Special Meeting — February 23, 2021

okay good afternoon everyone it is four o'clock i now call to order the special meeting of the board of education tuesday february 23rd 2021 at 4 pm this open meeting will be live streamed on the youtube channel for channel development by the school district and will be recorded conduct a world called mr bridge president mr cruz yes

this is here i'm president for the pledge of allegiance one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all from the audience on the agenda items we are now comments on items on the agenda there's another public advisory posted in the agenda staff will now read and direct the names and comments of emails received during the specified window

and in accordance with boardvile at 9323 meeting conduct the comments will be read in the order the email was received but an unusual amount of in-house comments were submitted for any ai reportedly after 30 minutes of comments had to receive any emails 14 emails dear dr enfield and board members i have been a second grade teacher for six

years in cbusd i love teaching and i love my students that being said i am excited to be returning to the classroom with my students i am also deeply concerned about being adequately prepared given the short timeline you proposed last week it is unreasonable to expect teachers and school staff to shift learning models with left with less than two weeks notice we will

still be working full time which leaves us with little time to prepare for our students please give us adequate time to reopen our classrooms appropriately thank you laura martin board members last july i wrote to you explaining why it is so important to open the schools for in-class learning we have now been in distance learning for nearly one year

i am now even more convinced that we need to get back to school for children's academic and social emotional well-being there is not a day that goes by when i am teaching my students and i don't think they should they would understand this so much better if we were in class in class learning should not be a

privilege for those parents who can afford private school or gain a spot at a charter school it should be a right for all children i hope and pray that you make the right decision in your vote today and open schools for in-class learning respectfully arlene lamb good afternoon superintendent enfield school board president shaffer and school board members

first and foremost i would like to thank the school board for all of the your time and effort that you that each of you have put in to this last year to keep our school district functioning and continuing to provide education to our children during these unprecedented times today you will have the important task of voting on whether or not

our schools will begin to reopen for in-person learning i believe that all of you or at least most of you have done your due diligence in reviewing and listening to the facts and science to come up with a plan that will safely reopen the classrooms to our children teachers and staff at each school site some people may agree and some may

disagree but if we elected each of you to be our voice on the board and we trust that you that all of you will make a decision for the greater good as for mr cruz's use of the word atrocity during a previous meeting i feel that is an atrocity that mr cruz feels that the school district has

failed every child because they disagree with his rush to reopen schools all we hear are the bad but there have been some good it is an atrocity when mr cruz cannot provide resources for his unfounded comments and studies regarding covet 19 and to incite unnecessary fear it is an atrocity when mr cruz ridicules the cdc by demonstrating the use of five

masks and dumping out his bags of vitamins does he not realize that not all families have the ability to obtain or afford these things it is an atrocity when i hear mr cruz pronounce words incorrectly when he is obviously reading from his notes we need to leave this atrocity out of the school board meetings and concentrate on reopening

and building better schools thank you for your time margaret s hello dr anfield and board members i am a teacher and a parent in cvusd i am thrilled to be going back to personal instruction however this week i will be completing report cards giving essential standards assessments to my class conducting one-on-one speaking for the elpac test and teaching

full-time i urge you please give teachers more time we do not have school supplies or ppe in place to safely bring back students i have already ordered materials i know will not arrive in time and went into school this weekend to set up desks and plexiglas dividers teachers are excited to return we miss our students and honestly

we know in person instruction is best please consider what you're asking of us as mentioned we have so much on our plates that rushing to reopening is not in the best interest of anyone involved any teacher and administrator will tell you this is what we have been waiting and hoping for we just need more time to do

it safely thank you for your consideration a concerned teacher and parent joanna luna thanks for supporting school opening and giving parents choices you promised back in june july 2020 we also support the parents and teachers that choose distance learning to be able to stay in distance learning please vote to open all grades tk through 12 in full time in person you

have the authority to vote to open fully it is this time to open for our kids mental health and future thankfully it seemed seems we will be getting sports back shortly but you really need to think about graduation and prom even if modified for seniors it's time to take a stand and do what is right for kids mental health and not

just worry about unrealistic california guidelines potential monies lost realistically who is going to pull funds from a school doing the right thing with parents students san bernardino health department and union support we are very happy to hear that both act and csea is in full support of opening encouraged to hear enfield say they want to go to full time as soon as

possible but for teachers and students sanity and consistency of learning we need full-time school day cdc guidelines have more realistic numbers for junior high and high school that you should really address with san bernardino health department 49 per 100k is a realistic number to say so please support all grades and to resume full-time asap kevin bush good afternoon

as an educator and parent of two cbusd students i was surprised to hear what was said during last thursday's school board meeting cbusd elementary schools are not ready to open in two weeks are parents even aware that students will not be going to campus every day that they will be working independently two days a week at home

teachers need more time to open school safely partitions have not been installed on students desks at some schools and teachers will have to do this themselves teachers need time to possibly get vaccinated make copies and plan for this new way of teaching it seems as if this decision is being rushed without having teachers safety in mind last i checked we were still in the

pandemic that has killed over 500 000 lives yes the numbers are getting slightly better but cbusd has schools in chino and ontario that should be taken into consideration since their numbers are much higher than chino hill schools there are also variants to the virus that have potential to put the district back where it was where we started if the reopening is

rushed i understand schools must reopen but the least we can do is provide our teachers who are still currently working more time to plan for a safe reopening please consider pushing back the in-person reopening date by a few weeks so teachers can properly plan like the professionals they are thank you for your time carlos a sanchez district board members i thank you for

taking the time to read this email i am a fourth grade teacher at chino valley unified school district i am asking that you please consider pushing back the in-person reopening date the current proposed dates for march 3rd for tk through second grade and march 8th for third through sixth grade is extremely rushed we have been closed for in-person

instruction for almost a year and we teachers need more time to prepare our classrooms to teach in these conditions due to our current pandemic as we move forward to set up our classrooms to receive our students for their first day back at school we are also simultaneously teaching through distance learning which requires us to plan lessons create documents upload assignments

answer parent emails and re remind messages we are currently completing second semester grades administering elpac testing as well as administering the essential standards assessments for third semester as you can see we need more time to set up our classrooms to allow for a safe return in addition we must plan for instructing two cohorts for synchronous and asynchronous instruction

for hybrid learning we would have to make class sets of copies and meet our parents virtually to prepare them for the new procedures involved with the hybrid model of in-person instruction today february 22nd being a school holiday i went to my classroom to begin preparing for the teach for the return of students and i am not nearly ready and would appreciate more

time i also was not the only teacher working voluntarily on a holiday please have empathy for educators and give us a few more weeks to transition our students back into the classroom responsibly i know we all want schools to reopen but russia to do so will prevent a smooth and safe transition back into the classroom for in-person instruction thank you for

your consideration thank you for your time and consideration mrs m sanchez all board members i am writing this email as a concerned parent of two children attending country springs elementary school i think that is extremely unfair that the term blended learning was used so loosely i have recently learned that the blended learning model is not blended at all

as parents we would be trading five days of teacher-led instructional time for only two days of in-person teacher-led instructional time when i was a parent when i as a parent initially decided that blending learning would be the best for my children it was under the pretense that they would be receiving both in-person and online ellie led instruction

from the teacher not only the two days of teacher led instruction with them left to their own demise for the remainder of the week i think that leaving children with no one to teach them or at least answer questions for them on the other days of the week is doing a huge disservice to them and setting them up for failure on top

of that when we have voiced these concerns to our local school contacts we were told that we cannot change to allow our children to remain learning full-time with the teacher online but instead our only option would be to homeschool our children with less than two months left in the school year it is absurd to be advised to upgrade our children

or deal with our children being reduced to only two days of teacher-led instruction time as a concerned parent i request that you allow the kids to finish up the school year online with teacher teacher teaching and five days a week as it should be or allowed us to switch into one of the distance learning classes as parents we should be able to

make our decisions with all the facts not led to believe that something will happen and when it doesn't we're forced to deal with it thank you stephanie dear board we cannot stay silent any longer someone must speak on rb on behalf of teachers i truly hope my letter is read and taken into consideration first of all we are ecstatic to be

returning to in-person learning we have been waiting for this day for a very long time at the same time asking us to prepare was such short notice is incredibly inconsiderate this entire pandemic everything you've asked us we've met and exceeded your standards and you repay us by forcing us to return so quickly if this march third date sticks i would

like to know who from the district will be coming to help teachers to be ready in time teachers are on zoom during school hours monday through friday and in our spare time we are working on report cards or ess and now we must figure out how to ensure our classrooms are ready for a safe return many assume when we are speaking

about preparing our classrooms we're referring to decorating or hanging bulletin boards when in fact this is the least of our concerns we are referring to aligning desks six feet apart setting up plexiglass at each desk supplying each student with individual individual materials and labeling everything to ensure that they do not share supplies marking our floors inside classrooms so

students are safely apart at all times the list goes on but this email has a time constraint you're putting us in a predicament in which we cannot ensure a safe return i hope the public is aware of this no we have not had an entire year to prepare with this when just today students change from blended to distance and vice versa

how can we prepare for students when our rosters are continuously changing and new protocols are coming out so frequently we beg you to give us just a little bit longer to ensure safe return for us and for our students thank you yolanda alvin dress dear board i am sending you this email both as a cvusd parent and a teacher

first off thank you for working so hard to ensure that teachers feel safe as we return to school offering free koba testing and vaccines has brought me excitement about school reopening although i am aware that we all are we all still need to continue to be safe and take many precautions to ensure the safety of students and staff

as you vote today on reopening schools please consider how this blended model will look and how it may affect students and speaking with many parents there are still many misconceptions about what this will look like for one parents don't understand that the previously presented model included two days on campus and three days asynchronous work now that we have been

doing distance learning for a while i can tell you that most students struggle significantly with asynchronous work i'm going to go i'm going to go from seeing my students five days a week and providing them with the best education i can to now seeing them two days a week and hoping that they are okay for those three days i am concerned about the

students that will need me more than two days i have sent an email a while back asking the board to consider a half-day model for k-6 we see our students every day for half the day cohort a in the morning and cohort b after lunch this will allow students to connect with their teachers every single day and it will make it

easier for students not to have to wear a mask all day a sample schedule could be as follows court cohort a 8 15 to 10 45 cleaning break teacher lunch 10 45 12 15 cohort b 12 15 2 45 this allows an hour and a half for wiping down desks doors etc as teacher and etc from teacher and to take a lunch

break students won't be sitting in desks that another student sits anyway so the time in between shouldn't be much of a concern i have previously been told that the reason why a schedule like this wouldn't work is because it would interfere with with busing schedule i would like clarification on that as a parent i haven't received a survey

asking me if i would rather have my child go to school every day or bus availability can someone please address if that's true that scheduling buses is more important than student learning if that is not true why can't we make this work dear superintendent enfield and distinguished board members reopening should only happen when all teachers and contracted substitutes

within our district are are vaccinated with their second dose of cobit vaccine since their children are required to be vaccinated with over a dozen different vaccines to attend public school it is only right that we ask our teachers to be vaccinated with the covenant vaccine in order to teach our public schools we need to make this mandatory

and or incentivize all teachers to get the covered vaccines if this cannot be accomplished it is only ethically and morally right for the teachers who opted out of the vaccination process to remain in the inline model until the end of the school year this will provide the district an opportunity to work with these teachers during the next five months before fall

starts to get vaccinated we need full disclosure for me regarding the vaccination of our teachers parents especially the blended model should have in writing if their child's teacher has been vaccinated or not parents should be given another opportunity to change their choice model if their teacher is not vaccinated with the second dose by the time school is planned for

reopening or if the majority of parents in these particular classes choose to remain online then the non-vaccinated teacher and their class should remain online recent science data shows that children have a higher propensity 50 to 70 to be infected with the uk variant according to the cdc this variant might become the dominant strain in the us by march

so is march to the right time to reopen when it is forecasted that we may have another potential peak with a much stronger strong variant that attack our children the current online model model has been streamlined by our teachers students have adjusted to their daily routines the third semester has started do not disrupt this for three months of half in person

schooling and only a small population of our teachers vaccinated with the first dose opening in the fall is the best choice which as a large majority if not all of our teachers and families will be vaccinated with the potential for our children 12 to 16 to be vaccinated as well concerned parents need you to vote no on

the reopening starting march 3rd open in the fall instead thank you sincerely cbusd parent good afternoon thank you for taking the time to read my email i am a teacher in this district with a child attending cbusd i do not feel safe using my name for fear of stigma for my workplace colleagues and parents i have a few things i implore you to

reconsider before your decision today i am aware many parents are upset may think that teachers are being lazy and that we want to lay on our bottoms all day i too want to return my child to return when things are done correctly as leaders we need to listen to all sides and make the best decision based on facts

and data not on protests the parents and teachers parents do vote for you but these are children's lives at stake first could you wait to open schools until after report cards are completed and award ceremonies are done this week is crunch time and it is not possible to prepare to teach report create report cards and prepare classrooms in less

than one to two weeks without going after school hours on the weekend we also need grace not just students second parents who hear this you are you sure your school will be clean we'll be cleaning your rooms we are given a sticky spray to clean it makes things worse and dust is attracted to it i wonder what else

well sometimes our carpets have different stains and bodily fluids do you think they are cleaned properly will someone be cleaning the equipment probably not how will teachers clean all that and keep an eye on everyone and have some kind of kind of a bathroom break lastly all we ask is for one day of prep time to really see how it will work

and the logistics parents and students are getting time to adjust so we should as well thank you for your time and i love what i do even under these times when we hear that we are lazy entitled and whiny we know the truth and we will speak out or we are also complicit best mrs concerned i am the parent of a kindergartner at

eagle canyon we are when we enrolled our daughter at eagle canyon we intended to enroll her for distance learning but somehow she was enrolled in blended learning in air we did not know this until much later i called the school district office today and was told this happened to many students i understand there have been a few

opportunities to switch to distance learning but we were not aware of them at the time the option was available and so when we discovered she was in a blended program and tried to have her switch to distance learning program we were told we had already missed the deadline it is the responsibility of the school board to do everything possible to protect the

well-being of children while children are thankfully much less likely to suffer the effects of covet they can and do catch it and spread it to others the well-being of the the well-being of the children is not being protected if they catch covet and give it to their parents grandparents or others who are responsible for their care when they are not in class we hope that

the school board does not decide to reopen the school before the end of the school year senate since this is it is likely the summary for covet immunizations will be available to most people the risk of spreading covet to their families and to the teachers and their families is too great if the school board does decide to reopen in person learning

there needs to be another opportunity for parents to move their children to distance learning until the end of the school year the school board needs to allow families to reevaluate whether they are comfortable with the risk of sending their children back to in-person learning i am very disappointed that the school board is not allowing parents to fully

voice their concerns at the zoom meeting and will only allow some emails to be read the reason the school board is having meetings over soon is because of the danger of covet the same reason that schools should remain closed for in-person learning at this time you should not be voting to expose children to risk to risk you are not willing to take for

yourselves thank you keith stroud dear chino valley unified school district board members and staff with regard to schools reopening i understand a decision will be made tonight about kids going back to in-person instruction which i respect however i want to make sure parents do not neglect the responsibilities as well parents you are still responsible for your kids

it is not dr enfield the board of education or cvusd teachers to oversee this responsibility it is yours and only your yours by law just because schools have in local parents you can act on your child's best interest at school does not mean the school district can replace your rights as a parent the school district responsibility is to

educate and make sure our kids are safe it is not to play sports or treat mental illnesses medically if your child wants to play sports do it on your own time as playing sports is a privilege and not a right if your child has a mental illness take them to your child's medical doctor for expert medical advice

somehow the narrative has changed recently and we need to assume responsibility back as parents the school district is working hard to make sure everyone returns back to school safe and that should be our number one concern the safety of everyone the question we should all be asking ourselves is how do we return back to school safe and how do we make sure

students are still learning thank you william burns and that completes the email comments [Music] okay after hearing the email comments and thank you to everyone who took the time to send in the comments before this evening tonight's special meetings only action item uh as i read these out the motions that are going to be put forward as the original emotions are

slightly different than those that are in the agenda um after consultation with dr midfield the cabinet was necessary to change some of the dates not not the overall context of the motion but just the dates and some specific information for administrative reasons so the motions i will be reading out will be the updated emotions that board would consider

those actions or those items can be admitted or discussed once they're read out so starting with 2a1 in-person school reopening item a approve the in-person school plan for grades ketk 2 effective march 4th 2021 and grades 3 through six effective march 8th 2021. do i have a motion motioned by mr non second by mr cruz the light system is working if you'd like to

make who also happens to be a teacher and as she said the same thing as the emails that we have received from many of our teachers uh and and especially those with health concerns they like to see some flexibilities as to the dates um they could occupy the classroom and actually teach students and and many of those

reasons are i think real so i think we need to be mindful of that a matter of fact i had to hurt one of the principal was helping out this one teacher uh so that she could get her pelvic in order um and that was good and and there was concern with the vaccination uh availability uh the dates were

changed and been cancelled so they were waiting and being hopeful that they'll be done by the opening of the school day so i think you'll be mindful of that and also this lady talked about having able to change the options because the window period has been closed they were thinking many of the parents were thinking um that this copy would go on for

a longer period of time and it is a substantial when um the number 150 uh infection uh number had been dropped to 150 in days and then 75 and now it's below 25. so they do have a major concern of trusting those numbers and all that so if we're able um i think we need to work really hard

to allow parents to change the options from this business learning to blend it and blend it to distance learning if it is possible that will be my comment would you like to respond to them well if you if the board wants to do that then these states would not uh would not work it takes several weeks to do the surveys to the parent to

gather that data and then once we gather that data then we have to go through school like school and make all of those changes so that is possible to do it just means that if it is impossible to start on march 4th on that march 4th date i could not give you an exact date tonight but i will

guesstimate it would probably take three three weeks three to four weeks probably to do that work makes it possible for um those concerned parents to reach out to you and you could hear them and see i could listen but i will not make any changes mr dog because if we're going to make changes and i believe this board

needs to allow every parent to have changes and not just a certain parents to do that so if the board wants to do that again you have that that authority to do that and direct me in that direction but i will not individually make placements but then it will protect the dates so far yes we could not do we could not

have that put in place by march sport that's a very short timeline to be able to do that that's what was given at the last board meeting so i worked with staff to see if we could make that happen again it was a march 3rd we asked to adjust that to march 4th into to march 8th but again

the board can make any motion or change that and we will do with whatever you guys ask us to do but going back to the second concern about the the teachers not being able to teach because of their real health concerns uh can we do we have some flexibility plan to make that transition smoother well if it's a health concern hr worked

with all of our teachers at the very beginning back in the summer let me remind the board we surveyed our parents and got the data from them of who wanted to be in distance learning and blended learning we went over what the program blended program looked like we went over that the students would come here they would be broken into uh cohorts in

group a and group b cohorts in group a would come on monday group b would come on tuesday if their minimum day was win stated that the students would receive distance learning on that minimum day and then on thursday cohort a would come and then on friday cohort b would come so we went over that gave the community

the ability to select into those programs once we had the numbers of the students that we worked with our staff for every employee that put in that they had a medical uh concern about teaching in person and if they had family members so hr worked extensively and we were able to offer i think almost every single uh teacher there may have

been two or three that we were not able to do at the secondary level but everybody back in the summer had identified whether the teachers would be in the blended or into the distance programs and replace them and created our programs that way again if we were to go back and have to make those changes then we would have to change uh students

from their current teachers and have to make that shuffle again and again that's going to take us you know three weeks or it could be a little bit shorter depending on the number of teachers but that would require us to change classrooms so teach our students would have to change teachers during that whole process so it's not as simple as just move

somebody over into a program there's kids that are tied to them that maybe that are in the distance learning because remember we set our program up so that when we know so that we could pivot and that's why we're able to pivot so quickly to the march 4th that our distance learning students who are in the distance learning program

are going to remain in distance learning and they're with their teachers for the remainder of the year we're just talking right now about our religious blended learning students and so the students in there are going to pivot with their teacher to this program there's no change in the teacher so there's no having to move kids around with this teacher this

teacher they're with their teacher they just pivot back and forth into the distance or into the blended learning kind of what we've done with our special ed students uh when we brought them back in october there have been times where we had to close the class and move them back into distance learning and we're able to pivot because that's their teacher

so there's a lot of movement in order to make changes okay the last question would be you must mention during the email that some of the classrooms are not ready and it takes lots of time to have it prepared for to conduct an education um is there a district's ability to help those teachers that present yeah absolutely that's what the

administration will be working with we they've had all the supplies everything is there they're just getting it all put out um it's kind of like when we set up we you know we set up with our special ed cohorts when we got did that we put everything out and started to roll all of that out there's staff at

the school sites to help um there is staff at the district office that we could uh send out if they need help putting anything up but we will ensure that everything's open and ready to go we'll make sure that that happens okay and if uh staff needs help they need to just go first off to their principal

and then let them know what it is that they need and then we will work with them if the site needs additional support will work and get the manpower to help support them to get everything uh and ready to go yeah i just like to make sure that our teachers and uh csa our staff members and secretaries

everybody kills us and as one person mentioned that our parents need to be all respectful to to our teachers and staffs when the schools do open thank you okay yeah so thank you mr shafer um so i wanted to share some numbers because i think it's important um and i think some dates and things that have happened um

i i have heard uh and i appreciate bringing his comments i received the email phone calls which is communication has been sort of the focus um not necessarily reopening or not so back in the summer we adopted a opening model um mr bridges bought a member of the sport at the time that this board adopted a reopening model and that has been the

model that's been on the books in play in motion since last year literally the day after i believe newsom came out with his sidelines and so that just sort of upended everything otherwise we would have sold her forward with the plan since then there's been a multiple series of guidelines programs i know it's very hard to keep

up with because things will change every couple of months but our case rates are positivity rates over the summer we're about where we are now if not higher when we were adopting our initial model and as of today i just wanted to share these numbers because i feel like i'm glued to the county website with the code numbers

our case rate is 14.27 and just as a contrast you know i've been tracking this every single week um you know back in december 28 2020 our takes rate was around 132. this has dropped dramatically and i don't think that anybody anticipated this was going to happen i don't think public health official sucks is going to happen subserviently

um our district case rate is actually 17.8 so somebody in one of their comments mention parity and equity in terms of making sure that we are making a decision that is fair to all of our students whether they're by chino or china hills or ontario um so we are headed towards numbers quite quickly that are going to put us either

where we were at last summer if not lower and you know even today when i checked the website the positivity rate is actually in the red tier so while our case rates are still in the purple tier our positivity rate has gone to the red tier so i was sure all of that just to say that you know

we took a vote several months ago regarding a waiver under an old program and that vote did not merit us reopening our k-6 campuses i took that vote because the trend lines were going like this and unfortunately i think we lose this perspective there were a lot of people who became very sick a lot of loved ones were lost

and a lot of hardship was experienced from when we took that boat back in october to where we're sitting today alternatively today this trend line is going like this and i appreciate the fact that the district has jumped very quickly to provide testing to provide vaccines i do want to clarify something that was mentioned from the guys a few moments

ago the vaccine clinics being cancelled was not school district many of you are aware texas and other places across this country have storms and so this is not something that was willfully done across the country over the weekend there were a lot of difficulties with vaccines due to that storm and other storms so the district is trying to move as

quickly as possible um you know with these case rates as they have tumbled um you know there's also been a conversation with guys about issue with dates my intention last week was to get the ball rolling i have tried to follow the science all the data try to listen to both sides this is not a binary issue

it just isn't so i know that we have sort of shades of opinions about how we should do this what the timeline should be we have some people who would have reopened in december at the height of this with other people who might not want to go back to next year and all of those positions are fair people have their own reasons

for arriving at those but i think that i kind of bring this back after providing the case rate context to we're either going to go with these dates or not go with these dates so i don't know if somebody has a proposal uh for alternate dates uh but you know i just want to kind of bring that back to

this particular active item thank you dr could you just briefly again touch on why the five day or four day a week am pm model yeah we looked at uh probably at least eight different models going back into the starting back in march april uh and looking for the school year the the issue with the amp is when we have all the students back

we're unable to transport our elementary students it would require us probably having to purchase approximately about 15 buses um and have to have those buses to be able to bus our elementary amt and get them to our junior high and our high school students when they come back and and while i'm on that i was on the

call with the county health today and the county health department indicated that our numbers are dropping they see them trending they believe uh again they they they can't come out and say this but they said looking at the trend line that folks at the beginning of march that will probably get into the red tier and once we get to the red

tier then we're able to bring back the secondary students so with that you're looking at you leaving those buses to be able to transport our students at the junior high and the high schools to our school sites and not only if and if we were able to buy 550 bucks if we get them here the other part that we have is there's a

shortage of bus drivers to even find them to be on those buses now some districts are able to do that it's just the way their transportation works out if ours worked out that way and we were able to do it that was something we definitely would have looked at and put that into play okay thank you so just to clear up a

comment in one of the emails we're not putting transportation concerns out of our students educational needs the transportation is a statutorily required service that we provide to students that need yes absolutely now are there any board members that want to make comments i don't see your lights go ahead mr bridge mr cruz will be next uh thank you uh i believe a couple of my

questions are already uh were already answered but i wanted to clarify uh uh dr angela i believe you said that the uh that the materials the ppe uh all of that have been distributed out of the sites that currently being set up now pending you know some approval of this vote or is that waiting to just start

if we approve this we we got it out it was out about a week or two ago actually a lot of it was it has been at the school sites and actually probably in a custodian closet put in some place we just had to remind staff to pull all the equipment out and start to set that all

up and so i think if the schools they realize that they need to get it out and start setting it up there you know there's conversations about the the death stars that go on there you know to put those on the desk and the students don't look back you have to move those desks and it makes it very

difficult so the decision was to wait off until we actually knew that the kids were coming to put those off the other stuff is there the the sanitation all the uh hand washing stations the air filters that we have for all the classrooms all the all the equipment is there it's just putting it in and getting it up and ready to go okay thank

you and this is where the uh the former teacher me comes comes out uh because i to to me this is like the beginning of the start of school i mean we've been doing virtual but i mean the students coming on campus for the first time this year this is like this is like the end you know where we'd

be starting in august and i'm concerned about about teachers and staff having enough time to get the get the rooms ready before the students come in and so i hope that we were able to work something out with our employee groups whether that's uh whether that's work days or whatever because i can't see teachers and staff working with students virtually and then

also going into their setting up their classrooms and that you know might as well make it you know 12-hour day so that's that's one thing because i know beginning school from experience and having been having my wife being a former elementary junior high teacher how long it took just to set up her classroom to be in it because

at the beginning of the year besides mommy and weekends were just a non-entity right before school started so that's that's a concern i just wanted to share and hopefully we would get that worked out also i i had the chance brian to go over and see the vaccination center over channel i and i was very impressed with that

where are we in that uh dr enfield with with vaccines i heard that that some appointments had to be cancelled because of the weather delivery um have those been rescheduled that we do we think that most of our staff that wants the vaccine is going to be able to get it by a certain date so what's your

estimate there yeah so let me let me just go back on the one your one concern that you have we're working uh with the association to be able to provide some minimum days building if these are the date support of boats on to approve we're looking at adding some minimum days for the the teachers to help them in the

second half of the day to be able to free them up and that won't affect our minutes no it will not will not affect that and so dr parker taking the lead and it's working on setting that schedule up that's why we went with march 4th and they're trying to get a little bit more time to help them set up

because we know that there is some set up especially for the um the tk through second and then the the third and through uh sixth grade would have actually had a little bit more time um with that but we're we're working on that so there will be some some time that we can get there it's kind of a follow-up to that before you

get to the vaccine question because i just thought i saw another one have have site administrators uh mapped out plans for each room as to how we're going to space it because we have to socially distance the desk so to speak yeah they should have already have that as part of our reopening plans we've done uh several we used to do um our uh

our walkthroughs where we would walk classrooms and look at the curriculum but we use those this year our learning rounds to walk in new covenant rounds which we call them cobra grounds and we took groups of administrators to different school sites walking up what do you see what should build here so that they have that plan in place and so we've done that

strategically for a reason so that they know what we're looking for and what the guidelines actually are it's better to do that uh just to tell people here's what the guidelines are but to actually go out to school side pocket and discuss what that really means in the guidelines so they're very well aware good thank you everyone parents in the

community to hear that yeah we spent a lot of time preparing uh for that uh and i know i think uh mr hernandez was was was involved in in those learning routes along with brenda walker when we did that so thank you now the vaccine i'm sorry not a problem so yes you are correct what happened is the

um we were able the county provided us vaccines for our employees which was the vice or vaccine the uh dr lala and dr kim's those were the majorities in those days and snow storms in texas that that has been delayed those have actually come in so uh and the county is actually giving us more advisor vaccines so we are giving

tomorrow i think 125 of the pfizer vaccine that we're starting uh we're doing another clinic our district clinic uh along with that dr lolly's office has i know 100 doses that we will be giving out and then on saturday we have the 300 they've already arrived so they are here so we physically know that they are actually here so those those

vaccines are here and ready to go so that was the good news in a lot of a number of the people we were able to move from that saturday to last friday we were able to move some of the individuals to that but i think we're going to get most of them covered uh to tomorrow thursday and down on

saturday i think saturday we were hoping some people still wanted to stay on saturday um some of our teaching staff wanted to say on a saturday they had i think the opportunity to come in during the week but they didn't want to miss their instruction and so they chose to go on saturday but had they all moved into these slots

we could have had everybody and basically we would have just substitutes and coaches on saturday but we will have a window of that so we were able to offer it uh we're getting to our substitute in our walk-on coach thank you you know it's been a year already so let's start up very simple as that you know we see schools in orange county

you know one elementary district that has three options one option is full-time one is blended one's distance learning so you know the key is options that we have given we have to maintain the excellence in our education and the excellence in sports and the excellence of everything that we've done in this community and it's you know we we have to maintain that you

know when it comes to the survival rate we know it's 99.97 for kids under the age of 19 20 and 49.98 the survival rate is excellent so when you really think about the safety the safety for our children and the safety for for staff you know what i called up to see if parents could be part of the

class to check on the children and they stated that no way that can't help and my concern my big concern is the mask a five-year-old kid wearing a mask and this is the part where we got to be very sensitive and that is the fear has set in and has damaged quite quite a few people where they may never

recover from this and just the idea that we may have an issue with staff and child the child's having an issue with the mask and you could imagine a five-year-old wearing a mask for six hours these are the issues that bring up anxiety emotional issues so you know personally it is so critical and so critical that when it comes to staff that they are

ready and prepared in transitioning to blending so what i want is so essential that school sites it's their own culture their own community i want the principal and staff to decide how they want to work this out and when it comes to the teachers when it comes to the teachers that have been doing distance and then coming into

monday there may be a lot of preparation preparation to set up the classroom there need time and we should give them an amplitude of time for them to be successful that they're coming in when they're ready because it's important because our children are there they're trying to be doing things that are very comfortable there's going to be

teachers that are going to be great but they're going to be teachers that are going to not tolerate if the mass is under the nose so there's certain things that we have to follow and that is so essential to make the teachers the center point and let them determine how they want to set to setting the dates i don't think that's a

good idea allow them to work at the site and let them figure out how this should be worked out so options you know i what i really desire is that we go full time just like orange county those schools are competitive those groups are more competitive than us so we're going to be just as competitive as now and like i said the survival rate

is excellent there's no issue with that it is time to move on and once we start going things will get a lot better thank you this is gunny thank you um so first and foremost uh we're having to make trade-offs and that's just a reality and i hope that we can all acknowledge that and be empathetic uh

over the next couple months that there are trade-offs being made and there are things that we are going to have to do and goals and guidelines and distancing um to ensure that we're being as safe as possible while also allowing for real pain so you know i really am loved to use the dimmer analogy because we've heard it

way too much but that's the reality like this is not a light switch we can't just send everybody back no masks no rules no guidelines there's a variety of reasons for this um some of them being law some of them being science some of them being common sense um so i think that everyone just needs to acknowledge that there's going to be

transition and try to have some empathy and sympathy in this transition process um i do have some questions though that i had sent to me by both educators as well as parents so i didn't want to ask these questions my first question is in regards to masks which is are they required more specifically are they required for the subset of students

tk per second yes the governor came back and added that that they are required for every student now on campus is that part of new some state schools for all plan yes um there's another question in regards to technology um you know we have had the ability to provide devices to our students during this time we'll may be transporting them to

and from campus the district's recommendation is that the students leave those at home but as an individual teacher there may be times where i want the kids to bring them in so they could you know ask them to bring and it does not it looks like there will be state testing and so they will need to come in when we

do our state testing to be able to administer that and finally just the point that i made a few moments ago um if we want to vent the dates here if there is a poll over that we need a proposal to do that otherwise we would be voting on the item mr knop yes okay andrew do we have an option to open

up schools in a full-time basis today no we do not uh have that ability based on the guidelines and the distancing guidelines we cannot few school sites out there really are almost competing uh remodeler's eyes mission process and the campus looked really awesome and and you guys said really good that you and your staff put so much work into it um

the people were happy the teachers were happy and the admin teams were happy so thank you regret for your hard work and as we get more modernized i think the schools the classrooms will become safer too i saw the new desk the antivirus they're awesome thank you and uh this one and i'd like to also thank those

students who's out there in the parking lot with the sign these openers for yes i said but one question i asked are you getting sick of your computers you say yes so they were very enthusiastic and very delightful so thank you safety for our kids is protected for our kids and it's a long way when it comes to the

teachers because they deserve the confidence that they need relaxation because i bet you a lot of them have anxiety that's coming there so let them decide with their principle [Music] that good numbers doctor what was her response to yeah mr cruz she may have given me that information which could be correct and depending on the number of students

so if you look at our special education cohorts they are back full time because of the number of students in that classroom they need the guidelines to be able to do the distancing guidelines um and that's that's why they're back full time but if you take 36 students from our at the elementary there's classes that we cannot meet those guidelines

of the distance and so so again that may be the reason that she gave you that answer so for us again the guidelines has a six feet or a four feet with death shields on them and so we're gonna go and continue to look at those guidelines and look at our our classrooms to see if there's things

that we can do to be able to transition to that because that is the goal once we have our kids back we want to get them here every day five days a week mr bridge dr phil just to clarify um for this start on march 4th and i heard you say minimum minimum days are we looking at at the

beginning of that week um the first second and third is minimum days for for preparation just one day or what's looking at all three days all three years yes thank you this has gone here yes i also emailed heather cockrell who is the pio or the county department of public health i had seen emails weeks ago that were being circulated in the

community with information that indicated that public health wouldn't do their job and close businesses or schools now if they were violating there was a litany of other things that you know what i double checked with her because i somebody gives me information i'll go ahead and check with what is presumably the source she made very clear in communication to

me that we cannot open our secondary schools until we are at the seven for a hundred thousand which is the red tier she also made very clear that we had to adhere to state guidelines in terms of you know how things have to be appropriately done on campuses and i think some of the confusion out of this as well is coming from the

fact that and i've received many emails regarding this clearly we have public and private schools area um having you know attended to private school when i was younger their class sizes are much smaller um and many of the schools that look back they have teachers on social media they like six or seven kids in the classroom so that's a lot different of a

proposition for various learning models potential events in public school where we have nearly 30 000 people we have to think about when we are making these decisions so i did just want to clarify that that you know i i think everyone wants kids back in school in the greatest capacity that they speak i know that is my genuine desire um

unfortunately we are still having to balance things that are still unknown and case rates at certain levels um and doctor endpoint has shared that county public health is very you know positive frame of mind about cases dropping even more so so hopefully we have more options but i think that you know my aim in wanting to discuss this is that we

start down that road mr cruz march 4th march 8th we're going to stick with that eight that's the uh board's decision i was at the last set of last board meeting i was given the date to bring forward march 3rd so that's why that date's been brought forward um and i worked with my staff and we can

make that big happen if that is what the board wants if the board wants to change the date and make it another date will you change the date i just can't make it sooner i can always make it later i just can't make it sooner than those dates i know the board wants to specify but you know

established i mean you don't play i mean there was a teacher and knowing that that you have distance teaches them pursue the options of this and starting so their their routine is still maintained now those that accepted monday there to transition now and they have to start organizing their thoughts they have to do all this stuff in their minds

and that's what causes anxiety let's face it i rather not have the dates but i just want that i just want sites to communicate with each other because that will be very healthy for our kids that's what i'm focusing on is the children's safety of the kids because the teachers are happy that would mean great so that's that's what i'm trying to say

so i want to raise the tone to you mr cruz would you like to make a substitute motion we will enter in on the floor yeah i'll actually make a motion a proven person still reopening but without the needs let the school site decide to know okay so mr cruz has put a substitute motion on the floor that he would like

to approve the scoring and i'm assuming tk36 only without dates and let sites determine that is there a second i'll second just to allow discussion so for me it makes sense to focus on that aspect okay comments your questions on the substitute motion i see mrs garnier we're a board that runs an entire school district it's unreasonable to put the decision

on every single site administration team to decide how they're going to do this and what states it also creates an administrative nightmare it creates a nightmare for we have some parents who actually have students at several different campuses due to various uh personal situations um we need to be consistent we're being asked to make a decision um so we need to decide on some things

if what was proposed here is not available then let's come up with some dates but we do need to set some dates i think that that's the expectation of everybody who's a stakeholder is that we would today leave here either saying yay or nay on this or set some dates and say yeah so let's let's do that

i'm gonna interject some comments real quick at this point i think it's unrealistic to have the second administrators determine when they're going to bring their students back because the biggest thing it creates issues with all the school services nutritional services transportation services they're not going to have a set schedule it also could bring them to question the parity

and instructional minutes for the individual students different sites we need to make sure that all the students are getting the required minutes the same type of the same number of instructional things um mr knight i could hear um and um emotionally i do agree that we need to be flexible um but i don't know if we are able to

prep schools that upset dates dr enfield my recommendation is that you have a date uh so everybody knows what that target date is if there is not and left it up to school site one school what happens if they open uh on the on the fourth and another opens on uh may 1st nice you're going to leave a there's a lot

going on in there and it's a unifying school district i think there needs to be a date set by the board of when we would come back if you want to bring the students back so you would set up this date as a march 4th and and you said it is but on my lesson in mind for that we

need to be flexible to other staff members that who has what is leadership people that are here right now trying to do their very best for children you know like i said all i want to say for children and they cannot meet that date fourth or eighth and they feel that they need more time then it is justified to make it made

first do you really think the communities allow that no way thank you mr bridge please one thing i've noticed in the years i've been in this district because this board sets the calendar for the year and everybody's everybody starts on the date i think we need to have consistency i believe i understand that my colleague on the board is talking

about that uh i'm prepared to vote down this motion and i'll make the substitute motion if that happens thank you mrs garnier mr cruz i cannot continue to tolerate your behavior we run a school district ad hominem attacks are not acceptable they are not acceptable we have parents and families more importantly children watching attacking people personally is not

acceptable if you do not agree with me that is fine but i have not been hiding in my basement i don't know where that veteran comes from but it's very divisive rhetoric and i don't even know why it was mentioned so first and foremost like let's let's bring this motion to a vote um i was trying to be

uh i guess uh gracious because we've had moments on this board where people have not segmented things i think that it merited a discussion we have several people make comments but i do want to bring this amendment code to them to a vote and move off the discussion thank you now that everyone has had their say i

would please remind everyone let's keep the let's keep our eye on the ball and focus on what's at hand here and that's what students best for our students mr naught yeah okay mr cruz is rescinding his substitute motion this is johnny i'm assuming you agree it's a second yes so the substitute motion is that we will go back to the original

motion which was approve the in-person school reopening plan for grades tk 2 effective march 4th 2021 in grades 3 through 6 effective march 8 2021. we had a motion by mr not a second by mr cruz on the original motion president mr bridge please i'd like to to make a substitute motion to that and have it read the same but have the dates

changed uh back one week to march march 11th and march 15th i think that we'll give whatever time teachers and staff need to feel rushed to get it ready i think that's an acceptable compromise and therefore i will make that motion and i'll see you later in a second again mr marriage has made a substitute motion to approve in-person school reopening

plans for grades tk through 2nd effective march 11 2021 and grades 3 through 6 effective march 15th 2020 is that correct mr rich yes your second second on the motion the substitute question by mr bridge and secondly mr hyundai questions or many of the video comments and so on and thanks are being rushed i think we do

need a date uh i think as we get closer to uh the red zone and being able to uh to deal with the third item on this agenda tonight uh i just think it will be a a better setup and i when we first started talking about this i wondered if we weren't maybe going into it a little too quickly this

is what i've been thinking about so that's why i am bringing up this substitute about opening dates i think you know if we give a few more extra days so that all the sites and personnels will have more prepared time so that we can go ahead opinion full-time basis because we are well preparing hybrid models i'll support

this subject motion thank you mr cruz any other questions or comments i just i'd like to ask dr looking at the trajectory of our numbers is possible that we're going to be down um to seven cases per hundred thousand maybe in the red tier middle a month possibly according to the numbers the county health is that correct

uh yeah we have to be yeah they think probably early needs to they're thinking by the early march okay so if we push this back um basically week to the 11th and 15th we're potentially pushing back bringing back elementary and secondary at the same time well i we i don't believe that at the earliest if they were in there if they hit the

numbers on march 2nd it would be march uh that would come out march 2nd march 9th if it held for two weeks and then march 10th we would be able to bring secondary back the earliest that you could potentially bring someone back if they were to hold this next weekend i i personally am in favor of the

original timeline i think it gives us enough time to get our set our primary degree today and also potentially bring our secondary back as soon as possible okay are there any questions or comments mrs brown is there arrest me you are in a constant consultation with public health is there any factors identified that we would be risking if we move this

back the inability to knock open part of the reopening framework under the plan has some timelines and so i know that we hit this past friday 85 consecutive days at 25 or under i'm just curious if we move it back a week if we are putting ourselves in jeopardy of not being able to open potentially if there is a

i want to use the word spike but yeah so that that's an appropriate question because i was discussed today because of the new guidelines so um if if um let's just say next week we were to spike back up we the new guidelines allows that as long as you once once we hit that below 25 we have 15 days to

open so even if they were to spike up so we had to march 12th to make sure that we were older okay again next week that that date would reset so if we're still low next week the date will then be pushed back uh um you know to march and i don't know the exact date like i

don't know if they'll be the 19th but they have to put it but it gets pushed back every every week on that so as long as you continue to go down you don't study about 25. so we'll be held to account essentially by what comes out this friday because we're like at like 14 now so we got to like 12 by friday we can help

with telling today we have three weeks from today to no they'll go from uh yeah today is tuesday i think we need to support the original motion uh not uh gambling on what the future holds because kids want to be on campus as soon as possible and if we pick the guidelines and all the preparedness we have done

for classrooms the classroom will be safer than a month ago and two months ago so i'll support the original motion mr bridge uh clarification question uh for dr enfield on this because you said uh march uh march 10 is that just if for some reason we spiked up in this motion carry uh and tk through two came

came back but the 15th is outside that uh that window with that in fact those students coming back on the 15th or because we started the tk2 we can bring the others back yeah we could bring the others back so yeah so we're in the in the clear either way yes thank you any other questions or comments before

we take a vote on the substitute motion again the substitute motion is to approve the in-person school reopening plan for grade 2k to second effective march 11th 2021 and grades three through six effective march 15 2021. mr bridge hi mr cruz no this is done hi mr knight time to know motion does not pass two to three looking back to the

original motion approved in-person school rail and plan for great ticket to effective march 4th 2021 in grades three through six effective march 8 2012. any further questions or comments before we vote mr bridge moving on now to item b [Music] item d is to approve the in-person school reopening plan for cal air preserve academy track a grades k-2 effective march 9th

2021 in grades three through six effective march 11 2021. track b grades k through two effective march 11 effective march 15 2021 track c creates k through two effective march 18 2021 in grades three through six effective march 22 2021 track d grades k through two effective april 8th 2021 and grades three through six effective april 12

2021. do i have a motion second mrs gagne please i didn't realize we'd updated today's promotion so i don't have anything thank you any other questions comments for more before we go dates and looking at the different tracks because there's some little nuances between every track and when they're coming back uh and when they're not coming back and

just so the board knows and just as a reminder um piano track abnc started in july at the beginning of july and we did not have big they did not have the opportunity to select into the blended or the distance learning program uh track d did but a b and c didn't so we have to go back and survey the

parents and gather their information and then have to reform the classes and give them that opportunity um because they just stayed in one program the business program and never got selected to that so there's some work and that's why we need a little bit more time with this group and just spread that work out because again that takes

its time so we're taking one track at a time to be able to do that so that's why you see different dates in there and some of that is because they're coming on and off the tracks okay i'd like to always have inputs from our site and teachers when we're making informed decisions thank you no other requests for comments

mr bridge by mr cruz yes this is done mr knox yes motion passes five zero last action item receiving item c authorize the superintendent to begin first instruction for grades seven through twelve when the county beats the state guidelines i have a motion second the five days was removed the new guidelines came out uh yesterday and again that's why we went with the state

guidelines because they're constantly changing um so when we hit the the red that that would give me the authority to work with our school sites to bring back our secondary uh in a quick fashion so that they're able to get back into the blended program mr knox yes since guidelines have changed i like a few words added to this motion

so i'd like to have it really authorize the superintendent to begin in person instruction for grades 7-12 and opening k-12 in full-time basis when the county needs state guidelines are you making a substitute it actually will be an admitted motion okay mr ma has put on the table in a minute questions superintendent to begin in first instruction for grades seven through

12 and return full-time basis k-12 when county beats day guidelines and i have sent up by mr cruz comments questions discussion um doctor objectives just to clarify it's not the county guidelines that we don't need those are the state guidelines so the state has guidelines that they've set up that requires the the distancing um and so those would be state guidelines that

we would so we get that county or state families uh county or state guidelines on there or both of those okay mr bridge yes dr infield could you uh clarify on along with this uh amended motion uh the uh the athletic situation on on campuses as we bring we start bringing back uh high school with students and also

one other question it's not it probably is factored into this but i've heard nothing about adult school and so i wonder if that doesn't like does that does that apply under this or is it on separate entities and boards that need to take a different action on that um touch a little bit on the sports there's new guidelines with the sports

it looks like they're going to be able to uh when we get below 14 that we're able to bring back based on the county are based on the state guidelines that it looks like i think football maybe softball baseball a number of the sports will be brought will be able to come back our guidelines to our our principals and our athletic

directors is you need to continue to follow the california department of public health guidelines um and those are the same guidelines that the cif refers to in those sports programs so there's they're going to move forward our school sites just as track has started to compete they will probably come back and be competing based on those uh new guidelines trying to come

together that made those those changes because cio after case you know the athletics department just north yeah that's correct and and we will as long as they're allowing that by the state we're going to move forward and allow them to to compete okay thank you the other comments or questions probably vote on the inventive motion and mr just for the record we might uh

repeating your minute motion just so we haven't prepared so as a superintendent to begin in person instruction for grades 7-12 in opening k-12 in full-time basis when the county and state guidelines are met okay on the admitted motion we will now vote mr bridge i'm going to say no mr cruz yes mrs donahue mr knott hi and mr knoll though i agree with um

wanting to add information in there i think it convolutes this um cement this section a little bit and maybe at some of the future time we could bring forward the reopening of the fully reopening of the k-12s or um potentially reward this a little bit i did it i think it makes it kind of ambiguous as to what the intention is

so that takes us back to the original motion which is authorized superintendent to get in-person instruction for grades 7-12 with accounting meets the state guidelines so that we don't have to keep having special meetings to open up schools in long session i i can let the board know that once i once we bring the kids back into

in-person instruction once we can get them here every day five days a week i will be moving in that direction so we but we like to throw and give you that uh okay um i would i would recommend at this point that you guys look at just this one separately and then we can bring back i can bring back at the next uh

board meeting i can look at bringing that back another motion uh another item no but if you would as you said if all the guidelines are met then if you would open up the campus you know full-time basis i don't think then you don't have to have separate meetings yeah i don't necessarily believe that the board needs to direct me to do that

i believe that's my bunch of job as a superintendent and that's what we have is the only reason that we have the kids here on a hybrid model is because there are guidelines that are restricting us once i once said and trust me i've done the work that i can to be able to bring them back five days

a week as soon as possible based on the guidelines i have to play within the guidelines but i will do everything that we can to bring them back that's what we do um we're here to have kids five days a week full time that's my that's the the charge that that i want to get us this particular motion was to make sure

that once we hit the appropriate framework the superintendent doesn't have to keep coming back to the board so my belief in this action item is that it obviously needs the superintendent to come back to us that when uh and it's my perfect belief that when our okay see no other requests for comments again this is authorized superintendent

to begin in person instruction for grades 7 through 12 and the county meets the state guidelines we will now vote mr bridge hi mr cruz yes mr vanier mr knop hi tonight yes motion passes five to zero i now adjourn the special meeting of the board of education at five point idea