Board of Education — June 29, 2017

you [Music] I now reconvene to the regular meeting of the Board of Education at 7:05 with Cruz Sykes MA and Orosco present before we begin please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded has the board met in closed session from 5:23 p.m. to 7 p.m. regarding conference with legal counsel existing and anticipated litigation

student discipline conference with labor negotiators a CPM CSC a public employee discipline dismissal relief and public employee appointment Junior High School assistant principal Elementary School assistant principal and principal and High School assistant principal the board voted to a point Sally Jarvis Liu Bei as assistant principal of Chino high school effective date July 19 2017 by a unanimous vote of 5-0 voted to

the point Emily Lau as assistant principal of Butterfield ranch elementary school effective date to be determined by unanimous vote of 5-0 voted to a point of Elia Verdugo as assistant principal of Magnolia Junior High School effective date to be determined by a unanimous vote of 5-0 and voted to a point Dianna Escalante as principal of Marshall elementary school

effective date July 3rd 2017 by unanimous vote of 5-0 no further action was taken which requires public disclosure Thank You mr. justice yes I'd like to introduce the new assistant principal at Chino high school Sally Doris hello I'm Sally Jarvis Looby and thank you so much for having me and I'm very excited I am coming from all up valleys

and I made I live locally in Chino Hills so I'm excited to be here Chino Valley at Chino high school and where my blue well welcome thank you thank you and I'd like to introduce Diane Escalante the new principal at Marshall Elementary School good evening school board members superintendent mr. Wayne Joseph and cabinet first of all just want to say thank you

for this for me being privileged to be principals EJ Marshall I don't take it lightly and I look forward to working alongside our school community to continue serving our students so thank you did I miss anyone we're okay all right well if you would please all join me in the pledge of allegiance to stand we can support all thank you we are now

at comments from employee representatives Jenny so CSEA has nothing Tom a CT taught Hancock like the tie for those of you that know me a little bit I just want to let you know that I have a full Windsor on my not big inside joke but it's funny all right just a couple of quotes and this next

quote is kind of where I'm at right now and in what's going on is given to me very long time ago in high school by a friend since the past depresses me the future scares me and the present confuses me I'm kind of in that realm of what's next I do tell you I did pick up a laptop today so I felt really

important and those who don't know that I have stepped down as a CT president and we've had an election and I want to introduce that although we can't be here tonight it's kind of part of why you asked me to be here Steve ball will be the new HTT president and we're very excited about that I've spent all week

with him this week several hours in transition and it's going to be a very positive move for a CT and for their district and I am very proud of Stephen and what he has accomplished and what he's willing to do is coming forward and being the a CT president and let everybody know that he has my support

not only do you have my vote but he had my support and I will be there very quietly waiting if he needs to anything he might need to help another little quote and if you know me I've given quotes over the years I remember my first speech I think I gave six quotes in my first speech ever so

I'll end with part of this I never make the same mistake twice I make it like five or six times just to make sure also I want to recognize we're going to be celebrating July 4th next week ie the tie but sometimes we we kind of worried about our hamburgers and hot dogs and our fireworks that happen

but in reality a lot of things happen to bring us to independence our founding fathers gave a lot of sweat and blood so that we could have the privilege of sitting here as a school district having the freedom in which we enjoy plus of all if you think about it as a history teacher we often talk about two world

wars but when we teach history there are actually been nine world wars in history and there's been a lot of blood sacrifice dedication by families individuals so that we can maintain our freedom that we have today so I hope on this 4th of July you have a lot of family time some opportunities to build memories with your family but let's also

remember what brought us here what got us here the cost that was given here and the big responsibility we have to take it forward to not only in our generation but the next generation as well thanks again everybody for the great support our meetings and stuff that we've had the talks the disagreements the agreements all that that goes on it has

been fun hopefully I've learned a lot and we'll be able to put it back to work in the classroom and be able to help our students feel the care that I have for them but also that they'll be successful in their lives and open the doors of opportunity thank you very much thank you give it Farley okay okay so we are now

at community liaisons so Chino City since yeah Brad no my trigger try to see if I see anyone all right I don't see anyone okay so let's move on let me get back on my script okay so we're now at comics from the audience on items not on the agenda no oh yeah okay so we're moving on to a discussion

item changes and deletions I'm sorry changes in deletions we are now it changes in deletions the following changes are deletions on the agenda our facilities planning and operations item 4d to agreements for contractor consultant services page 74 delete contracts CI is 17 18 - 0-3 for Anthony M Cummings educational consultants LLC and CI is 17 18 36

California State Polytechnic University and page 75 under HR 17 1800 - all City Management Services Inc Chino consortium corrects the contract amount to read three hundred thousand seventeen six hundred $39.25 okay going on we are now at the discussion item Pat would you please announce the items item to a-1 superintendent search options okay and that's going to be to recommend the

Board of Education discuss superintendent search options and actually what this is is actually an information item but I brought it forward as discussion in the event that board members had any questions or comments but I do want to remind everyone board members that this is solely a discussion item we're not going to take action and that if we have

public comments we'll hear them first are there any public connecting okay so with that I'm going to go ahead and ask for a motion in a second just to place it on the floor to discuss now the motions almost took it so mr. la maison motion and mr. crew seconds so let me introduce the item so what it is that

we're going to have I'm going to ask Pat to gather information regarding the different options that are available to the board and it's going to include CFDA we could go through private firms we could go through the superintendent of schools the board can make it do its own search or simply do an interview as an appointment so all the information will be gathered

and then presented to the board probably at our next meeting and then thereafter we'll have it agendize so that we could discuss and decide which way we want to go so with that okay okay so board members no questions or comments all right okay moving on we're now at action items ah item item 3 a1 2017 2017 2018

local control accountability plan and that is directly more recommend the board of education about the 2017 2018 local control and accountability plan may have a motion so moved mr. na makes motion we have a second sugar and mr. Cruz seconds are there questions or comments did you have it did you have them no I don't wanna okay

all in favor aye opposed motion passes 4 0 next item please 3 b1 adoption of the 2017 2018 budget and that is to recommend the Board of Education adopted 2017 2018 budget for all funds and authorize the superintendent or designee to sign the 2017 2018 district certification of budget adoption we have a motion please move mr. na mix of

motion mrs. Sykes second are there any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I suppose motion passes 4 0 we're now at consent items cut are there any sneakers on infinitum then ok so board members you just give me a minute so I could get to my page and write them down ok board members do you have any polls mr. Cruz no fools

this is Fikes yeah 4d to page 73 74 4d to page 73 74 and mr. doc I have no pulse and I'm going to go ahead and pull for C for page 56 okay for all others may I have a motion we have a second mr. economics motion mr. three seconds all in favor aye opposed motion path for you

and I yes motion passes 4 0 okay mrs. Sykes we can start with yours item 4 due to Madam oceans almost mr. crew the mr. not makes the motion mr. cruise second and we are at 4d 2 so for the board if you look at page 73 74 we have contracts to provide speech therapy in our district with nine different agencies

and the total amount of the contracts are four million five hundred and three thousand dollars that's of grave concern to me because those contracts can go for pretty much any amount of money and we could be hiring our own therapists to work for the district I get it that there's a shortage of speech therapists but my concern that using this venue to

cover our need is going to just continue to be more and more expensive and there'll be more and more things that we choose this as our stock gaps so my hope would be that we could of course we have to prove this for next year we're not in a position to not approve this but that we could do some kind of study or some

kind of joint effort between Human Services and special education to see what we could come up with so that we can attract our own folks and get out of this consultants bill because that's a huge amount of money and we have no control over that and we have really no control over those employees so I'm hoping that we can can

move forward on that point well-taken mrs. Sykes and you know other districts have stipends that they offer and we've talked to the Union about that we haven't gotten anywhere yet but we're still talking to them about that kind of thing because we need to attract people and when they can make a lot more money outside the district

than coming here we need to to attract these speech therapist Leah did you want to mention it that'd be great I mean even if we start with paid interns or slip us in as a Ana assist with some of our needs that could be helpful and I and I see that in private industry as well as in school

districts so thank you and I agree wholeheartedly because I think the issue was brought forward when it first started happening and we inquired about what could be done and then that's when and we can see that it's a huge problem that's why we have nine agencies that we're contracting with we can't even have a single agency take care of our

need so we've got a problem right I agree thank you okay any other comments or questions all in favor aye aye opposed motion passes 4 0 ok the next one is I am 44 page 56 may I have a motion second mr. Naumann Somoza so yeah sorry - two cases 42 is one that we just did and then I'm asking for a

motion for four to four and let's go that's a calendar okay so I know someone made a motion and basically both seconded okay so we'll go with missus Pike's first and second mister freeze okay so this is the calendar and there was discussion at the last meeting and that the only reason that I'm pulling it is because mrs. Blair had requested an

inquiry from staff on what the difference was in the utilities from last year so um mr. Tashiro could you just please touch upon the issues in trying to compare sure the questioned and concerns that came up we are in the attendance calendar and that school is starting earlier and earlier every year in August rather than after Labor Day

and the concern was how hot it is in August versus how hot it is in September and I did a little research and went back ten years and looked looked at temperatures in August and September as well as May and June dating back to the 2006-2007 school year and that also compared basically average the temperatures for each month and looked

at whether or not August was hotter than September and if it was how much or if it was cooler than September and if it was how much and then additionally I also looked at the the end of school dates that if we were to start school anywhere from a week to two weeks later and start in September of than August

that would push the end date further into June so I looked at those temperatures in the low as well so basically for the most part August is a little bit hotter than September but on average it's not that much and in fact there was a couple couple years where August was cooler than September and arranged on the years were August was

cooler it was anywhere from three tenths of a degree cooler than September to a degree and a half cooler and then in the month where August was hotter it ranged anywhere from six tenths of a degree hotter - the largest difference was this last August where August was 3.9 degrees hotter than September and I think one of

the main things that they wanted to know was the difference in costs utilities BIOS you ran a custom and that is the other person target that is the other part of the puzzle here it's in looking at electricity costs for air conditioning and everything else that goes on it is hard to come up with an apples-to-apples comparison of August

versus September for a variety of reasons we've been doing a lot of energy conservation type construction work at all of our school sites from putting on cool roofs where basically the the roofing materials has changed from a reflective coating that silver or the tans in some cases that we've had over the years per title 24 now it's we're

required to go with a white roof so all of our rooftops are now white so that results in a cooler roof and in turn that saves electricity cost with air conditioning you've got the what the variable of weather which I've kind of already gone over district-wide we are embarking on in our energy conference conservation efforts and changing out lighting to LED

so that's another cost savings for electricity we've recently completed all of our solar our first phase of solar covers and that has resulted in less electricity HVAC units we've been replacing HVAC units every summer since I can recall with higher efficiency units which results in lower electricity use and then the other variable is the cost of electricity that has gone up

every year anywhere from a few percent to to ten percent per year so it is very difficult to say you know this is what it costs to run the air conditioners in August and this is what it costs to run them in in September so it's it's it's not an apples to apples comparison thank you um this is like good

I'm not really interested in the comparison between August and September I'm interested in the comparison between August and June because if we are in school in August and we're not in school in June but if we're in school in June we're not in school in August and so yeah I know I think we all know it's cooler in June and so I mean it is you

have this statistics right cooler in June than it is in August yes oh yes yes so in I went back to look at the tape and I noticed and heard that comment I hadn't heard it that night I really I guess I kind of went overly so what you said was that we were trading August for June so we're talking about two weeks

two weeks in June versus two weeks in August and that part just going to slip by me because I know I kept referring to September which in September has very hot days and so I guess the reason that I support the calendar and it might be two week different hotter in August versus June so I'll share what I shared

some time ago and I'll share it again I know us this is like the benefit for TK through nine so I would say what is the negative impact for TK through nine that I don't know I don't know if you can offer but well other than better weather yeah I think the parents could offer the negative benefit well so let me so let

me share or the negative consequence so limit so let me share we have Cal era which is year-round and so that's going to happen regardless and at one time all of our district was year-round I know because my kids were you around and so here are some of the reasons that I support the earlier schedule when it

comes to cost we incur costs for the benefit of all our students for example we eliminated combo classes yet that didn't benefits to secondary but it was good for the elementary we have programs that do not benefit the entire population for instance we have avidin ROP which doesn't benefit the entire population but it does benefit students we talked about sports

and having them practice in the heat well I happen to know that in sports they adjust their practices to either early morning or late afternoon and in addition to that many sports play year-round anyway another positive is that the schedules coordinate with the neighboring districts so we're off when they're off so we're not having to be on

break and then go to games because they're in school I actually pulled some notes from my prior because a couple years ago or maybe four years ago prior to being on the board this discussion had come up again and some of my notes that I had was students completing their first semester prior to break the winter break this prevents the need to review

with students upon their return in January so it was beneficial in that you were completing all your first semester prior and rather than having to come back after break take up instructional time and and probably not take your finals to a close to February you have a benefit of the advanced placement exams you have the benefit of the college

application deadlines to transcripts ROP in our partnering districts so I see more benefits instructionally than I do negative with the heat and so that's why I support the earlier calendar is it an inconvenience for adults and staff probably but I've always said I'm here about him because of the kids and so if kids benefit I've good so the other part

is even though may not benefit our elementary students today it's going to benefit them when they get to the high school and dairy and so I just think that we need to consider and always do with best interest for the children that's why I support it and so I would respectfully say that what you think is best for the children I don't think is

best for the children and I base that on 41 years in education working as a teacher and a principal myself I don't think that the advantages for the high school students even when you talk about AP advantages that's the the primary advantage we don't have all of our high school students enrolled in AP classes it's it is still not even half of our

students enrolled in those classes and the disadvantage in terms of difficulty for concentration difficulty for so many difficulties with the extreme heat in August and September I just can't support it and I don't think it's good for kids it's not because it's about me I'm retired it's not about me it's what I see as being good for children mr.

Cruz yeah dr. M felt the earlier schedule allowed us to long to leave before vacation for the first semester to end before vacation if I remember in the past it used to continue in January but that that was that was one of the purpose to have a a schedule for it to finish before Christmas vacation yeah I believe that was part of it at

the high school level all the 9th through 12th grade would take all their finals for the first semester and then they would go on winter break and then they come back after in January and start their second semester of courses under the old system they would take their finals as mrs. Orosco pointed out somewhere in late January almost

beginning of February and also another decision was because of those tests during me that was one of the reasons to have it early that was I believe some of the decision behind that worse for some of the ApS but I think it was mostly to add school year finished early for the seniors who are going on to college

for getting transcripts and getting all those the requirements out to the schools and I forgot about transcripts I thought I had a you help a student one time right you can subtract and I want to add a little light touch here mrs. Sykes you know for six years I went to the calendar committee almost every year and when Justine Cunningham was a CT

president you know Todd a CT president and as a next high school principal here and another district I'm trying to convince them right to change the calendar day humored me they said oh yeah missus and then they voted to keep the calendar where it was so I didn't go the last couple of years and they changed the calendar which says to me I

better stay away if I want to get something done so so the calendar is as it is now so thank you for staying away [Laughter] mr. na yeah when we mentioned about transcripts and sending our students to college I see many of parents they are nodding your heads and these are the same reason why you guys are here so

thank you we are now oh I'm sorry we moved in a second we need to vote on it all in favor aye opposed motion passes 3-1 okay we are now at information items are there any questions or comments on information items all right so we are going to go ahead and do board comments then I will close the meeting then I have to reopen

it for closed sessions but you you dirty clothes dish okay okay so we'll do board comments and then we'll do the rest of the speakers and then adjourn to closed session the board comments mr. Cruz okay I'll make it very short and brief you know the kids were fantastic those two speakers very eloquent in speaking well there was an article during 27th and

that caught my attention only be very brief and judge Cohen appear torn about whether Chino Valley Unified officials have properly considered Oxford academic performance you know that that caught my attention also caught my attention about objectivity versus subjectivity allow that so what really matters a rainbow after the storm working together and emption mercy courage compassion academic driving Haven teamwork fairness

and giving us a chance I really believe that there's going to be a rainbow after all this and the fourth of July is really about us and our children this country with its institutions and belongs to the people who inhabit it whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional rights of a many

net or exercising their revolutionary rights to overthrow it Abraham Lincoln thank you thank you mr. freeze mr. a longtime resident on Rosalinda Hernandez just passed away on the 16th she had been a great a grandparent and also parents of a Glen Mead and our high school students so I'd like to adjourn a third run this meeting in memories of

her and fourth of July and miracles I think we could case that miracles today because I see students a spoke tonight with their greatest passion it's not something they have been instructed or pushed I could see that they're coming from their own hearts as the parents what can we do as an adult over 18 years old what can we do and appreciate you

guys being here for standing up for what you believe and this is what this is country is made of the hope and upgrades and we have been upgrading with our thoughts and I culture and through difficult times and trials and tribulations it brings good people together and I believe you guys are all good people here tonight and I really

believe in miracles and that's what I need to fight for and I would ask others to join me thank you thank you mister in the past two weeks mr. nana were both at the boys Republic graduation got to see the students there advance from being students to to taking their place in society very inspirational fabulous experience wish

all of those boys left and thank our staff at that school for working with this population also I was on campus at Rhodes for the opening of summer school wow what a lot of students we have there and what a lot of work was done by Lynn Haney who's the summer school principal and the assistant principal at Rhodes

during the traditional academic year so they're off to the races and being successful in that particular program with that I wish you all a happy fourth of July thank you mrs. Wright mr. Joseph well the 2017-18 school year starts Thursday July 6 for three tracks of elementary students on the year-round schedule a Calliope reserve Academy a fourth

elementary track begins the new year on Monday July 31st welcome back and we wish you a successful year ahead also I didn't want to mention that mrs. Blair was not feeling well and therefore did not come back after closed session hey Roscoe Thank You mr. Joseph I'm going to go ahead and forego my Connors so that we can hear speakers now we'll

adjourn to closed session caren cowan Dhamma followed by Franklin Peck 2nd and Mariam Preciado hello I am an elf of parent here one more time asking that you put into something for us you as a decision makers have the power to do it so please do it as I mentioned before we've been at open since the very

beginning we love our school and we deserve a second chance it is an inconvenience to have to move our students to other schools it has been affecting them emotionally dealing with the stress of the unknown is not healthy for them our school is a necessity in my case if you ask my kids what school we'll be attending to next year next

year they will know what to answer and I would like for you to ask them how they feel about that here the board note that the most important job of the school district is to make sure students are learning and achieving at high levels our students are already at that level we have a great learning environment we

have the most amazing teachers and Families I understand all but is not for everyone but this is what we show for our kids and as a parent I will do anything or everything for my children to receive the best education we are not just a group of stubborn parents who don't understand the situation we do but we

are also the managers of the world's greatest resource our children once again I'm asking you to work with us please don't walk away knowing that there's 1,200 students who need your help don't walk away knowing that you could have done something but you chose not to thank you thank you Franklin Tech the second followed by Miriam Preciado followed by Heather

Perry good evening good evening a president us go distinguished board and have super internet Joseph I honestly sensitivity thing keep your time today to be able to introduce my family got my beautiful wife Heather here Diana Noah and remember you got another one to use all for three my kid three or four my kids and all for my kids last you

went to OPA and I can honestly say that at the end of the day there's nothing that we can do for my children as I'm sure each of you you know you wake up every morning you think why do I work so hard and why do I do what I do on a daily basis and we do it for our kids I

loved what mr. Cruz and this just bikes and Roscoe and now you guys all said and I don't know that I need to say any more than that other than it's for the kids well I understand and the kids don't understand that there are things behind the scenes that have to be done you know there's got to be finances in order

you know there's got to be an accountability there's this public funds now we are we we tell our kids to at the end of the day we we set ourselves at a higher standard we should hold ourselves accountable and that's what we're doing but is there any one of you realistically the end of the day that could tell me that closing okhla is the

best thing for our children so any one of you can look me and say this is the best thing for our kid closing the school is definitely what this kids need all 1200 people I hope it was any one of you who can look me in the eye and tell me this is the best thing for my

children I want the best thing for my kids I know you guys do too that's what you're here you're here to help us make decisions for us so we elected you guys to help us make the best decisions for our children my wife and I grew up in Waller were high school sweethearts c-121 High School recently Walnut was

voted number one school district California according to US News World Report I have to like to UM let be said couldn't move that couldn't believe we move that she knows cow town growing up here's just a temporary stop we were going back at the end of the day this is home we've realized how much we love this place and how much we found oppa we

felt it was just a blessing we don't want to leave we don't want to leave I look at my son Noah here he doesn't have a school to go to at this moment compiled a kid to go to our cattle my son to them it's cool you'll see I don't understand that and I understand like you said there's accountability it's got

to be done and mr. Joseph you and I had to talk a couple months ago you told me there are liability issues that are finances I get it that is makes complete sense and I agree with you you can't support something that isn't gonna make it but since then things have changed so much changes happen and you

told me you said you know if we knew the liability of it I can get behind Oakland and guess what we know that I do I do have it we know exactly what's going to happen financially with open we know that it's going to it's headed for success according to as you could education code for seven 6:04 see it says that an

entity that grants a charter to charter school operated by or as nonprofit public benefit corporation shall not be liable for the debts and obligations of the charter school or for claims arising for the performance or acts errors or omissions by the charter school we know that nothing's going to happen oppa with the IRS so I can't see any reason why we

couldn't reappear you know the kids don't care about the semantics renewal petition renewal petition they don't care about that kind of stuff I know that you guys do so I ask you to keep your word get behind though if I asked you guys to open your heart and work with our school and allow us to stay open another couple

year two years or whatever it is we would appreciate that's what this your time assault thank you thank you Miriam mariya Cristiano followed by Heather Perry followed by Paula Ramirez good evening board members my name is Miriam Preciado gomez my family couldn't be here today I have three children at OPA my husband is working we have were

self-employed and my kids are at sports I've been a ratinho resident for 26 years my father decided to move us to Chino to take us out of a bad neighborhood in Los Angeles I'm a graduate from Donegal high school I was a good student and made my best effort to get good grades and be normal or try to fit in I say this because I

have seen a Topa you do not have to make at first to do good but to be exceptional my children have been exceptional at Oprah they have learned so much they have learned Oprah is is more than just a school it's their family as a parent now I understand my father's decision to move to Chino I am forever grateful to him

because now I can raise my children in an excellent city like Chino where everything grows and who's been named 100 best communities for young people my my oldest son Sebastian is 13 who is now a ninth grader Alexia who is now a seventh grader she's 11 and Erin who was 8 years old and now is a 3rd grader

erin has been attending open since kindergarten teachers and staff have been excellent at OSA aaron has high-risk asthma and every time he had a flare-up his teachers made it so easy to handle his condition it was about Aaron first not so much about how many days he was going to be gone Alexi attended Howard cattle and Sebastian attended an aboard and Howard

cattle when they both began at OPA they were not at great level OPA has helped them meet their grade levels Aaron with three years of OPA is already advanced in his grade level I enrolled Alec's and Sebastian at but and they both got accepted they were both very upset with me just like I was with my dad when he made the decision to

move us after these two years at Oakland they have been taught a different way of learning and now they thank me just like I did to my father Sebastian would be attending a yellow high school and is very happy alexia suffering with anxiety and I cannot fathom the idea to have them settle for a lower grade or a lower

scored school caddo is a 6 out of 10 Magnolia is a 5 out of 10 I leave you with this from CP Lillian Carranza LAPD you cannot allow the actions of a few you know reflect on the entire post of or the entire police department and this was adduced level la retirement a scandal thank you thank you

Heather Perry followed by Paula Ramirez followed by Veronica Velasco good evening board I have two kids that attended Oxford Preparatory Academy and they have amazing stories some my son was in sixth grade this past year and he went to three different schools and he went from me pulling him out of bed in his pajamas and making him go to school

to basically not saying bye to me and rushing out of the car just to get to school he's just an amazing things and his teachers just understood just how he needs to learn and he doesn't deal with those issues anymore at an eighth grader over at Canyon Hills where the school's excellent but she just had some junior high things that

had happened and we pulled her out in the middle of eighth grade and took her to Oxford and she was upset with us and angry with us and just for five months being there she just told me how she thanked me how thank you for moving me to the school I have twice as many friends here as I did at Canyon Hills

and I wish I went here longer and that just to say how amazing the culture is there and everything I not to take anything away from any other schools it just shows you what goes on at okhla their teachers jumped into action through her a personal pizza party just to welcome her assigned people to her one of those people became one of her

best friends and amazing I knew they would jump into action like that so I'm just really asking that we could just unite and just help us please I really hope that we see that rainbow that mr. Cruz is talking about but just I just Texan go on and on about the incredible stories and like you've seen here but just really really

asking for your help this is an incredible school with an incredible culture like you just have to be there to just know how it is and like we've only been there for a year and it's so home so I'm very grateful that I had a choice to pull my eighth grader out when she needed it and there was a place for

her to go to and I'll say it again it had nothing to do with the school I had a choice to take her and she's going to be going to ila she's excited she's got her friends she's starting out on the right foot and it's amazing so I'm just mainly here to ask you to please please please please help all of us we will be

so grateful it can help us to keep this school open the staff has worked tirelessly and I know that it's not for nothing it's not just for them to keep their jobs or just because just to fill their time this is a special place so please help us we'd be so grateful just please help us keep this school open

it's amazing thank you thank you Paula Ramirez followed by Veronica Velasco followed by Alicia Hedrick you know I did not prepare anything here but this is coming from the heart I just want to thank you guys especially for even considering it several years ago in opening opah because of that my wonderful children got the opportunity to experience the culture and just the

beauty of it as a community so it's over not even a school for a family and it's hard to see a family break apart and that's why we've been so heartbroken it's because we are a family unit and family unit stick together Ohana beautiful my kids just watch stitch and then we kept hearing families stick together we don't break apart and

even through the turmoil and everything that we've gone through for almost two years it's just bonded as strong together and that's why we are here as stubborn parents who keep fighting for this because we think it's right and we know it's right and we believe in our heart that is right we're driven we're driven to keep fighting for what is

right and that's for our children you have been given these seats because of your heart for children your heart for education and combining the two of them together it's just unstoppable these children are our future and you know we're not saying that OPA is better it's just different and what our choices as parents we do have parent choice and we get to choose

either homeschooling private schooling public schooling charter schooling it's a choice and if you take one of those choices away it just eliminates one more choice for us parents to to have for our kids it's a privilege and for us parents to have a choice for our children it's our god-given choice god has given us this choice to raise our children and to

train them up in what is right and this is why we fight for this because we know we are training them up and what is right and so I implore you each and every one of you to please do what is right for our kids all 1,200 of them you know it's I don't just have two children

I have 1,200 children there every single one of them when we step foot into campus we don't just let go of the number of children that we have on our own we let go of all the kids there and when you go into our campus you get to stay we don't get rushed out to leave and we mingle all the time we kind of

just linger around the school campus and you know we're invited to do so we're given cups of coffee to linger by mr. bridges our Dean and mr. CROs always yelling at us too he just does that and it's happy it's like you know the kids love it he screams out my kids names all the time and my children love that they

love it so much and so I just implore each and every one of you in your heart in your hearts and please do is right for my 1,200 - thank you Veronica Velasco taught by Alicia Hedrick followed by Caitlyn Welsh good evening board to injustice my name is Veronica and we have this is my son Ricardo and I have a going to be going

to de 7 sixth grade and sorry I have a son that's going into third and we've been it over for six years and prior dope I really did not have a school choice I did lived in another community where there was not a very good schools and I made the choice to go to Chino I'm a Dom local graduate my parents moved me

here for the same reason to have a better better schooling and I'm very grateful as well and brought my son in and started we didn't get our school choice that we wanted we didn't but he thrived in this kindergarten had an excellent kindergarten teacher mrs. Tran and um but we found out about oppa went to the meeting and I was just really

blown away at everything I've ever envisioned and the school was there and and I would try to get him in and I didn't I wasn't able the lottery wasn't in ticketing but I did have a choice and it wasn't an easy choice but I took the choice to home-school my son for a year while I attended graduate school and

while I worked part time and had a baby to you so it's the difficult difficult year of my life but he was worth it and after a year and a half to two years he got in full-time at oppa and I want to say that that year he got the summa laude award so with all the help mrs.

Hobbs um I can just name all the teachers they were just there to support us and for us that homeschool their kids to get him in it's really really devastating to hear you're going to go to school because you have no idea how how hard but that was a choice and I was grateful for that choice as hard as it

was that I could get them in and I want to keep it brief really I do I just want to echo what everyone has said here it's from the heart and I mean I know all the parents and the staff by name or all their faces but I know their kids faces and they are my oppa family and you

right now are in a unique position to be our hero they're really just on foot the best I know that you said the best interest because that's the hook all this whole year has been such a roller coaster of emotions but that's always been at the forefront just what is in the best interest of the kids that's it and I think they deserve to be

heard and please PLEASE that's it put the best interest of the children above all and thank you thank you thank you so much thank you police your head rate followed by Caitlin Welsh followed by Lauren odo hi good evening I'm somebody mention mr. crow and how often him and mr. Berger's are growing outside right now he bagged threats to our children that's

kinda bad he is mr. Grouch mr. are just amazing they are honestly the most amazing adults that I have ever seen it work with children they just love our children they care about our children so much and I've heartbroken for myself I'm very being very selfish right now because I don't want to lose mr. crow mr. bridges but our children

shouldn't have to lose them either I mean honestly they are some of the best human beings with kids so if I have time um sue Roach is gone the administration is gone and what we have now is an administrative team and board who have worked tirelessly to right her wrongs and turn things around for our school mr. Joseph I've heard it has

called us crazy but that discredits the validity for the very things we fight so hard for everyday who i use what kate is mrs. as insanity is actually our passionate resolve and determination to fight unremittingly for the things that matter the most to us in this world crazy doesn't even begin to touch on what we are we as adults especially

those who hold power over the lives of others have an obligation to do is what is in the best interest of those we oversee adult issues should never be some children's issues and in regard to the children of OPA they have been failed miserably in this regard it is time that the adults in this fight take a step back and really absorb what

exactly is that state care and who is going to pay that price is a matter of what is before you here and now the OPA today is amazing and has gone leaps and bounds to rectify the transgressions of the previous administration what we have now is an organization that is solid that has a surplus of funds and over

1,200 innocent children that call it home in a place of refuge today I come to you with some pretty big expectations I appreciate the motion that was made a couple weeks ago but words are meaningless without actions to back them up this is this can all end like today it can end now and these children can be

sent back out to enjoy the rest of their summers in peace knowing that their school is safe and only takes three people and please do not show me that my faith in you has been misplaced Andrew Jackson once said that it only takes one man with courage to make a majority and we are in desperate need of that person

now thank you thank you Jason well Katelyn well followed by Lauren odo followed by Lucia Marita hi good evening hi you for your name his name is cashton he has attended okhla for two years and I just wanted to talk to talk with you guys last time and I just want to touch base on basically our experience in a club when he first

started I initially asked them if I'm going to need to get an attorney to speak as an advocate for his IP because that's what we're used to and personally thank you Jones to the rescue and they kind of laughed and said no you won't need that and we did it they have his own looks like it looks like they had a

picture of him on the table and said that we always want to see their face and not just name that is what it was stands for it's not just any amount of paper they're not just student they're kids they're their life's matter their education matters when he lost his hair I was so worried that the kids were

going to make fun of him and I remember a few of them asked what happened to his hair and he said I got a haircut and the next week two little boys came with fuzz head and you know excited so they look like cash and mr. bridges laughed and said all the cool kids have no hair Christopher goes no hair mr.

folkloristic over Christmas he got really really sick with asbestos infection and was in the hospital for a while and the school called and they checked in on him in classmates wrote him cards and got him gifts and her family it's not just a classroom it's not just where they learn he's included as a typical kid that's not an

experience that he gets anywhere else and you see all the emotions tonight and it's not because we're uncomfortable with the unknown in the teacher we're scared for our kids teacher our chances are more than this we're asking for you guys to please one last chance to please step up you guys they're talking about this rainbow and fighting for what we

believe in I think we all believe in our kids you guys are up there wanting to fight for kids whereas now we're asking tunas to fight for us now because our tips deserted thank you for your time tonight Thank You Lauren our Dell followed by Lucia Meredith bought by David Maria Ramirez hi my name is Lauren and I will be

starting third grade in the fall I'm here because I would like to tell you how I feel I'm very sad because my school might be closing tomorrow I don't understand why we are getting punished for something we had nothing to do with my mom and dad have always told me that if you do something bad or don't listen that there

are consequences but I'm confused because we didn't do anything wrong and the kids are the ones who are getting punished by our school getting taken away from why are we getting punished I'm not enjoying my summer because I miss my friends and teachers and I don't know if I'll ever see them again I wish someone would stand up and do the right

thing for the kids and teachers are open all we want to do is go to school I pray every night for a hero to come to my school and I'm asking you to be eat be that hero for me and my friend thank you see America followed by marriage Ramirez fraud by amalga Ramirez good evening board members superintendent my

name is Lucia Morita and I apologize I didn't have an opportunity to prepare my comments for tonight I'm a little emotional after hearing the kids speak I am the mother of what would be a second and first grader at Oxford Preparatory Academy for my family Oxford Preparatory Academy is not a school it is a blessing that came

in a very critical time for my family let me explain I am a children a child of immigrants I grew up in a socioeconomically disadvantaged community and so I knew as an adult I would position my children to have the best education possible in preschool I sent them to a highly academic preschool to prepare them so that when they

entered public school they would be very well prepared to succeed I moved specifically to Chino Hills because I knew the options within the Chino Valley Unified School District and it was very excited to learn that the school that was across the street from her home was a ten out of ten school so my kindergarteners started school there

and within three weeks a child who loves learning a child who had worked so hard to position for academic success was having panic attacks with being isolated in the classroom because he was done with his work so quickly and so the classroom became more of a penal situation for him then a thriving love of learning situation and I blamed

myself I thought I had done everything right to position my son for academic success and instead I had a child who was suffering from anxiety who cried it was throwing up because he didn't want to go to school in the morning and I didn't know what to do because here I was in this amazing School District with

an amazing school with the teacher everybody said was the teacher to get and my child was not thriving in that experience and I got an email that my child was eligible for the independent study program at Oxford Preparatory Academy and like other families I work full-time and I looked at all of these things that I had to make a choice and I

prayed very deeply of what was the right thing to do and I took the spot an independent study with my kindergartner and worked it out blood sweat and tears through his kindergarten hair to do it it took six months for my son to raise his hand again in a classroom but he did and he's back to being the thriving kid

who loves learning who loves education who loves to be at school who runs away from me to get to his class who loves his teachers who loves his culture I work in the corporate sector and I've worked in leadership for a long time and I know as a business leader is in any kind of leader what you look for is

alignment and vision and creating our own Shores up where inside as well thank you Marie Ramirez for by MLB Ramirez called by Ann Jones I think is enough you know how I'm making my little I say cute would you tell me describing how sofa I told you always a big family I had to start 310 to now every year is

more strong hi I have my kidney my daughter Southside Moulton University Nikki told me if I don't have the tool for open maybe Scott she has a scholarship if I just another star it is upside to she is a c-plus to 12 years if you like seniors why not in two weeks you will go to us to San Diego

for 3 weeks and a half and she told me I don't know what so the opportunity fall or drop off like for home products do study miss Pamela you working 21 years for 50 bucks for the vendors for four principals and teachers did you see before they all the families working together for the best education for the

kids I never sees before I may ever see my son Sebastian he told me wow we are crushed to the car we are going to have my brother in life is advantage of the high scores on the car we are in the trust we are their chances and we are working suppliers to difference and we are wheeler we are

going to concentrate to Nazareth and in the winner we are all making picked big bear why they closed the school I don't know why I say because they say we are the critical eye and they understand is that some people may at 12 and we're a big man he thought why don't take this person's restante why we are the place why why the pay

because two closes did you close the school it should not help us why we do it I explained we need to go to another school during the panel studies I know but remember always we need to fight for we won please reconsider he said with wise wish to change up in your estate especially Austin Brady opinion por favor necesito que no se

Judas no I Jonah Lomu en esto algo muy Feliz few esto y bueno gasp Oh Missy hose Y ver que realmente pause estamos trabajando estamos an ambulance traffic Thank You Janelle para mirror Imelda Ramirez okay sudden not nutty so basically my story is similar since I was my mom I went to a public school and learning there was kind of different

from oppa what happened was that my teachers were always absent they were circle usually I didn't get much learning so my mom when you go to summer school and because of that I was able to catch up on my learning but my academics in English writing was pretty back so when I got into oppa I had this teacher

who would always take extra time to help me write it and just help me get my writing skills better and because of her I was able to improve my writing and my academics being there always helps me have a better understanding of different ways of learning and it helped me grow as a person and it helped me become more

become someone who wanted more strive into her education and when I got there I was able to know about all different types of universities and it just it brought my hopes up and I really enjoyed him now my two little brothers are there and they love the school they're always at every meeting and they just really enjoyed the school in general and I'm

really happy for that but I would really like you guys to open your hearts to them because there are still children and they all really look at school as if it were part of the family thank you thank you and Jones followed us Patricia Aguilar followed by margarita kasi oh hello everybody the speeches are so good I don't even

know if I want to say my speech but they were so great and I don't think I could do what you do because I just offer the passion I'm like okay what do you need that anyway so I am very sensitive but I would love to do whatever it takes for all students to is succeed and so that's kind of what I

wrote on first of all I want to get it I want to say thank you for your dedication and your hard work because until I walk in your shoes I'm going to honor yoke I don't think it's an easy task to try to make everybody happy I think that's a very difficult task as a credential teacher since 1994 I did vow

under the California credentialing commission that I would advocate for all students so when I go to any of your schools I treat every student as they're mine every school like it's mine I tell the principal hey this is great how you change this looks so much better and I love it and because you know we need those uplifting moments you know we

don't get those enough but every student is my I take that honor in my credential when I when I made that ode to California so my in home school is like 20 seats or excuse me 200 feet for my house and I Drive 20 minutes away and I would love to sleep a little bit more and save gas but Axford is the right

program for my family okay and because my home school didn't have the competitive resources that we get at OPA but if open closes I have the means for my family for those competitive resources so really tonight I'm here pleading for a lot of the other families that I see and that I know that can't afford these same competitive resources

I just was wondering if you're aware there are so many of our students that are getting tutoring at the next grade level so they're in sixth grade but they're already getting tutored after school and then sixth grade for the seventh grade so without money how do you compete with that I don't know also I love IXL comm it's a

brilliant resource boom but if you don't have internet at home how can we do that okay there's two families in particular that have given to the community that has been split up one gives to Chino Valley the Chino Valley community and the other one was our PGA president and I would love for them to be able to be united

with their families only half of them got to one lottery choice and the others did it oh my gosh hey all right well thank you so much Angela patricia aguilar followed by margarita calcio followed by Kristin CROs II um I now have a little bit of time I try my best with my English ah myself I'm gonna

first I want to say good evening good evening to everybody my name is patricia aguilar and i want to share my story I'm a mother of a student iopa my daughter my daughter is a little girl that never cry in preschool Inc or kinder until she got a teacher that caused her a trauma on my daughter she was mean to her she

talked to her different then all they keep everything she did was wrong to the point that my daughter becomes so afraid of her that she didn't want to go to school anymore she was crying everyday with a stomach ache I had to give her Tylenol for a month she was in depression is when I said no more I went to the spleen

support to ask for help we didn't get any help my family was devastated we didn't know what to do or where to go we pray guys because I'm a woman of faith I know Jesus is here with us Scott is with us and I didn't know what to do people said oh thank you darling ecologist Kotani colleges i said she doesn't need

us at college she just need a good teacher you know good people so I just say I said you know we pray to God Geiger's got guide us to oppa as soon as we open the door we felt like our prayers were answered the staff was very nice my daughter started as an independent study students then they

moved to a regular classes and saying that in her teachers and stop I open my daughter's little by little started to trusting teachers in school again now she's a happy girl again please I beg you with humble help offer to say open touch your heart and don't let kids like my daughter deal with another school again in thinking the

families of the star to please god bless oppa and god bless you all margarita co-ceo called by the final speaker Christian CROs II the co-ceo my son will attend third grade next year oh I wish I will differently in English like I'm in Spanish and I generally do don't have closed captions so I will not run or we are one of those families that

we do not exist at all we are ignorant very English learners and we never were asked for social only all the status to get in we went to that lottery and Wittering I know he can achieve whatever he was but we get in and we taste the candy which is the magic to be endured it later I cannot tell him you won't have it

anymore he's asking his we have been it but under stress it has been a big roller coaster all this time I can say I'm tired all of these but I'm still hoping for a miracle I tried to do something friendly and I just right right right and now I don't know what else I can say if we it will

be something discrimination against someone look at me and listen on me if I'm all the thing that we don't have there so I'm just begging you to allow us being part of the community and show the community that we are not that arrogant people than many people in the community things that we couldn't work together please keep on working I used

to so when he doesn't behave I used to tell him if you don't behave you won't go to school tomorrow something really great there is something right there so please don't take that away from Kim and to be honest this is my fight because since I came to this country is the only place I shall come again in my country I

work in different governing benches and I saw all kind of but I don't want to see corruption everything but corruption but system everywhere I'm hoping this is really the country of the dreams this is measuring the think in a way please Europa and we're not painted thank you this control Z [Applause] hi there good evening thanks thank you

for your time president Orozco members of the board and superintendent Joseph these are my twin girls fendall and Ella and they've been at OPA since the very first pk class mrs. Moran chose class I'm sure some of the kids were in that class here yeah and they've been there for five years now and they're going to be in the fourth grade

next year I'm a single mother and it sure takes a village to raise kids as everyone knows and we all feel like OPA is that family and it is definitely our village and every time my daughters feel a bit sad or down by having to shuffle back and forth between two houses and you know all the teachers and a staff

will give them extra hugs and they could talk to our amazing mrs. Groh our counselor anytime they needed to talk and that has been such a comfort to me to know that there are so many surrogate parents at OPA they really are surrogate parents who truly love them and want to make them feel better when I can't be there all

the time the teachers are also wonderful I know you've heard this before this is like repeating everything but they really love their students and we feel that love as parents and we're encouraged as some other people have said to be involved and even even my parents their grandparents 75 year olds and I know most of you know them they're the campus

a lot it's so wonderful to watch them throw that you know boiler jump rope for the kids on the playground and what a great experience for that all the kids to have that grandparent there and we're just as OPA it's such a family they're encouraged and they sponsor that open environment to really involve parents and grandparents in this wonderful

education that the children are getting OPA I've heard many parents say that we all watch out for each other's kids and people have said that and it's so true I mean really it's um you know as a working single mom I know if I'm stuck in traffic I know that never happens on anyone but if I'm second traffic I can't get

there on time to pick up my girls I have no rest and three parents texting me or calling me hey Kristen I got two girls in school to mention here and I'm like yes and I feel I really don't have to worry truly it really is that way and I feel the same way with all the kids at

the campus and I know it sounds cliche to say that our school is a family but it truly really is and I've never seen more pride and honor in young kids lives than then for they have such pride in themselves and their screw and that's fostered at OPA so fostered and there's three rules that every student lives by and posted in

every classroom what are those three rules over kid take care of yourself take care of OPA and take care of others and there's those rules are posted in every single classroom and we really truly live that school spirit and not love and please just hear our pleas again tonight after everybody spoken and I think I'm the end

and sorry to end on me we're willing to work with you we come with such humble hearts and really humble hearts as is right up there humility as part of the Chino Valley Unified and we're for that you will open we want to work with other times thank you so much those where I think okay so that we will adjourn to

closed session okay I now reconvene to a session at 9:26 okay board members there's going to be several items that we will be voting on and so the first item regards student expulsion cases which is for c1 we needed to vote on them separately so to clarify the record we need to reconsider for c1 student expulsion cases may I have a motion to

reconsider so moved mr. no mix emotion may have a second mrs. Sykes seconds so all in favor of reconsidering the student expulsion cases for c1 say aye aye opposed motion passes for 1 now regarding each case the first case regarding student expulsion case 1617 - 52 may I have a motion so moved mr. Nam exposure may have a second

mr. Cruz seconds all in favor all opposed burning so the motion fails by 0 for now regarding student expulsion case 16/17 53 matha motion so moved mr. na mix emotion as mr. Cruz makes the second all in favor aye the motion passes by a vote of four zero okay so that concludes that particular item now in closed sessions there are

two other items that we will be voting on the first one is motion to direct counsel to defend the appeal now the motion so moved mr. Nam makes a motion they have a seconder mr. Cruz makes a second all in favor aye opposed motion passes 4 0 the second motion motion to direct district counsel to contact Oxford Council to

explore the possibility of a timely resolution to the litigation may I have a motion move mr. Nam makes the motion may I have a second second mrs. Sykes second all in favor aye aye opposed motion passes 4 0 and that concludes this night's tonight's business we adjourn at 9:28 [Applause] you