Board of Education — May 18, 2017

I now reconvene to the regular meeting of the Board of Education at 7:03 with Blair Cruz spikes na and Orosco present before we begin please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded past the Board met in closed session from 4 p.m. to 6:47 p.m. regarding conference with legal counsel existing litigation student discipline and readmissions

conference with labor negotiators a CTN CSC a public employee discipline dismissal relief and public employee performance evaluation superintendent no action was taken that requires public disclosure thank you well good evening everyone and thank you for joining us here tonight at would Kris junior high school Thank You Jay would trust in your high school for happiness again as a school year comes

to an end we have a lot of great and amazing people that we want to honor but we before we get started with those recognitions we'll have the presentation of colors so if you would please rise for the presentation of colors by the Chino Valley young Marines and please remain standing while the colors are presented and for the Pledge of

Allegiance and Debbie wife's oval yella High School will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please place your hand over your heart ready begin the United States and she's Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Hey right I'll board feet forward march forward okay - about fate homeward bar anymore

and we'd like to thank the Chino Valley young marine so so the military salute is always a difficult one for me because I realize that these young men and women are committing to be so brave and and their decision is being brave and it's a hard one one day that they're under the classroom and today they're going to be

enlisting in their respective services and perhaps being out in the battlefield but with that said I would like to share that this evening 25 of our graduating seniors made the decision to enlist in one of the branches of the United States military a decision that was not taken lightly and I am sure tugs at the hearts of their parents these young men and

women have cemented their belief that we all bear responsibility for safeguarding and preserving the best principles that define our republic and in doing so voluntarily expose himself to great danger I just can't imagine the Board of Education believes there is nothing more important that for these young men and women to know that their community supports them America's future

servicemen and women our thoughts and prayers are with you as you embark in this new chapter of your life but before we commence honoring them I'd like to ask that if there's any military service members and veterans that might be in the audience this evening I'd like for ask you if you would please stand so that we can recognize you and thank you

for your commitment and your service so if you would please stand now [Applause] thank you now with that board members mr. Joseph please join me in front as we honor our students and salute them as they begin their military careers and mrs. Yarborough will start getting her students ready to be presented beeping ladies and gentlemen good evening board members

good evening faculty and staff and students it is with great honor and pride that ruben SI ella high school becomes our five students at this point in time would you please come forward it will need to do some self first names last names and the branch nicholas Avalos very course Shana in Granada Marine Corps Matthew Ortega United States Navy boards

I see United States Military Academy at West Point [Applause] - Harris's outfit one he's not here today good evening Felix Melendez principal Chino high school we have proud young men and women who are going to make that sacrifice and serve our country before them came the veterans that are in the audience the young men and women in uniform with us

today and I am the proud son of an American Hero in October of this year my father's awarded the Gold Star for his service in Korea 63 years late but he was alive to receive it these young men these young men and women are making that sacrifice and they're going to get their chance for their gold medal I

would like our young men and women to come in and introduce themselves they will state their name their mos and their service branch Logan Reed in the United States Marine Corps ezel Vasquez United States Navy [Applause] good evening my name is Isabelle Brenes and I'm the proud principal of Tina Hills High School this is by far the

best board meeting of the year because it gives us the opportunity to thank and to show appreciation to many many stakeholders for various things that contribute to the greatness of this wonderful district when that it takes a special person to say that they're going to sacrifice their life for our country and for the freedoms that we have on a

daily basis so with that I would like to call forward my seven wonderful husky students forward so they can introduce themselves Brooke Carnahan and I'll be sitting Arabic at West Point yard GRI cheeks United States Navy hospital corpsman Jaden Golding US Marine papica toys United States Army 19 Yankee Stevens drug US Army 11 X infantry take Aviles

United States Army 56 Mike's religious affairs specialist Jacob Lew taking Romeo Apache helicopter repairman [Applause] good evening i'm kimberly cabrera and the very proud principal of Donegal high school tonight it's my pleasure to be able to bring to you our students who have made great contributions to our school and also to thank them for the sacrifice that they're making for our

safety for our freedom and for our country parents family members we thank you for your sacrifice because we know it is also great we just ask that you keep them in prayer and you keep them safe as they come up please introduce your name and also give your branch Lizette suppose the United States Marine Corps Angelica jelly Guerrero United States

Marine Corps Brian Hartman United States Marine Corps [Applause] Christopher he Tron US Marines Angie Lopez United States Marine hilarya Palmer and US Air Force Sabrina Perez United States Army tanker [Applause] parents this is your opportunity for a photo-op excuse me before we do that or we do that is the family of Isiah Garcia and the audience tonight the family of

Isiah Garcia could you please come forward and accept this certificate I understand that he's already serving in the military so we'd like for you to come forward and get that certificate thank you I'm regal vasquez principal I Buena Vista High School and let me tell you what good luck to all of you the greatest country in the world what do

you think okay let me tell you a little bit about Isiah Garcia Isiah Garcia graduated early he graduated in three and a half years that's how motivated he was he graduated in December so he's already I believe at Fort Jackson in South Carolina I think he gets out basic training on June 22nd so he's not here to accept but I had his

father here and glad to have him here give him a round of applause [Applause] friends and family if you don't want to stay until wee hours well take a couple minutes to allow you to meet your son or daughter again whatever it's true okay if we can get to your seats as quickly as possible okay looks like

everyone's taking their seats for the next presentation I'd like to ask Debbie wifes of a yellow high school to the podium debbie is a president-elect for the California Association of directors of activities that are known as ketta [Applause] kind of weird to do a backside podium but the California Association of directors of activities and our student organization the California Association

of student leaders we specifically what we want to do is we want to promote the philosophy trends methods and training services for activity directors as well as for students to help promote and broaden the scope of participation in all student activities and here to the belief that co-curricular program strengthen the framework of a formal education and we're very excited because

we do have an amazing student activity program in our district tonight I have some students and some adults who have been recognized this year through Cadden it's my extreme pleasure as both an activities director in the district as well serving the state at the state level to introduce them so the first one is our area e an area e covers Los Angeles County

and a tip of San Bernardino County and we happen to be the tip the Bob Burton award is presented yearly to a person who makes spirit work on their campus who makes a positive difference and who includes all students on their campus and this year's my extreme pleasure to introduce to you our area Bob Burton Awards Celia Collins from Lydell Esprit

[Applause] the next award that the area he gives out I have to tell you there's only two awards that they do give out so if you haven't figured that out that means that our district received both of those awards which has never been done in any area in the state the area II service award is presented yearly to an area

council member for their overall contributions to the California Association of directors of activities and again it's my extreme pleasure to introduce which happens to be even sillier sister this year is for the Napa Valley Vera manera from Canyon Hills [Applause] congratulations to about them are really excited to have both of them serve both on our area e-town sille as well as be a

part of this district they both send us some amazing students to the high school level so we can't thank you enough for all of that the next awards are the outstanding leadership program Awards and they recognize schools in the state of California with outstanding leadership programs that support and encompass the Cata Castle roadmap to positive school culture and climate as

well as to our Castle mission statement it requires each school to put together a portfolio of the items that they have taken care of this year and how they have included all students on their campus this year's my extreme pleasure because four of our schools earn this recognition the first school is Iowa High School Debbie Weiss is the

activities director Marissa's Daniel is our US v president and mrs. your boy our principal all right our next our next school is Chino Hills High School Michelle Quixote is the activities director Adam colon is one of our leadership students and Isabella brenes is our principal star boy you need to be up here also your blood our next school

is dawn local high school Sara Rigo whit is the activities director Isaiah Ruiz president and Kimberly Cabrera their principal our next school is one of our junior High's and that's canyon hills junior high Alison Berg is their advisor Matthew's Eagle is their president and pods and kleiner is their principal now if that isn't exciting enough as you can

tell we're very active is that we have the extreme pleasure of having two of our students in our district also serve on the California Association of student leaders state board and these students are launched rivetti is our Castle web media director and Adam : who is our Castle Southern directors so just a big THANK YOU from all of us for

supporting what we do on our campuses we couldn't do it without the board's support and the school district and we really do think we have a pretty outstanding group of students that really make a difference in our campuses so thank you well people take photos I just want to say thank you because I know that you spend many many hours organizing

activities and and whatnot so we really appreciate not only as board members but as parents for the hours that you put in so thank you so much and this life just that is curiosity you seem to be winning awards every year yes that is that am I correct that's what I thought so I feel like it's just part of the agenda at this one

great job okay and so we are now at our AC T class of 2017 scholarship awards and so if we can please have Steve ball if you would please announce your recipients good evening I'm Steve ball I'm a 6th grade teacher at EJ Marshall and more importantly tonight a proud Navy dad filling in for Todd tonight and that's

okay because this is the best board meeting of the year every year The Associated Chino teachers tries to squirrel away a little money throughout the year so that we can give out some scholarships at the end of the year this year we're able to hand out 20 scholarships these are for the offspring these graduating seniors of our members

of our teachers so they're not they're not going to get them through the whole year but they're big enough that they can buy some books or throw a really epic party guys we don't care how you spend the money parents we're happy to hear that part first up we have Samantha caliche kolache I'm sorry you seem a

little old but okay Valeria Nez and if we can have the students stay up here so that afterwards we can have some photos and Brett for God know [Applause] Caitlyn Barbosa Trajan Martin Catherine woods Sarah Wilson Adonai King daddy Tyler stitcher and Michael Reyes Caleb Valerie [Applause] Eric Chandler Tara Rickman Kyle Cooney Shema Zachary Kessler Kyle Noblet and

Sean gross and then we had three that we knew wouldn't be here tonight thank you that was Corrine Hawke Mia Madsen and Maya pennant are they here thank you so before we do the photos I'm just kind of curious as to what schools these students are going to so if you can just one at a time actually I'll do this okay

we can't figure out how to turn on a microphone so instead just use that microphone and just say what school you're going to I know what school are you look holiday are you going to I'm sorry well the mic down it's so that we can Cal Poly Pomona okay Vanguard University make sure you speak up Citrus College

[Applause] hi hi hmm Cal State Fullerton total heightened Cal Baptist University Grand Canyon University University of California at Irvine Cal State Fullerton nice cotton austere University UC Berkeley Point Loma Nazarene University Whittier College Northern Arizona University Cal State Long Beach so parents here's an opportunity for you to take pictures and as you do I know that board members

want to make some comments so mr. Nam yes I like I love all you guys and really proud of them but I know specially Eddie I know since he was a little bit high but um Eddie King she has been helping out a community for so many years I know for sure that she has spent thousands of hours of fitting the

needed people handing out turkeys and cold winter time so thank you Eddie for what you have done for our community thank you and you know I happen to know that one of the students down here is actually going to be playing baseball at Cal State Fullerton raise your hand red congratulations to you all parents here's your opportunity to take those

photos come on up Michael and Caleb are you going to look at me I remember you in eighth grade and I'm so proud to see you here not at all surprised best of luck to you [Applause] well congratulations young ladies and young man I wish you all the luck in the world and have a fun time but not too

fun study first in college so good luck [Applause] go Titan okay that came out because I was a Titan okay so we're going to give just a minute for the individuals to clear okay so we are now at employee recognitions and the first acknowledgments are the recipients of the AXA region 12 Awards I know we've made the announcements

before but I want to put a face to the names that we announced and so ladies if you would join me up at the front Mary self-seed Oh director of access and equity co-recipient of the curriculum and instruction of the year and Karen Morales walnut principal Wilson a brace award for professional leadership not actually you guys really didn't neat

where's Mary sulfate oh oh oh okay so she couldn't be with us today so if you were just explained to us what AXA is because you know the acronyms that we're always using so if you just let them know what axis so it's for the administrators and it's administrators my mind just went totally blank I really do not like talking in front of crowd so

I do though down but anyway it's for leadership for the administrators all through the state of California and we are region 12 and so it's just what we belong to well I just because you know we do announce their names at the board meetings and you have already received your award at an evening award ceremony correct so they already received their award at

a ceremony but we announce their names we never put the face to the name and so I wanted to at least to be able to do that so that you guys can come up and people could see who our great administrators are and so on behalf the board of education I just want to thank you [Applause] now let's step and a half it looks like

we're going to have speed bump back up again because we have a CT employee recognitions before we do that we want to announce that we earlier in the month gave out a couple of other awards the first is called the cote award and these are for community members that have gone above and beyond for public education and the recipients were ana beragon and

sharon duran or either of them here probably Sharon's here they're out in the community there and then we also gave our who awards and that stands for we honor our own and these are Association members who have really pitched in this year and done great things for the Association and that was to the always awesome Brenda Walker and

Mary Hancock so the Teacher of the Year awards are pretty special Awards because they're given by their peers they have to be nominated and they tell me every single year you can't be self nominated so they are nominated by their peers and then a committee of their peers get together and and I would imagine shout and maybe

there's some tears and they break for lunch and then they announce who it is and a CT specifically wanted me to give these awards because this is remarkable this is the 16th year in a row that all of the recipients aren't me and yeah that's it's quite a street that my colleagues are very proud of our elementary teacher of the year is a

fifth grade teacher from hidden trails Susan Ramsay you see here tonight [Applause] you want to say something so I didn't plan on speaking but I am very humbled by this I'm sitting with a teacher whose mother was my master teacher and she and her husband are both teachers here in Chino Unified School District that was many years ago in orange Unified a

former principal of mine is here you see that Farley and without my colleagues and without the students and parents can do it and I'm retiring this year so and our secondary teacher of the year is a music teacher at Townsend and rut I also wasn't planning on speaking but given the opportunity I just want to say how thankful I am especially being an

elective teacher I know that usually this is something that might go to academic teachers I'm constantly in awe of my peers academically and all the rigor that they go through so to be recognized and honored for music and the electives and it shows the importance that we place on music in the district I've just very humbled and honored and

what so thank you all thank you and this year we had a special recognition award for the head child development teacher at the Children's Center Miss Jo Jo Ann Bartel and I'm going to date just a few words about my teacher miss Jo come on up miss Jo this shows been with the district for 18 years and she was hired

in to the Children's Center works with the elementary age and she's worked at a couple other centers and then she's been with our children's the chino children's center which used to be at that little old school on the background of marshall and now it's moved down to the district office but she's been there for 14 years and Jo says when she started at Marshall

she she wanted to touch base with the kindergarten teachers to find out how is she going to get her kids ready for school and they looked at her and they said that well those moves on subsidized kids are just behavior problems anyway so she made the determination that she was going to get her kids ready for preschool and that they would not be

behavior problems and she's done an excellent job with that Jo's has the highest accomplishment is the fact that she we made it through our federal program monitoring this year and they had a perfect score and they had very high rankings for their the school environment so she and her team have done an excellent job and Miss Cindy Wasserman nominated her she's in

our audience today and she says that Jo's room is always just a rich environment for learning it's colorful its interactive her staff is very committed and caring for the students and that her children just feel cared cared for so it's an honor to have her on our staff and congratulations to you miss Jo so we have a little certificate

we made for you from our staff and then [Applause] I'm absolutely floored by this Thank You Lou I teach your future students the threes and four-year-olds the ones that I have to get ready to be out in that cold world I love them immensely a lot of social-emotional skills have to go into this the state of California has already

told us that we have to be in line with the common core my kiddos have to start social-emotional all the way down to ecology literacy math skills beyond belief by the time they finished my program they know how to spell their names they know 1 to 20 they know the inside and outside of a book they know what an

illustrator is what the author does I mean we try to get them ready for you guys so I hope we do a good job thank you hi and I'm doing a jump back in on Stephen present our school nurse of the year to miss Jonah can you come on up Jonah rose so Jonah has been a nurse for quite a

few years hold on little grandma so she has been with us for 10 years and she's honored by her her peers as the school nurse this year so before that she's a graduate from Cal State LA with her her BSN her master's in nursing and then from Cal State Fullerton with her school nurse credential she came with a number

of years of hospital experience primarily first at Huntington Memorial she worked there about three years in the medical and telemetry respiratory in telemetry unit then she went to work at USC in the cardiothoracic telemetry and ICU she was a charge nurse and she was a mentor to her peers so she's she's a she's an expert in her field so Jonah is

is highly respected amongst her nurse colleagues her school staff and and administrators and every year her administrators ask if they can keep nurse Jonah so but that's not uncommon for my nurses she demonstrates the ultimate and professionality she is a child advocate and she's just a clinical expert in an expert clinician she's a leader amongst the nurses and she's a

she's a team player so it's an honor to award her the school nurse of the year and here [Applause] I too didn't plan on speaking I just want to thank Laurel I think she told me I was one of her first hires coming into the district and I want to thank her for that a lot of you probably don't know what

school nurses do please get to know your school nurse at your campus I work with the most amazing and professional ladies that are around they've got so much experience and our job really is to care for the kids and the staff I think without us you know our mantra is attendance counts and everyone needs to be at school and stay healthy and we're

in charge of that so get to know who your school nurses and want to thank you for just just being the most wonderful group of ladies that I have to work with they're always there they're always professional and our job is to keep everyone safe and healthy and I hope you get a chance to know your school nurse

and give them a thanks as well thank you well congratulations to all our wonderful educators who were just recognized and we're going to we missed one the counselor of the year from the alternative ed Center is Dorie Prieto [Applause] thank you so much I am honored and humbled I have the fortunate opportunity to work with students throughout the

whole district I get to work with students from kindergarten on up through fifth sometimes six year students and it is a honor and a privilege to work with such an amazing and passionate staff we do help kids that sometimes have fallen behind we help kids that are actors kids that are there practicing daily they're going to be Olympians they're practicing

for the Olympics and it's a phenomenal job and it's a unique place to be we work I work with the independent studies home based independent studies and the virtual program and I am one piece of an amazing puzzle with the teachers and our staff to just give students the opportunity to shine in their own way so thank you

[Applause] well again congratulations and thank you for all that you do but that's not all because we have CFCs ei employee recognitions denisa royal with the associations recipients I'm going to think outside the box and stand this way Patrick Gonzalez would you please join me it is with great pride and honor that I present GSA's unsung hero wor to you

Patrick Gonzalez Patrick has worked in his present position as custodian - for the past 28 years on April 10th he was honored as San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools classified school employee of the year for maintenance operations and facilities his principal Paula Thomas writes he is a stellar example of a man who is dedicated to going his very best in

every endeavor the job of custodian is personal to Patrick the school is his he takes pride in making sure that it is maintained at the highest level of quality we can always depend on Patrick Lea fellows assistant superintendent of HR and former principal States Patrick is an icon at the school site everybody loves Patrick because he engages with the school community he

participates in events such as the PTA family fun night and provides his input during school sight meetings and other school sponsored events whenever a school event is held Patrick is sure to lend a hand by providing his global perspective to ensure student safety the community recognizes him as a leader because he motivates others to put their best effort with a positive

mindset Stephanie for make us Mike saying that correctly teacher at rolling Ridge states Pat is the nuts and bolts of rolling Ridge elementary school after 22 years under his reign our campus sparkles and glistens he takes great pride in every aspect of our school our staff and our students truly believe he has magical powers because the moment

someone asked him for anything it has done immediately in a Pecha Billy well he exudes warmth and kindness toward every person he encounters his constant care and love for our school community makes rolling Ridge Elementary the family that we are on behalf of Chino chapter 102 and the orange field office we honor you and we thank you for what

you do for the students teachers community and the district thank you so much Patrick [Applause] and I have to say mr. Joseph you've got competition here okay hi Denise I just leaned over and said the very same thing to him so with that we have an award from you from the field office which states above and beyond Patrick Gonzalez

is hereby awarded this certificate from California School Employees Association for being a great extraordinary member for Chino chapter 102 your dedication and commitment to your membership is outstanding and appreciated not only today but every day thank you for your workmanship and being a gym ok [Applause] boy you know first of all I like to say I'm good evening Thank You Leia fellows

Stephanie from akos Paula Thomas Barbara James the Board of Education Wayne Joseph it's a great honor serving the Chino Valley Unified School District and thank you so much I appreciate it [Applause] congratulations to all those who do such great just greatness at our schools I mean you touch people you touch students thank you so much and we've got a couple

more recognitions and so will the following individuals please approach the podium as I call your names Eagle Canyon teacher Gina solace I'm going to call these names one group at a time because I'd like for each of them to give a little bit of input so Gina was recognized as sammartino County Education Medal of Honor nominee so Gina if you wouldn't

mind sharing I wasn't planning on speaking and he's a hard act to follow but I could wake up and do what I love doing every single day I work at a wonderful school under the best administration and I'm just fortunate to be a part of the cheetah Valley and my school district and next and next we have Eagle Canyon assistant principal

Josh Schrager dawn Lugo teacher Christine Dominguez Donna Lugo community liaison Laura okay I'm going to butcher it I'm sorry well DBC oh okay any parent volunteer maria gonzalez if you'd please welcome up and these individuals were recognized as the sammartino County multilingual recognition for service to English language students that's huge great thank you you want to make a comment

either will any of you anybody there you go I wasn't planning to speak but I just want to throw this out to my fabulous teachers it's through their ELD instruction that's the reason why I'm up here I just kind of pushed the papers and oversee it but they do all the work so thank you Eagle Canyon teachers staff

there laughter we still have a couple more people that I just wanted to get everybody so West End selfi Awards we have an eval des RFP a data yella landing the key RSP math teacher at Ayala Diane May SDC teacher grades four through six at Liberty Dana Morales SDC teacher grades one through three at cattle quarry Quadra

special a teacher for transition program at don Lugo Heather post assistant principal at Canyon Hills Josh Schrager assistant principal at Eagle Canyon and they are being recognized for the west and self awards now okay here we go with the acronyms again so if you wouldn't what somebody wouldn't mind explaining what selfi is thank you Weston falfa is our region that oversees

all of our special education students in all of our region for San Bernardino County so they've recognized not only me but all of our teachers for all the hard work they do with our special education students and our special needs to make sure that they get the services they need in the accommodations they have in the classroom so we're very proud of

everybody thank you so again we have a great district with great people actually these are the great people who make our district great so I want to thank you all and one more round of applause for them thank you okay so we are okay so we are going to do comments from our student representative Carlos hi getting me

everyone is gonna be my last comments yeah kind of sad now if I want to start off by taking my school for all the first and foremost then our awesome district I got I had the pleasure to meet great people on this board and on the cabinet ACTC SCA years I got to interact with them Don marks from Chino

champion all these people have been good to me I want to give a thanks to mr. Rigell way artillery director she's the one introduced me to this position and I'm very glad she came to Lugo and she's doing great things and great things are gonna happen the logo Isaiah or president ASB president he's did a good job this year very proud of him and my

other mom dr. Guevara she's a great principal she's doing great things and she's putting us in the right direction and then I want to obviously thank my mom you know she's been a contributor major contributing factor in to my success and I will be attending called Sandburg college it's in Chicago it's in Illinois in Galesburg to a very far

place and I'm a little scared but I'm very confident that I'm going to get I'm going to take what I learned on this board take it on and use my my newly found skills and to hopefully improve myself and people around me I have have siblings in this district and I'm leaving the city of Chino knowing they're in good hands

both of them go to roads and I have an older brother who goes to chino hills' even special department amazing teacher they're waiting teachers that roads and I just wanna thank everybody who has their kids in this district I'm a very sound believer of Education and education has opened doors to many great things and has for me and I hope it does

to other students so what's saying that thank you knives did a pleasure Carlos I just want to say that it definitely has been a pleasure having you on AB student representative because you have added so much input at all of our meetings that you have tended and I appreciate that so thank you so much and good luck ok so we

are now at employee representative communications and we have Denise Royal CSEA can i still be outside the box good evening this is one awards or I should say school board meeting that is really nice to come to it nothing bad and I've been contentious that's just all good stuff tears come to the eyes with the Armed Forces students going there and

I'm thinking after what 18 maybe 17 18 years old some of them can't even vote yet right and they're going in serving our country so god bless them I do want to share that next week is CFC a will it be celebrating classified School Employees week I'd like to give you a little history lesson house ESEA became

the largest classified Union in the nation CSEA began in 1927 when a group of Auckland school custodians set out to secure retirement benefits a group of nine men and one woman assembled for CSA's first conference during the three-day meeting they established a framework for instead of an agenda a progress that continued to elevate the status of classified employees for the next 80

years from the capital to the bargaining table CSEA is pursued the interests of classified employees up and down the state transforming non-certificated support staff into classified professionals and respected partners in the education community CSD a success is a testament to its members today's ESEA represents more than 230,000 workers making it the largest classified employee union in the nation

the union's success in legislation contract negotiations retirement benefits safety measures and employee rights is a testament to the hard work of all CSA members classified employees make schools work and they care for the students as State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson they have their official duties and they also have smiles for the students our classified people are part of the

overall school team there is a mutual respect and support between the administrators and the workers on the front line who do the day-to-day work from the time students board a school bus to the time they head home at the end of the day every aspect of their educational experience is impacted by a classified school employee from the

classroom to the playground to the school cafeteria to the college financial aid office classified employees make a difference in a daily life of a student thank you thank you and Steve ball are you know Connor okay okay so in Todd's not here so Steve is here in his place Yvette okay thank you yes event barley of Jim I wanted to I wasn't

planning I'm gonna say I wasn't planning on speaking today but I want to call back Karen Morales if you don't mind that okay come back up here Karen Karen was recognized for the Wilson grace award for access region 12 which is the Association of California school administrators hmm I know at a previous board meeting I did recognize Karen Morales in Mary salcedo

and Mary salcedo was there this time but Karen was not so I'm going to actually go ahead and give you the reason why I'm Karen Morales was recognized for our region 12 which was all of San Bernardino County Karen Morales consistently demonstrates compassion to the walnut school community which is evident by her 25 years of service there she's been a

teacher an assistant principal a principal and supports a motivate staff through personal conflicts student crisis and struggles her personal touch is embraced by the whole community she leads by example and motivates both teachers and students to meet their goals the walnut community along with champ takes pride in recognizing Karen Morales as the recipient of access region 12 Wilson grace award and that is

recognizing an administrator who has a special touch with the community and goes above and beyond her call of duty so bear with me and congratulate her one more time Karen Morales thank you thank you and just an update.we I promise I'm going to do a better job next year in providing or having our scholarship high school scholarship

rewards ready for this particular night but we will be giving out scholarships as well and probably at our next board meeting okay and with that thank you very much thank you so much and so we are now at community liaisons communication and I see Melissa do you have Melissa from supervisor hagman's office well thank you very much board

president Rose Co board members and superintendent Joseph thank you so much for having supervisor Hagman included in tonight's festivities as he does send his appreciation and prayers for all of our young men and women the sideways thing I know for all of our young men and women who have signed up to serve in our military it's a wonderful thing and

and we do appreciate their service very much I do have another announcement to make which is going to be of great interest to parents of teens who are pre driving supervisor Hagman is co-hosting an event with Triple A of Southern California and also the Chino Police Department is going to be a wonderful event we do need people to sign up for

the event reservations are required to attend what it is I'll tell you what it is now it's a driving a pre class before they get their permits it's a safety class so we are daring them to prepare it should be a wonderful event it's going to be on June the 14th at the community room with the Chino Police

Department 6:00 p.m. to 8:15 if you have any questions please feel free to call supervisor hagman's office his local district offices in Chino Hills and we have information and we'd love to get you you and your children signed up for this very important class thank you very much thank you Melissa and this evening we also have Ontario

Police Department officers officer odd and officer more and I probably don't pronounce your names correctly sorry good evening everyone we are here today just to explain how we've been notified of some ongoing issues with Woodcrest in the surrounding area one of our lieutenants spoke with us the other day and I guess there's been some graffiti some skateboarders on the property some

vandalism done to the school and some break-ins so we've been working with Dan Mullen and as well we've had a meeting this week with the principal and vice-principal Woodcrest school what we're going to do is we're going to introduce have you spoken to de melon about the trespass program that we're introducing so hmm what we're going to

do is the schools have been given a trespass packet people who have been located or found on the school after school hours are done when the property is all sealed off what we'll be able to arrest these people and take them to jail so middle of the night when people are breaking into the school doing things like that we will take them and I

get them to jail and we have our patrol division and our even our air support division doing extra patrols of all your campuses as often as they can and we just want to reiterate to you guys that you have the full support of the Ontario Police Department you know as members we're members of our community oriented problem-solving unit and we admire your

district very much for taking ownership of your campuses and for you know being so proactive and trying to find problems between solutions to these problems and we're pretty confident that working together we're going to do some good things we've had some extra patrols over the area Nina up supervisor to stop by and so far we've been working together

we give them some different ideas to the school district as well as to how we can probably work together to solve a lot of these problems so I think if we can form a partnership here we'll be able to start the people that are causing these problems and hopefully there's no future generations of problems that come along

so we'll working together it's a long-term problem that we can work with together for the community so we appreciate any help so if anyone's out here and walk around the villa night and sees any problems or sees anything suspicious out of the school is definitely give us a call so that we know to come over and respond so we

appreciate the help from everyone here well we want to thank you for being great community partners and for actually be willing to to reach out with us and so thank you so much to you thank you thank you at this time before we do comments from the audience we're going to take a really brief recess brief brief

all righty so we will come back on board at 8:27 and we are now at comments from the audience on items not on the agenda Pat do we have any speakers 12 requests to speak on non-agenda item ok speakers you will be called in the order the request was received please listen for your name and be prepared to approach

the podium any comments on agenda items will be accepted during consideration of that item once the board has commenced Philips deliberations on a particular issue speaker cards will not be accepted the board is very interested in your comments but please bear in mind that that the board typically does not respond to comments during this time on the agenda as it is reserved

specifically for public comments individual members may respond during board comments at the end mr. Nalan please explain the light system because you have three minutes to make your comments please begin your comments at the green light the yellow light indicates you have 30 seconds and the red light indicates your time is over and before you begin your

comments please adjust the microphone so that you can be heard clearly and audience members please refrain from making comments while speakers are at the podium as it is disrespectful and disruptive speakers please remember that in accordance with board bylaw 93 23 bylaws of the board meeting conduct limit remarks to three minutes total for all remarks if a topic has been covered

please in remarks to new points the board would like to remind you that there is an existing board policy 13 12.1 for anyone who wishes to file a complaint against a district employee listen for your name and be prepared to approach the podium as your name is called no speaker shall exceed the three-minute limit the first speaker is

Nikolas gam followed by nathan kevin dhamma and camos Aqaba Donna hello members of the board and superintendent Wayne Joseph my name is Nico Gann my twin sister and I have attended OPA since kindergarten seven years ago we are in the sixth grade and our teacher is Miss Bayonetta she is an ADD Rose who loves our classroom and her

kids she inspired us to be better and kind recently my sister was diagnosed with a life-threatening chronic illness and she is not comfortable talking about it but she is comfortable at the school that we have called our home for the past seven years she knows the teachers she and she knows our Chancellor mr. crow mr. lanta mr

Bridges Mariners Gina who helps her every single day she knows our computer teacher our science teacher our PE teacher and mr. lines our fifth grade teacher and mr. Honaker fourth grade teacher she knows proctors and kids and the families and they know her and it is very scary that now she had to start a new school with his medical

condition this has been so hard we are really worried to close our current school that we are doing very well because unforeseen liabilities I never knew one or when an unforeseen liability was until her mom explained it to me and I don't understand how this can shut down oppa or any other school because of this and miss Roach is accused of

misusing money please help us fight for our school because there's no good reasoning for shutting it down only 1,200 awesome reasons for keeping it open you all shouldn't be up there if you care more about money than kids 1,200 kids that will have to find new schools and be separated from not only their friends teachers campus and all

staff in office that they know and love now we ought to go to different schools Seema's are being separated for my brothers and sisters I'm not saying my school's better than any other school but there's nothing about it that would give a good reason for it to be shut down and force and scare assemblies to ever to run around trying to find any

old school to go to we are more than hard-working students multiple intelligences professors and stuff we are an education driven family and we wanted to be a part of your family but instead now our family's been broken apart my school has been very busy making many many changes you have looked at have you looked at the changing me I made this is the school we

chip chose the families are roads or any other school would be angry if they are being shut down for unforeseen reasons that you cannot see now I've always been taught never give up and I really can't understand why you are all giving up on us kids thank you thank you nice nice East Cobb I'm Donna Donna followed by camos a carbon dama followed

by Melissa Beamer good evening Board of Education my name isn't a a carbon Dahmer the name is from Africa I came to the United States in the year 2000 and one of the things that I learned in Africa is you might not have money you might not have wealth but if you believe in education you can do

anything go anywhere be anyone and so I followed my dream and I came to the United States California no one really believed I could come here but because I believed I made it happen now three children who I talk to about education all the time and I tell them if they are honest if they work hard if they study

good things will happen and they asked me what about the Board of Education are they educated did they work hard did they make things happen and say yes their parents too but why are they closing our school like I don't know you have to ask them and so we have to find new schools for both my children and I

have to tell them that sometimes people who you put your trust in don't believe back in you and they do things for unknown reasons so if oppa doesn't open will be extremely disappointed it won't in any way damage my dream know that of my children will keep believing because this is America right this is America but the Board of Education I think owes

this community the oppa community an explanation and honest one is this really the place where children can still believe or should they give up on some of their dreams because of politics that's an answer only you can answer thank you thank you composers Pavan dama followed by Melissa Beamer bought by Li Jie Hendrix hello mr. Joseph um you probably don't

remember me I tried speaking with you in December after the meeting when you said that you would try your best to accommodate the 1,200 students well back then you didn't even look me in the eyes I understand you are probably overwhelmed what the people ask you other questions today I'm here speaking for my sister myself and the other hope

of students who don't fully understand what was going on I asked my mom is there anything mr. Joseph can do about keeping my school open incidentally the question you can ask him yourself so here I am what have we done what have we failed our school is great our teachers are awesome and we look forward to coming to school every day we are one

big family why don't you get to know us we are friendly and you can come into our school anytime and get to know us thank you thank you mr. Beamer called by Li Jie Hendrick called by caitlin Welsh good evening my name is Melissa Beamer and I'm a parent I'm sorry philosophy just made me crash I'm a

parent of a child at Oxford Preparatory Academy and a proud resident of Cato I've actually voted for most the members on the board and I've campaigned for a couple as well in regards to OPA goodness gracious tears in my eyes hold on in regards to OPA I do have some questions and I will post them to mr. Wayne Joseph directly I

would post questions to the entire board but mr. Joseph calls this his board and I've never seen anyone vote against a recommendation given by him or really dissent in any way mr. Joseph I only have three questions for you number one what do you plan to do with the campus when the lease expiration is up at the

end of June second I think we all understand the issue with ovah is strictly the fault of the founder sorry I'm just wondering if you're going to have any empathy classes for your staff third question what responsibilities do you take as overseer of opah as the person who renewed the Charter who should have been watching over and

making sure that we're independent audits what responsibilities do you take for all of this thank you for your time thank you [Applause] Alysia Hendrik followed by Caitlin Welsh followed by Heather Perry good evening board and superintendent I am here today not just as an OPA parent but as a resident of this community and a parent within the district it just so happens

that because of the current position that OPA finds itself in that I started my investigating of our district and at school but what I have found has been infuriating and heartbreaking we are failing as the children in our district I recently had a teacher when discussing these failures tell me that the reason that some of our schools perform worse

than others is because they have a high makeup of low-income children is this at all acceptable to say that any children whether regardless of socioeconomic status is not capable of performing that our low schools are threes the reason there's so many threes in this district is because they are in low-income areas and the children just can't perform high

for one instance I have Dixon elementary school that really stood out to me when looking at the school accountability report the low-income socio-economic disadvantaged children make up 84 percent of districts in elementary school and they only tested at 14 percent proficient in math 14 percent I'm sorry but that makes me angry it's not even my child but I am pissed off

for them this is not evidence that these kids are incapable of learning but aloud rather a glaring condemnation of the education with which they are receiving the kids learning capabilities do not reside in the wealth of their households or that their ethnic makeup but rather the quality of the educators are put before them at OPA 69% of our socially

economic disadvantaged children or 69 percent excuse me were proficient at math 69 percent of our low-income children we're able to be proficient at math Dixon was 14 and people want to argue that they're just not capable this brings me to open we should not be shutting down one of our shining stars in our districts we should be making more hope it is not

about where you reside Oprah is open to all children within the district and is only limited by its capacity and the number of children it can take in all of opus children including the socioeconomically disadvantaged children are performing on par with the rest of their peers we are solid we are strong but better than that we are bettering

the children within our community is directly hurting our children to refuse them such a solid education when the that does not care where they reside or their socioeconomic status or ethnicity hope it brings every one of their students up together build more opens do not care the one you have down thank you thank you caitlin welsh followed by Heather Perry

followed by Laura besties thank you for hearing us tonight my son has Down syndrome myself along with many other special needs parents avoid Chino Valley divide school district on the simple fact that you view our children as disabled instead of Abel you offer restrictive environments in moderate severe settings you limit him and you give them the bare minimum

legally required and services how am I supposed to provide a salt in a future for my son when I give them the bare minimum time award how in the year 2017 is this still our standard for special needs one of you up there I've known since I was a little girl I have played with your kids and I know that you were

terrific parents you were a fighter and I always respected you for that you pushed for your kids and you fought for what was right for them where are you now where are you fighting for this I know if you were in our shoes you'd be here with us you'd be fighting for that standard you said you all of you to silence and

agree to not vote to keep our school open and said you honor Dwane Joseph's recommendation that close our school one of the top performing schools where are you where your where are you fighting for us where are you putting us first instead you've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to shut us down and just place 1206 I don't know where

they're going to go in third or fourth options in schools oppa has offered my son a full inclusion environment he is with typical peers he is thriving he's meeting of IEP goals and yes he has put in that hard work that I owe a lot of that to oppa because instead of looking at him as missing will they view him as people they set

the standard they fight hard for my son why aren't you guys fighting hard for my son mr. Wain Joseph I asked you personally how do I go back how do I put my son back in a restrictive environment how do I go back to that I have fought so hard to get him where he is taking away successful school from kids that

are thriving it's not putting our kids first and you owe it to us and our kids of the community to set this standard raise the scores and the other schools don't shut down the ones that are doing well find a solution don't risk thank you I'm sorry your time is up Heather Perry followed by Laura vespi followed by Vanessa Okimoto

good evening board my name is Heather Perry I'd like to speak out against the closing of Oxford Preparatory Academy my son's life has been changed coming to OPA after only one year he had a horrible three years in elementary school because he is a bodily kinesthetic learner when you're in the traditional school system as this type of learner you're dead in the water the

only option I am told is that he needs medication at OPA he was able to learn the way he needs and is not labeled as the problem kid my daughter has also been at OPA for half of her eighth grade year this year she found her best friend at OPA when she roamed another junior high here in Chino Valley with no

friends yes this happens at the junior high level but I'm making the point that that oppa is a special different forward thinking type of education that all kids in Chino Valley need to have access to please help us keep Oxford Preparatory Academy open and let o let the word Unified of Chino Unified School District's be true and to show our kids

that we can work as a team even with opposing opinions it's them that we are putting first overall I grew up in the Chino Valley School District and it was great could I really benefit from opens type of teaching absolutely but I do not expect this district of mine to shut down a thriving school in their community Chino Valley has always taught

teamwork to their students where has this been we can still make things right by you Chino Valley choosing to work with us please help us keep Oxford Preparatory Academy Chino Valley open thank you thank you for Bessie Vanessa Okamoto followed by Troye Sivan's president of rose CO and members of the board I am here tonight to humbly

request that you hold a special board meeting to offer a conditional approval of Oxford preparatory Academy's charter petition we have listened to all of the feedback from the county and state and have done everything we can to correct the wrongs of the past while we can't change the past we can move forward and create a new OPA together impose

conditions upon us place a CV USD member on our open board demand monthly audit reports these are all conditions that we will meet I can't speak on behalf of the board but I am confident that they will even be willing to change the name of our school if that's what it takes it is not too late our charter expires June

30th you have until then to do the right thing hold a special board meeting and save the school for these 1,200 kids it is your duty to serve the children of Chino Valley the biggest concerns at CV USD San Bernardino County and the state have had are a fear of the unknown potential liabilities we cannot and should not live our life in fear of the

unknown aside from that oppa has made it clear that we have no unknown liabilities we know all of our debts and we are in good financial standings this is a crucial in life-altering time for many families I'm worried daily with where my children will go will they make friends easily will they be bullied will they have Taekwondo Chinese chess music class and

Lego club please please hold board meeting and save our school the arming though thank you thank you Vanessa Okamoto followed by Troye Sivan followed by an elder Ramirez good evening the decision to not renew Oxford Preparatory Academy is still difficult to process but continuing to fight against us throughout this whole process will never be understood I adjust the

board tonight regarding this detrimental situation because this could have all been avoided and in reality it still can I'm not going to stand here and mislead anyone into thinking that I have an attitude of superiority and look down on every other school in this district I do believe that we have afforded a right to be proud of our school that is working

and fostering student success even throughout this tumultuous year I can speak firsthand after attending three other elementary schools that we can only do so much as parents to ensure our children's academic success our previous school for good schools my involvement level remained high and it hasn't changed since but not every school is designed the same I'm not sure what else

I could have done as a parent to prevent my daughter's tears in the morning because of her academic struggles that weren't being properly addressed I don't know what I could have done to help my son to be more challenged and engaged in class this is why my fight didn't stop at just any school until I found the

right school I cannot express to you adequately enough my gratitude and relief when I found the school that worked for each of my children so how can I not stand here and disbelief tonight and say shape I'm going to give you another three minutes but we'll give you some more time I know like under three minutes you know you cannot simply

expect student success to remain the same by tearing apart what they know is home and farming them out to what is left at whatever school is available do I view or offer community is great without a doubt but what exactly makes it so definitively great to me it's like one of the very best recipes you have there's just something that works when

have a lot of good ingredients and mix them together well now could you separate all the ingredients and mix them with other foods you sure can but will your recipe turn out a success I don't think so our teachers staff parents and children all contribute to our successful recipe we are not perfect but we have collectively created a

school where children are thriving I don't know if everyone here tonight realizes the impact the closure of our school will truly have not only for this district's reputation and legacy or for the surrounding neighborhood and local businesses but we're talking devastation to families whether it's moving out of district moving homes in general leaving jobs so we can home-school all has been

mentioned but the absolute worst is having your children's hearts broken and having to witness their fears of the unknown continually surfaced yet I do believe in miracles and I have to ask one last time for the sake of thousands of hearts breaking tonight to please consider helping us I know it's not too late for our school the potential to

come out the hero and all of this still exists and really who wouldn't want to be the ultimate superhero as a leader for our children thank you thank you Christ even followed by an elder Ramirez followed by Tina Kaiser good evening board members President Orosco Superintendent Joseph my name is Troy Stevens and I'm a proud parent and

always will be of a child of two children at OPA even more so now than ever I stand with a school and an administration who believes to fight for school choice I personally attended the State Board hearing May 11th last week a meeting that I thought would determine the fate of OPA Chino Valley and as we all know that board that day did make a

motion to approve the petition but with a heavy heart we OPA came out on the short end of the vote equally important when the Chairman asked someone to make a motion to deny the petition all ten board members sat there and they couldn't make a motion you wonder you may wonder why the answer is simple it's because they just like

all five of you board members know that this school is worth saving not only for the kids that attend the school the teachers that work there but for CV USD and the community one board member said what if we had like two more months of the school to show us that their changes are working another board member said

what if there's some financial things that come up down the road because of it lighten well here's another what if what if these 1,200 students of opa miss out on the education that is once in a lifetime because cv USD doesn't believe in a second chance the sad part is about this what if is that this could be a reality if you five

board members don't get involved to save the school the school is here and is ready to work with cv USD like it has a month ago all it takes is for one of you board members to make a motion to approve the previous denied petition with whatever conditions you want to put on it again I don't expect any of you to

rush the decision or to make a motion to vote right away but I do expect you all to sit down and listen to the solutions oh if it has implemented in its program as I stand here before you tonight I ask you to hear the passion in my voice the startle in my heart and you the board

members that voted these that we voted into these positions to go listen to us and listen to our cries to help save our school so please I ask you once again with okhla parents and staff cvsd is our last option to get this petition approved and if you're worried about potential liabilities for cacb USD please show me any precedents that shows

any buddy including the IRS that go after a charter school because of what its CMO has done it hasn't happened and this is no different and if you and if it did happen since everyone likes these what-ifs it's a good thing that we have over five million dollars in cash and assets amongst our three schools and a

million-dollar credit line that CVS dica probably used to pay for its lawyer fees this physical year of fighting of to fight to make sure that at a school such as open gets closed down I really hope you do the right thing and discuss this and figure out how we can save this school because it matters to a lot of

people especially me thank you very much Thank You Janelle V Ramirez followed by Tina Kaiser followed by Frankie at salvo disco synonyms again please the melody Ramirez all bye Tina Kaiser followed by Frankie and sabor disco good afternoon members of the bar in superintendent I stay here because I want to represent my kids I had to catch Philippa and I want

to remind all the board members that you are here to ensure the best education for all children and if we decided to go to the childhood is because this code is all series tuned offer what we need I want to remind you that every time a child move for the school today the child money was with with it I want

to know why every time we are president of coop mr. joseffer recommending closing of school all the modifications that the research has requiring and is made always the school will stop working with try to change all do one equation for each java is in case legs close all school whoa the Cape again destroys containers or clothes you are closing

one do you want to close one of the business school and exist in this is students school that academics are not at the level which is nice to them I really appreciate your reconsider your position is you really do you really want to pay the people may a mistake go to other people if the Suraj is the responsibly she what

you will work for their space for any poor area less gwenna now have no s Suraj Mike will not serve Raj my school is a students the parents the teachers the staff does I want to stay here and my kids Sebastian is yes I want to reconsider the positions in Taos Big Mike the stuff in the school we can go

in together you need to one you can still open the school please don't close my school notice only the school is they home for the kiss is for us all with the parents is falling through the school portable stereo support robbery any less pero por favor reconsidering open OS suraj open s estudiantes padres voluntarios padres my ass trophy stop gracias

and Tina Kaiser for by 2012 a disco good evening I know I was here at the beginning of this meeting and what a joyous occasion for the community to see all the accomplishments to be recognized for all your hard work and great work what a community be a part of wait why are you to see the joy on your faces I

never knew you could smile I've never felt that from you you've never given that to oppa shame on you these are children these are teachers that work hard our nurse services our kids every day our PE teachers everyone at our school is incredible and they've met seven years and never a recognition never an award never even mentioned how

is someone supposed to succeed in an environment like that it's not fair it's not fair to my child it's not fair to everyone that attends oppa now I know the community is going to come up here say we think we're better than you we think we deserve more we think we're elitist we're parents that wanted what every parent wants all

those parents hear all the cheering all the praise it's beautiful that's how it should be and OPA has never been given that kind of recognition life we're all trying to educate our children the biggest dream for a parent is the success of their child why have we been denied not because of who wrote because we've changed all that we've made all

those changes we became as transparent as transparent can be and I know you guys wish we could just go away but we're not because we believe in our children and we're not going anywhere thank you thank you and breaking silver diesel repeat the name please Frankie and Sal Verduzco so do you mean board and superintendent my name is Frank Iero disco and I'm

solver disco we are here tonight to give miss mrs. Morales a huge thank you and congratulations on her huge award miss Morales is a great leader always leading by example she welcomes all students no matter where they come from thinking you're mesmerized goal was thank you that's it okay so thank you to all the speakers we will now move on to our

action items changes and deletions I'm sorry changes and deletions now I'm sorry Oh or now it changes influence look at that has there any changes or deletions that following changes are on the agenda item 3 c1 page 27 student expulsion case of 1617 - 42 is deleted item 3 C 4 page 30 school sponsored trips is yellow shaded

item 2a one appointment of district representatives to the city of Chino Community Services Commission and that is our action item to recommend that the Board of Education consider the applicants and appoint to district representatives to the city of Chino Community Services Commission first of all are there any speakers none okay so we have none I'm going to just ask board

members for nominations for district representatives and if we have more than what we need we'll just vote on each one independently and I'd like to make one nomination of Kevin Cisneros with any other nominations oh I'm sorry mr. nahdi had you laid on basil Kevin Cisneros Claude basil any other nominations okay seeing that there are no further nomination

all in favor that we have Kevin Cisneros and ball basil as district representatives all in favor aye opposed motion passes 5-0 congratulations represented as I think they're both here if they are congratulations with just a scenario so mr. basil yes no no we didn't so moved we noted first and second on that lamination no nomination no we don't

okay no that's why we didn't have Lee while it's listed on here rushon and second so okay for our next item item to be one 2017 2018 student member on the Board of Education and that is to recommend the Board of Education approved Jonah Litella from Chino Hills High School for the 2017 2018 student member on the Board of Education and

administered the oath of office are there any speakers no speakers okay so board members before we vote I'd like to share a little bio on Jonah Botello Jonah will be a senior at Chino Hills High School he will be president of the Student Advisory Council he's actively involved in school activities including the ASB program where he has served as class secretary

treasurer vice president and currently the Commissioner of communications he likes to dance and was instrumental in creating a dance club he plans to attend college and study business and minor in dance he looks forward to respectfully representing each and every student every student board members may have a motion for Jonah Botello as a 2017 2018 student board member student member on

the board of education will move I moved the coast so this is mr. na made the motion this is Blair second any comments or questions then all in favor aye aye opposed motion passes slide 0 and before we move on Jonah if you would come forward [Applause] how's it can you hear me okay so what we're going to do is we're

going to take the oath of office so if you please raise your right hand and repeat after me I John Abbott ello hi Jonah Botello do solemnly swear that I will support and defend I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California the

Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California against all enemies foreign and domestic against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the state of California that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the state of California that I take this obligation freely that

I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter good evening everyone just wanted to let

you know guys know that I'm very grateful for this opportunity and I do truly care about each and every student that attends this district and I plan on working as hard as I can to make the environment the school environment as safe and and enjoyable as possible for each and every student thank you come on wait is this mom and dad mom and dad mom

and dad congratulations to you too I [Applause] don't remember a student rep having that much of a cheering section that's great well congratulations and we look forward to having you sit at the diets with us okay so we are now at the next item pack item to see one public notice in here in regarding to California School Employees

Association chapter 102 initial bargaining proposal to the Chino Valley Unified School District for a reopener collective bargaining agreement effective July 1 2018 and that is to recommend the Board of Education give public notice and conduct a public hearing regarding the California School Employees Association chapter 102 initial bargaining proposal to the Chino Valley Unified School District for a

reopener collective bargaining agreement effective July 1 2018 I now open the public hearing regarding the regarding the California School Employees Association chapter 102 initial bargaining proposal to the Chino Valley Unified school district for a reopener collective bargaining agreement effective July 1 2018 at eight okay nine eight oh nine nine no nine oh geez nine oh nine I know an idea do we have any

speakers then okay for now close the public hearing at nine oh nine that concludes the action items we are now at consent pet are there any speakers none okay so mr. Cruz do you have any polls no pulse this is glare do you have any polls no I do not it's a Sykes do you have any polls mr. na and not have no pools guess

what I do so I have 3 c1 specifically item 16/17 39 and also 16/17 41 for the remainder of the consent items may I have a motion move the circuit so mr. na makes the motion mr. Cruz second any comments all in favor aye aye opposed motion passes 5 0 okay so we're going to take them individually and there is no discussion

simply a vote so for item 3 c1 may I have a motion so moved second so mr. na makes a motion mr. I'm sorry the genomics of motion mr. Cruz seconds and for item 16 / 17 - 39 the vote will go as all in favor aye opposed I this is like yes so that motion passes for one for the

next item 16 / 17 - 41 may I have a motion so moved mr. mrs. Blair makes the motion mr. nauss again this is just for a bit for a vote all in favor aye opposed nay motion passes for one okay we are now at information items board members are there any questions or comments okay seeing none we are now at board member

and superintendent communications mr. Cruz dan Sousa and the team did a fantastic job when it came to the band showcases great job a job well done everybody did well done high schools middle schools elementary schools they have done fantastic I have to when he came to Townsend and Magnolia they were amazing it was literally professional work work

of art and when it comes to our school district the blood is the music it is truly what makes our school district it's it's what makes them our school district the way it is it's fantastic and and the band directors the staff everyone did a fantastic job we have Sarab bengali from Ayala high school is the next coming student

commission for the Parks and Rec the Parks and Rec acknowledged the importance of youth in our community and their opinions regarding activities they would like to see implemented but really pushing this I think it's a good idea that um more youth to give their input of activities they would want at Chino Hills the Chino boxing club she was here

Lisette de Paz she received a scholarship from the boxing event and obviously is going to the military and her GPA is about 4.0 GPA so fantastic young lady I attended Eagle Canyon elementary Career Center the spikes attended us also as well really that was fun it's very fun talking about your career I spoke my career sorts first graders

and there I had a blast and hopefully the children had a blast while I was talking about career and the importance of of going to school or a career things like that so it's fantastic and I have to admit when it comes to miss Warner and Gina told us they are the background backbone of the school they have made I know what Gina

told us you know Petey mom now teacher I mean she has put a lot of she that school is really she really impacted that school and she has done so much so I gotta give her kudos of the things that she's done Ayten did I found this pretty extraordinary for me and I was really impressed and that was magnolia

magnolia they had portfolios for seventh and eighth grade and it was a family bonding activity the son grades had to share their powerpoints to their parents so they were explaining about their PowerPoint and the eighth graders no no no no no it was the eighth graders that were sharing their powerpoints but the seventh graders they were discussing

insuring their portfolio and at the end the parents had to write a letter a letter to their children and there was this one man that was always observing and he was sitting down writing writing and you could tell this guy you know real Brawley guy construction worker writing and I was just observing this guy just observing writing to a letter

to his daughter but that's what I felt a letter to his daughter and and just thoughts were rolling in my head and I felt that this father was giving it all for his daughter and it was pretty young for me it was sort of inspiring and I could imagine the words he was saying and the thing that came up was I knew

you before you were born I mean that thought was coming new you before I was born and and the letter the passion because I felt that this gentleman wasn't writing he wasn't a writer he Brawley probably worked with his hands and just writing you know love is his life his daughter and this thought I knew you before you were born

and you know composing himself getting ready for that moment when she came to this earth it was a beautiful scene it was very very um spiritual actually so that was a very good bonding moment with parents and and Memorial Day is an important day in America today to give thanks to pay tribute and to remember those who gave their lives to protect

our country and I just like to say thriving driving is an important word that is important when it comes to our children to thrive and I do think about conditional approval opposing you know opposed conditions things like that those are positive words thank you thank you mr. Cruz this is where I want to clarify my stance regarding Oxford

Preparatory Academy there were comments tonight that claimed that the vote the board remained silent when it came time to vote I want to clarify for myself that I was never silent I was honest about my vote regarding oppa and I explained my reasons for my no vote and they weren't all related to finances to place the blame solely on Sue Roach or

mr. Joseph is quite unfair for me there were significant concerns about equal access and the demographics that did not equate to that of CV USD it is important that the opah families remember that it was a unanimous vote by the board the decision was made by all five members of the board it wasn't mr. Joseph I want to move on to a couple

of items that are going on in our community there's a free saying dejas football camp on Saturday June 10th at dawn Lugo High School check-in time is at 7:00 a.m. there's also free summer ROP courses for all high school students including incoming ninth graders courses include pharmacy front office retail florist crime scene investigation 3d media design and many others please call 909

947 3400 extension 1322 to register my son promotes from the 8th grade on June 2nd and he attended Dixon which was one of the school's mentioned tonight and I understand that there's a lot of focus on scores the public schools must accept every student we don't have lotteries where we can pick and choose who we are going to accept them to our campus we

don't have students coming in from Orange County or other affluent cities attending our public schools it is unfair to make such comparisons but I am proud that my son has achieved so well in Chino Valley Unified Public Schools I want to thank the cafeteria workers who ensured that he had a healthy and nutritious lunch every day even when he

forgot his money and I know that Chino Valley Unified has taken a beating on social media recently because there was an email blast reminding parents to pay the debt owed for lunch it wasn't intended to be hurtful to our students but I received the email I received the phone blast and guess what I owed money my bad so I sent

him to school with his six dollars that he needed to pay it happens it doesn't make us a bad school district but I do want to thank our nutrition staff who does provide lunch to every student even when they do forget their money I want to thank the nurses and the health technicians who always address his asthma flare-ups and his frequent broken

eyeglasses during his elementary school years and most importantly I want to thank every great teacher who encouraged and motivated him through his periods of awkwardness shyness and even endured a bit of racial discrimination but there were teachers who realized his potential and who ensured that he would be successful on their campus while in their classroom those teachers I am

extremely grateful to because it is because of them that he returned to honor all and is now focusing on extracurricular activities and looks forward to ninth grade at don Lugo high school so I want to thank each and every one of you who has provided the best quality public education to both my children in Chino Valley Unified I want

to close by thanking my son for being a good teenager and for being so understanding when I have had to miss his events that land on Thursdays I look forward to June 2nd and I am very proud of you Andrew Blair and with that thank you thank you mrs. Boone mr. Hall yeah this afternoon I had to met a

parent and certainly she gave me a big hug and she said she's a parent of oppa then I heard heard speakers tonight were oppa and and everyone had tried their best to have their childhood petition renewed from our board to the county and state and it did not happen but I can agree on one thing have we done best for AI kids and we

serve all the students so I like to ask mr. Joseph to look into something now I think I feel their plane it's all flat I think we're on eco stance there's such a thing called accomplishments but also something called accidents and also miracles those things don't happen often but I hope something could happen here so that we can have students and parents

or they would have a choice to send their children to meet their expectations and children to be successful so I like to ask mr. Joseph is there any scenarios that could happen where we can help our students at OPA and it might take time again isn't it could be an accident that it has to happen or a miracle but I cannot lose

hope tonight knowing that students are going bad crime and as an adult we have that responsibility so mr. Joseph could you could you please look into that I think we still have a month Thank You mr. Joseph Thank You mr. not mrs. Sykes as the grandmother of a student at rolling Ridge I wanted to echo the thanks and appreciation of

Patrick their custodian I have only been there since February but I've seen him many many times he's always very busy and active and welcoming to the families that at rolling Ridge so I joined in their congratulations of his job well done rolling ridge I don't know if they did it different than everybody else but we did day of the teacher Teacher

Appreciation this week not last week so of course it just reminded me how grateful I am for the teachers I've had how grateful I am for the students I've had and how lucky I feel to have been part of this profession for I guess I now get to count my years on the board so 43 years it's a long time it's an

important profession it's a satisfying profession wouldn't trade it for anything so I hope you all participated in day of the teacher and let those who have impacted you know that they have I was a career day-to-day at Eagle Canyon along with mr. Cruz I'm sure the kindergarteners were thrilled to hear about my career in education we we tried

to make it appropriate for them it was a great a great time and well organized kudos to Jeana Solis as well as to Lori Warner and I love that they're doing career day in elementary school can think about everything all the kindergartners wanted to tell me what they want to be I think we need more firefighters to go though because they

were way more interested in that than teachers I get it I get it last week I attended the dedication of the garden at Townsend junior high school they have received a garden oh I can't think of the word Thank You grant yes and of I think $4,500 from a Southern California agency and they have revitalized the garden that was at

Townsend and dedicated it to Angela Knapp one of their staff members who passed away last year it was a lovely event and it preceded their open house well attended and so I encourage you if you are a townsend parent to make sure you get by the garden or you ask your kids about it because they've got all

kinds of wonderful plans for cross curricular activities with the things that are growing in the garden science culinary arts even even English so dear to my heart I know you think that there are certain things that mrs. Pike's is interested in and she just won't let it go but I have to tell everybody if you're watching tonight tomorrow is the

last elementary school debate that is this tournament that is spearheaded by this young woman from Ayala it is going to be a terrific event it's going to be held at country Springs and I think they have over 100 competitors so if you are out and about tomorrow afternoon and you'd like to get a real charge for the

accomplishments of our young people you will be amazed at the poise with which they approach the podium and how they address their concerns in formal argumentative setting I want to give thanks to champ n to a CT for the scholarships that they give our seniors I did comment to mr. Joseph tonight that I was concerned that some of the district scholarships that

came out of our Gulf Fund we're going unclaimed no applicants for a couple of them so I really want to encourage you as community members and as employees for us to encourage our kids to apply for scholarships oftentimes kids think Oh it'll never happen for me but if we have scholarships that go with no applicants certainly certainly we can

get kids enthusiastic and confident about putting themselves out there to apply for the gifts that we want to give them and lastly mrs. fellows I didn't ask you how we're coming on the RSVPs for next week so I'm so excited and I know mrs. Orozco is too because we've been partners in advocating for this but it'll be our employee recognition for

retirements as well as service credit if you have not RSVP'd and you want to come we want you to be there we are hoping for a joyous celebration for our employees and with that I close my comments thank you mrs. Sykes mr. Joseph well we wish all the luck in the world to our 2017 graduates who will graduate

at the end of this month they've done a fine job all the years they've been with us and we wish them well in the future and that will conclude my comment okay so I'm going to keep mine relatively short I just first would like to say congratulations to all the individuals that were honored or recognized as evening

and it's the people that truly make our district wonderful and so thank you and congratulations to all of you so tonight I am simply going to announce the retirements I kind of going off of missus bikes because I'm excited about our retirement there but so this evening for certificated management we have mr. Robert whale whose principal right now

at Dixon elementary he has served our district for 28 years for certificated we have Darlene Boyle 19 years at cattle Marsha Staunton 15 years Cortese Karen Simon 37 years at Dickey Patricia mem ovitch 27 years Liberty Leslie smart 24 years vital Loretta Gonzales 39 years a walnut Patricia Bayne 29 years Whitman Janice redden 26 years speech and language

pathologists special Edie we have Kristin Garko and she's 10 years special ed instructional aide at cattle Deborah Campbell 10 years of service instructional aide at Dickey Antonio better court he is 17 years custodian at unum Laurie Kaden 14 years typist clerk at Whitman to all of you thank you for your service we wish you luck and fun as

you retire and so board members just keep in mind that I need for you to remain in your seat for a very quick special board meeting so with that I adjourn the regular meeting of the Board of Education at 9:33 and okay so now I call to order the special meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday May 18th 2017 at

[Music] 9:33 with Blair Cruz bikes not in a Rosco present we are now in comments from the audience on items not on the agenda pad are there any speakers none and with that we are at the action item would you please announce the action item item 2a one resolution 2016 2017 - 38 for authorization to utilize a

piggyback contract and that is to recommend the Board of Education adopt resolution 2016 / 2017 - 38 for authorization to utilize a piggyback contract may I have a motion mr. Mason mr. Nam makes a no-shit motion it's getting late this is where seconds are there any questions or comments with that all in favor aye opposed motion passes with a

vote of 5-0 that concludes a special meeting I now adjourn at 9:35 close enough