 Okay, I'm calling to order PVUSD Board Meeting Wednesday, March 13th, 2019. Are there any public comments on closed session? Francisco. Thank you, Francisco Rodriguez, president with Pajaro Valley Foundation and teachers. I am here hoping that I am not setting a president. As you know, I have never come before you to advocate for a member that is being recommended for non-re-election because we trust as teachers, as taxpayers, and I'm sure US trustees, trust that the proper protocols, procedures, both contractual and by-ed code have been followed and that the administration is right in making specific recommendations when it comes to the livelihood of our members and so of our probationary members. And so having said that, I am here to ask that you do not approve the recommendation for non-re-election for employee number 7447. This is an adult education teacher that has not been evaluated once in the two years as an employee. There was, her hours were changed against the contract and her schedules were up in the air for a while. In fact, she was originally hired as a counselor but then reassigned to a, what I call, made up position because it is a position that you have not yet approved. And in addition, had the administration done its job and evaluated this probationary teacher the first semester that she was employed, the administration could have reduced her hours because that is allowed by contract. Had the administration shared concerns, their concerns with the employee and provided the support that the employee needed, we wouldn't be in this position. On the contrary, the administration played derogatory material in her personnel file, alluding to the, evaluating her to clarify her, or clarify the duties of the position. And as you all know, that is not the purpose of an evaluation. So you may be told that this particular employee misplaced some files but the fact is that this particular employee made recommendations to the department on how to keep track of files because apparently losing files in the department is not uncommon. The other problem you'll probably be told about is that the employee misses appointments with students, however, when you are uncertain of your schedule, your location, or your times, your starting and end times, because they are constantly changed, it lends itself to missing an appointment now and then if indeed it is true that she missed appointments. Anyway, we recommend that you not approve the recommendation and allow for this employee to be evaluated next year and there is a process in place to peer assistance and review. If the employee is not meeting the expectations so that they can be supported and if there is no improvement, then they can be let go. Thank you. Oh, I was going to ask you, isn't there something in the contract that when you put stuff in their file that they have 10 days to respond? Correct. We, in the interest of not complicating the matter for the district or the union thinking that we would be able to resolve a simple misunderstanding of when the department can and cannot reduce hours, we found material in her personnel file of which she had not been notified that has been placed in there. So there was no way for her to respond to it. Because she's supposedly supposed to have 10 days to be able to do that, right? That's correct. In terms of your contract, yeah. Okay. Hi, Alejandro too. Hello. Good afternoon. Again, just like Francisco, you're not going to see me usually here advocating on issues that are related with termination because I trust and let the district move through the motions of this process. But we do have an employee in transportation. He's a bus driver who possibly the district wants to recommend termination and I truly do believe that based on the merits of the situation, based on the incident that took place, that this does not merit to put this person through the termination process. We have progressive discipline in our contract and I believe that based on the issues, based on who this person is, he has worked for the district for over 12 years. He, when you look at his evaluations, they're always graded as outstanding. He has never had any disciplinary issues with the district and I don't believe, I don't understand why we have to put this person through a termination process. So I would hope that the board can reconsider and put him through the progressive discipline that we have in our contract. That's all. Thank you. Okay. We will now go into closed session to discuss one expulsion referral, certificated public employee employment, employment government code section 54957, 2.2, 2.3 classified public employment appointment employment, government code section 54957, 2.4 negotiations update, 2.5 public employee discipline dismissal release leaves, 2.6 existing anticipated pending litigation, 2.7 resolution 181930 non-relection of certain probationary certificated employees. Thank you. Okay. I might do this. Oh, we have more people have to come. That's true. You can talk. Come on everybody. Okay. Now I'm going to do this. Welcome everyone to our meeting on March 13th, Wednesday, and we are happy to see you all here with us. Okay. 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. We have a translator. I think it's Virginia again, right? Virginia. There she is. There she is. So if you need the translator to bring the translations, you can talk to her and get the devices. Okay. Now it's time for Dr. Rodriguez to give her comments. Yeah, thank you. Well, this week began the application process for our second annual summer in the city internship program. So this program provides leadership and government learning experience with the city of Watsonville and also with PVUSD. So the program is for incoming high school juniors and seniors only from our school district. So it's something very special for us. So this week began the process for our second annual summer internship program in the city and also in the district. This program provides leadership and government learning experience in the city of Watsonville and also in the district. So the internship will be from Monday, June 17th to Friday, July 5th. And our PVUSD teachers will be teaching from 9 to 12 noon. And the internship will be from 1 to 5 p.m. And students will be able to work throughout the city as well as with our public information officer, our technology department, and our business department. So this program will be from Monday, June 17th to Friday, July 5th. And our PVUSD teachers will be teaching from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. And the internship will be from 1 to 5 p.m. So students will be able to work in the city as well as with our public information officer, our technology department, and our business department. So students will receive 2.5 elective credit and a $500 stipend. And we encourage all to apply. The deadline is Friday, May 3rd, 2019 by 5 p.m. I just want to note for the public the $500 stipend is through the city. And so it is not using public funds. The students will receive 2.5 elective credit and a $500 stipend. This money comes from the city of Watsonville and we want everyone to try to apply. The deadline to apply is Friday, May 3rd at 5 p.m. So thank you and we hope that it's another great experience for our students. Okay, now I'm going to have board comments and let's see how I will start this time. How about this way? What? Oh, you did? Oh, I thought Maria started last time. Good evening, everybody. It's good to be here. I know I only have a minute, so I've done lots of things. I just want everybody to know that me, other trustees in the district, we're working to do the best we can to measure elephants. I've been at Middie White, I've been to Eahall and I've been to Watsonville High and we are working what we said we were going to do. Yesterday, I went to Sacramento on behalf of the CSBA and we had a chance to interact with our elected officials. I talked to Bill Monning and Assemblymember Rivas. I told them, you know, there was lots of other people there, but with the help of Michelle, I told them that I would talk about how we need more transportation for special needs students. Right now, we contribute 5.3 million a year with a total cost of 7.9 and we only received 2.6 of state funding. I also talked about Proposition 51 where we are in line. I told Assemblymember Rivas to please release those funds so we can get them. I also brought up the point that we need more guidance counselors. I know we talked about a couple meetings ago. Right now, it's currently 400 students per guidance counselor and we need to get that back down to 250, at least somewhere right there. That's what I was doing. Thank you very much. I'm going to keep it short since we started a little late tonight. I want to thank everybody here in the audience for coming. I did attend a PVPSA. That's our nonprofit that helps children and families in our district with behavioral health and mental health problems and issues. I attended that meeting. Last night, I attended Fort Kids Foundation, which I'm the chair of that board, and I would appreciate this district's help. We've got money to help kids with critical issues. So if there's something in a kid's life that would make a big difference or change for them, I invite everybody to submit a referral to the Fort Kids Foundation, Monterey Bay, and we'll try to fund things that will make a critical difference in the life of a child. Thank you. Thank you, Karen. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us tonight. There's a couple of exciting things underway. In collaboration with the Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community Services nonprofit, we have secure funding to improve and potentially expand the community garden at Alianza Charter School, pending the approval of the location from our district administration, of course. We have that verification project scheduled for some time in May. I will provide more details as soon as the data approaches so that all board members hopefully are able to participate as part of that project. I also attended our first in a governmental committee meeting with Trustee Holm and Trustee Shocker last week, and we're moving in the right direction. Extensive work has already been done to determine the future of the Mellow Center, how to maximize its views, and also how we can collaborate with the City of Watsonville as far as making sure that we take care of all the maintenance, different maintenance projects to that facility. Also, given the limited amount of park space within the City of Watsonville, I am also very happy to report that we have a pilot initiative underway to open E.A. Hall in Minty White, playground and fields to the community as part of a joint use agreement with the City. If this pilot program proves to be successful, there may be room for expanding the use of our facilities. And again, it's a joint use agreement where both the district and the City will be putting money to make sure that we maintain those facilities that we open to the community. I also attended our elementary school LCAP input session, and that was the most fun. It was great to see the children interact with one another. They had great ideas as far as feedback goes towards innovative programs, our 21st century learning environments and their school culture and climate. And I'm also looking forward to attending our D-LAC meeting next Tuesday. Thank you. Good evening. So I attended the Special Education Local Plan Area Community Advisory Committee. And that evening we heard about the effects both positive and negative of screen time on kids and their families. And I wanted to just take a moment to say that these meetings are a tremendous resource to our communities. And even as an experienced parent, I walk away from these meetings learning something new each time. And I've been very impressed by them. I encourage people to attend. Attending the Intergovernmental Committee meeting, there are so many links, particularly the conversations about open spaces, so many links between staying active and healthy and having school success. And our communities need access to safe open spaces to realize that potential. I also attended the migrant education speech and debate showcase and Rio de Mar Elementary's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And just acknowledging these kids who really, you know, took, it takes something to be in public, on a stage in front of people, and they did that. And I'm so proud of them. Thank you, everyone. I apologize. I'm not feeling well tonight. So if I get up and run out of the room, it's nothing personal. Anyways, it's been busy. I'm not going to elaborate anymore on the Intergovernmental Committee that we did last week with the city, but we will talk that we are advocating the crosswalk issue. The city is aware of that. We're aware of the need for safer crosswalks close to Landmark and Radcliffe. That is being addressed as we speak. I was also able to go see some science experiments with some of the kids at Watsonville Charter School of the Arts. Their innovation never ceases to amaze me. This was the younger kids second and third graders, so it was fun to see what they have been coming up with. Working with Danny Dodge, thank you very much, and Dr. Rodriguez, we will be doing an open forum at Landmark Elementary School with our mayor, Paco Estrada, and that will be taking place on April 11th, and this is open to the public to address any community concerns, community action items, or questions that you might have. We are trying to partner with the city to make more programs available, partnering with the police department for safety and crosswalk, safety in getting to school, safety in the classrooms for our children, and I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you. Hello, good evening, and welcome, everyone, and keeping light with my colleagues. We're sorry for being late, so I'm going to keep it short. I had the privilege since our last board meeting to attend the meet and greet of elected women in Santa Cruz County event. It was great to meet and speak with so many other women who serve as elected officials within our county. It was great hearing their stories and reasons behind why so many women in our county have chosen to run for local elected offices. Additionally, while meeting so many women who serve in our county as elected officials, it was also great to discuss with them as so many of them were also serving on other school boards throughout the county. It was very interesting to discuss with them similar in different issues that affect our local schools and our community. It was also very inspiring to talk about and discuss inspiring other young women in our county and community to run for local elected offices. I also want to note for the public record that I am appointing Ari Parker as my appointee to the Parharo Valley Education Foundation. And then, kind of sadly, I have one last note and I'm sort of sad to end on this. I'm sorry to see that the student award that I have been handed to pass out tonight actually has an incorrect board president's signature, so hopefully we could get that corrected for our students going forward. This is the first I've seen since we've had a transition, so hopefully we could get that corrected, please. Thank you. So I'm going to try to be quick because I have done quite a few things. I went to a migrant parent advisory committee that is at the Parharo Middle School, and it was kind of great because each person who has a committee in their school actually got up with a microphone and talked about what their committee meeting was doing, which I thought was good. And then, I forgot, he's a community something. His position, he came from Salub, Padalajinte, and he talked about all their programs, of course. And then he talked about social networking, the good parts of social networking and the negative parts of social networking, and he showed us a video that was a little bit scary about the negative things that can happen with social networking. So I also went to the Migrant Head Start Policy Committee meeting, and one of the things that happened was one of their coordinators had talked about and gave a handout about their monthly themes that they have for Migrant Head Start, and it was really cute. There was a very cute video on their theme of insects. It's very cute. And instead of a sandbox, they had a soil box that had plants and insects in it, and they've done lots of great art and stuff. It was really great. I also went to Dr. Rodriguez's staff meeting. She's having now with schools, and I went to the one that was at Pahdol Middle School, and she talked, of course, all that we're doing academically and all the stuff that we're doing now, and teachers were asked to go to different parts of the room where they had things like assigns about innovation, empowerment, integrity, and many more, and they put little things about how they thought about those kinds of things. And then she took time to answer, she gave them each little cards, so they could put all their questions on it, and she answered as many questions as she could, and then she told them that all of the questions she wasn't able to answer before we had to end, she would answer them on her weekends. So she answered all the rest of the questions that she wasn't able to answer right then in her staff meeting. She answered them. I went to the National Agricultural Day luncheon. So agriculture is our present here in Watsonville, and it is our future agriculture. It was a really good event. The last thing I was able to do, I went to an event in Santa Cruz for the International Women's Day. It was International Women's Day, it was. And I'm not going to tell you all about it because it takes too long, but they had a panel of speakers, they had food, they had a little workshop at the end that I went to. It's really good too. Thank you. High school students, and I think we have Aptos today, don't we? Okay, so good evening everybody. So on March 8th was the last day to pay for AP exams or make the deposit. Oh, I'm Gage. I had to sign up on junior. Anyways, so the AP exams take place on May 6th through the 17th. And currently right now, Aptos staff, a lot of the teachers are writing letters of recommendations for seniors to submit to their colleges. And then Saturday school is continuing this weekend, even though it got cancelled last weekend because of a lacrosse tournament. And then the Cabrio planning sessions are still in place and are taking place tomorrow, March 14th. Hi, I'm Kalai. So last night, choir had their annual concert, celebrating song from 7 to 9.30 in the PAC. The performances were really great and the turnout was really good as well. And theater students are looking forward to their trip to Ashland, Oregon next month, which is the theater capital of our country. And students will watch a variety of plays, performances, and participate in workshops to improve their skills. Hi, I'm Sophia. And so for activities, we're still currently selling prom bids. And our location from prom this year is at the Coconut Grove. And the theme is Golden Gall, which is an honor of Aptos High's 50-year anniversary. Next year is our spring spirit week, and the theme is road trip. Our spring club carnival is set for March 26th. Hi, I'm Riley. So our spring sports have just started, and softball and baseball have been postponed for a little while. But now they're starting off, and both of them have a record of two and one. Track won their first league meet on Thursday versus Santa Cruz. Our lacrosse team hosted a tournament this weekend, and it was really great. Boys Tennis has a strong start of four and one, and our boys volleyball team currently is two and one, and they have a game against PCS tonight. And cheer and song-palm tryouts are next week. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. So tonight we are recognizing two students. The first student is Antonia Rodriguez Rivera-Amesdi Elementary. And bring your family up. Everybody should come up. The whole family, the whole family, the whole family. Come on, family. Here we go. Face the board. There you go. Okay. There you go. Okay. Good evening, President Osmondson, Superintendent Rodriguez, and esteemed members of the board. I would like to introduce Antonia and her family. Elisiano Julia, her mom and dad, her sister, Ariana, and her little sister, Dariana. And I would like to introduce Mr. Hayes. El maestro va a hablar acerca de Antonia, pero quiero reconocer todos los maestros que eran sus maestras desde Chiquita. So Mr. Hayes is going to speak. Good evening. It's good to see you all here. Buenos noches. Good evening, trustees and to everyone, and especially the MESTI staff. Thanks, you guys, for being here. I'm John Hayes. I'm a teacher, fifth grade teacher at MESTI. And I have been given the honor and the pleasure to speak on behalf of a MESTI staff and community to recognize the skills and talents and achievements of Antonia Rodriguez Rivera. So Antonia has attended a MESTI since kindergarten. Now she's in fifth grade. And she's impressed us since the early grades with her initiative and her perseverance and resourcefulness academically, and her maturity and creativity and determination as a child. The teachers and staff who know her see in Antonia exceptional critical thinker and a creative thinker. She brings to our classrooms and her peers an excitement and enthusiasm for learning. I certainly know that when Antonia raises her hand in my class to contribute to our class conversation, I call on her and she often begins with the phrase, I have a question. We also recognize early on that Antonia has an extraordinarily comforted fluency with language. She excelled through our bilingual program at MESTI and today she's an above grade level reader in both English and Spanish. She also speaks Alidio Mi Misteco in one of the languages she speaks with her family. And when she was in first grade, she created a trilingual dictionary by itself is remarkable for a first grader, but not sufficient for Antonia. Typical for her, she turned the dictionary into a trilingual video which earned national recognition from Nave, the bilingual education association. And she was one of five students nationally to receive this acclaim. Locally, she's involved in our county's language ambassador program. In fact, the video she made a few years ago is on the county office of education language ambassadors website if you'd like to check it out. Just as cute, only a little shorter. You're just younger. And recently she represented MESTI at the county spelling bee. Well, now that she's 11 years old she's going to soon lose her to middle school. We still appreciate her intellect and her work ethic. I get to see it every single day. We enjoy hearing her questions, giving her opportunities to challenge herself and seeing how she expresses her ideas with confidence and creativity. So in the future, she has expressed interest in studying medicine or researching cures for diseases like cancer. All we know at this time is that we sincerely believe that Antonia will meet whatever goals she sets for herself. She understands the importance of family and the caring for each other. And this is evident every day at school when she frequently checks on our little sister, Ariana in second grade, stopping by the classroom, saying hi, seeing how we're doing over there. If the mission in our district is in part to support learners in reaching their highest potential and prepare them for the future, we're off to a great start with Antonia. But we don't have to wait for the future to appreciate what she brings to our school community today. For us as educators in her life, it's a reminder that students make positive contributions right here, right now. They're role models right now and they're making our world better right now. So we're grateful for Antonia, what she has given to us, and we're excited for her future and what she will achieve and how she will continue to inspire the children and adults in her life. Antonia, felicidades. Muchísimas gracias. Muchísimas gracias. Muchísimas gracias. Muchísimas gracias. Muchísimas gracias. Muchísimas gracias. Muchísimas gracias. We have the power value of our district. I want to present you with this certificate and recognition for everything that you've done, all of the success that you had up to this point and to your bright future. Congratulations. Thank you. Muy buenas noches a todos. Soy la mamá de Antonia y le quiero felicitar a mi niña que se está yendo muy bien a la escuela. Muy orgulloso de ella. I'm her mother and I just want to congratulate her because she's doing so well in school. I am very proud of her. Me siento muy orgullosa de ella y les digo que le eche muchas ganas y les agradezco a todos los maestros que le han apoyado. I ask her to continue to do her best and I am very grateful to all the teachers who have supported her through her school. I congratulate her too. We got you. Where is she? Where is she? Very special. The next student is named Rodolfo Ortiz and Soldo Elementary. I'm hoping I can get through this without coughing. Good evening President Osmudsen, Superintendent Rodriguez and esteemed board members and everybody else that's here to celebrate. We also have one of those future leaders. His name is Rodolfo Ortiz and we are here to brag about him. He is a shining example of what it means to be an all-star student at Anseldo Elementary. He is friendly and fair towards his classmates. He takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are presented to him and he is known by students and teachers to be trustworthy and respectful. We appreciate his family who is supportive and encouraging. They too are an important factor in his success. His former teachers had great things to say about him. Ms. Gold shared that even in first grade, critical thinking came naturally to Rodolfo. He was always the one to ask, I wonder what would happen to Rodolfo or I know another way this could work. His mind works like a computer always scanning for connections while his creative thinking skills lead him to imagine what only a bright child can do. Rodolfo has all of the abilities we hope for in a student. Abilities to take us into a future that requires innovative solutions. His third grade teacher, Mr. Knight, remembers Rodolfo for his thoughtful work on observations. He did not need motivation from his teacher. He seemed ready to go ready to be motivated every day. He was always ready to learn and was always excited about what he was doing and optimistic about what he was going to do. His fourth grade teacher, Ms. Martinez highlights Rodolfo for being an avid reader. She says he was never without a book in class. She shared that he has a great vocabulary about theme and characters. He showed an interest in animals specifically how to stop more animals from becoming extinct. He worked hard to understand new and challenging concepts, particularly enjoying science. His current teacher, Ms. Mallard added that Rodolfo is an academically advanced student, very well rounded and kind. He is a pleasure to have in class. Rodolfo shows great initiative. He is over 100% on ST math and on to the sixth grade syllabus. He represented Anseldo at the county Spelling Bee and during the recent LCAP student session in this very room. Rodolfo is a member of the recently formed student art club that is also led by one of our teachers here, Ms. Schaefer, and definitely a fan of our school library where, quote, Rodolfo says there are many amazing books that you can have a laugh at or just be so deeply interested in that you won't want to put the book down. We're thrilled to celebrate Rodolfo as well as his wonderful family. Thank you. Okay. Approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion? So now, approval of the minutes from February 27th. Can I have a motion? I will call for a vote. All in favor? I'll oppose. We're still 6-0. Somebody is not here. Okay. Public comments. Danny. First off, we have Cordelia and that. My name is Cordelia and that. Thank you so much for having me. I'm here on behalf of the Santa Cruz Symphony. Monday and Tuesday this week we were actually at the mellow center in California representing a free program, a free concert to the fourth and fifth graders of this county. This has started actually a while ago, the process for this. We've been doing these concerts for over 30 years now, but two years ago we really changed the game. We partnered with Carnegie Hall to bring a program that they call Link Up to the county. So what this does is it partners with classroom and music teachers and students who have been playing at a concert. We partnered with Audrey Serota at the COE and your own Sue Graalze here at Pajaro. And we did teacher trainings, four of them. And Audrey did some private ones as well. And then the kids have now been learning on recorder as well as singing and clapping, doing hand movements. They're all jazzed up and it was like yesterday morning as they were just singing loudly at the top of their lungs to the blue Danube and the toria door. It was so exciting. And then they were learning their recorders and like do do do do do do do do. Like all on recorder, these fourth and fifth graders, full hauls, it was great. We do have one more. Santa Cruz goes last this week so they will be tomorrow morning if you'd like to see these concerts in action. We have missed now the mellow ones but we do have two at the Santa Cruz Civic tomorrow, 9.30 and 11. I can't encourage you enough to come and see them, they're really fantastic. To get on with my three minutes we also have an event here on March 23rd at the Watsonville Public Library. We're doing these events now at the Watsonville Overtures and they're just kind of a way to introduce ourselves to the community to just say a little bit more than what the three minutes of public meetings allows. Talk about our education program so in addition to these concerts that we're doing this week we have an in classroom music listening program as well as scholarships and open rehearsals. We have an extensive concert programming throughout the year so that will be again on March 23rd at the Watsonville Public Library at 2 p.m. I have flyers if anyone's interested and that's pretty much wrapping up. Thank you so much. Next we have Bill Beecher. Madam President Dr. Rodriguez, Trustees and Staff I have three items I wanted to bring up this evening one has to do with the board packet you guys get it on Friday this year there's been a change that is made available to the public on Sundays and that created a problem for me tonight because we're doing the second interim review a little later there's 200 pages to go through that's pretty hard to do in a day or two days and be ready to come in here and talk. It used to be the practice of this district to make that available on Fridays to the public and I would suggest that we should go back to that in the future to allow people like myself sufficient time to review the packet I'm sure PBFT would love to have seen the packet early so that they could go through the second interim. The second issue is last fall I brought up that we haven't had a review of our health plan from the provider what are what are the charges versus what we're paying 40 million dollars we should be having a review and I think President yes had suggested at that time that that seemed like a good idea I still think it's a good idea I thought that there was a suggestion that it should be put on the agenda haven't seen it then lastly also last fall Trustee Orozco suggested that we should combine the celebration students and so forth to once a year so that we could save time for board meetings many of these board meetings go well past 10.30 I know that you guys don't like staying that long I don't so I think we ought to bring up that suggestion again and inculcate that into future plans thank you I'm sorry I have actually a question or comment Mr. Beecher brought up a good point because I recall that when I first came on this board we did publish the agendas always on Fridays between four and five p.m. roughly it was maybe around the time we started going through our really contentious negotiations issues that they started getting published on Sundays between five and six which I still recognize falls in compliance with the Brown Act but it doesn't create create for the public that much of a transparency issue which I think is very concerning and I could speak as a board member I would agree with Mr. Beecher it doesn't even give us as board members that much adequate time to review the backup that is in you know the agenda so you know I know the city of Watsonville they made on Tuesdays they published their agenda Thursdays by five p.m. maybe we could look to get back on that track I think Mr. Beecher brings up a good point about that and I also think he also brings up a good point we have discussed that in the past board about the student recognition awards we all love that component of the board meeting but maybe it could be consolidated into one special board meeting or trustees could go to the sites you know something maybe we need to re-figure something with that so I'd like to ask the agenda setting committee to you know put that on their agenda tickler and think about that and also both those items because they both fall within you three and the secretary the superintendent thank you quickly can I have now the unions which is PVFT Federal Valley Federation of Teachers thank you Francisco Rodriguez I just wanted to make a couple comments on the number of grievances that we have opened most of them are grievances that we are able to sit down and resolve unfortunately over half of them all come from that same department adult education and they are some of the most malicious grievances over the last year you know our members have been as I explained earlier cut hours against the contract in fact they have not been evaluated in fact only six teachers in the last three years have been evaluated in that department you heard earlier from our sister union CSCA with some concerns as well I think that there needs to be you as trustees need to give the directive to look into this matter to ensure that the contract is followed PVFT is doing its part by trying to resolve these grievances in fact our chief negotiator Nellie Vaqueta made sure that the administrators each had a contract at our last meeting with them gave them the contract and suggested that they read it prior to making any decisions and we are not their supervisors we understand what we can do but you have the power to provide direction to the administration to hopefully settle this matter and make sure that teachers there are being evaluated and that they are treated as per contract this is still PVFT Hi, I'm Nellie Vaqueta Boggs I'm the chief negotiator so good evening Dr. Rodriguez so a month ago I stood before you to present our proposal to negotiate we have communicated with the district of our readiness to schedule negotiations since December we were asked to wait and in January we communicated our eagerness to get started so that our membership could have a settled contract before the school year ends again we were asked to wait despite having attended the governor's proposal for the 19-20 budget so that's we waited that happened we waited some more so now we've been asked to wait for the May revise or also for the health and welfare benefits change so there's always something to wait for and although we have had some successful agreements working with collaborative efforts with HR we really do like working with Chona oh thank you we've had successful agreements in regards to the senior bilingual stipends CTE and hopefully the math and science single subject agreement so PBFT members are ready to negotiate a contract that attracts and retains highly qualified educators counselors, psychologists, nurses and speech and language therapists and program specialists people that will help ensure that our students are achieving their best Dr. Kailene stated that she will be sun-shiding the district's proposals at the next board meeting on March 27th, that's something that she assured me of I suspect their proposals might include some cuts to our members at some capacity but I really do hope that I can be proven wrong with that suspicion our students deserve qualified teachers counselors, psychologists, nurses speech and language therapists and program specialists from ECE to adult ed we need people who are going to be here for the long haul so that our students can go back and visit them as they grow into adulthood so thank you okay can we have CSEA Alejandro are you coming? Hello, good evening members of the board Alejandro Mady and Labor Rep for CSEA Diana Martinez are one of our executive board members for the chapter well let me start with the good news first so I wanted to first of all on behalf of the chapter and our membership thank the members of the board for approving the summer assistance program we were able to enroll more than 300 of our members into the program over the last two months it was well received by the membership especially for our members who are the lowest paid to see this program as a benefit and as an encouragement to continue to work in education I would also like to thank Joe and Chona and the district for collaborating with us with resources and with information that made it much much easier to be able to help the membership with all the questions that they had about this new program that was put out there by the state so on our part we're going to continue to lobby the state to see if we can make this program ongoing and can be a new benefit that our 10th and 11 month employees can have on another note we're going to be celebrating for the first time since we negotiated this new holiday this is our Chavez holiday we're going to be celebrating it on the Friday of spring break so the first week of April and again our members are happy to be able to celebrate this because of the significance of the role that Cesar Chavez played here in the Watsonville area and to when I heard you talk about the agriculture committee that you went to agriculture was the past is the present and will continue to be the future of our region and I really really hope that in the coming years that we can actually make this a holiday for the whole district because there's a lot of history of the movement that Cesar Chavez did in this region and the significance that it has to the children of today and so I hope that in the coming future that we can honor this to be a holiday for all of our community in the Pajaro Valley Unified school district alright so that was a good news okay so let's talk about negotiations we're going to be sun shining soon for the 2019 school year so hopefully by the April board meeting we'll have our initial proposal I did have a chance to look at the second interim and I did go through all of it it's kind of like what I do all the time and just to let you know that where we're heading in the district always remember because I don't want the naysayers to say that oh the union is the one that breaks the bank remember that we're here to work with the district to ensure that we have the finances and that we have the budget to be able to continue to support our community that we're here to work with the district that we're here to work with the teachers with everyone that's part of this community to ensure that we have agreements that are fiscally sound for the district for our members and for the community I think you know just as an example of an area where probably the district can save money is how we utilize the lawyers here in Pajaro Valley one of the things that I've been a strong advocate of is of not having lawyers at the table because this is my only district of the many that I represent where we had a lawyer at the table and we had to schedule our meetings on the calendar of the lawyer we had to wait for the lawyer's input to be able to you know move forward with what we were proposing and I just have to say that you know we have smart articulate creative people in this district both in management and in our members and I can speak on behalf of PVFT to say that that's also the case and we you know when the labor rep is hired by CSEA we have to sign this agreement and that put out proposals to the district that are unlawful so nothing that we propose is kind of like a gacha moment of tricking the district to go and agree on something that's unlawful everything that we do has to be legal and has to be ensured that we're proposing things that are within the law and the code so I hope that as we start negotiations that it can be more of the family here in Pajaro Valley while you're so much being involved in the process of negotiations just my piece of mind on that so that's mostly what I have we will be bringing the initial proposal and I'll pass the mic to Diana Good evening Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez and Cabinet I'd like to start off with we our e-board was invited to participate in the labor the LMI the Labor Management Initiative we were excited that we were invited to this and we learned a lot in those two days and when we met afterwards after a meeting on the second day I did you know vocally say that I was excited that we're coming together and becoming unified as one as Pajaro Valley Unified the word unified is in PDUSD and I felt this is a step huge step forward to be able to settle things and come to agreements and instead of battling because it shouldn't be a battle because we're here for you know the kids this is our city our legacies here and the families the majority live here and their you know families continue on living here in Watsonville and we want to be able to provide the best service as possible for our own community so with that said I'm so excited and I'm hoping that that excitement is not deflated at one point but that we continue to work together and to become one thank you okay now I have PAVAM Pato Valley Association of Managers anyone nope how about CWA which is the Communication Workers of America okay number one approval of amendment number one to facilitate lease for the Pato Valley high school play field upgrade and site improvements alright good evening members of the board Superintendent Rodriguez administration and members of the public I am very pleased and excited to present this item if you recall back in May of 2018 the board approved for the district to proceed with the lease-leaseback delivery method and to pursue an RFP to solicit contractors and in that process we went through and we provided that RFP throughout the state the firm that was selected was Kent Construction and since that award we have been working very hard with Kent Construction facility staff and other district staff to go through and we did a constructability review identify potential obstacles within the project review the architectural plans the layout you name it and so the team has worked very hard on that I mean up to probably a couple hours before this meeting we've been working on that in partnership and so I'm very excited and we're excited to present this this evening this puts us in line for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and for construction to start on April 15th we also worked in partnership with school site council and the principal Matt Levy within your packet or the agenda item you have the revised lease-lease agreement with the amount total amount not to exceed and also you have the Kent Construction document that outlines by light item how we arrived at that number and let me scroll back up here and we are at excuse me and so the total is $12,898,450 and $0.78 and that's $0.78 definitely with the board's approval this is an evening for celebration and we will make sure I will actually email them right now after board approves to get to work so we're very excited pretty exciting can I have a motion I would like to make the motion to approve this public speakers is there a public speaker Danny no, okay I would just like to thank Willie Yajiro he put a lot of effort into passing the measure Elbon when he talks about Pajaro Valley High School I'd like to say thank you again I ask Michelle if she can reach out to Mr. Yajiro and see if he can make it because this was his project so if he can make it thank you okay any more discussion from the board I have a question so speaking of Mr. Yajiro I would propose that we actually name the field for him the Willie Yajiro field and I'm not sure how to propose that but I'd like to put it on on somebody's agenda so we definitely can work with the Pajaro Valley High School field on that our community on that our board policy is fairly specific on how we name fields and it has to be community driven I'm not saying it can't be community driven I'm just saying there has to be a swelling from the community and then there has to be a committee that's formed that's very similar to what happened with Mr. Sutherland so we definitely can work with the principal I'd also if a board member would like to help spearhead that too with the community because it can't be a it's not allowed to be an administrative push it's supposed to be a swelling from the community that would be appreciated are all the other board members going to be invited to this event former board members I'm sorry yes so we did do an electronic invitation to all former board members that have been within the eight year time period because of the request I personally invited Willie on behalf of Trustee Dodge so I personally did it in person with Willie the rest have received it via email and I know two of them have responded to me that they appreciated the invitation so I believe that everyone in the recent board will be there as the one prior board I think that's a great idea I would like to be part of the committee and I think I can go out and get support and I would like to be part of that no more discussion I have a favor aye all those opposed I wouldn't think so all right thank you so much Joe we're all very very very excited about that happening now we're doing 8.2 and that is our interim budget report alright so some positive news is we are providing a positive certification and that's the staff's recommendation for the board approval the report includes our multiyear projections it reflects the LCFF corresponding funding projections and assumptions based on our FICMAT state calculator that we districts use to calculate the formulas and we'll just do a brief outline of our budget so overview of the second interim including our assumptions our updated multiyear look the variance report and next steps so all districts as I stated are required to do a second interim and submit periodical fiscal reports as we know the budget district budget is a living document and this captures a period of time throughout the year throughout our fiscal year so that is July 1 to January 31 we have districts have three factors or reports that they can submit when they submit a first or second or third interim and that's positive which means the district can meet its minimum obligations for the current and the outgoing years can meet its current but may not meet the outgoing year, the next year and the negative certification is you cannot meet either your current fiscal obligations or the next year and we are positive so that's some positive news our reporting schedules I just wanted to remind the board is we have to adopt our budget no later than July 1 unedited actuals there's the fiscal activity through the end of the year December 15 our independent third party audit is prior year budget and that is reviewed and finalized in January and February and board approved our fifth interim by December 15 our second interim by March 15 and then third interim if required and those are for districts that are either qualified or negative and we are not there but those are submitted to the county submitted by June 30 so some of the major assumptions included in the second interim is the LCFF funded by our new governor from his January budget proposal using the state FICMAT calculator and that was a point in time given Governor Newsom's revenue and or projections and assumptions from the state we are getting some feedback now the revised that state revenue is taking a dip as what was previously anticipated we will confirm that by mid-May and then provide that we're also attending the governor's workshop on May 20 our average daily attendance is a little bit over 17,207 for the current year and adjusted for declining enrollment we mentioned that previously we had a slight decline but we also have it taken into consideration as we have housing development and other development within the city so we're also using our projections and that reflects that as well expense is our current employee step and column movement our stirs and purrs rates and rate increases and health and welfare contributions and we have a projected increase and I'll have a slide that describes that so here we have general fund unrestricted multi-year and what I wanted to point out here is that you look at our beginning balance for 18-19 33.8 million and 19-20 25.4 and 20-21 18.6 the balance added plus your revenues of 194.41 and 18-19 with your expenditures and that of contributions so that is taken from unrestricted and that's going into our restricted account and so you see that as a withdrawal in our contribution line item there and I'll explain where that goes on the next slide but that mainly is transportation our Selpa and other contributions from the general fund then the increase and decrease of each within the multi-year and then our ending balance I think one note to point out is that our ending balance of 25.4 for 18-19 and you go straight across to 20-21 to 12.25 we are spending down our ending balance fund balance for unrestricted and then if you go through our 3% reserve that's another justification that we have a positive certification that we have a minimum 3% reserve for our district and so we have the minimum 3% reserve one thing I would like to highlight and I'm concerned about is the committed additional 3% reserve as you see in 18-19 we're at 6.82 and for 20-21 we had to use the additional 3% reserve to meet our financial obligations so I just wanted to point that out that is two years out and we're still some unknown factors for our budget so there's some unknown factors there the committed fund balance part of that is for something you just approved is a PV High School football field for our facilities there and so we have that 3.91 that is dedicated to that and regarding our multi-year for restricted so here you'll see the contribution of the same amount that was coming from unrestricted and that is the transfer and that is because of the contribution from the general fund to restricted so you see that direct correlation from unrestricted to restricted so beginning balance for 18-19 is 6.1 our revenues at 52.8 our expenditures of 91.5 so there you see that our revenues are far less than our expenditures and that is the funding levels that we have for SELPA funding levels that we have for transportation and other unfunded measures that we have as a district from the state so it has a ripple effect and that's the impact to our district there you also see the deficit spending we are addressing that in our restricted funds and it is going down accordingly now this is the combined multi-year so this combines both slides so both funds unrestricted and restricted together and this shows the combined beginning balance, our revenues and our expenditures our deficit spending for 18-19 is 11.8 million and then you see going in the out years for 19-20 at 8.42 and then 2021 at 5.91 so we are decreasing our deficit spending so that's a good thing and we will also continue to look at other additional internal efficiencies and also you see the commitment to the district that we are using our current funding for 18-19 at 28.2 and for 19-20 it's 19.7 so we are using current funding at our programs throughout our district as we get those funds and then the outline of our 3% reserve and our assigned fund balance which was mentioned previously for our PV high and then you have the additional 3% reserve and the concern in 2021 and you also see the restricted fund balance is decreasing as well so we are maximizing all our funding sources that we do receive we are currently in a budget review process which we are looking at the various buckets of funding and just making sure that we have the resources associated with those funding measures so making sure that we are using the right funding for the right initiatives another component is also a challenge but we also are optimistic with the development is the impact of declining enrollment we have we will feel the impact two years out it's not an immediate hit in the current year but it's one year out and we're working on some various initiatives and I know the board and our superintendent is also working on various initiatives in regards to attendance and we also have an update to the board coming very soon about our Saturday Academy, our attendance recovery and that has gone very positive and so I just want to make sure that we are focused on this area as well this graph shows our enrollment and ADA history as a district and looks at the comparison of our enrollment and then our students that attend on a daily basis and so you can see that we have had a slight decline and then we're projecting a slight increase due to some development but we also have other areas that we're taking into effect and we're also working on a demographic study to assess where our students are attending school sites throughout. LCFF, so as we was mentioned last year and through CSBA and school services LCFF Governor Brown prior to leaving office he accomplished the formula to be implemented two years earlier than anticipated and so this shows and highlights that accomplishment what does that mean for us now is that we are fully funded now so we there is no additional funding from LCFF unless our demographics and as you know it's based on English language learners homeless etc. so if our demographics change then our percentages would change but as far as the LCFF formula we're 100% funded and that just shows the growth until now one of my other concerns that I have and we made an adjustment very recently about a week and a half ago was we were informed that our health and welfare benefits on medical only we'll be seeing an increase within our region so we're not going to be the only district the range is going to be from 6 to 9% increase that we had anticipated was a 3% originally and so we had to go back and adjust our assumption and we raised it up to 6% the 6% is at 2.5 million I will know by beginning of April what that number is confirmed by our JPA if it is a 7% it's at 2.9% it's 3.3% and if it's 9% it's 3.7 million and this is for medical only this does not increase dental and vision and as soon as we get this feedback and up to date information we'll make sure to inform Superintendent the Board and all stakeholders so here we outlined a similar graph that just shows the contributions that we touched on both on the unrestricted previous multi-year projections so this just shows you the exact amount for special ed routine restricted maintenance and other miscellaneous and then both on our unrestricted programs for transportation and what does that look like for state and local funding so we outlined that one of the shifts within the state is in 0809 districts were continuing to flex routine restricted maintenance because of the economy and the recession so the state gave that flexibility for districts to use those funds and transfer into the general fund to help offset layoffs or reductions now the state is re-implementing routine restricted maintenance so for 17 2019 3% of your total general fund expenditures and the amount deposited in 14-15 or 2% of your general fund expenditures and now moving forward for 2019-20 it's 3% of your general fund expenditures and for us that's 1920 that's a little bit over a million dollars and for 2021 975,221 dollars and what dollars are going to be our dedicated for are for maintenance it could be used for employees maintenance staff equipment projects but it's the day-to-day operation of the district so our maintenance needs throughout the district so we will make sure to invest those dollars throughout the district one of the other items that I commend the staff and I know Dr. Rodriguez is very thorough with us and is our variance report and just making sure and as I explained previously is where we assume based on our assumptions on our first interim and where we land in our second interim and then our end of year and adopted budget so the prior year adjustment to our local control funding formula any new funding or state grants that come through from first to second interim and that also includes donations at the local level or any other contributions and then it also captures any expenditures and that could be from salaries a new additional staff or less staff or and then also local state and federal grant entitlements so that's also taken with into account and I'm pleased to announce once again and commend our fiscal staff that we are under 3% you'll see we're pretty really good I think the one area that you see is on our revenues which was a little bit higher and I would take that anytime and then working on our expenditures and so we are definitely making substrides in the right direction so I just want to commend the team again for having that best practices so next steps we'll board approves we will present this to forward it to the county for review and for certification and then we'll begin we are beginning the 1720 budget and as I mentioned the May revise we're making sure to stay on top of the fiscal updates and making sure that we get this board informed and then we have the state fiscal finance office they'll hold their state meetings and inform from the May revise the impact to both K-12 education community college etc and then we have to what's the ripple effect on school site plans and our district site budgets and then we're working on the site budget review as I mentioned and as I mentioned the workshops as well so the estimated actuals are 20 budget adoption will be presented in June and we will also provide more additional information as we go in our B2B updates on Friday so with that my recommendation is to approve a positive certification without just we had to make sure that we keep an eye on things thank you can I have a motion what's somebody Bill Beecher okay but see I need a motion first but evening again if I were on the board I would vote to approve the second interim but I'm not so I can't however there are some minor questions that come up in my limited review that I was able to do I found it quite interesting enrollments down but revenues are going up how do you do that and if you notice in the third year it goes up 3% well that's a post-election year that's generally when you have a recession so I would be very nervous about the third year secondly benefits are shown to go up 1.7 and 1.6% as we move forward in the next two years that seems pretty low when you look at how much health is going up and sturs and purrs are continuing to go up how can we be at 1.6 1.7 and then a small thing on workers compensation it's 2.9% well I looked at the social security data for the United States only 1.5% of the workers go out on worker compensation we're at 2.9 almost twice as much what do we really have that much do we have any accountability on that how much of the real charges versus what we have in the budget in a similar way as I brought it up earlier is healthcare costs are you know what are the real costs the claims versus what we're having to pay for the premium then last a small item on the stuff that we never review there's 2 million dollars in the scholarship trust fund and if I read it properly there's about a quarter of a million dollars that's going out in scholarships if it's not going out of scholarships it's probably Joe on his next vacation but I don't think that's the case if it really is the case that we've got almost a quarter of a million dollars going out in scholarships gee why don't we talk about that at one of these board meetings that's a heck of a good thing who's getting those how's it administered you're not in your head and it's like hello do you know where it's going thank you well so I should have done can I have a motion before so can I have a motion now making a motion to approve second interim second okay and now do we have we have Natalie and now I can have public speakers it's supposed to be now me again yeah I'm not an ex-corporate person but I'm just a used to be math teacher I was looking at your original budget from that you approved in the summertime and I know that when variances are done they look at the first interim variance to second interim the variance between those two but as the revenue has increased so has your proposed or the budgeted expenditures so it just almost seems like on purpose there is this like let's put more money in books and supplies and spend more on services and other operating costs so that's something that we look at and then something I just wanted to bring up because a lot of times especially when we go into negotiations and we talk about wages and health and welfare benefits teachers and we're just educators people that work in the classroom with students are not as well respected or valued and just for the certificated people that we the non-management certificated people that we represent we only comprise about 33% or 36% this year of the budget so that's just in salaries back in 2013-14 it was 40% and we were solving and then it continued that our percentages went down as far as our salaries these are based on unaudited actuals have gone down progressively so in 14-15 it went from 34% to 33% for certificated non-management the people that we represent and then so now just for using these interim numbers we're at 32% so in 2013 now we have about $46 million more in revenues but our impact on the fund in salaries is going down so when it comes to the budgets I hope that you guys can question how money is being used in other areas outside of salaries and benefits okay, discussion from the board no I Joe and maybe Helen I didn't know if there was another public sorry so I know that the new maintenance money that's exciting because for the eight years that I've sat here we haven't had that it's been very hard to run a district without being able to do just regular maintenance so I like that that's great so we have a charter school that was granted which I understood we were going to lose about $2 million or something like the first year approximately is that in this budget because I didn't see that in the slides as being something that was did I miss it? so yes it's included in that and then that is still an assumption charter navigators projecting 180 I believe it was 183 enrollment approximately and we're anticipating it to be a lot about 120 but we'll know when the enrollment comes through and so another assumption is we're still trying to confirm is the location so that just is another factor but that's included within the multiyear okay and so are salaries really 32% of our budget only? no they're approximately total salary and benefits that's what I want to know but I'm talking about salary so is salary only 32%? no it's total about 90% of our budget but you're talking about with benefits I want to know exactly what the percentage is for salary we can break that down and if you don't have it now that's okay I can we can get it in a B2B but what I do know what I'm trying to get at is I know that our health and welfare benefits are a ginormous portion of our budget so you have to look at the total compensation I know that we're paying enormous amounts to CalPERS and CalSTRS for retirement and that has just kept going up up and up so I'd like you to sort of tease out like how much that's gone up yeah and the salary piece is approximately 52% approximately but we right and then as far as the impact we will come back and I know we have the impact of the either 6 to 9% increase on the medical we also will have an update as soon as possible what that multi-year impact is and so we're working on that as well I just saw a video by Robert Reich you know he is a professor at Berkeley about the Blue Cross Blue Cross Anthem and Blue Shield raked in $4 billion last year in profit so there should be no raising of health and welfare I mean there should be no raising of health benefits when we've got these giant corporations making so much off of its membership so I don't know why do they think that it's going to go up by 9% this year where are we getting those figures and how are they basing those I think well the prior year I think we were a little bit over 0.8% so we really enjoyed not a big increase the previous year it fluctuates and I think the market that kind of dictates that and specific to our region we're not the so being part of the JPA we're a member district and our membership which includes all employees and we try to shop around for the best rate so that anticipated increases for all the districts in our region so we're going to continue to ask questions like what are the main factors that led to that but that's the information we were provided so our salaries and our benefits with all of our teachers and staff make up how much of our budget we really like having those pie charts that you guys have done in the past because it makes it very crystal clear for the lay person we usually do those at budget time but we add them to them every time we come up but it's about 85 to 87% so of our total budget we're spending approximately 85 to 87% on our people great thank you when they were saying that they were talking about what exactly does she mean I mean by that I'm going to have to look into that a little bit more but I'm assuming it's based by certificated staff that's what I heard from that comment but I'll have to look a little bit deeper specifically to that and I was just saying obviously so our declining enrollment to do with navigator when you talk about declining enrollment the current decline is our current declining enrollment for this year the future outgoing year it's a combination of both a slight increase of enrollment but also a decline because of the navigator so I'm just saying they're not completely 100% of it but they are a big part of our declining enrollment for this year yeah so I have a question so we haven't been investing back in our schools and I think I just want to get to the bottom of the point that Nellie just mentioned is why are we seeing those increases in expenditures where are those additional expenditures going where is that additional money going we have brought in initiatives such as food steps to Brailleans is it because we are doing so much other things within the classroom that those expenditures are increasing or is it related to something completely different there's numerous initiatives but I'll have our superintendent respond to that sure so the reason why from the most part the revenues and expenditures are going up comparatively is exactly that the grants that we're receiving we are expending so for example the 1.2 million that we just received for the low performing block grant we have now encumbered right because what we were required to do from the state is have that plan in place and so with all of the grants that we receive and remember we're pulling in now we're pulling in 2 to 3 million dollars worth of grants which are we're not required to do it consistently we just receive word today that we're in the final phase for the parent involvement grant that we applied for but again that would be another million dollars we would receive but it would go out immediately because part of the grants or the requirements of these extra monies that we're receiving is that we correspond them also some of our expenditures are going We had the 19 million that we had put aside. There was about 10 million which was put towards facilities. And so 3 million of that is, well, 3.9 is PVHS, right? And so that's now going to happen. So that money is being expended out. But a lot of the money, when the revenues are coming up, they are proportionately... And I think that's what I want to see moving forward in the presentations. The reason why I ask that question is because I want to make sure that we're transparent. When we do see those additional revenues come into the district, where we're actually spending those. And I just wanted to clarify that just for public's sake too, because we're investing our dollars not on giving management increases, right? But actually investing them back in the classroom. Correct. I do have one question. So aside from Saturday Academy, what other initiatives are we currently working on to increase enrollment? So one of the other items that we're looking at, and for Superintendent Rodriguez is pilot to scale. We're currently reviewing our messaging system to parents. But we're still in the preliminary stages of reviewing that. But that is something that we're looking at as a district. Right now we have an all call to parents to give notifications for school events or school announcements. But what would it look like if we did text messaging and or other proactive information items to increase our average daily attendance. So that's one component. Another area that we work very hard on in partnership with our Student Services, Suzanne, and with Kristen, our Assistant Super Secondary. And Lisa, Gary on the Assistant Soup for Elementary is finalizing our enrollment packet. And I think we shared with the board previously is aligning our parent enrollment packet to making sure that it's easy to use and easy to fill out. So we have the enrollment and the necessary documents included in there that are mandatory. So that's another area to increase our attendance, but also enrollment at the site specific, so where they wanted to be enrolled at. And so the enrollment process, trying to smooth that out as well. It's not available now electronically. We are looking at that as well. We need to. We're looking at those options as well. Also it hasn't been solidified yet, but we're hopefully gonna be meeting on the 28th where we're gonna decide through the LMI initiative what will be the first initiative that we're gonna work on jointly with PVFT, CSCA, and PVUSD. So that hasn't been solidified yet. However, one of the items that we have discussed, one of the initiatives is next year doing an attendance campaign. Because it's something that every single employee in the organization can not only influence but also benefit from. And so that most likely will be our theme next year. So this year is via kind of more empathetic view. We're not necessarily dropping that completely off, but we're gonna be having to focus on attendance. Because for every student, every time that that percentage goes up, then that's additional revenue for the district. Okay, and then for summer, we receive 88 funding for that, right? Correct. Okay, so is there any way that we can utilize? That's, for example, expanding summer school, but making it more of a steam-related summer academy or something that's very much of interest within that community. Where we can not only enroll students who need to attend summer school for whatever reason, but to keep our students engaged in something productive throughout the summer, and something that they're gonna enjoy. So hopefully you're looking into that. Yes, and I just wanted to clarify, for the Saturday Academy, we do get ADA recovery for summer school, we do not. Summer school is an unfunded, or it's funded a different way. But we also, looking at opportunities, how to package our Saturday Academy, so that it complements our core program at the site. So that's also being looked at as well. Got it, thank you. You're welcome. Can we make it summer school that, I mean, is it, can we make summer school that everyone can go, or just need students that need to go, go to summer school? I was gonna ask you that, then, Michelle. Well, we try to make sure that every spot is filled. So one thing I know that Carol Ortiz does a really good job of is ensuring that when they do have any additional space, then we call off of the waiting list. And so we want to ensure that every space that we have is filled. For the most part, we do not have additional students that are wanting the program that are not receiving it. So Dr. Rodriguez, you mentioned the labor management initiative. And so with the partnership, and ultimately, we as board members, are agents of the state. How we divvy up the pie of the budget is ultimately, the size of that pie is dependent on what comes from the state. Perhaps the labor management partnership might be an opportunity to partner in advocating with our state legislators on increasing that pie. Good evening, Joe. I think most of my questions got answered by trustee to surface questions, particularly in relation to navigator and whether that's been put into the consideration of the budget with a declining enrollment for our district. And in regards to one public comment with regards to revenues going up, projected in the 20, I think that was the 2019, 2020. And the expenditures going up, I mean, being a pretty astute business owner myself, I know that they kind of go hand in hand. When revenues go up, expenditures typically go up. So do you have any further explanation that you would like to elaborate on that for the public? No, I think you said it well. With increased revenue, we have increased investments throughout our district, both at the site level and throughout programs. We do have and commend our grant writer. We've done an amazing job of increasing our awards of grant dollars. Some of those grants are no match. Some of them require a match, 50 cents on the dollar or dollar to dollar. So that varies, but we are increasing those grant amounts as well. So that's in overall how we approach. I appreciate your elaboration on that. I would just, I think it's, you might see it as a bit out of order, President Trustee Osmondson, but I'd just like to comment and it's been brought to my attention previous and it actually came to point right earlier after Joe got done with the presentation. You're calling for motions right after a presentation and a second before we're hearing public comment or before the board is making any comment. So for the public, that says an image that we as board members have come to this desk with a precept in our head of how we're gonna vote before hearing the public's comment or before hearing our colleagues discuss it. I know it was brought to your attention, and I think it was last month at the February 13th meeting by Trustee Orozco. I'd looked at her and questioned it because since I've been here under President Trustee D'Sirpa when she was the former president and even under past President former Trustee DeRose, we never called for a motion and a second before hearing the public's comment and hearing the comment from the board because you're making a precept that there is already a decision in mind made without that and we need to remind ourselves that we as seven sitting here are publicly elected officials by our constituents. This is not our money. These are not our funds. This is the community's funds. We represent these people. We are just mere stewards of them. So I think I'd like to ask you to rethink how you're running these meetings. Let's hear the public comment. Let's hear board comment before we make a motion and before we make a second it is really lacking transparency and I don't support this going forward. Thank you. So as part of the preparation for the board meetings we did so there isn't supposed to be a second. We did contact legal counsel and when we do the Brown Act training it will be brought forward. The order is supposed to be a motion, original motion, so that you can open up the item. You're not supposed to do a second until after the fact. So it is a motion and the other. It was brought up. I did double check with Los Angeles Smith. We can turn it back the way that it was before but technically it's supposed to be a motion to open up the item. Then there's the public comment, the district comment and then there's a second and then there's the vote. So it's we can take it back but that was the order in which we were given when we started to do it in writing. So we have now the meeting is prepared and so because of that that's the reason. So we're not supposed to be doing a second before everything else but we are supposed to be doing the motion to open up the item. So Michelle. I'm going to just chime back in on this. You know I mean me myself, I have lived in this community for over 30 years. I have been to a multitude of school board meetings not only for this district others, city council meetings, county supervisors meetings. I have never seen it done that way. It had not been done that way until trustee Osmondson took over. I'm understanding what you're saying. I'm asking you to hear what I'm saying. It really lacks transparency when you put a motion on the floor because it's like a decision's already been made. We're not hearing the public's comment. This is yes the school district's business but it is the public's business. It is their money, their funding. It's not our solely. So I really would encourage we get back to some more transparency and we not have the first and the second. We hear public comment, have the board dialogue and then make a motion. Can I just add to that really quick? I would agree with that for the reasons that she stated. But also I think you're referring to the guidance that we received from Robert's Rules, right? Robert's Rules of Order. I don't believe that this board has officially adopted the Robert's Rules of Order. We have not, right? So I think I like the old way of doing things too. I think it allows us to really reflect on what we're hearing from the public on what we're hearing from board members before the notion of making a decision is made. And I would just chime back to support Maria and that it is for us seven as board members to declare our procedures as a collective body. So if we say we want to hear the presentation, we want to hear the public comment, we want to hear our colleagues comment before a motion is made, that's for us seven to decide because we decide the procedures of these board meetings, not anyone else. So just to support that. Thank you, Trustee Orozco. I would like to thank your team for this second annum report. It's very, very, it appears very clean and very tight. I feel like we've gotten, you guys have gone through everything with the fine-tooth comb and gotten it, you know, very precise. So and I know that was a lot of work. So thank you, Helen. Thank you. I will second. There was a... Hi. Okay. Motion carries. Motion carries six. No, was it? Oh, she's not here. Okay. That's five, one, one. Right now, right. No second, right. So we have to wait on the seconds. We're gonna, I'm gonna keep doing this right now, but we can wait on the seconds. We have to wait on the seconds. Okay, 8.3. Approve Memorandum of Understanding with PVFT Regarding Professional Growth Opportunities in Math and Science with Chona. Take a little longer. I think Joe was a little taller than me, so I need a gist. Thank you, President Osmondson, Board Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. For your review is the resubmission of the MOU with PVFT regarding Professional Growth Opportunities in Math and Science. And as per PVFT, President Francisco Rodriguez said, this is our marathon MOU, because it was several weeks in the making. And I'd like to give a shout out to our directors, Allison Iazawa and Clint Rucker, as well as our PVFT compatriots, President Rodriguez, Sarah Hennie and Chief Negotiator, Nellie Boggs, as we are proud of the combined hard work that we did. And they're also going to be available to help me answer your questions. The main revisions for the MOU include, especially it was important for us to take into consideration the Board recommendations. So the main revisions include the reimbursements are available only to employees who've been in the district and have been at least dedicated employees of the district for at least two years. The second one is there is a monetary limit to the reimbursements and it's paid in installments. The second half of the reimbursement shall be made at the start of the next school year provided the employee is still continuing in the position requiring a math or science credential. And to further increase our pool of math and science teachers, this was the new edition. There is the additional option of reimbursement for passage of a state approved examination provided at the start of the first year for the teacher in a math or science position. We will continue to recruit early as we have done to get the best and the brightest and with early postings on Ed Join going to job bears and we're also going to continue to promote the negotiated signing bonus for these hard to fill positions as in science, math, and special education. Thank you so much. They're going to answer your questions. Okay, because I'm going to do I have a motion but no second. So can I have a motion? No second. Make a motion to approve. Any public speakers? No. Any discussion from the board? I do have just a comment. I just want to appreciate the fact that you took this item back and you did some homework and I think now it addresses the concerns that we brought to the table a couple meetings ago or last this month something last month. So thank you for doing that. So I'll be supporting this tonight. Any other discussion from the board? Questions? Georgia. I'm sorry, Shona, could you clarify again? I'm sorry about the so I get that while they're employed we're obviously paying but what is the time frame we're asking them to stay employed once it's completed? So in the MOU eligible employees who wish to participate in the benefit they need to submit proof of the tuition amount to the district within three months of starting the coursework and the district shall reimburse the employee one half of the tuition allocation upon completion of the coursework required for math and science credential. The second half of the reimbursement shall be made at the start of the next school year provided the employee is still in that position requiring a math or science credential. And we also placed a monetary limit on the reimbursements. The district will accept six eligible employees for reimbursement of tuition each year. So they're right so the one half while they're in it I'm just going to repeat what you said and tell me if I didn't hear you correctly. The one half they're going to get while they're in it while they're an employee and that the next school year when it starts they're going to get that full second half payment at the beginning of that school year at during throughout that school year over the course of one school year of the course of two three four five school years please explain that. So if they get it at the beginning of the school year they're contracted with us so they have to remain with us for that one year for that at least that one so it's only one year. Yes on the second it's it's two years. Okay granted that while they're an employee right while they're an employee they're going to get the one half that's a given I understand that then they complete it and then at the beginning of the next school year while they're and they have to work for one year they're going to get the full second half reimbursement. So they have to be an employee what's I'm Allison the director of so they have to be an employee with us to even qualify for for two years first. Sure I got that. Okay they won't receive payment until they successfully complete the program. They'll get the one half payment. They won't begin payment correct. The one half payment they'll get in the year that they're in it. Once they've completed the program the first year that they are now a teacher in that subject in a math or science they will receive one half of their reimbursement. So the program's completed they're done so let's just take I'm an employee and I'm doing that this year I'm done by the end of this school year. Okay and next school year so I don't get my first one half payment till the beginning of 29 the 19-20 school year 1920 and I get my next payment the 20 20 21 2021. Granted that you are still in a math or science position. Okay so then it does take two full effective years okay that they have to stay committed beyond being out of the program. Correct. Thank you that was what I really needed for See why it took us so long to work it off. I didn't know if I wasn't asking the question right or no you were I would just you know thank you you have answered my question though thank you. Just again Allison. Okay are we done? So you know with that I do appreciate that I think I agree with Maria that got us somewhere I think I would have liked to seen it be three years but I'll accept the two years so you know I think it's just more of a real-world applications. Okay so I do appreciate the work on that thank you for doing the work and bringing it back to us thank you. So um so $5,000 per employee for a program the tuition for a program at the minimum is like $8,000 a year right because CSU that's the tuition right. Yes. So it doesn't we we're not paying for the whole program we're paying we're just reimbursing a portion. Yes okay great let's get some math and science teachers. Yes hopefully. Did you want to say anything Francisco? Just that the point was that there already existed employees with us with that and they all they all likely already have either preliminary or maybe even a clear credential. So to get the math or science it won't it won't be like they have to do the teacher training piece of it all over again. Okay now I'm asking for a second that's how we're supposed to do it. Second the motion. Okay now I'm going to call for a vote. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Okay now I'm going to approve salary schedule career technical education program teacher and and this report will be by you. Yes. Thank you President Osmondson board trustees Dr. Rodriguez. This is the marathon salary schedule from as PVFT president Francisco would say. Towards the goal of career and college and career readiness for all students PVSD will be implementing its own career technical education pilot program starting July 1st 2009 and no later than June 30th 2021. And as per the MOU both PVFT and our district wanted to ensure that the positions for the CTE services are in the bargaining unit and provides a fair appropriate and competitive salary schedule for CTE teachers hired for these positions. Both parties agree that if CTE services are not extended after the pilot PVSD may contract out for CTE services. And this was developed in close collaboration with PVFT and the proposed salary schedule takes into account both industry experience teaching experience in conjunction with education of the individual and is presented for your consideration. So I'm going to ask for a motion not a second. Okay any public speakers Danny? Any discussion from the board? Let's see let's see what I want to say. I just wanted to see let's see something I wanted to say I was thinking but maybe I can't figure what it is. Well I'll go ahead and ask this one so we are go ahead and tell us again how much we are going to save from the county office of education in order to do this. So the county was going to charge us a little bit over six hundred thousand dollars in order to be able to manage the manage the program so we already were paying for the teachers. We were basically reimbursing the county back the money so what we are doing in turn is we are we do we will now have a coordinator of CTE which will cost us with benefits and all that approximately a hundred and forty thousand dollars which means we will be saving approximately four hundred and sixty thousand dollars which can be reinvested back into our CTE programs. A year we're going to be a year yeah sounds good. Okay no speakers or anything. Now can I have a second? Second. Okay I will call for a vote. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed so this is 8.5. So this is 8.5 approved resolution number 181929 recognizing April as national bilingual multilingual learner learner advocacy months. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening by Lisa Geary. Thank you. Good evening President Osmondson Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez. The mission of Global California 2030 is to equip students with world language skills to better appreciate and more fully engage with the rich and diverse mixtures of cultures heritage and languages found in California and throughout the world while also preparing them to succeed in the global economy. To that end PVUSD is strengthening our bilingual programs through the revision of our EL master plan and expanding the dual language immersion programs offered to increase the number of students receiving the state seal of biliteracy and graduating a biliterate or multiliterate student prepared for global citizenship. Before you is resolution number 181929 recognizing April 2019 as national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month. Considerado ando que a distrito escolar unificado de Pajaro Valley se enorgullece de unirse a las instituciones educativas de todo el país el reconocer el mes de abril de 2019 como el mes nacional de apoyo al estudiante bilingües multilingües. Whereas national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month is aligned to the mission of Global California 2030 which is to equip students with the world language skills to better appreciate more fully engaged with the diverse mix of cultures heritage and languages found in California in the world. Whereas national bilingual multilingual advocacy month recognizes that bilingual multilingual learners are one of the fastest growing student populations in U.S. schools that this group of students brings multiple assets to schools and adds to the rich diversity among students and whereas national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month is an opportunity to draw attention to the persistent gap between bilingual multilingual learners and native English speaking students and whereas national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month calls on stakeholders at all levels to examine the diverse needs of bilingual multilingual learners and to build an inclusive and respectful culture and whereas national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month highlights a commitment to ensure educational equity and access leading those these learners to thrive academically and become protective, biliterate, multiliterate global citizens and whereas national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month calls for the need to prepare highly qualified bilingual educators in all disciplines to address the unique needs of our students in the diverse settings whereas the month calls for the need to engage parents and guardians of bilingual multilingual learners and their students educational journey and whereas national bilingual multilingual learner advocacy month recognizes the significant languages and cultural assets that bilingual multilingual learners bring to schools la educacion bilingual media mediante la expansion de las opciones de educacion de immersion dual in espanol dentro de nuestro distrito. Resuelve de que el distrito escolar unificado de pahro valley proclama el mes de abril de dos mil dieci nueve como el mes nacional de promoción de estudiantes, bilingües, multilingües y continuar fortaleciendo nuestra educacion y enfoque en los estudiantes, bilingües, multilingües. There you go. It's for you. It's for you. Hopefully that the resolution is adopted. Okay. Can I have a motion? I would be very proud to make a motion to approve this resolution tonight. Okay. Any public speakers? Any discussion from the board? Just a wonderful resolution. It's wonderful. You did a great job, Lisa, and I saw the superintendent smiling at you and I think she was sweetly, you know, pleased with your presentation. So you got your kudos while you were looking down. I saw that. And your efforts at being bilingual and your efforts at being bilingual. Great job. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Now can I have a second? All second. All right. I'll call for a vote. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Unanimous accepted, 6-0. Or whatever it is. Okay. 8.6. This is another resolution, lots of resolutions. 18-19-31 of declaring support for April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Suzanne Smith. Board members, thank you for considering April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Resolution number 18-19-31. Whereas child safety is the most utmost importance and whereas child abuse and neglect is an important societal concern that may affect the long-term health and well-being of not only the children but also the adults they become. And whereas safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and communities can break the cycle of abuse and maltreatment. And whereas child abuse prevention requires a coordinated and comprehensive response by all systems supporting children, youth, and families. And whereas everyone has a stake in ensuring that children have access to the resources and supports that they need to be safe, healthy, and successful. And whereas suspected child abuse or neglect must immediately be reported to appropriate law enforcement authorities. And whereas we have identified child safety and family services to be a priority and hereby declare April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. All right. Okay. Can I have a motion? I'll make a motion to support this resolution against child abuse. I was a former child welfare social worker. It is the hardest job there is on the face of the planet. So I think we should all just support this and thank you for bringing it forward. Thank you. Okay now public speakers. Any discussion from the board on this one? It's pretty obvious. Okay now can I have a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Six zero. Thank you very much. Now we're going to have a third resolution. This one's a really great one too. This is resolution 181926 resolution in support of HR 1384 the Medicare for All Act of 2019 that would establish a comprehensive universal single payer health care coverage program and a health care cost control program by Dr. Rodriguez. So I just get the benefit of introducing the item. So one thing I know that this board takes pride in is is not only influencing local local policies and and efforts but also on a state and national level as well. And so trustee home did all the work and we so appreciate her expertise in this area. Yes. So trustee home. I want you to go ahead do it. You should do it. So Dr. Rodriguez, President Osmondson, fellow members of the board and members of the public, thank you for letting me take time to consider this resolution in support of HR 1384 the Medicare for All Act of 2019. I come from this perspective of health care as a human right. There is overwhelming evidence that health and education are inextricable factors in a person's chances of success in life. The two influence one another and our current system does not support optimal health. No one should lose life or limb because of a lack of ability to pay for their health care. So I want to illustrate some of the scope of the issue. You know currently you know on the left of the graph there is per capita spending annually for other industrialized nations in the world. Switzerland is at about 6,000 you know Mexico's at the bottom at about 1,000 per capita annually. Life expectancies are on the right. To get a sense of what we're dealing with you'll might notice if you can see the tiny tiny print the United States is not in there. We have to zoom out. The United States spends all you know over 9,000 per capita annually. Our life expectancy is lower. The thinness of the line indicates how much we are actually spending you know how much we're utilizing our health care. We're utilizing it less. We're spending more. We're having poorer outcomes and that number has actually risen it's closer to 11,000 as of this year. The impact on PVSD of our current system and the current health care benefits is you know over 49 million dollars annually where we as we spoke about earlier we're expecting to see that increase of six to nine percent and the cost of the district could rise to you know just over you know 52 million to just you know just shy of 54 million. The impact on our communities is that we've got millions of people who have no coverage at all. We have 20 percent of people under the age of 65 who have difficulties paying for their bills and more than 66 percent of insured people are left with a bill for out of network services where they weren't aware that their provider wasn't in network. And then you know health care bills are one of the number one reason for bankruptcies in our country. What HR 1384 does it's comprehensive including medical, mental, dental, vision and long-term care. The potential financial benefits to the district are you know cost savings. We hear about you know oh a single payer it's so expensive. Yes it's expensive. And you know the cost is estimated at 32 trillion over 10 years. That's a big number. Consider that what we are currently spending is 3.5 trillion dollars annually right now. So what we're looking at by moving to the system nationally is a savings of about 8.5 percent. Even if you know are the savings to our district were proportional we're looking at a savings of three million dollars annually at a minimum and more when you consider in you know price negotiation for drug costs and other issues. The potential human benefits to PVSD are early intervention for health issues mental and physical for students and staff. That could lead to increased high school graduation rates because the early intervention is key. It could lead to increased average daily attendance, increased job satisfaction for staff and then it gives us opportunities to negotiate funding for other much needed programs and salary increases you know in the district. And I zoomed through that because I want to talk about the resolution but there's many many opportunities for further research and this is the documentation that I use to prepare this presentation. And so thank you for your time and attention. So shall I go ahead and read the resolution? Go ahead. All right yeah. So resolution support of HR 1384 the Medicare for All Act of 2019 that would establish a comprehensive universal single payer health care coverage program and a health care cost control measure. Whereas everyone should have a right to health care and whereas the federal patient protection and affordable care act PPACA brought many improvements in health care and health care coverage it still leaves many people in the United States of America without coverage or with inadequate coverage. And whereas individuals employers and taxpayers have experienced a rise in the cost of health care and health care coverage in recent years including rising premiums deductibles and copays as well as restricted provider networks and high out-of-network charges and whereas the annual cost of Pajaro Valley Unified School District for Health Care Benefits is annually 49.5 million and expected to rise and whereas freeing the funds utilized for health care benefits would allow the district to negotiate options like student-centered interventions enrichments and supports increased compensation and subsidized housing and whereas students who have access to consistent health care are more likely to achieve academic success and in turn those with higher academic achievement tend to have better long-term health outcomes and whereas students who have access to regular health services have increased attendance rates which in turn increases funds available to the district and whereas HR 1384 would establish an improved Medicare for all insurance program with comprehensive care and health care cost control measures and whereas HR 1384 would provide consistent coverage rather than being based on a person's changing income or employment status and whereas HR 1384 would eliminate out-of-control copays and high deductibles and reduce insurance company waste and duplication and whereas HR 1384 would give patients the freedom to choose their doctor and would manage prescription drug costs therefore be it resolved that the Pajaro Valley Unified School District will continue to provide health-related wraparound services such as Salud Parlehente school-based clinics and work with Alliance for a Healthier Generation with the 10 pilot schools to support the health of our students and staff be it further resolved that PVSD through healthy start program will continue to provide dental and medical outreach referral placements parent education transportation to services and promote injury prevention measures to improve the health of our students now be it resolved by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District that we endorse HR 1384 thank you for your consideration a really exciting resolution okay can i have a motion yeah make a motion you should motion i'll second that motion no you can't take any oh i thought we were just gonna vote isn't it okay no public speakers any discussion from the board everybody's happy with it i'm sure okay now a second go ahead and second i'd like to second okay i'll vote all those in favor aye aye aye all those opposed aye okay is five one one five one one okay now i'm gonna do um i forgot what i am eight point eight world history curriculum adoption and report will be presented by Susan Perez and also oh this is new is it on yes okay good evening president osmondson members of the board dr rodriguez very excited to be back up here again after the years that we waited and waited for new materials um the last couple years we've been coming quite regularly with um adoption recommendations and this evening um i would like to present claudia monharas who is our coordinator for english language arts and history social science to share with you the process that um she has helped facilitate with our tenth grade um history social science teachers to adopt new materials and they are bringing forth their recommendation after going through the process so um as she goes through this i will begin to pass around a sample of the materials that our teachers are requesting that you approve for adoption for this particular course okay good evening um so okay good morning karen or good evening karen my name is claudia moharas um and i'm going to be um like susan said talking about the uh world history recommendation that the teachers are wanting to put forward so um we started the process in spring 2018 doing the publisher's fair inviting teachers to come and um review the materials there were several of them that they could look at they ended up putting two of them forward and i'll point those out in just a minute then in december of 2018 we brought the teachers together we invited all tenth grade world history teachers to come from the three um high schools comprehensive high schools and um we had eight of the teachers show up and all three of the comprehensives were represented um and at that time that's when we actually reviewed the materials and they uh voted on which one they wanted at that point and then we've been in contact with the publisher about getting some training set up that way implementation would start in fall of 2019 so the two materials that they looked at were the one on the left which is tci history alive and then the one on the right which was the migrahill impact and we spent some time um looking through those there were um seven basic key areas that we look through and had them work in groups and um analyze both of the curricula and the um tci one was the one that got the slightly higher numbers and so that's what they decided now in looking at both of these um they did note that there were some gaps that they wanted to um increase the instructional rigor for students and so an additional recommendation was to not just go with tci um the teachers also requested that we use dbq materials which i'll talk about in just a second that's the big green binder um we have the purple one here this is also world history stuff but this is actually a program that is basically literacy through content and it's a writing program and it does offer the students an opportunity to practice argumentative writing based on multiple sources of evidence and and fill the gaps that we felt both of the other programs their other options were um had so uh what they are recommending is that um recommends by majority that the pbsd school board approved tci's history live world connections supplemented with dbq project as the core history social studies instructional materials for the beginning of 2019 2020 school year for an eight-year adoption i'll move sorry i got caught reading a text that's okay so um historically for those of us that are my age and probably from the 40s up um there was a lot of history that kind of that we had to consume that only um came from a male perspective it was all about wars and who conquered who does this particular version have any female voice in it oh so the this one does follow the social studies framework um this is also um they're going to be publishing a new one that's coming out this summer and that's the one that we're actually going to be getting that follows updates with the fair act as well that's great so just to add to that um the process we go through when we do textbook adoptions is first to have the state approved standards then a framework and then the curricular materials so last year when the framework was adopted it came roughly around the same time as legislation passed um requiring that framework to address um groups that had not been represented previously in history textbooks and so we waited until after publishers had addressed this and these materials and the new version will be getting this summer does indeed address those groups that had been previously unrepresented in our traditional textbooks history textbooks thank you to me again the dbq whatever it's called I mean explain to me what that's that one so all the stuff it's going to do so it's document based questions these are essentially little they're smaller versions of what's the word I'm looking for um project kind of like project based learning type stuff but if they're all written pieces a lot of the materials are online for the teachers and the students to access but they do have to look at multiple sources of evidence create an argument and be able to back up their argument citing evidence from the text oh so that so they're so project basis so based on I don't know there's a whole thing about the Native Americans and their march of tears or whatever they had across the United States which was really horrible um and it has and so they take that I'm just guessing and they take that whole thing and study it and everything like that and they and in in the dbq it has what questions that they need to answer about it or well no that so um in the in the materials it has um for each of the like world history or us history or gov econ for example there's essentially 10 basic um time periods that they cover and so within those the teachers are able to line them up with the content that they're the the era that they're teaching and then in that there is uh different sources so the argument piece can be built from this or it can be built out of connection with the tci materials but the whole idea is that kids are being able to form arguments and back it up okay okay and with this book with this with these materials yes materials and that big binder that's there next to you is one volume out of two that would come uh that the teachers would have access to okay yeah all right thanks um my son went to the charter school pcs where they really did a great job of articulating their social studies with their literature and english classes so that whatever they were studying here they were also writing about in in english class can are we i've said it like every year for eight years are we doing any of that yet um doing literacy in the contents or beefing up how we teach literacy in the contents is definitely something that we are looking at and that we are making plans to improve for the coming year we've we've definitely been talking about that okay so there's a lot of questions about it yes yeah correct it's not just one piece that the kids who do have choice in it second second okay all those in favor i i so it's um six i think she's i it's six zero one oh god i have stuff to look at okay i can't read can't look at this right now eight point nine second read and we're doing the michael stuff what yeah and this is the second read this is second reading so hopefully there's not any questions because this is the second reading so he can just get up and say second reading will vote on it come on michael second read exactly oh because i'm going to do it second point second read bp is 0415 equity is there a motion this is a very important policy and so i will make a motion to approve our policy on equity for all kids yeah okay no discussion can i have a second no obviously you don't have any publicity i do have a question actually another question okay under number three it says something about international baccalaureate program what what program so so we intentionally keep the board policies aligned with um with csba policy um we keep it broad so the goal is one day for us to have an ib program we currently you're correct do not have an ib program but it is something that when i became superintendent here i did say that i wanted to get into one of our high schools and it still remains a goal great i thought maybe we had we were putting one in i know about it you know i would yeah that would be wonderful we could do it at all three high schools would be better that's what keeping options open a second i move up here will i i move up here will move to approve i i i'll move to approve i i'll second i i i thank you and see you soon thank you um good evening president ozman sin superintendent rodriguez board of trustees and cabinet i'm here today to report to you on transfinder and the efficiencies that we've been able to find using this program um just a little bit of history transfinder purchase we board approved on august of 2017 um november we uploaded uh our district information and we began training within our own department um august of 2018 was a big deal we did a field trip implementation we revamped the entire process so we rolled that out to all of our school sites and then also in august of 2018 our shop started using service finder um and then ongoing we are still doing ongoing district staff district and staff and site staff training gosh that was hard to get out um so with transfinder in place pb usd has a time efficient field trip management system with an automated process to request scheduled budget approved and assigned field trips and we can now manage our parts online schedule technicians and assign work orders electronically using service finder and then we continue to implement route finder to improve efficacy in our in mapping our routes for efficiency um and safety of course um so since the start of the 1819 school year we averaged an hour uh 8.2 hour increase of straight time each day so that's um students that's drivers who work less than eight hours maybe their route is only six hours but they um sign up to do extra time and they're still being paid on straight time so that has increased um on average 8.2 hours a day but since the start of the 1819 school year we've on average decreased over time by 27 hours per day um and so that's just because we've been able to adjust routes for efficiency and effectiveness um and it averages about 30 minutes per route a day that we've been able to shave off decreasing downtime and just using different routes to get where we're going and things like that um and with service finder we're now able to schedule maintenance and billing of the white fleet services that were previously outsourced um we are in the middle of this implementation with full implementation coming July 1 we'll be handling all of our white fleet services within our own department instead of outsourcing to the area vendors so there's just a little graph for you showing extra hours extra work hours on the left and then the total cost on the right um of what we've been able to bring down the overtime on and then again the increase the slight increase on extra hours which is straight time so what's next with transfinder next school year 2019-2020 will be route finder full implementation um this program also offers gps live feeds it offers real-time bus location improving the sense of safety with our students parents and staff we have a targeted implementation for 2021 school year on this um and then also with our video system stay on video and transfinder there's a live a live feed feature where if in the case of an emergency we can tap into the the bus system and watch the live feed and be able to figure out what's going on where they're at um and that's also targeted for implementation 2021 um and then uh there's also many options remaining for reporting uh student reporting staff reporting like keeping up with their licenses and certificates things like that um vehicle reports we can pull when our our certs are due for our chp inspections and other things that we're audited on um so there's a lot of things that remain for us to gather essential data that can be made and making decisions going forward thank you for the opportunity to share this exciting program and any questions do we know for fun i mean how much money we might be saving i don't know if we can do it for a year or for whatever i don't know is there um is there a possibility figuring that out quick math to date it was about what is that 50 000 about already that we've saved wow that's terrific super terrific especially correct especially since transfer tape transportation comes out of our general fun it's wonderful to be able to save i try to do that every day you do thanks for all you do thank you i have a question caring if i may yeah um so i know that uh we currently charge students for a bus pass well we can not all students we charge them a processing fee okay they're not actually being charged to ride the bus the bus services are free but in order to get the bus pass there is administrative costs um for instance the card that we print the ink that goes on it the person who's printing it so we do charge them a fee for processing that how much is that twenty five dollars twenty five dollars annually annually um so if we were to waive that for students um do you happen to know what will be the cost for to the district if my memory serves me we bring in about sixty to eighty thousand dollars in revenue off of that okay um so that's what that would be all right um but i don't necessarily disagree with you yeah no it you know it's one of those things we transfer transportation it has a huge encouragement in the budget right but at the same time it just it just doesn't seem right to me to be charging a service fee to print out their bus pass or whatever it may be right um so i think moving forward as we save and continue to implement implement different components of the transfinder i think it will be good to reconsider that yeah in the future um i also like the fact that we're no longer outsourcing so i think that's kudos to you guys for that thank you um and then also the life video i think and anytime that we're able to implement something that um increase in student safety in any way um it's i'm a lot about that so so thank you so much for what you've been doing thank you some great work thank you so i was thinking um so do you ever have parents that say you know i i really can't even afford doing the twenty five dollars i mean do you ever have parents have parents that say that i've paid the twenty five dollars at times i've and there's also a five dollar replacement fee if they lose it so i've paid the five dollar replacement fee a lot just because i get it oh so if the parents says that they can't afford it you you go you pay it okay whoa you know about how many of those we get a year not very many not very many maybe between five and ten okay small to elaborate that's only being charged to regular students that is not being charged to special ed students absolutely that's correct or for clarification students students in transition foster youth they don't are they are not charged i mean maybe it's something that we can also look at as a possibility to do sort of like a lunch program and like see if there was like a sliding scale fee i mean if there was some way to incorporate that into it um but it sounds like you've been using this since 2017 so you're bringing it back to us tonight as report and discussion for you know i mean i'm getting the 50,000 savings really offset by 30,000 so we're really talking about a 20,000 dollar savings so why was this brought back tonight if it's been since 2017 when the when the program was first um was first approved there was a request to bring back the item and so we were asked to bring back the item approximately a year later um and so we're just bringing it back so that everyone knows um that how we are place are putting our money is um is actually in the end saving us money oh no that's great i think that's great but it's not something we'll be needing to vote on at a future date no right okay thank you thank you okay we're gonna do some first readings again on policies you're back this one's BP 6020 we're getting close um hello again president osmond osmondson members of the board dr rodriguez based on federal program monitoring feedback we have more policies and administrative regulations that we need to update um again this is the first read if there's any feedback please provide it to myself for dr rodriguez before the friday before the next board meeting so we can include it um parent involvement 6020 is a policy and regulation based on updating um based on the the update of the passage of the every student succeeds act okay so if everybody's read their board packet okay um so there's no questions right okay how about 9.3 first reading on new it gets us new ar 51 45.9 hate motivated behavior yeah um both of the next two are again based on fpm feedback they're both regarding policies and ars um that the board recently passed the feedback uh was that we needed to include exact language from the attorney general's guidance document titled promoting safe and secure learning environment for all responding to immigrant immigration issues this is the document if anybody's interested in it um basically with these two the the reviewer stated that we needed specifically quote straight from here all of the um policies that we've done recently all included the same messages um throughout them but um these two are the reviewer said that we needed to specifically um state them and in these two the ar and then the following bp has the language from the ag's guidance and um and and it's vetted by the reviewer and already proved by him okay because it seems like we've done that okay and i'm gonna just go every no no no 9.4 first reading update bp 51 45 um point 13 and that's response to immigration and i've been reading about that too before okay uh huh so yeah it's it's the same it's straight from the attorney general's guide and and this one is is the more um complete version of all the language straight out of the guide yeah so okay thank you thank you now we're gonna do the consent agenda and i just wanted to say thank you um for the writer berry farms migrant education grant which is i think it's it's is it ten thousand ten thousand dollars it's really great and it's it's going through community foundation but it is from the writer berry farms which is really great okay the consent agenda can i have a motion i can i just i'm piggyback on you on that i wanted to thank you for recognizing that because sometimes things kind of get buried in consent agenda so thank you for just making the comment and publicly noticing them for that thank you karen thank you um okay can i have a motion also move second okay comments on it no no comments a second okay i will call for a vote all those in favor hi hi all those opposed um and there's oh there's no deferred consent okay okay now we're gonna do closed session so just do your one one expulsion maria and then the ending so i move to um i move to approve the recommendation of the district administration for a suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 2018-19 school year and the fall semester of the 19-20 school year with a placement at another school in the district on a strictly favorite contract for student number 18-19 zero one two we need a second i like to make a motion on the closed session item 2.2 i move to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on march 13th 2019 with 127 additional action items second hi hi motion number two from closed session item 2.3 i move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by district administration on march 13th 2019 with 51 and 9 additional action items second all right read out number read out number one resolution number 18-19-30 be it resolved that this governing board of trustees hereby ratifies the decision of the superintendent to send notice of non-relection and accordance with education code the employee whose number identification is seven four four seven the vote was five two motion second okay are you ready for all those in favor oh it was voted on okay we did we voted okay you need to report out the vote number yeah five two no in closed session that would have been was it five two or was it seven okay oh that was already voted on okay upcoming meetings our next registry scheduled board meeting will be held on wednesday march 27th here at the district boardroom