Chino Valley Unified Board of Education: November 7, 2019

Eight people addressed the board on items not on the agenda at this regular meeting: four on the Tennis Anyone program and increases in the rates the district charges for use of its facilities, three on technology in classrooms, and one on training for substitute teachers 1. The fees were not on the agenda, and the board took no action on them that night; three members addressed them in board communications 2. On its consent calendar the board awarded most of the first construction phase of the Chino High School rebuild, a packet total of $69.7 million from Measure G bond funds 3 4. It also held hearings on opening proposals for the classified employees' contract and received bylaw changes that would replace the board's officer rotation with an annual election 5 6.

This page follows the board's signed minutes, which the board approved without amendment on November 21, 2019 7 8. Names, motions and attributed remarks come from those minutes. Recording quotes appear only within the subjects the minutes give each member.

🎾 Facility fees and Tennis Anyone

The minutes record who spoke on items not on the agenda and on what, but not what each said: "Cathy Osman, Waverly Phou, and David Shih addressed the Board regarding the use of technology in the classroom and its effects; Chau Nguyen addressed the Board regarding training for substitute teachers; Bill Bush, Irene Erramouspe, Rudy Aguilar, and Tim Robinson addressed the Board regarding Tennis Anyone and facilities use rate increases" 1.

Champion Newspapers' "Here & There" column reported on November 23 that the board "heard complaints at a recent meeting" about a decision to raise property use lease fees by 150 percent. It reported that Bill Bush, owner of Tennis Anyone, said his fees at Ayala High had gone from $18,000 to $45,000 a year, and that Joe Schaffer said the district had not raised fees for 10 years and that only direct costs are included 9.

In board communications, Joe Schaffer acknowledged emails in support of Tennis Anyone and explained the increases 2. On the recording he said the fees "were held in place for quite a long time for ten years" 10, that steps are now in place for the fees to be looked at "on an annual basis," and that the change applies at every facility the district owns, not just one high school 11. As a public entity, he said, the district may charge direct costs only and makes no profit 12, calling it a "cost recovery effort" 13.

Andrew Cruz said he supports reducing the fees 2. James Na said incremental rate increases are a better approach 2. On the recording Na said that going in increments "makes more sense not only for the business sense but for our community sense" 14, and asked Superintendent Enfield to look at the numbers for what the captions render as a "stagnated schedule still covering our fees" 15 16.

What followed: on January 16, 2020 the board approved an added "Tennis Courts (No Lights)" category in the facilities use fee schedule 17. The staff memo said the July 18, 2019 fee schedule charged daytime court users the same rate as people using lighted courts at night, and proposed $20 an hour at direct cost and $30 at fair rental 18. In September 2021 Champion Newspapers reported a Chino Hills spokesperson as saying Tennis Anyone had stopped teaching at Ayala High, displaced first by COVID and then by a user fee increase 19.

🏗️ Chino High rebuild, Phase I

On the consent calendar (motion Gagnier, second Cruz, approved as amended) 20, the board awarded the Chino HS Reconstruction Phase I bid to the 20 contractors the minutes list, and rejected the bids for Bid Package #20, HVAC, and authorized a re-bid 3. The packet's fiscal impact line is $69,675,005 from Measure G Bond Fund 21, and its memo gives the reason for the HVAC re-bid: a lack of prequalified subcontractors five days before bid submittal 4. The scope includes a two-story administration building, two classroom buildings, a library and science building and a vocational building 4.

Champion Newspapers reported in December that machinery had begun work on Phase 1, and that the board had allocated $131 million to rebuild Chino High in two phases from the $750 million Measure G bond passed in 2016 21.

🤝 Classified contract hearings

The board gave public notice of the California School Employees Association, Chapter 102's opening proposal for a reopener agreement (motion Cruz, second Hernandez-Blair) and of the district's own opening proposal (motion Hernandez-Blair, second Cruz). No one spoke at either public hearing 5. CSEA's proposal seeks changes to Article 12, including the Equity Compensation Package dates, a higher benefits cap and salary schedule increases for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years 22. The district proposed clarifying the existing language of Article 10, on involuntary transfers 23.

📜 Proposed bylaw changes

The board received three bylaw revisions for information 6:

• Election of officers (BB 9100). The item came on a memo from member Christina Gagnier, which says she asked Superintendent Enfield on October 29 to agendize revising the bylaw's election-of-officers language 24. The redline strikes the rotation under which members move up the officer slate each year and adds: "THE BOARD SHALL EACH YEAR ELECT ITS ENTIRE SLATE OF OFFICERS," in open session at the annual organizational meeting 25. At its next meeting, on November 21, the board approved the revision 7.
• Meeting conduct (BB 9323). The revision moves routine adjournment from 10:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., with no more than one extension to a set time 26. It replaces the board's option to cap public input at 30 minutes per item with a firm 30-minute limit 27 28, and lets the president, with board consent and "in exceptional circumstances," adjust speaking time equitably so that a diversity of viewpoints can be heard 28. The board approved it on its November 21 consent calendar 8.
• Closed sessions (BB 9321). A revision that folds in and deletes BB 9321.1 6.

The board also received revisions to Board Policy and Administrative Regulation 7140 (architectural and engineering services) and the adopted student body budgets, as amended 6.

✅ Other consent items

• Legal services: payment to Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo; Margaret A. Chidester & Associates; and The Tao Firm 29. The memo totals $129,751.48, of which $108,910.48 is Chidester's August invoice 30.
• Also approved: two expulsion cases, school trips, two child development agreement amendments, a Great American Smokeout proclamation, the developer fee reports, three change orders, a notice of completion for Trane Energy Solutions' Proposition 39 energy work 31, personnel items as amended and an induction memorandum with Whittier College 29 3 6. A resolution compensated Irene Hernandez-Blair for the missed October 17 meeting 20.
• Changes read into the record: the name Lisa Amini (Special Education, Litel ES) was deleted from the certificated personnel items, and "Chino HS" was corrected to "Chino Hills HS" in the student body budgets 1.

🔒 Closed session

The board met in closed session from 4:55 p.m. to 5:46 p.m. on existing and anticipated litigation, student discipline, negotiations with A.C.T. and CSEA, employee discipline, and the superintendent's evaluation 32. It reported accepting a settlement agreement and general release under which classified employee 4999 will resign effective December 30, 2019 1.

🗣️ Reports and board communications

• Audrey Ing, student representative, said November 13 is World Kindness Day, when schools would launch the Kindness and Inclusivity campaign, and reported on activities at each high school 1.
• Curtis Dean, CSEA Treasurer, reported that the CSEA car show raised $2,700.00 for scholarships and announced the recipients 1.
• Barbara Bearden, CHAMP, recognized Dr. Kim Cabrera, Don Lugo HS principal, and senior Sean Boscovich for CIF Champions for Character awards, and said several schools would be receiving Chromebooks 1.
• Joe Schaffer also reported on the Baldy View ROP open house on October 19 2, which on the recording he described as a ribbon cutting for a logistics training facility put together with UPS 33.
• Christina Gagnier thanked community members, teachers and administrators for attending and commenting 2.
• Irene Hernandez-Blair spoke about parent survey responses and sharing the data back with parents and the public 2.
• Andrew Cruz spoke about studies on screen time and the use of technology, and working together as a community 2.
• Superintendent Enfield made no comment 2.
• James Na spoke about screen time, game addictions and training for substitute teachers, and thanked Chino City Council member Mark Hargrove for attending 2.

President Na adjourned the meeting at 6:55 p.m. 34