13 percent variation so generally all other grades remained at a similar percentage with about a two to ten percent increase variation moving on to social emotional health module there's specific mental health questions that are asked of secondary students so this paragraph represents the percentage of responders who report experiencing chronic sadness and hopelessness and this is within the past 12 months so results show an increase in sad and hopelessness feelings among students across all grade grades you can see here so the highest variation being 30 percent and the lowest being about 13 percent okay so moving on to alcohol and other drug use for lifetime period alcohol use was reduced across the board however there is an increase with not among non-traditional students from about 27 percent to 41 percent with the current period so that's about a 14 percent variation and looking at perceived harm for the perceived harm of alcohol use fewer students reported none so stating that there's no risk of harm for alcohol use of five or more drinks once or twice a week in this current survey period so this shows that more students in this current period believe that there's some form of harm associated with alcohol use of five drinks or more once or twice a week and then looking at marijuana or cannabis use we see that there's a decline across all grades with about a variation of four to 12 percent okay so a question was asked regarding tobacco use this included if students ever use electronic cigarettes or vape products so here we see e-cigarette use mostly decreased with a variation of seven to ten percent there is an increase among non-traditional students from 17 percent to 27 percent in this current period and it decreased across all other grades and the current period students perception of harm from smoking occasionally was reflected as the same or slightly more harmful compared to occasional use of electronic cigarettes all right so that ends it there any questions or comments do we have any public speakers to this item yes chris wab um i want to just speak to where your biggest changes are which are at non-traditional schools like renaissance and i probably i feel like also this these changes would be even bigger if it was the baseline was in 1819 but it was 1718 because 1819 we got our we had a new administrator you may recall removing him partway through his tenure but he was hostile to our student progress monitoring system i remember coming from leave we had to i came back from leave and and i could smell marijuana kid who was holding it for somebody else and eventually our office manager is telling people had to make an announcement like yeah actually drugs are not okay at school and i feel like back when we had our system fully functioning we would have lower numbers now that we've we've gotten taken it away we have these increases i'm seeing a lot of vaping at school i'm seeing kind of we're normalizing this because we've allowed we used to have more of a dress code now it's not only like our unaffiliated group or unauthorized group type stuff not enforced but we aren't really enforcing like it's stuff promoting drugs i've seen multiple marijuana related shirts i've seen alcohol related church i normally do not see and i feel like this um de-emphasis on this is like manifest right as soon as you look in the the front door the sticker there's the only anti-vaping sticker bottom corner of the whole door and that's like about the only anti-vaping message there isn't in the whole school unless a teacher takes it upon themselves and if you do take it upon yourself then you may be compromising your relationship with the students because you may not feel supported by the larger system i think if we wanted to bring police the only way would even be a little bit accessible if it was the dog time because can't smell pills can't smell vape it's like a hidden thing there any other public speakers no all right any questions or comments from the board vice president schaffer thanks thank you for saying and presenting to us tonight um it's kind of sad to see when we look at the mental health aspect of this past survey on how dramatically that's changed and can you give us a little bit of insight about some solutions that we can help students with sure definitely um yeah so we do connect with different school staff and we do try to promote our different programs that we have for youth we are reaching out to different school staff different within the district to see if we can have our prevention classroom presentations and activities um scheduled and also offering our intervention services or one-on-one small groups this is prevention education around tobacco use also including cannabis as well it could be modified alcohol and also skill building activities or our life skills curriculum as well so really going out to the different schools and having it on a wide scale as well and then additional needs going down to individual or group base are you getting enough response about going into the classrooms yes yeah as of recently we got quite a bit referrals so yeah we are scheduling quite a bit um just good to see but yeah um maybe another thing um how we can improve together is maybe making teachers aware because we have reached out to some principals and some some of them don't even know what we are all about um so maybe working together you know to promote our program a little bit more in schools so that principals are aware of what is it that we do when we send emails you know that would be great and helpful thank you so much trust you Roscoe yeah my comment was going to be in regards to mental health as well it's really saddening to see that um and it's really unfortunate that our kids are having a hard time accessing those services as well um so I don't know what we can do as a district to ensure that the turnaround time for those services is improved um and that's something hopefully we'll work together throw wellness on us yeah I was going to say this this entire next presentation is going to hit on this um they're speaking primarily about the two pay program not the social emotional supports um and so I just want to clarify that because our principals we have over 200 um referrals out there that are unanswered at this point so it's not that we're not referring our students to PVPSA um but um that will the next presentation will speak completely to the questions that you're asking thank you yeah sorry about the misunderstanding yet we're talking about more of like tobacco use prevention education yeah um I was just curious with the the drop in respondents for um your ninth and seventh graders is it just fewer students responding or is it because we have lower numbers of students at those grade levels so remember this was done during COVID so this was when students were not in person and so when we have students that are physically in front of us it's much easier to ensure that they're um following up and doing the surveys this survey was technically done while we were um while we were in distance learning and so I'm sure that the next time that we take it um it will be back up okay great and also I wanted to echo the appreciation for staying thank you thank you you guys for inviting us yeah thank you so much thank you everybody all right so we'll go on to item 10.3 MTSS and anti-bullying updates uh the report will be presented by Kristen Schaus our assistant superintendent of secondary education and Casey Kaupenbach our assistant superintendent of elementary education. Good evening um President Holm board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez um Mrs. Schaus and I will be presenting an update on our MTSS and anti-bullying efforts um this evening and so um PVUSD has definitely um refocused our MTSS efforts on our restorative start and transitioning our students our staff and our families back to in person right and so um we have our graphics right there on the right we have our graphic that represents um PVUSD's graphic for MTSS um and you will notice that we have the academics the behavior and the social emotional that come together and work to support our students and you see that first tier um at the bottom that oops that is our first tier um which is the core instructional piece for all of our students that second that yellow piece um right there is for some and for for strategic and again the intensive for a few of the students that are not just responding to the core and the strategic supports as you look at the left graphic I like this one because of course it talks about that universal support what are we giving all of our students and so we um thought ahead and we were proactive and looking at what do all of our students need as they're returning to in in person instruction which they're going to need more than what they would normally be right and so if you're looking at MTSS you're thinking of all these different parts right with um when they're by themselves they don't have that framework so MTSS is not an initiative I keep I keep hearing sometimes you're going to hear that it's an initiative it's not an initiative it's actually a framework for the work that we're doing and so it's kind of like this framework right here of the bicycle with all the parts so you see that school leadership piece with the with the spoke and the will coming together the implementation effective interventions over here that data piece and problem solving approach the coaching that occurs to keep that that that improvement going and with that feedback and the school team working together and you see that holding all the pieces together and that's actually it's a framework right and so as we were looking at at um what we needed to do to support our schools it's preparing for the return increase in resources and staff and we have been continuing to work on our two additional IAs to support TK1 um additional social emotional counselors at all of our sites additional interventionists mental health clinicians at the secondary sites um inter um additional intercession opportunities extended learning opportunities and credit recovery and this will be continuous so it's not just one and done it's going to be reoccurring um and and um flexible so as you know these are some of the highlights from our restorative start um we have professional development ongoing for our staff and tying in our families too right and and that happened right when school was starting we wanted them to be included to know what it looked like and sounded like um also we have focused lessons on identity belonging and agency making sure that our students feel like um they belong at school that they are proud of their identity and what they bring with their assets already and then being able to advocate for their own learning with agency and we've also implemented a sone to grow SEL platform which allows our students to not only identify their feelings but set goals for themselves it also allows us to um respond and see how our students are feeling as a as a formative way so we can actually respond and step in if students need support and then of course that restorative start and focus also aligns with our academic um curriculum maps prioritizing certain standards that are key and the most important to get our students back on those on working on grade level right and so that's really important too because it's not just the SEL it's the SEL behavioral and the academic piece too and so as you're seeing that as with our PVUSD cares that connection piece is where we started from the beginning and we continue so we know that connection is all about those routines bringing them our students back to what does it look like to be back on school and having those connections with their teachers and other educators on site so as you can see that routine um different ways to greet students every day so we know that one of the most important things is to greet our students every single day and so students get to choose the morning greeting and maybe even identify how they're feeling um we also have community building those proactive circles so we're building communities back in the classroom and also throughout the school and grade levels because that does take time even with our adults too right and so in the middle here this is actually another ritual or a routine and it's just a quick way to settle disagreements and you're going to see two students really quickly um on the video and so that was really quick right i wasn't telling a story so it's so they were actually playing a game and they couldn't decide who got out right first so instead of arguing and wasting people's time or wasting each other's time they did a quick roshambo and teaching that routine and that ritual becomes part of the culture at that school to settle um oops and while he's putting that back up i just want to say i was at um i was brought bradley elementary and one of the fourth grade students ran up to the principal and said i solved the problem today all by myself i did roshambo just like he told me to do and so um students are are using it and are proud all right so community building again i cannot speak any more about this it's so important and we even we're doing it with our adults and our leaders making sure that we're building that trust right and building that back up in person it's going to hand it off thanks sir these may look very familiar in fact i'm positive that they will look familiar to you so when we launched in restorative start these are pieces that actually went out to our students to the graphics and the pictorial kind of journey here you'll see to the right hand side students actually have the opportunity to be able to show their identity and the pieces that are most relevant to them as they were coming back to school in addition since kasey has videos i had to add a video as well ours is going to go to middle school so here is actually what it looked like in a middle school to run through one of the lessons and we will not watch the whole thing but it will not be as quick as his either today we're going to be doing lesson three of our restorative start lessons and then you guys are going to be journaling after today we're going to be talking about class what are we talking about today changing brain this is really interesting because it's important for you guys to learn that as we get older your brain does start to change and your brain can actually change when you do certain things also when you create habits and we're going to learn about that like creating habits of being organized what else being safe what else be academic being respectful we can actually start to rewire our brain and how we do things so we're going to go ahead and have you pause there so to give you a little glimpse as to what was going on within our middle schools as well and how we are approaching it more so at the age appropriateness for our middle schoolers in terms of identifying the changes that are also happening for them in addition many of you also were able to join us at the family evening so during the family evening we were able to engage parents in the restorative start process and some of those things looked at the same pieces that you were seeing with your kids and actually allowing you to be able to ask questions at home as well it was actually a great well turned out event with several parents asking questions within the chat and kids joining their parents and answering questions within the chat so again ability to be able to pull in our parents and the community as well to be a part of the process of restoration for our students as well as us so to go case you actually did a fabulous intro to this so just to give you a few icon pieces or data points you can take a look up here to the left hand side the graphic first of all is is the 3.8 so that's on a scale of five so what so to go does is it's more fluent so similar to what you hear in data where we have youth truth when we have the two pay grants when we have california healthy survey those are really summative because they're over a longer amount of time son to grow is quicker so what it allows us to do is have both effects we do get the summative data from other pieces this is giving us live time as to how our kids are currently doing based on the responses that they're having so within our school district we have about 3.8 in the happy scale in terms of what that looks like it also allows us to do that piece up there at the top which is really referencing the opportunity for kids to be able to put how they're feeling on that scale in a very easy way and be able to drop a narrative in there if they would like to share more below that it actually allows us to do segregate the data by site to see what may be happening on a site so we can put in some additional services or start having conversations with staff administration and really empowering folks to look at why that may be occurring give you an idea of how many folks are using that at this point so we've had just over 6500 students already engaged in the program over 15 000 reflections have been written since we have started back in school teacher feedback is just under that 6000 marks so we are moving in the right direction anticipated growth of what would happen is we're moving into a new program and using it and I will pass this back to my co-worker all right and so we know part of accelerating learning for our students is best first instruction and making sure that our students have access to core instruction right grade level standard instruction and so with that said is also making sure that our students are having that opportunity to interact with complex text and problems and all students that goal is for them to be doing a majority of the thinking reading writing and speaking piece of it and then that focus on equity of voice making sure that our students are having the the the opportunities to actually share their thinking and so you have some highlights from multiple schools where you have mr. b over at starlight who has done a really great job at building review and routines and teaching his students how to be independent so so he can teach them and make sure they have access to grade level standards and then we have a teacher at aloni who is you see the teacher the students have the microphones right they're the ones with the voices that are sharing their thinking and are empowered and so you see some of our bradley bears over here that are utilizing core math play stations where they're actually practicing the mathematical pieces that they need to be with one another and they're empowered to do that and so we have noticed that our youngest students really need that help with their foundational skills and that focus so you already see some kindergartners over at starlight they're already getting introduced to sips and they are actually are ready for it you also see some of our kindergartners with sips down here at hide and again getting that foundational skills over at bradley throughout our district and then again you see one of our fantastic teachers over here in kindergarten not only is she teaching the core curriculum over here with the story and complex text she's having them the students use their foundational skills and their and their phonological awareness skills to pull apart words and help with the writing piece of it when they're talking about the retail and so as we're looking at putting those systems you saw the data piece right so during this we have been able to implement we gave our first universal screening this last fall using dibbles any dell for spanish and so it actually tells us how the health of our reading is and where we need to focus our resources and attention and so part of that is holding data review team meetings and helping make sure our students get the right interventions or the supports within the classroom and this is where that coaching you saw that coaching piece on the bicycle we had our core consultant and leon again come out and coach our teachers along about how what to really focus on when our students are back here from being out of in person instruction and so we we came out with some with some findings and it helped focus our efforts with our teachers to that continued coaching piece and so also we are blessed here in pv usd because we have our outdoor learning environments which also add that enrichment piece for our students we have our sensory pass and you can see the students using them there the outside learning that continues and even the peer-to-peer structured language practice strategies even the first week of school um and then this last one right here is our playworks pilot that we had at six of our elementary schools that are helping us structure um our learning environments outside to optimize that time in helping our students be feel included and solve disputes out there um on the playground so here is a quick clip and it's just as quick as the other one i promise and so as you can see that's an solo one of our schools so our students have been taught some structured games and the campus will learn the same game so they will know how to play them outside at recess and lunchtime and it's part of um that work with playworks um i'm going to pass it on there you go we did not have a silent year for pbis and i am not working currently uh that may or may not be me in the chicken costume in the center there um however that is an opportunity also for us to have um really a gathering of staff that all believe in in the core piece of what we're doing with connection and pbis to the left hand side huge code kudos to all of the staff that remained invested in pbis over covet it was very difficult to get applications in as our entire world kind of flipped upside down so qualifiers there we are number eight across the state of california with 25 of our schools being recognized last year for their work in pbis to the right hand side just uh some additional pieces that you may or may not be aware of we did successfully launch our synergy module and it went live which means the access to data points for our pbis team has also increased so that looks at locations it looks at where things are happening and it also looks at what type of events may be happening and what have we tried to help solve those pieces in addition to a couple of pieces you see and these are many of the things that casey already spoke to this is really about bringing kids back and looking at the expectations line so during covet we did have the opportunity to increase our signage which welcomed our students back directly on campus with what those expectations were to be hawks they weren't the only ones that did that several of our schools had that opportunity during the break in addition to the two review and one new so going back to are we setting the expectations and bringing our kids into those routines so they know what we're expecting from them we will not be playing that video pbis in secondary looked a little bit differently but you can also see the welcome back from Watsonville high up in the top corner for their kids large roar from all the folks that are involved in pbis currently within their campus you also have your hall in the center there which are kids lining up to take advantage of their redemption for five star points which is a point system that allows kids to earn points for positive behaviors you'll also see a couple of other activities Dr. Mansfield at Aptos junior ran several assemblies with his assistant principal in regards to you're really resetting those expectations in those behaviors and rewarding positive behavior the top you'll see our eagles up there who have already started with the students of the month and making sure that they're demonstrating their core values in this case this one was about perseverance some systems that are supporting this work so that we're getting more feedback and understanding as to what our next steps are five star students you've heard a lot about it just a refresher to give you an idea two of those pieces at the bottom there this is just one small data point that we have within it but what it will tell you at the very bottom is how many students have already been recognized on that campus and how many have not and the frequency by which it also allows you to dig further so you can dig by gender you can dig by ethnicity you can dig by several other factors to say who are we recognizing and who are we not representing in our rewards to the right hand side and Dr. Rodriguez spoke to this as well a little bit earlier now pal is actually a new system that we have already begun to work in but it actually allows us to work with partner groups pvps pvps is one of those partner groups we are currently working with it allows us to look at what the referral systems are that are coming in on many different areas and allow us to also track and manage whether those cases have been closed with the frequency of those services looks like and match families and really a one-stop piece that allows us to all communicate more efficiently with each other versus emails or paper referrals that have been happening in the past stop it you've also heard several pieces about you have a couple of highlights here and I'll go to really the impact that you've already had by agreeing to allow us to kind of go into this position with stop it to the right hand side these are a couple of major pieces that have occurred the fluency of our kids talking back and forth with us with us has absolutely increased including our parents so we have parents that also reach out to us in this fashion and are always surprised when they're getting a response back generally within minutes of what's occurring we were able effectively even within coveted to be able to really sideways some suicide suicide attempts this is one of them that's actually presented student that actually reported another student we were able to get a mobile crisis unit out there immediately and life saving by all means in that case a couple of other pieces with a friend that was engaged in self harm and then also potential fights we do have students also anonymously telling us those pieces too in this case we were able to actually avoid that fight as a result of staff being able to move into position and have a conflict resolution with the students instead and then you did here earlier so we appreciate it the lwq books that we were actually looking at bringing in to reinforce the identity and belonging within our sites they were on back orders so several of them on back order during coveted they actually came in about four weeks ago they actually are in the hands of our librarians already and on sites so a huge win in terms of making sure that our kids actually see reflections of themselves within libraries as well and then to the left we've also started a parent piece that is coming out of student services coordinator of student services Greg Fah and myself have been drafting these pieces to help communicate to families the things that we already know to be happening nationally and regionally so a lot of social media tick tock presence has been out there actually doing the reverse of what we're trying to do which is the idea that we're trying to bring them into a welcoming environment and have expectations that are supportive of the learning environment themselves in this case we have challenges that they don't even necessarily know that they're getting involved in that don't just have school consequences many of them have legal consequences so engaging parents and knowing that these things are out there drawing attention to those social media pieces and then also making them aware of having those conversations at home mitigates a lot of the pieces that we could potentially see as well and with that we'll open it for questions do we have any public speakers on the whole i think there's value to restorative practices and pbis the issue for me is that these ideological frameworks were cast as a replacement for our model continuation award-winning system and they simply are not also this these these were done to us not with us as a site and on their own metrics our old system does better these can be compliments and they can they can help us do what we're doing even better but now that we've thrown out our own system in service to the do we got numerous predictable issues students who desperately need structure after a year of distance learning they're slipping on numerous fronts attendance drug use respect to staff academic performance from the restorative practice training i've had here um i'm realizing that yeah our old system was restorative and this new system is permissive and one of the main reasons is the expectations are greatly reduced if the district wants to turn us in if that's what the goal is like you want to move us to a community school or something fine but but let's say that um also as far as the awards pbs you know we had our word too for some reason it doesn't get in recognition but i'll just say this that our award when we had that award nobody died at our school without our old system our veterans are feeling dejected as their relationships with students are on the mind we're having a race time recreate to recreate that front wheel for it to be effective we don't have the effective tools anymore um suspensions seem to be going up because that's eventually administrators are forced to take some kind of consequence uh they when they they otherwise our old system would have spotted things and corrected them sooner in the normal situation i would have had numerous parent meetings by now i i've had barely any i've got students asking me about bringing the system back because they the kids who aren't coming at a time know that they it did help them to want to attend and do better any discussion from the board um so i just want to say thank you for the stop it app i know that you have been making sure that all the schools are aware of that and getting students aware of it i think it's going to make a huge difference um for a lot of students i also really appreciate the piece that you guys are doing on social media um you know social media is the bane of our existence sometimes and um really just finding out you know um parents don't know all these things that are going on in as much as they try they don't know the challenges all the different social media platforms that are out there so i think it's really important to educate um their parents and also it's important to let kids know that we know what's going on and we're watching and we're expecting better from them um expectations speak volumes i think and having higher expectations of our students make them want to meet us there and make their teachers and their families proud so i think that um this is the way to do it is incorporating these different measures and making sure that our sites are properly utilizing them to really make an effective difference and i liked your short videos thank you all right any other questions or comments i do i have one you know that the um i attended the restorative start um initial presentation for parents and i attended the spanish version and it was just really interesting to see how engaged parents were and the very um good questions they were asking um and the suggestions that they were offering and so i feel like we need more of that um because after that initial um presentation um i feel that at least me as a parent speak personally um i haven't really heard much more about what's going on at my school with my son you know how this awesome things are happening in the classroom so i feel like they're still that uh missing piece where we need to further engage parents or keep them connected to to really what's going on and make them participate not make them participate but encourage them to participate have that option that's uh accessible to them um i like the fact that you're uh doing the increased partnering with families through the new letter series but with just so much information that we're constantly getting um i just want to make sure that doesn't get indundated and all that uh because we are receiving lots of texts lots of communications right and um i don't know if there's another way to approach it um and that's just at least my my personal experience i read all of those but um i'm not sure that all our parents do um and so if there's a way that to make it even more easily accessible than just another letter i think that would go a long way um i don't know how other board members feel who currently have students at the schools um but that's just my personal experience you know aside from that i think you know this is phenomenal work that we're doing and so i want to make sure that it's successful and that it works but i think there there's definitely um that parent engagement piece to this still there's a disconnect i feel um i do want to echo what trustee shocker said about the stop it app um i think that was long overdue so thank you so much for the amount of work that you're putting on um getting that launched and uh accessible to families um going back to uh the now pal um given that and michelle you know i'm correct me if i'm um have this wrong but given the fact that we we do have um families um you know waiting to have access to the social emotional counselors or our mental health clinicians and so forth um it how we looked at or thought about possibly expanding our reach hand incorporating um maybe some private agencies that can also offer that additional support i'm sure you've probably thought about that already but so we actually have the leadership group tomorrow and we're going to be engaging in that conversation of how do we use additional partners above and beyond pbpsa in order to be able to provide the supports and you know i just want to make a note we knew that the those numbers were going to happen right we knew that 12 percent of our students said that they had no supports um and so part of what we did was look at how does tier one have to change not only academically but also social emotionally because we knew that the system could not support 2200 children who if the numbers stay true we knew was going to need that support and unfortunately between may and our september survey we asked the exact same questions those numbers didn't improve they didn't necessarily get worse but 2200 kids were still telling us that they needed a high level of intensity of support so we do as was mentioned we do have to re-look at what does that tier one look like because you will not have enough people not pvpsa not salute not encompass that can handle intensive supports for 2200 children um and their families so it's actually multiply it's multiplicative um so we're going to have that exact conversation tomorrow we've already started that conversation but we're we're in the middle of that i think what now pal will provide us which is different than ever before is we're going to be able to see which students with very high levels of accuracy have not been accessed yet so if they haven't been accessed here how can we send to a different agency to a different group um you know i still think that we're going to have to continue to fortify the um the the tier one and they didn't mention it but they've already the two these two have already sent out through the support of behaviorists and and our mental health clinicians a second set of lessons um and so i think you're right you know we need to continue to keep the parents engaged um because they can be they can be part of that new tier one yeah i really can and um so that's going to be our goal but we're definitely looking to expand because every one of us is committed to supporting the students and we know we have um some students and frankly staff out there suffering as well yeah and absolutely and that was my other point it's staff you know um we can't forget about them either um so i'm glad that that conversation has started i'm happy to hear that um and again i want to sound too critical about the parent engagement piece but i think it's it is it's another um you know more people um that can help address some of what we're saying from starting from the home to the larger community so thank you all right thank you for taking the time for the presentation uh trustee disperper did you have just wow i mean compared to what happened when i was in school this is like a dream come true so thank you for bringing it implementing it making sure we have fidelity to this model and framework and um go get them keep it up thank you all right take care all right so on to section 11 our consent agenda consent agenda items are our routine items do we have any public speakers to consent we do not are there any items that the board wishes to defer can i have a motion i move to approve a second all right all those in favor i i any opposed motion carries five zero two um let's see so we don't have any deferred consent and we do not need to reconvene closed session we'll go to 14 our uh action report on closed session yes so i have two motions and then some readouts so um motion one for closed session item 2.2 i move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on october 13th 2021 with 21 and 11 additional action items all second all those in favor i i any opposed motion carries five zero two okay closed session item 2.3 i move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration on october 13th 2021 with 31 and 15 additional action items yes i'll second all right all those in favor i i any opposed motion carries five zero two okay for item 2.1 student number 21-222-004 ahs and it's a staff recommendation uh school administration is full expulsion for full calendar year starting the first day of suspension it was approved by the board and vote of five zero two for item 2.1 student id 21-22-005 ahs recommended sorry recommendation of school administration for full expulsion it was approved by the board and a five zero two vote for item 2.6 special education settlement for student the board voted with the five zero two vote to approve the final compromise and release agreement for a special services student and then i do have two announcements the parro valley unified school district is pleased to announce the selection of antoinette racinas as the new coordinator of child development antoinette has been serving students since 2000 as a teacher director at head start and at first five language and literacy coach and most recently as a teacher site supervisor for pvusd after attending cabrillo college antoinette went to cs umb to earn her ba in liberal studies with an emphasis on child development antoinette brings her 21 plus years of experience to this new role of coordinator we are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to her new administrative role then on behalf of our superintendent and district administration we are pleased to announce mr zhalk lake's appointment to supervisor of maintenance and operations mr lake brings the parro valley unified school district a wide breadth of experience in facilities planning and maintenance project management and working with a variety of agencies and stakeholders mr lake built his career in the private sector and worked on school projects establishing safety systems evacuation systems and wireless clock systems mr lake is a good listener and is solution oriented he looks forward to serving the students and staff of the parro valley unified school district and continuing the good work of improving district facilities we are proud to welcome mr lake to our district as the new supervisor maintenance and operations thank you all right our next meeting will be on october 27th 2021 and with that our meeting is adjourned at 10 54 p.m