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Board of Education — July 18, 2019

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to the regular meeting of the Board of Education at 7 p.m. with Clara Cruz ganya Schaffer and our present before we begin please silence all electronic devices leading the Pledge of Allegiance tonight is Daniel and then this Oh the Board met in closed session from 552 p.m. to 6:45 regarding conference with legal counsel existing and anticipated litigation student discipline public

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employee discipline dismissal release public employee appointment elementary school principal and assistant principals junior high and high school assistant principals and public employee performance evaluation superintendent in closed session on a motion by Gagne seconded by na the Board of Education took action to approve the settlement agreement for pending litigation in San Bernardino Superior Court case number c IV ds-160 two one seven nine eight under

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this Agreement the district agrees to pay petitioners attorneys fees and costs without further need for litigation the roll call vote was as follows Cruz Gagne Blair Shafer nah voting YES on a second by Gagne on a motion by Gagne seconded by Shafer the Board of Education voted to you Nana voted unanimously to authorize Council to file a petition for

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rehearing in the court of appeal and for review in the California Supreme Court about a unanimous roll call vote with Cruz Gagne Blair Shafer nah voting yes can you reject that I think that there was not a unanimous on that one the vote is corrected with Cruz Gagne Blair Shafer voting a and na voting no no it

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should I'm sorry it should have been three to mr. na and mr. Cruz both voted no okay let me read that again on a motion by Gagne second by Shea for the Board of Education voted unanimously to authorize Council to file a petition for rehearing in the court of appeal and for review in the California Supreme Court

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by the following vote Cruz No Gagne Blair Shafer yes and nah no additionally the Board of Education voted to appoint the following by unanimous vote of 5-0 Deborah Fischer Hinshaw assistant principal Ramona junior high school effective date July 22nd 2019 Justin Lopez assistant principal Canyon Hills Junior High School effective date July 22nd 2019 Bryan Martinez assistant principal Walnut elementary school

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effective date July 22nd 2019 Lauren Altermatt assistant principal Newman elementary school effective date July 22nd 2019 Christine Wilson assistant principal country Springs Elementary School effective date July 22nd 2019 Emily Gutierrez Lao principal element for Biela mentary school effective date July 19th 2019 no further action was taken which required requires public disclosure the new principal to Borbon to come up good evening president na

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Chino Valley School Board superintendent dr. Ann fields and cabinet thank you thank you for believing in me I'd like to thank all the administrators teachers and staff members that I've worked with and learned from throughout my 20 years working at with the Chino Valley Unified School District I appreciate each and every one of them as my name suggests

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Emily quit yet is Lao I bring with me a multicultural perspective I myself a mexican-american my husband immigrated from the Philippine Islands with a Chinese grandfather and a Spanish grandmother I truly believe that it's important to respect and value every culture and to learn from each other I'm excited to work with the an abort community and I look forward to getting

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to know every student every parent and every staff member I'm proud to be the newest member of the a de borbón family thank you very much [Applause] now leading the Pledge of Allegiance tonight is Danny Hernandez please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we're now and comments from employee representatives I don't see brenda.danny Hernandez good afternoon president Noah board members superintendent infilled cabinet and our community I wanted to let the community and the board know that on June 19th CSEA in the

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district had reached a tentative agreement on our contract it was a long time coming but it was agreed upon on the 17th part of what we had been discussing for quite a while had been safety issues and it wasn't that the district had didn't want to do anything it was the plan to move forward on a plan as many people are aware on July

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4th we had an earthquake at in Ridgecrest are centered around Ridgecrest of a magnitude of 6.4 and then the next day on July 5th we had another earthquake of seventeen seven point one not 17 7.1 again centers near rich crest on July I Adam forgive Oh on June 28 the district specifically Whitney Fields had put together a very small

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little plan of getting a department to go outside for an emergency drill very small it was one department I believe approximately ten people but it was what we had been asking for and I want to thank the district Miss doctor in field specifically Whitney fields on taking it upon himself or excuse me through the direction of mr. Wright out to put

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together this very small plan to move forward I don't know if mr. in our excuse me if mr. fields has some insight in projected or proposed other drills but we hope that it doesn't follow another earthquake one of the things that I was looking at also in our agenda today is we had been noticing throughout the district that either intentionally

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aren't in tunt unintentionally the district had been going away from natural grass we look at it out here at the district office where grass was removed and nothing put in its place we look at different excuse me school sites throughout the district where artificial turf had been put in strategically placed or not we look at specifically Iowa the whole front of the school has

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been switched out from natural grass to artificial grass or drought resistant material in part of what you are about to approve today for consultant our contracting services is for our architectural services for landscape so if it's the intent of the district to move forward with unnatural grass or artificial turf please let us know because this is something that does

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would in the future affect our members and again I don't know if it's intentional or unintentional or if the board or pretty much for cabinet is aware of that and with that that concludes my comments thank you Tom maca see from champ good evening everyone I just wanted to say welcome Emily to the administrators I know you've been administrator for a

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while but welcome to her as the principal of an abort oh she'll be doing a great job there and we're excited to have all the other new administrators on board and you know seem like we were just here with school ending and graduations and now we're just about to start although Karen minor would be quickly reminding me that she's been in session

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for several weeks now so with callo being a session already and everybody else coming up back administrators coming back on this week and next week it's good to see you all and I'm looking forward to a fantastic year this is going to be another great year and under dr. infields leadership and your leadership and everybody's here so we're really looking forward to

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another great year thank you thank you we're now at comments from the audience on items not on the agenda Pat do we have any speakers we're now a changes and deletions pattern are there any changes or deletions okay we're now at action I screech to force item item to a one that's me item to a one consolidated application

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for the 2019 2020 school year recommend the Board of Education approved the consolidated application for the 2019 - 2020 school year are there any speakers seen on may have a motion passes vibes your item to be one computer network and Internet services Memorandum of Understanding between Chino Valley Unified School District and Allegiance steam Academy thrive charter school recommend a Board

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of Education to approve that computer network internet services Memorandum of Understanding between the Chino Valley Unified School District and the allegiance team Academy thrive charter school are there any speakers no speakers do I have a motion so moved by mrs. Gagne second by me any comments no comments all those in favor say aye aye aye host nay passes for one

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item 2 c1 addendum to the employment contract for the assistant superintendent curriculum instruction innovation and support assistant superintendent facilities planning and operations assistant superintendent human resources associate superintendent business services and associate superintendent curriculum instruction innovation and support recommend the Board of Education to approve the employment contract for a assistant innovation and support the assistant superintendent facilities in planning

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and operations C assistant superintendent Human Resources D associate superintendent business services and E associate superintendent curriculum instruction innovation and support are they any speakers not all just may have a motion so moved by mrs. Blair second second mrs. Gagne any comments see none all those in favor say aye aye opposed passes fights here we're now at consent items are there any

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speakers for members do you have any pause mr. Cruz no polls mrs. Blair Suganya no polls mr. Schaeffer none and I have no force for the consent items may I have a motion so moved by mr. Blair second second by mrs. Gagne all in favor say aye aye opposed satisfied you we're now at information are there any

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questions in communications board member and comments mr. Schaefer thank you I just want a quick shout out congratulations to all of our new administrators that were named tonight congratulations we look forward to working with you and with that yeah just two quick comments one is I'm representative to the chamber of commerce and I just want to congratulate art Bennett who is also on

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the chino hills' city council at least the new chairman of the chino chamber and i will continue my role as Secretary on the chamber board and finally something I'm really excited about there's never been student memberships for high school students in the chamber and the chamber just launched student memberships so any of our students that are interested in entrepreneurship and

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small business owning I encourage you to join the chamber and that's all I got good news okay mr. Cruz you know Daniel Hernandez you have great leadership skills and to me when I see they're actually beautiful skills that you have so I appreciate what you've been doing over the years and that's for you Becca see a great man and what a difference

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you make at your school site thank you other than congratulations miss Lau I am excited to visit Borba this coming school year so and then that's that's it I want to quickly thank the Board of Education for approving the extension of cabinets contract I couldn't work with a better group of people and I appreciate you guys supporting them thank you I

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like to thank to incoming principal don't you deserve it I have great expectations because you are truly a blessing to our school district thank you and I'd like to thank all the cabinet members I know that I can go anywhere and say that we have the best cabinet members in entire California a lot better than let's say Northern California yes so so

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thank you so much and I just pray for our board members back and and guess well now adjourn the meeting at for education at 7:16