Board of Education — July 7, 2020

he's just trying to get their computer setup okay thank you okay it is 4:30 good evening everyone I hope everyone as well like I said it is 4:30 according to my phone so I do call to order the board study session a special meeting of the Board of Education on Tuesday July 7th 2020 at 4:30 p.m. for the record this

study session is being live streamed on the YouTube channel for the Chino Valley Unified School District and will be recorded let's conduct a roll call mrs. Gagne that's it mr. na Aaron yes Hernandez miss Fernandez bat please let the record show that Miss Hernandez is not present mr. Cruz yes I'm here we need us tonight in the Pledge of

Allegiance I will go ahead and do that please everyone rise place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice [Music] okay we're now down to item one we comments from the audience on items on

the agenda we are not comments on items on the agenda as noted in the public advisory posted in the agenda staff will now read into the record the names and comments of emails received during the specified window and in accordance with board bylaw 93 23 meeting conduct the comments will be read and the order the email was received and only those

related to the reopening of schools for the 2020 2021 school year will be read in the event that an unusual amount of email comments were submitted for any or for the item the board will hear up to 30 minutes of comments only comments related to the topic of reopening schools will be read as time permits I didn't receive any email comments from

the public yes approximately a hundred and email comments were received and they are as follows from Gabby Jones dear board members of CB USD there are many obstacles you must all face on how to facilitate the reopening the reopening of school in the CV USD and I commend you for being bold leaders and taking action to safely reopen with the giving

guidelines from our local health officials I would like to thank I would like to talk about the decision to suspend all athletic sports and how other athletic leagues are implementing for their players and surrounding communities for example many soccer clubs are implementing these practices such as having their players wear face masks upon arrival temperature checks given hand sanitizer and player must

bring their own soccer ball which is also sanitized and the player must take mask off the coach instructs introduce though sports are just as vital as academics the mental and social well-being of our children please develop a plan with your athletic departments to come up with a plan for the 2020 2021 school year god thank you and God bless

you all Mary Ann Mendez hello I am a parent of two high school teenagers and my major concern is infection control at the schools as a parent I would like to know how you are going to implement infection control guidelines and procedures at the schools who and how will the classrooms and school be disinfected every single day

to fight the spread of infection amongst our students and staff masks are not enough and let's be honest teenagers are not that compliant constant daily proper disinfectant will be needed Thank You Marion miss Mendez Melissa Sanchez as an educator and a parent of two CB USD students I'm asking to have Andrew you moved from any decisions regarding the

reopening of CB USD schools his that titled children are not at risk is filled with dangerous inaccurate information that does not follow current CDC guidelines and can ultimately be fatal he is spreading misinformation regarding the global pandemic to our community and is also promoting a private religious school for these reasons he is unfit to take part of the

CV USD reopening decisions please hear my plea as a concerned parent and concerned teacher recuse him now needs to be held accountable as a district board member if he is not recused I will pull my two children from the school district thank you no it's offensive Sam stickler to whom it may concern my name is Samantha succour and I'm

requesting that Andrew please be recused from any decisions regarding the reopening of CBUs D schools during the köppen 19 pandemic andrew cruz has released an ad in the Chino champion that spreads misinformation regarding the cope at 19 pandemic your constituents want fact-based data-driven and scientific decisions made during this time this means we're moving Andrew crews from influencing the decision

about reopening CBUs D schools amidst the global pandemic thank you from Kathleen Earle I request that Androcles be recused from voting on issues that pertain to the reopening of CBUs D schools during a global pandemic we must follow the best scientific medical advice to allow our actions to be guided by politicized propaganda unfounded fears and theories that run

counter to evidence is to endanger the health and even lives of our students and staffs the add the Andrew Cruz ran shows that he either believes or for his own reasons we should spread such propaganda conspiracy theories in the ad he claims that there is science zero scientific evidence to keeps to his clothes and to mandate spacing and face

masks he bolstered these erroneous claims with quotes taken out of context so it's taken from a time early in the course of the pandemic when scientists and public health experts didn't know what we know now about the cope at nineteen virus quotes from discredited sources and the statements that are flat-out wrong for example through states that face masks we don't lower

oxygen even though this claim has has be proved wrong over and over again we are talking about paper and cloth masks that do not block oxygen or carbon dioxide huge boats dr. Russell Blaylock was considered a conspiracy theory quack and anti-vaxxer promotes among other things these proven ideas such as the idea that cancer-causing nanoparticles are being released into the atmosphere by a

government corporate scheme chemtrails Cruz ignores all the data from almost every development in the world that has used lockdowns physical distancing and face masks to bring cases down to much much smaller numbers of new cases per day such as around 100 to 500 for Germany 0 to 14 for Vietnam Andrews was not participating decision-making about our schools reopening in the pandemic

that is beginning to ravage Southern California thanks to all the infamous information propaganda such as truly misguided at he himself and Carlos Sanchez as an educator and as a parent of two cbst students I'm asking her Andrew Cruz removes many decisions regarding the reopening FCB USD schools his beliefs are filled with conspiracy theories lies and are dangerous to the

well-being of teachers admin students and more importantly my children if he is not recused I will seriously consider taking my children out of CTU SD his words actions are irresponsible and surprising that a school board member would act in such a manner also why would C be us D school board member be promoting Saint Margaret Mary Catholic

school does that allow a conflict of interest isn't this the same school but school board member that said Hitler wasn't that bad Thank You Carla Sanchez Andy Lagos good afternoon I am requesting that Andrew Keatts be recused from today's study session regarding the reopening of cbs2 schools for the 2020 2021 year Andrew Cruz has proven himself to be an unfit school board

member time and time again his recent ad in the Chino champion in which he denies the severity of Koba 19 is especially concerning and why his recuse today is necessary I am not comfortable with the person who chooses not to believe in global health pandemic to be involved in the making of a decision that could potentially risk the

lives of hundreds of students and staff that make up the Chino Valley Unified School District if CB USD is truly committed to its mission of providing all students a rigorous and relevant education in a safe learning environment then I expect the school board to recuse and recruits from today's meeting Andrews is not a person who makes Chino Valley residents

will say and I do not trust his decision promote a safe learning environment his poor judgment history of racist and homophobic and refuse to separate church and state is a testament to the next - thank you Seema Patel hello just wanted to give my input for the meeting today number one I cannot see any way that traditional schooling can be achieved

without a vaccine in place teenagers are not careful even during this shutdown I see them gathering sitting too close not wearing masks touching each other in groups of more than six number two how will social distancing happy happen if the classes are packed with 30 kids in the classroom number three in line the current rise of coab in nineteen case in

southern california we should be more careful than ever number four I was a school district going to treat sports certain sports have a lot of physical contact certain sports may not but but do the kids wear masks throughout the activities Thank You Ceylon k Miku as a second grade teacher in the district I am disturbed by the

advertisement the advocates has recently released I would like to request that mr. Cruz be recused from any decisions regarding the reopening of CP USD schools during this pandemic thank you for considering the health and well-being of educators in our district Heidi Golding I am a parent of two students in the district my son attends Townsend and my daughter

will begin butterfield next year as well as a parent I have many concerns about the health and safety of my children as well as the staff and other students involved in the schools having students at different schools and my family is exposed to even more people by having to go to two school sites both Texas and Florida have shown high cases and child

care settings of both children and staff although not intentional adults and children can be asymptomatic carriers and infect others that means even with following CDC guidelines and checking for fevers people can still carry transmit the virus without detection if we are not safe going to eat out playing on park equipment or other mundane everyday tasks how can we possibly

ensure the safety of everyone at a school site I am a teacher myself I know how difficult it is to keep children who touch you their face needs and picking their nose and washing their hands properly making sure all children and adults were clean masks responsibly and correctly all the time is nearly impossible I know online learning is not optimal

but it doesn't have to be a permanent solution my wish is to start the school year with online learning only know going to campus at all yes it is hard to do but it is truly the only safe solution hopefully there will be a medical breakthrough that will make school safer but at this point we are drowning in cases in my my children and

our whole family would be at risk if they attended school outside the home and went there hello I am emailing to demanda and Ruth Buick use up any and all decisions made regarding the reopening of schools during the COPE at nineteen pandemic his actions and this guarding of the Sirius the pandemic puts all teachers students and staff at risk

his remarks made are completely false and do not reflect the scientific community has asked the public to do to stay safe please recuse Andrew crews immediately Thank You Ella Quentin Alexandra the Lama this comment is for the Chino Valley Unified School District study session it has been brought to my attention that Andrews currently sits on the board while paying

for ads that going to the Chino champion regarding cope at 19 being a hoax as the president of the Chino community I am deeply hurt that the school board would allow Andrew coos to put out an ad that puts out false information and can't cause great damage to our community the children should be our priority not profit am deeply disturbed by Andrews

language blaming very serious diseases on illegal aliens this language is not only racist but causes great damage to undocumented children who deserve an education I demand that we recall Andrew flusche Missy immediately he is causing more harm than good and if no action is taken I would personally be disappointed to be a part of community that decided

to be silent while someone racists continued to dictate the decisions of one of the most vulnerable groups in our community the children we must prioritize the health of the children as seen these last few months Cobin 19 can affect children according to the article call corona virus outbreak and kids published by the Harvard health publishing Harvard Medical School insist that shoulders

stay home and should not go back to school children including Mary Chuck I'm sure we can develop Kovach 19 many of them have no symptoms those that do get sick tend to experience milder symptoms such as low-grade fever fatigue and cough some children have had severe complications but they has been less common children with underlying health conditions may be at increased risk for

severe illness a complication that has more recently been observed in children can be severe and dangerous called multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children it can lead to life-threatening problems with heart and other organs of the body this article is updated July 2nd 2020 just up to your hands school board to make decisions that can impact children planets forever

Alexandra along on key to whom this may concern the most important determination in regards to having my children returned to school or not will be based on how the district prioritizes the resources for the health of children I understand district has a budget problem and is trying to do the best considering the constraints for the budget but I need to

have these concerns addressed number one will there be Plexiglas or some transparent barriers around each student's desk number two will there be classes outdoors such as under large tents these are different way schools in Korea South Korea and Denmark adapted to best ensure student safety number three what are the protocols of my children fall seriously ill beyond two weeks in

regards to not having the health or energy to continue with class work that subsequently fall behind in learning if the plexiglass barriers and or large tents for other classes were not made available why weren't the parents involved in making such decisions we the parents are willing to help donate some money just like we donated money for class parties field trips school

supplies to make these changes for our children we were not asked about our opinions on how the district should best implement changes and thus I hope it can understand some of the parents fears and frustrations on these matters thank you for your time and I hope my concerns will be addressed in a satisfactory manner satisfactory way please feel free

to contact me by this email address Kelly near good morning should we choose virtual learning at home to start the school year we be able to switch back to in class learning once the kovat situation improves thank you kelly Ghoshal chelsea brooks andrew cruz has taken out ads with false claims to COBIT insisting that one of the most

vulnerable groups children should be exposed to each other a virus that is killing millions he has taken out paid ads to spew fear and lies to our community it would be a disgrace if someone uses their own feelings about a very real deadly virus to vote on when children should be excused when children should be exposed to each other also a racist should have

no say in a community that sees him as a direct threat to our children Andrew Cruz needs to be refused from any and all decisions regarding the reopening of cvsd schools kovat is real not some boogeyman story that Cruz is trying to portray it is Andrew Cruz's disgrace at Chino and the children that he looks over sincerely they discussed

it to the Sarah Chino Vanessa waters hello my name is Vanessa I am a Chino resident I am contacting you today in regards to councilmember and retrieve I demand that Cruz be recused from any decision regarding COBIT not only does he have a history of making homophobic racist remarks but he also ran an ad in the paper spreading

misinformation about the discredited conspiracy theory regarding kovat Cruz is unqualified to make public health decisions regarding the reopening of school lands of Chino residences - should not be decided by a person that projects science and recommendations of public health professionals clearly Vanessa Rachel Aquino our superintendent Executive Board and school board members I am a lifelong citizen of Chino a

product of cvsd school a parent of CB UST children and a 13-year teacher for CB USD school that being said I am requesting the school board member Androcles be recused from any decisions regarding the reopening of CBS t schools during the cove at nineteen pandemic his lies deceit and so-called truth slash facts were nothing but discredited conspiracy theories regards cove at 19

for one he caught he quoted dr. drew who's a media personality addiction medical specialists and internist not infectious disease specialist as a community and district we need to focus on the safety and health of our students teachers and staff in regards to reopening if we cannot ensure that everyone will be safe and stay healthy then we shouldn't reopen my family our students

my colleagues and our community are not pawns to be played with this pandemic thank you for your time John Johnson I understand they're at I understand that there are no good options for the families of Chino in regards to returning to in-person instruction for the fall of 2020 the corona bayonet virus pandemic is still ravaging our country and as this moment

there are over one hundred thirty-one thousand deaths in the United States if the students are not returned to school in person their education will suffer greatly but if students are allowed to return than those with serious health conditions will be at risk whatever the choice the school board decides to make I asked a board member and recruiter

excused himself from the both concerning the parents and families of CBUs D the recent ads that he placed in the Chino champion newspaper showed a complete disregard for science and safety of our children and community anyone who spreads wild in Atlantic conspiracy theories does not deserve to make decisions regarding the well-being of residents of Chino in Chino Hills

thank you John Kathleen Earle I'm requesting Andrew Andrew Cruz be recused from voting on issues that pertain to the reopening of CBUs D schools during a global pandemic we must follow the best scientific medical advice to allow our actions to be guided by politicized propaganda unfounded fears and theories that run counter to evidence is to endanger the health and

even lives of our students and staffs and the Andrew Cruz ran showed that he either believes or for his own reasons wishes to spread such propaganda and conspiracy theories in the ad he claimed that there is ZERO scientific evidence to keep schools closed at two mandates facing and face masks he bolstered these erroneous claims with quotes taken out

of context votes taken from a time early in the course of the pandemic the scientist a public health experts didn't know what we know now about Kovac 19 virus quotes from discredited and statements that are flat-out wrong for example crew states that face masks result lower option even though this claim has be proved wrong over and over

again we are talking about paper and cloths Meza do not block oxygen or carbon dioxide huge coats dr. Russell Blaylock who is considered a conspiracy theory quack answer actually promotes among other things disproving ideas such as the idea that cancer-causing ana particles are being released into the atmosphere by government corporate ski-doos ignores all the data from almost every developed

nation in the world that has lockdown statistical distance a face mask to bring cases much down to much much smaller numbers of the cases per day and the kruseman's not participate the decision-making about our schools reopening a pandemic that is beginning to ravage southern california thanks to all the information and propaganda such as the truly misguided as he himself

grande and a first daily I believe so we should be able to go back to school full-time distance learning in my experience is not beneficial to the children children thrive and learn more in an actual school sitting with the teacher giving instruction you shouldn't let our children's education suffer because of what's going on in the world right now

Sarah Clarence good afternoon I'm writing to demand that Andrew couch is himself from voting on today's study session ID in regarding the reopening of schools for 2020 2021 to put up a paid advertisement in the local newspaper promoting a discredited open nineteenth conspiracy theory and is therefore spreading harmfulness information of course we are all very concerned about

this pandemic but it's important that Andrew Cruz does not make Felicia's arguments that could potentially worsen the situation in hand I believe mister please needs to reevaluate his beliefs about children not being at risk of COBIT 19 Eric used himself if he does not do so I demand that his colleagues take action accountability excuse that sincerely Sarah Cara Beth dear simi USD

board members and staff I'm writing to implore you to take action against mr. Cruz for ignorant rat that placed in the local newspapers his uneducated claims without dated quotes regarding cope at nineteen are completely irresponsible he doesn't even understand a simple concept of value of wearing a mask to prevent the spread of virus droplets in the classroom the

paper masks that most of us have do not protect the person learning it but do protect others with the classroom the safety measure only works if everyone is wearing a mask within the classroom if this simple measure is not included in reopening schools and follow a slashing force then we should not reopen CB USD students staff and teachers do not need this

uninformed board member ordering on anything having to do with reopening schools and what protocols should be in place these decisions sub went well should be based on science not conspiracy theories he should at the very least recuse himself in voting and at most resign he's an embarrassment Jordan went there hello I am emailing to demanda and who's being accused of any

and all decisions made regarding the reopening of school during the club at nineteen pandemic his actions in disregarding of the serious of the pandemic puts all teachers students and staff at risk his remarks made are completely false and do not reflect the scientific community has asked the public to do to stay safe please recuse Andrew Cruz immediately

Elizabeth dela Cruz was brought to my attention that our board member paid for and ran and advertising urging people to vote for a decision with evidence put out of context furthermore mr. Cruz's neither medical professional and has shown his bias he should not be allowed to vote or participate in decisions of our school openings in August furthermore he is dismissing the

concerns of serious consequences of teachers staff and children with underlying issues people of color who are two to three times more likely to separate things disease and not keeping an open mind to others thoughts thank you for your time and consideration many of us are looking to YouTube looking to you all to make the best decision if we were closed for

fewer cases than now why are we opening up the school for unknown enough foreseeable dangers sincerely Elizabeth dela Cruz kindergarten teacher Ashley Beamer hi I would like to request the Andersons be recused from any decisions regarding the reopening of schools in a Seabee us deeper cove at 19 as a former student some who have lost a family member to cope in nineteen a

certainly urged the school board to take this seriously and not put students lives at risk the lives and health of the East children is more important than education please do not allow someone who ignores the advice of health professions take part in his decisions Thank You Ashley Jennie grime good afternoon I ask today that Andrew Androcles recuse himself

from voting on today's study session item regarding the reopening of schools for 2020 2021 if he fails to do so on his own then I asked that his colleagues recuse mr. Cruz I assume that mr. mr. Cruz like me cares about the safety of CBUs d students and that he acted out of ignorance when he decided to pay for an

ad in the Chino Chandler champion claiming that children are not at risk of it 19 understand that too many people from liberals and conservatives have turned this pandemic from a public health issue to a political issue and therefore misinformation is about unfortunately it seems that Andrew Cruces while I prayed to these mind games and further enable confusion

within our campus community it is very responsible of him to use cherry-picked statements to make a fallacious state argument therefore until Cruz shows he's able to discern fact from fiction he's unqualified to vote on this item issue be recused for the state of the thousands of students and hundreds of parents guardians and hundreds of teachers of staff within Chino Valley 21

schools thank you without Natalia Chamberlain to whom it may concern I urge you to recuse Andrew Cruz from any decision-making regarding reopening of CV USD anybody denouncing seriousness of Copan 19 has no place deciding our children's faith do not reopen schools block cove at 19 cases are rising Melissa and pika hello I have been a citizen of Chino my entire life and

attended school with CBS d for my entire k12 education I am writing to you today because I am deeply concerned about the safety of our students and teachers Andrew Cruz has made public state was promoting the reopening of school and has used little scientific evidence or credible sources to support his claims on one occasion he even quoted himself

Cruz has repeatedly discredited to the safety of the use of face masks and social decency procedures despite there being endless credible studies and research proving that those are the most effective ways to contain the spread of the disease for this reason I am demanding the recusal band accrue so making any decisions regarding to the opening of schools I feel that any individual who

denies the validity of scientific studies and CDC guidelines should not be making decision before and the health of our already underpaid and understaffed teachers and students teachers should teachers already have a hard time paying for school supplies out of their own pockets a positive kovat 19 diagnosis could potentially leave them financially crippled if they were to be hospitalized

even worse this could be death I hope that all members of the school board hold the safety and concerns of teachers and students at the very forefront of their decision-making thank you concerned she literally Amanda Carrillo Perez to the members of the CB USD board I demand that Andrew please be recused from any decisions regarding the reopening of CST schools during the cope

at nineteen pandemic his recent ad taken in the Chino champ take it out in the Chino champion is a conspiracy written s filled with dangerous myths around the pandemic which I intend to contest while it is true that many parents rely on schools for child care doing this we this should not array the dangers of fully reopening schools in an attempt to

return to school in an attempt to return school to normalcy as Andrew stated in his advertisement in case andrew forgot there is nothing normal about fifteen thousand three hundred forty-five confirmed deaths of San Bernardino County alone due to a virus we know very little about we know little to nothing about Andrew conveniently sites who to state that suite is an exemplary model

for combating the corona virus however the who also loved it that the prolonged use of medical masks were properly warned does not cost co2 intoxication or oxygen deficiency someone who picks and chooses what pieces of scientific evidence to cite for his own personal agenda is not one that should be entrusted with the power to make decisions they have life or death

consequences Andrew says that it made no sense to force schools to close let the pandemic spread see people get sick mr. Cruz is not the first person to say that we should let the virus run its course and result herd immunity the problem with this is that the nature of the virus is to disproportionately impact people with

compromised immune systems these could include students and staff who have compromised immune systems themselves or family members for which this is true additionally The Lancet published a study on Monday in which Spain's large-scale study on corona virus found that just 5% of the country's population develop antibodies which supports ongoing evidence that herd immunity to Kovac is unachievable

shame on Andrews for spreading false information an attempt to return to full operations fourth best Amanda Camille Riley Cardozo hi my name is Riley Cardozo I'm a former Briggs on legal student emailing to request that Andrews be recused for any decision regarding that we open no CBS d schools during the virus pandemic following his dangerous comments in his

paint Chino champion annoying self and promoting discredited cope in nineteen conspiracy theories and just missing the safety measures the block downs mask of social distancing reopening should be taken incredibly seriously and done at an appropriate time with the appropriate precautionary measures contrary to Cooper's misleading ad children are at risk and so are the Friends of family members area they are

in contact with I urge the board to protect students and their families thank you Sarah when hello I request an turkeys be recused and in decisions regarding the reopening of CBUs D schools I believe accusing Cruz would be in the best interest of CD USD residents as the koban nineteen pandemic is still very much at and infectious frankly Andrew

Cruz's stance for his attitude champion makes himself uninformed and not to be a man of science Auguste Dekker Curie dear CB USD board members it has come to my attention that board member ander crews pay to run an ad in the Chino champion containing false information about the cove at nineteen pandemic he shared misleading facts same asks and social decency do not work and

insinuating masks are dangerous currently the CDC and a California Department of Public Health book recommend social distancing and they use the face coverings when the public places your board members deliberately misleading and directly contradicts the leading health authorities in our state and country he also said the corona virus does not affect children which is simply untrue children can be effective

with coronavirus the health and safety of CB USC teachers and other faculty should also be a prior already considering many are up a Blomberg age to severe illness rotavirus is that calls for basic precautions yet rejects what our lead scientists say will keep us safe healthy for health leaders are calling for social distancing a mask and public places they're responsible core

school leader should at the bare minimum follow and promote these mandates I write this message for other board members to reject any and all these suggestions for reopening in the fall since he clearly does not have seen est students and faculties health as a priority I have faith that the cbst board can make a well-informed decision for a community a concern president

Schafer that's 30 minutes miss Gagne I think has a question yes can I make a motion to extend public comment for 30 minutes oh you can ask for consensus to continue yes can I ask for consensus to continue for another 30 minutes mr. na hmm what is our scheduling today oh we have one item which is the board study

session on the reopening of the school's I believe staff has a presentation okay it would take approximately long dr. M feel I'm assuming at least an hour probably okay then yeah we would have to listen to our presentations so I've liked yeah go to the presentation now okay no we do not have consensus mrs. Gagne again yes

I don't know if this is proper appointment formation but do we all have somewhere else to be right now or are we gonna be here discussing what's gonna go out through opening our schools I'm just a little unclear why we wouldn't keep going through public comment when I know having read all the public comment there are still substantively

so I'd like to make another proposals after the presentation can we please report back to the public comment period and complete the public comments sure why don't we do this why don't we go ahead and have our report by a staff and then at the end of that and end of our question rounds and everything else if you'd like to ask for

consensus again to hear the remainder of the comments or a specific time period of comments that is well within your rights great thank you okay with that dr. infield let's move on to the item number 2 board study session item a2 a1 study session number 2 for the 2020 2021 reopening of schools dr. infield we please explain what the discussion will

be about tonight yeah so president Shaffer and members of the board tonight we have our second board study session on reopening schools for the 2020 21 school year since our last meeting there are several changes that have asked that have occurred at the state level and at the county level which has modified a reopening plan and so tonight I will

review the changes to our reopening plan review three learning options review the parent and staff surveys that we put out by the district provide my recommendation for a district-wide learning option and then based on guidance from our legal counsel I'll bring forward my recommendation to the board on July 16th and then lastly to review the second parent survey that

will go out tomorrow so to begin our first change has to do with the governor's California resilience roadmap and I believe everyone is familiar with the stages the state stages for reopening at our last meeting on Tuesday June 16th our county was on stage to be on Friday June 12th San Bernardino County moved us to stage three and so just that move alone has an

impact on the reopening plan for us for a countywide the last time we met I know my staff reviewed the sections of the reopening plan that related to their specific divisions there have been some changes and I want to review some of those changes but I also want to go back and go over a little bit more details on

a couple of items that I think are of importance so under well under well-being there should be another slide here I'm missing hang on here guys then we go through and looking at I don't have all my slides or not in order I apologize let me let have staff I need staff to take a look at that that

doesn't the next slide up should be my well-being slide so I apologize for that let me see if we can make sure we have the right presentation there we go all right thank you so well being there is a district-wide protocol that I would like to share and as part of that I'm asking for everyone's support in

this one because this is really a big part of the wellbeing for our school district along with a number of other protocols and the first is passive screening and we'll be communicating that to our parents and to our staff but really when we look at passive screening we're asking all of our students and our parents and our staff members before

they come to work every day that they take their temperature we're also asking if they have fevers chills cough sore throat shortness of breath are difficult breathing loss of taste or smell to please stay home or if you've had contact with some with someone with Kovac 19 or you think you may have come into contact and I ask this because this

is a huge one this is not a year that we're looking for perfect attendance this is not a year that we're looking to SAR by our students because of their attendance this is not a year that we're looking to write employees up if they're not at work every day because this is a really critical one that if we're in

doubt that we're asking people to stay home because it could mean the difference between us having to close the school for a number days or weeks and so this is really one of those first steps that all of us need to really take to heart and really look at doing that the second part is we'll continue to conduct temperature checks

for all of our students and staff with a non-touch thermometer when they come to work or to the school site we'll have hand sanitizers in all the classrooms we'll have hand signs hand sanitizer stations located throughout the school there will be traffic flow signage on the ground to where we need to move and blowing through hallways and

out a desk and have high contact areas to be sanitizing daily hand-washing face coverings and social distancing science and new procedures for lunch and these are just some of the processes that were putting in place for that safety and well-being at our school site face coverings so on June 18th governor Gavin Newsom ordered of mandates of face

coverings went out in public through the California Department of Public Health and I'm going to tell you there is some confusion as the order was modified so when the order first came out there was a little tag at the bottom that said refer to the CDC guidelines in the CDC guidelines States students should wear face coverings that has since been

removed from the order and based on the current order and when you read through that order face masks would be mandatory and so at this point we are making it that face coverings need to be worn and by students it's no longer a should it will be she'll be worn and so that is a important piece in the change in our

plan and I share that because I know we have some parents who feel very strongly about wearing face masks and not wearing face masks and this change may impact the learning option that they can choose I also want to assure parents because we do have some some some of our students who have medical issues and that they they may not be

able to wear a face mask and we will work with those families to allow for that modification operations when I we have home to school transportation I want to take it a little bit of time and talk about our home to school transportation talk about field trips and visitors and volunteers home to school transportation so let me first go

the state budget was passed it has a number of changes in conditions on school districts and one of the interesting ones that I want to point out is one of the change are one of the bills as part of the legislation was a districts cannot lay off custodians for the 2020 twenty one school year and that makes sense because we have to really be

vigilant about our cleaning processes nutrition services workers cannot be laid off and they've been on the frontline since the beginning of this serving meals to our community and I know they will have to continue to do that but they also put in their transportation workers and so one has to think of why transportation well the state wants school districts to open

with in-person learning and transportation is a big part of getting students to schools but when you look at the guidelines there is some some issues with the social distancing on a bus what was also interesting is that they didn't write in protections for the technology staff you know when when a majority well when all of our districts had to move to

distance learning you think that that would have been an area that the Legislature would have looked at and said hey what about the technology staff because if you're moving towards that distance learning but they didn't do that and and and the thought process is that they were really wanting to move school districts back into in-person instruction so I want to first go over

the protocols that we have in place on the bus so students will have a temperature check before they get on the bus students will have to wear a face mask students will have to use hand sanitizer right when they get onto the when they students entered the bus they go to the very back of the bus and then

they start to fill in the seats one road to the next road to the next row so that they feel it from the back moving forward at the end of the route the first person first last are the first last person on I'm sorry last student on the bus would be the first to exit so they're not crossing past and again

students are to use hand sanitizers when they exit the bus and then when the bus is completely empty the the bus driver will go through and wipe down and do the cleaning of the bus and disinfect it and I share that because under the the blended learning we will attempt to have half of our bus riders on cohort a and

then the other half on cohort B to reduce the number of students on a bus what we will what we're going to look at is we'll look at last year's bus riders and we'll try to divide them in half input so let's say I had a bus then I had sixty bus riders last year on this route and we're gonna make the

assumption that most of those would probably return to the busing that we would try to put half of them thirty students on cohort a and the other half on cohort B so that we have instead of sixty students we would have thirty on one day and thirty on the other again to try to maximize that social distancing

if we go with a blended learning model if we were to go to traditional return to traditional learning we would most likely not have that social distancing on the bus but we'll still have the same protocols that I just reviewed I share this because this may be a concern for parents regarding transportation and I want to make sure that they understand

that and that they understand that both have one has more social distancing then together and that would be the blending would have more distancing for the kids spreading out on the bus compared to the traditional because that may impact a parent's selection or of the options or they may just decide not to use transportation so I thought that was important for us to

share tonight field trips and student travel in stage three and we're in stage three in state only field trips or travel may be approved or not approved and I share that that the district office will approve each request on a case-by-case basis so let me give an example one that could come up is 6th grade science camp so that would be an

in-state because that's usually locally and if that was to come across our desks at this point it would probably be one that we would that we would not approve I share that example because it's going to be important for the school sites that if they're looking at doing any field trips that they want to get any any field trips in state that they would

want to get them approved before moving forward with any fundraising activities behind those field trips because the last thing you want to do is start to fundraise and then we're not even approving those but again we're look at each one individually on a case-by-case basis because of we're in stage three right now the district will not approve

our allow the scheduling of out-of-state travel while we're in stage three we will only consider out-of-state travel if or win and I say that if or when we moved into stage four and again let me give you another example many of our junior high schools schedule an eighth grade trip to Washington DC or New York because we're in stage three school

sites we would not be able to even submit that request and so I just want to know that field trips are one of those areas that we will look at only on a case-by-case basis visitors and volunteers in stage three site administration may allow visitors or volunteers on to the school site for non classroom purposes meaning they cannot

go into the classroom some of the examples of where they may need to do that maybe for a school site council meeting for an e Lac meeting a Booster Club meeting a parent training that may be going on that we typically would have liked in a multi-purpose room so in this case is there could be that could be allowed but if so visitors

would have to go through a pre-screening and have a healthy bell and a temperature reading that would be a critical part plus they need to be wearing a face covering and then the facilities after the meeting would be cleaned and disinfected at that but again visitors and volunteers will not be allowed into the classroom learning options I want to take some

time and go through the the learning options at our last study session the state had not passed a budget and today there is an approved budget and part of the approved part of the approved budget is Senate bill 98 98 I'm sorry which was signed on June 29th by the governor there's two parts the first part states

in-person instruction should be offered to the greatest extent possible it's clear that our legislators want our students to return to in-person instruction the second part only allows distance learning under two circumstances so on the and here's the language on a local Education Agency that's a fancy word for district or school wide level as a result of an

order or guidance from a state or local health officer so let's take the first part of that as a reminder the State Health Department nor the nora state health official provided an order or guidance to close our schools in March of 2020 and I don't believe that they would if we had to again the san bernardino county superintendent ed

alejandra along with all the other san bernardino superintend it's worked with our County Health Department and working with them we got a guidance and then we moved forward with closing our schools from in-person instruction and moving to the distance learning and so if our state or county was to go back and go back into a shutdown I believe this would be the

language we would probably go back to as we did in the entire county when we closed schools so the language was put in there I believe for that purpose there the other part of the language talks about school-wide guidance from a local public health officer and I want to just take a moment and go over two scenarios for this because this is a

real possibility a district of our size and if students are brought back this is a scenario that that we will probably that I would assume a lot of districts along with us we'll probably have to face a student comes to school so a parent drops them off as part of the our protocol they are walking up to the

school and they receive a temperature check and we identify with a that we identify that the student has a temperature and so we isolate the student as part of our protocols and then we have uh some other protocols that we go through with the student and with the parent and then we establish that the student had very little contact

with anybody was wearing a mask with social distancing and adhere to all the guidelines and we did our contact tracing and we contact the public health department and based on that protocol most likely we wouldn't close schools the student would go home we maybe have them isolate or if possible to test it to see if they had Kovac 19:00 and then

if they were positive we would contact the health department and continue to work with them on that another possibility would be a mother contacts us and notifies us that her husband tested positive for kovat 90 and their child is not exhibiting symptoms but we know that the student was on campus for several days and so we've contact the

County Department of Health and then we would go through the information that we have that had been provided to us and we would work in conjunction with the County Department of Health and in that scenario scenario depending on the the circumstances and everything that could potentially happen in that they could ask us to close the classroom and

disinfect it and keep the students home for several days or for several for several weeks depending on the guidance that we received or they could ask for the entire school they could come back and say well we need the child the student hopefully would be tested and we went to school to be closed and at that point we would move into distance

learning either for the classroom or for the whole entire school site and I just share that those are possible scenarios that could happen in working with our County Department and that's where that language comes in the second part of the language talks about pupils who are medically fragile or would be put at risk by in-person instruction or who are

self quarantined because of exposure to COBIT 19:00 and so this language allows for social distancing for our students who have who are medically fragile but the nice part about this language in the interpretation of it I think which is critical the language intent gives the parent the ability to determine not the district if they believe their child may

be at risk or a family member could be at risk and so it really shifts it to the parent which is a good thing for us because then the parent can request distance learning so as a parent I make that determination if I believe my child is at risk or somebody within the family and the language was crafted that way to

be very broad to give the parents that that ability and so a parent under that language could select distance learning the continuing of learning options so again at our last study session the San Bernardino County was on stage to be our County now is on stage three and then based on our reopening planned Stage three we offer blended learning or

traditional learning based on the stage that we are with the county currently and the three options are the traditional blended in distance learning and so I want to take a moment and go through all three of those so the next one up is traditional option learning option one traditional instruction and this is the one we're all familiar with

this is where our kids come every day five days a week for the entire school day the research is very clear that the majority of our students perform better with in-person instruction academically and socially emotionally and this is our goal is to return to traditional learning if and when it's appropriate however when we return to traditional instruction we will have limited social

distancing and so if you look at the pictures there that's why we have the pictures you're gonna see that two traditional class where there isn't the social distancing within that we will continue to adhere to all the safety measures which are and I'll kind of go through some of those again we're asking parents and staff members to do a

passive screening before sending their child to school take their temperature run through the checklist looking for possible signs of kovat 19 and if they exhibit any signs to keep them home and to check with the medical provider we will take temperature checks of students entering the campus temperature checks for our staff members wearing face coverings providing hand sanitizer

stations throughout to school hand sanitizers in the classroom cleaning and disinfecting high contact areas throughout the day having one flow of traffic through the school providing go in grab lunches to limited contact with the food and again these are just some of the protocols that we'll put in place whether we're in two additional or in the blended learning

blended learning students are divided into cohort A or B the cohorts will attend in-class instruction and are at home on alternate days this is a combination of learning in the classroom setting and the remainder of the student work is completed independently at home learning is enhanced with some online and virtual learning at the elementary level we will be focusing on English

language arts mathematics and English language development for our English learners and social and emotional learning secondary level they will attend school every other day so over a ten-day period students would attend school for five days out of ten days and one would ask why the the blended learning it allows for more social distancing compared to the traditional

learning inside the classroom and I think that's the biggest issue for all of the school districts it's the size of the classrooms and the space in there to allow for that social distancing and so that's why you see a blended learning option here learning option three is distance learning 2.0 we called that because we went back and looked at what

we just went through in March to the end of this school year and there were a number of things that needed to be changed to level up the distance learning so there is no physical or social distancing required in the distance learning students may have teachers teacher or a teacher that are not from their school so I could be a

high school student and I could have I could be at Chino Hills High School and my math teacher could be from Ayala I could have multiple teachers at the secondary from different schools again this is a virtual program so there are no no boundaries virtual classroom may be comprised of students from multiple schools so you could see a classroom where there are

kids from multiple elementary schools in one classroom students will be required to check in every day with their teachers there will be daily synchronous instruction and that is live instruction by a teacher via distance learning with the students and so that is live instruction will happen daily there will be asynchronous instruction and that that is instruction that could

be through a video it could be a chat thread where students are sharing it could be a project-based assignment or it could be just a regular assignment that a teacher may assign work over there will be office there'll be office hours outside of the daily instructional time and we will be incorporating the social-emotional learning as part of the

distance learning to 2.0 and these are the three learning options and so I want to take a moment and take a look at the parent survey so we broke the the surveys into high schools junior high elementary and overall and I want to make a note on the overall it was we rounded that one and you're gonna notice

if someone counts it up it's going to be 101 but I want to take a moment and look at that we had a up at the top in that is the number of parents 11,000 29 submitted surveys at the high school level the the gray bar is traditional we had 49% parents who selected traditional at the junior high 45% at the elementary

43 and overall 46 selected traditional the orange bar which is the blended learning 29% at the high school 34 at the junior high 29 at the elementary and overall 30 and then distance learning the blue bar 22% at the high school 21 at the junior high 28 at the elementary in 25 and if we look at the teacher survey and

again we broke it up the same way so teachers took the the survey the in is the number of teachers and that was only given to teachers was 834 again at the high school level thirty four percent of the teachers wanted traditional thirty six percent at junior high and at elementary you'll see fifty-six percent of the teachers select a traditional

overall it's forty five percent a blended learning at the orange bar thirty five at the high school thirty five at the junior high twenty-six at elementary and thirty-one overall and then distance learning was the thirty one percent at high school 29 17 at elementary and then overall twenty four if you look at the teacher and the parent survey overall they're all

they're about they're very close I think it's about a 1% difference between the the two surveys learning option criteria so what is the criteria we used for for for selecting an option well we first used the Senate bill 98 and in that it talks about that the district needs to offer a district-wide learning option so it has to be district-wide

the second part of Senate bill 98 states that we need to offer and in person to the greatest extent possible and then third being that the county is in stage three and a reopening plan for Stage three indicates blended or traditional learning this narrowed this narrowed it down to really those two options that were looking at district-wide

so the recommendations for reopening schools for the 2020 twenty one school year is we're recommending is blended learning with the goal to transition to traditional learning and I share that that's the goal is to transition to traditional learning this could be a week it could be a month it could be several months we never made transition to

traditional learning and again it's looking at the data looking at where we are with the Cova 19 and is it safe inappropriate at that time to tradish to transition to there but our goal is to get there kal-el preserved academy our recommendation is that they're a multi year-round school and they've already started with distance 2.0 they have

track C coming off on July on Friday July 31st and track D begins on Monday August 3rd and so there's not a perfect time to really transition but we thought that Monday with a new track with one track coming off and a new track coming on and there are a week away from the the district start time that we would

recommend transitioning to blended learning on Monday August 3rd with track a B and D and then families that meet the Senate bill 98 criteria and remember parents get to determine the criteria for are they is is their child at risk they can select distance learning for the 2020 21 school year and so when you look at the the data and you see the

majority of our parents had selected traditional learning and so somebody may ask why why D and we not just go with the traditional learning when I look at that we looked at the increase of the Cova 19 in San Bernardino County and so when you look at that the the increase that we've had of recently that was part

of the decision that we looked at opening with the blended learning to keep that social distancing the other part it provides I touched on that it provides that more social distancing for our students but I think the the other part and I'd like to use an example if you have a school of eight hundred students and if you look at the parents

i'll survey it looks like at least 25% of our parents would select distance learning so if I have a school of eight hundred and twenty five percent of the parents select distance learning that school is now reduced down to six hundred and then if you place the students on cohort a and then cohort B you've now taken a school that was at

eight hundred reduced it down to three hundred students coming on campus on one day and three hundred the next day so you've really reduced the traffic on that campus and part of that what's important I think in the reopening is your reopening with a lot of new protocols processes and procedures that the students don't know that they're

gonna have to be trained as they're coming on that first day staff is going to have to work through those processes and procedures and like I always share people and man-made systems are not perfect and so they have less people or less students coming on at the beginning of all of this makes a lot more sense than bringing all six hundred at one

time because again we're trying to reduce that down and work through those process and procedures to get people trained and in that how do we enter the school how do we get in line to get our temperature check because we have to have a lot of people out there doing the temperature checking how do kids move through the the hallways reviewing with

them hand-washing face touching all the the training that we need to do and the time that we need to spend with our students especially when our students come back I want our our staff needs to really spend the time talking to them about what they just have gone through and and it's not something on day one you're hitting the books you want to

take time to talk with them and see how our students are emotional and spend that time with and very very important piece and having lower numbers in the classroom allows for those more connections with our students the so that's the recommendation and I will bring that recommendation to the board on at our July 16th board meeting for the board to consider that and

hopefully vote on the learning option to move forward now our parents will receive notification we have a parent survey that will come out tomorrow this is coming out to our parents we will send it out through Aires we will put it out on social media we'll have it out on our website the parent survey will begin tomorrow on July 8th the survey will the

survey is pretty basic kind of like the survey that parents just did we're going to ask for the student name the student ID number and you can see where you can find that through the Aires parent portal you will ask for your school the grade level that your child will be in in August if your child belongs to any

of the following programs do they receive eld services 504 special education services gate or do they not receive any of those will be part of the this survey and then please make sure that you complete one survey for every child and then you'll have a choice and so the choice is we're coming back with blended learning with the idea that we

hopefully will be able to transition to traditional learning at some point during the school year if parents are not comfortable with that they can select distance learning and that will pretty much complete the survey and then when you click on the to submit the survey it will take you to another page and then on that page it will say stop

and it will say if you select a distance-learning click on this link to take because then we're going to ask you to do this distance learning application and again it may feel repetitive but this application will be an important part because we're going to use this application to be able to track all of our students and make contact with errands if you

didn't select distance learning then you do not need to fill out this application and so you'll see that application as part of the last page of the the survey and then so what is next for us so on July 8th through the 14th the parent survey will be out and so last parents to please take the survey and select

those options of the the to Cal arrow we did a little bit different on the survey the Cal arrow because they have tracks a B C and D their survey looks a little bit different and I think the parents are familiar with it because again our last survey was on the Cal era website and we will send them a separate survey

very similar but with a little minor changes so Cal our parents will be directed to their school site website to take the survey and then what else do we have here the last part of this and then on July 16th I'm sorry July 16th to the 24 I'm sorry on July 16th I'll be asking the board to approve our recommendation

and then from July 16th to July 24th we start the staffing adjustments for both of our programs that we're gonna have to work with our associations on the the different staff members who will be doing distance learning and with staff members who will come back with the blended learning and then July 27th to August 3rd would be our notification to

parents who would want to for their parents who select a distance learning and so again between July 27th and August 3rd we will notify the parents who selected distance learning if you did not select distance learning and you selected the blended option or if you do not do the survey then your child will automatically go into the blended option

as we start to build the the classrooms and the staffing for the 2020 21 school year and I think with that we will be at questions at this point okay thank you dr. M Thank You staff for the presentation board members questions yes mr. Cruz yeah you know dr. unfilled you know options are important and when you

mention you know primary school K through six it's imperative that that is traditional you know and when I look at you know middle school and you know the kids are independent I just see blended being doable and then also high school blended it's sort of similar to college so I could see that doable too but let me unfair some some studies with you one

study found no significant difference in academic achievement of special education or regular education students however gifted students who participated in the blended model of instruction performed at a lower level than those who participated in the traditional model another one the research results revealed that the blended learning model contributed more to the students biology achievement than traditional teaching

methods achievement by students of blended and traditional sections brought mixed findings yet blended students overall grades were significant higher conclusion results indicated that a blended course delivery is preferred over a traditional another one was about how the students felt and they had highly positive I also want to mention to you about masks when you mentioned requirement you know I did I did a mini

experiment I used an oximeter and I you know was 100 in saturation five minutes later it was down to 97 now you could imagine our children wearing masks and it is something that you know you know are we doing more more damage there No you know wearing these masks and knowing that there's a lot of literature stating

that a healthy person shouldn't be wearing a mask and the masks that our people are wearing now are useless they're not even helping them at all now also dr. Ansell talking about social distancing you know there were countries countries such as Japan an island 121 million people 977 people died an island you think they were doing social

distancing Taiwan 25 million seven died singer more sir sickle I came to say 26 died six million and then what so odd is that America is number one in the whole world seconds Brazil I mean the best hospitals in this world and we're number one so I have to ask myself social distancing I mean it doesn't make sense to me and the

only thing that we have control over is our children that our children have the freedom to to play and to study and the data you have the Peter the US pediatrician stating with strong statement in favor of bringing children back to the classroom this fall American Academy of pediatric I didn't strongly advocate that all policy considering for

the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school I mean precautions important to me right there is a virus but our children it's socially they need to be socialized our kids need to run and enjoy and interact with the people isolating our kids is stressful and it's gonna cause more damage and then when we talk about the

fatalities the fatalities in California it's zero under the age of five is zero under the age of 17 you're more likely 50 times to drown you're more likely getting hit by car and the death rate it has increased it peaked in April and it's drop mr. cruise mr. cruise wait I'm trying to justify having the option of traditional

school okay so let me finish could you please bring it back to the presentation it is the presentation I am just defined to have traditional school and this is the way you do because all this is based on the fear and panic so suggesting wearing a mask okay Joe let me finish I have the right to finish

because I'm trying to justify myself to bring back traditional school use them to clerk christen let me finish then you could talk antibody test should not be used to diagnose just look there are not even testing antibodies they're testing the extra ments of cold false positives Elon Musk says there are ridiculous numbers of thoughts positive c19 tests

in some cases 50% false positives scale literally with number of tests this is a big part of why c19 positives are going up while hospitalization and mortality are declining it doesn't make sense we have a virus but it's not a pandemic and we ruin our children's lives so you gotta fight for our kids but I don't know what you guys are doing okay

they're better off to be in school it's okay right now they're not being hurt by this and you know the only control we have if there are children have no normal life because our life the system small businesses they have lost so much money they're going out middle-age men have lost their jobs I don't know if they're gonna get their jobs back people

food prices are going up the only things we have it's a safety for our children to have a good life a life and if this thing gets worse then we'll know and then we'll hunker down but in the meantime right now it's not a pandemic it is similar to a flu that we have every winter Thank You mr. Cruz do you

have any questions related to the actual presentation no miss Gagne please yes I have a series of questions so I don't know if other board members have questions but I have quite a healthy list here again so I just want to be cognizant of other people's questions why'd you go and throw them out there maybe we have some

of the same questions and they'll be answered in the meantime okay great thank you so as I said I've tried to organize my questions by topic I've also tried to integrate in questions that I've been receiving for the last couple of weeks so please please bear with me I appreciate your time and attention so starting with the survey

it appears that from the results of the respondent pool was eleven thousand twenty nine parents how many parents total do we have in the district staff does anybody know that that specific number we have about approximately 26 thousand plus students okay got it and do we have any idea sort of what that since we have a variety of different

families in the district do we have an idea of how many parents that is I'm trying to figure out if there was a rate what the rate of parents was who maybe didn't fill out this survey and the reason I'm asking that question is we're now putting out the choices and I'm concerned that maybe we're just missing

a certain group of parents due to technology or language barriers so I just I want to put that concern out there as part of the question so in terms of us choice and I just want to be very clear the slides when I first reviewed them and thank you dr. Enfield for clarifying the sv-98 and the 80-77

issues I'd only be a hundred percent clear if I am a parent and I want my child to do distance learning I fill out the survey and say yes distance learning the district is just going to allow my student to automatically go into distance learning is that correct that's correct okay so simply because I mean this the

language seems a little bit confusing I want to make sure that no matter what regardless of there or not the child actually has a medical condition or anything else it's the parental choice of whether or not they either want their child back in the blended model and exactly the same parental choice of whether or not they want their child and distance-learning

yeah so the parent if they again the language is very broad and so a parent interpretation if they're picking distance learning is I feel that my child is at risk that that that thought is enough to put them in distance learning or that somebody in my family could be at risk it's very open for the parent and the parent makes that

interpretation not the district and so if they select that they've selected it we don't question it we just move forward so some other districts in the area have put forth the option of traditional learning as one option and then distance learning as the other from the presentation I'm gleaning that the reasoning for proposing blended learning is that clearly we don't get enough

students and staff you know off of our campus off of a given campus every day to allow for social distancing probably allow for other sanitation procedures is that sort of the thought of why we're going with a hybrid model versus traditional versus distance well yeah I think it's easier to start blended and then then to move to traditional than to

start traditional and then try to move into blended and so it just makes more sense to let's be cautious and then when it's appropriate and if it's appropriate we'll make that move but again you know my goal is always to get us to that traditional but again that's the that's that balancing act that we're looking at the safety component of it and also it

makes sense at the beginning when we're trying to put in all those new processes and procedures because again that's new for all of us it's not something we've done before and again as I said people insistent man-made systems are not perfect and we need to work through those and everybody works you know I think we work better by doing and so

it's that doing process that we really get better at and so to have less students there as we're doing that process makes the most sense at least for me and if we have students who want to maybe they go back to school and their parents just don't feel comfortable after a couple weeks at school that could be due to a variety of factors

probably primarily public health since we don't really know where this is going right now can i as a parent than elect to put my student into distance learning no we're once they commit therein therefore at the elementary junior high at the trimester and then at the high school semester if and only if we have room staffing wise to make those

accommodations at those points because when they get into that and they start to get into that certain learning you have to stay in that for the assessments that are going on in the learning that's going on to be able to transition them in and out constantly would it just is not going to work so that's why we want

parents to really think about it and make that choice that this is a choice that they're making and if they have any reservations then they should err on the side of cautious where they feel most comfortable and will that also apply this might be confusing to parents not aware of this existing program you know we have a virtual learning program

through our alternative Education Center would a parent be able to put their child in that program they were not comfortable with hybrid meets blended learning after a couple of weeks they would I would recommend that they would apply for that just as any student does at the beginning of the year if they want to go into the virtual program the

virtual will be different than the distance learning 2.0 again we have to offer a district-wide program so the two district learning 2.0 is that district-wide the the virtual program is a program that are for students who who prefer that type of learning over then the traditional learning but they can sign up for the virtual learning at the you

know during this time period during the summer into that program and in terms of distance learning I think there were concerns and clearly I think everyone's understanding that everyone got hit with this pandemic you know my surprise this is not something that any of our systems are set up to accommodate nonetheless our public schools but there's definitely

been many concerns by parents who are interested in distance learning or perhaps might want to send their child to hybrid or traditional learning how it's going to look in the fall and I know that there's been a lot of time put into figuring out you know the 2.0 part of it but is it possible maybe to give

like a granular example at like perhaps the elementary level and the high school level of like what's the average day might look like I think there's concern that you know some students we're sort of languishing and falling behind and not as engaged as they could be others are more self-starters so it didn't really matter what the program was but I just want to

make sure that parents are sort of fully aware of what that distance learning model looks like so they can make that choice between distance and blended yeah let me have dr. Park go into that so she's she's my expert on this thank you for the question so the biggest difference with distance learning 2.0 is that there there will be live

instruction every day every day our students let's say at the elementary school will have dedicated time they're checking in with their teacher and the primary focus is going to be on the essential standards in English language arts and math and also with the incorporation of social-emotional learning so in a day the instructional time will vary based on the grade level

so in a transitional kindergarten or a kindergarten class there will be less time with the teacher because the attention span with for a little one is going to be is going to definitely look different than a sixth grader who will be able to sustain a longer time with their with their teacher did I answer your question or was there

a second part to that miss Kanye um I guess I'm trying to meet al into you know as a parent trying to make a choice and I believe probably a majority of our distance learning parents are just not comfortable with the public health data but they want to make sure their child is retaining as much as possible a

traditional learning model at least in terms of learning standards you know what might a student be missing out on and I think money the questions I've received at the junior high and high school level I saw on some of the materials certain courses weren't going to be offered clearly some of them like PE are not going to be probably able to

be accommodated but there are others such as AP courses so I'm just trying to figure out you know what might a student be missing out on academically should they choose distance learning sure so at the elementary school a distance learning student may not have access to music instruction versus a student at in a blended learning model would have

access to music instruction at a junior high and high school some of our electives like band leadership ASB they may not have access to and again at the junior high in high school all of our high schools offer different CTE courses because they offer different pathways for example there's engineering pathways at IL a-- and don logo in our distance

learning program our students wouldn't have access to those classes which would require a hands-on experience in that classroom got it thank you and will we have telehealth or telemedicine for our distance learning students absolutely and in terms of distance learning it seems as though if we sent out a survey to our teachers that were trying to develop a cohort of distance learning

educators to match the cohort of distance learning students do these distance learning teachers have to report to a physical classroom yes the distance learning teachers will will be required to report to a physical classroom and conduct their distance teaching inside their physical classroom and if there is a teacher who for either a personal health issue or an

at-risk at home situation is not able to physically go into a classroom you know what what options does that teacher have the teacher by law would be allowed all of those medical accommodations so if the teacher couldn't physically report to the campus then Human Resources would definitely engage with the employee and allow the employee to participate and do

distance learning teaching at home and this might seem like a silly question I apologize but it seems as though if a teacher selecting distance learning you know they are trying to likely make a public-health choice are they going to be going reporting to their traditional classroom with their traditional campus yes so if you're a distinct distance learning teacher more likely you will be

in your classroom at the school that you were most recently at okay for everybody our virtual program that's been around for what over ten years the teachers do not work from home they report and physically are at the school site in the virtual program so it's following that that same format that we have with the virtual program and in

terms of traditional learning or blended learning how is the district right now evaluating available public health data I'm just going to look at the data that's made available by the San Bernadino Department of Public Health the California Department of Public Health because that is accurate up-to-date data are we looking at case rates or death rates we're in a

situation right now with the spike in cases that the death rate is clearly lagging and we also suffer in this County unfortunately from inadequate testing taking one to two weeks to even get a koban 19 test so how are we evaluating our available public health data versus like what metrics are we using since there's various data points

that you could pin to making decisions we use the San Bernardino County gives us a breakdown of the cases within our school district boundaries so we look at that data and there's I think it's their student data and then there's overall adult data on that and then the other part is where we've been meeting it feels like no

minimally about once a month to with the San Bernardino County of Health with all the superintendent's with questions and stuff and they've been very supportive with us and with any information that we that we need and so are we just going to align with whatever stage the county and or the state is that I asked this because I think that and this is

something that I think there is a lot of agreement about we may have opened up certain things too quickly which you know in turn has led to a rise in cases because people are socializing and not taking precautions potentially so you know if it seems as though sometimes there have been decisions made or I actually will say there have been

decisions made that have been not motivated by Public Health and the stages have moved and maybe they haven't moved as slowly as well as they should so we're aligning with the state stages is there any way that we would then go out of alignment because it looks like right now our plan is pegged to either the governor or potentially in the

county making certain decisions so what I'm trying to angle that is you know spaced on local developments even if at the state level we're in a certain stage is that going to move how we evaluate what stage were in well I'm using the the San Bernardino County information that they give us on our school districts of looking at the rate again a

part of the reason why we we stayed with the blended model and not moved into traditional model for us because when you look at the the city of the Chino Valley area that there was a spike in in our area and so again going back to that data is why we put in the blended and again looking at the requirements of the

Senate bill one of the district-wide they want in-person district-wide and so when we looked at it blended is the one that makes the most sense so we're using that data and using that to make our determinations of where we go if we saw that we were like almost at zero in this in the Chino Valley area and our County

numbers were significantly dropping then the conversation may have been hey we're gonna start blended for a week and really move into that trend you know transition into that traditional again because I think it's just smarter to start with the fewer numbers and get everybody situated and give teachers the time to talk with our kids with smaller classrooms I think that it would be a

decision we would have made a different decision because the blended model the nice thing about it is when you're ready to bring it together you just take a and B and put it together and use you don't have to change a master schedule you don't have to change any of your classes and so again we're looking at that data

and using that data to make our decisions and in terms of teacher staff and students coming to a campus on a given day you know how are we determining if they should come on campus do they have to be a hundred percent asymptomatic sort of I know that there's that checklist the CDC and others have advanced but you know I

think some of these decisions are going to be made on a case-by-case basis that day as someone comes to campus so if someone you know has the sniffles or exhibits like one of the symptoms it could or could not be related to Kovac so how are those decisions actually being made talk about that I think it's the communication that we provide to

parents and for our own staff members I give you an example if I was out this this weekend and I was around people that that I typically aren't around and on Monday I'm feeling a little bit sick and stuff I think that's where we're asking our employees and asking parents to really you know be very cautious of

that of what where were you and then what are those symptoms I think you're going to have to put those two together and then we ask people really out of abundance of cautious if you're not sure one day home is better than let me just risk it and then that one day home turns into well I'd feel sicker the next day

and other signs are coming up again those are going be all personal things that people will choose but we're asking people to be very cognizant because if you do come and you end up having it you can now put the school out for several weeks on to distance learning and so it really takes all of us working together through this

process of really being aware but I'll let Leia talk about the information we're putting out to parents so that we are creating a family letter and in that family letter were providing information regarding the passive screening of what parents can do at home for example temperature checks checking for the covert like 19 symptoms in addition there will be some tutorials via YouTube

that parents can view so that they can arm themselves with information in practicing how to put on a mask how to wash their hands and how to stay safe so that information will go out to parents and we will also have a parent through the parent engagement center we will be having some presentations that we're gonna host virtually that we're gonna

invite parents to attend parents and Families great and earlier in the presentation it was mentioned that we're not gonna be putting a focus on attendance either for students as well as for teachers and staff that being said if a teacher feels that they are experiencing symptoms and doesn't want to come in to campus for the day for the

obvious reason they might have Co vyd you know where is the pool of substitute teachers coming from and a follow-up question to that is are we going to have substitute teachers committing to one campus to minimize contact circles or sort of what does that process look like I'll let mr. Wright out talk about that but I know I've already seen I've

received emails from substitute teachers because they're concerned that we're not putting on as much professional development this year and that they're not going to have any jobs to come to but again I don't believe that's the case I believe that there there will be absent ease and plenty of jobs for our substitutes to pick up at all that rich

answer the rest of that yeah they go along with what dr. Enfield said we've actually argued in reaching out or substitutes currently preparing to fly another pool but we do have 300 substitutes currently in our pool that are saying they're willing to work and they've actually been calling us because their concern is that are we going to

have substitutes we recognize that we will and we're preparing to move forward to make sure that we have an avenue to make sure that our classes are filled with substitutes when a teacher for some reason cannot be there and will there be substitutes for both the blended learning model as well as I mean someone even distance learning

could potentially get Co good and have to take care of their health and take a leave of absence but we also have subs ready to jump into the distance learning model yes right now the blended and traditional models are very similar for the teachers that's gonna be the easiest one for them to go into the distance learning model we are going to have to

actually provide most likely provide a little more training to those subs and we will most likely use them in longer term situations and when I for some reason it is not a single base situation where it can be taken care of right away by the current teacher providing additional assignments and things of that sort but yes we are gonna have to provide

additional training to our current substitute pool in order for them to adequately teach in a long-term situation in a distance model thank you while pause my questions for a moment again as I said I have a healthy list but I appreciate the responses so far great thank you very much mr. na please mr. no I think you're muted okay now can

you hear yep okay good yeah I'd like to thank the staffs out of being cautious and having safety in on our children in mind that's great I have a comment on Senate bill 98 it does lack one thing it doesn't specifically talk about protecting our staffs and teachers so I think district has to step up and maybe need to come up with some pepper

policies or flexibilities for our staffs and and teachers who are affected by this pandemic or or could be affected so I think that's a concern for me now looking at the distance learning application sample where you have window time period of July 88 to our 14th and and if the parents wanted to have their children to participate they would have

to sign in for that and but other parents do not have to do anything and and they'll be just rolled in that could be little concerned for me so if there's any way that we could have every parents have an option to check up boxes whether it's going to be a blended on-campus or distance learning let me yeah we want we

don't want parents to opt out now we actually we want them to go through and to fill that out because schools gonna look and and I'm just making this up let's say school has eight hundred kids and they get a response rate of five hundred they're gonna be calling those three hundred what's your choice what's your choice what's your choice they're

gonna keep because they want them to pick something so they can take them off of their list because our goal is to get a hundred percent of the our parents doing the survey because we want to know that they're committed to that so we don't want them to say oh I'm not going to do it because I'm taking the blended

learning no we're asking you to still do it because we've got to form those classes all the staffing behind that and so if we're if it's school is missing three hundred we don't know what those three hundred you know the some of those probably want the distance learning so we're asking everybody please help out and do that because staff has a lot of

work to do and the more of that people do this it's more you're gonna help us out to help get schools off and going so it's not feasible yeah but just make sure the let the parents know adoption is yeah there for them you okay great and then since I spoke last time I was talking about that where we

have to revamp or even build stronger virtual school and since then there's a school district in Orange County had announced that they had engaged in building a brand-new premiere of Virtual Academy looking for the head of time after this pandemics the schools could change scenes and and so is their enrollment so I think it would be only

benefiting for us if we could revamp or and look at their virtual academy and even make it better and let others know not only from our within our school district by surrounding districts they have given a fancy name as well so I have that conversation with mr. dr. Anfield in time when parents talk about some other countries having plexiglas on

student desk I think that's a great idea and they have embarked having mass now it's mandatory and an observing social distance had greatly protected as the population of that country I just checked while we're talking about what happened to another country where the population was 50 million a plus and over 600,000 people were tested and they were confirmed about 13,000 hundred

eighty-one cases and out of those patients 11,000 914 have recovered and so the deaths were only 285 people and compares to that in California where we have 41 million population and 690 thousand people and we have confirmed cases of 201 281,000 cases and debt are exceeding now 6400 so it is right as a the parent has said we might have to look at what other

countries are doing that helps giving them additional protection so but anyway we need to consider the needs of our parents and in our education needs but also that the safety needs of our students and our staffs so having that in mind let's be very flexible we do have to look at the CDC guidelines but also look at each art campus and there's

needs of safety if the teachers and staffs don't need don't feel safe then that impacts our children too so let's have that train of thought making sure that our daughter safe so they feel good in teaching and serving our students and thank you hey thank you dr. infield I have a few questions that mr. Lanier will go back to the remainder of your

list just a couple procedural or operational questions as far as transportation if we're at the blended model and we are putting fifty percent of the students potentially on that route if I understood you correctly will be providing face mask and hand sanitizer as they get on the bus if they don't already have a mask yes they will have

all that for them procedural question what happens especially with the younger kids if we have a particular student who continues to not want to wear the mask continue to remove the mask what is the district's stands going to be we're gonna those will be a case-by-case basis we'll have to deal with those individually with that in an

understandable it's going to be much more difficult at the primary grades you know and if you look at countries that typically wear them you'll see where they they they they calm like a timeout they take timeouts because you do need you do get hot under there and so we have to be very cognizant of all those things in the age of the kids and

so it will be a case-by-case basis okay and high transportation to field trips since it looks like we are in a stage three and field trips are going to be looked at on an individual basis will the same procedures for transportation to and from campuses be employed for field trips distancing on buses and yes Glasgow at one time are they gonna break

it into the cohorts well we would have to look at the bus and and you know where they typically may put three classes on a bus you know we would that we would look at if we're you know if we're in the traditional model then that could be what we do but if we're in the blended model and we're looking at that

again only half the kids would be would be going on the field trips from each of the class so it makes it a little bit more difficult on there but we would have to look at the reducing the numbers and providing as much social distancing as we can okay moving on into distance learning if that is a choice that

parents have am I did I hear you correctly that we will only be using two platforms the delivery of distance learning there's not going to be a hodgepodge of different ones that teachers like better or that you know that they're more accustomed to we'll train everybody and we will use just two platforms yes that's my understanding that we're using

those two platforms those are the district platforms that we have and we will be doing trainings on on those two platforms okay I know I know Cal Harrow is going to transition a week earlier than our traditional campuses there's probably going to be a lot of confusion for lack of better terms when that time comes especially transitioning from the

distance learning to the blended model and then having the new track come on which is blended model I would just request them that we over communicate with the Cal Aero folks and the parents down there to let them know we understand it's gonna there's going to be a disruption that it's unnecessary to transition those those students to

just from distance learning to to blended learning yeah they're there's not a good time I mean it whenever we do it there's going to be a disruption we because we've looked at it and and and and no matter what there will be a disruption there okay you know what whether we can send out enough communication or possibly even put

together a small tutorial video or something to to engage the folks down there so that they understand that that we understand that there's going to be issues and we will work through them as best we can but at some point in time we're gonna have to make that transition yeah moving on to the next topic with a blended

model we'll have half the students on day one the other half on day two how are we prepared to make sure that each classroom and highly touched item is properly sanitized and disinfected between the two groups of students coming in yet so we're still working through that but one one process that that that easily can work is if I if I'm

at the the secondary and I think that's where the most concern comes in because of the secondary they're there they're moving classrooms they're moving from first period to second period to third period and so forth and so one of the recommendations would be that you would seat the kids in a so everywhere where you ever you see them you mark your your

desk in your classroom as desk aides and then desk B and if you sit in desk a for first period the students only sit in the desk a and then when they leave the classroom we have disinfecting that that you can spray you really want it to dry on so you spray it and then you actually just

wanted to sit there and so the recommendation is you would go to those aides and the teacher would walk through and just spray those desk and just let it sit there you'd only have to wipe it down because they really want it just to sit there and dry and then when they because we've increased our passing periods from five minutes to about 10

minutes to allow kids to you know do do hands if they need to wash their hands to do sanitizers for these type of things and then have the new class when they come in they would sit in seat B and not even have to sit in a and let that dry because we've done that we've tested it here in my office a spraying

and watching it dry and approximately how long it takes to dry but again they sit in CB and then when that class moves again you walk and you spray your seat B's and when the next class walks and they sit in the seat ace I meant those are things we're looking at we looked at could we hire people and just call them

kovat 19 cleaning desk people that walk around and that's all they do but when you look at a high school in the amount of the the the amount of people you'd have to hire someone for each classroom to do that so we were trying to figure out what makes most sense so in every every room we have the disinfectant for

that we have the you know we have the hand sanitizers we have a lot of things that we're placing in every classroom to be able to do that especially at the secondary and again it's one of those things where we all have to work together to be able to do that and having hands having wipes that you can

wipe the doorknobs off you know when when a class is going to leave it's going to be critical that you open the door and you keep the door open so nobody has to touch the door so they just walk straight out and when the next class walks they walk straight in that they're not grabbing the door and then

as a as a teacher if I see people touching or going in and out during the period there's sanitation wipes that we have that they could use to help clean those high contact areas along with that having staff members going around and doing their job of hitting the high contact areas with disinfectants and so again it's one of those things that we

have to work collaboratively together to make this happen and so there are solutions to these things but it's working together okay thank you jump to a different topic now I'm not as organized as mrs. Gagne sorry about that um what what have we done are we looking at steps to ensure that we have adequate counseling available for those students

that might need it for some students this will have been a bigger traumatic experience than others and some I just want to make sure that we have adequate counseling services available whether it's through the city of Chino or in-house or or whatever we have the counseling but I'll let mrs. bellows jump in and share on that I know the

first part when our students return it's going to be important for us to really take that time and have those conversations with our kids but miss Dallas yes thank you for asking we have renewed our contract with the city of Chino for city of Chino Human Services in addition to that our counselors already prepared to provide coping strategies to support mental

health in addition we have our regular step process for any students who may be in need we will have our small groups and individual groups continue to work with our students okay thank you dr. Billy I think miss Gunn you touched on this I just want to confirm that the application for distance learning is there a possibility that that

application could be denied that you don't meet the criteria for one of the two sections of the bill was 98 and that's not an option for your child you know we the district doesn't determine that the parent determines it all the guidance that I've received on it is that the legislation made that very loose for parents and they are the ones

who make that determination not the district so if they select it they have a risk at that point okay so the decision or the option is for the parent to determine yep thank you as far as a blended return model how does that work how does that look with certain activities and athletics well they would it would work just as not

trying to do a gotcha moment i just i've been asked and i don't know and and you know if we have half the kids on campus on monday you are you practicing with half the team on monday and half the team on tuesday or those students gonna be allowed to come to campus well the students would be after school you know

so yeah after school the students could come and participate in that but you know then the the sports programs have to have we had the protocols for them and where are we within the phases of opening up our sports and I'll take a moment and touch on that because I know we were looking at and a lot of counties

were opening up sports in the information from the state was that they say they weren't supposed to have them open but I think there was some mix mix information and counties received confusing information and and the state clarified that no youth sports were to be opened and should have been open not even the conditioning component of it

and so that's where we're at today so again if we opened it up and it depends on what stage we're at it may not even make sense if they're just let's say we started school and blended learning and the CIF is going to come out on July 20th what are they gonna do with sports you know there's been some talk that

maybe they move some of the sports to the wintertime but let's just say they're able they move some sports and we're in blended we may only allow for the conditioning component of it and so at that point we may only just the kids that show up that day do the conditioning and the next day the kids that show up do that conditioning that

may be part of it but again it will depend on what stage we are with the sports and bringing those back together okay thank you I just want to ask real quick I don't think it's going to better if we go with a blended model obviously the distance earners wouldn't be able to but do you see any issues

with our faulty view ROP courses and the blended model or are we going to be able to kind of roll those into our scheduling the the blended students if you take the blended option I think that's that those are easier to roll into that if they're doing the distance component it may not be because it's a number of those courses are on our

campus some of those are on other campuses and so we would have to probably work if some if a student was taking it on another campus because I know Chafee is opening up with a blended model and so we would probably have to work with them if the student because if we have a student coming on Monday and

and I'm just making this up Wednesday they may have to be over there on a Tuesday and Thursday because they're they're doing that blended over there so we would have to look at those okay and I don't need us because we have a RFP meeting tomorrow I know or like to be able to write a little bit of background

if I can yeah yeah our district and the only last thing I have is more of a comment and and not a question I have bought us for you know reaching out to our certificated our teachers and doing a survey I want to make sure that that the information is is viewed and used but I also want to

ensure that our CSA members aren't being left out and that they have a seat at the table and that they're being they're being included in the conversation too although they weren't surveyed and I believe that's probably because their their job functions are going to be somewhat unaltered by by how we open I just want to make sure that we're in

communication with them and they they do have a seat at the table conversation okay and with that missus going back to you thank you um so my next topic is safety which I know might seem kind of silly given this is all about safety but I tried to group things accordingly my first question is just in regards to

training how our staff and teachers gonna be trained about koban nineteen cleanings and other procedures and if we're not creating those trainings ourselves where are we getting those materials dr. Parker Leia which one does not sure cuz I know their work dr. Park okay there's a couple of components on on the training EHR has prepared a presentation

that all schools can use to train all of our employees additionally we prepared a co vyd 19 startup checklist to allow our administrators to ensure they are following certain procedures and all of our employees at the school sites will receive these procedures which include how we are going to keep the employee safe on campus by by cleaning how we're

going to keep our students safe through a variety of things that we have planned so there's going to be multiple ways we're going to be communicating to all staff certificated and classified as to the protocols we're going to be using to include everyone safety and given the split on the survey it looks like a majority of our parents wanted their

child and either blended or traditional learning so given they'll probably be a little attrition to distance let's say about 65 to 70 percent of our parents may decide that this blended learning model is for them do we have enough custodial support on our campuses I mean it sounds like we have a very you know intensive cleaning regimen that we're

expecting this may be easier at different grade levels but sounds like there can be cleanings on an hourly by period you know various interval basis so do we have that enough support and secondary to that you know what is gonna be our expectation of teachers clearly they already have a laundry list of expectations as educators but I think

that you know there's been a lot of questions about what supports they're gonna receive when they're gonna receive training and what the actual expectations are going to be Oh with addressing the concerns pertaining to staffing we do have adequate staffing at our sites I think the primary concern were in have regarding custodial is how do we adapt

when a custodian has to be absent for their own situation because it's we are in a situation now where we can't just let something go to the wayside we really have to make sure those classrooms are getting cleaned so currently we're in the process of developing a back-up plan to our current sub system so we have our subs in place

however what happens when you can't you apply you try to get a sub that sub there's nobody available at that time so currently we're in the process of working with CSEA to also develop a secondary process which would include getting interest from our current employees that are at other sites that would be willing to do overtime and be

on a list in order to be called if for some reason you go through your normal process you call for a sub they're not there you go through your normal process of looking at a sub that's somebody that already works at your site that would like to get some overtime they're not there then you would go to a third tier

process of being able to call other additional employees that are throughout the district that would like to get overtime in order to support that process that's currently what we're working on right now working in conjunction with CSEA got it thank you and also given just the number of respondents and how they elected choice on the survey do we have based off the

survey results enough supplies for students staff and teachers on our campus who want to return those supplies can be anything from hand sanitizer other cleaning materials as a follow-on you know do we have face masks for you know every individual staff teacher or student that comes on that campus yes we we sure do facilities and planning has prepared a

kovat kit which includes masks appropriate PPE hand sanitizers the wipes among some other items that will be distributed to all of the school sites additionally they have they have ordered in bulk so the bulk will be in our warehouse so that schools can easily order through our warehouse for for the immediate replenishment of items needed along with that the state I think is

giving is sending us sixty days worth of supplies on top of that and so we have you know we're we're we're set with I know several months of supplies again and also with orders still coming in and that we will continue to have because we you know we want to have like at least six months of supplies sitting on with

us the whole time so as that depletes we're refilling that always having is extra here because we're the the thing is we cannot run out and so you know on the the the spray sanitizers we have 55-gallon drums gear plus we have the regular bottles plus we have the gallon bottles all of those things in that that

is our backup you know for especially for the sanitizing component of that so we're ensuring that when we open that we have the supplies to get us through the year great and doctor Enfield you earlier during the presentation outlines you know how we would be in consultation with the San Bernadino Department of Public Health should a kovat case arise

on one of our campuses but how does that decision to close the campus be made and are they I mean I don't know what the county is doing currently since most of our schools are out but are they using like the CDC decision tree or you know how do we have any insight as to how they would advise that or you know

closing a classroom versus closing the whole campus do you have more information on that yeah there are a lot of variables on whether it's a shutdown of a classroom or a shutdown of the whole school all of that will be guided through Public Health but there is current communicable disease policy that we follow so with our current policy we

would get advisement from Public Health to determine whether or not the student in question what location were they were they at who do they make contact with is their symptom a positive case there's so many variables that it will be case by cases we are oh I'm so sorry but we are preparing for different scenarios in the case that something comes up and

also with that mrs. Gagne is the the County Health would would probably give us guidance I don't think they would give us an order I'm also so at the next board meeting just as the board approved last year around March to give me the authority to close schools I'm gonna bring that same resolution back at the next board meeting in case we get the

guidance and I need to close a school or I need to close the district right but for some reason that we have that ability that we don't have to call a special board meeting at 5:30 you know or 4:00 in the morning and get everybody down here to be able to do these things so that we can respond very quickly to

that and then in this resolution it will expire on on June 30th of 2021 so it's just for that that school year and it's just specifically for that emergency that we have that ability to respond quickly because this is something and and I just want to be very clear we're expecting this to happen a district our size not to expect that we're not going

to close the school or have to go through this process so we're preparing for all of those type of scenarios and expecting that to possibly happen it's going to be happening when you have that many people being brought not just in our district but across the state of California and across all the school districts in our country it's it's going

to be the reality and if we do have to close a classroom a section of a campus or an entire campus like what's the game plan for transitioning those blended learning students to another education model do we have the distance learning program or what happens yeah they go straight into the distance learning 2.0 again so the the nice part about that is

is if if it's in that case and let's say it's a school site we have to close right so what ends up happening is now the a B would come together as a full class and they would get instruction through 2.0 all five days virtually until that school was ready to reopen again and they would follow the same synchronous live

instruction every day asynchronous instruction would be going on the kids would be reporting we'd have our Chromebooks that we're already going to assign out when the kids because again that's part of our process is preparing that we're ready to close on a moment's notice and be ready to transition to that so each student is already getting a Chromebook in the blended learning

model just in case and clearly it's blended so they'd have to do some stuff online yeah well we would go back just like we did before if they have a device at home that they can use we would ask parents do you know if they could use that and if they have the internet connectivity if they don't then we would

check the Chromebooks out based on like what we just went through last time and clearly master mandated that that's out of our hands that came down from the governor's office so we don't need to be labor that but there's also a panoply of other protective equipment I've gotten a lot of questions about anything you can think about you would where to throw it

off Kovan but most frequently I know we have existing policies about hats or visors in the classroom and I've had several questions about those face shields that are attached to a visor to her hat will that be allowable for students in addition to a mask yes we actually ordered face shields for some of our instructors who work with

students that have language needs so of course we would allow that for students as well there's also shields I thought for all the the teachers at the states was providing I could be wrong but I thought those were already coming in to for our staff yeah our special education population you know clearly and clearly these have been some of these instances

have been detailed in some of the state guidelines but how are we working with parents to make those decisions I mean I could ask a laundry list of questions is that special education I do have those but um you know how are we going to be working with the parents and the teachers around masks or other protective gear for special education

population so we have a special work group that's working on the special education needs of students there are dia service providers which includes ot speech therapists adaptive PE are psychologists different from the different groups that have come together to help bring forward some questions that will come up and also some answers so that is still in progress however

there is much communication from special ed to the parents for example a letter did go out to Cairo and service carrier and do we have enough contactless touch thermometers for each of our campuses yes we ordered those as well and in terms of pick-up and drop-off procedures I'm sure there there is a plan but is there a way to just kind of give an

example of how that works I've gotten a lot of questions from parents about that as well as things that are outside of the classroom day to day so pick up and drop off recess lunch sort of like how does that look in this blended learning model so what we've been doing is we've had a team of administrators come

together in each feeder group and from there we've been walking the campuses and giving feedback looking at the sir the safety protocol or reopening guidance to determine best case scenario and best practices for for things such as that it is still in the works we also have our risk manager who is meeting with every site principal to discuss

safety as well and how does the district going to manage contact tracing that's been one of the most difficult things for you know any public entity or private entity is that contact tracing or even at an individual level are we going to use any assistive technology or you know do we have any ideas around how we might do that

we do find out either a parent student or staff member has a case of Cova 19 you want to go I'll cover that so there is a currently HR and risk management has been taking a lot of that task on and so currently where we've identified a number of individuals and trying to identify more people as we go along that

will go through contact tracing certification there's a six hour course and we're having our staff members go through that so that they're trained on how to do that and to be able to carry that out and because we have had a few individuals in our district that have had COBIT 19 and we've had to go and do

the contact tracing with those individuals and I'll tell you it is a tremendous amount of work and manpower to go through that process and so we're going to identify at the school sites we have individuals that will be trained at the school sites at the district level we have a large number of people that were identifying to be trained to help

with that work to be able to go through along with that and then along with that we you know we rely on the county because the county has their software their programs that they put into that but we are looking at individually what can we do and who did they have in contact and did they contact this person

how long do they have the contact all of that information and the training is important for us so we will have the people trained and ready to go great and in terms of testing one of the difficulties and I think this is across the board in the US particularly in California it's actually having access to the Cova 19 test has it been any

conversation with either the California Department of Education or the county if we do have a case on a campus several cases on a campus the next logical thing might be maybe we need to test the students and staff at the campus do we either have an idea from the county if there's a pipeline for the test since

they seem to be hard to find or weeks out to get and or there are now several private companies in Calif or Nia who have put self-assessment self-test out on the market I don't know if we've had any conversations with them but just be helpful to know if we have any plan or if you've had any conversation about that those fellows do

you want to cover that through health services we're taking a look at this time we don't have a information to provide but we are looking into it because it is going to be a concern but in terms of students because of HIPAA and because of the privacy concerns we have to be very careful as well and at

some of our campuses I mean there's many campuses where this may be the case we don't have our health Tech's on campus all day will that be changing given the increase in needs that might result from kovin so we are looking into that dr. Anfield that's right no yeah it's just it's something you know where we've been having

conversations about we're looking at budget you know part of that is are you going to continue with those hours continue permanently as you move forward with those so we're looking at are there other options other ways around that because you know kids are going to come up they come up in the flu season they come up with stuff it's still the same

work that we still continue to do and then this is just that that that other component of the kovat that comes up because a lot of those have similar similar effects it's just how we respond to each and every one of those and so we're looking at the current staff that we have in what can we do and be

creative but we have made no final decision on that okay I have a couple questions just in terms of choice for both staff teachers and students clearly our students parents have a choice of what option they want there's not a restriction on that except for once you pick one you've essentially picked one in terms of our teachers will they

ultimately have their choice of preference yeah yeah mr. right I'll let you like that so you know in looking at a couple different scenarios obviously we looked at the the parent survey as well as a staffing our staff survey and then today we sent out a new staffing survey to gauge in for people to actually sign up

for interest to teach distance learning classrooms having said that we are hopeful that since the teachers responses to desire of teaching distance learning is very similar in nature to the parents desire to have distance learning we're hoping that matches going to be pretty close however until we actually get to the part where we start assigning people we will not know

exactly how close that is and we also will not know until we actually have the responses to the survey that we sent out today gauging interest along that same line once we send out the survey we've received some questions so we'll also be sending out an FAQ to our employees so they have a little more information because we also know that people that

would like to do this since learning that changes depending on the conditions that are happening in the state and so we want them to have the most up-to-date information as well when making a decision to say hey I am interested in distance learning and then they're gonna work with us to actually get into those assignments I'm very hopeful though

since those numbers do match pretty close on the surveys that hopefully will be pretty close and matching up desires of our staff members along with the needs of our parents and Families great thank you if a parent elects distance learning for their student is there a risk their student will lose their place at their home school no there's not there's not a

they go back at the end of the school year they reset back to their home school so that's not it's not a transfer request it is their school now if they select distance learning and then they wanted to transition let's say we opened up in tradition at the halfway mark and they said oh I want to get back into

that and I'll use an elementary let's say it's a fourth grader but all of our fourth grade classrooms are full at that point they may not have that ability to get in at school that year but the following year all the students get reset back to their home school and will that same logic policy apply to the tracks at Cal arrow

for the following school year yes they would they they would go back to the same process that they that they use every year for the track selection because I think they select on those there's there's some processes but again they would go back to those again trying to get everybody back into those same tracks my next couple questions about

athletics and activities will make these quick and then I have a couple questions to follow up and I will be done so my understanding is that let excurrent lis not permitted that was not a CV USD choice that was a no choice by and the state and/or the County Department of Public Health and you had walked through

how some up as we move into phases that we might gradually move into certain activities and athletics no are we going to be using CIFS released guidance I looked at their guidance and it looks like their rate their rating things on risk level like clearly tennis is different than wrestling in terms of contact so I was wondering if we are

going to use those guidelines second area that with activities if there are students that do distance learning are they still going to be able to virtually participate in activities or they will have to go to campus to participate in those activities although mr. right out talk about the sports guidelines because he's actually taking the lead on this

with the athletic directors in it and banned yes so luckily we have a great group of athletic directors athletic trainers band directors that have come together to look at the outline that we were proposing moving forward with and in that process we were combining multiple different documents I would say we did look at the CIF guidelines but we

also looked at ma NFHS guidelines in concurrence with what other districts are also doing around us in looking at all of those guidelines we are looking at ranking our sports in terms of their risk level however each sport will open in a phase one plan which is a very low risk level that is no contact no touching no sharing of

equipment basically social distancing all those almost equivalent to conditioning in order to move into more moderate risk levels activities that sport will have to submit a plan that is approved by the athletic director the assistant principal / athletics and then eventually our risk manager in order to move to more moderate activities the reality is depending on your sport you

may never leave phase one example golf in essence they will never most likely ever need to leave a Phase one plan they will never be with more than ten people they will never be sharing their equipment with somebody they will always be able to be six feet away however if you go into a sport like baseball where

you are now throwing a ball obviously we have to look at how are we gonna sanitize that equipment how are we gonna make sure that those processes are safe so we have to make sure that that plan is in place by the team that is supported by the athletic director that is supported by the assistant principal / athletics and that is supported by our

risk manager and that's how they will move through their plans in order to move forward all of that has to be under the auspice of what stage we are in the state in order to make sure that we are even allowed to do those things - okay and then the the second question I think it depends mrs. Gagne it depends on the

activity is it an after-school activity is it a is it leadership that's during the school day and again I think it will just depend whether they can participate on that virtually or would they have to show up after school and participate in that program and in terms of the survey probably more fairly the election of school choice for the coming academic

year are we sending out any sort of safety plan or the district FAQ is on the website along with that so parents have access to answers to the frequently asked questions yeah we have the frequently asked questions I we can always reference those but we probably need to also continue to do some more updating on those because we

continue you know there's a lot of questions that we will have out there for our community and finally in terms of the blended learning model we've referenced cohort a and cohort B how is it decided who's in which cohort I think one of those were looking at is trying to look at our transportation look at our students who were who were who were

bus riders last year in the 2019-20 school year and trying to get those separated then the next step I'll leave it to dr. Park because I know she's had more conversations along with transportation the second part is always to keep our families together so while if the family desires are we will be able to put families together in the

same cohort however we've also received requests from family members that they would like their children in different cohorts so that families can so that the parents can spend equalized time with the different siblings so we will do our very best to honor our family requests great thank you and I appreciate everyone's responses to my questions and I apologize to those members of the

public and our teachers and parents whose teachers whose questions I did not get to I received a large volume of questions and I will try to send them in to get a response so thank you great thank you very much mr. no please I have one question on it's a kind of concern too for me our limit justice with health

conditions and and where the parents would choose descent learning are going to lose their spot seen before or after program such as a funk club doctor and field well if they're not coming to school I don't would they be in the fun Club I just don't know these are just question from a parent okay after a program

a school program I guess there will be activities if if there is such activities going on on campus I guess even the distance learning students if they wish to participate I guess that is this one of our parents is concerned yeah okay but if they were taking distance learning the fun clubs happen at school yeah thanks after school so I

don't know maybe depends on the principals or you know misspells is the fun Club as before and after opened oh the fun Club will open congruently to how the school is going to open so for instance if they're in cohort a the fun club's gonna be available for them for cohort 8 and it's before and after care

it's not during school care that's important clubs run I see okay and then if they would have a father questions I could I guess they could go to the site principals yes they would have that information yeah okay Thank You mr. Carosi you have any follow-up questions yes an email stating will a school district err if it goes

laia blended miss fellows will continue I'll let her talk to but it will just continue with the programs that we currently have through our district okay yeah so fun Club is offered before and after school and it's on different campuses so if a student is going to school on a blended program for example Monday and Wednesday then the fun Club

would be offered on Monday and Wednesday before and after school so at this time the childcare is not going to be offered on the other days because again if we open as blended then the childcare will also be open as blended we're going to open congruently to the district's opening of schools and more thing in that is you know kids are

ready to play sports and marching band so hopefully want to have those opportunities that we start that as fast as possible thank you okay okay I know we're right along I have a few follow-up questions I know this is gonna take some additional resources in financing but I would request that that the board be given an update on the budget budgetary

costs of this where funds are coming from if it's not state or federal funding is it coming out of our general fund or maintenance funding or where some of those funds are gonna come and it doesn't have to be now if you could just provide that to us a later time so we have an idea worthy where the dollars

are coming from all a question to to believe it as Miss Kanye's facemask questions will specifically elementary teachers be allowed to wear a face shield - the face mask especially while they're teaching a reading and other certain topics were it's very helpful for the students to be able to read their lips or see their mouth moving does that got your face covering yes

okay thank you um dr. Pino I know we've gone over this and it's kind of a appoint I shall say opening in blended learning and campuses being open how does that if it all affect some of our outside groups and facility uses are we still going to be placing those on hold until we're at a fully functional traditional model or

will we be able to open up certain facilities again at this point the concern is as I shared before in our last budget study session its if we open up the the facilities it takes the resources and the manpower that we want to make sure is covering our classrooms again you know the question came up regarding our custodians you know when a

custodian is out sick how do we cover that and so when we use a facilities outside user and I have a custodian and the user group is using our facilities and then the custodian calls in sick and we're scrambling just to get the rooms clean we now have another facilities that needs to be cleaned again because it

does take resources to do that in the past you know it may have been where you don't worry about that and we'll capture capture it the other day but if people are gonna be in there using that facilities that are outside we want to make sure that we're going in and getting it cleaned and so at this point

that's why the recommendation has been that we hold off until we hit stage four for any outside user groups because I wanted to there are our kids our primary purpose is that education for our students and ensuring that we have the resources and the manpower dedicated just to this endeavor here okay thank you as far as our distance 2.0 learning for

those staff members that may be teaching that I have they will they be provided training before the school year on the two platforms in case they're not familiar with them yeah the III know CIS is already has all that planned on the the training to move forward so that they know how to use those those platforms okay and then there will be

I'm assuming somebody that will be a tech an IT person assigned to that that they'll be able to ask I ask questions too specifically related to the platforms yep we have people already assigned to that that can do all the training and as part of that we have our technology coaches and and our even our alimentary coaches have become like

technology coaches with the amount of stuff that they they have done in supporting our teachers and so that's also a resource getting the platform's yes last question that I have one comment looking at reopening a blended model if we do that versus a traditional model what does a blended model look like for our special education students in those classrooms are they going to be

put in multiple grade levels or are they going how is that gonna affect our special ed students well that's the piece in I'll let mrs. Fellowes jump in on this but when you look at our special ed classrooms they typically have very low numbers to begin with there are already you know they're in a standard classroom and they already have the social

distancing there and so I think we're looking at those classrooms that you wouldn't take a class of 10 kids and have to cut it in five because you already have the social distancing that if all of our classrooms were the size of you know had 10 or 12 kids in them we would be bringing everybody back to

traditional so we would already be there so those but there are some classrooms that have higher numbers in those and so we're gonna have to look at at each individual classroom and if they are at the you know at a number that meets that social distancing then it would look at bringing that whole class back but there

are some that are large and then we would look at do we need to spread do we need to split that classroom up so those are the decisions we're still looking at miss bellows is there anything I missed no you you answered all the questions and I'll just reiterate we are looking at the different types of models and how

special ed services will be provided in those models so that is still currently in progress however what doctor and field mention is correct great thank you doctor I'm just real quick I know that boys Republic and Adult Ed have started on a on distance learning will they be transitioning to a blended model on the 3rd or what is the

what is the plan for those campuses those campuses that are going to transition when we transition with the with the other schools I think on the 10th is what we're looking at that they'll transition but again those classrooms again if they if there's only three students in a room then there are they're already below that that number

so you wouldn't take let me use an even number for I wouldn't put two in the room you know if there's four people and they have that social distancing then they would just have that full class but if a class was much higher than that let's say at 25 then they would have to look at splitting that classroom up okay so

it's about the social distancing that we're looking after in those programs okay then I just need to make a follow-up comment too when I talked about counseling earlier we made mention of the fact that the district does contract with the city of Chino for a certain counseling services I just want to clarify that the city of Chino Hills

also does pay a portion of counseling or pay into that pool and so that the counseling services that are offered through the district in the city of Chino are in fact available to all of our campuses whether in Chino Chino Hills or Ontario that those services are available to all of our families and students that is correct

great thank you very much should I will go through a quick roll call and see if there are any follow-up questions mr. Cruz do you have anything additional no mr. Nam yeah I just have a one comment yeah we're going to do uncharted territories and and whether we choose blended learning and distance learning many of our staffs and teachers as well

as our parents are very eerie and and uncertain so it is at the imperative that we tell our site leadership to be mostly survey minded as long as we're not jeopardizing the safety of others in other staffs and teachers and students let's be a very kind and flexible to our appearance so that they could ensure that our district is doing our best to

serving our students and their success and also protecting their safety needs and this is how we are going to strengthen our district at this time like such like time like this and and and keep on growing so thank you for staffs for for coming through all these situations and and thoughts and then losing and that sleeps I know many of you

I've done that because this is a brand new to us we have not lived in 1980s before but once if our staff to get chances let's go look at 1918 pandemics and and how this nation had survived so thank you for all the staffs for your heart working thank you yeah I have a quick comment and one follow-up question

so unfortunately this issue has become politicized I think that's very unfortunate because I think everybody in our district office or staff or educators and I want to believe this board is making one of the weightiest decisions they're probably going to be making that impacts the health and safety of over 30,000 people directly then all the parents then the community

broadly so this is not a light decision to make and you know I I'm sad that it's become political many of the questions I've asked are brass tacks that apply to either hybrid learning or traditional learning because we're not going to go back to school exactly the way it was a year and a half ago and I really want

people to appreciate that reality that if we were to go back to traditional learning it's not going to look exactly like it did before this started but to be fair you know I have received emails phone calls prior to this meeting of parents wondering why we just don't go to traditional learning and now the survey results have been released

wondering why when the survey results you know came out a certain way why we're just not going to ditional learning I understand dr. Enfield from your explanation why we're not because we're never going to get there if we don't transition accordingly but would you mind just articulating given the survey results you know why we are not putting traditional learning I I could

have made the determination and just let the the parents who want the traditional and put that one out there and to move in that direction and I know there's other districts that are doing that but again when I looked at the data when I look at the from our County when I look at the specific data for our school district

because the county updates that every week and if you look at the Chino Valley you will see that our numbers here have risen it's one of the higher of the the school districts with kovat 19 based on that information and based on wanting to ensure that we have a smooth start to the school year and looking at the third

component of it is looking at having the reduced students in that classroom and allowing the teachers the opportunity to work and connect with smaller groups of kids because they should take that time to really talk to them because they've been a wave have dealt with a lot of social distancing and so it really gives that opportunity also to connect with

smaller groups of kids I think that that was the important piece of it understand if I was a parent I will share my personal I would want traditional I would want my kids to be back into traditional but again I have to look at that from what do I think is in the best interest of our district to move forward

in this and I look at the blended to me is the the the best way to start our school year because I also believe it's easier to start traditional and to go I'm sorry to start blended and move into the traditional rather than to start traditional and then go oh no what just happened here and so I would rather you

know that saying let's go slow before we go go fast and so that's just my thought process on it so we're essentially trying to avoid what happened in March where we were all caught off guard and sort of had to shut down automatically and there really wasn't a game plan this is basically a measure to make sure that one there's a

plan and two we're able to test out some of our theories I mean some of this stuff is theoretically it's going to work those hybrid models really allowing us to test out what works and what doesn't before we bring everybody back to campus eventually well I think that but then you know I try to do as much

reading as I can and looking at other countries in other countries that have been successful it appears that they have a smaller class size and have a bit more social distancing there's countries that have been very effective that haven't used any barriers in their classroom those those pop-up things that they've looked at but they've used smaller class size

and within adhering to some of those distancing and so again I think that's the big process in here if we're seeing an uptick in the rise of it do we want to continue with that social distancing again bringing in the the face mask and trying to look at all those different things that we try to incorporate again

the hand washing you know they say when you follow those processes that you're keeping your hands clean you're not touching your face with them that you're wiping this stuff down ensuring that the you know those desks those high contact areas are cleaned that we have a better chance of keeping that school open and so that's the the thought process in

there thank you hanging up who's gone here I would ask for consensus for public comments I don't know that's going to happen so I would make a follow on request that if that consensus doesn't happen can we please go through the comments that were submitted and answer questions there were a lot of questions submitted and we got to a lot

of them which I truly appreciate dr. Enfield your staffs time and answering those questions but I don't want to leave you know our parents and teachers without answers before they make decisions okay so are you opposing consensus yes consensus for a 30 minute extension okay we have a consensus request to hear the rest of the remainder is it the remainder of the

comments or a specific time period uh 30 minutes of comments okay mr. Cruz consensus to hear an additional 30 minutes of public comments to email sent in by the community mr. Cruz yes I couldn't hear you mr. Cruz oh yes yes mr. Nam I have another meeting to attend to so No okay so we do not have consensus to

continue I will say that the board has been sent all of the comments that were submitted within the specified time window and the board does have the opportunity to read those and respond to them as they see appropriate doctor I would like to thank you and staff or answering all of our questions for putting this presentation on I was told

that there's over 1500 viewers currently watching this on YouTube and so that shows that the community rightfully so sees this as an important topic as to how we're going to continue to educate our students with a high-quality education and how are we going to transition into the upcoming school year I can speak for myself that this is not

a decision that I take lightly I have a daughter that goes to school in this district and how we start up is going to affect not only her but our family and so it is a decision that I weigh very very heavily and it's not going to be made flip it and I just want the the community to know that although

you may not agree with the direction or the position that the district and where the board eventually takes please know that it's done in the best interest of our all of our students and we have to take all of our students into account and I think that as we move forward with whatever option I hope the community can

eventually come together and coalesce around the decision for the benefit of all of our students because that's what this is all about this is about educating the students within our community and I know that we don't take this lightly and so again dr. infield thank you seeing no further questions or comments from the board I now adjourn

the board study session a special meeting of the board of education at 7:19 p.m. thank you thank you