Board of Education — June 3, 2021

okay good evening everyone it is six o'clock we are now going to reconvene the regular meeting of the board of education at 6 00 p.m with bridge cruise gangnam shaffer present before we begin please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded and live streamed on the chino valley unified district's youtube channel pat please the board met

in closed session from 4 30 pm to 5 47 p.m regarding conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation two cases conference with labor negotiators a ct and csca public employee discipline dismissal release public employee appointment elementary school principal elementary school assistant principals junior high school assistant principals high school assistant principals and public employee performance evaluation superintendent the board took the following actions by

a unanimous vote of five zero with bridge cruz gonyea na and shaffer voting yes appointed kit matkin as assistant principal newman elementary school effective july 19 2021 appointed jamie devoe as assistant principal glenn mead elementary school effective july 19 2021 appointed tina herrera as assistant principal oak ridge elementary school effective july 19 2021 appointed lisa canetta lee as assistant principal

rolling ridge elementary school effective july 19 21 appointed michelle bonama as assistant principal townsend junior high school effective july 19 2021 and appointed oliver wong asun as assistant principal don lugo high school effective july 19 2021 and there were no further actions requiring public disclosure thank you very much congratulations to all of our new administrators deleting us in the pledge tonight would

be mr for which it crews one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr cruz moving on to item 1c presentations a meeting or so ago mrs gagne requested an update on the preserve 2 school and so tonight mr terry tau is joining us mr tao thank you very much i'm gonna take this

office it's okay since there's a lot to talk about let's see how do we get the presentation up well i'll just kind of get us started while the presentation is being put up because i felt that it was important to give the board a good overview of what the negotiations have been over the past three years i did receive uh some correspondence

which causes me some concern and i'll just tell you what the concern is some of the information that's been going on in the public has been a concern that the district may drag their feet may not get their act together but it's nothing of the sort uh the reality is the district has been proceeding in good faith to get

this school ready up and in operation but the reality is when you are a public school district it becomes very very technical how it is that you go about not only acquiring property but also uh through the process of going through what's called the california department of education and the division of state architect so we're going to go through some of

that because we went through a whole education process with the lewis company and we're going to talk about exactly what it is that is going on there's also some scuttlebutt in the community that the district is thinking about speculating on the land which is anything but but true that there's no way that the district would be thinking about

doing something like that for example i know that uh there was a property that was set aside in college park and the district released that because the district really is not in the business of taking school sites or potential school sites and banking them or trying to speculate on the value of property so this is really a timeline of what's happened

and where we are in the process we're going to go through some of the school development process the timeline of the work that's been performed i'm going to give you an estimate of where it is that we're likely to be and when this work is actually going to start and when it's going to complete and where we are

on the acquisition of the school site and what our next steps is so when we first started talking to louis lewis had told us at least told me and the district administration presently that there are experts in the area of building schools after all they built the cal aero school so they had put in some really unrealistic timelines in

the revisions to a purchase and sales agreement that i had put together for them and we were a little surprised so i spent a little bit of time educating the louis folks on what a school district has to go through in order to acquire property so this is a letter that i wrote to lewis on may 21st of 2019

and what i go through is education code section 17210 which governs school districts and the title five requirements that are applicable so you'll see the first thing we do is we go through the geotechnical and soils analysis and then hazardous waste analysis whether or not the site is on a former or near other hazardous waste sites a department

of toxic substances control review is necessary in fact tonight we're going to go through an amendment to your california environmental quality act because of some dtsc requirements apparently this property at one time was ag land and some of the chemicals that were used for agland really affect the ability to put a school there without going through a notice process a

removal process a whole analysis and probably it was just um orange groves so it's nothing special but nowadays with schools it has become so technical that you need to watch out for everything and you have a different agency responsible for each piece so this was a 12-page letter and in the 12-page letter we go through each of the requirements associated with

hazardous substances each of the requirements associated with if there's a pipeline nearby we went through the consultation process that the school district has to go through under title v air quality anything within a quarter of a mile traffic corridors special requirements if you're over a certain amount of cars that are driving by your site compliance with california environmental

quality act and also the preparation of environmental impact statements that are necessary in order to take everything out to the public so anything that you encounter that might have an effect on your site if you have a toxic site nearby if you have even like a a business that spray paints things you're going to end up talking about it in public

because that's one of the requirements of the california environmental quality act and title 5. you will go through state clearing house requirements you'll get part you'll get department of fish and game approvals you have to get county approval you have to get parks approval you have to get city approval and you also have to get a city letter

that says that you've met all the local requirements which we've already gotten so as we've gone through all this we've checked against the long-range master plan we've checked against general plan conformity zoning requirements and then the last stop is what's called california department of education review so california department of education gives you a nod after all of this is

done so where we are right now is actually fantastic we have frankly just finished all 12 pages of this letter and it's taken almost uh in fact i'll go through the schedule we've gone through all 12 pages of this letter now and this is what we've done september 10 2018 we went to the california department of education

and we we notified them that we wanted our site approval a site evaluated so that happened on september 10 2018 we went to our architect on june 1st 2019 hired them and started them on the process of designing this project the preserve 2 school we brought our environmental consultant place works on on august 15 2019 and we notified louis at that time that

our sql consultant had notified lewis that they had a stockpile of soil on our site and that they would not be able to dig down to the location that was necessary in order to evaluate whether or not there were any toxins originally deposited on the site which later on we figured out that this was an ag site

agricultural use site which did require what's called the mitigation plan with regard to a department of toxic substances control they're the party that's responsible for all removal and oversight of toxins on all sites but primarily they govern school sites we went on to get a license agreement with lewis so that we could go on the site to do our

investigation on september 25th 2019 we got the division of aeronautics approval so that we know that we're not too close to any airports or airplanes that could crash into the site and on october 29 2019 lewis had indicated that they would have the stockpile of soil removed by january of 2020 december of 2019 so we had our sql consultant do

everything else on february 13th the stockpile had not been removed yet so our sql consultant could move no further and there were some discussions between district staff and louis about the fact that we couldn't get down far enough in order to get to the native soil so that we could test it lewis actually removed the soil on

october 1st 2020 so there was a work stoppage from february 13 2020 through october 1st 2020 um waiting for lewis to remove the stockpile it was about an eight month delay the sql consultant resumed work on november 5th 2020. we continue on we got our geological assessment done on january 21st of this year we advertised for a public

hearing for preliminary environmental assessment report approval by the board that happened on february 13th the board of education actually conducted the public hearing on march 18th of this year we did our preliminary environmental assessment report with department of toxic substance control on march 19th we finalized the sql consultant finalized the addendum that was required by the department of toxic substances control

based on what they found underneath the stockpile and that report is going to be on your agenda today so today you're going to hopefully approve an agenda to the environmental impact report that addresses a mitigation monitoring plan associated with former ag use and all the removals that are required all the monitoring that's required with former ag use

so that you could use this as a school so that's tonight so um i thought i'd go over the stockpile a little bit so these are some pictures of the stockpile i was uh i had written a letter on july 23rd of last year notifying louis that they did not remove the stockpile and in my letter what i note to them is that

it's not possible for the school district to continue work because they need to get underneath stockpile in order to do toxics testing and we now know that we found something so that's something of importance that that actually stopped our work for a little while so i just thought i'd review the timeline of what actually happened so um

starting september 19th the district notified louis of uh the stockpile potentially affecting the ability to work i wrote correspondence june 3rd 2020 um i'm sorry i wrote correspondence on july 23 2020 notifying louis of the fact that there was a work stoppage because of the stockpile i thought you guys would be interested or you the board would be interested in

how much soil got removed it was 144 722 cubic yards 5 361 truckloads of soil got removed from the preserve to site so there was no way that a environmental consultant could have gotten underneath all of that soil in order to test the underlying site in order to get us our title five approvals and to get us our california department

of education approval of the site the stock file took a significant amount of time to remove it was actually completed on october 1st of 2020 so i thought you would like seeing the difference between the stockpile before and after june 2020 is a picture on the left of the mound of dirt the stockpile that was on the site

june 2nd 2021 yesterday uh staff went out there took a picture so that we could see the completely flat site in the soil having been removed so this is the remaining work that still needs to be done the primary issues are all outside of the district's control unfortunately because we have to get approvals under title v from outside agencies and

under title 24 to other outside agencies so title 5 is california department of education requirements so we soon will be ready after tonight we will soon be ready to submit for california department of education approval we expect to have a submission in august and we i'm sorry we expect to have an approval in august or october it's at least a three-month

window in order to get the california department of education approval we hope that we will be able to do it in less than three months but it could take as long as seven months we address some of that in the timeline i thought i'd note the second bullet point we absolutely positively must have what's called the super pad site

um what a super pad site is is a site that is prepped and ready for receiving a building on it that's what's required under the agreement that we entered into with lewis in may of 2004 that agreement says that lewis would provide to the school district upon purchase a super pad site and what a super pad site

is is it has to be plus or minus a tenth of the final grade it has to be properly compacted so it can receive a school and has to have all of the utilities there that means sewer water electricity gas has to be present on the site it has to have streets roads and gutters at least on

two sides of the site and upon delivery of that we would be able to complete our school so the our drop dead date in which to receive a super pad ready site would be june 2022. title 24 governs what's called dsa so dsa is division of state architect that is the agency that's responsible to make sure that

the schools are designed to a higher standards than your local buildings commercial or home buildings title 24 has something called what's called the field act so all schools are designed to a higher standard to withstand earthquake side to side motion and they're not supposed to collapse during an earthquake so that they can be used as safe havens and are

often used as your place of last resort in case of an emergency so we need to go into dsa that process is also out of our control in order to meet all of the title 24 requirements that process we expect will take at least nine months the time that it takes just for dsa to actually receive the documents and open them

can sometimes be as long as five months so that's how busy the division of state architect is fortunately we're in the southern california region we're in san diego rather than la la is a minimum of five months san diego is a little faster so you'll be a little faster than your brethren over and say la unified or

santa monica we expect to be out sometime between november 2021 and july 2022 the moment we're out we will be ready to go to bid usually that process takes a month or two just to prepare the documents put out your bid and be ready to hire a contractor sometimes there are protests that will protract that out i don't know i hope

not we expect to receive a bid awards by october of 2022 if we're on schedule certainly if any of the agencies cde or dsa are quicker than we anticipate we're going to bid this project out quicker and then we would take approximately 21 months in order to build this school and we would be ready on august of 2024

if we do not get our site by june 20 20 22 even off by a month or two uh you may not make that august 2024 date so this is all of those steps all the things talked about in that 12 page letter we have spent 1 million 574 000 to date a million 443 on the architect

117 thousand dollars in california environmental quality act um thirteen thousand one hundred ninety eight dollars on uh the department of toxic substance control that's the oversight agency state of california uh the moment we submit to dsa after we finish our cte approval we're going to spend another 276 just in plan check fees alone so your sunk cost with regard to this project

in order to start is 1851 503 and here's the kicker we don't own the property yet so we have spent all of this money on a property we do not own so we should talk a little bit about why we don't own the property i i'll just mention really quick and we'll talk about it in a little bit more

detail my office in 2019 issued a purchase and sale agreement a standard purchase and sale agreement to lewis and we said this is how we normally do our purchases it's very technical it needs to happen under education code title v requirements and unfortunately we had to issue the 12-page letter to educate lewis on the process lewis has insisted on repurchase because

they have said they don't trust us they think that we're not going to meet our deadline they have to have this school except for the school district i can't in good conscience or legally bind the school district to a repurchase agreement because it would be an illusory contract that you would be entering into it's just not a legal contract they're

going to tell you another school district entered into this agreement where they allow to repurchase but the terms of that agreement i've never seen they've never submitted them to me and i don't even know who the legal counsel was who did the agreement because when i read the code that is not something that the code allows us to

do so i want to be clear the right to repurchase is not something that legally you can enter into because it creates an illusory contract it creates something that you're banking on that doesn't even exist and you have to own the property in order to proceed with the dsa approval you have to own the property in order to

start spending money on it but we've already spent almost 1.6 million dollars on this property but because we believe louis we want to believe that we're going to end up with this property but for now almost three years we've been saying can we have the property can we buy the property can we do this purchase agreement and louis has insisted on repurchase

right because they want to govern and dictate to the school district when you finish the school and i don't think that that's right we are sticking to the schedule we're trying to complete it but it's so technical and there's so many requirements that um i can't guarantee when it is the school district is going to complete so what they're asking us for is

something that almost binds the district to some conditions that we don't even have control over let's look at what we're looking at so this is a picture of the school i thought people would be interested in seeing it it's been designed out we are just about ready to submit to dsa we cannot submit to dsa yet until we get our california

department of education approval the reason why is twofold one is the california department of education may not like the drop-offs and they may require us to reconfigure california department of education may question some of the steps that we've gone through or ask us to redo some of the steps the other is they also review all of your classrooms and their relationships

what's called an ed spec review so remember schools are different now than they were at least when i was a kid the classrooms are configured differently they're more technical they have to have different requirements your playground requirements are very specific so it's all dictated by title 5 for fun you can always log on to the california department of education website

and you can look at the pages and pages of requirements that school districts must meet so if we miss one then the architect has to redesign we do not want to spend that two hundred and seventy thousand dollars only to say hold on we need to pull the drawings back we need to redesign them so we need to get our cde approvals

first so uh in this is another view of the school and this school has gone through a lot of thought we've gone through all of the requirements i will mention to you that some of the things that the california department of education requires you to review are the ed specs themselves you actually have to bring them here

so that you've had a chance to look at what those end specs are let's talk a little bit about the mitigation agreement so in 2004 we entered into a mitigation with agreement with lewis this mitigation agreement was very specific as to what was required for site acquisition it simply says this language right here which is article 2.13 that

after the district tenders payment then the developer shall convey title to the school site and it should be unencumbered by any liens or under other encumbrances it's that simple unfortunately as you all know since you've all probably purchased houses at some point or another in order to open an escrow you actually need a purchase and sale agreement of

some form and lewis keeps inserting this repurchase right our i think it's called article 5.5 in their agreement so we cannot agree to that every time it's come to us i've turned it down and said no we can't agree to it and they've received many pieces of correspondence from us saying we cannot agree to a repurchase right so

it's not rocket science think about it this way if you were purchasing a house and the prior owner said if you don't move in and you don't finish all of your repainting and recarpeting or whatever it is that you're going to do to the house within three months then i want the house back i don't think that that's really the type of condition

that anybody in would enter into in order to do a house purchase you would not want to have strings attached to what you're going to do with the house that you buy so much like that you wouldn't want those types of strings on you and there is no such requirement for repurchase in the 2004 mitigation agreement this is the language on what's called

the super pad site what it means that's just a definition i've already talked about it a little bit so i won't belabor it so where are we today we we have proceeded in good faith uh we have expended 1.574 million dollars we are ready to drop another 276 thousand dollars in as soon as we get our cde approvals

um frankly up my my opinion is lewis has been terribly difficult about the standard purchase and sales agreement i got their correspondence that was dropped on the district today saying hey we just want to repurchase we want you guys to keep escrow open but the reality is we need to own this property so what i'm what i told louis during our

meeting last week i think it was on the 27th was uh the school district is going to drop all of the money of the value of the property from our appraisals uh 24.4 million dollars we're going to drop it into an escrow agreement we're going to give louis a one-pager what i call one pager it's actually about three pages but we're going to

give them a three-page agreement or four-page agreement that just says what it says in the original mitigation agreement and if lewis doesn't agree then we may have no choice but to go to arbitration uh the 2004 mitigation agreement was very specific it said that if we tend our money lewis is supposed to tender us a super pad site and we know where the

site is we have the legal description we want to own the site we're ready to tender the money there's no reason why there should be a condition we are acting in good faith we frankly will probably meet that 36 months that we were talking about or 18 months for that matter so there will be a school there but

borrowing borrowing another covet that could slow you down or a crash in the stock market which we hope would never happen we think that you're going to be right on schedule or members you have questions please use the light system is working this evening uh yes uh yeah we have in a room we have a limited uh

sittings here but down the hallway we have many parents and especially the students are eagerly waiting uh to hear a good news from this meeting so what would be the timeline um you know best scenario that we could agree on on everything and things could go uh smooth smoothly as possible to deliver this site to our student body

there um our preserve one school is so impacted we really need that preserve two school built as soon as possible well um this slide slide 11 is our anticipated timeline certainly the first two the first item and the third item which is the cde approval and the dsa approval those are outside of our control but if those go

faster then we will go faster if they go slower then um we're gonna our anticipated kind of worst case scenario is the august 2024 date but if dsa is able to turn things around every month we save off of the schedule is a month that the school is going to be done earlier so it could be maybe six months sooner

could be i don't think it'll be that much but could be all right thank you did you push yourself um it would be mrs gonya and then mr cruz so i just want to man every meeting so i just want to clarify so at this point well first i want to make a preparatory comment um no one on this board was around in 2004

no one was around when the first school was built so i mean very clear that no one here made any decisions or acted in bad faith with the first school so if that is the operating premise on either side we are five new people who were not around when that first school was built and we're not a party to that

transaction um in this particular case um essentially sort of boiling this down and getting through all the legal leads and i really appreciate the thorough presentation of going through all the steps the district is ready to cut a 24.4 million dollar check drop in an escrow account and sign an agreement today yes if that's not agreed to by lewis the

district's gonna force arbitration how long is that arbitration going to take arbitration typically is a much faster methodology we hope that we can get into arbitration between three and five months and then we would proceed from there the agreement the 2004 agreement that we entered into with lewis actually has all of the timelines halved so my hope is actually that will abide by the

terms of that agreement where all the timelines are hacked so if the district forces arbitration which is binding and the district is willing to accept but well both parties are forced to accept finding arbitration this could be resolved through that process in three to five months and we can move forward we hope so yes thank you mr cruz

see i could understand you know there there is uncertainty with outcomes and anticipations and even regret you got the community of chino people wanting to come in there mainly for their children to um go to a safe school to safe neighborhood it's a very family oriented neighborhood at the same time louis is a business there's also a

certainty on their part they want the school to open up because in the business of building homes chino valley is in the same they're in a different area but there's on searching on their part probably has to do with kids so forth but here here it states within three years the school has to they have to start constructing the new

school site and it says louis has a right to repurchase a site if such a construction does not start so once it starts it's ready to go and that's the end of the repurchasing because the school has started already the building of the school so after the super pad because at my school district they're building a school

and i think what you were describing about the super pad once they put and once they placed the super pad and the construction just took off but that did take a year i have to it did take a year but once this construction starts the repurchases ends if the if that contract states it but that's what i'm reading here

so i understand about mitigation all that five three months but um you know right here it says you know with the right for lewis to repurchase the site if such construction does not start um is there a possibility that construction cannot start within three years it's possible i'll give you here's here's my concern and i'll be somewhat blunt about it um and i

apologize for being so blunt about it ahead of time what lewis is asking for is a timeline for our start of construction to be built into a purchase and sale agreement which is a little peculiar that's not the way you normally do it but let's just say we agreed to that um and you had something go wrong

something happens at division of state architect which causes a delay something happens at cde that causes a delay or the financial markets are such that something happens and you aren't able to proceed if something like that i remember in 2010 the financial markets crashed so you actually could not sell a bond so you would not have been able to come up with the money

in order to actually do the construction project it's possible not likely it's possible it has happened in our lifetimes so what would happen is let's say we missed that timeline what if what if it was 37 months or 38 months what lewis has told us during our meeting of may 27th is trust us we're good guys we will give you the extra time if you

need you can make it into a contract but i i have a little bit of shelf shock i was not your attorney and i know none of you were here previously when the cal aero school was built and i have flashbacks to that period of time because you need to remember what it is that happened there was a

difficulty at the district because of the financial status you guys had it was kind of a messy time financially here and the district could not meet their timelines and lewis sued you and held you to the letter of that 2004 mitigation agreement the same one that i put up on the screen and then they took you all the way

through the arbitration and then afterwards they hit you guys for attorney's fees they held you to the letter of the agreement every word of it and held you responsible and then took a million dollars from you for attorney's fees so why would i expect anything different from them when they were so dishonorable previously mr bridge thank you for the presentation

and i i appreciate seeing the uh uh the timeline up there and having attended several meetings at the department of ed up on 15th street in sacramento i not related to this topic but just general board of ed meetings up there that is very true when it says that we have zero control over when they're going to

process our our application when the department of state architecture is going to approve our plans and and that is totally out of our control and i'm glad you listed that up there because any of us that have done home improvement projects and i and i've learned in the tile in my own house there's always a snag somewhere and mine

was three months waiting for one piece of a five piece set of tile to to arrive because the 27 store chain didn't have that one size in any other stores so i learned there's always going to be a snag and i wouldn't want to commit to a certain timeline not knowing that everything wasn't going to go perfectly

so i appreciate appreciate this and and i hope you know the community understands that we're we're trying to do our best and we'll you know we'll do it thank you mr knop yes i wasn't there at 2004 um but i see louise home as our partners partners for our community partners for our school district the schools they have built

we have full classrooms it was built well and they attracted students to come to our school district so i see them as partners and second if there's a mistrust between both sides of the aisle we might need a mediator maybe it's right that we're going to the arbitrator at this case but let's be flexible if if there's

a item such as a timeline repurchase agreement or or proposal we could always put exception classes yes it's not as clean as clean sheet of paper uh ordinary contract but if there are issues like for instance when you have an insurance you have classes such such case these are not covered but otherwise it should be covered first within two years if you have such

such disease this insurance is void so there's a flexibility in in any agreement but we need to become a partner first you know why it's not because of the what had happened in the past it's not because the one has to a benefit financially but it's for our children children's sake our students do not understand yes we go went through many complexities

and time limits and and we have put money in there over a million dollars and all that but main thing is the kids they want the new school they want the classrooms where they can bring their siblings to school and then parents feel safe that's all as an adult over 18 years old here in this room we need to work toward that goal

no more animosity no more mistrust it's the kid's sake we're the setting sun the children's are the rising suns whatever that we have the disputes guess it hurts whom not us because we have graduated from schools already it's the children so anything we need to go back to the drawing board and let's hammer things up for the

children's sake thank you but i'd like to thank lewis home thank you i i will i do have one comment yes and i i think it's important to bring it up lewis holmes who's sitting out in the audience here um they have hired some of the most expensive attorneys that money can buy here in los angeles and

those attorneys sat right here with me on the 27th and they said it's perfectly legitimate to put in a repurchase class but they couldn't cite to a code that allowed them to do that so are they just inventing the law because everything's statutory everything's technical in our world but they're saying just do it you can do it this other

school district they did it so therefore you can do it and i don't remember ever practicing law because somebody else did something i practiced law because i look at the code and i say okay the code says that i can do it so therefore i will they have not been able to provide a code to me they have not provided

anything to me saying that it's legal in order to do a repurchase so as far as i'm concerned there's nothing that allows them to do what it is that they've held us up for over three years on so i'm that's my point which is they cannot rely on something that does not exist in order to do a repurchase just because some

other school district did it if somebody else broke the law does that mean that i should break the law too does that mean you should break the law too i don't think so mrs gagne i don't have any further questions but i do have two comments um this is not my area of the law so i will

fully disclose this is not my area of the law but i want arbitration i want it fast i want arbitrators to tell one side what to do and get it done so at this point that's what needs to happen the faster that happens the better this has been dragging on way too long no sides going to bend on this so i think

we need to go to arbitration hopefully in three months this is done we move forward with this timeline i also want to address though that the reason that i asked for this item today is i'm not sure where this came from but not a fan of gossip there has been rumors put out in the community that we're not building this school that

we're going to stop we haven't done anything i can only speak for myself on this board it is my full intent the school gets built that we move forward in this process i'm not sure where the information came from i got a ton of emails of people saying you guys are stopping the school i don't know where that came from but i

don't like it because it's not true and i have to say if we took a straw poll today of the board um you know several of us were on the board when we made a decision in may 2019 i'm going to guess that a majority of those people who made that decision are in favor of moving forward with the

school so i think it's very important beyond what we went through here today there is a clear timeline of how this gets done some of this is not in our control it goes through state agencies i wish state agencies move faster trust me but i just want to make sure that whatever we do next that in august 2021

to october 2021 we are getting this site approval into cde and we're moving forward and frankly just and i'm just trying to be as honest as possible i just think that's going to happen through arbitration so let's arbitrate let's figure it out let's stick to the decision of the arbitrator and let's stick to this timeline but i do want to make it

clear that this community and everyone else in this dies can speak for themselves the school is getting built thank you mr nah yes i i like to see the school to be built as soon as possible and being a partner with of being a partner with our parents living in our community it is very critical there are many

things that you cannot do alone in this life and if uh we have such a feeling of distrust mistrust that needs to go away that needs to go away we need to to come to the podium we need to come to the table shake hands and start new i think that that's my opinion from this board to move this

uh forward in a fast pace i appreciate everyone's hard work including the lewis home here their representation here letting the parents to come to our school board meeting i think really it's going to help us to move this process faster uh having the community's interest and let me tell you all the parents keep it up um sometimes

it's the only way that it's going to work thank you it's not working would you like to make a comment go ahead you know i think it's the frustration that you know major g one of the components of mercury g was the only another site in in the in the preserve area but you mentioned that example that was a very harsh example i don't

know much what happened back then but i can't recall little bits in this where where the board decided that students that lived within the preserve were able to attend the priority was outsiders is that what the legality was concerned i do not know i was not your legal counsel um and it was a different board um so i am

not aware of the facts and circumstances but but let's be real honest the school should have been already in construction by now you know it's been what three years measure g when did it pass three years ago it should have been and there is an issue like like a wise man stated the process of a contract is like a

dance and is it difficult when um there is there's this trust issue like i said but um the school has to start it really does because the uncertainty what three years five years eight years ten years we can't have that either we gotta set a parameter and this is where this is how it goes so people can

start preparing planning to live in the community so that means a lot so we're going to start that process district staff has heard you loud and clear and when the board said to go the district staff moved we went through the schedule of how we spent the 1.56 million dollars and all the steps that we went through

in order to get you a school so it's going to happen unfortunately when the legislature has nothing to do they write more laws to govern school districts and that's what we're working our way through all 12 pages of it mrs gagne yes i think just to be solutions oriented moving forward you know i would request that the

district as we meet major milestones communicates with preserved parents i think part of the problem and i i really i don't like the legal drama i'm a lawyer i'm not into litigation i don't want to cost the district money litigating so all of that aside i just want to see some communication that as milestones are met it's just clear this is happening

so some of the communication i got was basically my school is not coming um and then i was like oh it is and they're like okay um so that was part of it is just there hasn't been communication and when there's not communication people start to think well if we're not hearing anything then there's nothing happening so i would

just ask that as we do hit milestones that we are just more communicative you know i know that we do a fairly good job of updating our website about things it might be helpful if we had some dedicated space to as we hit milestones what's happening for example some of the state approval stuff you know there's these very broad

timelines on this and if we're able to move more efficiently that's a win for us so why not communicate that that process went even more quickly so that that's a solution to the problem of lack of communication so let's focus on that thank you mr nah a while back when we had important decisions to make we often had our staffs

would visit the community and and had a meetings and it was very effective so i'd like to ask dr enfield whether it could be a bi-monthly or every quarter i'd like to have our staffs go to preserve community and in in and have present a meeting as to the process and progress of a preserver to school thank you dr enfield okay

the only comment i'm going to make is surrounds my concern um with the whole with the whole project and it mostly is centered on the purchase agreement i will remind the board that one of our main focuses and main obligations to this district to our constituents and to our taxpayers is a fiduciary responsibility and for us to enter into a contract that

you're telling us isn't legal isn't in our best interest is not fulfilling that fiduciary responsibility also remind my colleagues that we represent the entire district not just one section so when we make these decisions we need to make the decisions that are going to yes affect that small area but also make decisions that are going to be in

the best interest of the entire district all twenty seven thousand students plus so with that uh mr ties thank you for your presentation and for your time and dr winfrey will this be available on our website thank you very much thank you very much thank you okay we're now moving on to item 1d comments from employee representatives i see

mr danny hernandez so let's go ahead and start with him good evening president schaefer board members dr infield and cabinet danny we can't hear you can you is there a way to turn the volume up or speak into the microphone is that any better no unfortunately it's not is it on our end talk to him i'm not

sure how about now we're going to yeah give give us just a second there mrs we're going to check and see if it's on our end okay thank you is miss walker with us can you speak again yes can you guys hear me at okay uh in the interim mr manager's place down by mrs bearden good evening president schaefer school

board members dr enfield cabinet and china valley community it is so nice to see you in person this evening i'm excited to be here tonight because i have the privilege of recognizing two of our very own graduating seniors who applied for a champ scholarship first i'd like to congratulate riley schuler she is mr mr kyle shuler's daughter

riley graduated from ayala high school last week riley is described as determined hardworking passionate goal driven and kind these outstanding qualities helped her succeed in school and the various activities she participated in while at ayela while maintaining excellent grades riley was on the chair team all four years competed on the competitive cheer team as well as stunt club in addition to

cheer she served as a member of the renaissance class all four years and served as president this year riley will attend concordia university in the fall where she was recruited for the cheer and stunt team and will work towards a degree in kinesiology it's remarkable how nervous i am i'm not used to being in person another remarkable graduating senior is

stephen cabrera dr kimberly cabrera's son steven also just graduated from don lugo high school steven is described as enthusiastic tenacious motivated and optimistic these characteristics helped define him as a leader on and off the field steven was a four-year member of the track and football teams as well as a member of the wrestling team for a season it was typical for steven to be

the last one at an event ensuring the field was left in better condition than he found it isn't that what we want all our kids to do in addition to being involved in sports stephen was a leadership student serving the school as a junior class secretary and most recently asb vice president we look forward to hearing about his

continued accomplishments at western oregon university where he will run track and explore whether law enforcement or teaching are his calling we are incredibly proud to honor both of these students with the champ scholarship based on their successes in high school they are both destined to be successful in their future endeavors thank you for your time and have a great

night thank you very much thank you yes congratulations to ms schuler mr cabrera mr hernandez oh we lost there he is wow that's like a magic trick there danny i figured i was here i might as well run over i heard it was on my end so i wasn't sure how to fix it but i'm here well welcome thank you um

real quick i wanted to start off by thanking or congratulating all of the graduates from our recent graduations looking at them online with the presentations from each one of the schools they did an excellent job with short notice the elementaries and junior highs great job throughout the year i've highlighted classified employees in different classifications from our nutrition services department

our technology department our transportation and our m o they've all done an extended outstanding job each year and i believe it was the last month at the end of the last month we usually have an unsung hero an award we give out to people that go above and beyond i can say that without all of us classified certificated

dr infield your cabinet manager supervisors we would not be where we are right now there are a few different departments are two different departments that i do want to highlight we all see our ppe's are hand sanitizers plexiglas those things did not just magically appear they had to be ordered our purchase purchasing department went above and beyond

they purchased all these things they didn't get to the sites by themselves so our warehouse staff delivered them i want to highlight a few employees not all classified employees anna hamilton director of purchasing kathy casino linda mcintyre saul furman jonathan rico then our warehouse staff roy strona gabriel aguilera carlos gomez eric montoya james lujan stephen gonzalez jr daniel tomlinson

and fernandez fernando suazo if you remember in 2019 they were our unsung hero back i believe it was at woodcrest they came out they were our unsung hero for that year unfortunately that was the last year we were able to do it in person for the last 15 months we've all had concerns issues mostly with our safety

one thing that staff did not need to worry about so our paychecks were always there i know i was happy that they were there they weren't late they weren't unaccurate they were there so again i want to highlight these individuals that make sure that we all got paid on a regular basis um that's lissandra maldonado chelsea biggs and i need to apologize i

know i'm going to mispronounce some names and i probably did already i'll start again alessandra maldonado chelsea biggs kevin doe dina leong jessica cano terry gap rosemary cuevas david valdivia vanessa mello justin korea and gabby casasola those are the individuals that have all gone about ghana above and beyond i was listening to the presentation earlier and one of the things that i

always like to hear is and we probably don't say it enough is a thank you so to dr enfield board members and cabinet it's a sincere thank you that we are here today and the situation that we're in the graduations that took place the reopening of our schools hopefully next year it's all back to normal or our our new

normal so with that dr enfield thank you very much for your for your hard work there were a lot of unanswered questions when this all started a lot of continued unanswered questions where we're going how we're getting there but i do remember grace park she constantly had a re-opening guidelines that were constantly being worked on that started off at 36 pages down to

34 down to 38 are up to 38 then finally stayed in a draft form for a few months there i think we all looked overly tired based on what we all had to do but that hard work did not go unnoticed by everybody not just classified certificated our community and our members with that i want to say again

thank you and have a good evening thank you sir thanks for joining us okay we're now moving on to item 1e comments from the audience on items not on the agenda are now comments on items not on the agenda as noted in the public advisory post that in the agenda email comments are longer being accepted as we have returned to in-person

protocols pat are there any speakers on non-agenda items yes there are how many 13. speakers you will be called the order the request was received please listen for your name and be prepared to approach the podium any comments on agenda items will be accepted during consideration of that item once the board has commenced deliberations on an issue speaker cards

will not be accepted the board is very interested in your comments but please bear in mind that the board typically does not respond to comments during this time on the agenda as it is reserved specifically for public individual members may respond during board member comments at the end additionally the board does its best to support the public's right to address

its elected officials it is also important that the board conduct its business in an orderly and fair fashion as provided in board by bylaw 93-23 in the event that an unusual amount of speaker cards were submitted for any item the board will hear up to 30 minutes of comments in the case of non-agenda items the board can

if it chooses hear the remainder of comments after all business has been conducted mr bridge will you please explain the light system yes speakers you have three minutes to address the board limit your remarks to new point begin comments of the green light the yellow light means you have 30 seconds left the red light means your time is over

please adjust the microphone as necessary so that you speak directly into the mic as i'm demonstrating now audience members please refrain from making comments while speakers at the podium and please note that board policy 1312.1 outlines the procedure for anyone who wishes to file a complaint against a district employee the first speaker is nicole and ezekiel zuniga

followed by darius de guzman it's intimidating hello um thank you for giving us all a chance to speak um this is zeke zuniga he is going to be a fourth grader next year i'm speaking on behalf of my son who attended his third grade year via distance blended and then modified traditional education during his time spent in quarantine and

virtual learning his mental state declined and he wasn't his energetic ready and eager to learn student i once had when he started his year we were lucky to have had a teacher who he already had for first grade the reason i say he was lucky is because he was already so sad and upset that he couldn't go back to

school but knowing he had his favorite teacher helped significantly he did well and even excelled virtually but as many other students the struggle was that students didn't log in and participate the way they would have in class he was so happy when he found out we would be returning even for two days a week and then ecstatic when it went to five days

here and now is when he decided to speak up he wants to make a difference but doesn't know how so i told him we could come here to speak to you all and the board who ultimately decides his fate for his education he wants to express how he feels about all of the changes he faced through the

last school year and has some requests he says my name is ezekiel thank you for allowing me this chance please have no plexiglas when we go back because it's hard to see sometimes please have no more realms or zones because i want to be able to see and play with all of my friends again not just the ones in my class please do

not go back to distance learning because you don't get to see people in person and it's better to learn in person also masks are hard to breathe and play with them on please make it to where we don't have to wear them anymore thank you for your time nicole and ezekiel soon again thank you good evening board members and

superintendent my name is darris de guzman i have three kids in the currently in the school district one in high school one in junior high and one in special education elementary you may have seen him sitting with me back there i've sent a few emails to you over the past few weeks but haven't received a response so

felt these issues were important enough to present tonight i've lived in the chino preserve area for the past 13 years and was there two years ago when you're approved to move forward with building the school for the preserve we've seen very little progress and as ms gagne mentioned very little if none communication it's time that we set a goal

and set a timeline to get our second school built with this second school we would have the space to bring back sdc classes and give the students that deserve the most ability to go to school in their own community with their neighborhood peers second i'd like to address the expanded learning opportunity grant that was approved on may 20th

numerous parents of our district and parents in the lcap have acknowledged that they did not provide input to the plan that was approved which was a requirement for the grant i submitted a public records request on may 23rd finally received a response 10 minutes before i arrived today i did take a look at the participation list very few parents were included during

those meetings the plan to add an additional 30 minutes across all levels will not address specific needs which is the intent of the grant for high school and junior high it adds additional stress as many of these students have responsibilities jobs and extracurricular activities outside of school this plan provides less time for homework and mental risks the current plan lacks specific details

on how it will be executed and the utilization of the funds in comparison to other districts one extending extending extractional learning time instead of adding 30 minutes to the school day across all levels other districts are providing options such as summer school sessions section 2 our district's plan is to provide intervention teachers at elementary sites and paraprofessionals i'd like to ask how

will this be implemented as of last week my son was denied additional support at his annual iep although the entire iep team acknowledged that he did not meet his goals and needs to need support to complete tasks throughout the day other districts are offering one-on-one tutoring small group intervention and for high school small group ap tutoring section three there was nothing written

in the district's plan to address this but yet we plan to spend 3.4 million according to the plan sections 4 5 and 6 were not addressed in the district's plan if you compare our plan to other districts you can see where we fell short on providing a plan that addresses the intent of the grant which is to help

students with learning gaps study sessions working groups should have been conducted with parents and teachers so that we can work collaboratively with transparency and open communication together to develop a plan that really works for students your time has expired and focus the support on those with that needed most thank you for your time thank you sonia shaw followed by brandon gomez

thank you for allowing parents to voice our concerns at tonight's meeting i speak on behalf for many and i spent many hours listening to the concerns of this community i'm here tonight to share not only my concerns but those of our children we have three major concerns to bring to you this evening it has come to our

attention in this community that critical race theory and the controversial night 1619 project may enter into schools we protest to any curriculum being introduced that further divides our children and is based on incorrect historical facts teaching teaching children that there are only two groups the dominant white groups who have oppressed and the minorities who are oppressed is not only divisive but

incorrect all social and cultural issues do not revolve around race teaching children that they are the oppressors or the oppressed is nothing good for either party they group all individuals together and talk nothing about self responsibility into account we understand that federal grants being offered to teach these programs are available and the teachers union back up the equity curriculum it's even

on their website and we as parents will make it known tonight and every night that we do not support this at all second the mask mandate as parents watching our children have to wear masks every day for hours to attend school is beyond what science suggests science never backed any research that children were at high risk for covid

and we still made our children wear masks to comply with the district's world rules if individuals wish to continue to wear the masks or whatever their reasons are that's clearly their choice to continue to mandate it for all is an abuse of your power and you have no research to back up your decision we as parents are making it very clear

and loudly with all due respect drop the mask mandate or find data to back it because we will go through the legal channels and we have no problem doing that without good and without good cause data and research you will have nothing to stand on thirdly us parents are extremely concerned that you we were not given any

choice to voice our opinions in regards to the additional time added to the school year we are keenly aware that the district was able to secure a grant with the loss of education during covid adding 30 minutes to the school day is in our opinion is not good use of that grant money there are two separate concerns to

be clear one we did not have any input that impacts us greatly and two we would like to have input and future decisions that the district makes which impac impacts our children adding 30 minutes to the days may seem not like a lot to you guys as board members who do not have young children but it indeed pushes everything into the

afternoon and early evenings causing mental stress on our children that is not needed other districts have utilized this money in different ways in ways that make more sense than simply add slapping on a five-minute five-minute extra to the 30 to the um to the 30-minute mandate we wish our voices were more um were heard in this with that being

said we asked the board of education and superintendent to consider allowing committee appearance to be part of a major decision-making process we ask you consider the value of our opinions remembering that the children you teach and that you're in control of are the same ones that we call our sons and daughters we appreciate your time and consideration and we hope that we work

closely together in the future thank you brandon gomez followed by bernadette thank you for the board uh and for superintendent for allowing me to speak briefly my name is brandon gomez my wife and i have lived in the chino valley our whole lives and we both attended cbusd schools kindergarten through 12th grade we have three children two of which also attended k-12 within

the just within the district our youngest daughter is going into sixth grade at hidden trails elementary tonight i wanted to express my objection to the potential incorporation of critical race theory which is often veiled under the 1619 project ethnic studies social justice or equity and sensitivity curriculum some of you may not even be aware of what crt is

crt is the view that institutions including school districts are inherently racist and race itself instead of being biological is a social construct used by white people to further interest to further their interests at the expense of colored people as a person of color i take great offense to that view crt is more than just an attempt at

social justice for people of color it's an ideology that is meant to divide society by the color of our skin if you think our nation is divided now once our school's indoctrinated our kids with this distorted worldview our country would be headed for an irreparable future in a recent letter to the biden administration over 150 former u.s

generals expressed their concern of the building popularity of crt they explained that this is typically textbook marxism as those ideologies take root in our institutions and schools they were trained specifically to identify those markers when facing other countries that were in peril and now they see it happening right here in the u.s if you want to learn more about crt i

highly recommend you read from socioeconomic scholars like thomas soule jason reilly shelby steele and votey bockham if you don't have time to read their books look up some clips there's many of them on youtube most of which are by people of color i want to leave you with a quote from former slave frederick douglass and speaking to white america in 1863 he

said the american people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us do nothing with us your interference is doing this positive injury i want to assure you that we will diligently follow up to prevent the teaching of this destructive ideology in our schools and have found in our curriculum we will pull our kids out

and homeschool them and there's hundreds of us that'll do the same thank you for your time thank you bernadette mendez followed by charles chamorro hello dear board of education in superintendent enfield first and foremost we the parents of chino valley unified school district thank the board and superintendent enfield for your efforts to prioritize our students education as we look ahead to the next school year

it is important that all stakeholders participate in the discussion of the various issues that will need to be dealt with we write this letter endorsed by 108 concerned parents and stakeholders to ask that you begin to include the public in these discussions before moving forward with decisions regarding the 2021-2022 school year thus far parents have not been part of

any decision-making processes that affect the lives of our students much discussion focuses on students losing time and learning as a result of distance learning around the beginning of may some parents were made aware that there would be a vote on an elo grant to address this issue no information data or evidence was presented to parents to support that a

30-minute increase of instruction each day would be the most effective or beneficial solution to support students moving forward while elo information is posted on a board meeting agenda on the chino valley unified school district website many parents were not aware that this information existed through informal conversations with district teachers and employees regarding this issue information that lack detail

and general confusion spread among the community as a result posting pertinent information without parent notice in another form email phone blasts etc could be construed as the board's and or superintendent's purposeful intention to avoid and discount stakeholder input and to minimize the value of this community the perceived lack of transparency negates chino value with unified school district's mission that

united together the chino valley unified school district staff parents guardians community and governing board work to provide all students a rigorous and relevant education in a safe and learning environment we parents and stakeholders of chino valley unified school district and this community asked the board and superintendent enfield to begin study sessions immediately for the public as seen in

summer 2020 we ask that the district administers surveys to all stakeholders asking for input and feedback as seen in summer 2020. we ask for transparency from the board and superintendent enfield so that we can come together to discuss effective and equitable solutions to meet the needs of all students in this district if our priority is our children

and their education our processes and practices must continue to reflect just that thank you thank you charles tomorrow followed by marissa lippin good evening members of the board and everyone else present thank you so much ms ghani for responding to my emails and thank you attorney for the presentation and i am just here to echo the sentiment of my fellow residents of

the preservatino who feel like all this legal skull druggery about building our second school it makes us feel like we it's a way of getting us marginalized by the district despite being the one of the highest paying zip codes as far as property taxes and melloroos is concerned and our kids are the highest scorers as far as testing goes in the city of

chino and we have a high rating in our school and we're going to have a second school with another high rating compared to other schools and um but as far as uh now our kids have the worst situation as far as lack of facilities is concerned we're the only school with four tracks where kids take turns in using the

classroom with strange schedules you know they can play with their friends who are in you know in other tracks uh this does not add up to what we're contributing we are we're not asking for special favors we're merely asking for what is fair and what is has been already paid for by our you know hard work tax paying residents we teach our kids

that in life you get what you pay for however we need to prove it to them okay so build our second school please thank you thank you marissa lippin followed by lorraine harris evening dr enfield board members and staff i have a few concerns i would like to address this evening to start one is the coveted learning

recovery plan based on my research i have not seen or been provided with any parent committee meeting minutes or agendas showing parents have had any real impact on how the 70 million will be allocated i am here to ask for a new parent committee to be formed in order to help design implement these funds for learning loss i believe that one parent

per school site would make a perfect committee i would like to ask the board to address these following concerns how will you provide assessments to all students will you provide extra support for special special education how will the 30 extra minutes be allotted in the classroom are you providing on are you providing more intervention teachers or more support staff per site

will there be one-on-one help provided will you be focusing this time on reading writing and math resources if the funds are not utilized for the above items then you are not helping our children with learning loss we have not seen a breakdown on exactly how all the items will be done by the district using the money and the extra time it sounds like these

funds are going to be used for teachers bonuses not helping our children with learning that they have lost over the past year we as parents want to make your job easier and do what is best for our children i ask that you add a parent oversight committee to help allocate the funds in the most beneficial way my second concern is the

new bell schedule once again this was not brought up to any parent's attention or voted on by parents there is a complete lack of communication that needs to be addressed my three children attend an elementary school and with the new bell scheduled they will not be dismissed until 3 40 that is extremely late in the day for a young

child studies show that children do better in the morning than they do in the afternoon you are asking 6 and 11 year olds to focus longer in the afternoon which we all know is not an easy task even as adults we struggle being productive after 3 p.m after after school activities are just as important as school they help build a sense of community

build confidence team building social and emotional stability and overall happiness in our children's lives i will let you know now that there will be multiple families including my own pulling their children from school early a few days a week if the schedule does not change this would result in the district and school sites losing those funds so i would like to request that the new

belt schedule for elementary schools that aren't already starting at this time be revised to start at 8 o'clock or 805 and dismiss it at 3 10 or 3 15. this will move the 30 minute learning loss time in the morning where kids are more alert and will increase learning and engagement among teachers and peers these are a few

items the board can show to the community that they care and are listening to the parents and the children and they and that we would like this all to be addressed thank you so much lorraine lorraine harris followed by daniella bland hi good afternoon today you have heard from several members and their concerns with the lack of parent

input in decisions especially with the use of the covid learning recovery funds we are a part of the parent association chapter of chino valley we are the voices of over 750 parents and we're growing every day we are advocating for our students and empowering parents to speak up and work with the district to make positive change the parent association is a diverse

group of parents who all want the same thing for us for our children high quality public schools that put students needs first we are a non-profit nonpartisan organization focused on helping parents advocate for the things that matter most academic achievement physical health and the social and emotional well-being of all students in our public schools the parent association of chino valley

is composed of parents who are concerned and active in making all efforts to ensure that the decisions of the chino valley unified school district are in the best interest of the educational process and the content of our children we love our teachers and and our school staff they are our neighbors our friends and our children's mentors teachers are the essential workers we

depend on to provide our children a quality education at the parent association we seek ways to support teachers while making sure the needs of students are the number one priority of our schools and our school's district school districts we support our school district leadership by being knowledgeable and informed and more involved we will confidently and respectfully make our superintendent

board members and principals aware of how their decisions impact our children and our families we will effectively and vigorously advocate for policies that improve academic achievement physical health and the social and emotional well-being of students there is no better advocate for our students than a parent the parent association is the group that brought a lawsuit against the california

department of health and governor newsom that allowed all schools in california to open full time in person they are the group that got all the all of the california guidance changed to reasonable rules and allowed our kids to attend school in person full time and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude thank you thank you the final speaker

daniella bland good evening my name is daniela bland my son is half and mixed and currently attending school in the chino district it has come to our attention in this community the critical race theory ethnic studies social justice equity and sensitivity curriculum and the controversial 1619 project may enter into the skulls we venemently protest to any curriculum

being introduced to further divide our children and is based on incorrect historical facts teaching children that there are only two groups the dominant white groups who oppress and the minorities who are oppressed is not only divisive but incorrect all social and cultural issues do not revolve around race teaching children that are the oppressors or the oppressed does not do good for either

party these curriculums go against all traditional definitions of true stereotyping the group they group all individuals together and and take nothing about self-responsibility into account we venemently reject any such curriculum being taught in schools and will take a stand against any and all of it thank you for your time and consideration in this matter thank you you said that was the final

speaker that was the final speaker okay because i only have nine down i thought there were 13. well there's i'm counting the ones on the agenda oh gotcha gotcha my bad i'm sorry i had filled out a speaker card for the general comments but it is regarding school is that just being moved to the school item or

we weren't i wasn't planning on talking about the environmental so i that's why brian goodman yes it says preserve school you want to hear it now you want to wait no come take your three minutes sir yes my apologies for the miscommunication there good evening i'm i'm brian goodman representing the lewis companies and appreciate you hearing our side unfortunately uh three minutes

is not much to rebut some of the things that we heard today but i do want to make it very very clear that we appreciate staff moving forward and accomplishing all the tasks to date there's no doubt that there's been a lot of work done i also want to reiterate that we do want to move forward with selling the land we do want

to move forward we do not at all want arbitration that there's no one who wins in arbitration but attorneys so we really would like to avoid that um i know you all received a copy of a letter from randall lewis i hope you have a chance to read it thoroughly there's a proposal in there i'll try and describe

it a little bit more now but obviously don't have a lot of time to do so at the end of the day we believe we'd be doing a disservice to our community and the residents if we don't have some form of accountability on actually moving forward with construction it's not a trust issue this is something that we actually do in

all of our transactions dozens and dozens of transactions have a repurchase agreement we just did one with the city of eastfield we do them with all of our guest builders to say it's illegal is is actually ridiculous mr tao's previous law firm just did one with us in ontario about 18 months ago with the mountain view school district

in all of our previous meetings he's never said it's illegal he's only said well if you do it we need a discount to the purchase price because it's not fair market value was the first time we heard it was illegal tonight and we've been negotiating this for how long that is very disturbing we also did not address the fact that we

made a separate proposal save your money don't put it in escrow just wait until you get all your plan approvals then deposit the money and then close escrow and then move forward when you're ready we're more than happy to wait until all of the plan approvals are done this is not a gotcha we don't want to buy the site back why would we

ever want to buy the site back all we want is a school our residents want a school and we think that they deserve a minor minor commitment i want to also clarify the fact and i think mr cruz did a good job of it but all we're asking is to start construction you don't have to finish construction don't even have to open it

this is a minor minor commitment construction is defined as trenching foundations and starting to pour them that's it this is a very very low bar that we're asking for if that doesn't work we still have another alternative and we still haven't heard why that doesn't work either we think our residents deserve this and we really ask for your consideration we do not want to

get into arbitration that is a huge mistake please listen to your constituents and okay so thank you for your comments your time has expired thank you thank you you know president shaffer pat you know i would make a motion if it was possible that he our gentleman can rebuttal is that possible no it was a presentation to the board

for the board information and it was not uh as long as the rules are rules okay thank you to all of our speakers who provided comments this evening so we are now at changes in deletions yeah the other three on an agenda item is what she said yeah you have two on item two excuse me three on item two a one

and you have two on two d one which are marked building preserve number two school and general comments preserve school too and they're both marked incorrectly but the topic is the preserve 2 school so i put it with the action item okay thank you moving on now to item one f changes and deletions we're not changing the

deletions pat do you have any changes and deletions this evening none thank you moving on to section two action items the first action item this evening will be item two a one request for determination to put item on agenda recommend the board of education determine if board member andrew cruz's request to place an item on the agenda to lift

the mask wearing mandate for the health and well-being of students and staff is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the board of education were there any comments pat we have three speakers the first speaker is kristin kim followed by crystal barrett good evening everyone i am here as a mom of two elementary school students a six and a nine-year-old who attend

cortez elementary i would like to address some issues concerning the health and well-being of our children i am fully aware that there are some restrictions and are necessary back in the beginning of the pandemic i'm also aware that things have gotten much better in recent months in addition to more updated information coming from our national level and state

level however they have once again failed to consider our children as everyone knows we are coming close to reopening fully but in the beginning the lack of concern of our children's mental and emotional well-being has become apparent we need to do better for our kids please consider removing the mask from our children please allow this to be optional there's

no concrete reason why anyone especially ages 3 to 12 should be forced to wear a mask now given the current vaccination rates how does it make sense to still enforce children knowing everything we know now how will these kids get or spread covet if 70 to 80 percent of the adults that are around are vaccinated or have co have had covet

already even worse how is it okay to make my six-year-old wear a mask outside in 90 degree weather at recess and how does that even make sense when the likelihood of transmission outdoor for a child is point zero zero zero zero zero percent that's eight zeros then a seven i urge you to be the voice of reason for my six-year-old little

girl who was telling me she can't breathe and my nine-year-old little boy who wants to be able to learn inside the classroom without his glasses fogging up please do not let this go on any longer than it needs to these kids were never at risk for severe complications and they are definitely not at risk now if a person has a

personal preference to wear one by all means they should be allowed to wear one but it should definitely not be our new normal to require our children to wear them i have below some things my six-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son have said after a full day of school of wearing masks the mask gave me a headache i felt like

i was going to throw up a few times they made me wear my mask outside even though no one was near me i sneezed inside my mask and it got all nasty so i didn't want to wear it because it was wet i can't breathe with my mask on the teacher couldn't hear me through the mask i dropped my mask on the bathroom floor

so i had to find a new one i don't like recess because i have to wear my mask and it's already hot outside and it makes me more hot i understand that you feel that you are in the discretion of public health officials but there are quite a few schools in the state and even county that do not

enforce mass during rhesus or have those ridiculous plexiglass dividers this telling masks and other precautions are not enforced at the same level across the board and the discretion falls to the individual school districts as we know the situation with code was a very fluid situation however the numbers and facts 15 months later are a clear indication that these

children have been and now very unlikely to contract and spread the virus thank you thank you crystal barrett followed by the final speaker marissa lippen hi you guys my name is crystal baird i am a mother of two kids a 10 year old and a three-year-old so i want to start by painting you guys a picture of my son dylan

who attends liberty elementary dylan has always been one of the top kids in this class he's an athlete he's a leader he's helpful he's a role follower and he loves school he loves school he loves his teachers he loves his friends he actually used to ask me mom is it normal that i love school so much but let's fast forward to this year he

was so excited school was going back because like i said he loved school but every day this year when i went to pick him up he would get in my car rip off his mask and break down in tears he's angry he's frustrated he's anxious just thinking about school every day is the worst day ever he would

tell me he says that he would have to go out to recess and hide so he can pull his mask all the way down to get a fresh breath of air but would quickly be yelled at by the principal or new nades on the on the playground during class he had to pretend he was drinking water because he felt like he

was going to pass out and he needed to take a deep breath but quickly got yelled at by the teacher do you guys not understand how much stress and anxiety these masks are placing on our children they are actually causing more issues than they are resolving i can stand here and quote you guys article after article after article stating how ineffective

these masks are but i encourage you to do your research ask the children how they are feeling with them but my question to you is are you guys training your teachers to only are you training teachers to only make sure that the kids are wearing the mask correctly or are you training your teachers to look for signs or

ask questions why are you wearing your mask down why are you pulling your mask down how are you feeling do you feel like you're going to pass out do you need water do you need a break we send our kids to you guys every single day in full faith that you were looking out for their best interests but instead you guys are

causing so much stress and anxiety that our kids have never endured in their whole entire life you are stressing them out more than protecting them now i am a heartbroken mother that has a child that not only hates school but has unnecessary stress anxiety emotional damage over something you could have prevented and now i'm paying for counseling

for my child something else covetous taught me is that school days can be completed online in a couple hours right and now you want to extend hours for let's be honest your own personal benefits we need to need to stop being selfish and start putting these kids first these kids are our future the this is the age that we are supposed

to getting them excited for their future but instead all you are doing is stealing fear doubt reservations and you are creating emotional and mental messes out of our children so i'm going to end with this the definition of liberty means the equality or state of being free the power to do as one pleases the freedom of physical restraint

and i can only hope and pray that this district can live up to my son's school name liberty elementary thank you for your time marissa lippin again good evening um it is time to end the mask mandate for our children i know some of you have stated before that you would remove the mandate if you could this is your chance to make a difference

in our community and our children's well-being there is plenty of evidence that that state mass do not work some of the evidence comes straight from dr fauci he has stated before in emails and on on media outlets that masks are not effective in stopping the spread of coven 19. in an email dated february 2020 i quote masks are really for infected people to

prevent spreading spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection the typical mask you buy at the drugstore is not really effective in keeping out the virus end quote have you ever read the side of the packaging of your mask that it comes in if you haven't i will read it to you now

quote big bold letters warning this product is an ear loop mask this product is not a respirator it will not provide any protection against cova 19 coronavirus or any other viruses or contaminants so tell me why we are asking masks having our kids wear masks and again science is telling us that there is no evidence have you considered have you considered

the cova death for children in california ages 0-18 as of may 29 the california department of health stated that children ages zero to five there has been four deaths in children ages five to 18 there's been 19. that is a total of 23 deaths in the state of california if you compare this to the 2017-2018 flu season in children ages zero to four

there was an estimated 115 deaths in children ages 55 to 17 there was an estimated 528 that is a total of 643 deaths there were 620 more deaths during the flu season than we have seen in the last year of covid so why are we masking social distancing and sanitizing for an illness illness that is less deadly

as i stated above there is not enough evidence for our children to be massed up to six to eight hours a day i understand that the district is worried about learning loss for our children and that is the main focus for next year but as a mother i can tell you my children's health and well-being is my

top priority these masks are creating barriers between our children their peers and teacher my daughter spoke at the last board meeting and after she was done the one thing she said would have happened is that you guys would have taken off your mask so she could have seen your facial expressions during her speech she continued to say that it would have

given her more confidence during her speech and helped her be calmer these masks are desensitizing the human race especially our children i can see that the board is concerned about appealing to parents that are pro mask and anti-mask i feel the best way to appease both sides is to grant a mass choice for 21-22 school year this will give parents

parents the power to choose for their child every family in our district has different circumstances and giving the choice back to the families is the right thing to do thank you for your comments your time has experienced we as parents want nothing more but best for our children thank you thank you very much i have a motion so moved one second

the motion by mr non the second by mr cruz comments questions or discussion from the board mr cruz you know you know to you need to have courage for the unknown as simple as that i cannot um think it's because we're following some person that tells us that our children have to wear mass so we follow that person

but you know i was i was helping a friend of mine and she had an assignment about an example of of group think mentality and i i did some reflection it happened on friday so i'm going to do my very best to give an example of this and this is similar to the mask so let me go ahead and begin first let's

say a person has asthma doctor says go to the er only when you have severe breathing problems the doctor does not give no prophylactics medication to be used okay the rise of the group think media and academia organizations first quarter of 2020 americans were introduced the word ppe nothing to do with sick patients fear is the primary objective for behavioral

response second the media displays two outcomes continuously positive cases and death ongoing ongoing ongoing my dad goes to the hospital so what do i think in my mind i better get him out of the hospital because he's gonna die because that's what was happening so it took six days he came home that's all i was thinking because that's

what it was occurring so once you go to the hospital you never see your loved ones again on top of that health workers are terrified they take extraordinary measures to distance themselves because everybody's afraid first time this happened they shut down travel fear is the goal okay so we learned earlier about cobia 19 had three biological features

a replicated exponential same as any other virus the person's immune system attacks organs and the spike protein causes blood clots the strongest determination of mortality is age and comorbidities such as obesity was huge heart failure lung disease individuals under the age of 50 with no major medical problems recovered with no problems it was the issue with people that were

over the age of 50. that's when you had these issues so what was the problem we had to stop the hospitalization hospitalization and death they never treated the virus that did not happen the average person is at home for two weeks no start diagnosis no start treatment no prevention hospitalization no prevention of death however there were brave doctors

independent from academia agencies that were finding different ways because they had the courage to find treatments because they were experimenting because we knew the last resort was these people are going to die so they did things they their doctor from new york started to use hydroquinone ivormectum inhalers so the medical response first time we had an infection disease where the

medical community the group think mentality supported by cdc fda nih told doctors let patients stay home let them get sick as humanly as possible and when they can't breathe anymore they go to the hospital no treatment of the virus they became super spreaders from home to the hospital so october 20 any age treatment guidelines you get sick at home don't do anything

wait when you're really you can't breathe go to the hospital until the patient needs oxygen and start doing something that's 14 days later virus has already been replicated fear and really strange stuff fear in the early stages but yet there was brave doctors that were independent finding ways to treat people outpatient of covet and there was consequences some of them

had their license evoked and and their reputation and so forth doing what doctors were supposed to do the brave and the courageous to that's what doctors are supposed to do is to heal people not to scare away not allow fear and listening to these agencies not to do anything so we noticed that there was an earliness of hydroquinone

ivermectin steroids aspirin but then a fake prestigious journal on hydroquinocon banned hydroquinone ivermectin now i have hydrochloric i have to go out another route because my doctor won't give it to me so actually i take it once a week because i'm thinking to myself this may even help me with my flu and so forth so i take it once a week

so no treatment for covenant outpatients suppression of early treatments six hundred thousand people died no early treatment you know what's so odd about this and that is that that people that didn't have the privilege or that were poor minorities overall anybody in general died because they didn't have those opportunities to go have a doctor be innovative and find different ways to

cure these people well and you know on top of it no weekly update vaccine safety no promotion of early treatments no weekly updates on treatment and innovations and at the same time you have something called algenron monocle antibodies you never hear that in the media all you hear is a vaccine vaccine and they're pushing it really hard

and you know 4 000 people have died 10 000 hospitalization and you know there was a study that was done for swine flu and if you have 25 to 50 people that die from this that die in this trial it's closed it's completely closed so i bring this up because this is a group mentality thinking of doing something that was really

history's in the show what they have done was sort of um just it's pretty sad pretty sad it had been courageous people brave men that went out of the box because they loved their patients and so same goes with the mask it doesn't do any good and if this board here needs to have courage to go against

the establishment because at the local level that's where we can protect our children because we're at that level government has failed and those three newspaper ads that i place early government kills more than anything else so you know i don't know if this is going to get voted because you need to be you need to have courage you really do

wearing the mask is abusive mentally and physically especially our children and i just hope that some of you have the brick courage enough to make local this is this is our job it's our job now imagine that you're a doctor and you're going to do the best for our children and i just hope so rather than listening

to the to the high officials telling us that our children have to wear mass and all that i just hope you do the right thing thank you mr nah yeah i just like to uh my gosh this is one of the best meetings i ever had for last few years we had so much of good input good speakers good parents and and

students alike and i appreciate that and i really believe in especially talking to medical personnel they have often lately told me that masks should be an option for especially for little children now are the numbers are uh not only been going down but the colors being changed from critical uh red purple and etc so i think we have to look at other mental

state of our children it's a mental health physical health everything combined and i think this is the time that we would make a mask an optional for the choices for the parents and and childhood if we don't do that again we're taking away something that is very important for our children and then our parent to write so i

support making an optional thank you mrs gagne yes tonight's agenda item actually uh is not to lift a mask mandate or has anything to do with the implementation of a mask mandate tonight's agenda item is squarely around whether or not the board has the subject matter jurisdiction to do anything about mass or state public health guidelines so whether or not anyone on this board

has an opinion on mask wearing not mask wearing or anything else that's been discussed thus far on the diocese the decision we're making this evening is whether or not the board has the jurisdiction to even make a decision on this item thank you for that clarification seeing no other lights we will go ahead and vote all in favor signify i i

all opposed no no motion fails two to three moving on to item 2b1 public hearing regarding the 2021 budget recommend the board of education conduct a public hearing regarding the 2021-2022 budget i now give notice and open the public hearing at 7 57 pm are there any comments pat there are none and i'll close the public hearing at 7

58 pm moving on to item two c one public hearing regarding the local control and accountability plan recommend the board of education conduct a public hearing regarding the local control and accountability plan i now give notice and open the public meeting at 7 58 pm are there any comments pat none and i'll close public hearing at 7 58 pm

moving on to item 2d1 resolution 2020 2021-38 resolution of the board of education of the chino valley unified school district adopting addendum to the certified eir for the proposed preserve school number two project adopting a mitigation monitoring and reporting plan and written findings pursuant to sequa and the education code approving the proposed project subject to the acquisition of the site

and delegate authority to staff to execute a notice of determination for the preserve school number two project recommend the board of education adopt resolution 2020 2021-38 addendum to the certified eir for the proposed preserve school number two project adopt a mitigation monitoring and reporting plan and written findings pursuant to sequa and the education code approved the proposed project

subject to the acquisition of the site and delegate authority to staff to execute a notice of determination for the preserve school number two project are there any comments there are two speakers caroline cook followed by jennica krauss good evening i am a resident of the preserve my daughter elise attends a cal arrow i'm a first grade teacher i am reading

this letter on behalf of a calero teacher mrs deanna dozy she wasn't able to make it today i am both a teacher and parent in chino valley school district and i'm a resident in the preserve community my two oldest children are enrolled at calero i would like to address three issues the overcrowding at calero as a teacher

in the district i find it unacceptable that the gap of equity within our district is so vast i know we have declining enrollment as a district and i'm aware that we have schools with only a few hundred enrolled and class sizes of 15 to 18 students that is not equitable when cal arrow is at full capacity two years ago and

classes are full capping over 30 in every classroom the decision to add portables was a temporary solution i want to help bring to your attention that overcrowded schools directly affect a child's ability to learn and their social emotional health studies show overcrowding negatively affects children's learning the more noise the more difficult it is for children to logistically hear

details of lessons asked to hear other questions communicate one-on-one with the teacher socialize in a constructive manner and focus and pay attention studies show overcrowding leads to more stress in teachers and students overcrowded schools have less community supplies and to be honest where the teachers that are buying these supplies is a financial strain for a teacher to

purchase for 30 to 36 students overcrowding also leads to a frequency of classroom discipline issues more conflicts tension and time spent addressing behavior taking away from learning statistics also show struggling students fall even further behind in a school with a larger class size student-teacher ratio than schools with a more balanced population studies show the ability to connect with

students in overcrowded schools become more and more difficult leaving our students at keller hill to feel unseen or unheard in large classes with teachers who feel burned out and frustrated we need preserve 2 built in the next 18 to 36 months students in the 20 23 24 school year need your yes today we need to we need clear answers as to

what our options are where will they go where will the younger siblings or current students go please provide clear answers as to where our children will go please build preserve 2 school before it's too late sign mrs deanna dozy thank you thank you jennica krauss hi good evening um so i moved to the preserve community in 2015 and that was

because of the community and the schools i have my oldest starting kindergarten this year and a younger one following in a couple of years calero is overcrowded i had to wait in line just to get her registered for kindergarten like waiting in line for disneyland tickets when they first opened that's ridiculous to sign up a kit for

kindergarten to make sure they can go to their home community what's going to happen next year the following year we're looking out at 2024 now that just seems insane people are moving in that's not slowing down so where were these kids going to go feels like we're back at our original timeline in 2019 we had a three-year

timeline with august 22 to open and now we're looking at three years again with august of 2024 busting a five-year-old is not an option nor acceptable to even conceive what about the teachers to go beyond the kids it goes beyond that teachers administrators have to track more students than is acceptable how's that fair how how many kids are

slipping through the cracks at calero because the school is overcrowded and keeping up is virtually impossible for the teachers and faculty yet progress still isn't moving as promised several times we're not going anywhere the preserve is growing in numbers which means there will just be more of us to stand up and demand answers we vote we come out we need real answers

with real progress and realistic expectations thank you thank you that's it thank you very much okay may i have a motion motion by mrs gagne in the second by mr naw comments questions or discussion from the board mr naw yeah dr enfield exactly what are we voting on tonight me turn that over to staff to go ahead and mr spitzer to take

over that thank you mr naw um we are actually are voting on the addendum to the environmental impact report which was fired filed for preserved school number two and we have barbara heyman from place works who is our consultant that did all this work on this report and she is online with us to hopefully be able to answer questions as

long as audio is working no as long as we can proceed with this in a fast manner yes thank you that's all any other comments or questions from board dr infield i just have one question probably to mr cetera can you please explain exactly what the notice of determination is i could but i'm going to handle it off

to barbara she can do it a whole lot better than i could okay good evening board members uh district staff thank you uh the notice of determination is a document that is filed with the san bernardino county clerk should the district approved the resolution tonight the resolution would allow you to uh move forward with the project one approve the squad

document which is an addendum to the preserved eir that was prepared by the city in 2003 it allows you pam we we are having audio problems with you if we can we may turn it over to a mr tau we're having a hard time hearing you i apologize of course so thank you um i apologize barbara we can't hear you

because the audio is not very loud so notice of determination is actually a document that is recorded with the county and the purpose of the recording is to let the public know that you are evaluating the environmental impacts associated with project and there's a specific checklist of items that are reviewed as part of that notice of determination

sometimes there are challenges that notice of determination is to make sure that anybody who has an issue will come forward and let you know that there is an issue but in this particular case this is something this addendum was requested by the department of toxic substances control uh with regard to the fact that this used to be ag land

is are there any fees associated with uh filing this uh there are some fees uh it's just your standard recording fees i think it's like 25 or 50 or something yeah perfect any other questions from the board all right just just so you know that we just had a public hearing so if you had a throng of people complaining about the

school that's what this hearing was for so um so far no opposition mr bridge did you have something no okay um seeing no other questions or comments from the board thank you mr thank you uh we will now vote all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries five to moving on now to section three consent

items however there any speaker requests on consent items thank you board members do we have any polls mr cruz no pulls mr bridge no pulls mr naw i have no pulse pat for the record please let it indicate that mrs ghania left at 808pm thank you and i have no polls and i have a motion so moved second

motioned by mr gnaw second by mr bridge all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion passes four to zero with one absence moving on now to section four information items are there any comments or questions from the board on information items seeing none we will move on to section five communications we are now communications mr cruz please

yeah i've been hearing the word lack of communication lack of communication yeah we'll still vote three two thirty minutes we choose what we want in our minds you know that person the gentleman that spoke about louis i mean it sounded like a good sign it sounded really legit you know i'm real close i'm just setting up an action

item i think people need to know if they want to open the school or not let them decide you know i think i think people have already decided you know if we arbitrary i mean what he said was very sensible he just wants the school to just to be built you know i don't know but i tell you something

what really matters the smallest things is what really matters i really believe that that's where my joy is you just plant a little seed in a person that is my objective that is my purpose it's always been my purpose to fail is purposeful for me because my life has always been like that and i'm very grateful because i get

gratification this is how it should be this all should be because you place a seat in a person they start thinking so i am doing my job and um at the beginning you know i had to learn but i'm becoming better and better i guess why because i really don't care about myself much i care about you now and that is very

satisfying for me you know some of these women talk about critical race theory it's called ab101 it may have passed today i don't know but they're thinking about it's a high school that's ethnic studies it's a high school graduate requirement that's what they want to do good news is that a lot of states are banning it and they're correct about it and that is

you know it it teaches people how to be racist you know it really does and you know i can remember my dad was telling me in san antonio texas he wasn't able to swim monday through friday but he was able to swim on saturday because he wasn't allowed to but you know all of us have hardships in

life but this stuff this this this is a marcus ideologist uh ideology and he destroys america because it's really pointing that america is bad and we got to destroy everything we want to destroy the constitution because that's pretty much what they're planning to do but it's not happening many states are banning this you're seeing a division between states

that's what we're seeing and eventually we're going to take sites we'll probably have to move to those states those states that aren't wearing masks not for enforcing vaccines you know it's a it's actually an ideology in the mind that's all it is neither right nor wrong you know i want to read something to you a famous superintendent he wrote a book

a pamphlet so i'm going to read it i'm going to read a section this idea of black people defining themselves as just americans may not play well in some communities but i suspect that deep within every black person in america is a wish that he could connect with that american dream we've been told so much about to do so would be to place their trust

in white america an america which has a checkered past in dealing with its darker occupants it is their historically collective and personal hurt and pain which keeps blacks from subscribing to a total american identity it is safe to say however that no group or individuals has a monopoly on pain is what blacks have endured in their time

in america more or less than that experienced by native americans for instance i know as a child and as a teenager i've experienced my own instances of racial slights and ignitions but i would venture to say that my pain is comparatively incidental and negligible to the pain of those i have met through my life we have been victims of sexual

molestation abuse as children and teenagers black people are simply america's lasting metaphor illustrating both the triumph and pitfalls of the american experiment for this reason it is imperative that blacks insist on their birthright as american first this would be symbolic step in insisting upon full inclusion in american history and in recognition of their ancestors who have shed their blood and the belief

that american dream was worthy to pursue black people can acknowledge the fact that americans was built on the backs of their ancestors without finding themselves stuck in the past insisting instead that america is as much of their country as those americans who can trace their ancestors back to the puritans this ends up being connected to america speaks volumes to me especially when i

begin to look back on my own racial journey it did not begin as i would logically assume with the dna test in 2003 but actually begin with a newsweek essay 1994 on black history month that was the genesis of my questioning some of the racial attitudes in america which has exhaustibly resulted in my feeling of a shared american heritage

i often think that if i were asked again the question which racial classification i would mark i would be quite comfortable in selecting white hispanic native american asian and yes black because i'm not one but i am all these classifications because with me lies of america and the person that wrote this was our superintendent wayne joseph and so just to say you know

i mean down to it i mean you know pastor king you know he just he transcended you judge a person based on their character and their deed and their content and that's all we can do and you know 99 of us we're all good people living a life working going home very much the same routine just like monarch

butterfly butter caterpillars doing the same old thing over and over again there's just some evil out there that wants to divide us to destroy us especially to destroy america and you know this ethnic studies you know that's part of it a lot of factors but um people are opening up and realizing this so that's good because good is gonna end

good is gonna win at the end thank you mr nah yes uh again i thank uh all the speakers that who had come and spoke to us presented us with important issues let me talk about the crt theory on my side my perspective i still remember just recently that maybe a year ago our teacher from chino hills high school

mr david browning he had left us and and i was able to attend his celebration of life and there he left a in one sentence for all his students that he have taught and also to his peers teachers and also friends like us he said be good to yourself and be good to others that's what he said it's not about

crt theory where we're different um we are not alike we do not understand each other and all that when we look at people especially children you ask them about their friends they don't see anything other than they're my friends let me tell you the truth sometimes they call me people do or even the parents to call me

with different last name hispanic last name to me and i would just say yes penguin in chino valley unified school district when you're looking at our population it's all mixed and and then very balanced and i'll ask our staffs to teach to be a proud to be an american that's what our kids need to learn it's not

those things that that's not good for our kids their mental state and health of this nation teach how blessed we are to be an american i have here heard all these parents talking about participation dr enfield uh in right timing i like to have community committee or task force formed for many important issues that pertains to our

schools such as building second preserved school task force so that not only they're informed but we can address and and listen to their issues and second also look into forming a grant committee involving our parents and look at other districts and and see if they have such a task force like that so we could use that and and

get the support from the parents because they would have many insights and many needs that we could address which would matter of fact benefit the most our children and just recently i have gotten phone calls from volunteers from chino hills a bingo community they're so willing to come and and and and reignite their fundraising activities so hopefully

after june 15th we would have a new mandate and and which would allow such activities on our school sites again um i'd like to thank our cabinet members our directors our district personnel you have done an awesome job uh principles really appreciate you guys and our teachers and csa members um i just like to ask even though it might take more time

of our your busy schedules when our parents do ask for help or needs an attention please listen to them they are no different than each one of us and many times we need each other so this is my comment thank you for tonight thank you mr bridge thank you i'll i'll be uh brief with just a couple of a couple of

comments uh earlier i think it was mentioned that uh in with the first preserved school in 2004 that we were in a bit of financial problem in the district and if memory serves me correctly and i'm not on prevagen uh i think we had 243 rifts that year of teachers being uh being rift on march 15th which

is uh you know serious financial difficulty when you have to tell 243 teachers that they're likely not going to come back following year so i just want to make that a brief comment i didn't make it earlier uh i would also like to congratulate the uh the graduates of uh of the high schools and the um and the

promotions that took place i was disappointed that uh but understood that why we could not attend but i everything i heard and saw was went very well and pleased that we at least had some type of graduation ceremony this year that was one of the things i advocated when i ran for this position to try and do that

and i'm glad we were able to do that also uh even though graduation has taken place school's out we still have some athletes that are are playing and we have at least four teams in the cif playoffs there might be more and i apologize if i miss the others but i know today we had four four games yala baseball chino hills

high softball don lugo baseball and don lugo softball and i want to wish those teams the best and hopefully they came out on the winning side and looking forward to to continuing even though we're out of school for the for the summer and i would like to wish excuse me the rest of the district some good time

off this summer i know cal air will be short being year round starting back in july and the rest will be coming back in in august one thing i did want to mention as a former as a former government teacher i really prided myself on with my students they didn't know how i voted they didn't know my position because i said that's

not my that's not why i'm in here my i'm in here to get you interested so that you through your political socialization either through your parents your friends whatever you decide how you're going to vote i just want you to participate and i really prided myself on getting my students interested to go out and be part of an active community and vote and

it saddens me with what i'm seeing going on nationally now with states trying to take away rights of people to vote by by laws that are passing so i just want to make that that comment as a as a former teacher so with that that concludes my comments and i'm disappointed that my fellow colleagues were not here to

listen to that okay dr enfield has no comments i just have a couple of brief things just like mr bridge i want to take this opportunity to congratulate all of our graduates sorry that we weren't able to attend it was a decision we made early on and to try to allow as many family members and friends to

participate as possible so congratulations to each of you wish all of you the very best and much success in everything that you do and also like mr bridge said uh we although school is out we still do have some sports teams that are participating in cif playoffs so let's wish them all the best of luck i don't have any updates on scores today

unfortunately but we wish them all the best with that we will close this regular meeting of the board of education at 8 25 p.m