Board of Education — March 5, 2020

meeting to the Board of Education at 6 p.m. with Cruz Gagne Hernandez shape or present nas absent and before we get in please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded back the Board met in closed session from 506 to 554 regarding conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation a student discipline matter and public employee

discipline dismissal release pursuant to education code for 4 951 the board authorized the superintendent or his designee to release certificated management an employee identified by employee number two seven five three eight effective June 30th 2020 by the following boat crews Gagne Blair and Schaffer voting YES and not absent and pursuant to Education Code four four nine five one authorized the

superintendent or his designee to release a certificated management employee identified by employee number two one four zero effective June 30th 2020 and be reassigned to a teaching position for the 2020 2021 school year by the following vote crews gone Nate Blair Schafer yes and not absent no further action was taken which requires public disclosure agents leading the

Pledge of Allegiance tonight is a student Haley Oh strike hail if you come to the podium please and after the Pledge of Allegiance if you would kind of give us a little background on your team and maybe introducing your teammates please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance put your right hand over your heart ready begin in place of all my teammates that aren't

here I'm gonna read out their names so we have Caitlyn Longoria Victoria ha summer McNeal a nice maron Verena Israel Gyan Corps Cindy gue Emmylou glitch use rock on Lauren Kemp oh hey Leo strike grayskin Yanis Ariana Craig Lai huer jhamora and our two coaches coach amber Jackson and coach J Smith hi I'm summer McNeal and I'm here to tell you guys a little bit

about our victory so the year before we went one win and nine losses and this year we went nine wins and one loss and I feel and I feel like our our realizing moment where we realized like where we actually like can play as a team was when we won against Oak Hills in our tournament by Allah and

a half time we were down by about 16 and then we came back and won by six thank you guys very much and thank you and congratulations on your accomplishment and we all wish you guys continued success neither of you mentioned the league championship name like the title right the sport that you play so Haley you have to Haley you have

to comeback like we're all still waiting and your title your championship title is under what league congratulations yes moving on item one see a staff report El Cap annual update goal to parent and family engagement next up is the El Cap annual update goal to parent and family engagement dr. Park all right good evening president Schafer members of the

board superintendent and field cabinet and community we have our fifth update to the board on our local control and accountability plan specifically we'll be reviewing family engagement using the state adopted parent and family engagement self-reflection tool the self-reflection tool is a local metric that we use to measure state priority three parent involvement and in part what we also use to measure our progress

of El Cap goal two there are required elements for measuring all of the eight state priorities using both state and local metrics state metrics are used when there are common data points that can be collected across all schools such as test scores graduation rates suspension rates and with the exception of the English learner progress indicator that was presented to the

board at our last meeting all of our state metrics reported on the california school dashboard with a color local metrics on the other hand are used to measure state priorities that are used and gathered at the local level for example information gathered from state surveys or state and parent self-reflection tools with local metrics the district determines the

performance toward meeting a state priority and can be signified as meeting not meeting or not meeting for two years evidence for meeting a local metric is made if progress is measured annually and report it to the Board of Education at a regularly scheduled public meeting the parent and families self-reflection tool is organized into three sections one building relationships between staff

and families to building partnerships for student outcomes and finally seeking input for decision making each section of the self-reflection tool includes promising practices for family engagement and requires a district to reflect on the current stage of implementation on these practices the scale ranges from one exploration and research all the way up to five full implementation and sustainability in the

next part of our presentation Yvette Farley our director of access and equity who also oversees parent and family engagement for the district will review our self evaluation using this reflection tool and also share with you the data that was used to inform the ratings thank you in order to complete the self-reflection tool we sought input from all stakeholders in the form of

written feedback participation in various workshops and district advisory meetings in the section of building relationships between staff and families we have three focus areas in full implementation and one focus area in initial implementation in the section of building partnerships for student outcomes we have all focus areas in full implementation in the section of seeking input for decision-making we have two focus areas

in full implementation and two focus areas in full implementation and sustainability for the 2019 2020 school year the district has met the local indicator for parent and family engagement this completes our annual update to the Board of Education thank you thank you very much for the presentation are there any questions from the board yes can you share some of the workshops

you guys offer at the family engagement center yes all our workshops address academic and social/emotional needs we offer Common Core math early literacy as well as mental health and wellness we collaborate with our special ed Department parents as partners and then we're proud we've just started a parent self-care workshop this week and we had over 20 participants we definitely have

a very healthy list of tools and methodologies that we're using to engage parents and families are there is there anything else in the works though that we plan on doing this school year implementing next school year one of the needs that we have found in gathering our data is in cultural competency so staff and parent training on cultural

competency and social justice and Borja so you know our light systems doesn't seem to be working up here tonight so we have comments just go ahead and let yourself be known yes the network team action team so who's part of that happy to say that our partnerships for Learning Network along with our Action Team for partners have administrators

teachers classified staff and parents so those are our two groups yeah we are that are represented um throughout all our stakeholders and our Action Team just as a high note we are the only district in the county that has an action team for partners I have a quick question for you and a lot of the building relationships and building

partnerships you have the five steps implementation what is what does it take to get from full under full implementation to full implementation sustainability what is the criteria so the difference between the full implementation and fluently implementation with sustainability when I'm for the full implementation the district's providing information and research resources and professional development with the sustainability portion we're bringing it down to along

with the school site involvement we have to get the sustainability parents are part of the school data revisions or input and it has to it has to last longer than a year a year or two so we're seeing that their input between the district along with the school site involvement a parent participation increase is what gets you to lift the

five some reviewing school data is there once we get to that point are we waiting a year or two years three years to say yes it's sustainable now or we're assuming it's just sustainable once it gets to that point well we're doing a continuous evaluation and since the self-reflection tool has only been in existence for the one year

I'm seeking guidance but I think that it's five and then how do you continue to to sustain that so what looking into the next level and getting the guidance from my point is sometimes we just as human nature we get to sustainability on something and we tend to let it go and we don't we don't maintain it manage it

and I just want to make sure that once we say is sustainable that it's not going to be organically sustainable that we're gonna have to still work at it so a key component for a district to determine sustainability is that there needs to be a self-reflection process and a continuous improvement process so as long as there is data collected along

the way a meaningful way to allow stakeholders involved to share their data we listen to the data we share out the data the district can successfully at this point indicate that they are in full implementation with sustainability thank you and you know as long as there is love it will always be sustained any other questions from the board see none

thank you very much for the presentation this evening I move on to item one II comments from students entities we are now a comments from student representative missing good evening board members president Schaeffer's superintendent and field cabinet and committee members for the high school reports let's begin with Chino Hills High School Chino Hills ASB is preparing for their spring sports

rally in two weeks for the first time in history there is now a Chino Hills male volleyball team and they're excited to start up this program for the first time in other news ASB applications are now extended and will be due on Monday March 9th in the ASB room for students interested in joining and becoming involved in student leadership the ASB

2021 2022 Executive Board was recently elected congratulations to Ariana Patel ASB president Bryce Chavez ASB vice-president Phoenix Perry ASB secretary Madison Myers ASB treasurer Chloe Lauren ASP Commissioner of activities and Rhys le ASB Commissioner of pep at Don Lupo high school there will be a blood drive held on Wednesday March 9th March 11th sorry from 12 p.m.

to 4:30 p.m. in classrooms 8 and 10 signup with ASB to make a life saving donation Wednesday March 18th is the class of 2020 for future freshman night from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. learn all about their specialized programs excuse me classes clubs activities athletics and performing arts visit classes and have a campus tour Gianluca ASB is currently preparing for their

spring sports rally on Friday March 13th at Chino high school Chino ASB is currently preparing and planning their spring rally which will be on Friday March 13th parent-teacher conference night is on Wednesday March 11th in the gymnasium at 6:00 p.m. 2020 2021 Chino ASB leadership applications are due tomorrow marks fix online the link to apply can be found on their website

under the ASB tab Renaissance academic letter applications can be found online also and are due on Tuesday March 10th in the activities office at a yellow high school our annual pennies for patients strive for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society results are out with mr. E's class taking first place the annual American Sign Language variety show is tomorrow March 6 in the

mold perform at 7:00 p.m. tickets are $10 students against destructive decisions Club or sad Club is having their two-day every 15 minutes event today and tomorrow every 15 minutes it's a program that warns teenagers against the dangers of drunk driving and poor decision making today on Payton Drive seniors and juniors experienced a staged car accident involving a drunk driver

student actors and participants along with the police and fire departments were a part of this event the student participants are on a two-day field trip where they will visit a jail morgue and hospital in an immersive immersive experience that will conclude tomorrow in the gym this event is extremely important to show students the results that can occur as a result of drunk

driving and to hopefully save lives in other news incoming students and parents are invited to attend the eighth grade night orientation on Wednesday March 11th and with that my report is included thank you for listening have a wonderful rest of your evening thank you missing comprehensive as always thank you now I'm looking on item 1 he comments

from employee representative groups we will now hear from our representatives from our employee groups about we start with miss Brenda Walker from a CT good evening president Schafer vice president Gagne board clerk Hernandez board members Cruz and Naz not here superintendent Enfield district cabinet and community first I want to publicly thank our educators for completing the L

cap survey that the district provided we submitted more responses to the district than ever before I attribute this to the fact that our educators have seen our input in the L cap and trust that our input will again be considered and included here's another example of trust when our students come to school each day they put their trust in their

educators they trust that every decision is well thought out every action is planned and every one of those decisions and actions are made in the best interest they expect our educators to guide them and support them so that they do their best and help shape them to be productive citizens when our parents send their children to school each day

they're putting their trust in us to do the same as educators we put out trust in you we trust that when decisions are made they are made based not on information but accurate information that is rooted in evidence why am i sharing this because we have issues we have issues with the fact that there are educators whose

livelihoods have been put in jeopardy the educators I'm speaking of are the ones who have been notified that they won't be with us next year why well that's a good question is it just a numbers game I certainly hope not is it because after giving them all the support and guidance they deserve as employees of the district they were not

able to do their jobs that's the question when you get a list of names to consider it's not just a list of a CT it's not just a list to our students and it's not just a list to our parents these are breadwinners who've been working hard to educate our students and for whatever reason after one or after

two years just when they're about to be permanent they're deemed not good enough is that true for every single one there is evidence to support the fact that they aren't good enough to teach in our district how can that be where's the evidence I hope that there is evidence what would it take to convince you that teachers

can perform their duties and be successful as educators maybe a good observation a good evaluation can you visit each and every one of them on the list to find out for yourselves I think this would be a good practice moving forward because your decisions not only affect the educator it affects their school and it affects their families

it's an incredibly huge decision to make that could have unintended consequences upon the overall standing of the system of comprehensive education within our distinguished district we also trust your sound decisions when it comes to program implementation and hiring practices of qualified certificated administrators who have demonstrated these academic abilities it is my hope that the board encourages and the

district continues to welcome collaboration with the Association in all aspects that affect our certificated members thank you for your attention and good evening thank you Miss Walker mr. Danny Hernandez CSEA thank you and representing champ the Steve named and Miss Molly larch good evening president Schafer members of the board superintendent and field cabinet and community members I'd like

to start by reminding everyone that we will be honoring two of our own dr. kim cabrera as administrator of the year and mr. trevor kerr enzo as co administrator of the year on april 13th at the Doubletree in ontario from 4:30 to 7:00 we will send an invitation link to the board and we hope that you can join us there to

celebrate these fantastic ccino administrators we would also like to thank chino high school for generously sharing their practice field and track with elementary schools in advance of the chino truck meet on Saturday March 14th our elementary students need that practice with the sandpit and with the 400 meter track so we appreciate you know HEIs willingness to push their own

football team a little bit to the side and shift their own track team so that our younger students get an opportunity to prepare be prepared that's all I have this evening thank you and have a good evening thank you very much miss large from the audience on items not on the agenda we're now coming from the audience on

items not on the agenda that are there any requests to speak on non-agenda items 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 edges as it is reserved specifically for public comments individual members may be respond during board comments at the end miss Fernandez we please explain the light system speakers you have three

minutes to address the board limit remarks to new points begin your comments at the green light the yellow light means you have 30 seconds remaining the red light means your time is completed please adjust the microphone is necessary and audience members please refrain from making comments while speakers are at the podium and please note that board policy

13 12.1 outlines the procedure for anyone who wishes to file a complaint against a district employee Kevin bull shirt followed by Paulette followed by dawn bridge huge thanks for you supporting the to be re teachers that allowing them to return to school last week we needed to see our three Butterfield terminated teachers treated with the same respect as the

tender teachers I really wish they would been given the chance to come to the board directly and you could see up close the horrible impact this has had on them you should meet the three teachers face-to-face CLO devastate and heartbroken they are these are good teachers making a huge positive impact on our school all three attorney of teachers on day

one of next year would have been tenured teachers so if you want stability at Butterfield with tenured teachers then wouldn't this be a wick great way to achieve both the added benefit would save money time to hire or try to alert a teacher to come to our school - or on the site cancel working on the safety of our students

which as you've heard from previous board we were very important to us and also part of the 100 mile improving the health of our students health of our students is pretty important all three decided not to resign so they could finish out the year they wanted to finish out the year with their kids so they didn't resign which was in the best

for them but ultimately didn't chose because they have true integrity but is not the case with these specific teachers they were not bad teachers they didn't have anything bad on their record at all there was nothing on the record so if I kind of go on what Brenda said Brenda talked about how you need to come out and see what these teachers are

really doing before you make decisions you need to directly talk to these teachers and find out what's really going on is a huge district I understand but I don't feel like anybody actually went down there to talk to these teachers before you made this decision no one told these three teachers that they would be rehired if did they

resigned they said there could be a possibility but a possibility doesn't mean the same thing as you get to finish out the year with your amazing kids and make sure that they have a good rest of the year because as we found they're not the same as the regular teacher substitute teachers try their best but in general are not the same as

general teachers so they wanted to stay to help their kids so basically we all failed these teachers ultimately it sounds like the union might have given a certain device the parents tried to rally for them that failed the district failed to help them and really look at them from a perspective of what value they had for the school these are

amazing teachers that are doing amazing things on our campus they're they're the pillar of what we want to teachers to do so I really really implore you to relook at these three teachers and give their job and their dignity back they're amazing teachers do not be deserved to be thrown under the bus or a previous principal that was likely seeking

retribution Paulette followed by dawn bridge followed by the final speaker Mary butcher good evening board cabinet members and I'm a parent can't be re my daughter is Addison and she is with Oh Joe uh dr. Rocha and I wasn't going to speak I just came to support but sitting there just to teach my daughter what it is to stand up and to be an advocate for

people that may not have a voice dr. Chawla has allowed my child to blossom in ways that the other teachers have not she's especially introverted for her to stand up here next to me is a difficult task for her but I just want to implore you that the 18 years that he had in Pasadena and the years that he had here

at BR eak they show that he is a teacher that is willing to get on the floor play with the children teach them sign language with which has opened up other avenues for her to find things of interest and with all her complications and her learning style he has given her a classroom environment that is less stressful and I've seen her not have to

struggle all the way into the night to study and also the other activities that he's involved in has been something that will affect the whole school but primarily the livelihood of him and his family the other teachers I really can't speak for them I don't have any interaction with them at all but as just people that are employed not

numbers because I know I guys protect them and you guys give out their number they still have faces they still have livelihoods they have spouses their children's they have bills to pay and in that sense always want to stand up and advocate for dr. Cho it and also the others as well and also the other one that has been given her pink slip as

well and I just asked you that you would not look at them as numbers or a spreadsheet where you have to fill in all the numbers so that your statistics match up and they line up and they balance but that you would look at how if you are that concern about children that your response and your decision

would follow what your words say that your actions would match your concern for our children so just in that thank you so much for listening I appreciate that you do have a difficult task and I thank you dawn bridge followed by Mary Buescher good evening president Schafer of board members dr. Enfield staff and guests just want to take a moment this evening

to give congratulations to Chino High School and principal John Miller and the athletic and activities departments for the great job they did in the retirement jersey ceremony the other day for graduate Geoff Blum for those of you who didn't know he graduated in in 1991 played 14 years and the major major leagues with several different teams one

of World Series ring with the Chicago White Sox in 2005 it was just a terrific day having the band out there the spirit leaders the number of people that were there and also as a member of the measure G citizens Oversight Committee I got to see firsthand the the work that's now completed on the athletic fields the

varsity baseball field and softball field and also the work that's continuing on the on the Chino high building so I'm very anxious to see those walls start going up and it's it's looking it's gonna look great over there and looking forward also to the tour that the committee is going to get some time towards the end of April first part

of May when I get scheduled but anyway just want to offer congratulations I'm wearing the blue and honor of Chino High tonight so thank you Mary Buescher hi today I come before you to speak on behalf of some decisions that have been made that have dramatically impacted the lives of our four amazing people I along with my husband and countless parents

have tried to wrap our heads around the reasoning behind the situation that has come to light I appreciate members of the board who have taken the time to speak with us to give us their viewpoints and reasonings of why these decisions were made that is the beauty of America we're all entitled to our opinion and have their right to

express that opinion but we also have the right to disagree with things that do not gel with us that go against what we believe to be right fair and just I want to appeal to you today on behalf of the four faculty members they've chosen not to be a part of our school family at BRE I don't know each and every one of

your backgrounds but I can guarantee that you have been impacted by a teacher sometime in your life for me the one teacher that sticks out the most is my third grade teacher mrs. Mizzou she was an amazing teacher and always went above and beyond to make learning fun to reach out to every kid there was a day our

assignment was to do a news report in front of the class I was scared out of my mind and deathly afraid of public speaking she nudged me gently to go up there in front of the class when I frozen started to cry she didn't ridicule or make me feel bad and said she said let's try this in front of a

smaller group I think she also picked kids that would be positive and encouraging that experience gave me confidence and taught me to believe in myself these educators go above and beyond each day to help our children become the best versions of themselves and I know the education code is a reason why these three have been terminated basically an educator can be

let go before they reach their third year of service at this point this diminishes their ability to become tenured I believe this code was written to Edo but not so good teachers but I've heard nothing but good things about these teachers Chavez Oh Cho and March minks they have been impactful instrumental in the lives of countless children their

their selfless acts and passion for teaching if your reasons are financial that makes me sad I get that money plays a role in many aspects but I can guarantee that there's not a single teacher that went into teaching for the money I believe they did so because they thought they believed they had something to contribute and making a difference in

the lives of children I would like to believe that is why each of you are on the board so I asked you to think of these amazing humans as members of the same team with the same common goal you are the Board of Education not the Board of Finance while I know the decisions you make cannot be swayed by emotion and courage

and challenge you to objectively come up with reasons why they should be let go just because you can and it saves money thank you thank you very much we're now onto item 1 G changes and deletions we're now changes the deletions Pat are there any changes there deletions the following deletion is on the agenda item 3 e - certificated classified personnel

items page 93 new job description for athletic director Dean of Students is pulled from the agenda thank you moving on to action items item - I am - a 1 the 2019 2020 second interim financial report Rebecca recommend the Board of Education approved the 2019 2020 second interim financial report and authorize the president and the Board of Education

of this innocent were intended to sign the positive certification of financial condition for the current and to subsequent fiscal years are there any speakers may I have a motion so moved second motion by mr. Hernandez second by Miss on yeah are there any questions or comments from the board not seeing any we will vote all in favor say aye

aye opposed preferential hi the motion passes 4 0 that concludes action items will move on to consent items we are now consent items patter there any speakers on consent items I have a motion so moved second motion by mr. Hernandez I've never been as gagné um where members do we have any polls no you did it backwards mr. Schaeffer I

need to check for polls in donut right mr. nas not here mr. Cruz any polls miss Hernandez no miss gone yet no and I have none now may I have a motion so moved and a second second motion by mr. Nanda said goodbye miss Tanya oh never say aye aye aye opposed preferential high motion passes 4 to 0

we're now at information items are there any questions or comments from the board on information items seeing none we will move on to communications we are now board communications mr. Cruz yes all my yella head Oh every year they have a wonderful program I think it alternates from Allah to chino hills' and it's and it's called you know today this morning

someone dies you know while drinking every 15 minutes alright this is an excellent program for for our children and I believe it really does help them curtail drinking while driving and also in terms of the Butterfield individuals that were speaking I think what's really what's really matters now and that is that as a community you should start

writing letters of recommendations for them for for they could apply for other positions that's really important and also when it comes to the things that are occurring you know if your gut tells you that you know when it comes to this virus you just take your kid out you know very simple as that and you know it's it's a dirty shame that you know

you got panic anger anxiety fear all chaos chaos really moves people to do things that they would normally do but it always repeats over and over again and as for this virus it is a bioweapon it was created and most likely it was created in the twenty sixteen and then on top of that you have you have the

economic crisis that is occurring you know you got Japan that's closed all the public schools you got Italy closing all the public schools you know it's just really upsetting that you know we live in a system of evil that perpetuates chaos and chaos and to get their agenda you know they create a problem and the percentage of solution

and usually is your rights are taken away but there's one thing that we do have and that is your Second Amendment that anything happens in the future for instance mandatory vaccine or something that they force you to do something at least you have your Second Amendment to protect your family because when it comes to this government they

sure don't know what the hell they're doing so you use your gut and when it comes to your children that's what matters the most Thank You mr. Nando's on Saturday the school district is hosting the stepping out program for our young girls in the district transitioning from elementary school to middle school but in speaking with a very experienced educator at the

high school level I think we should also consider a similar program for our students transitioning from middle school to high school with a lot of suicides a lot of pressure peer pressure that our students experience on a daily basis I think it's imperative that we begin to look at the transition from middle school to high school for our

freshman students and so in in speaking with the educator the the recommendation or suggestion was to have professional development that occurs between the eighth grade or middle school teachers and the ninth grade teachers and what was interesting I I didn't know that all of our educators had mixed classes so they have a freshman class a sophomore class for dinner yeah 11th grade but he

has all ninth grade this year and so it kind of was eye-opening for him to have all freshmen for all 5 of his classes and the struggles that he's missing in the transition from middle school to high school and I he's going to send me some follow-up or details of what he has seen is increasing the anxiety that he has witnessed in our

students and maybe we can work on some professional development between our educators at middle school in high school but also offer our students some support similar to what we do from sixth grade to middle school and offer it to them from middle school to high school I I just never took the opportunity or thought of how difficult the transition

is I thought that for my son he was experiencing a difficulty because he was at a K through 8 for so long in his little bubble of one campus for you know eight years and then having to go to high school and similarly some of his peers felt the same pressure but I think that it's the same anxiety no matter

which middle school they were at so I think this is something we need to look at if we're truly about the mental health of our students and so I'll send his recommendations all send them to dr. Enfield but I really do think it's something the board should consider and you know in the benefit and the best interest of our students transitioning

from middle school to high school some support for our freshmen so with that I also want to bring up the parent quality the school quality survey for parents and I specifically requested the one for Chino Hills High School because that's the school my son attends and Butterfield Ranch because there was a parent on my personal Facebook page who

encouraged me to request the survey and so what I did find is that in the area of school leadership by year at butterfl ranch it the principal and assistant principals make decisions the best interest of students 68% of parents were let me get the term rate strongly agreed and agreed sixty-eight percent with nine percent indicating that they didn't have an opinion that is

an improvement from prior year when it was at fifty nine percent additionally the principal and assistant principal is are available when I have a concern sixty-five percent of parents strongly agreed or agreed with eighteen percent not having an opinion this too was an increase from the prior year when it was at 63 percent the principal and assistant principal was courteous when I

have a concern sixty-three percent of parents strongly agreed or agreed 21 percent had no opinion this too was an increase from prior years at 59 percent so the school leadership at least at this school was highly rated by parents at Butterfield Ranch what I would like and I already addressed with dr. Enfield is the concern that I have which really

I'm stuck out how strongly you disagree or disagree with the following statement and this is from parents students at this school are treated fairly regardless of their race culture religion sexual or gender sexual orientation gender or disability 86% felt that their students were being treated fairly that's an increase from the prior year when it was 76% unfair treatment by year

on this campus is eighty four percent eighty four percent of parents feel that their children are being treated unfairly due to their race or ethnicity on this campus that is extremely concerning it's it's quite alarming to think that parents don't think that their children are being treated fairly by race or ethnicity on any campus especially at the elementary school

level I asked dr. Enfield if we were going to be receiving an overall the overall results for the district and that is coming up but I think for all of us this this should be a significant concern so the it the survey at least for me found that the leadership at the school was strongly supported by parents

what parents were highly not an agreement was that their children are not being treated fairly by race or ethnicity and with that that's all I've got thank you miss Kahn you good evening so I think an elephant in the room is coronavirus and I take this seriously the LA County Department of Public Health has declared an emergency the

state of California has declared an emergency clearly these are officials who have the background to make assessments about situations and as such declare emergencies with where they see fit to protect us but my question center around the and I've had shared with me some wonderful information you know about sort of what our plans are but dr. infield and cabinet can we share some of

those plans this evening just the community starts to become aware of like what steps we have taken you have to prepare for this just in case yeah I can go through some of those I have a letter that was going to go out to the community that would be go into detail and those were going to be my comments

tonight but the staff has been working for over a month in in conference calls with the the County Health Department getting updates on a regular basis behind the scenes staff has been working tirelessly on coming up our developing the plan for our district in case of an outbreak we've had staff members that have gone out to the school sites to

inventory all of our cleaning materials to make sure that we have appropriate materials to do the cleaning our staff has been trained on dispensing chemicals for cleaning but we're going to continue with a individual from the outside that will continue to help train our staff we've purchased additional materials to make sure that we have them we have a

number contracts with outside agencies that if we need to come in we've looked at cases of different types of interventions in case we'd have to close schools how would we continue the educational process and so there's a plan being implemented if the schools were to close for one day compared to a 14 day closure compared to over 14 days

or longer and the type of education that we would be able to provide as a district so please look again this is a board meeting and I not a lot of people watch board meetings and that's why it will be coming out in a letter to the community early next week about a number of the things that I talked about

tonight that the district has been planning and will continue to plan because this is a as I know it's an important issue for the community thank you so a couple of events related to the chamber of commerce first and foremost the chambers salute to public safety luncheon is on Thursday March 19th 11:32 one la Serrano's Country Club you

know everyone is welcome to attend it's a great event where we honor fire police corrections and sheriff's departments locally and even more exciting to me since this is one of the new initiatives at the Chino Chamber of Commerce to work with our students we are launching our inaugural Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce pitch competition one of the

things the chamber has is a goal is to support entrepreneurship among our students and so one of our first initiatives is having a pitch competition it's open to any Chino Valley Unified student in grades 7 through 12 and there's going to be prizes for the pitches up to $5,000 so great opportunity for our budding entrepreneurs to demonstrate their

talents and their great ideas the event will be held on April 23rd at Chaffee Community College in the community center I have plenty of fliers I'll be posting on social media but very excited that our business community is really starting to reinvest back in students and support entrepreneurship and with that that's it thank you dr. Anfield yeah it's not have

a statement I want to redo our aware of the numerous news reports the number of cases of the novel coronavirus or Kovach 19 is steadily increasing well the Center for DS did these Disease Control maintains that the risk to the general population remains low I know that this may be a little comfort for those of us who are stressed and anxious

about the possibility of dealing with an outbreak to date there has been no positive cases of kovat 19 in all of San Bernardino County and that includes our school district first I want to acknowledge the fear and uncertainty during this unprecedented situation is normal I want to reassure all of all of you our parents guardians staff and

students that my staff has been working diligently behind the scenes to increase preventive measures and develop a continuation plan should the virus land in our community since January my staff has been tending regular conference calls with the public health leaders of the county departments of Public Health and have taken the lead and guidance from our State Department of Health and

the CDC you may have already seen some of the community updates that I've sent out and my staff has posted on our district website and on our social media beginning next week we will have a dedicated section on our district website that will contain certain information about the about the kovat 19 as it pertains to our district

the website section can easily be found on the district's home page and will be updated weekly sometimes more frequently if necessary the web section will also contain links to valuable resources where you can go to get first-hand information from our public health experts next week I will be sending a letter to the parents and guardians and staff and the community with greater

details about what our district has been doing to prevent and prepare I hope that this information will give some comfort in knowing that what the district is doing and that we're doing everything we can as quickly thoroughly and thoughtfully as we can to deal with this situation thank you thank you doctor I stated earlier this weekend the annual

the 14th annual stepping up for girls event is taking place on Saturday morning March 7th at 8 a.m. the Don Lugo high school MPR today was the deadline to register but there still may be room available if you are interested please check less you please check the district's website also the city of Chino is seeking applicants for their

Teen Advisory Committee which provides vital input on teen issues within the city of Chino applications for the 2020 2021 school year can be obtained at the neighborhood activity center located at five two zero one D Street application deadline is May 2nd for further information please contact Chino Community Services Division or call 909 three three four three two six zero

February 23rd I had the privilege of attending Ayala High School's WASC accreditation reception WASC is the Western Association of schools and colleges credits the schools our high school secondary schools if I'm not mistaken dr. infield that helps with articulation dual enrollment and some other courses so if they receive credit yes so the best of luck to Ayala on that on

the 25th I attended the festival of Arts out of Magnolia junior high there was just some outstanding artwork from the students within our district I was extremely proud of everyone who participated because again there was some great great art work on March 3rd with I attended with mr. bridge the jersey retirement ceremony for Jeff bloom over at Chino Hills High School

and as he alluded to the ceremony was was very nice that is actually the very first baseball jersey retired by Chino Hills ice or by Chino high school on March 3rd I attended the parents as partners training at our parent engagement center it dealt with strategies to assist with behavioral issues it was one of three sessions if

you haven't been interested in attending the other two please go to the district's website last night I attended Whitman Elementary School's multicultural event it's probably one of my favorite events that I attend we get invited to a lot of things and I try to make sure to go to this one there was well over a thousand people and it was

booths set up that highlighted all of the different nationalities and ethnicities that are present on that campus and they were dressed up in their traditional attire there was food there was music entertainment it's it's just a really great event and not just because they're there celebrating the celebrating the ethnicity and the the culture of the different folks on campus

but they're actually celebrating each other and that was really nice to see and kudos to mr. corinthos down there the assistant principal he kind of spearheads the event every year and then as missing stated her comments this morning I was able to attend the every 15 minutes assembly at Ayala high school it's a very impactful program and I'm

glad that we can continue to do it tomorrow the second part will be the assembly that shows all the videos of things place after the drunk driver was taken away from the scene after the folks went to the victims went to the hospital after the deceased person went to the morgue and so tomorrow is it extremely impactful day I'm glad that we can

continue to do that program and I have no committee reports and so that is it for my comments I join the meeting at 6:57