 to the April 25th PVSD school board meeting I am opening this meeting at approximately 6.05 and do we have any speakers to close session okay so no speakers so we will be moving into closed session and I'm not logged in thank you okay so we will be in closed session from 6.05 until 7 p.m. at that time we will return and hold our open session thank you hi everybody and welcome to the Parra Valley Unified School District April 25th board meeting thank you all for joining us this evening we're gonna go ahead and start our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and I will ask trustee hero if he would lead us in that thank you please rise ready salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you trustee hero hey again I'd like to welcome everybody it's nice to see so many faces here from our community there were a couple of things that I just wanted to share with you and my welcome and number one item is something very exciting that happened last night here in this room several of us that are sitting here we're down there last night and our mayor Lowell Hurst was here in his seat thank you for lending it again and I don't know if many of you had seen the newspapers today but it was a historical evening the city of Watsonville and the school district worked really hard together over the last several years and the city council unanimously approved our permit for the PV high fields so I'm sure the community knows that it's been something that that school in our community has needed and deserved for a really long time so we're looking forward to moving forward with that project hopefully starting in the summer we have one more hurdle to get over and we're we're feeling very positive about that and that's the coastal commission so with the recommendation from the city and support from the community we feel like that's gonna go very smoothly so and we're really looking forward to getting that started and having an equitable equitable situation for all of our high schools so thank you again so one of the highlights over the lot actually a couple of highlights over the last couple weeks I attended at the mellow center the Diamond Technology Institute capstone event where they had like a mini shark tank presentation and that was wonderful speaking of Diamond Technology Institute this Friday I'll be attending an AXA dinner and that's helped me out the association for California academic administrators Marcy Keller who is the principal of Diamond Diamond Technology Institute is receiving an award that night so we're really excited about that oh there she is congratulations Marcy I can't wait to be there and then we as a board were invited to the County Office of Education school boards meeting and dinner that was held last month and Marshall Tech who is a candidate candidate for the California State Superintendent of Schools was there so it's nice to hear opinions from our different candidates and we were thankful for the opportunity to do that locally so anyway with that I will move on to our Superintendent's comments item 3.3 thank you so as President DeRose said last night was a great night for PVHS through our collaboration with the Watsonville Pilots Association the city of Watsonville we were finally able to get the permit to build those athletic fields for PVHS so I did want to publicly thank the Board of Trustees for their support of me as we move through the settlement process and then also for their commitment for funding the additional cost of the facilities through general funding and so a no check as President DeRose said last night was a great night for PVHS through our collaboration with the Watsonville Pilots Association and the city of Watsonville we were finally able to get the permit to build the field for PVHS I would like to thank the Board of Trustees for their support while advancing through the process with the Pilots Association and for their commitment to cover the necessary costs to have the general funds for the field and students from throughout the state of California came to this year's Invention Convention there were 130 students competing in the finals throughout the state and we this year we had three schools represented so we had Watsonville Char School of the Arts Starlight Elementary and Hall District and there were 45 students from those schools that were part of it so the students of the entire state of California attended the Invention Convention this year there were 130 students in the finals throughout the state and we had three different schools that were represented so we had Watsonville Char School of the Arts Starlight and Hall District and we had 45 students in total de estos tres escuelas and of the 25 students that received the merit awards we had we had four of them that came from our schools so only 25 out of the whole state and four of them came from our schools de los 25 estudiantes que recibieron conocimientos de los premios de mérito de excelencia en el nivel de grado cuatro de ellos fueron de nuestras escuelas and they were Miriam Aponse Pedro Valesquez Mateo Torres and Mateo Aldolfo and then of the 13 finalist three of them were from our school district so only 13 out of the whole state got to the finals and three of those 13 came from us one student received the most marketable award and a patent for their for what they did and that student was our student so el único estudiante para recibir el premio de más comercial y recibir un patente de era fueron de nuestras escuelas y fueron Nathan Flores and Nathan Flores is from Watsonville Charter School of the Arts so as you can see we do incredible things here so como pueden ver hacemos cosas increíbles en nuestras escuelas gracias thank you very exciting news one thing I did forget to mention and it is important if anybody needs translation services we do have an interpreter here if you would like to go see her she can fit you with the apparatus so you can have translation would you go ahead and translate that the alguien ocupa servicio de traducción la señora virgina le puede ayudar con eso le puede brindar un aparato para eso thank you Eva okay so now we're at item 3.4 which is one of our favorites and this is student recognition so when I call the name of the student and the school everybody who's here to support that person please feel free to come up to the podium with them and then following the presentation we'll move to the side of the room and get a group photo okay so we're gonna start with Watsonville High School Carlos Vasquez the principal of Watsonville High School I'd also like to introduce Michael Mansfield our assistant principal and two three of Carlos's teachers Victor Nolasco Don Kranz and Chris Kopecky before they speak I would just like to say that I remember the first day that I met Carlos he made a huge impression on me and I had no idea how that impression was gonna go let's go Pecky please speak it is my supreme honor to speak about Carlos on behalf of all his teachers anyone who's met Carlos or knows Carlos is forever changed Carlos has an innate intelligence and an intellectual curiosity but his most invaluable trait is not his natural ability to learn but rather his incredible work ethic there has never been a student at Watsonville High that has put more time and effort into his work or seemed more genuinely interested in the content than Carlos he is thoughtful articulate passionate and driven to achieve his goals despite his physical limitations he takes advantage of every educational opportunity that comes his way he makes no excuses does nothing but exceptional work and challenges us to be better teachers and human beings every day he has taken nearly every AP course that we offer at our school and loves to be challenged as a junior he was a finalist in the poetry out loud competition and went on to compete at the county level ranked eighth in the senior class with a 4.07 GPA he also received a four on the AP US history exam Carlos has made some powerful films in his video production class he's particularly passionate about English literature and politics and we have no doubt he has the determination to pursue a higher education either field he also has a genuine interest for world language he can read write and speak in English Spanish and French so he's truly becoming trilingual we are confident that he will take UC Berkeley by storm will he where he will be attending next year his enthusiasm is infectious his sense of humor a delight and his drive is unmatched Carlos Vasquez is a truly exceptional student and human being he has driven to experience the world and to leave a positive impact on all that are lucky enough to encounter him and now and Carlos would like to speak himself so I had Carlos in my AP US history class he showed up to more tutorials more often than anybody else completing was it three essays 55 multiple choice scoring in the top of the national averages and over global averages and he's just one of the most impressive students I've ever had the joy to teach and he is more inspiring for the teacher than probably the teacher could be for him and thank you Carlos careful with your toes try as best as you can okay okay they have it they're bringing a hand as an a very good great honor to be recognized as was in the high school student of the year it just proves that the universe one and me to have a disability for a purpose I'll explain like and um and early on in my education or career I was treated like a special kid like for example in kinder the teacher would give up on me isolating me from the other students um he wouldn't even have contact with me or my mom and he told my mom your son is not going to make it then my mom decided to move me to pvusd um where I send my first grade year I've been treated with reserve bags they never give up on me they like stuck through it and like gave me a sense of hope and that's why I work hard because this district is amazing like I wouldn't have to go to another district I would like to thank Ms. Ligurita first off because she has like allowed me to to be part of their success that was in the high school success I would like to thank all my Alianza and was in the high school teacher for um taking me valuable life lessons I would like that most importantly I would like to thank my family for always suffering through the toughest times to like provide me with the best life I could ask for and thank you you guys we don't mean to make this a long Carlos thing but as a family I want to take the time to thank this district I would like to take this opportunity to thank a lot of people who believed in my son's ability and looked beyond his cerebral palsy and his wheelchair as he stated he came from a different district and this district opened up his doors and made this possible to all the staff and teachers at Alianza Charter School in Watsonville High School and especially his RSP teachers Kuka Hepburn, Leah Sugarman, Mr. Victor Nolasco and Mr. Wilson to the incredible team of one-on-one aides that have given endless hours to work with my son Ceci, Carmen, Andy, Richie, Vicky, the Wendy's I like to call Kelly and Sharon and all other SELPA staff who with their skills made this possible as he begins his journey in Cal Berkeley yes I've said it Cal Berkeley the top public school in this country please know we are forever grateful and he will not have done this without such an extraordinary group of public school educators who have supported him and like my old principal Michael Jones who believed in my son always said once an armadillo always an armadillo and I'd like to tell this district once a PVUSD student he will always be a PVUSD student and he will stand this district high and he will prove that this district provides for all students with ability with disability with challenges you are what we dream of and for our family you've been our dream thank you and we appreciate it thank you Carlos yes I'd like to ask you to accept this very very small award for a huge person and way to go good luck up there and we will see you soon back in Watsonville yeah of course I will come back to do bigger and better things here like I want to so don't worry I will stick around thank you you bet you will thank you very much so maybe if everyone would like to gather around behind I think that that's a great shot and I have the best view so congratulations Carlos hold it high and point down so you don't get the podium congratulations again what a great story of success yes I hope so thank you nice to see you again okay so our next student from Paro Valley High School Evelyn Torres Tepedi I hope I said that right is Evelyn here was Evelyn unable to make it okay um Demaris Vera Montes from Diamond Tech so oh there we are okay you might need it I might need it up a little bit I'm kind of fantastic so good evening President DeRose Board of Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez I am proud to present Demaris Guzman as the Diamond Technology Institute student of the year and with me this evening are her teachers Ian Lakata Susan Manabe her mother Norma and Demaris came to us when she was a sophomore and she's proven to be a dedicated and influential force for Diamond Tech and she is this year's valedictorian she loves a challenge and is always ready to help her school and community especially if it involves showcasing her digital media skills she has mastered both photography and videography and recently accepted an internship with Project Pollinate in Santa Cruz where she assists with promotional materials for habitat protection education and pesticide reform she has also created videos for district projects as well Demaris is consistently dedicated to educational improvement and has already completed 12 units at Cabrillo College congratulations from all of us at Diamond Tech it's great to be here thanks so next up we have our conflict managers from Rio del Mar if all of you can come up along with everyone who is here to support you tonight while they're congregating I'll get started Good evening President DeRose Dr. Rodriguez and esteemed board members thank you for having us here tonight I am delighted and privileged and honored to introduce to you the Rio del Mar conflict managers and I'll tell you their names in a minute but I want to tell you a little bit about them first these students at our school we have developed a system of students supporting students they these kids have been conflict managers since fourth grade for three years and during that time they've been trained on how to resolve conflicts peacefully something we can all learn from I think and they have been great because they're all here together we wanted to acknowledge them they make such a difference for our school they really do embody our our school motto which is kind hearts and open minds rule where they help children walk through the process of conflict resolution so I'd like to introduce them to you I'll start over here we have Julia Nemek and this is Ethan Schellenberg and this is Julia's mom behind her um Chase Welley Adnan Mr. Hambright Nick Hambright Sean Spencer this is Malia right here and this is Ryan and Ryan's parents behind him and Laurie and the parents of these kids are amazing wonderful contra contributions to their children they don't just show up this way they come from great supportive families who are here with them and we want just to acknowledge them while they're here we so appreciate all that you do because your children are amazing and contribute to the success of our school and we so appreciate all of you and you guys so without any further ado let me present to you the 2018-19 conflict managers for the last three years I never know how to turn this thing on so as you all know Real Del Mar has a special place in my heart all three of my sons have attended Real Del Mar and so I know we do great things throughout the district but I'm a little bit biased I have to be honest and we do some really tremendous things at Real Del Mar School so gentlemen ladies congratulations I've seen a lot of great things come out of Real Del Mar School and I'm looking forward to the great things continue continue with you so Ms. Dornie I'm going to give this to you and then you can give it to your team congratulations congratulations there's more coming congratulations again thanks for coming out and those who are here to celebrate their student awards if you have to leave after this part of the agenda we understand but it is nice to have you here so next from Watsonville Aptos Santa Cruz adult education Debbie pro please come forward with your support group and adult ed administration Nancy Billisich so which one is Debbie oh yeah you are Debbie oh good okay welcome and congratulations thank you this is kind of a special night for us and uh hi there how are you okay you're gonna be here to support adult ed I am all right well um we have um adult education week as you know and the McDonald's put a full page ad in the newspaper we had five people from different areas represented and then we had staff select who was going to be our one student and Debbie pro was selected and this is Debbie and her husband Richard now Richard kind of an interesting thing because Willie you would remember this Callaghan Park Richard went to Callaghan Park and I was working the parks when I was a youngster too like you and now here's Richard all grown up and he um well he's working for the post office now right but he also had a local towing company so Richard and I go way back and he married Debbie and she um they've been married for 21 years they have four children all here to support mom and she came to adult education and decided to take Microsoft office classes to help her home business and she looked all around to find out where was the best place that she could take classes and she came here found that they were the most affordable convenient and her teachers Jack Carroll and and Annette Nartotis they were helpful helpful so helpful and inspiring her to take quick books classes as well so this helped her with her home business and she learned how to develop spreadsheets and all kinds of things and then in October she applied for a job for with Watsonville Aptos Santa Cruz adult education she was hired and currently works in our Santa Cruz office so I present to you uh Debbie Debbie pro with her cheerful disposition and her excellent work ethic Debbie thank you I'm honored and grateful to receive this award I would like to thank the staff at Watsonville Aptos Santa Cruz adult education the director dr b assistant director Todd my teacher Annette and my family and everyone that voted for me this has been great it's great experience and has brought a lot of things in my life such as my current employment and I'm proud to receive this and to be working with great people who care a lot about their community and a great thank you to all the board members to I appreciate all you do hi this is for you and for all of that you've done and I'm so impressed with all the things that you're doing at your and I'm so glad you're still with us and I love adult education that means I love all of you I love adult education and I'm proud to give you this from us thank you so much thank you thank you for your patience it's 16.1 okay sorry my agenda for some reason doesn't want to scroll yeah I know I'm just trying to get there thank you okay so again congratulations to all the students and thank you to everybody who came out to support them we're proud of each and every one of you item 3.5 as governing board comments and reports on standing committees I will go ahead and start with trustee ursino if you would like to make comments I have to be honest with you after seeing those children win the award tonight anything I did seems quite not unsubstantial for lack of a better word I had some things ready I'm I'm gonna pass I'm gonna pass I'm gonna have to chime with my colleague ursino while most publicly elected officials don't waive an opportunity to publicly speak I'm gonna waive this opportunity thank you so I was at my committee meetings which are D-lack and they did um I can't remember all the great things we did D-lack um and um I also went to my committee which is migrant head start policy committee um and um yeah we talk about all the stuff that's going on at migrant head start thanks and you can tell them what we did at D-lack if you want to I will briefly so we have had a couple of busy weeks I do get the opportunity to attend a D-lack meeting uh two very important topics were covered including cyberbullying and digital citizenship we had a great discussion on how we can further strengthen our current policies to better monitor our filter with students access on the web in addition to increasing awareness um on cyberbullying on our school sites I'm also part of the PVUSB blueprint steering committee and at our last session PVUSB focused on professional development for staff across the district and college bound systems I do want to thank our district partners PVPSA, CASA, Cabrillo College, UCSC, APC, Maya Foundation and all district staff for their collaboration and development as a blueprint to ensure that all PVUS students are career and college ready upon graduation and last night as my fellow board trustee mentioned we were at the city council meeting and we want to thank the city and our district staff for the amazing work they've done but I also want to highlight the partnerships that were developed along the way with the pilot association and I want to thank Michelle we're superintendent for that thank you thank you trustee hero yes thank you um you know that it all that it only took 20 years for us to finish Aptos High School and um PV High is going to get finished a lot sooner maybe 16 years or something I don't in in uh 2000 2001 when we were working on PV High School we we knew that there was there were certain uh things that we could not do and uh and one of the things that we had to do was wanted to do was to put in the athletic fields and and we waited and waited and tried to work a possible solution with the Watsonville Pilots Association uh with superintendent Rodriguez here she was able to meet and and work out a uh and agreement with them and she and Mrs. Cheve just really worked so wonderful and worked out a win-win situation for everyone and and I and I think that we all should now salute her before her outstanding work so so I'm going to ask you now to applaud for her because she did a great job bringing this whole thing together all right thank you thank you so uh so so I'm going to finish with that it'll be fun when we get that uh football feel out there and uh we will be the first ones running running on the grass grass I will assure you thank you we'll have a board member track me is that what you're trying to say yes I couldn't agree more trustee hero thank you and I made my comments at um in my welcome statement so um we're going to move to item 4.1 which is approval of the agenda so I would like to make a motion to approve the agenda but I would like to request um item 16.1 to be moved after item 3.5 I'm sorry 4.0 I will second 12.3 I will second okay so that motion to approve with 16.1 moved to after 12.3 all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes 601 with trustee diserpa absent okay item 5.1 are as the approval of minutes for our march 28th regular board meeting what about approval is there a second second and all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes 601 and then April on April 11th we held our special board study session on student data and those minutes are um up for approval as well move approval second who seconded okay and all those in favor aye aye any opposed and are you abstaining georgia okay um so 6011 with one abstention one absence thank you and now on to another one of our favorites item 6.1 this is a student musical presentation by el systema so please come on up is there anybody who's going to speak so if the board members um would like to um I'm going to go down there so I can actually see these kids play I'm Isabel Tancer as the director of el system I wanted to thank you for giving us an opportunity to play again it's el systema trackleaf elementary school we came in December and we thank you for having us again now thank you we will perform four short pieces they're very contrasting the first one is called el beso del mar and is from a colombian composer amalia carrera and I will talk more about the pieces as we go our second piece is a piece from eslovenia is called marcus case and at the end of this piece we have a special soloist dulce playing a little um ending which is very nice for this way I like to mention that these are students from rudley elementary there are third four and fifth graders combined our next piece is from a folk tune a simple gifts give it to be simple and used by ara coplan in his appellation spring they will be playing the melody our last piece is from the sound of music doha dear thank you so much so we'll just take a break for a moment while they they break down their equipment but I just have to say how thrilled I am that we have got music back in pvo sd that's something that we've been working so hard for for so many years and I have to say your students are so confident and excited when they're up there I there's just something about them um a lot of times you see students they're very shy in front of a big crowd um but just the excitement and the confidence in them was really great to see they have a microphone okay so I'll announce it and if you want to walk down okay thanks again so we're going to move now to um some uh very special action items and um our first one is a proclamation from pvo sd in honor of the city of Watsonville's 150th anniversary um so trustee Maria Arrozco is going to present that to mayor Lowell Hearst thank you so pvo sd's please two percent of following proclamation in celebration of the city of Watsonville's 150th year anniversary so I'm going to read it whereas historically the city and the district have and continue to work together to improve the quality of life throughout the Paro Valley and whereas it is a matter of great practical importance of the city and the district recognize the extent of the power to influence student achievement and the city has taken on on this responsibility with Decorum and whereas it is critical to prepare each generation of youth to discharge the duties of citizenship and therefore the city and the district through the youth city council are preparing younger generations for civic duties and whereas the city of Watsonville's tireless work in providing safe caring and effective after school programs such as a tutoring and sports like opportunities supports our community's youth and whereas in 2017 pvo sd launched a community wide early early literacy initiative and the city's hosted events proved to be effective conduits for sharing that information with our most fragile population the city's inclusion of the initiatives and their newsletter distribution and their staff's participation in the district's early literacy collaborate supports the district's efforts in educating our entire community and whereas the value of the city and the district collaboration was highly evident with the recent project to bring free wi-fi to the city plaza thereby effectively supporting families who may otherwise not have access to internet and whereas the historical support of that collaborative intergovernmental committee between the city the county and the district offers an effective venue to address common issues and whereas that completion of the district's third comprehensive high school parol valley high will not be possible with all the continued support and diligence of city staff and council and whereas the city and district acknowledge that the contributions of our youth have helped include the city's vibrant engaged and supportive community and whereas the city each year hosts and organizes a multitude of events to build the capacity and character of community as one that values family education community and civic involvement now therefore be it resolved I mario roscoe vice president of the board of trustees of the parol valley unified school district in washington bill california do here do hereby recognize the value the city of washington will bring to our school district youth and community and gratefully acknowledge their historical contributions and collaboration thank you well thank you very much maria i'd like for dr billis that should come up if she could and help accept this award she's been on the former mayor and a council member for some time now two terms in fact and so i'd also like to have tomorrow vidas come up and accept this award because she's the one who's really done all the work when it comes to 150 even though i've been around a long time i can't take credit for the 150 award and so if you would hold that dr billis itch but you know i think that mark twain may have said it pretty well because he did say a lot of stuff let me let me see if i can go back and find it mark twain said mathuselah lived to be 969 years old now you boys and girls will see more in the next 50 years than mathuselah saw in his whole lifetime and the famous playwright and author george bernard shaw said it equally as well he said everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is enough time so i guess we've had enough time 150 years has passed quickly in some respects you know the city is much different now than it was 150 years ago but we still have good people and great opportunities in the community and i and let me just speak briefly about partnerships because we have demonstrated with a number of community groups that we want to be good partners we try hard partnership is not easy it's easy to talk about but we have to trust one another and you know even though my wife and i have been together 45 years we still have an argument once in a while and so it's expected that we'll have some differences but we need to communicate over our differences and then we can have true long-lasting partnerships and so i want to say thank you very much to the trustees we've had a long and productive relationship and we will continue to have a long and productive relationship and that goes with every other organization and individual in our community as well so i say thank you thank you would you like to say a few words thank you maria so i also just um wanted to mention a couple of weeks ago i noticed an um an article in the register pahronean and it was about the city is city's 150th anniversary and the artwork that was created in celebration of that of that celebration happens to be a former student of pvusd who finished school at pvusd and then went to cabrio and was promptly hired here at the city of watsonville and i am very embarrassed i forgot your name but you and i had a conversation the first meeting that we had here and i was interested in where you went to school because i thought this is really cool we have a young adult here uh working for the city of watsonville and when i saw what what is your name do you have a microphone okay wonderful so i i was so thrilled to read that article and um you deserve the recognition it's really beautiful work so congratulations speaking of the register pahronean uh the register pahronean is also celebrating their 150th anniversary and i too have a proclamation that i would like to present and and eric shelloub from the register pahronean is here if you'd like to meet me at the podium i'd be happy to do that okay all right this is a week of celebrations right um it's been a very good week and i'm hoping a very good 150 years for the pahronean not you because i know you're not there yet anyway it's my pleasure to um present this proclamation to the register pahronean says whereas communication has been and will continue to be a powerful driving force in our community and newspapers are a key medium that shapes public opinion and perception and whereas the register pahronean for the last 150 years has taken this responsibility to communicate responsibly and with great professionalism and whereas historically the positive relationship between pahrone valley unified school district and the register pahronean have been critical in highlighting the great news and informing on the challenges education faces and whereas since the introduction of digital news the register pahronean has evolved to be an active participant informing our community by creating a powerful and valuable digital version of the newspaper and whereas the effective investigative work of reporters has a significant impact on overall sense of safety in our community and whereas the register pahronean has had a consistent presence at the board of trustees meetings and report timely on matters of great importance to our community which we very much appreciate now therefore be it resolved i leslie derose president of the board of trustees of bahara valley unified school district in watsonville california do here by recognize and value the register pahronean value what the register pahronean brings to our school district and community and gratefully acknowledge acknowledge their historical contributions and collaboration through the powerful world of print congratulations well i can't compete with law when it comes to speeches but i just want to be half of the entire rp we'd like to thank the board and pvst for giving us this honor tonight um we are excited to be celebrating 150 and we look forward to the next 150 so thank you that was fun okay um we are moving on to um item number eight which is high school student board representatives report do we have students here from many of the high schools what high schools pacific coast charter okay let's start with pacific coast charter today and new school excellent welcome thanks for being here i'm not sure that's on my name is david gonzalez and i am here to represent pacific coast charter events coming up during this month in may um may 7th um grades kindergarten through eighth grade will be having a share fair on may 21st and 23rd there will be eighth graders will be having end of the year projects will be that will be presented on the board room last week um we had a field trip to san josez state university which i heard was very interesting and fun on may 10th we will be having our open house which would be from five to seven and the members of the board are invited next week we will also be having s-back testing um for sports uh soccer has started and uh it's been very fun and last week we have started playing we play every friday and last friday we played against cypress and we tied this this upcoming friday we will be playing against new school so i'm really looking forward to that and we play at the polo grounds our high school graduation will be at the mellow center on june 5th at 3 30 thank you for your time thank you thank you for the update and let's move to new school come on is renaissance here as well no i thought i heard someone say good evening i'm here today to represent new school my name is jocelyn taez i'm we're a three year new school student at community day i am going to share some of the things we have been doing at new school this spring we have been participating in the outdoor science and character development program we do many things such as clean the slew we just adopted and many other things new school also has a mindful mindfulness and yoga program taught by mishelving the program has grown and the students enjoy finding new ways to deal with their stress we are also very proud of our sports team this year the new school co-ed basketball team won the monoray bay alternative schools athletic league championship so far our so far our soccer team so far our soccer team is undefeated we have one more thing we would like to share my name is ivan chavez and i'm kevin garcia and we are seniors at new school we heard that our credits have been reduced and we were supposed to have a meeting today with mr bro but he didn't show up we're worried that we will we won't be able to graduate on time and if if we can't get enough credits this um so this afternoon our principal gave us an update that there won't be a limit on how many credits we can earn we just wanted to confirm if it was true pete the first part of what you said we couldn't hear maybe stand closer to the microphone and um we can get information back to you we heard that our credits have been reduced and we were supposed to have a meeting to deal with mr bro but he didn't show up we were also worried that we won't be able to graduate on time if we can't get enough credits and today this afternoon our principal gave us an update that there won't be a limit on how many credits we can earn we just wanted to confirm if it was true okay so um that superintendent will get some information out to you um through the school okay so she will follow up with you on that okay thank you for bringing that to our attention and being here tonight was there any other updates that was all thank you okay thanks for being here and pv hi so good evening my name is the second solace and i'm the asb president at pv and i'm maria milia cortez and i am the asb vice president of pv hi so so far the grizzies have been doing very good very well nicole morasca our scholarship person is helping everybody all the seniors apply to scholarships and not only seniors it's juniors as well and we do have a local scholarship fund that goes to a special pv high student and if you go on to the pv usd website the pvhs website it's there's a button that says donate now and anybody wants anybody can donate if you guys want to donate college is expensive just like you guys know you guys do know also students are sending their intent to enroll and are confirming their colleges me and emily have um committed to san jose so spartan up for us 88 percent of our seniors are going to a college uh are there going to be a a four-year at a community or they're going to transfer and then the juniors just took the aspect testing last week and then the seniors did the california science testing two weeks ago and just to add on to what the z had said about the um the scholarship is not just the local scholarship is not just for one student it's for various outstanding students that did so many out so much amazing things to this community and put in so much of their time their dedication their grades their minds their as their sleep most of all to our community but also um we like to share that today we had our class elections for our new class representatives today and they went pretty smoothly it was a huge success and also 16 and older um students uh we pre-registered them and 18 year olds got to register to vote and along with elections today we took on monary high's challenge for the 24 acts of kindness for 24 hours so if you go on to twitter and visit the hashtag pvhs kindness challenge you will see students staff members faculty challenging each other to be nice to somebody so we had someone open doors people tight shoes we even had a student that gave snacks to a person who was hungry and following with the kindness we have Luis Leonor Sanchez who recently broke the school record and the 11 foot pole vote and that has been a record since 2005 so 13 years later he comes and he breaks it and then we even though senior year is very stressful we do know how to party because we just had prom on the 21st of April and it was a success we had 203 tickets sold that were sold and it was really fun we had it at the embassy suites in San City and it went pretty smooth everybody looked very nice even the staff members that went out to go help yes and about I could say oh two weeks ago or a week ago we had both rimo and cultura and our purpose for that is to all those people participating doing their showing their talents and all and so on they got to perform and all the money that went into the tickets goes back to them as scholarships every event that we tend to have at pv high is not for profits for leadership leadership is always broke let's just be real but for every every event that we tend to have a pv high we give it back to our students because we know that we want to push everyone to go to college and so we give them the extra push and give them the financial need that many cannot give to them so we tend to give it back to our students and today was the senior night at track and field so congrats to all those track and field athletes and students and seniors they have been in track and field for most of their high school experience and they've never got a recognition up to this year we thought you know what they deserve to be recognized to put give their time effort and sacrifices into the sport so why not recognize them as well and thank you thank you thank you I am very happy with us yesterday getting our field approved in our auditorium you guys cannot believe how many students were like we're finally getting a field and I'm like yes be gracious be happy oh my god I'm sorry be happy we're finally getting our field it's been a lot of work and I know it's been so much work and dedication that you guys have put into it and we're extremely thankful and grateful for everything you guys have been doing and thank you thank you and then going back to college trips also we had gear up with EOP they took a group of seniors to over spring break to Long Beach UC San Diego UCLA San Diego State they are taking students to Cabrillo to MPC on a lot of college tours because they know that May 1st is around the corner and we just want to thank everybody for helping push us and don't forget to donate to that local scholarship thank you thank you thank you so much okay and again you know you're always welcome to stay but we understand if you have to leave before the end of the meeting okay so we're going to go to item nine and this is a public hearing so I'm going to close the regular meeting and open the public hearing of the PVUSD Sunshine Proposal to CSEA and this is a report by Chona Colleen thank you I don't know why I could never see that from here okay uh yes good evening President DeRose board trustees Dr. Rodriguez for public comment and your review is Pajaro Valley Unified School District Sunshine Proposal for a multi-year agreement to our California School Employees Association CSEA Chapter 132 the RADA Act requires initial bargaining proposals to be presented for public comment the public hearing provides the opportunity for public comment related to the initial bargaining proposal from PVUSD to CSEA PVUSD submits the following initial proposals article 8 hours and overtime the district is interested in clarifying language governing work hours and work years article 14 health and welfare benefits the district is interested in working closely with CSEA for cost savings options regarding health and welfare benefits and article 28 year round education the district is interested in removing outdated language that no longer applies the district reserve the right to add delete and modify these proposals as determined through the negotiations process thank you Dr. Colleen okay 9.2 is public comment do we have any speakers to this item we do not okay and 9.3 is board comment questions okay seeing none I'll close this public hearing and open a new one this is a public hearing for the CSEA Sunshine Proposal to PVUSD go ahead yes President DeRose board trustees and Dr. Rodriguez I would like to call on our CSEA leadership led by acting president Esther and CSEA representative Alejandro Marti thank you okay good evening members of the board and Dr. Rodriguez it's been a while since we've been here so glad to see all of you so tonight we're here to present our initial proposal but before we do that I just want to introduce to you three amazing leaders and members of our chapter we have oh we have Esther Morillo Diana Martinez and Daisy Brooks and they're here to present the proposal that we have for you but even before we go that I just want to say that since last year you know when we were here last year we we made a lot of comments to you about how the relationship between the district and the classified members was kind of broken but I have to say and all of us we can convey this message to you that over the last year we're very happy with the relationship that we've built specifically with our assistance up for human resources Chona who has been really an excellent leader in building that relationship between our members and the district so I just want to say thank you to Chona but also thank you to the board for hiring her all right so now back to business so here tonight we're presenting to you the initial proposal for school year 17 18 and we are for now sun shining eight different articles organizational rights leaves evaluations health and welfare paying allowances grievances the bilingual pay article and the term to update the term for the next three years there's more details in the in the proposal that we gave you and we hope that we can have a collaborative and excellent sessions as we start negotiations and that we can you know be successful in this year's negotiation so thank you and let's let's do it have a good night okay my name is Esther Morillo and I'm acting union president at this time I'd like to thank Dr. Rodriguez for resuming our communication with CSEA and Dr. Chona for supporting me to take on this role it's difficult for me at this time but I'm sure with their support and guidance they'll make sure that I make all the right decisions thank you thank you and thank you for stepping into that role thank you okay is there a public comment on this item none and board comment okay no okay so I will close this public hearing and open item 11 which is a public hearing PVSD sunshine proposal to CWA Dr. Lee yes president DeRose board trustees Dr. Rodriguez for public comment and your review is our sunshine proposal to the communication workers of America local 94 23 for the 2017 to 28 school year we are interested in looking at article 11 wages and article 12 which is concerted activities on the district reserves the right to add delete or modify these proposals as determined through the negotiations process okay thank you and are there any public speakers to this item we have none none and any board comment no okay so I'm hearing none I will close this public hearing and move to item 12 which is another public hearing which I'm opening and that is the Watsonville prep charter school petition and this is a report by Kevin Sved chief executive officer welcome thank you good evening president DeRose vice president Roscoe trustees superintendent Rodriguez my name is Kevin Sved I am the chief executive officer of navigate navigator schools and it's my honor to serve the mission of this organization it is a pleasure to meet you this evening for what we hope will be the start of a long and mutually beneficial relationship in serving the students and families of Watsonville and the surrounding communities with your support and approval of the charter petition to establish Watsonville prep school together we will be providing hundreds of families with a new public school option while there are many opinions about what's best for all students in a school district I hope you join me in respecting the commitment and courage of the Watsonville prep parent community to make a difference in the lives of their children's future if it were not for the WPS parents I would not be standing before you so how did we get to this point interestingly in many ways the story started right here in pvusd in the parking lots of and soldo elementary school where our co-founders Sharon waller and james dent worked after the regular work day they talked for hours about how to make things better for students james and sharon moved on to goa unified and found that the constraints of the traditional public school system limited the innovations needed to design a new model that ensures all students are ready for college and career success these constraints led to california's approving the charter school law to encourage innovation that can benefit all schools sharon and james decided to take action and submit a charter petition to open gilroy prep school gps opened in 2011 in 2013 the superintendent of holister learned about the innovative new school and was so impressed he invited gilroy prep to open a school in the holister school district navigator schools was born in march 2018 after five years of delivering exceptional student outcomes and sharing best practices with district schools holister school district board of trustees unanimously approved holister preps charter renewal petition five to zero the gilroy unified board of trustees also voted unanimously last month approving gilroy preps charter renewal petition six to zero inspired by our outstanding results and with the mission and passion to expand our impact the navigator schools board of trustees approved a five-year growth plan we were drawn to explore watsonville because of the high needs as evidenced by the levels of academic proficiency and our strong ties to this community our founder sharon waller is also a third generation graduate of watsonville high school most importantly we chose to come to watsonville because of the courageous committed watsonville parents parents who came to our navigator schools board meeting and convinced our board to submit the charter petition that's before you now we understand that the district's obligation to provide prop 39 facilities to charter schools can be a real challenge if you approve the petition for what for watsonville prep we guarantee that we will work with you in partnership to find a facilities solution that is acceptable to all parties we are here because we are mission driven we are here to deliver phenomenal outcomes for all students regardless of their circumstances we are here to equip students to be leaders and learners we are here to create top tier teams of educators in my 30 years serving public school students i have never been part of a team so dedicated and talented and talented from our board to our teachers to our support staff we have strong fiscal practices we operate effectively and we have a replicable model we have a strong team to support our watsonville prep leaders allow me to introduce watsonville prep founding principal andrea hernandez good evening and thank you for having us here tonight i'm a founding teacher and the current academic dean at hollister prep school i have seen firsthand the impact that we have had on our students families authorizing districts and our community i have had the opportunity to watch our first kindergarten class grow over the past five years into confident fourth graders who were able to score a 93 per cent proficient or advanced on the s back last year the demographic makeup of this group of students is very similar to the students of watsonville and i feel this experience uniquely prepares me to serve wps to say that i'm honored to be a part of this dedicated parent-led effort is an understatement and now it's our responsibility to give the watsonville community the school they are requesting i look forward to working with the students staff and families why i would love for each of you to visit a navigator school i understand the time constraints so i'm going to tell you what you would see you will see our commitment to our positive staff and student culture you will see our daily morning message as a school you will see our consistency in routine and structure you will see high student engagement you will see deliberate small group instruction you will see celebrations of academic achievement both in growth and outcome you will see joyful students and you will see this in every classroom every day we truly believe that learning best occurs when a school has a strong culture of excellence and again i look forward to being a part of that success at wps next up i would like to introduce a co-founder and our chief academic officer james dent good evening board of trustees dr rodriguez i am james dent the chief academic officer of navigator schools and completing my 22nd year of california public school service i started as a teacher just down the road at aromas san juan for eight years i was the assistant principal and at ansoldo for three years beginning in 2004 where the origins of navigator schools model actually began we had a 161 point api gain in those three years and then moved on to print principal ship in gilroy the next step was founding navigator and the reason we founded navigator was because sharon and i and a group of special education teachers believed all students can succeed in schools and we could also truly close the achievement gap and speaking of that achievement gap we have not only closed the achievement gap in our current schools we've actually reversed it our students that are hispanic and latino at both schools in el a and mathematics are outperforming white students across the state at the state as far as the state averages go we've also closed the gap for english language learners compared to english only students are free and reduced lunch students outperform students that are not in free and reduced lunch and our special ed students double the state averages of proficiency so each year innovate public schools out of san jose ranks schools around the bay area that have over 43% of their student body being free and reduced lunch and hispanic combined and gilroy pep school was number one out of 1210 schools in five counties in el a and they were number three in mathematics for those 1210 schools unfortunately hps is not in is not touching the san francisco bay but in san bonito county if they had been they would have actually beat gps so the model is replicable and both schools are performing extra extraordinarily well so what is it that's different about our schooling system um andy talked a little bit about the culture we're also very data driven in this picture you can see teachers meeting every wednesday for about two hours to pour over student achievement data from that week and the picture above is the intervention that then happens because of that data driven model we also observe every instructional staff member weekly and meet with them for about 30 minutes to coach them on a continuous development cycle that helps develop our instructors extraordinarily quickly in this next couple of slides you'll see student ratios is also really important in our model we have students in 10 student to one instructor for half the day and that has really made a difference in this common core era when we need to be able to see students writing daily we need to be able to see the misconceptions and mathematics and we need to hear the discussions and the small ratio really makes a difference you can also see in the background there the use of technology our students are using the best software for about 20 minute rotations each day as well in both la and mathematics so we also have a strong commitment to full inclusion our special education model in the picture on the left there are three adults in that classroom you have the teacher on the far left you have in the right side a small group instructor and you have a special education paraprofessional as well who's actually leaning in in this picture and working with a special education students so there is a tremendous amount of coordination between those three adults in the classroom we also have a really strong robust ELD program for both designated and integrated ELD with very strong results of the students that started with us in kinder first or second that are now in middle school 96 of them have been reclassified and we do have very rigorous standards for reclassification in which students must be proficient on the la s-back test as one of the criteria and then what does that produce our our wps students in the future will look much like the models that we have currently happening where our students in middle school are actually the leaders of the let's see during the mathematics and the language arts they're actually leading the discussion versus in the k-5 model the teachers are leading it so there's a lot of engagement in the middle school students are very self-directed and very little remediation is needed at that point lastly students exiting wps will be ready to enter high school in the local areas and be ready to lead in the future so that is the briefest overview of our model i've ever given and that also concludes our presentation so thank you thank you um so we will move to 12.2 uh public comment and um it looks like we have over 20 so um normally we do three minutes we'll do two um for this group um please try to stay within the time period you'll hear a beep um and because i want to get everybody through and hear everybody's um uh thoughts on this public hearing so trustee arosco will i will call three at a time so if you can line up behind the podium and be ready that would be wonderful so i um and we're no longer taking speaker cards to this item they have to be turned in before the item is called um so go ahead trustee arosco and we look forward to hearing from you yeah so first uh we have gemma evils followed by kaylin johnson followed by marcella salas ibarra good evening my name is gemma evils i'm the president of the morgan hill federation of teachers um navigator school first brought a petition to morgan hill in the fall of 2013 they were denied by my like local board and denied by a santa claire county board that was so pro charter that they have approved 20 rocket ship schools at one time the county board actually asked navigator to come back with a better petition mr denton spent some time with innovate public schools at the startup fellowship in 2014 even after this program the new improved petition was also denied both by morgan hill and stan and the santa claire county boards i was a little surprised that parents from go where propped asked to meet with me about their school in 2015 i encourage them to go to the go where unified school district with their um with their concerns and emails to the board and the go where superintendent a group of parents wrote we believe that the challenges now facing gps are the direct result of the mismanagement and questionable practices of the navigator cmo and specifically its executive director now chief academic officer james dent part of this mismanagement stemmed from the 20 percent fee now navigator took from gilmore and hollister um for what they seem what they assumed was the growing support office that this petition now shows has 12 employees most of whom they believed concentrate on expansion of schools and not the betterment of present programs i am almost certain that my brothers and sisters and pvp vft would have something to say if this district office was spending 20 percent of their revenue on them so on on the district office the parents from gilroy prep who came to me believed in parent choice they thought parent choice meant that they would have a say in what happened at their school when a navigator survey said that 50 percent of staff and 60 percent 8 percent of parents did not favor expansion they thought they would be heard these parents were disappointed that the real metric for success of the cmo like many in event public schools um schools is expansion and new seats i would encourage this district to join the school boards of morgan hill lsl salinas santa claire county and monterey county and deny the petition for navigator schools hello i'm katelyn johnston i um i am the performing arts teacher at watson bill in here in watson bill at alianza charter school and um i brought my cart because that's my classroom and this is my classroom when it rains i put what i can from my cart into a garbage bag and haul it around the school um i was here a year ago about uh asking for your support for language in the contract negotiations supporting teachers such as myself and i'm here to tell you that unfortunately the situation has not improved there are currently at least 12 other teachers in our district who do not have a classroom this is why i'm here to speak against approving the charter petition for navigator charter school um as you are well aware despite measure L facilities bond many of our schools are still overcrowded and in a poor state of repair our district does not adequately house the programs and personnel we currently have why would it give space to an outside organization and i want to give you a few examples of what that overcrowding looks like at alianza charter school which by the way is a public dependent district school we have two full-time certificated teachers without their own classrooms we have two kindergarten classes with nowhere to go on wednesdays the following programs and or personnel do not have an appropriate office or work space or in some cases not any space at all number one our vice principal no longer has an office our after school program our intervention programs for second through fourth and intervention for k one our parent liaison our testing coordinator our campus safety supervisor and our tech liaison all all are without appropriate office spaces our office some of our office offices and one of our classrooms were shut down to a due to an osha complaint did our district stepped in provide us with the space that we needed to solve that problem no you did not did the district provide us with plans for how they were going to help us address the overcrowding in the future no we were simply told our that to shut down the classrooms and the offices and figure it out there continue to be many other serious facility and health and safety concerns at our site and this is why it's inconceivable to me that our district would ever consider giving up space to an outside agency please could we focus on housing the programs and the children and the personnel that are already here let's focus on fixing the facilities at the current in our own schools in our existing schools and not i'll give up any space to an outside organization thank you thank you we have marcella salas yeah i'm gonna call the next line up uh we have elk jose garcia followed by i'm gonna mispronounce your name via oman okay go ahead my name is marcella and i'm here tonight on behalf of parents asking for you to support would you move the microwave or the microwave the microphone it's been a long week okay a little bit cautious so we can hear you thank you um on behalf of parents asking you to support and vote yes on the petition for navigator schools so that watson bro prep school can open i feel that families deserve more options when deciding whether kids will get their education and deserve amazing schools our kids deserve great amazing structured schooling and attentive positive great teachers non overcrowded classrooms and more than one teacher in the classroom which means all students needs are met during class time no one is left behind in the dark about what they're learning in my heart i believe that kids in watsonville will have a great education and future with a school like this i don't know how these schools and teachers do it but they definitely get and understand children because it shows in the kids and maybe some of these kids don't have great home lives and that's where a good school and teachers come in i like to think that a school is like a second home teachers like your second set of parents or parent a staff the staff is like the aunts and uncles and the kids like the cousins brothers and sisters these kids look like they feel respected welcomed and like they inside feel like they belong also looks like they don't think they're better than one another everyone is unequal teachers respect students and students students respect teachers i think that's why you don't see interruptions in the classrooms these schools are helping create such amazing dreaming positive smart intelligent well-behaved and what i found awesome is confident kids that's what we need more of maybe then we will see more success stories instead of crime and violence please do take a tour of one of the schools if you have time i would literally like a school like this for the kids in watsonville and for my son thank you thank you hello my name is garcia i work here at pvusd my my main point to make is i don't believe this is a good time to entertain this type of decision if you are to make one i think at this point one thing that i find interesting is everything that was presented today about this charter school and which is fantastic because everyone's got to make their sale wherever they can i i would ask michelle if you were to make a presentation everything that i saw here today is literally what's happening in pvusd we do have coaching we we do um we have a culture of let's create learners let's create leaders i could go through the entire slide i could go ahead and flop the name and i feel like there wouldn't be a big difference so i i understand the attractiveness of presenting something that that looks great and fantastic and by all means i hope that they do have great and success in their future however at this point i i don't understand why it would be entertaining to go ahead and make a decision right now when we currently have charter schools and i believe about just a month ago it was approved to go ahead and extend the the stay of a charter school that was having already difficulties with attaining about 30 success and proficiency and along with that if this is an independent school from what i understand then you guys as a board will not be part of the decision-making body so in this case now it starts making it a little bit difficult to go ahead and and have the transparency transparency and then also kind of see okay you're presenting data but then what's really going to happen if we play out the scenario then let's go ahead and say that that navigator shows up they're going to pull students that are currently in the public education system here at PVSD and what you're saying is you're going to take students you're going to take a batch some of them already successful some of them already at a proficient rate they're already advanced well now we're just going to go ahead and move along and now i'm going to go ahead and present you as a charter school and say okay well look at the success that i'm having the children we're already having success so i don't understand where this idea is necessarily coming from of the need i'm not saying that navigator is good or bad that's not my place to say but what i am saying is at this current point in time i don't believe this is something to entertain maybe 10 years from now maybe five years from now maybe next year i don't know but right now definitely does not feel like it's the time to entertain this decision thank you thank you hello and good evening my name is fia oman and i have just three comment one of them is i'm a member of this business community here in watsonville and an active participant through the adoptive school program that partners with the power of valley unify school district and i'm i'm thrilled to see my child's former teacher as one of our co-founder of the navigator schools and as a member of the business this business community and also a board member of navigator school i look forward to navigator in watsonville prep schools becoming a part of this great community of watsonville and i would like to extend my hand to meet any of you and invite you to meet with me and if you have any question i will be more than happy to answer any of those questions and not only that extend an invitation to visit some of these schools thank you thank you so our next three speakers are Karen Garcia followed by Luisa Hernandez followed by Ian Licata whoever's up here go ahead and go first just state your name so we can get it for the record she asked me if i can be the interpreter is that okay okay yes that's okay okay so my name is Luisa Hernandez and um hello miss uh michelle rodriquez and members of the board i'm here representing the parents and the kids and they're wearing the blue shirt in our opinion in our opinion we would like to have that you ask you guys please use all your tools and all everything you guys have to be be able to open this watsonville prep school as a plan and to be an open in that 2019 we are the parents are asking for a new school for bird education we're not asking you guys to open a new restaurant or a prison we asking for a new school with the really good results and better results for our kids thank you so much for your time thank you next speaker hi good evening to all the members of the board and the community who are here tonight my name is Ian Licata and i'm here to just say no to navigate our charter organization and they're planned to create an independent k through eight school here in watsonville this is my 10th year as a teacher in the and fifth year in the district um i work at a charter school diamond tech an innovative cte focused school as you could see by our amazing student of the year tonight damaris um in fact we already have over a half dozen accredited innovative unionized dependent charter schools in our community such as the one i work for so my question for navigator schools is this what are you giving this community that we don't already have your petition offers nothing that pv usd schools are not currently implementing in our existing k through eight charters in fact our charters already go above and beyond anything you mentioned in your petition for example the excellent dual immersion program we have at alianza the cte pathways in the arts and business and engineering at diamond tech arts focused k through eight at watsonville charter school for the arts small learning communities at lynn scott and k-12 independent study at pacific coast charter i agree it's important for parents and students to have a school choice and the small personalized learning that happens in many charter schools can be a great option for some students but i ask you all to consider supporting our existing dependent charters rather than supporting a business which is what navigator charter organization is navigator will take a da funds away from our district schools which badly need funds for a teacher raise and facility repairs here are a few differences between navigator charter and the charter i work for i work for a public dependent charter school navigator is part of an independent charter organization i work as a pv usd employee and because of that i am guaranteed representation by our union and have due process rights before i could get fired navigator teachers would not be pv usd employees and could be hired and fired at will and do not have union protections i also have accountability to the district and the school board navigator does not there is a transparency and accountability in how our site operates the public can inspect our school records and attend our board meetings like this one tonight our school officials are prohibited from having a vested financial interest in contracts they enter while serving in their official capacity these are things all public schools are expected to have yet in california independent charters like navigator are not required to do these things why because of the powerful charter school lobby that has thwarted legislative efforts in california to force more accountability so if there is no accountability and transparency what happens well it doesn't take much time on the internet to find case after case of mismanagement fraud and even worse at the hands of profit for profit charters or independent charter organizations in california and across the nation and who suffers when this happens students particularly disadvantaged students the ones who are counting on us the most in 2016 unhappy parents from navigators charter school in gilroy cited a pattern of mismanagement and called for its director fired this type of behavior is hard to detect without full district transparency and if they have their own independent managing board not the district board our district will have little say in how this is dealt with other than to pull their charter which could be an extreme disruption to the families involved so i'm sorry your time expired quite a while ago we need to be fair to the navigator so could you please wrap it up let this stop before it starts thank you thanks all right next up we have janifer traves followed by graciela vega sendejas followed by ricardo vasquez if your names are called please come up we have a lot to get to on the agenda line up behind the podium please so we can just have you come up right when the other speaker is finished thanks good evening uh dr. adrigas uh board assistant supes um all of you guys assistant supes and dr. adrigas and know me uh very closely because of the work that i do for this district and when i saw the presentation you know i think of accountability you know what what are the stats what are the stuff that's really gonna matter and that that they bring to to our district and you know none of what i heard was anything new we're already doing that you know one of the things that hit home was some of the math you know dr. adrigas firsthand you know what we're doing at pv high you know the ratios that we're improving to our students you know i was like one in ten check we do that you know all this stuff board i urge you to not grant them permission it's not a good idea none of the stuff that they're saying is merited by accountability look at the districts that already rejected them there's a reason they they were rejected you know and i promise you i promise you you guys can ask dr. adrigas board i promise you that i along with all my other colleagues are going to bring pvusd to the top i promise you california will be looking at our district for leadership across math and english i promise you because that's what i commit to you guys and like i said dr. adrigas was over at pv high and knows what i produce knows the stats knows the accountability knows what i can produce parents i urge you to do your research before you continue to say yes thank you my name is graciela vegas and dejas and my roots dig deep here in watsonville 34 years ago i arrived to ye hall as a student i grew up across the street from lindscott school and i'm happy lindscott charter school is there it's doing a great job and my grandfather and my deals were braceros here in watsonville we have long invested our hearts here in watsonville i bring every day i work hard to bring honor to the profession of teaching and serving pahato valley unified school district integrating the arts math writing in both languages and espanolian english i love this district and i want us to continue staying with our mission to serve all our students not just in prep but in technology in practical technology there's there's a need uh new york times just published an article talking about the need to prepare our students for technical positions because there is a lack i'm married to a tech he fixes everything around the house my car you know i'm gonna talk about my husband he's home taking care of the children but he is a tech and the highest of his profession he takes out the dents and cars we need both our schools are you know watsonville high school the word prep is there aptos the word prep is there because we're prepping our children for the future i don't want the word prep to be thrown around this is the new cafe latte you know it's not that we need to continue investing in our own community you know sharpening the saw my classroom has boarded up windows and actually took a little marker and i drew a 90 degree angle there and i used it as a teaching tool because i've been waiting patiently for the 60 year old windows to be fixed and i know it will become i'm a mom i'm a patient patient person and i know the change will happen maybe over the summer but there's a budget for the facilities to be fixed there's a budget and there's a priority list and i know some schools have gotten more than others you know but let's work on our own and i'm going to say no to navigator because we have a long list our compañero here looking over his numbers with the glasses on knows exactly who has been allotted what and in what process and i'm patient i know the change is gonna come but let's just work on our own stuff before we get these people and more people lining up and then your positions are going to start to disappear because all the funds are going to go to them thank you so let's keep it in house okay thank you okay next up we have Teresa Chavez followed by amparo yodar Jimenez and maria rosas here first so i guess i'll go first good evenings a good evening members of the board of superintendent president um my name is maria rosas i am a alumni of pv usd longtime community member and current employee of pv usd i am here to ask you to not allow an independent charter school to move into the district i asked this as it will not be providing our community with anything new that existing schools already provide for our community i asked this especially because since they will be an independent charter school our board will not be the decision making body for how this school or its larger organization utilizes district funds additionally in their charter they say that they plan to use pv usd facilities facilities that many schools are already in disarray for example at my school alliance a charter school we have 10 staff members without an appropriate workspace including two teachers and our vice principal many of the previously occupied spaces were deemed unusable by osha this facility's fiasco ultimately affects the quality of education that our students are receiving one of whom will be my son next year i am here to plead that you not take on another school whose facilities you'll have to manage before you fix and improve the facilities of the schools you currently oversee please remember that this board recently approved the resolution titled pv usd supports public schools that states whereas dependent community charter schools that fully participate in the district's public accountability process can offer differentiated learning experiences that benefit our students and for there on it says be it resolved that the paharau valley unified school district rejects policies that lead to separate and unequal educational opportunities for our students or that private private eyes school operations and undermine local control and accountability for all of our publicly founded schools please follow in the steps of santa claire county office of education salina city elementary school district and the alicell union school district who have all the nine navigators request and please take a look at our facilities at alianza charter i leave with a headache every day just seeing what my colleagues have to go through it's i don't think any of you will want your child having to do having to go through what our students are having to go through or what our teachers are having to go through i dare all of you to try and spend a day at our facilities and get your work done thank you thank you next speakers can you please line up so we can just move through this okay and yeah i'm part of left but she did leave a note she said i had to leave but no to navigate her um and so uh we have uh lia sugar man followed by wadalupe gallardo followed by rachel williams followed by sarah and i mispronounce your name i'm sorry bug marg good evening president de rose members of the board and superintendent rodriguez my name is lia sugarman and i am here to speak against navigator charters permission to open watsonville charter in our district um i am not going to echo the sentiments of my colleagues who spoke against this petition um but i am going to thank you for supporting school choice in our district by granting and renewing uh charters um that meet stated community need for more arts in the schools for dual immersion instruction for technology for independent learning and um and i want to just encourage you to remember that you support school choice when you are making these decisions to support dependent charter schools in our district thank you good evening superintendent rodriguez and board of trustees i'm rachel williams and i'm a parent at maravistus elementary school i hope you will allow me this time to make the statement i'm here to share my concern with the prospect of watsonville prep charter school run by navigator i'm concerned that they intend to and would be allowed to use pbsd facilities under an 18 year old law schools which are currently in need of significant repairs and grub upgrades for which you are well aware of and with teachers already teaching from carts staff rooms closets in our case rundown portables and multipurpose rooms i'm proud that pbsd does have innovative unionized dependent community charter schools throughout its district let's maintain the integrity of the charter schools in our district and not be sold with independent charters taking funds from public schools without accountability i am concerned they wish to run a school in our district like a business that was a business presentation not an education presentation one that has its own board with no obligation for transparency this eliminates a requirement to hear your voice my voice and those of students and parents yes parents because if you have a board they make the decisions and you go with what they say because let's be real the most important thing in business is the bottom line and i know that from 28 years in business management and with this business mentality i'm concerned that they will have no obligation to work with students whom they deem difficult expensive low achieving being independent they can move out any student without accountability leaving your children without a school or having them start all over again somewhere else and again this all the while taking funds from our public schools that desperately need them which serve all students by certified dedicated qualified union and also caring teachers this should be a concern for all of us here at pbsd i urge the board to do three things and i'm almost done one get the facts from neighboring districts from which you've heard find out why those who have allowed them later regretted it to most importantly provide report back to us parents students and community you represent and allow them to have all of the facts before before you make a decision and how it will affect the public schools and funding three don't be bullied by threats if the board decides to reject the petition and navigate a further petitions the seco e deputy superintendent ferrisaba i along with others will support you and back you up and be at those meetings as well finally as a parent who voted for you to look out after our school in our districts ultimately our children i want to remind you that the board of trustees had also voted for the pbsd supports of public schools which basically generally states that the community charter schools must fully participate in the district public accountability process that students learning experiences be resolved by pbsd and that it would reject all policies that lead to separate and unequal educational opportunities for all students with that i just want to thank you for your time and as a parent i believe our teachers serve our students well and she's proof she's she's been in school for the pbsd since kindergarten and excelling so thank you very much for your time thank you good night doctor good night everybody um i'm asking for your um help to open this great school because i've been a holister prep and i loved it i've been looking online and i love everything about it um they're saying they already have um everything the navigator school schools have there's no showing in the kids we need a new thing we need a really different education for my kid and for all the kids from my community because i feel like they're um talking like my kid is no part of this community but all our kids are it's our community um there are kids and um they deserve the best and only the best because there are future thank you so much for listening and please um please just um help us thank you yo um sarah on the show let me just go ahead and call the next names before you begin uh we have john glover followed by eduardo montecino followed by alejandro maddie go ahead though they'll be following you good evening thank you for being here my name is sarah bomb guard i'm a teacher at watsonville high school i've taught all over the county i taught at pacific collegiate school in santa cruz which had a facilities issue with santa cruz city schools and i encourage you to look into that issue i very happily left that school i've been here at pbsd now for 12 years and i really want to implore you to say no to independent charters to navigator and all independent charters we need schools that are run by boards with accountability as everybody's been saying to you um what i saw i is nothing new we've already got really great things going on as all of our student of the years showed you um there's nothing new that's being offered there um and i really want you to hear and stress the importance of taking care of our current facilities i'm at watsonville high school we're finally getting some work done and it's really been long overdue um alianza charter school is just makes me want to cry when i hear what's going on there please less is more take care of what we've got make it better and we will bring that back to you we will thank you good evening good evening staff um board members um eduardo montecino um you know i tell you a love story um i grew up in san in sanacris when i came uh um when i came in 2000 to live in this community growing growing up my kids in this community with the pbsd landmark a staple in in in my family um rolling ails up to us high um these are great schools that you have you should be proud of teachers the progress of we made the progress that we keep making in in every school invest in our in in in our community you are investing in our community um so it was a nice nice sales job on navigator i guess there's another option but um we already have options best invest you're already done a lot of work especially if you want to congratulate you and on finalizing pv high congratulations you've done a lot of work um so let's keep moving the ball rolling and investing in our schools and both in our charters but our regular schools you know like i said my my kids grew up in landmark it's a it's a statewide see a couple teachers here than one left but there's a couple here from landmark elementary they're part of part of my community part of my in my heart and you know we really want to invest and and move forward um you know we already have options right in our current status i you know i would encourage you to um deny their um their request and and invest in our community thank you thank you president eros board dr adrigas and staff my name is john glover and i am a proud navigator board member and i want to start just by saying i think that i hear a lot of passion on both sides of the aisle tonight um and i think it should be said that what unites us is greater than what divides us right we all the people in this room are speaking passionately because they care about the kids in this community um and i hope that that can stay at the center of this discussion um i am a navigator board member because um i am an educator i run a network of schools in isenose and um when i went and visited me visited navigator i was just so impressed with what they were doing in the classrooms i was impressed with the joyful rigor um i was impressed with uh how much kids were learning and how much kids were really engaged in what was happening and um i wanted to be a part of that i also selfishly wanted that for my schools um in a way that it wasn't there and isn't there um and so i am learning from navigator in the way that i think that uh the district partners in gilroy um and in hollister are learning with navigator um attending trainings participating in the life of the school in a lot of instances and it's been a really fantastic uh relationship i understand that there are some real challenges anytime a charter independent public charter school comes to your community um and i understand that those are real challenges um challenges that are our grown-up challenges for us to work together on and to find solutions for um but uh sometimes those conversations can distract us from uh from what the students and families are asking for what they need the results that navigator schools are achieving are um unbelievable um and they're real and um it's what the families in this community are asking for it's why they are asking navigator to come to watsonville um and i hope that we can keep an eye on that and and uh remember that um and uh the last thing that i would love to say is um you are all welcome to visit navigator you are welcome to visit our board meetings um we are a nonprofit organization running a public charter school we follow the brown act you can view our form 700s if you would like to um we have a high degree of accountability from our authorizers we do independent financial audits at a school level every year um we would be happy to share all of that information if it's not already included in the charter petition and anything else that you would like to learn about our organization or our government governance we're happy to share that too thank you hello um i'm here to speak both as the as the representative for csa but also as a member of the community that lives here in pahoro valley first of all our members the classified employees we are completely opposed 100 to the creation of independent charter schools that take money away from our schools that take money away from our communities for for different reasons three of them the lack of accountability that exists the lack of due process for the employees that work for those charter schools but more importantly for the lack of support for students with high need and i'm going to share a very personal story because i am a product of the ongoing fight between public schools and charter schools growing up in new york city as a latino undocumented immigrant who had to learn english my mom was convinced when i was in middle school that the best option for me was to put me into a charter school and she did i went to a charter school but within two years i was kicked out of the charter school why because i was i was a high need student because they the charter school could not support the fact that i wasn't doing well in my in in math in science in history that they needed to invest more resources for a student like myself in order to in order to improve were my greats so they told my mom we we don't have the resources to help your student take him back to a public school but to be honest that was the best decision because going to a public high school going to a public community college going to a public university is what led me to be where i'm at today representing our members and doing amazing work with amazing people and the reason why i'm sharing this story is because they're all about data driven but i was a casualty of that data driven because i didn't fit their data because i didn't fit the data that they wanted to present to people of excellence and 100 percent that is the true story of what happens with independent schools with independent charter schools we need to continue to put taxpayers money and resources into public education we need to invest in public education and we need to start putting more resources into our students public education is not for sale and we need to continue to support public accountability thank you so we have our last two speakers avarivas followed by rita or ive now to the last two speakers buenas noches miembro del board del distrito doctora rodríguez mi respeto para ustedes para los miembros y pues es una vez más yo vengo en apoyo de mi comunidad y pues queremos queremos pedirles honestamente que si pueden aprobarnos pues la que podamos abrir la escuela watson bill for tonight doctora rodríguez boards of the members and we are here to ask you please approve the watson bill la razón por la cual estoy aquí apoyando a mi comunidad de watson bill porque yo he visto los cambios que que hay para cada niño con estas escuelas tuve la oportunidad de estar en un seminario y también de estar en las escuelas que ya están como gps school in guilroy y how is that prep school the reason why i'm supporting them is because i went to the gps school and hps school and i went to the training for that as a parent and i noticed the difference in the students y como como madre este pues están yo creo en la aprecio todo lo a nivel educativo que tienen tanto las escuelas de distrito como las escuelas char pero la diferencia es en una charrera school que nosotros como padres es estamos viendo los cambios en nuestros hijos as a mom i notice that the school district is doing really good job and as a charter school too and as a mom i noticed to the charter school is doing really good with their kids y pues esa es la razón por la cual estoy una vez más aquí frente a ustedes para pues suplicarles el apoyo de parte de ustedes y pues como les dije anteriormente mi respeto también para el distrito verdad pero yo tengo dos hijos que van a graduarse de de una charrera school y pues he visto la la diferencia entre mis sobrinos y mis y mis hijos y esa es la razón por la cual estoy también pues a nuestra comunidad my respects for the district and i i noticed the difference from the district and the charter school i have an s and nephews they're attending the district and i have a nephew's attending charter school and my kids attending this charter school and i noticed the big difference bit with bone that's why i'm asking you for your support thank you thank you hello thank you for being here so late and hearing us out my name is Rita Uribe and i'm a teacher a science release teacher on a cart at alianza school one of the best charter schools that uh is around i um just want to say no to navigator i've done my research and um looks like when they had a meeting with the gilroy school board president and i got this from the gilroy dispatch um linda pizeno was the school board president noted that there one of their concerns was that the students that were designated as socio economically disadvantaged had dropped and this was 20 percent and that's a concern because our students as we can see have such talent here and we have a lot of low socioeconomic students and i know these parents here all want the same we would love to see children perform we love to see children do great hands-on science um sports we you know we've got the most wonderful outdoor science lab here watsonville wetlands we've got a waiting list for people to get into alianza charter schools so if you're going to consider any charter school i would say open a second alianza but really take care of what we have here right now because um we really do deserve to have science classrooms and music and more schools as well thank you very much thank you okay so that concludes i just turned myself off um our public comment session and now we go to board comments so um i see karen's already got her hand up and i'm sure there will be other comments and questions as well go ahead karen you know i need to say this um about for example seba who is a independent charter school that we have here now um i was told by some very reliable sources that they fired one of their teachers and one of their staff members who you know don't have any rights to do anything about it um because they wanted to do something that was independent of the philosophy of seba their their ideas and things that they wanted to do in the school were kind of independent of the philosophy of seba and so so they were fired fired and did they have any rights to do anything about that no so um that is you know is a very huge concern of mine um i've been always always very very pro union and for 20 years of my life i was a union organizer even um so to know that that kind of thing is occurring in an independent's charter and and no one can do anything about it um is completely concerning to me i'm you know so that's why i i wouldn't be able to i i don't think like so many people have said that we should support an independent charter where staff members do not have any rights thank you okay jeff and then maria could you could could the president please come and i'm sorry i forgot your name i'm terrible with names could you please come up i want to ask i i'm sure i want to ask you some questions and i'm sure the rest of the board does too thank you thank you so much for staying tonight um kevin hi kevin yes jeff russino it's nice to meet you um in full disclosure i have a i know someone who i respect professionally very much um who called me and and want to talk about navigator schools she has a son i believe in the gilroy's navigator school system i respect her immensely and she actually invited me out to see the to tour the campus and look around i wasn't able to do that but um if she's watched this tonight i'm i i respect you immensely um michelle how many charter schools do we have in the district right now so there are five five five okay you know i think charter schools bring i i do think there's something to school choice i think charter schools bring options for students and parents that we sometimes can't provide the public schools but i do think there's some issues we need to talk about and i and um the first one is facilities we are we're out of space that you know the the community when they said that they weren't kidding so and as we've reduced class size and and we're one of the few districts locally whose population actually isn't shrinking i'm concerned about being able to house another school so when you say we're going to work together what does that look like well thank you uh jeffry for giving me an opportunity to speak to that first off i'd like to say that um charter schools are able to operate in non uh dsa approved facilities um as long as they meet local building requirements such as saba uh which is an independent charter school they're they're operating in a facility that allows students to be served um in a way that doesn't that does ease some of the overcrowding and so i know earlier tonight it was mentioned many times about the overcrowding that exists in the pahoa valley unified school district and our intent is to locate in non pv usd facilities and so that that is what what our intention is now in our charter petition we wrote that we would seek district facilities obviously under prop 39 it would be the best of all worlds for us like we have in hollister and in gilroy where the school district provides um equitable facilities for the charter schools which is the the charter law but again coming into pahoa valley knowing the challenges you have with facilities our intent would be to locate in non pv usd facilities but and you know please i'm remedial so please excuse me but we'd be paying for that the district would be paying for those non classroom facilities not well i mean i guess that it would it would depend on what arrangement was agreed upon in terms of a what they call an in lieu of prop 39 deal okay so i understand that there was such a type of an arrangement with a different independent school where there was perhaps some funds put aside to support uh facilities um we're not necessarily in the position of needing uh that type of support i would say at this point we're very early on in the process to be talking about such specifics okay i mean the fact is we're looking at opening in august of 2019 so right now it's it's too early for us to invest in a non pvusd facility and start paying rent especially when we don't have a charter approved the quicker we get a charter approved the quicker we can start moving forward on those types of deals okay thank you kevin um we have six charters we have some independence i you know save us a wonderful institution but as we as we look at approving approving the um charter what are you doing different what what are you bringing different to the community what what what are you doing differently or how are you doing something differently to to better serve our local students well i think the the first main difference is the academic results that we're achieving with our student population now the student population that we're serving is similar to the student population we want to serve in watsonville so with high levels of student uh proficiency and advanced proficiency um that is a distinction and i would say if you were to go from classroom to classroom grade to grade you will see such a level of continuity that that is a main driver of the success that we're having and that's not always happening in other in other schools what's that that's is that what you're saying that's what your school offers let's go one of well i mean we we spent you know five minutes sharing some of the the details but in terms of the types of the levels of parent satisfaction we have we do an annual survey teacher satisfaction so teachers are very satisfied in working for navigator schools our employees are very happy they feel very connected and engaged in supporting our students and in working with our families so those are other components of what makes our model work is really a culture of excellence that really is part of the adult culture that that we have created right now you're k through six right now we are k through eight in Gilroy and k through six in Hollister and so um are you looking to expand into high school or our model is a k through eight model so our Hollister campus will grow through k through eight and we do not have any plans to go into high school okay and so the charter here would be k through eight then also or you would start k through first and then grow we're proposing a k through eight charter starting k through two in nineteen and twenty nineteen twenty and growing a greater year until we're k through eight no um congratulations i mean there are some tremendous numbers there and i think that really speaks well for um some of the things that you're that you're doing and thank you so congratulations i thank you there's some there's some questions that probably weren't as right uh that needed to be answered i appreciate it but congratulations on the success you're enjoying in Gilroy and Hollister Maria yeah so it is my understanding that you will be uh forming part of El Dorado Selpa is that correct El Dorado yes um so how do you plan to address the large spectrum of services that we as a district provide um especially in regards to students with autism and the emotionally disturbed um you know at this point i'd like to ask our director of student services Sharon Waller to come up and Sharon Waller is the one of our founders who i spoke of and since she was a speech therapist here in pvusd many years ago she has continued to gain i'm i'm buying time right now as she walks up she has continued to gain much experience and as our director of student services Sharon Waller and a proud graduate of Watsonville high school 1979 ea hall 1973 72 um so we do provide the range of services at our campuses so if we don't have staff that we've hired ourselves we have contracted services with currently right now we have hearing impaired services vision impaired services to serve one of our students who is blind and we have teachers who have skills with autism so we have the range of disabilities on our campuses and um we do it it's the law and El Dorado County Charter Selpa has been a great support to us and currently we have around eight percent of our student population our students with special needs do you also provide counseling services on site yes we do so we have that's one of our staff is a counselor okay and um how many students are currently on your say Gilroy and Hollister so eight percent of our student population so Gilroy we have 540 students total so eight percent of that i think we're around let's see what's i did graduate from what's behind so i did well in mathematics at that time but our percentage is eight percent at both campuses thank you um so we have um transportation in coaches and significantly in our federal fund and i'm wondering how do you plan to address the transportation issues since we're such a distributed for a lack of a better word district right so transportation for special needs students um in general so we we typically like at our current campuses we don't provide transportation to our students but if a student has a need on an IEP we're mandated to provide that for our students so if students do need transportation there are not special ed essentially what you're saying is that that service is not available yes right now love to have a bus though um so uh great presentation and this is a question that I always ask so um you highlight some key points some things that you're doing well at your charter what are areas of improvement for you i'm going to ask chief academic officer james dan to come back up here uh thank you our we a couple of initiatives that we have really focused on in the last year is in our middle school model our students were exiting fifth grade with an incredible high level of reading incredible high level of mathematics so we asked ourselves what's the next frontier for students and how do we add something to the educational sector that's going to make a difference so we chose student leadership as really our goal and right now what we're developing is a model where students are actually in um teams of three and they're they're learning leadership skills as they're learning the common core standards or the next gen science standards and leading instruction with the teachers who are standing kind of behind them helping support them so that's one area that we've really been pushing to get our students the skills that they'll need in college and in career as leaders um another area that we have kind of identified is in our mathematical modeling of the common core standards our students are very strong at doing the abstract but when we ask them to go take a step back and actually create representational math models we've noticed that that's an area of growth for us and so that is some that's a big navigator priority next year and then the third one is as kind of the whole educational field is looking at social emotional learning we begin to delve into that and so that would be kind of our third priority that we would be focusing on next year and trying to understand how do you how do you lay social emotional learning over the top of what we're trying to do in our schools because we're getting the academic results and we do also note that students that are you know are living through traumatic lives have different needs and are that may be the number one impediment that we're finding for those percentage of kids that are not being are not proficient yet so that's a big uh a big push we are adding a position next year who will help specialize in our organization to help improve social emotional learning all right and that leads me to my next question what um current support systems you have in place for students struggling academically um especially for special ed students and english language learners so the model that we use on a on a for the standards is that our teachers um instruct we have daily checks for understanding and we have a weekly quiz and that's the data meetings that we had talked about on wednesdays when this the teachers are pouring over that information and trying to figure out how do i reteach this and who are the students that i can pull during my um intervention time because we do have built in intervention times at both campuses for students that didn't master that particular standard so that's kind of how we're dealing with standards based interventions and it varies week by week so you may have a student who typically is um showing proficiency who one week doesn't they would be pulled into that group for the week for the remediation and you may have some students that are there more frequently um for skills based interventions we have identified our students that are probably i would say we're around 25 percent of our students that are at risk for reading or mathematics issues and we have built in after school programs that go for about 45 to 50 minutes after school and that is really going back and filling in skills such as reading comprehension or multiplication facts or other skills that we've identified reading fluency for younger grades and pulling the students to need that type of time extending their school day thank you what about suspensions so there's right intervention in place for students who are struggling academically what about for students who are struggling with behavior so what interventions you have in place to address those concerns so we've implemented a couple of programs one of them is called paths which is a community meeting curriculum and have added time into our school days on wednesdays for about 45 minutes where the students are going through this basically a castle social emotional learning continuum and learning how to self manage self regulate problem solve and it's a very comprehensive program that they're going through additionally as Sharon mentioned we have counseling services so the the counselor is working with a fairly large caseload to help support those students yep so the new position that we're hiring that we've just created is an mtss coordinator so we really are building out the multiple tiers of support so james is kind of describing what we do at tier two and tier three and kind of looking at both sides of academic support and the that side of support so social skills groups more intensive counseling for certain students doing you know check in checkouts with kids so really creating some more tight plans for our students because that is you know so definitely we want to really what make sure we're not using suspension we're looking at bringing in more of restorative justice type actions for our students so you would consider that a weakness it's an area of growth so we were we were pretty good at it but we were really building out that other side of you know when you look at I don't know if you're familiar with the mtss pyramid but looking at the whole child and looking at those social skills more so that is an area of growth for us that's one of our primary objectives and initiatives for this next year thank you and then my last thing is what extracurricular activities do students have access to do they have access to music bapa athletics what kind of programs that you offer for them yeah so we are in it we have an athletic program at both sites that encompasses some of the smaller schools in the area such as aroma San Juan we're in the league with them spring Grove Morgan Hill charter school Morgan Hill a couple of the Catholic private schools as well we offer five different sports for boys and girls throughout the year beginning in sixth grade and then our Wednesdays are Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday are really strong academic days and Wednesdays are dedicated to electives and enrichment activities so there is a variety of activities students participate at Spanish class coding Lego robotics drama music we've used keyboards in the past for learning piano it really is based on a teacher's particular strength at that grade level as well okay so just granted that there are limited facilities um it's great that you have those in place at your other schools do you see do you think that would be feasible here as far as the athletics component um again I think I would go back to Kevin's point right now which is when you think about facilities it is early in the process to look at that but we would be very committed to making sure that that did happen because we know how critically important that is for so many students the currently what locations are you looking at so I know you said it's early in the process but two years from now it's not I don't consider that early um so what current facilities are you looking at well at this point on that at liberty to to speak to specific facilities um because it's early in the negotiation discussion phase but we are looking at a number of currently available facilities in the city of Watsonville and do any of them provide a field um as far as I'm sorry to interrupt no it's okay um as far as field access and gyms um we're gonna we're committed to creativity and we may need to look to other types of partnerships with city sports facilities and in field space um other types of uh arrangements where we are potentially running uh gym space or field space so those are the types of solutions that charter schools often come up with that are dealing with the the challenges of facilities and lastly and I'm sorry I have tons of questions but I think we all yeah we have to ask them can you um give me a brief overview of um of your anti-bullying policies I'm sorry the what policy anti-bullying policies anti-bullying oh bullying policy thank you I couldn't understand um I'm gonna ask Sharon our director of student services to speak to our bullying policy anti-bullying policy well it's part of our discipline matrix um we speak to bullying as as one is unacceptable behavior so there's discipline consequences for that um it's definitely not a crafted large policy but it is an ongoing um issue that we're addressing in terms of that mtss and that whole framework we're talking about that is a primary behavior that we're being that's being addressed by the social emotional learning the past curriculum it is all about how students need to interact with kindness and respect and we do have a no tolerance policy for bullying in terms of its addressed when it comes up thank you I just I just want to say that um you know each of our charter schools are are there kind of for a reason I guess sieve is there for college prep I guess that's what their their thing is in that charter school I mean that independent one but um our other charter schools Watsonville Charter School for the arts has art in every subject um it's a wonderful place and then we have the Alianza school that's um Spanish Immersion School which is really incredible place for which my daughter went to um and then we have um you know the Diamond Tech which is all about technical you know and you know creating all kinds of it's a kind of a tech school so that's that's there um and then we have you know but I can go on each charter school has their you know what they're all about and what they do well at each charter and so I I mean I don't know what your charter school actually is all about in terms of what I mean I know you're saying that you do well because students do well but you know we have here our charter schools are based on you know something that they do special they're they're special at doing you know art or Spanish Immersion I mean you know what I'm saying or independent studies you know something so I just I don't know what your charter school is all about in terms of you know being a special school well I would just respond to that that I mean first off there's no requirement that charter schools have a special focus in any particular way I appreciate that yours here already do and that that's wonderful I would say that for us our focus is preparing students so that they are really truly going to achieve at high in high school in a way where they will be prepared to succeed in college and beyond and so where we know that our students might end up being um wonderful artists or mathematicians or they may choose a lot of different areas to focus their career on but without a strong academic foundation their choice is going to be very limited so our focus is on preparing them to be able to make those choices later in life by giving them a strong academic foundation to build upon okay Willie yes thank you um when I um when I first got on the board in 1990 we had no charter schools now we have five I think we have six we have six six six of them and there was one application that was rejected because at that time every charter had to have a special emphasis art music whatever and so I haven't heard tonight I mean I saw your presentation and I felt just like the others what why should why should our board grant a charter that it's not going to offer anything new to us yeah okay you want to respond to that I mean I would say it would be new would be a new option for parents and students in the community now what we are doing there's no other school in Watsonville or Pajaro Valley that's doing everything that we're doing exactly the way we're doing it I mean it was just not not that that's not occurring here so what we're delivering are student results that are unmatched in this district and that's with schools that might even have much different student demographics in in the other okay so sorry so so what what I'm hearing is that you're saying that the demographics of your charters much like what we have in Watsonville and you are getting a higher academic results right yes and so the question is how well we we have at length I think well as much time as we were allowed in the in the hearing part in the presentation to share what our academic model is and you have you know quite a dense charter document that explains our model very fully so I could would you like me to go back through and and share in more detail some of those aspects that we talked about because I mean they're kind of encompassing the in our five main compass points culture of excellence data-driven instruction coaching for continuous improvement multi-tier systems of support to provide equity okay so so so I think that think that the way I way I'm looking at this is is that the elephant in the room here is when we have English language learners and if you are having the same demographic makeup are your your your method of teaching English math etc is English only or is it a bilingual uh classes so I think that that that's the that's the elephant in the room here is how you are getting these results with the same demographic makeup and and I think that we are working really hard and long on that type of a of a program and and I and I don't so I want you to spell it out to me like that somewhere I'm gonna ask James Dante to share more so um I want to go a little bit more in depth when I talked about the origins of our model and it was here at and soldo in 2004 when I was working with Sharon Peterson that we started to change the way that we were running our classrooms we started sorry we started playing with student ratios we started looking at um adding time in the school day for students and as time went we started to see this that students at and soldo when they had been the lowest performing school in Watsonville for three year you know for the entire history of the cst at that point we were able to get them to the top of the schools in Watsonville in those three years and there were a lot of changes that we did to the model that allowed the students to actually have very high academic achievement where they were not successful before and one of the interesting parts of the story is that when Sharon and I moved over to Gilroy we actually brought the and soldo teachers over to talk to these teachers at Elliott school and soldo had passed up Elliott and these teachers came over and spoke to the Elliott teachers and the Elliott teachers said wow look at what happened here in Watsonville and so they began to implement a series of changes again it was playing with ratios making sure students were learning phonics and reading at high reading rates at early grade and so when Sharon and I started Navigator schools the intention was let's prove that students regardless of their circumstances can perform at high academic levels and reading and mathematics and writing and science I mean we were kind of a back to basics school I would say but what we've done since then is we've gone all over the country and found the best software the best way to implement technology in schools the best way to get ratios and to coach instructors to a level where a first year teacher is actually acting and teaching like a fifth year teacher within six months and when you take the the combination of all of these different structures that we've added over the years we're able to produce sustained replicable replicable results in the two poorest neighborhoods of both Gilroy and Hollister and so we are seeing students outperforming EO students EL students are performing EO students white Hispanic students are outperforming white students and it's a combination of all of these different factors that we have in our schools it's very it would be hard to explain verbally I think what you've heard from the parents tonight that have gone and see it they they understand they see this model and the way that the students are performing in the class that is driving this high level of student achievement what we've added is this student leadership component in our middle school and what we're starting to see is students using true career teamwork collaboration empathy to drive their what you would call a softer skill while they're still maintaining very high academic performance so I think that is a definitely a distinguisher it's just it's pretty new for us okay so so if I can move on just a minute how are the students actually brought into the school how how do you recruit all of the youngsters here tonight yeah so we at have essentially employed the same strategy which is we go to the yeah oh yeah Kirsten why don't you jump in on that we're gonna ask our director of community outreach Kirsten Carter to respond to that I'm a lot shorter than the two of them so we actually work very hard with our two current authorizing districts one of the comments earlier tonight was that we had seen our demographics change and the rest of that comment was that we are actually working hard to rectify that so we do we do parent information nights at head starts at first fives at local preschools and we do it at churches we do it anywhere both English and Spanish anywhere where there are parents who are interested in learning about our program here in Watsonville that is the result that's the result you're seeing tonight of those different parent meetings is there a a minimum is there a is there a test that kids have to take or be at a certain level before they are admitted to the school no we are a public school with has a lottery and as it's described in the charter there are preferences for student the preferences that we have in our current districts are for students who live in the district students who qualify for free and reduced lunch and then it goes there the lottery goes from there but if we have more students than the slots we have that apply it is a completely random lottery so with a if a seventh grader in Watsonville gets expelled because of weapons or whatever they would be eligible to go to navigator if there is a spot open in that grade we accept all students who apply for the school if we have a spot open in that grade if we have reached capacity as we have in our two current schools then they are added to the wait list I have a just a comment on that if I may willy can I comment on that so the petition actually came to me and I walked away with the sense that that you're were guaranteed a spot out of the 180 if you signed the petition if you attended two or three meetings at least as a way that the petition was explained to me and I found that problematic but because it creates a false expectation my question to you is how many petitions were signed and actually the charter is written so that the preferences were for founding parent members and they are actually labeled in the charter and there were seven of them so the rest of the 200 plus intent to enroll forms will all be entered into a lottery if those spots like if those spots if we have more than 60 kindergarten spots then there's a lottery if there's more than 60 you know 60 interested people for those spots then there's a lottery so the only the preferences are laid out in the charter and those names are there right yeah and I read that but that's the impression that I got and I walked away based on the information that I was provided when someone came to me asking to sign the petition some I'm just wondering if there's just some misconception that all two plus hundred you know 200 and some parents assigned a petition are are thinking that they might have a guaranteed spot and I do I'm sorry to hear that that was an impression you were given because we were very clear in all of our parent meetings to let people know that it is a that it is a lottery and our parents even the parents who have been you know attending the meetings have all been told that we appreciate your time and we definitely appreciate the effort but that there is no there are no guaranteed spots thank you okay so um hold on just one sec before we go any further I know willy has more questions and I haven't had a chance either um we have to vote to extend our meeting after 1030 um and we do have action items and we still have to go back into closed session so I'm going to ask for people to wrap up their questions unless there's something really pressing and I'll go quickly so I'm going to go ahead and make the motion that we extend the meeting to midnight if someone can second that for me and hopefully we'll be out of here before them I'll second okay all those in favor aye any opposed was there an opposition motion passes 5 1 1 thank you 4 1 1 Karen 4 4 1 1 1 4 1 2 okay we'll get there okay did you have another question yes um oh go ahead go ahead okay okay um okay I'm going to pull up your name because I wrote it down sorry I'm Kevin thank you thank you now I have to get back there I have several questions for you okay so a couple of things that um raised questions for me and then actually some of the questions from the board members I wanted I had some follow-up on as well so you said that you have half of the day the student teacher ratio is 10 to 1 how do you afford that I mean that's and what is it when it's not 10 to 1 I guess that should be the first question well when it's not 10 to 1 it's 30 to 1 with the exception of any push in support our specialized students might receive from paraprofessionals during that time so there so that that's the balance and that's partly how we are able to afford it say that again that's special for a special education right no what I was saying is that aside from the part where there's a 10 to 1 ratio it's a 30 to 1 ratio and the only exception to the 30 to 1 is that there there are also paraprofessionals that may be providing push-in special ed support as part of our inclusion model during that 30 to 1 time so in some classrooms you might see two professionals in the in the classroom so 30 to 1 ratio for the general ed population with some push and support okay so it seems to me that your staff would have to triple for half of the day all right so it's doesn't that doesn't have the 10 to 1 ratio is um half the time there are two adults in the classroom one is a certificated teacher the other one would be what would be the equivalent of a classified employee and the students do a three rotation half a third of the time they're on technology a third of the time they're with a teacher a third of the time when they're with the classified so we do that for math and language arts and then the other half of the day for the students they would be in a 30 to 1 ratio for science social studies writing and there may be some push-ins special ed time so that's how it's the the 10 to 1 okay if there's 30 students in a classroom and there's two teachers that's 15 to 1 not 10 to 1 and so they it's not a 10 to 1 student to teacher it's a 10 to 1 student to staff member so is that am i correct yeah i would be 15 to 1 30 to 2 but they work with each adult in a 10 to 1 ratio okay it was presented as teacher to students so i just wanted that clarification um so and you mentioned the charter would ease the overcrowding that we're experiencing right now but actually i could see that if you one whole class was taken out of a school and moved to the charter but if you're taking a few students from a few schools it's not going to reduce our overcrowding and it's not going to reduce our expenses so i wanted to make that point of clarification as well um and you said that navigator schools is a nonprofit do you open a new nonprofit for each school or are all the schools under the umbrella of the nonprofit we have one nonprofit organization that operates all of our schools okay and is it one board or are there separate boards for each school yes it's one board so that concerns me that with you said you're nationwide no we're we're right now in Gilbert and Hollister so this will be our third wide no this will be our third chart okay so um i'm concerned that a board a board is supposed to represent the community in which they reside and i feel like a board that is representing schools in different communities um may have the interest of the nonprofit above the students i'm not trying to be too negative but that's why we're we're elected from our community in our neighbor in our school neighborhood and we have the ear of our community we're on the ground and that is the voice that we're bringing and by the way i should i should have started with this my kids both went to a charter school i support the the choice because some students don't do well in the comprehensive high schools and they need that choice i'm not anti charter but that goes back to what i was saying about us being on the ground in our communities and hearing from our constituents i'm i am concerned because we heard a lot of concern tonight and i have neighbors who are concerned so i'm doing my job basically okay so just to clarify that um um i know i have more here and regards to transportation you said that or one of um your staff said that it's mandate mandated that you provide transportation for students that have an IEP um how do you handle that now and what's your ratio of IEP students to non IEP well right now we have eight percent of our students are have IEPs um as far as transportation we currently do not have a student that requires that as per their IEP in the past we've contracted busing services we partner with either our local district or other private chartering buses and other transportation providers as needed okay um so that brings me to my next question um there were a couple of references to contracting out for services and that includes this one now um the contractors that you use are they for profit i'd say right now we have a combination of partners and contractors some are for profit some are not profit okay hello could yeah could you use the microphone contractors a special education contractors are on the approved list from the cde okay yeah and there's is that in policy that that's who you use yeah or is that El Dorado County no that's part of it their procedural guidelines when we agree to be part of their charter SELPA okay so thank you um and then you also mentioned that your facilities which I believe we would pay for correct yes um they don't have to meet the dsa requirements and those are all safety related so I do worry about saba's facility and and I just worry about that that that are that students that would go to this school um would not have an equitable safety safety standard and um that just that worries me so so can you describe where you are located in um Hollister and Gilroy well our two current campuses are dsa approved facilities they're provided by the school districts where we reside so our Hollister campus is located co-located with RO Hardin Elementary and our Gilroy campus is adjacent to south valley middle school in Gilroy have you um um had to find alternative facilities off of a school district campus previously well right now we're we're actually researching and planning for an alternative site in Gilroy because the high speed rail is currently potentially if it ever gets built go right through our current campus so we are right now exploring non-Gilroy unified facilities for our Gilroy prep campus okay um so I'm gonna let the other board members give final questions but I know that um applications need to meet certain criteria in order for us to approve it and there's a 60 day uh window from when you submit um to where we can review and respond so um be certain we will be doing that the board and the staff will be reading the petition and uh responding within that amount of time thank you uh this is not an action item tonight not an action item and I uh thank everyone for for the information and I'm and I'll and I'll ask the uh staff to um come back with some answers or recommendations thank you thank you okay thank you very much thank you very much for your time thank you thank you so we're gonna move right on into item 16.1 and this is the VAPA presentation and I just want to extend um sincere thanks for hanging in there with us that was a long item I understand but it really did need um the question and answers so Susan Gralty is here and she oh thank you um I was just reminded that was a public hearing and I need to close it and reopen the um regular board meeting thank you Georgia okay welcome welcome good evening President DeRose Board of Trustees and Superintendent Rodriguez um as they say a picture is worth a thousand words shall I just start yep okay um so I'm gonna start with a picture thank you um I'm gonna go ahead and cut that short just for time's sake so you guys can be home before too um thank you very much for having us here tonight we are so excited about what's happening in PVUSD and the arts um so later on this evening you will receive a flyer that has the arts plan for you but as a good teacher I'm gonna front load the information for you so why teach the arts the arts represent way more than drawing painting performing all of that um I'm not going to read to you but in the end the arts represent what it takes to be a human being and what it takes to be a human being is what we all need in society today so that's why we teach the arts this is a picture of the students that you saw earlier today actually there are different ones each time so every student in the system gets a chance to play um research would tell us that for a variety of reasons it's a good thing to teach the arts the arts is a great equalizer for all students and it is the difference between the haves and the have nots and um PVUSD has done a great job of bringing the arts back full force for all of our students and I'm really excited about the opportunities we have um so in the years leading up to this we have implemented many of the programs back into the district we this year we had instrumental and vocal music available at the middle school level which has been just an incredible feat we had um vocal music at all three high schools at all three comprehensive high schools we added the Latino Youth Film Cinema Project at Starlight and Cesar Chavez which has just been taking off and and the um you can see a picture of the students from Cesar Chavez that are in the middle of filming they've been doing um a great job there we also added L Systema at Radcliffe which you guys saw earlier next year we're going to be adding on to that we are going to have um both we're going to be extending our offerings of both instrumental and vocal music at the middle school level so students who have taken one year will have an opportunity to go to an advanced class with that um the fourth grade students some of the fourth grade students this year um participated in a link-up program through the Carnegie Hall link-up program um and the Santa Cruz Symphony next year we're going to um offer that to all fourth grade students that want to take part of that um we're going to be expanding L Systema next year we'll be at Minty White um we are we are adding general music teachers to the elementary school levels and um currently Hall District has a fifth grade instrumental program and we'll be adding that to HA Hyde next year as well um concert concert band and drum lines will be available we're in the process of getting those A through G certified um for the high schools and so I'm looking forward to that that's been a great great experience during that um we're getting we're going to be looking into some Mariachi offerings I've been working with the Gilroy Mariachi Academy to get some training and different things for our teachers um and we are going next year um we're going to start a district-wide arts um scholarship contest so I'm I'm really excited about the offerings that we have happening for next year it's it's a really like I said it's a really exciting time the year after that these by the way we're just taking these pictures of the Latino Youth Film Cinema Project we're just taking the last couple weeks there are now in the editing phase so they're they're doing between filming and and editing and it's really it's so exciting to hear them talk while while they're doing it because they're just the kids are bubbling over with what's happening and um it's funny to hear some of the stories that they say through this whole process because it really has been a process um uh the in the 2019-20 school year we'd like to add fifth grade beginning band at all el inquire at elementary sites and and continue to grow the Latino Youth Film Cinema Project at um Cesar Chavez and then continue adding general music teachers at all elementary sites and until we can get that even even larger and then also at this point at the 2019-20 school year we would like to be able to have our our student groups performing in the CMEA uh on our on our band choir um performances and then year 2021 um we'd like to add additional el systemicites continue our general music growth and support our performing groups that will hopefully be traveling from through California and beyond at that point so we're really we're really looking forward to having that and ensure equity of all programming across the district so um without further ado I'm going to let Isabel come up and and give you a quick overview um unless you have any questions for me or I can come back after okay we'll we'll let uh Isabel come on up. President DeRose, Superintendent Rodriguez and member of the board thank you for having me here tonight um since it's quite late I'm going to fast forward the presentation about el sistema so basically el sistema started over 40 years ago in venezuela and it started very small nine students and became a phenomenon in in the country with um social implication and the summary basically is theory of change if we have here at red cliff thank you thank you and the basis of el sistema if we have a group of students who regularly participate in high quality ensemble based music they will get empower but in different way personally musically and academically and be an asset to the community so that's the theory and it happens with the support of the district and we have been very grateful to have your support the school red cliff has been an incredible place to work everybody has been cooperating so well from the principal to the janitor to all the teachers who are their classes are used in the afternoon by after school and el sistema so they have their classes and they have been delightful the school has been a great place to to to work local foundation are supporting also the the program and private donors family as you can have seen tonight family are always part of our concert and helping with transporting instruments and community support and we are more and more connected with uh art organization with youth symphony symphony and uh generally with el system a network which offers us quite a bit of opportunities to go to concert birkleg with cal performances and also locally on sunday we're going to celebrate the Diaz del Ninos with a group of a system a student from red cliff at the aquarium at the monterey aquarium and the same group red cliff has been invited to perform this summer at the cabrio music festival so great perspective and so that's a theory the question is so how do we set that up right now what's happening we have 80 students from second to fifth grade at red cliff who in the afternoon have two to three classes a week so the program is performance based it's group of 20 uh students 20 students per grade and uh that have one teacher per grade and uh the teacher is really emphasizing peer mentoring so when one kid doesn't know something there is one who is going to help and it's really creating that sense of community where we're there to help and not to see what the other one uh does well or not and that's also one of the big asset of el system to have this group based education when you are an orchestra like the little orchestra you have seen tonight it's everybody plays together but everybody is part of it and so every children is listening to each other and that create that sense of community that is really radiating through the school talking with the principal uh today she was saying that she sees um a difference in the school climate she sees kids being more responsible she sees during recess kids bringing their recorder and playing music is more a part of life right now at red cliff and also what she has been noticing is that the el system as students are more prone to finishing a task that they have been asked to do and uh what else is she and also calmer behavior in the classroom and during recess so um I jumped a little bit ahead it's we're tracking to see if actually what is in place is working and the way we have been trying to establish the evaluation uh at red cliff and also on the other side at gold elementary trying to see uh if the students are doing well musically if there is a difference academically compared to their peer group and socially if we can see a difference or not so what we have been seeing right now so basically the question is it working so um musically you could notice actually you had a group of health system in december and they have been playing for three months now they have been playing for eight months and you could see that musically they do sound better and they're still having a lot of fun performing they're very very excited every time they go out they're very excited to be performing in the community so I would say yes musically it's working and so that's um performance we had in december since then we had a performance at uh Santa Cruz High with all the music program of the county and uh tonight and then the aquarium and we have as a school spring concert maintenance you will all receive an invitation so academic evaluation um so it's some things that uh we have been tracking at gold and beginning to track here to see does music has or does music in that setting has an influence on uh on the academic result of the student we have and what we're tracking is math and and reading so right now what we have been seeing but it's the december result we're really looking forward to seeing the results that are going coming into spring because right now we can see a system a student performing better in math especially for a higher grade um a system uh not performing that well in reading especially for fifth grade it's going down but it's only after three months so it's really difficult to see if these data are you know so one we're going to see in the spring or not the spring data will be a lot more telling than the full data so you as soon as we have them will be communicating communicating communicating them to you and evaluation of personal and social skills well i think it's very telling to see that we had a group of L system a student who waited for 40 minutes and we're happy to be here so so it's um and there are third fours and fifth graders so i think it's pretty telling to see how they could behave uh tonight and also to refer about uh what um principle the principle attractively for us seeing um socially we're trying to uh uh work with a stand for a group who has been working with L system a student to see socially if there is a difference and we'll be setting up these new studies is new evaluation next year at minty white and well some pictures so that was in december that was in december also that was a winter concert uh and so that's some of the meeting we do with other a system a program and uh of northern catifonia where we meet and that's our sponsors so thank you very much thank you do we have any speakers to this item okay so um any questions comments from the board so i just want to say i'm so thrilled and i knew we were going to see math games i knew it um not that i'm a music teacher anything like that but um i've seen the data before but not in our school so i'm so happy with this and i know trustee diserpa would be she's so sorry that she couldn't be here tonight you know how much she supports um these programs as well but she had to be at a conference so it was outside of her control i hope she's watching us i don't know but she'll watch the recording and i did notice that um the attachment is the arts plan but can we have access to your power point as well because is that that that information isn't in the plan right oh it is okay okay okay good because i know that she would like to see that and i think the public would like to have access to that as well which they will know um thank you for everything that you've you've done and um thank you for saying i know um someone wasn't feeling well so we moved you up but it's still a very late night um but i just really applaud the efforts absolutely and i can't wait to see it grow i'm excited about the drum line and oh band in high school what what kind of band there's okay and um and uh drum line at this point and it will it will fuse into marching band as it grows so um the drum line it was the most feasible way to infuse that as quickly as possible excellent um i know our student board trustee perla it was very interested in um actually we were watching a radcliffe performance a few months ago and she leaned over to me and she said i want a Watsonville band and i said i do too in all of our schools and we never had the chance to get together but i'm so glad that this is happening and i'm sure she's involved in some way yes she and i have been in contact and okay we're working on okay great well thank you so much again have a good night go get some rest thank you okay we are going to visit her non-agenda items and um i apologize that this um is happening so late in the future we will try to keep this at the top of the agenda um we knew navigator was going to be here with lots of kids and um wanted to get them closer on the agenda but i understand there's kids here now so i feel badly about that so we're gonna get to this right away how many speakers do we have we have three speakers we have steve um stokey susan followed by stacey anderson okay as everybody's still here i'm sorry come on up you can you can even go past the time limit a little bit because i feel bad i thank you for your time this evening susan scotsky um aptos high parent and diana scotsky here um very concerned about a safety issue and i'm really going to emphasize the s word safety okay we've heard it in the news we don't need it to be happening at aptos high this is a safety issue they are locking the elevators you can imagine how i feel when i need to check in at the office and i you know i i can't always push her up the hill i mean literally have a backpack and i have my daughter and you know her needs her her needs that we as parents provide for her i don't have a caddy with me to you know check in into the office i'm following school safety procedures by checking in at the office and again i'm talking about the s word which is safety and we don't need a safety problem at aptos high and they are locking the elevator and it's not good enough for just the one-on-ones and the teachers to have the key i'm talking about access for all we don't need to explain our disabilities when we walk on to the public school campus and i remind you aptos high school is a public school campus it shouldn't be locked we are not segregated at aptos high so it's not always a great day to be a mariner okay the problem is is that we do need to have access for all and with the two elevators being locked and i have video of it and i've contacted mr bruer and i've contacted dr rodriguez and i've contacted mrs gorman and i've contacted mr slider as the representative at aptos high and the problem is still not resolved a key for the one-on-one and a key for the teacher is not a solution to the public members that need to have access to the elevator and they're not going to need to explain their disability or whatever reason they need to access the elevator and i'm again gonna say the s word and i want that to stick in your head the s word safety in light of what we know about is happening in our public schools and we really need to have a very serious safety plan so please remember the s word and it's not susan scotsky it's safety about the elevator please so that we access for all in our public school as a taxpayer i do expect to be able to access the school and not explain why we need to use the elevator okay i do follow the school safety procedures by checking in at the office i have asked for even a key and somebody who even is employed by this district is has even offered to copy me a key and i said no i can't accept a copied key from you i'm sorry you know we need to have the district agree to this and mr slider had said that he would check into that so again i don't really think even the answer is giving me a key it's we we want it to be open to the public so but right now we have an access issue also in getting our daughter to school you know getting her to some of the classes that she hasn't been able to access because of the ramps and we did go through the IEP process to try to you know make sure that it was accessible but unfortunately had some teachers that leave and you know various personnel that retired so we have a whole new IEP team and my time has been limited in the IEP process so we haven't been able to work this out after three IEPs this year so we really do need to make sure that all of our administrators and team members that are at our IEPs are here to partner together and I was so excited when Dr. Rodriguez came on and she said we are one team I remember that and she can correct me if I'm wrong but that doesn't mean that we're set you know some people think that it's not their responsibility that I've talked to but I do remember Dr. Rodriguez coming in and saying we're one team so that stuck with me and it's like you know it's not me I hear but but it is we need to all work together and that's why we're here tonight as parents to partner together with the district to make it absolutely the best place to go to school for all not just our you know dedicated scholars who are going off to Berkeley or wherever they're going it's okay thank you for bringing that to our attention and we'll make sure that staff follows up with you and we get this resolved okay thank you so much I think you can figure out who I am um Steve Scott ski Susan's husband and this is my son David here who also has special needs he has autism and I just want to spend just a couple of minutes here um you know been waiting four hours and so basically I'm taken by that over on the wall over there opportunity through diversity unity through cooperation and so both of my kids have special needs as you can tell my daughter's very profound she does not have ability to speak new does my son so we have to speak for them so basically um they're part of the diversity that you have there up in the wall there and I can I'm speaking here mainly to um build on and talk further about what is happening with my daughter in terms of how she's being excluded to the point of I would say borderline discrimination really by this I'm talking about things you know even beyond what's happening with the elevator and so that we're talking about things in terms of you know denied access to her rights as a as a student and also for her IEP so by these you know she touched upon it a little bit Susan did by um we have it you know evidence of the fact that though we try very hard for hours literally hours to get both our children primarily my daughter Diana ready out of her hospital bed in her wheelchair every morning breathing treatments feeding you name it she's a hundred percent care it takes a lot of effort to get her to school and when we get her to school it breaks my heart that she's denied access to several things such as the library the elevator as Susan mentioned she's also denied access to various technology she's referred to as low tech so she really gets denied a lot of that access that other kids have um a standing frame that she should have access to physical therapy that's part of her IEP that she should have access to and should be provided for quite some time so as you can see we've got a whole long list of issues that I even talked about here it's pretty serious and it goes for back quite a ways so we're trying to be as respectful and polite as possible but as you can tell we're at least I'll speak for myself here I'm out of patience okay we lost her first literally her first year at Aptos high school very unfortunate okay so we have some a little bit of time left this school year to fix some things and I'll tell you right now the clock is ticking pretty fast and hard and I'm looking you know at you to really step up to the plate here and help and do what you're elected to do and that's help okay not just the people that are um you know the high you know performers etc but I'm talking about people you know everybody you know as we mentioned here so bottom line is I'm holding everybody here accountable as I'm holding people at the IEP team accountable as well okay and so by that I mean is I expect some results and some answers in addressing these issues I'm willing to meet any of you and all of you at once I don't care to get these matters resolved so bottom line is that we need to get these matters off on a timely basis I'm saying like about two weeks before the school leaders up let's get these matters resolved and get them addressed because I have no problem with going through other things and I think you know what I mean you know there's other avenues we have we're trying to be working our way through the chain of command escalate these things as as we have been and if we don't get some results believe me I have no problem taking it further okay thank you so much okay and again we will have staff follow up with you on these um on these items we will direct staff we give direction to our superintendent as a board okay so it is up to her to follow up with you and make sure that the items are addressed when well I can't give you that time within two weeks within a week when I'm all about action and time as you can tell by Friday as in that's two days thank you very much I appreciate it thank you no problem thanks for waiting I appreciate it next our next speaker Stacy Anderson that's the only one well actually sorry I'm sorry oh there's more over there yeah I'm so sorry it wasn't a different pile they got stuck over there okay there you go so we have Stacy Anderson followed by Imelda Hernandez and Daisy Hernandez are they here okay go ahead so I'm Stacy Anderson I'm a Selpa mom of two kids with special names and with that we become very aware of our surroundings what goes on in our classrooms the conditions of our classrooms and our schools in the three years that we have been in Pajaro Valley Unified School Districts I have been to five elementary schools all in the northern districts Marvista Valencia Bradley Hyde Duncan Holbert and Rowling Hills and at Duncan Holbert we were displaced twice Hyde has had several problems over at Bradley recently last year we were promised nine portables didn't happen this year six we had our teachers packed up ready to go guess what we're not getting him what is happening to our bond money what's going on our teachers deserve better conditions to teach in my teacher doesn't have a desk in our classroom because she doesn't have room it's really sad and it's very pathetic our teachers are very very small confined spaces our students are crammed in like sardines out there in these portables and in the classrooms it's sad to walk up into my daughter's classroom there's rest and holes in the ramps poor michelle when she walked out there the other day I was afraid she was going to fall right through it it's ridiculous we need to have the funding loosen the purse strings guys you know put the money back into our facilities put it back into our teachers and our kids because that's where that's where our future is we need that additional support you got special ed kids that are in gen ed classes they need access to those classrooms not just the regular um special ed classes that we have all the classrooms need to be modified they need to be looked at because they are in horrible condition all across the board it's not just the northern district it's not the southern district all of our classrooms are a hot mess our facilities need more funding they need to hire more people to keep up with the work because let me tell you they can't it is a hot mess my school is a mess bradley's a mess hides mess duncan holbert's mess rolling hills is a hot mess it's pathetic so instead of let's say oh buy a new building or give money to a charter school for christ's sake let's put the money back into our kids that we have in our schools here let's fix what we have sorry thank you thank you good evening president de rose board members dr rhodius i'm a parent from alianza charter school tonight i am here to inform the board members that during our last agc meeting the alianza governing council the parents were informed about the lack of communication between maintenance and operations and alianza steering committee my children were previously enrolled and then sold them and were in the waiting list for three years and i got called that they were there was room for both of my children and i went ahead to transfer them because the ultimate goal for me is for my children to be bilingual and i knew that alianza they would have that because of their dual emergent program the facilities for these two schools are on the opposite side opposite side of the spectrum one being the newer school with everything works and has this 21st century feel like a computer lab but alianza is a different story tonight i want to invite all of you to visit our campus i want you to take a walk over the potholes our grass area that is flooded due to the problems that our beautiful water tank has caused sit on one of the classroom where there's boarded up windows on a hot day take a look at our new portable classrooms and see how the carpets are falling apart i am upset to see the classroom windows to learn that 10 of our staff members are without an office space such as a vice principal parent liaison counselor and that's only to mention some also are roving others roving teachers i feel that my children deserve better i just want to give you an example my son is in room 10 across from that on that aisle there's construction going on his windows are boarded up what would happen if there was an emergency and the main entrance is blocked he has no way of going out because the windows are boarded up from bottom to top unless the teacher has an axe or something to kick those boards out my son will be safe other than that he won't and i just don't want to think what would happen and i'm here as a parent a very concerned parent that this is ridiculous that's happening in one of our schools thank you for your time hi good evening thank you board members for your time i know it's late and thank you everybody that's still here my name is daisy adnandez and i am a parent at alianza charter school i have been at alianza for the last 14 years i have a seventh grader now and i have an older child that went through that program also i'm an armadillo myself our school has never looked so bad i am concerned for our children and our staff safety again i'm gonna repeat pretty much what she just said we're not growing we've only added 18 students since 2012 yet we are overcrowded and have displaced staff as you saw we're teaching out of carts number one for how long will this last number two in case of an emergency will our children and staff be okay that's a huge question for me that i need an answer to some classrooms have boarded up windows the only way out is through the main door if the emergency is on that main door how will they get out there's chaining fence all around main areas of the school major construction going on how can our children learn with all this noise and all these distractions what message are we giving our children agc which is our alianza governing council has no answers for me because head of maintenance does not get back to us and i'm ready to take action and he's in this room and remember my face because we're going to be seeing each other a lot more i would like to invite all of you board members to our school please walk our school during school hours sit with our kids give them time see what they are going through it's not acceptable it's not okay my son's in seventh grade maybe we will not see change but we're paving the way for the upcoming generation you know we will be moving on but i cannot leave the school in the condition that it is in right now not okay the team that presented their wps school they're not here anymore but i know they're looking for something better we have it and if there's something that they're not happy with then do something about it that's what i'm doing i'm not happy with the way my son's school looks like right now so i'm gonna do something about it instead of just you know what i'm gonna go to another pretty school no do something about it because we have what our children's need and it's within the child too to want it and the opportunity the opportunity is there take it but i do please encourage you to go to our school it's pretty bad and it's not okay that it's not safe somebody talked about safety earlier the s word it is not safe god forbid something happen thank you for your time it's not over let's do something about it and thank you everybody that's still here thank you so we have two speakers so we have allison you want nissawa along with shira colman thank you good evening uh president derose and board members and dr rodriguez so i'm here to publicly thank the board and dr rodriguez for getting her permit last night um i know you all know the story of 2001 when the project was beginning i know you know the story of when the school opened in 2004 2005 i know you know the story of when the bond passed five and a half years ago i know you know the story of a year and a couple months ago when we tried to get the permit the first time and i just want to say that it's because of the perseverance of our superintendent that we got it approved yesterday it's also the work of victor and adam and that team to do all of the things that were being required in the 11th and a half hour that was you know changing up into the last minute and they had to really be nimble and quick and um i also appreciate that throughout the process since dr rodriguez has been here it's been very inclusive i've been invited to as many meetings as i've wanted to attend to be that representative and bring that history that i have just from being at the school since it opened and so even though we're not there yet but we're on our way we're closer than we've ever been in 14 years and so i just want to say thank you because i know that it's with your guidance and her work directing everyone to get it done and she got it done so thank you hi i'm shira colman i am um i'm tired i also have sleeping armadillos at home and i asked my father who is with them to please tell them that i love them and that um i'm not home because i'm using my voice to support their education in a safe and supportive environment for learning um i'm the president of the governing council at alianza charger school i am also on the citizens oversight committee for the measure l and i'm here to say that i am part of a very broken communication system um i think that at least with my experience in the citizens oversight committee we're looking from the 10 000 foot level charged with um making sure that these funds are being spent in the way that they are meant to be spent and um it's not enough detail for us to be able to advocate properly um and the the information about what we're doing is not coming to the school site council at least as the president of alianza governing council so um i'm going to put in a very strong bid for very clear communication back to the site councils of every school as to how these monies are being spent including information about any emergency changes that are under the oversight solely of this board to approve um i'm going to ask that we remember that um 10 years ago we were here asking for the bathrooms to be um given stalls that lock and toilets that flush and faucets that don't spray you in the face instead of the hands and i don't know why measure l monies are being spent to do the type of maintenance that should have been done long long long before this um i understand that that we have a ton going on in our district right now um really an unworkable amount of work to be doing and i acknowledge you all for really trying to stay above water with all of it um but let's be clear that money is being spent even though we don't have time to spend it perfectly and that the best thing we can do right now is to communicate very clearly about what is happening so that the stakeholders can talk about how we're spending this money so that it serves our students thank you very much i'm sorry but you're not at all thank you thanks for staying appreciate it that is it so we're on item 14 um which is public employee organization comments pvft good evening i am going to pass out to you uh your own resolution that was actually um referred to this evening when we were talking about navigator it's a resolution to support public schools i know you've seen it but in this context i would like you to revisit it and and look at the commitment that you made so i'm gonna pass this around and um pvft is not in favor of navigator charter coming in you probably could have assumed that we believe in due process rights representation for grievance and uh discipline um navigator does have a policy but in order to truly advocate for students and for safety for example you have to have some level of protection that you're not going to lose your job next the next day and so that's a big reason why we don't support navigator but also for the facilities reasons that is that is huge and just a little little bit of history because i don't think any of you were in the room when we started our negotiations in 2015-16 but we introduced in our proposal what was called a bill of rights for um release teachers because our release teachers have uh unique situation with having to teach from carts not having a space to put even a purse or personal belongings that lock and we were told that none of our issues could be agreed upon including having a locking space at every campus for a teacher who doesn't have a classroom a safe space for their belongings that that could that commitment could not be made because our space was at such a premium and they did not want the district did not want to commit to something that they could not follow through with so that's the level of issue of facilities issues which we've heard about a lot tonight and i'm not i'm not saying you don't know that but i am reiterating it um and i'm also going to read an experience um from one of our members named her name is jessica deroy and she couldn't be here tonight because she um is ill so i'm going to read this on her behalf hello i'm jessica deroy i'm a santa cruz county resident since 1982 a parent of two and elementary music and classroom educator working in pvusd since 2012 board members and superintendent i'm speaking today against the approval of of uh navigator charter organization while our district maintains several quality charter schools on its properties we cannot accommodate more charters taking space from our already crowded campuses i speak from direct experience for the past two years i have taught music to over 350 kids every week in our staff lounge because there is not one single extra classroom available for me to use i can only use it in the mornings and afternoons and half the room is a library and the room also holds all of our staff site council meetings and other events i know several of you have enjoyed having meetings there this year guess what just last week one of our classrooms was closed due to the ceiling falling in because of dry rot and so that class is now in the staff lounge leaving me to move our music classroom and all of the valuable instruments and my teaching materials into boxes in the cafeteria for an indeterminate amount of time teachers have nowhere to eat or collaborate during their release time i ask you where would you put a new charter school what campus has extra space to accommodate them at least half of my visual and performing art teacher colleagues are already teaching on carts and other makeshift spaces many other sites have room closures due to mold and dry rot and the repairs last month forcing our students and teachers to endure the stress and adapt to sudden changes again our facilities are in a sorry state and repairs seem to take a really long time as much as we all try to dust and beautify our rooms we are only able to do so much i'm requesting that you say no to the charter petition because pvusd should not divert any funds or facilities to an outside corporate charter because you need to focus on providing the current students and staff of pvusd with clean and safe classrooms and playgrounds did i mention that our entire play field is also fenced off because we were told that the field would be redone over redone over winter break it's still the same gopher whole written field wrapped in a cycle and fence since december there is no room for a leaching charter management or organization to come into our sites let's focus on improving the condition of our facilities and keep the ada money from the pockets of charter pirates who want a free ride on our rotting ships say no to the navigator charter school petition thank you and again that was on behalf of jessica deroy thank you we do have a speaker to this item field mecher good evening um last night several of us were in this room celebrating pv high being uh passed by the board we were thrilled i was personally thrilled because we all been involved trying to see that happen but two weeks ago i even had a bigger enjoyment there was a study session by the board describing how three elementary schools three of the poorest performing elementary schools were showing market increases in performance i've been coming here for 10 years this is the first time that i really got excited about how we're going to be able to improve our academic performance i literally was in tears and as coach your hero knows grown men don't cry i cried well the presentation was on a pilot program done for k in first grade and uh the half year results look outstanding it represents a change in how we teach and as you know i've been before you before to talk about we need to change how we teach well the bottom line of that means that pvft and the teachers should have been there at that meeting they weren't matter of fact there was very few people there was one other person besides myself that attended this pilot program will be expanded from three to nine schools next year it means that teachers will be asked to do things differently for this program to work the district needs the cooperation of the teachers and pvft in order to raise the academic performance which is abysmal we need pvft to be a willing partner with the district and rolling out these changes changes are always hard to accept but this is a time it needs to be done thank you thank you um anybody from csca in attendance still no um pavam thank you good evening president derose trustees and dr red rigas my name is peggy pew i'm the principal of aptos high school and i'm here to represent pavam tonight and tell you some great things that are happening in pvft and in particular at aptos high school uh this afternoon i spent the day at the monterey bay aquarium with students from watsonville high school pahoe valley high school and aptos high school while they presented their final presentation and posters their research posters from their year-long coastal ecology watch program it was one of the most inspiring afternoons of of my educational career listening to our scientists present their findings and speak to an audience that was the general public my seven-year-old daughter and research scientists from uc santa cruce cs umb uh the the aquarium and julia packard so um our students spoke competently they were thoughtful and articulate and i believed every word of it so i was impressed and i thank you very much board for supporting programs like that because it's it's innovation like that that will continue to us help our students on an aptos high school front i want to let you know that our ap program is growing our ap exams begin may 7th and um we have grown in leaps and bounds in large part due to our ap capstone program and that program is still the only uh ap capstone program on the central coast and again i really value um the support we've gotten from the board and from dr arigas in the cabinet because i it's because of your support that we are now we've gone from i think it was 588 exams in 2015 to over 750 exams that we'll be doing this coming uh in the next few weeks so we're super excited about that and we're graduating our largest group of ap capstone diploma candidates this coming june as well um i also want to say thank you very much um to victor sandoval um because under his leadership and with the urging of dr arigas and the board we have seen a huge increase in the turnover rate of our work orders and i just i can't tell you what that means at the site level our students are getting the things that they need and they're getting it more quickly and our teachers are are working in better conditions every single day we're about to start some construction of restrooms at our high school uh this spring and into the summer and we're thrilled about that as well uh lastly thank you again to the board because of the work that you did last year in uh the spring of 2017 you commemorated uh or you helped us to name our baseball facility bailey park if you would like to come out on a hopefully sunny spring day may 8th we will be out there with our grand opening of bailey park uh and we'll be playing against the soquel knights and i'm sure we'll win and we hope to see you out there thank you thank you thank you um cwa okay um so we we're going to move to action items um 15 and these are um as the action items associated with the public hearings that we did at the beginning of the meeting um so item 15.1 is um action on the public hearing and it is recommended that the board accept pvsd's sunshine proposal to csea for a multi-year agreement move approval second okay so um we have one two three four we have four board members this george is still here did she go all those in favor hi hi any opposed motion passes five zero two item 15.2 as um action on the oops am i on the right one on the sunshine proposal to csea or accept csea's sunshine proposal to the board for 17-18 school year um for articles one through eight or articles organizational rights leaves evaluations health and welfare paying allowances grievances bilingual pay and term move approval okay all those in favor hi any opposed motion passes five zero two um 15.3 is accepting pvsd's sunshine proposal for the 17-18 school year to communication workers of america and it is recommended that the board accept the proposal do i have a motion move approval okay all those in favor hi any opposed motion passes five zero two and 15.4 is um a resolution um for after school professionals week do we still have carol or t's here would you like to come on down it says you're doing a a presentation i'm sorry it says i have five minutes but i'll take one minute how's that's fine good evening president de rose superintendent redriguez and members of the panel i mean of the board sorry um this resolution is just to acknowledge uh this week as after school professionals week as you can see in the attachment um the approximately 10.2 million children uh participate in after school programs across the nation every year here in pv usd we're very fortunate to have a robust after school program had as that has been in place since for about maybe 18 years now we serve approximately 4 000 students every single day after school grades first through 12 in pv usd as well as summer school and this resolution is just to acknowledge the work that our after school staff does many of them are some certificated we have many line staff who are college age students and structural assistants student helpers as well who we hope to someday become um educators in our school district and this resolution is just to acknowledge the work that they do for us every day thank you thank you very much are there any speakers to this item none are there any comments or questions from the board okay so i would just like to say that yes i think i'm acknowledging their work is i'm really important and i'm really happy to see how it's evolved over the years my kids took advantage of it now i have a great nephew who's taking ukulele lessons yes after three he's at marvista after three one hour lessons he's playing a song without even looking at the music i'm like thrilled and he's already going i want to play the guitar so again hopefully his math scores are going to go up right so anyway um thank you and so yes i'd like to acknowledge that and i'm wouldn't happy to entertain a motion to pass this resolution like to second that motion okay um so i guess i made a motion i'm sorry no we're all tired it's okay so that was a motion by me and a second by maria all those in favor hi any opposed of course not but a motion passes five zero two you for your support thank you will they get a copy of this great thank you um i am going to recommend that we table this next item 15 it's just a first read it's a first read but i mean we have to go back into closed session we have more action items we have to come out and report and do that by 12 i understand if if you could just well is it important that we do it tonight um it is two years out of date and it is regard to our bond obligation okay then can we do it very quickly yes a one minute and a one minute sounds good good so there was actually three laws which were passed in 2016 and so we have a very outdated board policy which is about general obligation bonds if you look at the attachment so we're doing first reading second readings the goal of first readings is to get it in front of you so you can review it and talk to staff about any concerns you have prior to the second reading just to explain it anything that's highlighted is added so you can see that there is a lot of new material on there and anything that is struck which means has a line through it is old verbiage you'll see for the most part we didn't take out any old language um we just added in a lot of new language which was required from the three new laws and we will take it for a second reading i just ask if you have any changes prior to that to please communicate with me are there any questions are there public comments any speakers okay are there any questions from the board on the changes okay all right so we'll bring this back for a second reading all right thank you um um instructional calendars we are there's a recommendation to approve the 18 19 19 20 and 20 21 instructional calendars and this went through the process um with um with pvft and um the board has seen it once or twice so i think we're ready okay okay go ahead so um i'm doing it with my partner um pft president um and we will i will talk fast um and he'll probably talk faster than me he's a man of few words so um we've submitted um the first uh draft of the calendar from the calendar committee for the three years that's listed on here and on in january 24th and on february 28th um pvft submitted an alternate version and we took the alternate version to uh pvft took the alternate version to their membership and the membership about 500 yeah so we we uh presented both versions option a the first uh reading that you did in option b um but then um use the microphone please thank you i thought i was sorry um we we took both options to our membership and had a a vote option b received the most uh votes overwhelmingly and so we um the recommendation is that uh you approve option b which is um within your packet and as we were directed by the board to do we shared this with csa um the leadership and um they were also represented on the original calendar committee and um they were fine with uh either either the calendars um and also our board wanted us to make sure that the parents we reached out to parents um through delac and school site council and the parents actually liked um pvft's version on the first year because we moved up the the parent um conferences up one week and um and there's very few changes for 2018-19 between the two calendars we just moved up the parent conference one week um for 1920 also very few changes it was just moving one pd day from um october to november and then um i'll leave the other one for francisco to explain so the the 2021 um the biggest issue we had or or the biggest the most comments we got was the beginning of the year uh most of our members wanted the year to start a little later so what we did is we looked at starting two days later by having one of the days one of the professional development days in october moved to august and then um moving uh so that whole first um the whole week of uh august 10th uh we work wouldn't start until um that wednesday and then the students would start in the 17 uh what they what they did is uh cut the year uh short by two days which then we made up um in january and april uh april fifth um we put it as a uh work day um and then the other uh and then started on the 11th okay thanks okay okay great is there are there speakers to this item no no are there any questions or comments from the board okay my only my only question is our students finishing that first semester and taking their finals before winter break all three years yes okay we all three years and also the spring break issue that mr. yahiro um we addressed those all three years okay for the employees okay so i'll entertain a motion to accept the academic calendars i'll second that motion okay so all those in favor i any opposed motion passes five zero two thank you for um waiting for so long um item 17 is the consent agenda do i have a motion for approval i move approval well we do have a speaker for item 17.7 okay so we will um we will defer item 17.7 um do i have a motion with that okay second all those in favor hi any opposed motion passes five zero two and item 18 is the deferred consent items and you can call a speaker and we'll be david russell good evening i will make it short and quick my name is david russell on the on-site tech at pv high school and i'm here just to say as well as my principal said thank you but this is for a different reason since i've been working for the district this will make my eighth full year i noticed the items that were listed as part of this the school facilities all over the district there's electronic equipment that could be repurposed it doesn't have to be thrown away or recycled it can be repurposed so about two or three months ago at my church that i attend over in scott's valley there was a need that was presented uh for the supply of refurbished computers and there's quite a few nonprofits that can do that already however i saw the opportunity to redirect some of the functional equipment that the district has pouring over their shoulders the biggest issue about refurbished computers is that the shipping is exorbitant so the university in guam the pacific island university said that they would prefer laptops tablets anything that could help those things function as here in the district as well you can't have a district function unless you have a network in place you have to have infrastructure for the equipment to access the internet in this case the attachment shows wireless access points um being functional we can no longer use and i'll be a little techie for just a second we had a new controller purchase that couldn't use the equipment so the equipment was going to be thrown away um no more value and i said wait a second i know a university that could use a whole new network system that would saturate and just give them the benefit for their university to use and uh the church wants to go ahead and send it off and so the presentation about two three months ago i sent an email and now just again i just wanted to say thank you for your consideration regarding recycling reusing this viable equipment uh thank you specifically for the new director of technology dan thank you for mark healy who also supports this and thank you for all the techs who help maintain our district's network okay thank you that's it yeah so that that sounds like something that maybe we should look into policy on um letting go of old outdated equipment is there something we can do to look at repurposing it or donating it um if we could just get that as an update maybe like a friday update or something thank you okay um thanks for bringing that to our attention um so when item 19 notice we put this on the agenda reconvene closed session if we need to and we do um items we have to vote on this item 17.7 oh that's right okay okay a little approval okay do i have a second okay all all um in favor hi i any opposed motion passes 502 and in closed session there are a couple items we did not get to and those are 2.5 and 2.6 um we'll go discuss those and then we'll come back and read out on our action um by christie dorose christie dorose is it possible for us to read out because on the actions that we did take in the back another action did take back there anyway okay so we can read out on them after midnight as long as we take action before midnight we have to go okay okay if i can get the board to come to their seats quickly please we have action we need one more one more board member and i can start talking okay okay so um we're going to read we're going to take action on expulsions right now um so i move approval um of um 17 18025 for a full expulsion for the remainder of the 17 18 school year in the fall semester of the 18 19 school year a second any those in favor hi hi any opposed no okay motion passes one two three four five zero two thank you i move approval of the administrative hearing waiver summary 17 18026 for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 17 18 school year with placement at another school in the district on a strict behavior contract second okay all those in favor hi hi any opposed motion passes five zero two i move approval of 17 18 0 31 for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 17 18 school year with placement at another school on a strict behavior contract second all those in favor hi hi any opposed motion passes five zero two i move approval of 17 18 0 33 for a full expulsion for the remainder of the 17 18 school year and the fall semester of the 18 19 school year with placement at another school outside the district on a strict behavior contract second all those in favor hi hi i any opposed motion passes five zero two i move approval of 17 18 0 34 for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 17 18 school year and the fall semester of the 18 19 school year with placement at another school on a strict behavior contract second all those in favor hi hi any opposed motion passes five zero two i move approval of 17 18 0 35 suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 17 18 school year and the fall semester of the 18 19 school year with placement at another school in the district on a strict behavior contract all those in favor hi hi any opposed okay noted motion passes four one two thank you and i just want to make note to the public there was um a large number of expulsions um this time we only had one meeting last month so um some of those that we would typically see at a second meeting during the month had to be placed on this agenda we're we're still seeing good results with our student services department and we have a few other action items and look at our lefty five minutes all right thank you thank you maria under item 2.2 i move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by the district administration with the addition of two admin appointments and seven separations all those in favor hi hi any opposed motion passes five zero two under item 2.3 i move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by the district administration with the addition of one promotion to new provisionary hires and two separations uh from service all those in favor hi hi all those opposed motion carries under item 2.7 the board approved a final settlement and release for one special ed student we're done okay so um would you like to announce our new administrative appointment my boy sir oh okay so we had some new administrative appointments to fill some vacancies at our high schools jean gotlum we know that you love working directly with students and we're happy that you are happy that you are back at a site and you are going to aloni elementary school so congratulations to you and the students and staff at that school um matt levy uh was appointed as principal for peharo valley high school which is great claudia montesario um as the el a coordinator and what what school was that she's from hall district all right congratulations megan thank you megan green comes to us as the new principal at rio del mar elementary school and new marvista principal stephanie more will be joining us so we're so happy that we filled those positions because as you know leadership at those school sites is so important and um we want those school sites to leave for the summer knowing that they have leadership in place and that will contribute to a smooth start of the next academic year so congratulations to everybody i'm sure the district office is going to miss you jean i think you've done a fantastic job but that's your calling right so great congratulations okay and i believe and then the next board meeting is may the ninth and that is a regular board meeting held again in the city council chambers and am i forgetting anything because the normally i do at this late hour nope you're fine i think we're good okay thanks all for joining us into a late evening once again