Board of Education — July 21, 2022

President Christina Gagnier called the meeting to order at 4:35 p.m. with Bridge, Cruz, Na, and Gagnier present; Board Member Joe Schaffer was absent for the entire meeting. 1 The board went immediately into closed session on a student readmission, labor negotiations with A.C.T. (Associated Chino Teachers) and CSEA, and a slate of administrative appointments and evaluations, reconvening in open session at 6:00 p.m. 2 Out of closed session, the board reported five administrative appointments: Mehran Akhtarkhavari as assistant principal at Chino Hills High School, Gerald Matthews as principal at Cortez Elementary, Shiloh Hart as Child Development Coordinator, Valerie Villarta as Behavior Intervention Program Coordinator, and Laurie Warner as principal at Cal Aero K-8. 3 James Na led the Pledge of Allegiance. 3

Public comment, seven weeks after Uvalde: safety, and who pays for a bus pass

CHAMP employee representative Emily Lao opened public comment with congratulations to Chino High's Cowboys ahead of their new campus and a reminder that CHAMP's reduced membership rate closed the next day. 45 Three residents then addressed the board on items not on the agenda, called up in this order. 6

Jim Gallagher asked the district to run a "top-down, bottom-up" threat assessment of every campus, invoking accounts he had read of other districts' mass-shooting events. 67

Sonja Shaw raised campus safety concerns and questioned the district's emergency lockdown procedures — describing a four-second lockdown mechanism she said would lock students, and potentially law enforcement, out of quad areas — and asked for updated COVID-19 policy information. 68

Misty Startup questioned the cost of bus passes, arguing transportation should be as free as textbooks, and said her own daughter has never been charged for hers. She suggested redirecting money spent on providing free menstrual products toward free transportation instead. 69

Action: an energy contract, five cabinet contracts, and a longevity-schedule change

The board approved an energy services contract with PacificWest Energy Solutions for HVAC assessment and improved-air-quality work, along with the California Government Code 4217 findings the law requires for that kind of contract. 10 The item's own fiscal-impact statement puts the contract at $3,461,042 in ESSER II/III funds, with a projected $4,998,500 in savings — a separate figure from the $1,364,000 CalSHAPE grant the district had already secured, through the same vendor, to help fund the underlying air-quality measures. 11

The board also approved four-year employment contracts, running July 2022 through June 2026, for five cabinet members: Sandra Chen (Associate Superintendent, Business Services), Grace Park (Associate Superintendent, Curriculum, Instruction, Innovation, and Support), Lea Fellows (Assistant Superintendent, CIIS), Rich Rideout (Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources), and Gregory Stachura (Assistant Superintendent, Facilities, Planning, and Operations). 1213 Sonja Shaw returned to the podium to address the board specifically on this item, raising a transparency question about how much each cabinet member is paid. 1214

The board separately revised the certificated and classified management longevity schedules: previously, management employees received their first longevity increase at 15 years of service; the revision moves that first increase to 10 years of service, at a 2% rate, with the percentage increasing every five years up to 30 years. 1516

Consent, and two information items worth flagging

The rest of the agenda — warrants, fundraising applications, a student readmission case, school-sponsored trips, school plans and handbooks, dozens of facilities change orders and bid awards across the Chino High and Ayala High reconstruction projects, and personnel items — passed together on consent. 17

Two information items drew no recorded board discussion but are worth surfacing on their own. New Administrative Regulation 5141.51, on school-based threat assessment, was received for information — retitled from a proposed board policy to an administrative regulation by a changes-and-deletions amendment made earlier in the meeting. 18 And a revision of Administrative Regulation and new Exhibit 3517 (Facilities Inspection) was received for information; the exhibit is where the district's new obligation under AB 367 actually lives — free menstrual products, stocked and accessible, in every women's and all-gender restroom. 1920

Communications: the board's own voices, recovered

The minutes PDF on file for this meeting had one page with no text layer — the final one — until an OCR repair pass recovered it. That page carries the Board Communications section in full, which this archive had never shown before: each trustee speaking in turn, then the Superintendent, then adjournment and the signature block.

Board Member Bridge read Board Member Schaffer's comments into the record in his absence. Schaffer asked Superintendent Enfield for a public update on the school scoreboards at the next meeting, and requested a pause on the scoreboard procurement process until the board had been shown what had actually been approved and ordered versus what was originally discussed — saying he didn't see the wisdom in replacing 1970s-era technology "for the same thing." 2122

Don Bridge, in his own remarks, acknowledged the district's certificated and classified retirees by name — among them a 24-year elementary teacher, a 35-year junior high English teacher, a school nurse, and a 29-year testing aide — said he had attended the Chino High School ribbon-cutting, said he hoped for a community event once construction there is finished, and wished the district a good school year. 2123

Andrew Cruz agreed with Misty Startup's bus-pass comments and said security personnel should get raises; he then spoke about mask mandates returning in some counties and said he'd like a future action item affirming that mask-wearing is a choice, before turning to border violence, the Second Amendment, and the term "radical ideologue." 2124

James Na spoke about the Chino High campus, thanked the speakers who had raised campus-safety concerns, raised his own concerns about transportation, and remembered a former Chino High student who died several years ago and, he said, would have been proud of the new campus. 2125

Superintendent Norm Enfield spoke about school safety and extensive staff training, said some safety protocols are deliberately not shared publicly, and — closing his remarks — thanked the board for approving the cabinet contracts earlier in the meeting. 2126

President Christina Gagnier asked Superintendent Enfield to clarify the district's mask-mandate situation and thanked local elected officials for their support of the local Chamber of Commerce. 2127

President Gagnier adjourned the meeting at 6:52 p.m. — a time the scanned page's text layer had dropped under the signature line, and that a 400-dpi render of the page recovered. 2128 The minutes are signed by Christina Gagnier, President, and James Na, Clerk, and recorded by Patricia Kaylor, Administrative Secretary. 21