Board of Education — September 7, 2017

the Board met in closed session from 3:40 p.m. to 6:58 p.m. regarding conference with legal counsel existing and anticipated litigation conference with labor negotiators public employee discipline dismissal release and public employee appointment director of elementary curriculum and elementary principal and assistant principal and public employee employment superintendent the board voted to appoint Luke Hackney as director of elementary curriculum effective

September 8 2017 by a vote of 4-0 with crews bikes na Orosco voting YES and Hernandez Blair absent voted to a point Bryan Candelaria as principal Newman elementary school effective September 8 2017 by a vote of 4-0 with Cruz bikes not Orosco voting yes Hernandez was absent and voted to appoint Adrian chase assistant principal at Lydell elementary school effective

September 8 2017 by a vote of 4-0 with Cruz bikes not Orosco voting YES and Hernandez Blair absent no further action was taken I would like to introduce the new garden director of elementary education was to Luke Hackney good evening board superintendent Joseph and cabinet thank you for this opportunity I am thrilled and excited to have this new challenge

in my professional career and I look forward to serving Chino Valley in this new role and thank you once again for everybody's supportive here thank you so much and the new principal of Newman Elementary Ryan Kendall Ari when I accepted the job as assistant principal a few years ago it walnut at an elementary school with Danny Sunderland

I stood at the same podium and I promise to fulfill my job as the public school servant to the best of my ability and with the support and guidance from mr. Joseph's cabinet Board of Education my amazing administrators and the directors and coordinators that all support us and our sights I've been able to do that along with accepting this

gift as principal of Newman elementary school comes the same promise I will strive to continue with the district's vision of a whole child instruction and I will continue to be a role model for our children thank you for trusting me and allowing me to help lead I cannot wait to join my new family as a Newman Knight

thank you so we are now at presentations and like to call it dr. Anfield so that he can introduce our guests I'm sorry Pledge of Allegiance I'm joking we all stand in recognizing our great country if we put our hands over hearts ready begin all right Thank You president Roscoe members of the board on behalf of mr.

Joseph I'm extremely excited tonight that the board is honoring ten of our schools who were recognized by the state for PBIS and that's a positive behavior intervention and support I think in our district we refer to it as Mt SSB that multi-tiered system that support the behavioral component of that and so with that there is a lot of work that we have

put into it over the the last several years and I want to also recognize the board and remind the public that the board has supported that through the El Cap and has put a tremendous amount of resources into the PBIS and you can see with ten of our schools being recognized for the first time that's a huge honor

for our district and so I asked dr. dr. Johnson to be here to talk about the qualifications and what the school sites had to go through in order to be recognized but the reason I wanted to introduce her instead of never coming straight up here is is this is the person who has been leading the charge behind PBIS for our district she goes

out to the school sites with everything that she does she's in charge of that psychologist she goes out to the school sites she walks the school sites with them she does there's this gif she'll go over it with you the tiu process at the end school sites have to go through she leads the school sites in that she leads training

for our district she works on the district Mt SSB team she works with our intervention counselor she pulls data I mean there's a lot of work and it's her and I have to give her a lot of credit for where we are as a district it's her that's been behind the scenes leading that and so I wanted to recognize her

and have her come up here at dr. Sheri Johnson and talk about what the schools had to do to make this happen well it's been three years our journey began three years ago as you know we have a high school we have the four high schools coming on board this school year really our district's chosen direction to provide support and instruction and

the social-emotional development of our children it's to be commended it's a big undertaking and it really takes the support of the board it takes support of administration all of our staffs that are out there on a daily basis providing the support so I really commend them for the work that they've done but mostly tonight I'd really just like to focus on

these for these particular schools have demonstrated exceptional direction and dedication in your effort to educate development and that's actually very dear to my heart so just a little bit Mt SSB and positive behavioral interventions in support is really just that framework for successful implementation of the practices to enhance the social-emotional development which in turn then the academic growth

of our students the California PBIS Coalition recognizes schools that are based on very specific criteria that that all of these schools have met what I wanted to do instead of going through it really piece by piece because most of us all of the schools here tonight or bronze and silver is just having it'll just give you a little bit of an

overview of what has brought them to this point so these components of of PBIS are looked at in a very structured format and it's called a TFI and that's called a tiered fidelity inventory and all of the components that you see there are looked at when we do these what we call walkthroughs two are done by the

school sites during the school year and then the third one is done with an outside external person and it's been myself or one of the lead counselors that I have that go out in assistance this school and the actual walkthrough as more or less than the verification of the work that they've been doing so we look at the school team the site team

the function of the team we do interviews of staff interviews students the the one that we did in the spring we interviewed classified so we went into the cafeteria and talked to them about the school's efforts for PBIS and their schools scored 30 percent and above of tier one implementation and with that and the score they applied to

the coalition and they were recognized by the coalition so it certainly has been my honor to support you so with all that said we've been working very diligently on the how to how do we do it and lots of trainings and we continue to go to trainings and we went to trainings this week but really the underlying

underlying reason is is why and there's a quote you know as you probably heard it from Simon Center that really says it all about these educators is that what you do is simply proof for what you told me so what you're doing is facing on your belief and fully educating every the USD and your understanding that you

are responsible we all are responsible for wedding education not only in academics but what you believe is equally important and to make more important social emotional so thank you for making so the final final quote is all inspired organizations operate from the inside out what that means okay so with that I'm gonna ask that the principles from Eagle Canyon Walnut

Avenue Briggs ka Liberty Woodcrest Howard cattle Butterfield Ranch Country Springs Glenn Mead and rolling ridge please come up to the podium so they're bronze and silver Awards okay so the first one rolling ridge bronze or [Applause] our next great school our next great school bronze award Glen Mead Elementary our next bronze award goes to country springs our next bronze award goes to

Butterfield Ranch our next school bronze Howard cattle [Applause] okay now we're going to silver silver Woodcrest junior high school our next silver goes to Liberty Elementary next one is Briggs [Applause] next is Walnut Avenue and finally we have Eagle Canyon okay so I just want to say we have some great schools this is only a fraction of what will probably

have next year right absolutely and so I just want to offer congratulations on behalf of the Board of Education thank you for for everything that you do for our students I know that your entire campus is is what makes it happen so thank you so much on behalf of the board yay [Applause] okay so a if we have teachers in the

audience we need to have them standing up also I also want to comment that the Sammartino County Superintendent of Schools will also recognize them at the Victoria Gardens on September 15th at the second annual California PBIS coalition conference in Sacre and in Sacramento on October 11th and 12th this is only the second annual and we already have that many schools wow that's

impressive okay so let's all right so moving oh I'm sorry mr. Cruz the word that quote that you mentioned to believe to believe in a child and emotional development that is balance education really a difficult task you know you have instruction behavior instruction occurring you're allocating resources and the intervention counselors are working the teachers are working these things are

phenomenal and the difference you make really makes a difference at this level preventing things that may happen in the future so this is a very good program tbis thank you thank you mr. Cruz okay so moving on we're at comments from our student rep Jonah do you have any hello I would just like to give a reminder

from the last meeting that our district will have its first student advisory council meeting on September 26th and other than that I have no additional comments thank you Thank You Jenna so we are now at employee representatives communications I'm sorry I apologize I'm not looking at lights tonight could you tell me where that meeting is going to take place

yes so the Student Advisory Council meetings they usually take place at the district office here and basically it's during school hours and it's where all the junior high and high schools ASB me get together and discuss what's going on in our schools so we get ideas of what other schools are doing and we have more a sense of unity between all the schools

and district thank you so now we're at the comments from employee representatives and we'll have Denise at Royal CSEA good evening I have sad news one of our employees Francis pimenta she was a nutrition services worker at Chino high she passed away on August 31st she found out in June that she had cancer and she went very quickly so it's with

the heavy heart and our thoughts and prayers go out to her family thank you a CT and CSEA we've had a good relationship and I've always teased a CT whether it's Steve ball or Todd Hancock good cop bad cop and I've always said I was always the good cop I'm gonna be the bad cop tonight something hit me and I

was very very upset and if I start tearing out because it just some things are just wrong so last year and this is a positive thing last year when we endured the triple digit heat and our nutrition workers they're the least paid employees in our district and they're working in conditions with no air-conditioning that we have okay

last year they had the triple digits reached out to the district maintenance was quick to respond they rented air conditionings for our kitchens you know to accommodate our employees we were so grateful the employees were grateful well again this year we head up to what 113 114 degrees last year last week so I reached out again to the district the

director of nutrition services came over he says hey I ordered some I've ordered some air conditioners we're going to get it and I was just so elated I put out the word to the kitchen workers and they were related well come to find out let's start over they got delivered to the schools in a box no directions what to do with it okay

first of all I would think that would be with once you get them give notice contact maintenance let them know that you haven't so they can connect whatever that didn't happen so I sent an email who's connecting them so the manager and his supervisors went out to I Ella they took a bag of ice they opened up the box did whatever they

needed to hook up and said this is what you do take the ice they put it in here and you add some water those are not air conditioners those are swamp coolers which our kitchens have already he did not contact maintenance to see what did we order last year okay as I mad I yell and I'm looking at this machine it's not

an air conditioner so then they took me around and said this is what we're having to work with the conditions they have a broken garbage disposal and they were told it was not going to get fixed because they're getting a third sink well that third sink has been coming for the past four years okay they have a pail sorry but this is

just really upsetting they have a pill on the floor because they used to have a dishwasher they used to have a dishwasher sitting to where when they did the hand washing that when they put their dishes on the counter it would drain into the dishwasher well with the dishwasher gone there's nowhere for the water to go so they have to put a pill

on the floor how primitive is that how dare any manager to go over there and say that's okay if somebody says there's a garbage disposal not working you get a fixed he'd get it fixed and there was other issues that went on and I want to thank HR because they saw how upset I was today I was very very upset and I I

tried to resolve the issues but this was when I could not and it really took to my heart because like I said these employees are the ones that are feeding our kids and they're enduring the heat they have no air and it's like please somebody show them that we care and by not addressing and this director was

aware of the garbage disposal the sink the pail and did not do anything about it but again I want to thank HR for listening to me and they are addressing some of the other concerns because I could go on but I'm not going to so hopefully we can get that taken care of thank you thank you Steve ball a CT

good evening well I'm pleased to report that a CT and the district is back at the bargaining table we're waiting for a speedy resolution well we have a terrific group of new hire teachers this year at last count I think I had a hundred seventeen but I know it's gone up from there and on September 28th a CT

hosted a new teacher Welcome Reception in their honor and many of the new teachers were accompanied by their eats there a CT site Rep it was just a great relaxed way to get to know one another our new teachers had a chance to share their experiences with each other and to sit and discuss plans and challenges with veteran teachers and they even got

a chance to sit and talk with a school board member mrs. Sykes thank you for attending it meant a lot to them our new teachers come from varied backgrounds and many of them have previous teaching experience so we look forward not only to their energy and optimism but to learn to learning from them as well the beginning of a new school year is always

hopeful and hectic and teachers and administrators are excited for new challenges and there's always so much that we want to get to curriculum new formats for PLC's new collaborative models for instruction it's always a lot for teachers to absorb but for those new teachers and for the teachers who've been assigned to new grade levels sometimes like drinking

from a fire hose so we need to be mindful that our enthusiasm for doing things now don't come at the expense of doing things right we're all here for the long haul and I think it's important to remember that when scheduling these very important trainings and rollouts that it's not a luxury but a necessity that we allow our teachers

time to catch their breath and time to absorb the new material time to reflect and plan and ultimately time to grow you get filing a check this will be short I just wanted to publicly congratulate our administrators who have their advancement as well as welcome Adrienne Chase into administration congratulations and glad there are a lot of administrators here today champ we

have a champ meeting next week so we invite all champ members to attend it's at six six o'clock for breakfast in the morning and 6:30 a.m. the meeting begins on Friday next week another thing we know that school has started football games have started I think I believe all schools have had their back-to-school nights and I've heard great successes for back-to-school

nights so I want to publicly thank all those involved in preparing for our back-to-school night along with the parents and our community who have attended so thank you very much they've all been pretty successful we look forward it is a stressful but hopeful we're always hopeful for the new year and what the new year brings we have a

lot of things as administrators on our plate in supporting this the district's vision as well as preparing our students and our staff for a successful year I also like to announce that access nominations for administrator of the year's opened on July 9 sorry August 15th and will close in January but this year they are doing all nominations

online so that's a little different and I will be sending out more information I want to strongly encourage our secondary to participate in every student succeed Awards so if there is a student out there at the high school or at the junior high who they feel have overcome great odds and our beans very successful and you would

supported them through our district that they considered that student for a nomination along with administrators of the year and also the Wilson grace award as well so that's specific to region 12 with that thank you very much and we'll continue to work with our students and thank you for your support thank you thank you next we have our communications from our

community liaisons we have Paul Rodriguez Chino City Councilmember good evening now I'd like to tell you that we're moving forward with college career fair and civic character affair that we're going to have with the city and this will be in conjunction with after we have the state testing with the school district so I look forward in working with that I met with dr. I mean

Wayne Joseph well dr. Joseph I elevated [Laughter] met with in the other day and and I'll be working with the Muslim committed Committee or community to work with a student outreach to give tutoring after school for the major elementary schools we I have a large congregation of the Muslim community that will be do working with me to include that for all the

elementary and also the junior High's so I'll be meeting with them I'm waiting for a couple more weeks till I can go to the high schools and junior High's to ask for students to volunteer and to encourage them to do this for the school district I know that there is fingerprinting so we're going to avoid that by having a meet and tutor 49.5

9.5 hours that way we avoid the 10 hours of having to be registered and we could have that on a rotating basis so I'm looking forward to offering this to the Chino Unified School District and we should move forward with that okay thank you thank you send him around I don't think I see her Mike Reider Suzette dang Paola avendaño

field rep um so I wanted to introduce myself my name is Paola and I am the field representative for summer Freddy Rodriguez so it's very nice to see a full house but I did want to introduce myself and get to know the community better and of course provide myself to everybody here whoever wants to work with you some remember connect I am your

girl so for future reference please I will go ahead and leave my business cards in the front and then we also wanted to let everybody know that we are having a community housing event at this Saturday it is in the city of Pomona but it's open to the public so whoever may have friends who are becoming homeowners

very soon please let them know about this I will leave the fire in the front and other than that I hope that we can work together in the future thank you great thank you for being here okay so we are now at comments from the audience on items not on the agenda Pat are there any requests to speak on

non-agenda items we're now at changes and deletions pet are there any changes or deletions the following deletions are the following changes are on the agenda CI is item 3 c1 school sponsored trips at a yella high school digital for good awards event San Francisco September 17 through 18th $400 per student u.s. be funded thank you I think we might have missed

Adrienne Chase who was approved it was she in the back row there come on up for a minute Adrienne chase a new assistant principal at Lydell arrow family but dr. Dinkins in the administration there has supported me in this and I am so excited to be a litel lion and I just want to thank the cabinet and everybody for this

opportunity congratulations mr. nog Adrienne from the beginning I knew you were gonna be the Superstock for our district so thank you okay so we are now at action items would you please announce the first item to a-1 2016-2017 an audited actuals financial report and that is to recommend the Board of Education approved the 2016-17 unaudited actuals financial report and authorize the

superintendent or designee to sign the 2016-2017 district certification of on an audited actual financial report are there any speakers with that may have a motion so moved second it's been moved by mr. na second by mrs. Blair are there any questions or comments or seeing none all in favor aye opposed preferential motion passes 5-0 now at consent pet are

there any speakers on consent okay so board members fools mr. Cruz 3c5 3-seed page 59 mrs. Blair none mr. Nam yeah mine was also a 3c5 so okay mrs. spikes 83 I wasn't sure if you had and I have no polls for the remainder of the consent items may I have a motion almost second it's been moved by mr. nauss second by mrs. Blair

all in favor aye opposed preferential motion passes with the vote of 5-0 and let's go to a 3c5 page 59 you may have a motion so moved second been moved by mrs. Blair second by mr. na I'm dr. M field for revision what is the mean diff what is being revised in this proposal I'm going to ask dr. Park to take that

because she's the one who were done wrong okay the revision has three major components the first component includes the ability for students to participate in athletic activities consistent with their gender identity the second change has to do with CIF participation and the final revision has to do with ensuring that students are not charged a fee for the

cost of uniforms locks and lockers answer your question mr. Cruz consistent with their gender identity correct it is cracked and that what does that actually mean consistent with their gender gender identity are we talking about biological sense you know who's that if you're xx you could play with X Y X Y could play with that sex gender identity refers to how a student

may associate himself or herself mister not an example would be a football player things happen changes now wishes to become a female wants to play for a basketball and let's say there's a female that's been playing for four years straight probably gonna get a scholarship she's a senior so that means that that perception that perceive identity that she can know or he can

play for the female basketball team if you know if we get the authorization of mom you go see the doctor then it gets clear that it could be issued it is correct however the process is not as simple as as stated there is a there's a process to this and the school would be involved with interactive processes to ensure the student safety

and the safety of others but the law does allow for students to participate on teams consistent with their gender identity so the law no longer identify the biological aspect of if you're xx XY now it's perceived identity that's what this new revisionists no longer xx the next one well I mean I don't know about all that but but let me

offer something else is that whether you identify with a certain sex or not you can still play on whatever team you want for instance a girl can play on a boys football team as a matter of fact we have to have that it's three because they Allah has one and Don Lugo has one okay so that I mean that's prohibited

from this this is just an added thing right now as a girl I can go play it on the boys football team and that is perfectly fine for mrs. Orosco is correct we currently have female wrestlers on the wrestling team that's not perceived that's biological no she's still a female being a wrestler that's fine field goal kicker still female it's fine

she's the best I'm talking about a male that has decided to become a female now for instant wishes to play for the basketball team for the female you got a female that may get a scholarship but however she starts getting benched and I'm questioning is that fair for that female if it ever does happen I mean that makes some day happen is that fair

to that beemo did you kid how longer discriminate because she's Jesus she no and we have discrimination and bullying policies in place if that does happen this policy includes discrimination this policy is also cited and referenced in the non-discrimination policy as well as part of our federal monitoring process in our review there was specific language that needed to be included in

the revisions of some of our updates and with this particular board policy as it relates to athletic competition upon the review we were directed to add specific language to be compliant with federal law it's now perceived therefore today is this tomorrow something else so mr. Cruz you could say you can support it or not support it but have

you received your clarification yes mr. nahdi you have a question I'm just a simple question so does that mean that we're letting for instance a boy to be in our a girls swimming team theoretically is that the possibility that's what we're talking about that could be a possibility similar to similar to football wrestling that is perceived to be a more male dominated

sport we do have females also participating on perceived male-dominated sports and as all their students privacy has been protected so along with the process that I alluded to earlier this is it there this isn't a simple process a student wouldn't be able to come one day on Monday and then Tuesday automatically join a team there is a process there is a thorough process

that's entailed to ensure not only privacy but the safety of all students I just want to make it clear that biologically I am ok with anything but just that we're perceived mr. Joseph you have a comment yeah I just want to remind the board that we have to keep our board policies up to date a lot of

these board policies reflect CBC SBA updates they're also leaked Oh updates and we have to comply with with legalities with our board policies mrs. Blair your light is on I I keep hearing what they perceive to be it is not their perception it is their self-identification and that is what the new language states not that they are perceiving to be a different

gender they are self identifying totally different perception is different self identification is a completely different component thank you any other questions or comments okay seeing then we'll go for a vote all in favor aye opposed nay preferential motion passes three to the next item was 3d to mrs. flex and they have a motion so moved to second it's been moved by mrs. Blair

second by mr. na page 83 this is not the first time then I brought this item to everyone's attention and that is just my concern for the cost of maintaining our school resource officers in this week's agenda the contracted amount for two officers is 226 thousand two hundred and sixty one dollars and that is matched by the city of Chino Hills I do believe

that it's important that we maintain our SRO program however I do think we need to look at containing these costs and talk about alternatives any other questions or comments see none time for the vote all in favor aye opposed preferential motion passes 5-0 we are now at information items are there any questions or comments board members regarding information

items I don't see any lights going on so we will go straight to communications mr. Cruz yes I attended um Marshall Elementary back-to-school night and excellent the classrooms on display photos it's such a good feeling to go to the back-to-school nights and seeing that warmth parents are interested in the outline of the classroom the behavior so it's great to see that I

intended to football games I attended Chino Hills and Ayala and and Chino High School and I have to admit when it comes to the fantastic band music it is really about the parents the boosters is the director it's the staff that makes our school district number one so without that you can never have a school that's the best in the nation but uh but

talking about the football game you know I was talking to someone and that person mentioned about the word kindness and looking at the whole tire field because I observe and I pay attention and and I saw a lot of things I saw I saw the unborn people that were pregnant we had senior citizens who had the youth you had parents watching the

football game and then I noticed a lot of volunteers were volunteering the women were supporting the children providing resources you know food such as such a things like that but but I noticed I felt the future lied with the woman the future that always thinking about the children's future always thinking about themselves the gratitude that they give back I felt that that

that warmth comfort the future that the women were providing to children and then at the same time the men watching the game you know kind of thinking about the past looking at their faces thinking about the past but at the same time very tribal very strong you know that they would protect the future and then you had this umbrella yeah you have to troll

them there you have to football game all young and then a moment I saw I saw this kid he goes to me it's a touchdown he goes right down the floor with this kneel with his knee down and everybody just follows him and that was such a beautiful thing but the first moment he makes a touchdown that's what he's

thinking first nails and so I said you know this are these are rituals that we do every year and it is a celebration of life and that's what we do and it is such a remarkable remarkable thing that that we celebrate everybody there the celebration of the unborn the celebration of the women that the staff member the children playing it is such

an experience that we provide to them so they can remember these good experiences as they get older always remembering that these are the results of parents men women that know that this is such a good good times that they'll never forget these experiences it is truly a celebration of life and you know that word kindness that I heard

it is true that this school district is kind and there's so much going for the school district and I'm really proud to be grateful to have an opportunity to be part of this community thank you Thank You mr. Cruz mrs. Blair I just want to say that I congratulate all of the appointments the promotion's today I apologize that I wasn't able to vote but

in closed session for them but I do support all of them I am now a football parent and freshman football takes place on Thursdays at 3:15 board meeting so I hope my colleagues will be understanding that I will be late to closed session through November and likely won't be participating in votes and I have totally become mrs. Orozco I didn't

understand her enthusiasm I was like oh my god she's a little overboard but a little overboard I've got glitter cups with the logo and t-shirts and everything but I it is truly a positive experience and dr. Cabrera at Lugo shared with us that last year's freshmen team consisted of no more than 30 players and this year's freshman team is

55 and she said it is the largest freshman class at Lugo you know since about eight or so years ago so it makes me feel good that my son is part of that and that the class of 2020 what and what that we thought years ago would be so far away is now just four years away and

so um I'm fulfilling my parental duties as well as board duties and then the the big game dawn Lugo and Chino high school next week the well yeah the 21st and so that's always exciting again this is a Roscoe and I have our continuous milk can battle because she's Chino high school and I've always been a lugo fan and congratulations to Chino

Hills High School for again taking the bone the Battle of the bone up in Chino Hills and with that that's it thank you thank you mrs. Blair and just so that people understand the only reason that you're late is because we started at 3 o'clock well normally we used to start it like at 5:00 and you you would be

just fine but now that we're starting so early mr. na thank you I'd like to thank the news a royal for bring out very important concern for our kitchen ladies I have been visiting kitchens for last few years maybe longer than that and it has been a consistent issue of overheat can you imagine the outside will be 113 but

you have ovens running instead of closed area so when I have gone inside I couldn't breathe no longer than like 10 minutes so it is a great concern sometimes kitchen kids would tell us dad or mom I got hole in my socks and a daughter we might say yeah I will get you a new sock but for

the kid he may have to be off from his shoes or oh yeah small things that that he that he's embarrass apart so I think as our district moves on we need to pay small attentions in details they could really impact our family members I think that's great thing that you have gone inside of the kitchen and saw everything

there and I'm sure our staffs will work on that mr. Joseph yeah because we're all same-same how old we are how younger we are who our family so thank you talking about heat I got a text from a parent were she was concerned with her child having lunch outside on the 113 degrees of heat so uh could be a heat or could be a rain

let's be mindful our site leaders that we would want to make sure our kids are safe at all the time even during the lunch time it's not good that we get there conditioning as an adult but not the children that's not cool so thank you I'd like to thank Jonah portela I was at a football game and he was in full sweat

like I thought he had a drink gallon water in a wrong way or something but he was sweaty he was a mascot for his team and he was inside running so that's what in tears I said about leadership you need to be a decent human being number one number two be a good neighbor and lastly if you want to become a

leader learn and practice to sacrifice yourself Jonah you did a good job proud of you okay Thank You mr. north this is spikes when the school year is officially launched we're in our fourth week I won't say any well actually I'm going to say something about the heat I did vote against this calendar I'm only saying yes yeah it has

been very very hot but every school that I've been attending there are all kinds of accommodations that are being made throughout the day to tend to our kids and so I appreciate the accommodations that the teachers are making and the office staff is making to try to assist with that that's you know in fairness even if we had gone with the calendar

that I would have preferred we still would have been in during that horrible week so there is not that much you can do to plan for it you just have to adjust once it has and so I appreciate all the efforts everybody is making back-to-school nights so successful amazing amazing beginnings when you think how quickly they're in and they're

already meeting with parents and our teachers are already meeting with parents and and setting standards and we've had just great feedback from that the new teacher reception I hate to correct you mr. ball but it was August 28th not September September August 28th there was a great event the the best part about the event was that our new

teachers were able to connect with experienced teachers and so some of their questions which might not they seemed so insurmountable to the new employee when they talked to someone who already had worked that through it it seemed surmountable and I know that Steve did say to me as he and and Kelly were cleaning up but 6:30 he looked

around and there were still four new teachers and four veteran teachers still talking so it was a great event and I was happy to be there I was at rollin Ridge today for their new garden dedication mrs. Thomas you'll have to tell me the public agency that helped with the funding was the Public Utilities Commission Inland Empire

utilities and I believe that they also helped fund the garden at Townsend I was at that dedication last year as well so it's a really wonderful partnership with our school district today we got to see the garden but it also came with entertainment variety is not dead we even had a ventriloquist it was very memorable very adorable and a huge effort by the

the teachers and administrative staff it at rolling Ridge a great event and lastly I am volunteering right now for the next couple of weeks at Canyon Hills in their avid program and I go to sign in as a volunteer and I am just amazed at the number of parents we have volunteering at the junior high and when I visited the elementary

schools I'm amazed at the number of parents we have volunteering I mean pages that sometimes when I go to sign out its pages that I have to go back to put my my exit time so a huge thank you to the community for all you do for all of our students at all of our sites and to our educational community for

allowing us to work together it means a great deal it means a great deal to our students it means a great deal to our schools and to our district so I thank you and keep volunteering that's it for tonight thank you mrs. hikes well just a word of thanks to all the teachers classified folks administrators we've made this the

smoothest opening in my almost nine years as superintendent it's been a seamless relatively problem-free opening golly I'm glad you guys waited to my last year so thank you thank you to everyone for the great opening okay so I'm gonna make it quick but first of all retirements there is only one to see me Karen Adams 25 years of service special

ed at Chino high school thank you so much for your service and we wish you well in your retirement second congratulations to all our schools this evening that would that were honored very impressive that that's only the second year that they've been honoring and we already have ten schools it was ten ten schools so very very impressive

we're doing some great stuff here third I'd like to acknowledge an audience member who's out there Demi mossad who is observing the school board she could have been at City Council but instead she chose us so thank you and hopefully we made it short for you and with that have a great evening I adjourn at 8:06