 Good evening, everyone. All right, we're going to start our board meeting. So welcome to our PVSD board meeting. We have translation available in Spanish. If you need that support, please see Virginia Gonzalez in the back. Trustee Dodge Jr. and our student trustees send their regrets, but they will not be able to attend this evening. As noted on the agenda, Vice President Jennifer Shocker will be participating remotely. Trustee Orozco will be reading the names of the public speakers in keeping time. And if somebody would like to speak to an item that is on the agenda, then you must complete a speaker card and hand it into Everentoria prior to the start of the agenda item. Each speaker will have two minutes, and we know that it can be easy to lose track of time. So Trustee Orozco has a 30-second warning card just to kind of give you a heads up so we don't have to interrupt your speaking. All right, so I will ask Trustee Orozco to please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I am the State of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right, moving on to item 3.3, our Superintendent Comments. Dr. Rodriguez, our Superintendent, will make your comments. All right, thank you so much. So first and foremost, I hope that next week, everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving. I know that we, after having all of us survive the pandemic, we have much to be thankful for. And so I hope that everyone has a wonderful time off. We do, we hope that students do attend school the first couple of days of the week, as it isn't a whole week off. And then also, I just want to mention because at the time the deadline is coming up soon. So in the 2028 school year, we started a new project where we provided a stipend or an amount for every single certificated person in order to be able to receive supplies through Palace. And so Rich Adiano and his team have done a really fantastic job in that they have even created kits that are equaling to $125. So if someone doesn't have the time, they can go in and just select that kit. We hope that people take advantage of it. At this point, we have only, we still have 106,000 of the $143,000 disposable. So we have, at this point, we only have 36,000 of that money has been spent by certificated staff. And so we hope that people do that because we want to make sure that everyone can get the supplies that they need. So if you haven't done so, it's really easy, just go in, you can go through the store, you can go online, or you can actually do it through stores. So we encourage people to utilize that resource. And thank you very much. All right, so we'll move on to item 3.4. The governing board comments are report on standing committee meetings. So this is our opportunity for each of our board members to make a few comments. And Trustee Acosta, did you have any comments for tonight? Thank you. I just wanted to take a moment and acknowledge and applaud one of our very own district employees, Barbie Gomez, who works in our transportation department. She had recently set out on a goal to raise $10,000 for teen challenge in our community. And on Sunday closed that fundraising effort and wildly surpassed the 10,000 gold. So I just really wanted to take a moment and acknowledge her and applaud her for that, for all the work she does in our community, especially with our youth. And it is no surprise that she was Woman of the Year in 2020 for our community. So thank you, Barbie Gomez, for what you continue to do for our community and our youth and our community specifically. Next to that, I just also want to say happy Thanksgiving to all of our families, our district employees, community members. And if you are traveling over the holiday, I wish you safe travels. Thank you, Trustee Acosta. Trustee D'Sirpa, did you have any comments? It's a heavy board meeting week for me. This is the third board meeting. It was at PVPSA yesterday where we discussed mental health needs in our district. They're doing a great job and more money rolling in. And so I'm very proud to be on the board there. Wishing everybody a very happy and safe Thanksgiving. Thank you. Trustee Roscoe. Yes, thank you. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us tonight. I got the opportunity to attend the Veterans Parade along with my family and part of the ceremony honoring all who served. So thank you so much for your service. I also attended our Green Team Committee meeting. We are making good strides, inclusive, finalizing the Student Staff Community Survey to inform our priorities. We will be meeting again next Monday. Last night, I attended our D-LAC meeting. We had a rich discussion on COVID-19 protocols, what we're doing as a district to improve those protocols, truancy, and parent participation. I also got the opportunity to attend the Wine and Roses event hosted by the Community Health Trust, and it's just a great event to connect with other elected officials, but also our community partners here in the Parole Valley. And lastly, I am looking forward to our Parole Valley Education Foundation meeting in the coming weeks where we'll be reviewing and selecting our recipients of this cycle's Bridge to Wellness Fund grants. And again, thank you for joining us tonight, and happy Thanksgiving. Trustee Soto? Good evening, everybody. I, too, want to acknowledge all the fellow veterans and my colleagues, Ex-Post Facto, and wish all the families a happy Thanksgiving, happy holidays, safe travels. I also want to give a shout-out to all the local football teams for the first round of CCS playoffs. Unfortunately, most of them got knocked out first round, but the current team that is going to be proceeding on in the second round of CCS playoffs is St. Francis High School, so I do want to give them a personal shout-out, and good luck against Los Altos this Friday evening for a second round of playoffs and go-sharks. Thank you. And I attended a variety of various community events, like our trunk or treat event at the county fairgrounds for our trick or treaters to do so safely, and our Aptos Chamber of Commerce event and the Wine and Roses event. And again, as Trustee Roscoe mentioned, it really is a wonderful event to really connect with our community partners and just build the connections which support our schools. I also attended our special education programs, a community advisory committee meeting, and I was very impressed by the discussion around inclusive practices, what our school district offers, the options and how the school community, the entire school community benefits from these practices, and there was also a great resource discussion about different kinds of learning differences for parents who attended that meeting. I also want to acknowledge the following donations for our state of the district event. We had a really generous food donation for the event from Guadalajara Bakery, from De La Colmena, from Driscoll's and Starbucks, and we're continuing to build momentum for our Emeril Lagasse Culinary Garden and Teaching Kitchen project, and we received a donation from Erika Padilla-Chavez for $500, for Rebecca Garcia for $200, from Clint Rucker for $500, and from the Shulk family for $250. So thank you all of our community partners and community members for contributing to that. We'll move on to item 3.5, our high school students, our board representatives report, and we have students from Watsonville. What's that? That's FFA's presentation. Thank you for your patience as we get the presentation. There we go. I'm just going to go to approval of the agenda in the minutes while we're getting the technical issue worked out, so give me just a moment. So can I have a motion to approve the agenda? I move to approve. I'll second. All right. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 6-0-1. For item 5.5, approval of the October 27th, 2021 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Move to approve. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries, 6-0-1. Are we ready? So back to item 3.5. Let me just... Hello? Hello? Perfect. May I begin? All right. Hello, my name is Hermann Rafael Gonzalez, and once again I'm the representative from Watsonville High School here to talk about what's happened in Watsonville High School last board meeting because even though it's only been about two and a half weeks, three weeks, a lot of stuff has happened around campus starting off with our athletics. Our cross-country team made it to the Division I CCS finals, and many, many, many of our really talented runners have made it... have run incredible times. Some notable ones, Rodrigo Barranco. He's a freshman alongside Caitlin Ruiz, who's also a freshman coming on some of the fastest people in Watsonville High School. We're going to see where they're going to go from here on, and this was probably impossible without the leadership of cross-country's team captain, JJ Camibio, who's also a senior this year. Going on to the sort of activities and celebrations I've been having around Watsonville High School, we celebrated on November 2nd, the Dia de los Muertos, and the celebration demonstrated works, art pieces, ofrendas that are made by different students around Watsonville High School, and we also brought a bunch of pendulce and hot chocolate, I believe, and champurrado and gave it out to different people who are just walking by to see all of the art that was made by our lovely students. We also hosted our homecoming dance, completely outside, which had a massive attendance of 646 students, and we profited thousands of dollars. A ton of people had fun, and it was very successful, and I think pretty safe. We also celebrated our homecoming parade with our academies making different floats, each of our different classes creating floats, and our teams being represented, like our football team, our tennis team, our cheer team, and our golf team. We also represented a bunch of different clubs, like Mata Club, Hope Club, Saga, Culinary Cats, and FFA, and this week we have our survivor week to sort of, it's a bunch of sort of dress-out days so that we can participate in something together throughout all of the, you know, different struggles that we're having from seniors in their college applications, so people just trying to get through the semester. And so we have all the different dress-out days right there. Last month, we celebrated breast cancer awareness month, and we fundraised a lot of money. We fundraised over $300 for breast cancer awareness, which Watsonville High School is donated, I believe, and every single Wednesday we would wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness. We also hosted, I mean, PVSD hosted this, but it was hosted at Watsonville High School, the Lovely Veterans Day Parade, and celebration where over 25 Watsonville High School students and link leaders sort of served as ambassadors of Watsonville High School to serve the veterans that we celebrated on Veterans Day. Alongside that, drama departments fall play The Love of Three Oranges is being hosted now on the weekends. It's at, I believe the times are 1.30 and the next two times are November 20th and November 21st, though the rest will be shown during actual class time. And to celebrate our frontline classified staff like security, cafeteria workers our front office and custodial workers, we're giving our charcuterie boxes to different all the sort of different people that do, you know, work at our school. So this is sort of a way of giving back a meal and food to these people and these workers who have helped us so much and who oftentimes miss out on meals and dinners with their families because they're working and contributing their time to Watsonville High School. And so we've gotten tons and tons of donations from Trader Joe's, Cabrillo College Farmers Market and a bunch of different private donations so we're really grateful for that as well. Alongside that, French Club led by Mr. Molanchon is planning a tour of France that will be occurring in 2023 and this was even featured in an article on Outlook Santa Cruz. And the first fundraiser that they're having is the 29th at Coralitos Padres Hall which is a sort of night of painting where there will be food, painting, things to take home, and it's $30 a ticket. It's specifically for adults but it's meant to fundraise for this trip for our students. Academically, we've had tons of students. Over 600 students being honored in our honor roll and each of these students were given a certificate and a cookie donated, not donated but bought from Pacific Cookie Company. These are for the 10th graders and 12th graders celebrating the hard work and effort of our students from last semester during virtual learning. And seniors also received a sort of block letter for getting it says 3.0 3.0, getting above a 3.0 GPA in their classes last year. Watsonville High School is super, super proud of their students who work very hard during virtual learning and so this was our sort of way of celebrating them and our counselors did a great job with this. Seniors are also struggling through our college applications like I am. I'm very scared of writing my PIQs but a lot of my English teachers and a lot of the teachers that I have have been incredibly supportive. AOP, one of our, honestly, most amazing programs that we have at Watsonville High School has helped out so much with this and Watsonville High School's counseling team has also helped facilitate the sort of college application process and aid our students in all of that. So those are the things that have been happening in the last three weeks. Thank you very much. Thank you. Alright, so I'll close the meeting and open the public hearing. So we'll move on to 6.1, PVSD's Sunshine Proposal to PVFT for the 2021-2022 school year. The report will be presented by Allison Nyazawa, our Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. Tonight I have in the public hearing, so tonight we are bringing forth our Sunshine Proposal to PVFT. We're in re-openers for the 21-22 school year and we are sunshining the Health and Welfare article to go along with the total compensation so we can negotiate with PVFT. We have four dates already identified so we're looking forward to being able to work collaboratively with PVFT for the 21-22 school year. Alright. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We do. We have nine in total, nine by three. So just make sure to line up as your name is being called please. So we have Sandino Gomez, followed by Lois Samson, followed by Travis Walker. And each speaker will have two minutes to make their comments. Sure. We have Sandino Gomez, Lois Samson, followed by Travis Walker. Good evening, PVSD School Board. My name is Sandino Gomez. I've been a longtime community member. Yeah, and now currently a teacher at Power Valley High School. Proud of the work I do there. I'm really stoked on being able to serve my students and to give back to my community that has given me so much and I just hope that as we start these contract negotiations you can find it in your heart to give a little bit back to us because I think I could speak for most of the teachers in this room when I say we are drowning in the responsibilities we're being asked to pick up on because unfortunately the school board is not providing our students what they need to succeed. I tell my students every year that there's a recipe for success and it involves showing up doing hard work having quality teachers having quality facilities equal success right? It's a formula. You need to put all of the pieces of the equation into the formula in order for it to work. Last we checked, as of my understanding we have nine vacancies at my high school. We are constantly being asked to pick up the slack and make up for this but I can tell you that despite our best efforts it's not enough and students are feeling the impact yes it's impacting teachers but if it impacts teachers it means it impacts our students as well and this struggling I did an experiment in my classroom where I asked students to raise their hand if they had at least one class where they had a permanent sub and not a teacher of record not a permanent person that can build a relationship and build a rapport and create quality learning. In every single class I teach at least half the class raised their hand saying I have one class or more in one class there was three students who had three teachers missing that's just wrong it's a violation of the Williams suit it goes against common decency and it's just insulting for all the hard work and the education the professional development and the things that we put into this job which is our heart our soul and every single ounce of our fiber and bean I learned something really disturbing I'll just end with this it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to quit and go start working at Panda Express because they basically pay exactly what you pay a brand new teacher for being an assistant manager now if you get into the general management position you need 12 years of education excuse me 12 years of work in this district and 45 units of continued education to make what a general manager at Panda Express makes that's a disgrace please do better our students deserve it I just want to remind the public that we do have to stick to our two minutes so let's just be respectful of that time we want to make sure that we have the time to listen to everyone who's present here tonight good evening I teach middle school at D.A. Hall and I want to piggyback on what the general manager said we just not paid enough at our school every year we lose gifted teachers to Morgan Hill and places like that I've seen ads on TV I was trying to petition for teachers to come but we're competing with other groups that pay so much more money now I'm going to get dramatic I teach language arts all of us just quiet right now imagine for a minute what it would be like if the teachers go on strike that's heartbreaking just a thought of it for you students, teachers, parents let's just stop for a moment and so I'm doing this because hopefully you'll be generous in these negotiations and do the best you can to make sure that doesn't happen so I'm going to count 20 seconds just imagine we're all on strike my god thank you thank you thank you hi there so I've been here for weeks talking about some of the issues that we're seeing so I'm going to pass that and I'll talk about actual negotiations was it last week the week before we had Daniel Dutch Jr. come to Watsonville High School and I was able to speak with him and one of the things we spoke about and one of the comments he made was we were talking about what needs to happen with the salary in order to attract teachers here retain teachers here and one of the things that he mentioned in that conversation was well what are teachers doing and he also mentioned that well board members aren't on the negotiating team so what can we really do to address both of those things I'm hoping they were genuine ignorance and not a way to deflect questions but in case they were genuine inquiries here are some of the answers to that teachers at Watsonville High School have been meeting every week at lunch for weeks now we have sent you all letters we have done firing before school we've done picketing we some teachers at TV defiled Williams Act complaints to try to get somebody to do something we are doing everything that we can so let's address what you all can do despite maybe genuinely, ignorantly portraying the board as powerless in negotiations anything that comes out of those negotiations has to be approved by you meaning you cannot approve it if you don't like the number they come back with now I know when you hear that you might think the number being too high but I'm meaning the number too low I want you to really think about the fact that the teacher shortage we're experiencing here and have been experiencing is now being exacerbated by a national teacher shortage there simply are not enough teachers coming in to fill the need so you're going to have to actually compete and not just be close enough that you can say oh we're comparable but pay well enough that you can actually attract teachers here over other districts for the next time thank you so next up we have Chris Webb followed by Ryan Olivas followed by grid Inker I'm sorry I can't read the handwriting Tucker sorry about that thank you for this prompt sunshine I hope for a quick agreement that makes attracting and retaining teachers for our students a priority I noticed there is the health and welfare article and it's a little disconcerting because I feel like cutting benefits or in any way undermining them would be a detriment to the goal of attracting and retaining teachers and also we had that recent board meeting that shows that we're actually in a good spot in terms of having an economical and a good plan for the teachers so that's concerning instead of opening that article I think it would be better for the district to open the leaves article and then add an enhanced pregnancy leave wherein for every year of service a teacher who has a child or is partnered with one would get a week of paid family leave that might be a way you could attract and retain teachers and then around to attract and retain teachers we do need the wages to go up and I feel like the previous dean needs to remember that last time we did the communications thing the teachers were insulted we were disrespected by the 1% contingent on attendance this really bothers me because thanks to some of the new initiatives that were brought out at my school a model our attendance rates actually gone down so three more parts of my own our attendance rates are diminished and I would I don't drive the kids I might and that might be a field trip but I heard that now I can't even do that so I definitely think if we're going to be attracting teachers and if we value quality education which means not having constant subs not having teachers have to take on additional burdens if we care about public safety for those multiple reasons we need to be raising wages thank you hi my name is Ryan Olivas I'm a high and special education I've been teaching for 20 years I've been 4 years in this district and I love it here I love my students I love my community I love my colleagues what are teachers doing this year I've seen teachers do extraordinary work this year rising above challenges supporting each other covering each other's classes during preps trying to imbue a sense of normalcy for our students so they can come back to a supportive community this is not normal this is abnormal the situation that we're in right now each year I've been here we've lost teachers in my department we've lost at least one teacher every year they're not moving they're moving to different districts around the area they're working in Salinas they're working in PG they're working over the hill they like living here they can't afford to work here they love the community again they can't afford to keep working here please please strive to match the local area compensation so that we can keep the talent that we still have we have extraordinary teachers in this district in my school I've seen some of the best teaching I've ever seen and they're burnt out they're on the verge of quitting I've had some of my most the teachers that I have the most admiration for at their limit and they can't give anymore we've given and given and given and now it's time for you guys to give some back thank you Dr. Rodriguez everyone else in the room hey hope you guys are having a good night I've been through a few negotiation cycles now I've been on the negotiations team for I don't know six years or so and and I really just am hoping that the district comes correct this time quite honestly not playing a lot of games there's money it doesn't have to go to the general fund it can go straight to teachers pockets there is a 5% plus COLA this year it should probably go straight to the salary scale it needs to be figured out quite honestly if we're looking at news nationwide the state of Indiana has instituted a $40,000 starting teacher salary we pay more than that for a starting teacher salary here but a house in Indiana costs $264,000 average and a house here I'm just going to use the round number of a million dollars so if you multiply that $2,500 by four the salary here should equate to $160,000 we're not asking for that we're just asking for enough pay that we can actually afford to eat right next we have Amy Fitzgerald followed by Brandon Denise and Rebecca Morrison good evening thank you guys for giving me the chance to address you similar to what some of my colleagues said I work with the most amazing people every day I show up to a job I'm passionate about I see kids that run up and draw us pictures and thank us for being there and it's very fulfilling, it's very rewarding but I also see the young and the new teachers leaving and we get bonded our coworkers are the people that keep us standing up they are the people that we lean on and rely on, it's not the admin it's the coworkers and when they leave and they go elsewhere we're starting over constantly there's an old saying you get what you pay for and if you want quality teachers you need to pay for quality teachers thank you okay, Brandon Denise Vice President of Selpa with the PBFT and in my seventh year in the district I want to piggyback off what one of my colleagues mentioned about we should be discussing the article for total compensation and not health and welfare this is pretty much a non-starter I'm here tonight I also want to shout out my colleague Ann Faustina who is here grading papers tonight because she doesn't have a prep period to do that G wonder why so I'm here tonight after losing 12 from my last 22 prep periods due to having to constantly sub on my prep and this district's inability to provide a substitute for a classroom that has been vacant for over a month we can't even fill the jobs that we know we need to sub in the past week in middle school we have had to have students being supervised in a multi-purpose room two classes worth during what should be class time being supervised by an admin because of this district's inability to staff our schools adequately which to me sounds like a violation of the Williams Act how are these issues related to sunshine and contract negotiations because it's time for the leadership of this district to stop making excuses stop blaming the pandemic and look at our contract with an open mind because teachers can't make excuses and your excuses fall on us the issue is that you refuse to offer competitive pay in comparison to districts over the hill and you readily accept the status quo that you have a district full of burned out, underappreciated and yes underpaid teachers solving the issues that plague this district should start with respecting the contractual rights that are already in place for your labor base and increasing compensation for all those that serve our students of this district from our bus drivers to our custodians to our teachers the issues that plague this district took long before the pandemic and unless you are prepared to listen to your labor base and offer adequate compensation then all you can offer is the same stale and spoiled excuses that you have been serving your labor base and this community for years so my name is Rebecca Borson I am a third year teacher and before that I was a substitute teacher for PBUSD I now work at Pajaro Valley High School and I am getting ready to have my first child I'm getting ready to have my son Atticus and today I would specifically like to speak to the negotiations we in neighboring districts can offer 20% more in pay when managers at Panda Express can make more in direct compensations and benefits than a first year teacher whose fault is it really that these vacancies these nine vacancies are not getting filled my husband and I have been trying to purchase a home in this county for the last two years and he's not kidding when he says it starts at a million dollars we have been going to sharing property with three other individuals I want to be able to provide a home for my son I want to know that my students will be okay when I go on leave and we will have a qualified long term sub and that they will not be sitting outside the cafeteria without a teacher like we've seen time and time again my question to you is this I have a t-shirt that says PBUSD care sitting on the floor underneath my desk how can PBUSD look at us and say that they care look at our students and say that they care without providing teachers fair competitive compensation can we really afford to keep losing qualified and beloved teachers and counselors to teach a burnout and better wages elsewhere thank you for your time are there any further public comments there isn't are there any questions or comments from the board I just got a comment I know so we're going to go on to item 7.1 our Watsonville High School Future Farmers of America student update report will be presented by Natalie Solorio Angel Lopez and Vivian Moran our Watsonville High School Future Farmers of America student leaders let's respect our student presenties and give them our attention please good evening my name is Angel Lopez and with me I have we are all part of this year's chapter officer team and we're here today to share with you about our current chapter our national convention future for the plan who here is familiar with FFA sure FFA is a premier national organization the business office foundations of classroom SAE and FFA the classroom part is a general instruction that is intertwined with the teaching of our culture SAE or supervised our culture experience is a chance of outside projects that students partake in to further their future career success we have our own foundations of premier leadership, personal growth and career success in our chapter we have 680 enrolled members we have five pathways and five agriculture teachers we have 25 sections of classes all classes are college credit approved every school year our chapter decides on the theme that we base our year off this year our theme is inspired to date influence tomorrow our thought behind this is that we want to inspire our members to influence the future leaders of tomorrow so we run on five committees we have the fundraising committee which raises money for students to travel and compete in different competitions as well as have fun events our community service gives back to the community as well as getting our students involved in the community more the chapter activities to promote student involvement and celebrate them our SAE committee to promote and help develop cool SAE projects for our students and the public relations helps promote chapter activities and our students achievement this year we had our first ever national delegate and her name is Colby Galassi she is one in 49 to be chosen in the California she has been voted on increasing diversity in FSA urban agriculture projects to teach her friendship her quote for this year it was the most rewarding and inspiring experience of her life the national proficiency so proficiency awards are given to those students with a supervised agriculture experience project they can compete in sectional, regional state and national level Pamela Denoso was the first in watsonville high school history to make top four in the nation in the fruit production category now for our future goals our future goals are to increase involvement at the chapter level through increasing the participation in chapter events and committees another future goal is to improve SAE projects as an end result to have more sectional, regional state and national proficiency winners and our last goal is to increase involvement in our community thank you do we have any public speakers to this item? we do not do we have any discussion from the board? trusty soto did you have something that was a great presentation you guys thank you for being here tonight I love FFA so when you were just showing that slide about someone being fourth in the nation and I think I heard you say for food food production did you know about that? the national level in competition yeah she was in the top four for food production she was your shining star and I know there's different categories in FFA so can you guys each say what you're doing are you raising livestock or yeah? okay great yeah I was going to add on to that we have entrepreneurship which is what she said raising livestock at the school we have placement which is what another student we have and then there's agri science which is a project so you develop a project and you go and present it that's great well thank you trusty soto sorry I'm going to keep you for a minute that's awesome as a kid I grew up on a ranch in Salinas there was farming, lettuce, broccoli there was also cattle in Chular we had a cattle ranch not me personally but the folks that my dad worked for and we would always participate on the weekends and branding and things like that annually something that I'm kind of doing on a small scale at my own house so that's good that you guys are involved in that and we're in an area where agriculture is pretty predominant whether it's livestock or farming so just to piggyback on trusty to Serpa's question you mentioned that you're raising livestock what is your area of interest well my city also includes livestock not necessarily at school but at home okay in yourself okay it's a little bit of agronomy alright good thanks trusty Roscoe I just want to say that's an excellent presentation thank you so much for sharing your accomplishments but I'm also impressed by your forward thinking and that you now have goals to even build upon the success that you have already had so congratulations on a job well done and I look forward to another presentation in the near future thank you trusty Acosta I just want to say that you all look absolutely amazing and spectacular tonight and what a wonderful presentation so FFA goes really far back for my husband and I he was in FFA with Watsonville High School back in the day myself with my high school and both of us grew up with a heavy presence of ag in our background him with his parents, me with both my grandparents which is just all that experience has tremendously translated into the career paths and what we do now so I really hope that for you right agriculture it's the leading industry in the tri-county and it's the leading industry in the state of California so a major contribution to our GDP for the state so I just wish you all the best and thank you for coming tonight and presenting to us and I just wanted to just for others maybe could you elaborate on how the delegate selection is made just for others that may not know how that process works well you have to be a faithful member of FFA and Kobe Galassi was one of those and there's a a long application process he has to go through to be able to be a national delegate for the state and the voting process well the voting process so the voting process so yeah she was wanting for her name to be chosen so she wanted on urban agriculture laws American degree requirements and more so through this she practice a parliamentary procedure which is a formal system of passing laws as you guys are doing now and that is how I mean I can't go into detail because first-hand experience but she couldn't be here today but that's what I have to say thank you well wonderful and I just also wanted to just give another plug to both Hartnell and CSUMB who have developed a two by two program in both agri business and agri science so what that means is that if you start at Hartnell and you stay on the track that you stay on you're guaranteed two years at Hartnell two years at CSUMB whether it's agri business or agri science to be guaranteed graduate within four years so I hope you indicate that back to some of your members to look at that program between Hartnell and CSUMB thank you for coming again you all look spectacular again I just have to say that what would you say to other students who are thinking maybe this is something I'm interested what would you say to them I would tell them if they want to step out of the conference zone and try new things if we have LDS and CD's CD's are career development events such as front power and cutting judging which is where you test and further your future career possibilities because in front power you work with agriculture machinery so you practice and identify in parts and troubleshooting what's the problem with certain engines and they also have LDS which are leadership development events which is more on the speaking side which is pre-public speaking which is where you come to which is where you step up to panel judges and talk great and trusty shocker I know you're remote do you have anything you want to add okay I think that's it then all right thank you yes absolutely thank you all right we'll move on to we'll move on to item 7.2 our update on Watsonville Ivy League project by Ron Sandage and Lorraine Sandoval vigil good evening members of the Board of Trustees district administration audience I do believe that of the members of the board Kim D'serpa may be the only one who's familiar from a previous presentation about what the Watsonville Ivy League project is have you heard this before you have the other one so thank you Maria I want to introduce to you Lorraine Sandoval she's going to tell you a little bit about how the Watsonville Ivy League project got started and if Hermann is still here he is he's going to tell you when Lorraine finishes what it's been like as a student in the project good evening yes the Ivy League project started in 2007 when we had a flyer circulated to the high schools to invite a flyer from the Parley or Ivy League project Martin Mattis trying to recruit students from other schools to come on his Ivy League project and so we found out that they do visit Ivy League schools and prepare them to go on a tour of the schools and so I particularly wanted to do the same thing and bring it to Watsonville because I feel in my heart that we have students who are capable just as capable as the students on the east coast to compete at the level of these elite colleges and why can't we give them the opportunity to look and see what's out there to prepare for a profession because I feel deeply that we can do that here even in Watsonville so we started the Ivy League project where we take a few students to visit about ten Ivy League colleges on the east coast the purpose is that many of our past students that have been on the Ivy League tour are now in their professions I just heard from one of the students that was on our first tour just past the bar exam so he can practice law we have one that's a doctor now at San Francisco so we have several success stories from our project and why not prepare our students for professions to look at what's beyond that because I think that if we can enhance their social mobility of them their families, their friends we can eventually enhance the social mobility of our community itself and we say that sometimes why don't they come back to Watsonville there aren't any jobs here in Watsonville but if we build the capacity to be able to have students become professionals and bring that back to Watsonville it will eventually happen thank you Hi once again my name is Hermann Rafael Gonzalez I'm here to speak a little bit about the value that I've gotten out of this program from the sort of student perspective I'm going to be talking about the actual selection process and the trip that I was able to go on even though it wasn't with the program directly it was organized by one of my friends JJ Camibia and his father, Raul Olivo and so the actual selection process and application process very closely mirrored the college application process that I'm going through right now so in that way it was like really valuable so one there's a sort of like biographical essay that I've become far too acquainted with and the sort of interview process which a lot of my friends are actually getting interviews I have two friends of mine that actually got an interview from Stanford already and that sort of interview process, the application process was super valuable and one exposing us to how that sort of works but also showing that environment and what you the sort of internal resources that you need to succeed in that environment and despite the pandemic essentially cancelling the trip for the majority of the people who are accepted into the program in my year 2019 to 2022 I was still able to go on this trip with as I mentioned previously JJ Camibia and his father and that happened this July and I was able to visit a ton of Ivy Leagues from Yale to Brown to Harvard to Columbia and that sort of really helped in putting into perspective the value of what we have here back at home, back in Watsonville and our amazing students and our amazing programs and our amazing teachers but also showed the place that me and I know that so many of my peers that go to Watsonville High School have in these sort of elite prestigious universities and the opportunities that are given to us probably my favorite part was seeing Yale and we actually got to meet with one of the students that attends Yale and she spoke at length about the community there the opportunities there, all of that the Watsonville Ivy League project has probably shown me so many of the opportunities that I know that I can reach and that I know that people like me, people from low income families first generation students rightfully deserve and I'm honestly really really excited that this group of students are going to be exposed to these sort of universities maybe not the Ivy League universities in particular but like these, this sort of level of opportunities and the lateness and that I'm incredibly excited for the students for this year. Yesterday we concluded the interview process for the students that will be going on the next trip September, third week next year in the years that we've been doing this we've taken over 130 students on this kind of trip we've had tremendous support those of us that have gone to chaperones and several of them are out here counselors we've got parents that want to go teachers have gone Mesa coordinators thank you Grace Patino and the students here firsthand from students, professors deans program coordinators at the universities that we visit we visit ten colleges or universities in eight days we've got a pretty good record there's a legacy going on we've had students that have ended up matriculating at Boston University Tufts Brown Williams Cornell Yale a lot at Brown Columbia and we're hoping this next time to get some into Harvard and UPenn of the colleges that we visit MIT yes, MIT, good work we have several students that have gone there including Emily who is one of the very first so we wouldn't be there if we didn't get tremendous support from parents community and administration I'm really glad that Pancho Rodriguez and Elaine Ligure could be here tonight to see and hear things that Lorraine Sandoval tells the students that are selected is you miss a hundred percent of the shots you do not take that famous Wayne Gretzky quote well Lorraine we don't want to miss the opportunity that we have tonight so where are you come here because otherwise if we didn't do this we would miss that shot this woman started the program and we're here to honor and recognize her okay now we have mentioned a young man who is now a doctor in San Francisco Lorraine mentioned that that's Edgar Garcia and right now you're going to get a chance to hear from him his brother Cesar who's in grad school at MIT and their other brother unheld who is at Yale as a freshman and in the audience tonight we have their sister and their parents so we have Lisbeth Maria Patricia and Juan Garcia Lopez would you please stand so we have a video for everybody to watch see here of the brother's Garcia and the Ivy League project and the Watsonville community it was through programming like the Watsonville Ivy League project that each of us aspired to attend institutions we are currently at perhaps since graduation we have been able to see how you have transformed the Ivy League project from the first trip I took with the Fresno Arizona cohort to what it is today thanks to you many of us including the Garcia Lopez family to achieve our educational goals congratulations once again we are fortunate that various elected officials throughout the city the county and the state are here tonight to make presentations in honor of Lorraine we're going to begin with the mayor of Watsonville Jimmy Dutra you want to come up here good evening everybody I first want to say I also went to Watsonville high school in FFA as well so thank you all the students for being here this evening and one of the lines in here says that you're a consistent champion for advanced education or education in general just like all our teachers here tonight too so they deserve a pay that is going to fit what our lifestyle is here in this county and so I'm here with you standing in unity as well and I want to say that you have worked with our students to make sure that they achieve the goals such as this young family the three sons that is something amazing the lives you are changing and touching you are a community and I'm honored as the mayor of Watsonville to recognize you and to say thank you for all that you've done I hope we have you around for many decades more that's a young 85 20 more years to go but you're changing lives and that's what we need here in this community and it takes all of us I know it's such a cliche to say it takes a village but it really does and you're part of that village so thank you and congratulations thank you absolutely and I'd like to bring up Greg Capit from the Board of Supervisors okay well you need a bigger room bigger room for all these people this is wonderful hi you remember when I was on the city council and this was years ago it was probably about two or three years after you started the program and did we pass the hat around? yeah we did absolutely and I hope I think I have the pronunciation correct honoring the founder of the Watsonville Ivy League project Lorraine Sandoval V. Hill okay people mispronounce my name a lot they say caput or whatever and that's okay you get used to it right and whereas Lorraine Sandoval V. Hill is a passionate advocate for bringing opportunities for higher education to students in the Watsonville and Pajaro Valley communities you obtained your bachelor's degree at UCLA your master's at Northern Arizona and a degree in education from Brigham Young University okay well that's quite a difference in those different colleges right so you got something from different backgrounds that's good and then in 2007 founded the Watsonville Ivy League project an organization that supports under representative high achieving students at Watsonville and Pajaro Valley high schools who are interested in visiting and applying to Ivy League schools and whereas the Watsonville Ivy League project tours give prospective college students the opportunity to tour Ivy League colleges and universities you were even a chaperone on their first trip back I guess in 2007 where did you go then we went to say we had to pick kids to all the Ivy Colleges on the 18th grade and eight colleges at the time well okay with the help of volunteers such as high school counselors administrators retired teachers and parents the Watsonville Ivy League project has opened doors for students all over Santa Cruz County especially in South County and whereas as a scholarship coordinator for Pajaro Valley Unified School District Lorraine educated students on their financial aid options that the cost of college would not be an impediment to pursuing their educational goals that's really important nowadays with the cost of going to college is just skyrocketed and you've given so much of your time care and resources with the Watsonville Ivy League project and because of you the futures of local high school students have been forever changed and whereas Lorraine isn't working when you aren't working to help students you enjoy swimming cooking music and spending time with your family your two daughters Julie and Virginia and your sons David Eric and Beckett and Skyler let's see how many is that one, two, four, six you have six okay I have five kids they're all in the Pajaro Valley Unified School four at Minnie White two in kindergarten and two in the fifth grade and we have our boy at Watsonville High School he's a junior so you have enough time to do all that huh okay now therefore I Greg Caput Santa Cruz County Fourth District Supervisor on behalf of the Board of Supervisors honor you Lorraine Sandoval V. Hill for your hard work dedication and commitment to the Watsonville Ivy League project thank you so much you're very welcome thank you I just want everybody to know that it doesn't, it just can't be one person I relied on a lot of people the counselors, Jimena Ospina and Joelle and Nancy Puente from PV High School from Watsonville High School Rachelle Viotti, Jamie Myers Amanda Sandoval and Christina McLean they've all helped out and of course Ron Sandwich who does all the planning he does all of the the logistics for travel and housing and food and charter bus and Broadway shows and everything like that so it takes a village it takes everybody in the state of California numerous assembly offices particularly in this case the office of Robert Rivas we have with us Dominic Duras well good evening I assure you despite being here on behalf of both assembly member Rivas assembly member Stone and Senator Laird I'm not going three times as long so it's okay but I just want to share the best wishes of the state delegation because not only is it important that we have opportunities like this created that no matter a person's zip code no matter a person's neighborhood they have to get the opportunity they deserve to go to university but it's just as important that those universities have students from places like this places like Watsonville places like Salinas San Benito because it's that diversity of experience that goes to a university classroom that truly enriches it recognition for bringing we actually have something a resolution coming on Friday so this is just temporary but I do want to say on behalf of assembly member Rivas assembly member Stone, Senator Laird thank you for ensuring that students really could see beyond the city limits and fulfill their dreams thank you thank you from the office of Jimmy Panetta please welcome Kent Harris Rapaz good evening I will be brief Dr. Zandevalve Congressman Panetta wishes that he could be here this evening unfortunately he's back east and he asked me to express his great gratitude for all you've done for this community and present on his behalf this certificate of special congressional recognition for all you have done thank you very much a man named Paul Harris was the founder of Rotary Clubs and in honor of what he does Rotary presents each year to Rotarians and distinguished members of communities around the country and the world the Paul Harris award and so tonight the Rotary Club of Freedom of which I'm a member is pleased to present to Lorraine a Paul Harris fellow there you go we have a great sheet cake over here from Freedom Bakery that has the pinnets of the Ivy League colleges and also I have with me a box of t-shirts each year the students get a t-shirt that says Watsonville Ivy League on it project on it and there's just a few t-shirts left so anybody in the audience that would like a t-shirt may have one would like to make a donation to the Watsonville Ivy League project may do so thank you all very much and the and the cake will be served out back do we have any public speakers to this item none all right do we have any discussion from the board Trustee D'Serfa Lorraine I'll keep it short but the the amount of lives that have been touched by the program that you started is immeasurable and I just speak on behalf of so many people with love and appreciation for all you've done thank you anyone else and Lorraine I just wanted to say I've been hearing about this program since I've been a trustee and it's impressive and congratulations and Lorraine just really quick I also want to thank you the amazing work through this program one of the things that I want to highlight that you do is not just exposed our students here to the opportunities out there for them but also you walk them through that process I know that you've reached out to me multiple times regarding financial aid questions for students and so forth so your work doesn't just stop there it's not just exposing students but helping them get there and stay there so thank you so much for your work all right thank you very much oh trustee Shockley did you have anything okay I just had one tie up so I know that Lorraine says that oh great so I just wanted to sort of commence what everyone has already said and thanking Lorraine so and I think as Lorraine had already mentioned that you know it sort of is this is one of the situations where she's commending that it really takes a village you know to build the people up but it also takes a tremendous leader so I just like to ask if we could give her another standing round of evasion applause all right thank you so much we will move on to item 7.3 our annual Williams report the report will be presented by Lisa Aguirre thank you for the instruction and Brian Wall our Williams monitoring coordinator Good evening President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez this evening I worked with Brian Walls to prepare the documents and over the last couple weeks I've had the opportunity to present the district Williams findings and this evening you'll hear from Brian Wall and I believe also Richard Reid final report of the Williams from the inspections throughout this fall semester and with that I'll hand it over to Brian Wall from the County Office of Education thank you Lisa good evening first of all I just really want to commend Lisa and her team for just being so awesome and cooperative in this process because I know it's not really a fun process to begin with but I also want to commend the sites from the maintenance staff to the instructional staff just everything was exemplary and you know it really felt good to walk in those classrooms and see really good instruction going on and you know making and knowing that the district has provided sufficient instructional materials for everybody so the Williams I'm just going to briefly talk about what we look for so we look for sufficient materials in the core curricular areas we determine if the facility condition if there's anything that poses an emergency we need to take care of that right away we also look at the school accountability report card that they're current which they were the uniform complaint policies were all posted in English and Spanish which they need to be and every school had that every classroom and then the other aspect number 5 is determining if there are any teacher mis-assignments or vacancies at the schools so I think in your packet you probably have a breakdown by school and so I won't go into each school because that would take a really long time but you'll find that basically I really have to commend you on your K-8 alignments and that everybody is using the same materials and at the 9-12 level everything is aligned with the standards and if there were any deficiencies at all they were dealt with immediately produce purchase orders to show that those things had been dealt with so I just really commend Lisa again on being so prepared and taking care of business so I'm going to stop there and see if you have any questions if you have any public speakers we do we have a total for this item we have one more presenter Richard is here to answer any facility questions you might have so I'll let him step forward if you don't have any questions he can go over what the facility findings were good evening everybody thank you for hearing us this evening I do want to commend Gary who's the director of facilities for Pajaro it was wonderful working with him and the Amino team as we inspected all 19 Pajaro schools and I was really really happy to see the enthusiasm to improve the quality of the schools and the goals that are coming up in the next year and in the future I think that Pajaro is headed in the right direction and we had a really good time visiting all 19 schools so thank you it was a very collegial effort and I really want to thank everybody for doing so they're going to change the parameters for Williams in the future I feel kind of badly for the schools that have to do this year after year after year because it's based on an antiquated API index and so the governor just signed something AB 599 which is going to look at the 2019 dashboard and reconfigure the list so the superintendent of public construction will come up with a new list spring of 2022 some schools will drop off other districts may be more more involved and we'll just have to see what they come up with on the new list but that's kind of a breath of fresh air as far as these same schools being investigated year after year after year so it should improve quite a bit hopefully there's some money to follow too for some of the needs you may have especially in the facility area any questions we'll make their comments first and then we'll ask our questions so we have Greg Tucker follow by Micah Powell and Rebecca Boreson Hi so again I'm here as a teacher in the district and as a union site rep and also as an individual with concern for the fact that we are horribly understaffed and that is one of the issues that is going to be covered in this report according to the agenda that I have so teacher assignments and mis-assignments if if I had a child attending the site where I am working right now and I went to our district website to try to file a Williams uniform complaint what I am supposed to be able to do I would find the process difficult and frustrating at best at this point I find it ridiculous that there is not an electronic form that can be filled out electronically accessible on the district site you have to get the form print it and also print instructions as a separate document and then figure out how to do it that may be in legal compliance but it is disingenuous that is one issue the second issue is the actual lack of teachers at the site the lack of actual substitutes and some of that is excusable probably because of the teacher shortage because of where we are at but at the last board meeting that I watched from my home I heard our assistant superintendent of HR Mrs. Nzawa say that there were no Williams complaints which is likely true if none were filed but the process to file them is complex and overwhelming even though it is supposed to be a simple process alright good evening school board I'm a teacher at PV high school and I'm here to talk right now because I'm not sure you know this many people have said it before but I'm going to say it again we have nine vacancies at my school right now I have a few stories that go along with what that's like recently a teacher had to sub on their prep this happens every day by the way teachers subbing on their prep first a class where there has never been a teacher handing out a worksheet that was given to this teacher only two students in the entire class did the assignment and when the teacher asked is anybody else going to do the work a student replied who's going to grade this why should we what's the point some of those students upon further conversation told that teacher that three of their classes half of their schedule there was no teacher while trying to patrol manage the hallways where there are students wandering the hallways I've often times stopped students and said can you please go to class here's a quote that I've heard often times I don't have a class I have a sub every day we have students attending class in the cafeteria I'm a 15 year veteran in this school district and I just want to point out that the upcoming negotiations on our contract is very much intertwined with this issue my housing costs have gone up a thousand dollars per month since we got our last contract approved I'm a 15 year veteran imagine what it's like for a first year teacher or a brand new hire and you can understand why we have such a shortage so please in these upcoming negotiations don't drag your feet it's going to be a terrible offer like what seems to always happen and feel like it's going to make a difference because nine vacancies could easily turn to 10, 15 or 20 and that's not doing our serving our students thank you so Rebecca just give me one second so the next speaker we have is Sandino Gomez Rebecca you can go after you I'm sorry okay so I'm here again to speak about the nine vacancies as well as some of the issues we've had with the security and monitoring students and access to bathrooms and bathroom facilities with nine vacancies and limited enclosed bathroom facilities students are exhibiting escalating behaviors and undergoing mental health crises that are unprecedented at least during my time in this district without adequate staffing it is our students who lose out but the effects are also felt by the teachers who show up every day many teachers can count on one hand how many days they have actually been able to use their prep to plan and grade and there are still not enough staff and substitutes but grades still need to be submitted lessons still need to be planned and assignments still need to be graded when are we supposed to complete these tasks we definitely are getting compensated for the days that we are up till midnight grading and leaving feedback teachers are burning the candle at both ends and still the inequities persist then you have the bathrooms and lack of access to clean functional facilities students have come to me asking if they will get in trouble if they go on the field because they can't possibly hold it any longer due to how long the lines are students talk about how they can't wash their hands because someone has urinated in the dispensers without soap these are only some examples of the Williams Act violations witnessed at my site and the repercussions continue to be felt thank you for your time those are all the speakers for this item oh I'm so sorry that's all good I'll just bring this up here as a friendly reminder I'm also grading while I'm listening to this commentary so shout out to the person who gave me the idea to do some grading um our site is full of Williams Act violations plain and simple you can adjust numbers, you can assign TOSAs you can have people sub on their preps but the bottom line is we don't have what we need to be successful and we're not providing our students what they need to be successful as a young student I was really troubled and I had a lot of problems and I can point to this man right here Brian Wall and say that I'm here today because of him Junior Assistant Principal's Club shout out I've had students tell me that I'm trying to encourage them to succeed and they're telling me why should I take this seriously when it seems like my school doesn't and my school took this education seriously we would be adequately staffed I wouldn't have three substitute teachers instead of people that I can build a relationship with and that can connect with me and help me in my time of crisis I've had students come up to me telling me they were suicidal that they felt like they couldn't go on that this wasn't worth the stress that they don't feel school is like a place that helps them this is reflected in the conditions that they find themselves in as well as the staffing that we're providing them students are wandering the halls because why sit in the class for the sub is not going to teach you anything and bother to like invest in you we're not investing in the people who invest in our children I won't go over time I promise thank you for the warning this time I didn't see it last time thank you PVSD please do better please we're begging you we've been begging you this is not a new issue this is not pandemic related these issues have been around for a long time and I would also encourage you as you look at the facilities or the adequacy of our facilities to look at what Watsonville and Aptos High has that PV high does not because there are lots of things I could just name off the top of my head like a swimming pool like an auto body or wood shop or metal shop like a theater a theater for dramatic performances drama is a huge part of my high school educational career we don't have those things that the other schools have and we deserve them thank you do we have any discussion from the board I have one question um no further okay um Lisa I had one question for you I think it's for you but Brian it might be for you as well but in some of the reports I saw comments like excessive paper or fire hazard or items stored on top of cabinets that could be an earthquake hazard what how are those issues being addressed President Holm I can handle that one Gary can elaborate if we need to but we did address some of those already our maintenance and operation team is aware of those we actually had hold on one second I'm sorry I'm having a hard time hearing the discussion over the comments that's happening in the audience can we please keep our side discussions down thank you so we had um both Aloni and Minty they actually principals were already on it removed a lot of those papers removed a lot of those books that were on top of cabinets and files so they are working on it and our maintenance and operation team as he walked Gary walked the site with Richard Reid they were already identifying fixes and working with the team to get it fixed thank you all right item 7.4 district requirement to redraw trustee areas the report will be presented by Clint Rucker our CBO and Ron Van Orden power school good evening President Holm Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez so education code requires that every 10 years we actually reevaluate our trustee area boundaries based on census data that's released typically in September last time we did this was in 2011 so it has been 10 years we're back to once again reviewing those boundary areas each year we we have to look at the boundaries and see if any two trustee areas vary by more than 10% so what that means is if one has 105% of the population the other has 94% that would be an 11% difference therefore we would have to actually redraw those boundaries or really adjust those boundaries so one thing I do want to make clear this is not like a this is not a brand new redrawing of boundaries this is simply adjusting boundaries to be more in line with with egg code with state law and federal law I'm not going to go too much into the process I'll let Ron do that I do want to just briefly talk about our timeline we are currently at the November 17 board meeting we'll be discussing it briefly here tomorrow we'll be sending out a survey to actually all of our community members letting them know if they have any any sort of insight on how what they would like to see with the boundaries any recommendations for power school to do as they look at our boundaries again there's a lot of laws that they need to follow and qualifications they must meet but in case there's just certain criteria that we have concerns from the community we can always take that into account before redrawing those boundaries we'll close that survey around December 7th or so and then send those results to power school to review so they can draw those maps we'll come back at the first meeting in January to show those maps and then once again do another survey to kind of have community vote on if there's a multiple if there are multiple options of maps how we could redraw those boundaries we'll take votes on that so I am going to pass it off to Ron Menoran he is here from power school power school is a third party their independent demographer who actually does our demographics for all of our student enrollment projections as well so this is a business they're quite familiar with and actually 10 years ago when they were decision insight with our original redrawing of our district boundaries so I'm going to leave it to Ron to give you guys just a quick update of what they do and kind of their process so Ron. Board of trustees, district staff teachers and parents thank you very much for inviting me to come tonight Clint gave you a great introduction I'm here to just add to that a little bit about the background and what we do the data we use and I'm going to keep my comments intentionally broad of course up to a couple of questions more than happy to answer those at the end and go into more detail if needed Clint gave you a really good background in a do I just hit this to advance? Okay you know the reason this is triggered is we've had a Dysoniel census and then we have the new data in terms of population and so we've already completed the analysis of your existing trustee areas and I'll show you some data in a moment. One thing I do want to mention is this is specific to the trustee voting areas having done a lot of these with our we work with about 100 districts in the state people hear boundaries they think schools this is purely for the areas that trustees are elected from so it has no impact on students and schools they attend. Alright so there's some broad information you have to trustees have to be reside in their area be elected from that area and I'll give you a background on the elections this is the part that Clint mentioned so the idea behind the representation is that not one area is going to represent a disproportionate amount of the population and I'll have some data on that in just a moment I think Clint mentioned most of these we will go to so this is the area I wanted to highlight what we are going for with the potential adjustment process is they want us to balance the areas in terms of population and the phraseology is as nearly equal in population as possible so there is some room you can't hit an exact number but that is the goal behind this so the idea is nearly equal number of inhabitants I should mention this is total population so it does not matter whether that person has any affiliation with the district they could go to a different school what have you we have to comply with the Federal Voting Rights Act and I can mention a little bit about that more in detail if needed they want the boundaries to be compact and contiguous so we don't want to break boundaries into islands they want them one and they want them to be geographically compact we can take into account municipal boundary and location of schools so a little bit around how we do this you can see here are the existing areas and we have it in our platform which is digitized the US Census provides us the data in what are called census block groups which are small geographic units typically the size of a neighborhood anywhere from 2 to 500 persons so really it's a pretty straightforward analysis all of the census block groups inside an area are aggregated up to get a total population for each area what you're seeing here is the result of that and I just direct you to the 2010 so we have the data from the US Census in 2010 and then we have the 2020 data and that represents the change in those persons Clint was mentioning the areas and that percent threshold so you have a compliance range I want to point out that ideal number 15,865 so that is if we took the total population of the entire district geographic boundary and divided by 7 that number would be 15,865 so then you have your areas in 2020 some are above and some are below so that is where that threshold is triggered where you have some growth in certain areas you have some decrease in population in others and you've moved from balance to out of balance this is a breakdown of the racial ethnic data from each area so trust the area 1 through 7 on the bottom this is important for the Voting Rights Act compliance and that would be the end of that part of it so what we would do in the event that we were directed to create new boundaries is we would start first with the existing area so I want to make it clear we want to wipe the map clean and start over the mandate is to adjust the existing boundaries only to the degree where we need to bring them into compliance so it's really a pretty straightforward process where we would effectively if an area was above in population we would reduce that geographically and we would increase an area that needed to increase in population we would increase that area geographically so those are the things we have to hit we cannot make things that are non-contiguous like I mentioned we have to be in compliance with the Voting Rights Act and then we would obviously be able to take other considerations into account like location of schools municipal boundaries etc so that is quick overview any questions first do we have any public speakers to this item we don't any questions or comments from the board I do just one so we do have one of the areas that involves two separate counties so how is that handled so that is really not unless it was specifically directed us to take that into account that would not be a factor we do have other customers clients that are counties so that really wouldn't be a major factor we can try to make that one county specific but not to the degree if it would push that out of balance so we're just focused primarily on the population correct based on the sense okay thank you all right if I think that's it then oh trustee to Serpa go ahead nine yes so so yes so I think the spirit of your question is really these are really minor adjustments that we need to be made really just to decrease that to close to numeric balance now you're at 16 so I think your question trustee to Serpa is would we look at every boundary would we look at just the boundaries that are out of alignment I think the idea would be to again get them as in alignment as possible it's going to really depend on the census blocks and what we can or what really decisions or our power school now can move around so if you notice trustee area seven and trustee area five are really what triggered this because they are more than 10% apart and that's what when we discuss with legal that's what triggered that law is that those are more than a 10% swing so you need to actually readjust your boundaries by letter of the law all we really need to do is adjust those two to be more in alignment however it's not always that simple because we're dealing with census blocks so from what I've learned from Ron in my time working with them we would be looking at a map that best gets everyone as close to that 100% as possible but again that's only as possible as it is moving those census blocks so next steps we so again we'll be putting out a survey tomorrow for our community to provide any feedback of what they want us to try and consider if possible if it's within the law to consider while drawing those maps I will aggregate that data send it off to power school they will then draw us up typically I'm working with Ron we talked about trying for two or three different maps trying to have some options of this is the way we can do it it really depends again on those census blocks how many options we'll be able to get but we want we're aiming for at least two or three so that we have some options the board can look at then we'll bring those and then get feedback again from the community and then I'll bring it back a final time for a vote from the board along with the community feedback we received all of this has to be done before March 1st of 2022 as if we don't finish it by March 1st of 2022 the county office then gets rights to reassign the areas as they see fit so I would like I'm confused about what the community would even ask of this process so you guys need to clearly explain that to us and the community because I'm I don't I don't even know what to ask around so for example a community kind of to Ron's point might speak to I would like to not see us have to have too many people where they're switching schools or they're switching from this large area to this large area those would be the types of things so for example if you have somebody in trusty area one that borders two and three they might say we would prefer to keep one around the size it is we really think that's two and three that are we would like to see it's again it's all we just want to have community feedback can we do it or not will be kind of based on the letter of the law so again we'll put out in the survey kind of the different requests we're looking for but it's really just to get community feedback and see if there's any concerns they have with this process to make sure that the community is aware of the process and that we are doing an unbiased process where we're having a third party demographer look at the name. Okay I've got two more questions so you used to be you have changed your name but the same firm as of a year ago we were acquired by power school so decision insight is now part of power school but we our group still does the same thing because you have drawn other boundaries for us in the past do you guys still have access to those? Yes so I wasn't personally involved I was with the firm then ten years ago actually my boss who is now retired was involved in that process so those are the ones we drew at that time. Okay thank you Trustee Acosta so Clint I think you answered in part what was a clarifying question for me even though you're saying that these two areas triggered this redrawing which could have happened if they both had increased by 5% correct I mean because like you gave the example of one increased by 105 and one decreased by 95 right it was still either way it's a trigger a 10% change is a 10% no a 10% difference between oh a 10% difference so that's a little bit of clarification that we had to get when we spoke with legal is it's a 10% swing effectively so one's at 95% and one's at 106 you're 11% apart so that's where they consider that's too big of a gap between your lowest and your highest. Okay and then and then if you had a third area that came in and brought that number down would that have not triggered it? No because you look at the two okay or to Ron's point if any of them are above 110% or under 90% even that would always trigger. Okay got that I think that has a lot of elaboration there and so and then looking at this trustee area is a percentage of ideal and in really seeing I mean trustee area seven is really way off in comparison to let's see trustee area one right so when you're talking about that ideal are you are is the goal to try to get everybody at that 100% range I mean and in what sort of percentage are you I mean are you considering 93.9% and 103.8% an ideal differentiation are you trying to get those both as close to 100% as possible? So the ideal would be would be just that the reason why they allow for some variation is because we're dealing with population and communities it's not likely that you can exactly hit a number sure so but the goal would be to have them as nearly balanced in population as possible so what you would see would be those you know would be like 99.3% and a 99.7% and something along those lines and yes we are trying to get to that 50,865 number but to pull away from because when I see that 93.9% and 103.8% I'm like wow I mean that's a vast difference so like definitely that could be brought somehow closer together and I'm going to say I get it's not going to necessarily mean they're both going to be ideally at 100% but that's a big range difference. Right and that's exactly it so you're going to have to just use general terms some areas would give some populations and some would lose you know and really this has to do with the rate of growth within certain areas so keep in mind that the total population most likely rose over the 10 year period some areas just rose faster which pushed it up into that 103 and others with 93 so it's not like that area lost people it's just one area may have grown at a faster rate. Right and then so and then the other component of it is that so you started with I think it was Trustee Area 5 and Trustee Area 7 or what trigger 7 trigger but it's not going to just affect those two trustee areas to clarify for the public but it's going to affect all 7 trustee areas right? Potentially so you could I mean most likely trying to get as close to 100% on all of them as possible so you could see trustee areas that are close to 100% already if there's no census block we can really move they may have to stay at the percentage they're at because there's no feasible way to move some out of that block to another block that would actually but there is room for movement in all trustee areas in reality we have a very good track record of being able to get pretty close okay I mean because some are I mean you could drive down a street and I know this is for you and trustee shocker I know it's for me and Daniel Dodge Jr it's like literally you could say in the road it's like this side is me that side's you this side's trustee Arrosco that side's trustee shocker so I mean clearly there's room for movement potential movement in all areas right so and I wanted to go to the next slide with the race and ethnicity groups yeah that one so what consideration do we put also into this into trying to create balance with race and ethnicity so largely in this process this is not an effort to balance racial and ethnicities across a district this really what this affects is the voting rights act where we are not allowed to modify a boundary or create a boundary which would diminish the voting power of what is historically a protected group so the way I would randomly picking trustee area 3 which you have at 82.8% Hispanic Latino if we were to draw an area that would effectively split that and make it 40 roughly that would potentially be viewed as a voting rights act violation because it could be perceived that is done in a manner to reduce their voting power if that makes sense yeah yeah no that makes sense I just wanted to make sure that we had the clarification on that and that when it comes back to the board if we could have this to see what sort of shift we end up with then and that and you know the only other thing that's sad to say is for those who didn't reply to the census and they're not being counted for in here they have to give the plug for that that's you know a crime shame because I mean but that is what it is unfortunately so remember what it would be 2030 do your census thank you trustee soda did you want to say something are you good okay and just as a reminder cards need to be submitted before the agenda item starts so if they're submitted after the agenda item they're not going to be read all right is there no further comment from the board we'll move on to item 8.1 public comment this is an opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda for this evening please know that although the brown act prohibits the board from engaging in discussion for non-agendized items we are listening and do we have any public speakers we do we have a total of 11 speakers on this item we're going to start with Travis Walker followed by Sean followed by Rebecca Morrison hi there okay I want to talk about something not because I want to be the one to talk about it but because I don't know that other people will show let's do it let's talk about race in this district I've been here for a little bit long but it's very obvious that this district as with most of America's relatively segregated without county being predominantly Hispanic north county being less so and henceforth when this board makes decisions they need to take both of those populations into account and this board has a track record of not doing so adequately in my opinion I mean the first board meeting I attended this year was to talk about SROs where you all presented research that said they're bringing back SROs with disproportionately negatively affect students of color and then voted to bring them back anyways because the power black and aptos wanted it so I want to bring our focus to that as far as vacancies go at the high school level Paro Valley PV high is 89% Hispanic Watsonville high school is almost 95% Hispanic while aptos high school is percent white aptos high school has one teacher vacancy PV high school has eight or nine Watsonville high school has eight how do those numbers not bother you how does hearing that not bother you you are consistently failing to meet not only our students needs but particularly our students of colors needs just like blatantly knowingly doing so it doesn't take I didn't do any type of research that took me two seconds to google to see that there was that discrepancy there took me two seconds to google did any of you think to google that to look it up I'm sure you know that information that's time I forgot to give you a 30 second warning hello everybody my name is Sean I just have a couple questions for you guys it's come to my attention to the CARES Act and the COVID relief 1, 2 and 3 that this school district has received 76 million 840 thousand dollars in COVID relief since 2020 that is 4,475 dollars per student where is that money what are you guys doing with it I'm sure there are some teachers that would like to share a little of that I'm just curious where is that 76 million dollars being spent is there anything you guys can put out that kind of shows the community the people you represent where that money goes because I'm interested and I'm sure everyone here is interested where the 77 million dollars is I know at my son's school you guys put up a sunshade and the last time I checked that's not 76 million dollars just curious where that money is at like I said I'm pretty sure the teachers that are still sticking around would really be interested to know where that money is at my second question is regarding the masks again maybe since you guys represent us it would be a good idea for you guys to put a survey out and ask parents teachers and people involved do they want to wear masks or do they don't maybe that would be the best way to do it because you guys don't seem to care about the health of the kids you seem to care more about making sure you receive that relief money and follow the guidelines to receive it I don't care about that money I care about the teachers and the students I don't care about the money so I'm just curious if you guys would be interested in maybe asking the people you represent where do you stand on this position and also maybe asking the people you represent where do you stand on the position of vaccine mandates that way when that comes down the pipe you guys are well equipped to represent your people seems like it's pretty obvious to me hopefully you guys can do that and I'd also like to say again like I said last time the screen time is ridiculous he gets more screen time at school then he's allowed at home that's unacceptable to me he doesn't need that much screen time maybe when you guys put out your survey you could also ask if we mandate that would affect your funding as well $76 million so you guys already know but my name is Rebecca Borisen and I'm a teacher at Paharo Valley High School I've known I wanted to work here since I was a substitute teacher barely scraping by to make ends meet four years ago when I fell in love with this community and the students I decided to become a teacher after my 17-year-old brother died from suicide while he was a student in this district integrating standards-based curriculum developed during my time on the Santa Cruz County Mental Health Advisory Board into my English classroom has been by far my proudest accomplishment and I truly believe I've been able to make an impact this year the effects of the teacher shortage on students' mental and behavioral health has been clear to date I've had students hospitalized for suicide attempts I've submitted more referrals for counseling held more interventions than any other year here as a teacher they mention, my students mention how they don't have teachers or grades in some of their core classes they don't feel like the school cares about them that they have a substitute teacher after substitute teacher and some days not even that student defiance and lack of respect for their teachers and the educational institution has also gotten worse with students blatantly thumbing their nose at their teachers and substitutes in their classes refusing to participate lighting fires, literal fires participating in fights and even questioning why they should care or be there we can't begin to adequately address the mental and behavioral needs of our students while simultaneously battling heavy teacher shortages and lack of substitute teachers something needs to change these students need to feel and believe that PVUSD cares not just be given lip service I truly worry about what is going to happen when I go out on leave the relationships that I have made the bonds that I have with my students when they are passed off from substitute teacher to substitute teacher and they no longer have that structure time thank you so next we have elder F Marilyn Garrett followed by Chris Webb thanks everybody for being here wow can't say I am shocked to hear that $76 million figure that this district has received in COVID grant money and it's sad to see that it's not being spent where it needs to be spent it's sad to see that it's not being spent on the teachers who deserve it I know one thing that could help with you guys having a bigger pool of teachers and that's getting rid of masking and vaccine requirements I'm sure that that is clear to prospective candidates I've heard people on school boards in this county and the board of education of the county including Dr. Sabah say that it's not your all choice to make that you are just following guidance from the county but that's clearly not true and I don't know if you have been keeping up with recent court decisions but there was a decision recently to record a California in San Diego let them breathe at all versus Newsom at all that clearly states the judge clearly states school districts are not required to impose mask or vaccine mandates whatsoever school districts may elect to do that but it is of their choosing there are at least four school districts in the state that are not that are choosing to not implement masking or vaccine mandates including Mark Twain union school district and angels camp unified school district happy valley unified school district Shasta County and Stanislaw and Stanislaw County unified so you all are empowered to make more decisions than you claim and you know the people of this county are watching at what you do and please get rid of this it's not for a board that talks about things like mental health and inclusion policies it's sad to see that we're implementing a state of medical apartheid here in this county so you are dividing clearly choosing to divide this county into two different groups when it clearly doesn't need to happen especially in this day and age time thank you medical freedom is a human right first and foremost mandatory vaccine laws are a violation of the basic human right to voluntary consent without coercion to any and all medical procedures tests experiments and preventative measures the Nuremberg Code was established following World War II based on the fact that all medical products have an inherent health risk and serious side effects vaccines included this is one of the factors I know that you're losing teachers and to elaborate more on this topic is a new book just got it yesterday and I recommended you all get a copy and read it it's titled The Real Anthony Fauci Bill Gates Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr Children's Health Defense and I think this Global War on Democracy and Public Health includes a war on our public schools and a total undermining of public schools and public services Michael Parenti says of democracy and we're told we live in a democracy and we're told we live in a democracy and we're told we live in a democracy democracy isn't faith or trust the essence of democracy is distrust it's accountability it's exposure it's challenge it's debate that's what it's about and I think this applies to science too time so please check out this new book The Real Anthony Fauci Thank you I want to thank PVSD for providing teacher supplies in the form of credit to use a palace in previous years we've been able to physically go to palace to use this I feel that that flexibility should be restored and also that teacher should be able to purchase food items in recent months I've noticed that diabetes was a concern with so many students and as an emergency measure maybe it's good to have candy on hand also I do have some files some papers on top of my file and Kevin I didn't know it was an issue but if I had more time to file I could handle that in the mean time my regular work too busy for filing for the most part I also I'm starting family leave this week and it's not without some trepidation partly because we had our system our successful student our monitoring system taken away and the last time that this happened we had this with this other administrator who let himself be misled by some people in this district office we had five students have to leave site due to non-fatal overdoses when I came back I had veteran teachers ready to quit because of the campus culture that is here I had two separate students feel so empowered that they were trying to intimidate me one of them was on the basis of the color of my shirt that day and I'm nervous because we have a lot of new teachers and I'm hoping that if something like that is to happen again that we have emergency reinstatement of our successful program and also that we don't have SROs I don't want to come back if there is something crazy I don't want to come back to SROs that's not the reason that we're having this deterioration I feel like one example that like recently in the last couple weeks we had one student who would have been identified and corrected before to be supported she deteriorated she left again emergency facility emergency services so thank you next we have Kathy Butler James E. Wing Whitman and Gary Arnold good evening I am a community member I am a parent to a student that graduated from our district I'm also a former student myself of this district I've been an educator for over 20 years in our district and here we meet again if PVUSD truly cares like your sign, like your words have you care about our students our teachers and our community you will increase our salaries we have already lost too many talented teachers to early retirement and to neighboring districts who pay more I have a friend who is making $20,000 more a year after she takes in consideration the benefits this national teacher shortage is a crisis and it is only going to get worse the districts who pay teachers will get teachers to stay if PVUSD truly cares show it actions speak louder than words through this pandemic we have all had time to reevaluate our priorities you must now prioritize our students by prioritizing their teachers Dr. Rodriguez cabinet board members you can do better you can do better this time around and our community deserves it I'm not saying good morning I was at a school board meeting earlier I spoke twice at the supervisors meeting yesterday I finally had the conversation I wanted to have with Greg Capit I've spoken in front of him more than 100 times I can't believe all the love that was shared by the people who spoke behind me Oscar thank you for being real you're the only one on this side that's really being real you know what do I know I became an Eagle Scout in 1985 the sickest I ever was when I was living in Japan in 1986 at a temperature of 105.7 human body temperature up to 103 is totally normal I've taken about 500 hot yoga classes I highly recommend it I'm certified to teach it so you know what no one else is really talking about which is not true because two people did talk about it is what's going on with these vaccines so the fraud in the United States was basically started by the Biologist Control Act of 1902 established germ versus terrain theory human beings have over 300,000 different exosomes that when your bacterias can't take care of it these things come out they replicate a thousand times faster than bacteria there's a lot of healing that can be done with whole foods my mother's birthday is November 13th in 1986 Anthony Fosse Fakie whatever strong arm Ronald Reagan to sign the first indemnification for vaccines before that those companies were going broke with the 13 they were producing now they're doing between 72 and 84 Patriot Act 2005 provided more indemnity I only have a few seconds but you know what there's a lot of people talking about it the only consistency about these shots is making people sick and genocide and I'm not hearing any of you guys supporting that and it's really sad thank you I don't know where Gary is can I take the time he's my right home alright alright Donna left fever followed by Sandino Gomez and we'll wait for Gary my name's Donna Lafever I'm a math teacher at Watsonville High School I just wanted to take a minute to share about some of the experiences I've had but I think I also wanted to just build off of the presentation that we just saw where we're talking about changing zones and having to look at these different graphs and break down how the different percentage the difference between the percentages like how complicated it can get when you're trying to understand mathematics and as a teacher I'm experiencing that all the time when I'm working with 35 students who don't get to ask questions as directly as we got to this evening to understand what we're seeing so I think that's something we really need to take into consideration how hard it is for some of the things we're asking the kids to learn and then we're given a math for 35 of them and I mean when the math we were talking about here you're all very engaged with because it means a lot it means what your position is like you want to understand these numbers because it has to do with your job so you're heavily engaged I'm working with 14, 15 year old students who aren't necessarily super engaged about the math but I have to build relationships with them and I have to work really hard to understand what their knowledge is so that I can build off of what they know and I have to work really hard to do that when I have so many students and to then this is my first year in PVUSD but my 10th year teaching and it's always hard to find math teachers but then hearing at Watsonville high school how much turnover there's been in the math department it's really leaving a huge disservice and a gap for all the students in our district and I just want to share all the hard work that teachers are doing my mom is a second grade teacher she came today because she's in parent conferences right now she had one that started at 7 because she tries to accommodate the families my sister wanted to be here she's a special ed teacher at McQuitty she spoke out about safety concerns at the meeting where we had SROs she spoke about safety concerns in her classroom she still doesn't have the support and there was an incident a safety incident at McQuitty because she doesn't have that support so you voted on those SROs to come thank you I'll leave the sign up there this time I think I made my point I couldn't agree more about the SROs I was super against that decision I was watching at home and I literally cried when y'all made that decision staff are schools and if we still have discipline problems if we still have concerns about misbehavior fine police officers are the next logical step but you are blaming students for our failure by criminalizing them that is inappropriate so inappropriate how much money did you spend on this PVUSD cares client campaign I think you really do in your hearts but unfortunately the structure and the institutions are preventing you from doing the right thing I don't want to personalize this on you I know your hearts are in the right place but put your minds and your actions in the right place too please we need that there's an explanation point at the end of that PVUSD cares I see a question mark right now I'm going to redesign that graphic PVUSD cares question mark prove to us you do please when the Williams Act came up and talked about you know I wish Brian Wall had gone further into the teaching staffing shortage when they came through and did the inspection of my classroom I said yes I have enough books my classroom is in fine condition but we don't have enough teachers at this campus and he said yes we know we'll talk about that later you all talked to the future farmers of America you talked about redistricting you talked about everything except things having to do with us as teachers and our students that we're teaching respond to us please tell us about these things the last thing I would say is we have nine vacancies at my school averaging let's say $50,000 a year that's like half a million dollars where is that money going where does the money go that is not being paid to a staff the schools in our site that's a million dollars almost where are those people it's frustrating and I know you have the power to do the right thing your negotiators take orders from you Michelle you have the power to make this right you can do this there's a lot of money please spend it on the people who deserve it and are entitled to it by law so last call for Gary Arnold he's not going to speak tonight okay alright we'll move on to section 9 employee organization comments so now is when we hear from our employee organizations so we'll start with pvft good evening miss home your response to the statements provided by teachers sharing their frustration and heartbreak over the impacts of multiple vacancies epitomized how the district receives our input it also speaks to the lack of care and responding to mr b's racist it makes sense to me now that nobody responded to his racist email to me after I spoke at the August 25th board meeting calling out the vacancy issue as a result of this administration not caring for our students beyond gathering public accolades for the amazing programs that teachers implement he started with how my comments on teacher vacancies was very impassioned and that yet he was surprised that I thought that 30 openings was excessive with most of them being in the south regions then he went on about how mr your hero had pointed out to him over many many years that young teachers are hired in the south zone why because the older teachers aren't they moved to the north zone and read and then retire then they and so then vacancies are backfilled by younger teachers from the south south zone so they're fighting therefore creating openings in the south zone oops poops yes you guys saw that email he ended that paragraph with oops poops none of you called him out on the ignorance of his email is it because you believe this too that it is expected to have vacancies in Watsonville schools so oops poops do you not care that thousands of students in our high schools do not have a teacher of record in science math selpa and other and world language classes or is it more important to remove items from high shelves our teachers are burnt out no it's not for reasons that district admin has stated to me those reasons being oh they're burnt out there it's just because teachers are shocked by having to work more than four hours and they did in the remote year what no it's not because they don't know how to manage their time and teachers are not the reason there is a teacher in the district we have asked the district to give our teachers all of them across the district at least one hour a month on a Wednesday afternoon so that they can focus on their own classroom commitments because they are filling in in classes you refuse to give this to them one hour one hour there are districts across this nation making adjustments to their schedules to give teachers extra time to prep and some even time off paid because they're acknowledging that the mental health of their teachers is important I'm going to repeat what I've stated in the past it's the same exact paragraph that I stated in the past the PVFT 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 when we win the district will not only receive a total of close to a million in COVID funding the additional 5% cost of living adjustment is $9 million that's for this school year we are only negotiating for this school year $9 million extra on the base funding that's not one time monies funds that this funding should go to the salaries and again trying to put it in context a 1% is just under a million dollars for our unit all the people we represent so if we wanted to keep up just above what inflation is right now maybe a 7% raise that would only be not even 7 million of that 9 million so that includes all statuatories just so you know again this benefits our students benefits our students when they have teachers prioritize our students this benefits our students prioritize our students invest in the educators that work with them I want to point out that there was this a press release for the safety measures promoted for social emotional health among students and then a comma staff and one of the sentences is in the first paragraph equally important to PBUSD is a profound sense of responsibility to the families it serves to create safe spaces where students can truly unleash their learning potential there are students without a teacher there are thousands of students losing hope in their education they have teachers who are doing all they can and some and giving up family time to do that to help their students and they can't get an hour because they don't know how to manage their time otherwise time thank you do we have anyone here from CSEA okay no one from CSEA how about from uh Pavan alright good evening board president home vice president shocker Dr. Rodriguez members of the board Pam shanks and I Brian Saxton are here tonight to represent Pavan I start with a question have you ever read a job description and seen the line that says other duties as assigned and wondered what that meant what are all those other duties who does them and why would anyone take a job with that line in it I'm here to let you know of the people who fulfilled other duties as assigned these would be the proud members of Pavan during the beginning of this year and even today Pavan members are filling many other duties as assigned they have been reading teachers science teachers math teachers social studies teachers P teachers first grade teachers lots of other teachers and grades they have been covid monitors testers vaccine monitors vaccine clinic facilitators crossing guard yard duties bus dispatchers custodians lunch line assistants delivery drivers staff countens they've been principals assistant principals bus drivers again office assistants phone call answerers I don't think that's a word but they've done that counselors social support tech assistants covid test collectors and I think you get the point each of those jobs was taken without hesitation without complaint at least out loud and done to the best of their ability Pavan leaders are unselfish and willing to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty it is one of the many great things about them as a collective we are reading the book dare to lead by Brene Brown in there she talks about being vulnerable and leading from the heart and being a daring leader this is what our Pavan team is doing we are telling people how we feel acknowledging others and leading from the heart daring leaders take on challenges they acknowledge when they need to help and empower others to do their best thank you thank you anyone from CWA alright go on to item 10.1 except PVSD's sunshine proposal to PVFT for the 2021-2022 school year report will be presented by Allison Niezela good evening President Holm Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez the item for you tonight is our sunshine proposal with PVFT for the 21-22 school year we are sun shining the health and welfare article we do recognize that benefits are a challenge to discuss and we know that they are very important to all of our membership and all of our employees we are trying this article to be able to have as many options on the table when negotiating with PVFT because we do recognize that salary is important as well and so we are just trying to open our options so that we can have a comprehensive conversation and look at total compensation across the board to hopefully come together and final resolution I request that you approve the item for tonight do we have any public speakers to this item we do one Radica I'm sorry for butchering your name thank you good evening Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez I'm not going to say anything up here that you haven't heard all night but we are teachers we're used to repeating ourselves so we are thankful that the district has sunshine because that allows us to begin negotiating in good faith however it's really disappointing to see the opening of the health and welfare article we're currently working amidst a worldwide pandemic I believe it reflects poorly on the district's commitment to their whole child whole family whole community of PVFT what we wish to accomplish for our membership is an agreement where the whole child whole family and whole community is addressed an agreement that is going to attract teachers beginning in the spring and retain the teachers the quality teachers we currently have on staff an agreement where we're not at the current position we are in faced with the severe number of shortages and the impact that that has on our students that you have been hearing all night currently if we returned our teachers on special assignment to their positions of support for our classroom teachers we would be looking at 62.6 FTE vacancies in November the district made commitments to hire additional intervention teachers additional counselors additional support staff right now half of those intervention positions are vacant we are not serving the whole child what does that look like it looks like offering a salary and total comp that attracts teachers and so we have fully staffed sites to support all of our learners we have said this many times before but I'm going to say it again you cannot put students first if you put teachers last thank you do we have any discussion from the board can I have a motion? I have a motion do I have a second? I'll second all those in favor? aye any opposed? aye motion carries 6-1 6-0-1 thank you 5-1-0 thank you let's go on to item 10.2 approve memorandum of understanding chapter and PVSD for the summer assistance program report will be presented by Alison Diazala. thank you President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez we have been participating in the summer assistance program for our classified employees where the state provides a one-to-one matching dollar for any classified employees who pay into the fund and so we get those sorry so the notices go out in around December early January for employees who would like to participate and so I would respectfully request that the board approves the MOU to participate in the summer assistance for our classified employees for the 22-23 school year do we have any public speakers to this item? no we don't any discussion from the board? this is the same summer program that we do every summer it's an annual MOU and so we're bringing it back again this is a really exciting program and I'd like to support this so I'll make a motion to approve I'll second that motion is there any further discussion? hearing none I will call for the vote all those in favor? aye any opposed? okay alright so that carries 6-0 6-0-1 okay resolution 21-22-19 increasing revolving cash fund report will be presented by Clint Rucker thank you President Holm Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez so as you all may have recalled back from my budget presentation we talked about unemployment insurance and the drastic increase that happened at the state level they did end up lowering it a little bit but it still ended up quite a bit more than typically it's been about 0.02 when it used to be about 0.005 because of that it's actually forced us to increase our revolving cash fund I want to clarify this does not mean that we're spending committing any additional funds to anything this is already in the budget that increase in unemployment it's just that EDD requires us to wire the money over and our actual treasury can't do it in a timely manner to not get penalties so it's one of the very few things we use our revolving cash for and we just need to increase that cash to be able to continue to pay those unemployment insurance in a timely manner so at this point I'd just recommend that the Board approve this resolution to increase our revolving cash balance alright do we have any public speakers to decide on? we do not any discussion from the Board can I have a motion? make a motion to approve sorry second alright I've got a first and a second all those in favor? aye aye any opposed? motion carries 601 item 10.4 resolution 21 22-20 to utilize grant funding for construction projects still here Clint thank you again President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez so this one's a little bit complicated so I'll try and keep it as simple as possible as many of you know a few, a board meeting ago actually we approved a resolution to support a new bond at the state level currently the state does have a bond out there it goes through the OPSC which is the Office of Public School Construction as you may have remembered in that resolution had projects already in the queue for some of that bond money that was out there in working with school facility consultants who works with us very closely on all of our OPSC bids our applications we found that we actually are potentially able to get $3 million in construction funding through OPSC for a Valencia project we did and an Aptos Junior High project it was both portable projects that we did back in about the summer of 2018 these projects have eligibility which means that they do meet the requirements and we do show that the construction was a need for student housing therefore we are able to get that money for it however we don't have enough in the K through 8 levels to fund the entire fund really 50% of the project which is what OPSC will contribute so what we are asking the board to do is approve a resolution that allows us to borrow our eligibility so we are not borrowing any money we don't have to pay it back it's just saying we have eligibility at the 9 to 12 level but we don't have any projects at the 9 to 12 level that qualify so what we would like to do is use that eligibility from the 9 to 12 level to support the projects that were done at Valencia and Aptos Junior what this does is it effectively lets us get more money for those projects if we don't do this resolution and do not choose to borrow from that 9 to 12 that money will simply just expire there's nothing we get to do to try and go after it after that we do have one project that could potentially qualify at PV High but by the time that project would qualify we would be in a new round of eligibility and this current money would be gone anyway so really it's a win-win for us to apply and try and put forth as much eligibility as possible and again a potential million dollars towards our construction projects so I would ask that the board approve this resolution thank you Clint do we have any public speakers to this item we don't any discussion from the board so this is specifically so it is to reimburse us for those projects those projects were done with measure L funding which means OPSC has guidelines that says you must use that money in a similar fashion to the original money was for so it does not necessarily mean that 3 million needs to now be spent on Aptos and on Valencia it simply means we have 3 million dollars to spend on construction or facilities projects so of course I'll entertain a motion I'll move to approve alright oh sorry okay so this is what we've been waiting for is this matching money because we had hoped from 2010 that we would have a lot of matching so what about PV high what about the field there's no match for any of that construction not for the field there's a project for some of their repairs that they did and some of the work on one of their wings that I have with school facilities that they believe could be eligibility but again as they are going through the process OPSC is very behind so again we're funding a project back from 2018 right now so again in asking our consultant do we feel that we would have money for that project one in the next set of rounds he believes we would have eligibility and two we if the new state bond passes then we would have even more eligibility one thing I did neglect to mention that I do want to mention is one of the reasons we're pushing for this right now with OPSC is as you all know we're in declining enrollment along with every other really district in the state OPSC is giving a one time use of our 2019-20 enrollment to determine our eligibility so this is actually kind of double letting us not only borrow from that 9-12 but also use eligibility that otherwise we would lose out on because our declining enrollment is showing that we get less and less construction dollars and there's really no other projects that we could put in the queue for this money we have so as you all know we have the Duncan-Holbert portables that we're working on we are actually going to put that project into the queue I'm working with school facility consultants to determine if we can use the ESSER projects I believe because they're federally funded they don't qualify for OPSC but again any construction projects that we work on we always send off to SFC to review and see if we can put in applications okay because I thought we had lots of projects that were already queued up with the state but it was like get at the end of the line and there was already like hundreds ahead of us so we have other projects that are queued we don't have eligibility for those projects at this time so the two that we have eligibility for are Aptos Junior Invalencia okay so there's a motion I'll second there's no further discussion then I will call the vote all those in favor hi any opposed motion carries 601 all right item 10.5 Sugimura Finney architects agreement okay Calabasas the re-roof project and it'll be Gary Webb thank you President Holm Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees this is a architectural agreement Sugimura Finney architects the Calabasas elementary school HVAC and re-roof repair project this is a combined project and replacement of all HVAC equipment at Calabasas long overdue it is budgeted it's funded through the ESSER funds which we've approved at the board meeting a few board meetings ago and this is the total construction estimate is 1.85 million and the project compensation is $200,000 and I recommend that you approve this all right do we have any public speakers to this item we do not any discussion from the board I'll entertain a motion I'll move to approve do I have a second I'll second all right all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 601 before we continue on to the next item I am going to make a motion to extend the meeting to 1130 in case we need that additional time thank you I have a motion do I have a second second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 511 item 10.6 item 10.6 sorry Finney Architects Agreement Lakeview Middle School CND Re-Roof Project Gary I'm assuming that's still you thank you very much President Hull this is another agreement with Sugimura of Finney Architects for Lakeview Middle School building CND Re-Roofing Project the dollar amounts $40,000 this is also through ESSER funding the construction estimate is $700,000 and I recommend that we approve this section any public speakers to the second? no any discussion from the board? just a question is this a repair to the roof and it's only 700,000? CND Wings are not that big one section of it's already been re-roofed I see okay so it's not the full school I don't know exactly how many more sections will be done but just CND buildings okay great thank you I'll make a motion to approve I've got a first oh sure go ahead are these replacing the gravel on those units? correct most of the failures have been around the scupper areas leaking into the walls alright care to second I'll give you that second I have a first and a second and one aye all those in favor? aye any opposed? okay motion carries 601 thank you very much President Hull alright item 10.8 our paper education what? sorry MOU between Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health and Parroa Valley SELPA the report will be presented by Heather Gorman our SELPA Director of Special Services good evening President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez Board of Trustees so this is an ongoing MOU that the districts has had in place to support some of our most vulnerable students in the highest tier of need under the California Assembly Bill 114 the districts are responsible for providing mental health services to students with disabilities this legislation also provides funds to our SELPA and other SELPAs throughout the state to be used for educationally related mental health services the MOU is funded from grant money that is specifically designated to support students with IEPs that have mental health needs we partner with the county behavioral health department we work with the county behavioral health department to support because they have community resources that benefit our students including access to a psychiatrist that can work with students and their families this current MOU is for two school years the services provided by county behavioral health may include a full range of therapeutic treatment and collateral services in addition they work directly with our RISE program and support our tier 3 referral process I hope you choose to approve this MOU thank you do we have any public speakers for this item we do not any discussion from the board I do just a quick question so how are families going to know of the services how do they so or I guess can you elaborate on the tier 3 so basically these services are provided through the IEP process so we do look at a referral process for students that may be in need of this type of mental health services and when they do receive it it could be individual services they could do group counseling or they can do family services but it's part of the IEP process thank you can I get a motion move to approve second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 502 I think Oscar is away from this right 10.8 paper education academic tutoring contract a report will be presented by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez yeah thanks so much so one thing when we went out for both of our surveys and also our town halls and our thought exchange the top ranking response from parents and students was access to additional tutoring supports so part of that was the development of these learning hubs and so we are reorganizing facilities at all of our high schools including our alternative ed high schools including new school and renaissance in January when we come back they will begin starting to use that resource we currently will have two other type of tutors within that setting so we are going to have some UCSC tutors and also some pupils tutors which are migrant education tutors apart from that we want to make sure that we are able to provide 24-7 tutoring support so paper education is currently in thousands of school districts and they are able to provide multilingual tutors so they are able to provide in four languages English, Spanish, Mandarin and French for us of course English and Spanish is the most important so within 15 seconds they can they can connect with the live tutors so we met with them they had a model that was not going to fit us so I was able to speak with the CEO and come up with a new model for PVUSD because we believe that vendors should do what we need them to do and not what they want us to do so what will happen is each middle school and high school will receive a set of these licenses so that when students are whether it's student study teams or it is the site or district wellness team or they come to these learning hubs they will be offered this license which will allow them to do it we decided that we wanted to pilot with them and so that again was something different but they have not done in the past and so we're doing a thousand licenses they did come down in the price so that it is reasonable and what we'll do is we will for this next year we will watch our students and how much they access it and if they do then we will come back and bring the board back another plan but at this moment we're just talking about 8,000 licenses this was included in already in the expanded learning opportunities community's plan and so this is just one of the vehicles in order to be able to provide that extra tutoring support that has already been approved in the general plan but this is a specific contract so we're really excited to start it and see how this helps our students all the people who they receive support from are licensed and credentialed I think what I appreciate about this which is different is the students will choose the content area so if they are wanting to do support in math they will specifically be sourced to a math teacher or if they're needing support in science they will be specifically sourced to science and that is unique and different from other tutoring supports out there and this company has found that the biggest time where they receive the support is about 10pm and so we're excited that our students will have this opportunity when they need the support they'll be able to log in independently on the Chromebook that they have from the district and still utilizing the 4,500 hotspots that we have out there from our district and so I request the approval of this support Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We don't. Any discussion from the board? I do. I have a couple questions Michelle. So you mentioned it is only a pilot program so how many schools or at what schools would it be at or are all? It's at every middle and high school. Okay great and that includes our dependent charger schools? For their middle school students yes for their elementary students so it would be available for their sixth to eighth grade students. Got it. How about our Miss Deckel students? Is there anything that we're doing to address that need? So I mean probably what I would recommend them especially at the high school is to use the pupils tutors and so to use our in-person tutors the company doesn't provide supports in Miss Deckelbackel I mean really our Miss Deckelbackel students are really brilliant because they are usually trilingual they usually are learning English as well and then because of the environment that they're in they know Spanish as well and then Miss Deckelbackel but what I would say is I would really encourage them to access the learning hubs and go and get the support from the UCSC tutors and the pupils tutors. So they do have someone we do have something in place in case they need access to someone who speaks Miss Deckelbackel. The unfortunate pieces the learning hubs will only be open most likely until about 5.30 versus this is 24.7 so they still would be able to do it but they would have to receive that support in English or Spanish. Thank you. Trustee Disciple did you have a comment or question? No I don't think so. Okay. Did she have a question? Can I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve and I'll second which I do have one question. Okay. How will we know if this program is working like the efficacy so we'll be able to track the students and according to the various assessments that we have so we'll be looking at specifically DNF rates so grades and we'll also be looking at their map scores to see how they're doing and how they're progressing and whether or not they're accessing it and how well they're accessing it there's a data dashboard that will make sure and track so that we can see the number of hours and we'll definitely be providing an update for you especially if we come back and decide to expand the program we will provide that update for you. Okay. I think our students are just kind of burned out of online learning kind of platforms and I'll be interested to see how well this works. I'm just speaking about my own daughter who's a junior in college she's just done with online. Yeah I would say they definitely are done with classes being online we are still seeing students that are accessing these type of supports but we're doing a pilot so it's really when you think about it it's 16 over 16 schools there's only a thousand licenses so it's really not a large amount for each school. Yeah I saw that it's like 45,000 dollars total or something yeah. Okay so you have first and second. Hi. Hi. We'll move on to our consent agenda which is our routine items do we have any public speakers to the consent agenda? None. Are there any items that are I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda with deferring item 11.13 and 11.14. I'll second again with gratitude to the donations that have come in that we've received for the LaGasi kitchen thank you to the donors. I think that my questions really with regards to both of these and looking at the backup on it I believe if I recall correctly these are both just going through until December correct? 2021 and I know we've been doing this I mean pretty much this whole year calendar year meaning not academic year right? I just had to say I find it really interesting that as a public K-12 institution that we're promoting spending money on promoting ourselves it's a very unique sort of circumstance I mean we you know there's a public educational system in every community within the state of California and the country right it's required to provide a free public K-12 education regardless of immigration status right so I mean I also have the sometimes fortune of you know traveling a lot throughout the state with the nature of my work and I have to say I don't see other school districts I mean out of you know over a thousand school districts in the state public school districts that really do this so I'm just really wanting to see what I mean are we really seeing a benefit from doing this and what is that yeah so I don't think that it's just about publicizing that we're a school district and publicizing about our programs although we do that as well we actually talk about many things on there so it can be everything from kinder enrollment which is related to enrollment to vaccines that we're promoting we're promoting enrollment to vaccines that we're providing we do a whole gamut it really is dependent on what we're doing so we did something on graduations prior so when we were going to have graduations the requirements of graduations is something that we put out there I actually would beg to differ that other school districts are not doing this some school districts I mean they are larger than us even have their own TV channel and so they have people in house that are doing this but for example and it's just an adorable but it's kind of funny so we have one of through some of these 32nd things that are done for us we have placed it like at the Green Valley Cinemas and I have students when I'm in the schools that will say to me I saw you I saw you at the cinema and when they first started telling me that I thought they were talking about me personally and I was like oh I didn't I wasn't at the movies they're like no I saw you on the screen so we got such a great response from the English version that's why we did the Spanish version which is this one but it also is it's not just for promotion it is for displaying of information just like D-lac just this last Tuesday they asked for us to continue to do more education and information about the vaccines that we did one on cares and what does cares mean right connect accelerate recover and rich succeed and so I do think that it's important I've had parents that have said that like at the trunk or treat people are like you're Dr. Rodriguez I've seen you on the video so people are learning about what we're doing in the system and I think that that's a good thing for it especially since it's a pretty nominal amount I mean it's $3,780 and that's just to continue until the end of December from now through June through June this goes from December through the end of June and it is actually wonderful if I may add Dr. Rodriguez it is important because there is a lot of competition we are we are right now also promoting the hiring hiring for PVUSD we need there's shortage everywhere and that is one way of getting the word out there this is with Univision we have had a a contract with Telemundo and we know that Univision is a second TV channel that is watched by our families the most in this area so they gave us a very good rate to start advertising with them and we are doing the same the same ad right now the one that is running is about hiring for various employment including substitute teachers and classified staff it is the one you may have seen where I was at a bus yard with staff around and then we were in the classroom as well so I be fine with supporting I just wanted some clarification also maybe if it is brought back again for renewal and not just whether it is in the Spanish version or the English version and or it is not a differentiation between that because yes I absolutely believe whatever we are doing in English we should be doing in Spanish and what we are doing in Spanish we should be doing in English but what are we seeing of the benefits what are the results that is just a common wanting to know that there is a result and a benefit coming from it not that we are just spending it even though it is a pretty nominal amount but thank you I just want to add that this is also KSW we also run that in English so with that I will make a motion to approve item 11.13 second first second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 601 and item 11.14 I will make a motion to approve can I get a second second all those in favor aye motion carries 601 and we will have our item 14.1 action report on closed session are there any items to report from closed session there is multiple so so under item closed session item 2.1 I move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by the district administration on November 17, 2021 with 13 for additional action items I've got a first can I get a second a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 601 under item closed session item one abstention 501 under closed session item 2.2 I move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by the district administration on November 17, 2021 with 13 and 10 additional action items can I get a second a second all those in favor aye any opposed trustee so 501 all right under item we do have one announcement district is pleased to announce the selection of Stephanie as a new coordinator of English language services Stephanie has been serving students since 2002 as a teacher administrator and bilingual coordinator she has also been a bilingual instructor working with English learners in a priority of capacities she obtained her bachelor's of science degree in education from the University of Wisconsin she has a master's in education from the same institution she obtained a second master's degree in educational leadership from Marianne University she holds a Wisconsin and Illinois administrative credential a Wisconsin and Illinois teaching credential and a California teaching credential with a B-clad she has started in California, Wisconsin, Illinois, and the Galapagos and Ecuador Ms. Bumplin brings her 19-plus years in the role of coordinator we are proud to welcome this highly accomplished educator to her new administrative role now under item 2.2 the board voted with a 403 vote to approve the settlement agreement with CSEA chapter 132 for case number as FCE 3433e and under item 2.6 special education settlement for a student the board voted with a final compromise and release agreement for a special services student thank you our next meeting will be on December 8th, 2021 and with that the meeting is adjourned at 10.13