Board of Education — January 8, 2018
January 8th 2018 at 5:00 p.m. with Cruz Orosco and Fikes present are their new quests from the public to speak on closed session items prior to the boarded journey - into closed session we will now adjourn to closed session regarding the following matter which is described in detail on the printed agenda conference with legal counsel anticipated lis litigation I now
reconvene the special meeting of the Board of Education at 6:05 p.m. with mr. Cruz mr. Nam mr. Roscoe and myself present before we begin please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded at the board met in closed session from 5 p.m. to 602 regarding conferences with legal counsel anticipated litigation no action was taken that requires public
disclosure leading the Pledge of Allegiance tonight is mr. stitcher [Laughter] please stand but they did so please join me the Pledge of Allegiance ready begin thank you we are now at the action item please announce the item item to a-1 allegiance steam Academy thrive charter school petition that is to recommend the Board of Education adopt resolution number 2o 17-2 o 18-34 amending Chino
Valley Unified School District resolution number 207 / 218 - 33 conditionally granting the Allegiant steam Academy thrive charter school petition and charter school Memorandum of Understanding between the Chino Valley Unified School District and Allegiant steam Academy are there any speakers have two speakers speakers will be called in the order the request was received please listen for your name and
be prepared to approach the podium any comments on agenda items will be accepted during consideration of that item once the board has commenced deliberations on an issue speaker cards will not be accepted the board is very interested in your comments but please bear in mind that the board typically does not respond to comments during this time on the agenda as it is reserved
specifically for public comments individual members may respond during board comments at the end as mrs. Blair's absent this evening I'll explain the light system speakers you have three minutes in which to make your comments please begin your comments at the green light the yellow light indicates you have 30 seconds in which to complete your comments the red light indicates
your time is over and before you begin your comments please adjust the microphone is necessary so that you can be clearly heard an audience member members please refrain from making comments while speakers are at the podium speakers in accordance with board bylaw ninety three twenty three bottles of the board meeting conduct the limit remarks to three minutes total for all
remarks and please limit remarks to new points the board would like to remind you that there is an existing board policy thirteen twelve point for anyone who wishes to file a complaint against a district employee no speaker shall exceed the three-minute limit the first speaker is Troy Steven Strait Troy Stevens followed by Raquel raw you should know my name by now my
name is Troy Stevens Board thank you for having me here tonight superintendent Joseph's staff first of all I just want to say thank you for kind of hearing our our changes and what we presented to the staff as far as the timeline issues go and I know we all did this through the holidays and probably rather be doing other things but I
appreciate your dedication your loyalty to what we're trying to accomplish here just just to bring up a couple things that that allegience wanted to point out and and probably the biggest the biggest thing is allegiance is looking to try to avoid the special meeting after special meeting things that you know we have to get approved and and and make changes
and do these kinds of things one is not that I don't love seeing your faces every couple of weeks because that's fun but it's just simply because of the timeline issues and the timelines are crucial and some of those timeline dates are a lot more crucial than others hoping that some of those timelines that aren't necessarily that are getting
close and maybe we need more time to achieve those goals that the that the board or the staff will take consideration of granting us more time with that being said we're looking to hopefully have a single point of contact that maybe the board could appoint whether that's the superintendent or a designee that could you know help us
make those timeline adjustments or make them flexible for what we need to achieve in certain aspects it would save us time to be able to move forward and get things done in a timely fashion well we're tied to and also it doesn't tie up as much time for the board because I know there's a lot of other
things that they need to be working on as well so that's that's kind of the most critical part of why I'm speaking tonight I would love for instance if the certain policies that maybe we just aren't getting answers back from maybe some of the policy writers that are writing things or they need a little bit more time that we could simply call mr.
Joseph or whoever that designee is and say you know it were a week away from getting this done it's going to be closer I might need a few more days are you okay with that and for him to simply say yes and not well your board needs to have a meeting to approve that and then we need to have a special board meeting
now or a week and a half later and we lost all that time and we can all see clearly by this timeline that time is something we don't necessarily have so with that being said that's what I'm here kind of asking for maybe the board to look into something of that nature I don't really have anything else to bring
forward that isn't already in the timeline I just want to know that we are willing to work and we do want to work and we'll continue to work with the staff and hit all of our goals and our timelines because we want to be successful and our name is your name I mean if a sa is successful Chino Valley
successful thank you good evening happy new year my name is dr. Raquel raw I am faculty at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California Riverside and I'm also one of the leaper Tichenor x' and first I just want to say thank you for this opportunity to bring this school to see the USD we are dedicated
and excited about the timeline and look forward to bringing allegiance team Academy to fruition and I want kind of wanted to just echo some of the things that Troy brought up but I want to highlight for the record that we have a few concerns regarding the approval of various policies and procedures in particular by the board either prior to
the hiring of key stakeholders like the CEO who can help shape the anti-bullying policy if he or she is not hired at that time and so we have a couple of concerns that similar to those things in addition within a short time frame and will complicate our ability to be able to have the board have a rigorous
and thorough review of said policies and procedures so we are resolved to not have a rubber-stamp board or a board oblivious to the intricacies to guide and support a successful school and we hope that you will work with us as we pay close attention to detail in this pivotal burgeoning stage thank you may I have a motion so moved second
thank you comments questions or discussions from board members so and I'm not speaking for the board I'm just speaking for myself I would think that mr. Joseph would be the one to be the point of contact and then for whatever because I think it's important to have community line of communication and one line of communication and that mr. Joseph would
keep us informed of what everything so suggestive so mr. Roscoe are you are you suggesting that the board let's say for instance the this situation they gave where they would say hey look our we're due March 15 is March 14th we're gonna need to get it in March 16th instead of March 15th that I would have the wherewithal to say yes that's okay
yes well because that's what they were asked I mean if it deals with policies then we get we change them all the time so and I understand that they have to have them in place so that the school understands how it how it operates but let's say for instance the policy is dependent on I don't know some other
input and they haven't received the input from the third-party then perhaps you know you would say okay I mean I use your judgment okay well okay but but I think you need to let the board aware of what's going on as well okay but I just want to make sure I had the boundaries that the board want because I think what they they were
getting at is the fact that tonight we're here to change some of the timelines and and whatever and I think they're going to whatever the board approves tonight they're gonna have to go back to their board and get approved they want to streamline the process of going back and forth having special board meetings that that's what I heard
them say and I okay and so they want to come to me as a point of contact to be able to say hey mr. Joseph can you give us a little extension on this timeline for instance or can you give us a little grace on this and and my question is is that what the board would like me to do
yes okay within reason I don't want you to say okay so let's say they say well you know timeline that we can't meet is one of the the biggest one to CEO and we'd like to move it to May first um not one I'm not real comfortable moving to me first and so that's why I say use your judgment as far as you know
whether a policy or and and my concern is there are several timelines I wouldn't care if they were a day or two days but when you start moving them by a week then isn't that what we're doing tonight we're moving them to certain months and then those need to be the timelines and not only that but many of
the things are tied to another piece and so that's where that's where it becomes difficult so I think it's important for us to stick with what we have and work work at that there are some concerns that I have that are in here and some clarifications that I am requesting and so without having to delay this there's a motion that I would like to
make to address that and what I would like to do is to make the motion to strike all language in the amended resolution and in the amended MOU that provides that no further changes will be made with this witness change will approve the amended resolution and the amended MOU as presented second at motion as amended is there any
discussion does that make sense board that that doesn't close the door to change it changes yeah I have a comment yes mister no this is gonna be a first year it's gonna be exciting year but I remember when I was taken to a swimming lesson for the first time yes there were other kids would just jump in but I
wasn't able to do that sometime sometimes it takes baby steps sometimes you you take more assistance than others and my personal vision is to see the best charter school in whole state so let us work together but it takes both ways as Choi said we work hard yes we do sometimes the meetings had been lasting till 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning years
ago but it takes your dedication your input your priorities and so when when we see that of course we need to work together because we have the same goal your kisses are kids so let's work together and make this one happen thank you did you say something well I just wanted to make sure people were understanding exactly what the motion
was that mrs. Orozco talked about because it ties in directly with mr. Stevens requests mrs. orosco's motion had to do with removing that part in the resolute that said there will be no more changes and so as a result of removing that from the resolution then it's much easier for mr. Stephens to contact me to be able to
get the kind of grace he may need is that correct yes yes so now mrs. Kaler what pages went on the removal of the language that's to be struck and insert it with the new language it is on several pages according that's on several pieces motion is to delete the old language and insert new yes yes just strike out all
the language that says that no further changes will be made we're not inserting anything we're just saying that we're taking that out okay so at this point do we need to vote on the amendment first and then we vote on the motion yes so are there any more is there any more discussion nope seeing no more lights the roll call vote
will be taken in alphabetical order with the president last if you're in favor of resolution 20 17/20 18-34 please respond by saying yes if you are opposed to the resolution and to the mote the amendment answer by saying no so right now just to clarify we're just simply voting on the amendment right when I suggested the effect of the motion majority vote of
yes approves the amendment amended correct got it so mr. Cruz yes mr. no I mrs. Orozco yes mrs. Sykes yes the amendment passes with a vote of 400 now back to the initial motion I don't have to read that again about the roll call vote okay so is there any additional discussion on the original motion seeing none then we will
vote in alphabetical order mr. Cruz yes mr. not hi miss Ramos yes mrs. Fikes yes the motion passes with a vote of four oh and that concludes the special meeting business I now adjourn the meeting of the Board of Education at 6:21 p.m.