Board of Education — September 12, 2023

All right, thank you everyone for coming tonight. I would like to call this meeting to order. Before we do the Pledge of Allegiance, we would like to have a moment of silence for a few of our former employees. Immediately following the Pledge of Allegiance, please remain standing. Everybody stand please.

Right hand over your heart and to honor those from September 11th. Yesterday, keep them in your hearts. Ready, begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Norma Till was an employee of RUSD for 27 years. In 1979, she became an instructional aide at Mariposa Elementary School and then a librarian at Mentone Elementary School. In 2000, she was one of four employees selected as classified employee of the year for Rowlands Unified School District. Norma enjoyed golfing, bowling, watching baseball, and dancing. John Valdez was an employee of RUSD for over 20 years. He worked in the transportation department as a driver. He drove the bus in the Redlands Christmas Parade for many years. He was a valued member of RESPA, serving on the executive board and the negotiations team. He is survived by two brothers and lots of God children. John Valdez was an all around beloved person.

Please be seated.

Okay, we'll take roll. Uh, Ms. Holohan. Present. Mrs. Renner. Present. Mr. Vara.

Present.

Mr. O'Neill is, um, not here today, and I am present. Our next item is the approval of the minutes. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the August 8th, 2023 Board of Education regular meeting?

So moved. Second.

Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Alex. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Moving on to public participation. This section of the agenda is meant for any member of the public to address the board on any agenda item listed tonight. We have one card from Mr. Blatchley. So if you'd like to come up. Okay. Sorry, you're right. Next item there. So then there are no cards. Now onto our public hearings, which we do have, let's see. Public hearing regarding resolution number 9, 2023-2024, statement of assurance, pupil textbook and instructional materials, compliance for the 2023-2024 fiscal year TK-12. The public hearing is now open. Is there anyone who would like to comment? Mr. Blatchley, I apologize.

I just want to point out that the materials that sit behind this public hearing aren't really helpful to a parent. in terms of because it's a statement of assurance that essentially textbooks and instructional materials are being provided to everybody, right? But in this day and age you've got physical textbooks and you've got what's available to them through their laptops that you're giving them. And so it would be nice if you've listed out all of the textbooks for every single that you're using this year. But you don't have anything that says, hey, you know, we've got 200 students and there are 100 textbooks that have been given to students and there are 100 students that have opted to have a digital textbook. Something that tells us that everybody is covered. You know, when I got up and talked about this before, we had opted into online textbooks right but then there turned out there wasn't an online textbook for a particular class and so my student never got a textbook for that particular course right so if you're offering online textbooks they've got to be available to everybody and so I want I want to make sure that you're doing that and it'd be nice if there was something in this public hearing that detailed that out so that people can come up and make a comment on it. The other thing is that you're talking about the use of textbooks, and I've told you before, I've had my student get textbooks And the teacher never, ever, ever references that textbook. So they give them that textbook, they give them that workbook, and that workbook just sits, that textbook just sits for the entire year. And all the instructional materials are provided by the teacher. And there's nothing in here that essentially instructs to a parent, this particular teacher at this particular school is not going to use this textbook, even though this is the textbook that we're telling you that you're you know, 11th grade student is going to use for this class, the teacher that's teaching your student's class is never going to reference this textbook. They're always going to use their own materials. Now, we don't know or we don't care. We're not auditing what materials those teachers are using, right? And I'm sure those teachers are giving the instructional materials to the students, but if you're going to give us an assurance that all the instructional materials are here and here's the textbooks and the purpose of the law is to make parents aware of what instructional materials their students are going to be using throughout the year, we ought to have some detail in here about it so that people can comment on it. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Lashley. Okay, this hearing is now closed. Moving on to presentations, you're going to start out with the advanced placement, dual enrollment, and career technical education update for Mrs. Swan, our director of secondary education, and Mr. Quartz, our director of innovation, technology, and accountability. Mrs. Swan and Mr. Quartz, thank you.

Good evening, board members, Superintendent Cabral, cabinet and guests. That is probably one of the longest titles of a presentation that we've ever had. But that's basically a lot of words to say, what makes a student ready for college or career after they graduate, according to the state of California? So to do this presentation, my longtime colleague and friend, Director Swann, is going to detail the programs, the major programs that are at the high school to help for college and career readiness. And I'm going to come alongside with some data to add context to these different programs. So I'm going to pass this on to Director Swann.

I'm so sorry, Julie. I just wanted to make a quick comment. If there's anybody that is needing translator services, we have someone available. Um, if you could just- we have someone available. Uh, Sonia, who is right there, um, raising her hand. So if anybody needs a translator, just go ahead and please, uh, see Sonia for that. My apologies. Go ahead.

Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. The college and career indicator is one component of the dashboard and it's really the high school component. That's kind of how I call it because the bottom line is it's lots of different opportunities through different programs offered on our campus for students to demonstrate that they're college and career ready. There are actually eight measures. I'm sorry, I'll stop here real quick. This is how it looked like on the dashboard in the past. You can see the 2019 results. They have not recorded the results on this since COVID. And so nothing was reported in 22. This year is going to be the first year that it's going to be reported. So when the dashboard comes out the end of October, November, something like that, we'll actually see some information. It'll just be status. It won't be status and growth, but it will be status on the dashboard this year. And there's many different measures, many different ways, eight ways to attain the CCI, and it's multiple ways. So even when we get into all of these eight different ways, first and foremost, they have to meet the grad requirements, they have to graduate, they have to be A through G as well, and then something in addition to that. So what we're gonna do tonight is talk about three of those eight. So to be prepared in our district, our students can take College course credit, we call it dual enrollment, or it was formerly called dual enrollment. Haven't quite got to the college course credit yet, but dual enrollment, they complete two semesters of college courses with a passing grade of a C or better. And that can be an academic course or a CTE course. Another way that they can do it is through our CTE program in partnership with CRI-ROP. We offer many different CTE courses, which is Career Technical Education. And finally, the third one we're going to talk about tonight are the AP exams. are identified as college and career ready. If they get a passing score on 2 AP or IB, we don't have IB in Redlands, so two AP exams. So we'll start with the first one, and that's the college course credit. Again, dual enrollment is what we have called it for a long time. They have to pass the college level course with a C minus or better. In Redlands, we offer two different ways of meeting that. the dual enrollment. We offer virtual classes in the afternoon and generally those are elective classes. Once in a while they will also offer a history or a foreign language ASL. Our students get that through our virtual classes. And then we offer English and math classes during the school day. Both of them earn student graduation credits as well as college credits.

So as mentioned, I was going to come alongside to add some context to that. One of the questions that people may wonder is how many students in 2023 earn dual enrollment credits. That number is 432 students in Redlands earn dual enrollment credits. That's incredible. To put that into context, that's 38 more students than the previous year. So we're seeing an upward trend in the total number of students earning those credits. The other one that we might wonder is how does that compare by school? Citrus Valley had 160 students that earned those credits, the dual enrollment credits. Rev had 98. Redlands High School had 167. You can also see that students from Rise, Orangewood, and Orangewood Academy also received credits in that way. So there's also two numbers that you'll see. You'll see one number slash and then another number. As Director Swann mentioned, to receive the dual enrollment credit, students need to achieve a C or better. So the first number is the total number of students who took the course or enrolled in the course. The second number is the total number of students who actually passed the course and received credit. You can see that even more than that number were actually enrolled in those courses. Obviously, fewer passed and got the credits.

We offer a wide variety of virtual courses. This list goes clear back to when we first started back in 2018, but lots of different opportunities for our students when it comes to dual enrollment courses. The next one is our CTE Pathway Completion. And as I spoke of before, you finish a sequence of pathway courses, there's two of them, and complete the capstone course with a C minus or better. And again, that's one way to get the CCI. In Redlands, you guys have the actual packet up there of all the courses at all the different sites. This is just a quick visual of what those courses are. And for the people in the audience, it's a wide range. Culinary Arts is offered at all of our campuses. We have manufacturing. We have auto, many different courses. And I think there's other handouts out there that you can take a look at that. So just a little bit of the information. We offer one district-wide ROP pathway. And that, when I say district-wide, is that we actually pull about seven students from each one of our high schools that get to participate. It's certified nursing assistant. It's about 500 hours of work over the course of each trimester kind of thing that they do. And in the end, all of our students pass the test, and they all walked away with a CNA, could be hired the next day. It was pretty, it's pretty amazing that course. It's actually offered on RHS campus, but it includes all of our kids. CB has ten pathways, four that are RUSD pathways and six that are ROP. What does that mean? Our partnership with ROP, they offer, they provide many pathways. In addition, some of our teachers have had taken on the opportunity to offer a pathway because they have the credential needed to do that. So that's when you see RUSD and the number, that's the total number of district teachers teaching CTE pathways and then ROP pathways that are offered. OHS is all RUSD teachers. We have 29 total number of pathways in the district. 17 that are CRIRUP and 13 that are USD, 55 total number of courses that are UC A through G approved, 21 number of courses that are articulated with a community college, and we offer 10 of the 15 industry sectors in Redlands.

For CTE, there's two classes you can take. The first class is called the concentrator, and obviously way more students take that first class. The second class is called the completer, and obviously fewer students take the completer class. So the question is, how many students are taking these classes? How many students are participating in these programs? We can see in 22, 23, 1,094 students took that first class, the concentrator, and 358 students took the completer. Add that to the 432 students who took dual enrollment, now you're starting to see a picture of students participating in these programs for College of Career Readiness. You can see for concentrators that number has gone up drastically, quite significantly over the past several years, 436, 824, 1014, 1094. One of the things that we have noticed though is the percentage of students has not increased for the total percentage of students going on to take that completer. So we really want to see more students take the second course for the CTE. And there's obviously many reasons why fewer kids or fewer percentage of students are going on for that second course. But that's one thing that we wanted to point out as well.

And the final one are AP exams. We're pretty proud of the robust AP program we have in our district. Students have to pass two or more AP exams with a score of three or better. Three is passing. and we offer 32 different subject areas in Redlands.

All right, over time the question is how many tests have been taken and what percentage of those tests were passed with a three or higher? So you're going to see two numbers. The first number represents the total number of tests taken and the second number represents the total number of tests passed. So you can see, just for example, in 2018-2019, Citrus Valley, there were 909 total tests and 393 tests passed for a pass rate of 43%. But look what happens as the years go by. 46% pass rate, 59% pass rate, and now, last year, it was a 68% pass rate for Citrus Valley. The same number of tests, But 615 tests passed. That's a tremendous number and a tremendous sort of like trend going upward for the school. District-wide you can see a similar trend, 42% pass rate 2018-2019. 45, 66. And as far as we know, this is one of our highest pass rates that we can track going back at 69% pass rate as a district for Redlands Unified last year. In context, the national average pass rate is 60%. So that's almost 10% higher than the national average. The next thing that I wanted to do for context is to show you how our individual classes are compared to the national average. You can see different courses like language composition, literature, calc, statistics, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, so on and so forth. The first column obviously is how the US average pass rate is, and you can see the second column is how our USD students did for pass rates. We put the difference in on the third column, and you can see in many cases it's double digits higher than national averages for pass rates. Finally, we wanted to show you how this compared for participation. On the far right hand, you'll see the total number of students who participated. And again, we have 432 for dual enrollment, and then about 1,300 or 1,400 for CTE. Now for AP, Citrus Valley had 381 test takers last year, which was nine more than the previous year. Rev had 393 test takers, which is a little bit less than last year or the previous year, and RHS had 544 test takers, which is more than the previous year. The amount more is covered up by the cute little picture. So that's sort of a picture of three of the eight major programs that help students gain college and career readiness according to the California School Dashboard. So with that said, let's open up to questions.

Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Jamie. Anybody have any questions? Michelle, do you have anything? Good. All right. Thank you. Wonderful presentation. Appreciate it. Next up, we have Mr. Hill, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services. And he'll be going over the final 2022-2023 unaudited actuals and the 2023-2024 revised adopted budget. Mr. Hill. I hope I get the same collapse.

although I don't do anything to this particular budget. I'd like to thank Brian Guggenberg, Sherry Gross, Fernanda, who actually do all of the work for this report. They're the ones that build it. And I want to thank the entire fiscal and payroll team who keep everything functioning despite some disruptions in service in the last couple months. What I'm presenting tonight is 22-23 unaudited actuals, which means I'm not giving you a glimpse of the future, I'm giving you the reality of the past. So we just finished the 22-23 school year, so what I'm giving you tonight is the difference between the estimated end of the year that I gave you a budget in June and the reality that we have faced today. None of this is audited yet, which means we are giving you unaudited actuals. I'm required to present this to you before September 15th. It identifies changes we need to make to our projected budget moving forward, and it identifies restricted and unrestricted carryover balances between the two years. We still need to get it audited, which is going to take place in November of this year. State budget update. State budget was passed on time. Cost of living adjustment for 22-23 was 6.56 with an augmentation of 6.70. Current year moving into the 23-24 school year is 8.22. The only anticipated increase in statutory benefits is PERS rates. We have four columns here. The first one is 21-22 actuals. That means two years ago, this is the actual beginning balance revenues expenditures and ending fund balance. The second column, which is 22-23 estimated actuals, was the amount of money that we stated in our budget in June. So we gave you what the reality was at that point. And then as payrolls revenue and expenditures kind of finalized over the summer, we bring you today unaudited actuals, which is column C, and then net change to the right. So basically what you can see from this slide is we received $17.8 million in revenue between June and now. That's actually not additional money that came to the district, it's us allocating it to budget. So we receive money from feds in the state, and then once we receive it, we put it into budget. So we put it into budget over the summer after we presented the original thing to you. Expenditures, we spent an additional $7.7 million over the summer. Those aren't money we necessarily spent over the summer. It's items we purchased last year that those final bills come due on top of a few things that we ended up putting in. And ending fund balance, we went up 10 million. So we ended up with $108 million in ending fund balance. That consists of restricted and unrestricted items together. Just as a reminder, restricted items is money that comes to us with strings. We can't use that for anything other than what's designed with the strings. And unrestricted is the amount of money that we have choice over how we spend. As we continue with a little bit more detail, this was our revenues between 22 and 23, estimated and audited. You'll notice that we received some additional LCFF revenue in the amount of $64,000. We received about $3.7 million less in federal revenue, about 17 million more in state revenue. Again, that 17 million is the learning block money and some of those one-time block grants that we've put to budget after June. Local revenue was an additional four million. Total amount in additional dollars is 17.8 million that we realized between June and now. As we look at expenditures, this is slightly different. The negative 21 million is actually an additional expense. So we spent about $21 million more in salaries and benefits. That again, that's not money we spent over the summer, it's salaries come in and we move expenditures around and some of those realize after we finalize our budget. We're spent about 6.5 million less in books and supplies, about 1.8 million less in services, 4.8 million less in equipment, and other going and outgoing transfers, about $183,000 in transfers. Total amount of money is $7.7 million less in expenditures than we anticipated at the end of last year. The ending fund balance. So if we go back a couple slides to this one, you'll see that we have an ending fund balance of $108 million. So I move forward now to this slide. Components of the ending fund balance, if we look on the unrestricted side, we have $50,000 in revolving cash. We have about $750,000 in our warehouse. We have a million dollars in prepaid expenses. Those are multi-year contracts that we pay over. We save the money for the future contracts, future years ahead of time. We have about $12.5 million in committed funds. Those are board item committed items. We're required by law to have a 3% reserve for uneconomic uncertainty. That is $10.69 million. We have about $3.8 million in assigned items, total unrestricted. Ending fund balance is 28.98 for 129. Restricted items, there's really only one thing, and that's legally restricted. We have 79 million, 704,898. Again, most of that money, if I were to just kind of summarize it, you have learning block money, You have arts enrichment block money, you have ESSER dollars, you have Title I dollars. It's all of these dollars that come to us where we have to spend it only on the items that come to us. So 80 million of our entire ending fund balance is money that we really can't touch. We just have to spend through by the timelines. As we talk about the assigned items, so $3.8 million. Furniture equipment are dollars that we use to help schools out. So when we talk about buying new furniture equipment for schools. Donations and fundraisers, $712,000, that's the amount of money that comes into our schools. That is a summary of all of the schools together about money they've received from donations. $460,000 in their school site plans, budgets, $1.7 million in lottery funds. AQMD has been there for a while. It's still leftover money we haven't spent yet. And we set aside about $100,000 in additional monies for security beyond what we give schools. Committed items. We still have not yet entered phase two of REV stadium. You did commit $6 million for that. We are still in the planning phases for that, getting close to submitting it to DSA. That's that money that we spent. Social studies textbook adoptions and world language textbook adoptions are remaining textbook adoptions that we're just spending out the ongoing years of usually software. And then we have math and English adoptions at $4 and $2 million. Again, this is just a summary of last year's revenue and expenditures. In December, I'll come back to you with first interim, which will give you an update to this year's budget. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Hill. Michelle, do you have anything?

Questions?

OK, no questions. So thank you, Mr. Hill. And thank you to Brian, Sherry, Fernanda, and everybody in the fiscal and payroll team for putting that together for us. So it looks like we have no student trustee report this evening, so we'll move on to association reports. First, we'll have RTA. Is Sue Apt here?

Good evening, school board trustees, cabinet, staff, and community. I realized last month when I spoke, I forgot to introduce myself. So for those of you who don't know me, I am Susan Apt. I'm the elected RTA president. I'm also a dedicated TK teacher and a parent of three RUSD graduates. It's my great pleasure to report to the board the current RTA updates at each meeting. It's hard to believe the last time I spoke to you was just a month ago when we were getting ready for the first day of school. What an incredible month it has been. What an incredible team of educators, support staff, managers, and families who all work together to make this first month successful. Of course, I think we can all remember there were a few hiccups, unrelenting heat, unprecedented storms, electric power outages, new programs, new staff, new curriculum. But the great thing about Radlands is we rally together for our students. However, I can tell you, we were a little tired after this first month. We're eager to find our groove and get the swing of educating our students. But there's no tired like the first month of school tired. Looking forward to this month, there are a few things that we are working on. The first one is negotiating with the district for a strong contract so we can attract the very best educators and retain our amazing current RUSD educators. We're also working on deepening our collaborative site leadership with staff and management through the use of school site leadership teams. We're working on problem solving with special services and human resources to bring the much needed staff to meet our students' needs. The educator shortages in staffing we've been hearing about are starting to be felt in Redlands. We're also working on supporting our new educators with some information sessions and networking opportunities to meet their colleagues. Our hope is that they will build strong roots in Redlands and make a commitment to build their career here. And finally, our last goal is to build community ties through our PTA and community events. I want to end by thanking the entire team in our USD, educators, support staff, families, everyone, for making this first month a success. We do it by working together.

Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have RESPA Liz Huerta Brewster.

Good evening President Ayala Quintero, board members, Superintendent Cabral, cabinet and guests. Respa was the host to our first movie night this past Saturday at Lagonia Elementary. Thank you Mr. Cabral for attending and spending time with the kiddos. There were around 175 guests in attendance. The community of Lagonia came out to play games, enjoy crafts, and get their face painted by volunteers from Citrus Valley High School. We watched a movie and contour outside while enjoying popcorn and licorice provided by PTA. We also started doing site visits today. We visited M&O, REV, Mariposa, Mission, Mentone, and Crafton. And I just want to thank the administrators for welcoming us and walking us around campus. And I would personally like to thank our classified folks and let them know that we value them and appreciate all their hard work and dedication to the students and to RUSD. Keep up the great work. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next we have Rapa, Rebecca Acosta.

Good evening, President, Board, Superintendent, Cabinet, guests as well. I'm here tonight to speak from RAPA, which is our Redlands Administrative Professional Association, and I'm really here to spread a lot of sunshine tonight to share the positive things that are happening throughout our community of administrators. So we are having our first board meeting next week. That will be going out to the executive board tomorrow. And we do have our first social in the works that we're really excited about to get all of our administrators together to share that joy that we do have. But I did want to highlight a lot of positive things happening throughout the district in all different departments. So I wanted to start with sharing that this is Attendance Awareness Month and we have had a lot of schools with great success already. So one of the things I'd like to highlight is that Cram Elementary School had 39 classes with perfect attendance. just in the last two weeks, which is absolutely incredible. Also, Franklin Elementary School held their first 100% attendance day where we had plush donuts because we told students that they don't know how much they mean to us. And so thinking about like a Dodger game, first 5,000 fans get a bobble head, we had enough plush donuts to hand to every student who attended school on that 100% attendance day, which is traditionally a day that a lot of students miss school. And then additionally, we chose 25 students who had perfect attendance during the month of August to come for an actual donut party. So that was wonderful, and we had our communications department out supporting as well. We are all excited to have our first superintendent's awards coming up here very quickly, where we are all highlighting two students at our schools who have gone above and beyond in academics and citizenship. So we are thrilled to have that new tradition started here. Also, a few new community partnerships that have started across our schools. The Rotary Club has recently adopted Lagonia Elementary and will be holding breakfast and a book, similar to how the Kiwanis does over at Franklin. So we're excited to start that in some of our schools as well. Additionally, Toyota of Redlands is going to be attending the resource fair that's held over at Lagonia, and they have already pledged to give a backpack to every single Lagonia student. So that's absolutely fantastic. All of us principals have been collaborating at higher levels this year than ever just to promote equitable resources for all of our students. Inclusion is going really great. We have a lot of positive feedback, especially from our families and then also from our staff. Of course, there's growing pains with anything new, but we all have a positive outlook and are excited to welcome all students onto our campuses. Our directors have also been having great conversation on their shared focus around name by need for all of our students. And finally, MNO is really catching up on all of the work that was created by the extreme weather caused by Hurricane Hillary. So we wanted to show our appreciation and gratitude for them for following through and getting our school in working order. Two more things, Bryn Mawr had 261 students with perfect attendance during the month of August, which we're really excited about. And then I did want to shout out Principal Gutierrez from Moore Middle School, as well as Franklin for successfully passing our Williams audit, which shows that we are in compliance for all textbooks and resources for students in hand and online, as well as our facilities are in great condition for our students. So thank you so much.

Thank you so much. Great news from all our committees. All right. Up next, we'll be doing board committee reports. And we'll start with CRIROP. Actually, our meeting's tomorrow. So we don't have a report for that right now. Mrs. Rundler, do you want to go ahead with compact and RUP?

The first meeting will be September 18th, but I wanted to share that the first mixer will be held at the Burrage Mansion on October 12th from 5.30 to 6.30. So if any of you would like to be there and network with students, we'd love to have you. And if anybody out there watching, is in any kind of business in our community and would like to network with students, you can email me at my board email and come and network with students from our three high schools that are in the compact club. That's all for compact. Redlands Educational Partnership. I'll be bringing the dates for the Harlem Wizards game and evening of appreciation at a later meeting. I was really pleased to see the partnership between ELOP and AAA Academy. They realized close to $137,000 for students to attend the summer camp this year, which was a huge success. Over 87 students attended. Do you want me to continue with parks? Parks and recreation. Not a lot to report this month. The fencing project proposed for the theater and Prospect Park because of all the vandalism that they had has been tabled to the next meeting. The sports field allocations were set for the fall and winter programs and they will be having a meeting this Thursday, so I'll have more information next time. That is it.

Thank you, Mrs. Renner, Mr. O'Neill not here. It's just all you today. Okay, up next we have the superintendent's report, Mr. Cabral.

Thank you. Okay, good evening everyone. A couple of items. First, we hosted Leadership Redlands last Friday. Chamber of Commerce has a group of several business leaders and they visited our school district to learn all the wonderful things that we're doing and also to take tours of our Nutrition Services Division and also Clement Middle School. Thank you to both of those places. We had a great visit. Thank you to Christine who set up Uh, and we got to meet a lot of business leaders who have kids in our district and it was wonderful to spend some time with them. I attended the Respa event this past Saturday. A wonderful event, uh, nice work Respa. Uh, to see a movie, uh, at night at one of our schools was pretty awesome actually. And I know the community loved it. Um, Superintendents Awards next Tuesday is our first chance to celebrate students from every site in one location and that's going to be almost 60 students from all 26 sites and our adult ed program where we will celebrate them for their attendance or I'm sorry for their citizenship and their academic excellence and so I'm really looking forward to that. It's going to be at rev at 5 30 next Tuesday the community is welcome to participate I'm also looking forward to seeing the band who's going to perform. And then a quick thank you to all of our parents and all of our students for wonderful attendance numbers this first month of school. Thank you for coming to school. Let's keep it up. That's going to be something that you hear all year long. And then last comment is just thank you to all of our staff We had a great first month of school from our classified staff certificate staff management staff Everybody came together to really provide a wonderful experience for our students and we're going to keep that up, too.

Thank you Okay, thank you mr. Cabral we will now continue with the superintendent's recommendations under business services consent items. Mr. Hill. Do you have any? changes or corrections Thank you.

I do not have any changes or additions tonight.

Okay, so

doing the leader in me program again. I'm so happy about that. If anybody wants to go see how they run that program there, it's awesome. Those kids really take it to heart and the parents, it's amazing. It's a great program. I wish more schools could do that.

Thank you, Mrs. Renner. Can I get a motion to approve items 14A, consent items B through Y?

So moved.

Second. Thank you, Alex. Thank you, Patty. Any additional discussion? OK. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Sorry. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Let's see. Then we are on to business services action. Approve request for allowance of attendance due to emergency conditions of affidavit form J-13A with the California Department of Education for school closure on Monday, August 21st, 2023 due to Hurricane Hillary. Can I get a motion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Approve the final 2022-2023 unaudited actual financial report pursuant to the Education Code 42100, authorized Jason Hill, Assistant Superintendent, Business Services, to sign on behalf of the board. Can I get a motion?

So moved.

Okay, any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 11, 2022-2023 resolution for adopting the GAN limit.

So moved. Second.

Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Alex. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Educational Services consent items. Can I get a motion to approve items 16A, consent items B through H? Sorry, Ken, are there any changes or corrections? My apologies.

Thank you, President Alegretero. No changes or additions.

OK. We'll try that one more time. Is there a motion to approve items 16A, consent items B through H? Moved.

Second.

Thank you, Michelle. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. On to educational services action items. Adopt resolution number 9, 2023-2024 statement of assurance, pupil textbook and instructional materials compliance for grades TK to 12 for fiscal year 2023-2024. So moved.

All right, any discussion? I don't know if this is correct time, but is there any way we can look into that about how many teachers are actually using some of the textbooks? Because I've had some of my students never open one of the textbooks that they had in the class. And I just thought, oh, maybe the teacher's using a different textbook. I wasn't sure. So is there any way we can, any way to check all that? Or is that

The simple answer is yes, I'm sure that we can look into Specific data as far as the textbooks that are being used. I think that it's still Appropriate to provide textbooks And I think that's what we need to approve is the ability to provide textbooks, which is a requirement.

Yeah and

Okay. All right. Any additional discussion? Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. We'll take remaining items B through J together. Can I get a motion to take consent items 17B through 17J?

Moved. Second.

Thank you, Michelle. Thank you, Alex. Any discussion?

Yes, very pleased to see very many readmissions. That's great.

Okay. Any additional discussion? Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Moving on to consent items under human resources. Dr. Robertson Phillips, do you have any changes or additions?

I have no changes or additions tonight, thank you.

Okay, thank you. Can I get a motion to approve items 18A, consent items B through AK?

So moved. Second.

Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Alex. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. On to human resources action items. Item A, certificated ratify approved resolution number 10, 2023-2024, action regarding teaching outside credential authorization. Can I have a motion?

So moved. Second.

Thank you, Alex. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Item B, classified established position and approved job description for instructional paraprofessional two special education sign language at range 15 of the classified salary schedule and 10 month D of the classified work year calendar effective September 13th, 2023. Can I have a motion?

So moved. Second.

Thank you Michelle. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you Alex. Thank you Michelle. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Item C, classified established position and approved job description for special education behavior assistant at range 39 of the classified salary schedule and ten month B of the classified work year calendar, effective September 13th, 2023. Is there a motion?

Moved.

Second. Thank you, Alex. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. In closed session, the board took action to appoint Adrian Alcantara to the position of assistant principal Moore Middle School effective TBD at step one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero-Hollahan, Renler-Varr voting aye. Yes, Adrian, are you? There we go. Welcome welcome to Redlands Did you bring anyone here with you tonight Welcome to you and your family In closed session, the board took action to appoint Alyssa Cummings to the position of director one child nutritional services effective September 13th, 2023 at step one of the management team salary schedule with the following vote. Ayala Quintero, Hallahan, Renler-Vara voting aye. Alyssa, are you here? Did you bring anyone with you tonight?

Yes, I have my husband Cody Cummings there. And I'm just so excited and so honored to be appointed this position. Thank you so very much. Thank you, thank you. And I also have two team members from CNS. I have Jennifer Petty and Christine Ball-Beath, who are here. Candy Blanco as well.

We are super excited to have you, and I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job. We do not have any discussion items. We'll be moving on to the community import portion of the agenda. This is the time that any member of the public may address the board on anything that falls under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education provided the person submits a completed registration card to the clerk of the board or his or her designee prior to public participation. This is not meant to be a debating period. Complaints and problems relating to policy matters will be referred to the superintendent. The person wishing to address the board shall, when recognized by the chairperson of the board, step up to the podium and announce their name. The chairperson shall limit the amount of time which a member of the public may use in addressing the board to three minutes unless the chairperson or a majority of the board determines that a different limit is appropriate. Right now we are going to acknowledge meeting input that was submitted and we only have the following email from Mr. Blatchley. So we did receive that. Okay. I'm going to read the first name and then I'm going to call the second name of the person that is up next. So, uh, Samantha Trad is up first followed by Valerie Tabor.

President Board, um, I'm here tonight to thank you. So don't worry, I'm not complaining. I'm from Redlands. My dad grew up. He's from Redlands. I have two children in the Redlands School District. It was really fascinating to hear about the Pathways Program. We heard a little bit about it at freshman orientation. But I just wanted to come here tonight. There are thousands of parents in Redlands like me tonight who don't have time to come here. And thank you for keeping an agenda item off, an item off the agenda that is just going to cause a lawsuit problems and a lot of agitation in our town. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge ruled after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District for adopting a policy requiring schools to tell parents when their children change their pronouns or use a bathroom of a gender other than the one listed on their official paperwork. We don't need this in our town. There's so many reasons why that policy is problematic, and it'll cause a lawsuit in our town. We don't need any more lawsuits in Redlands. The agitators you will hear from tonight do not represent the will of the people in our community. Many of them were actually at the Chino Valley Unified School District meeting when they adopted that. They're going around trying to get school districts to adopt this harmful, extreme policy. Again, they don't represent the will of the people. They're not even being respectful as I stand up here and speak right now. Uh, so that's all. I'll keep it short. I know everybody's tired and I just really want to thank you and remember that, um, you are standing up and supporting the will of the people in Redlands. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Samantha. Up next we have Valerie Tabor followed by Jennifer Maravillas.

Hello. Thank you. My name is Valerie Tabor. I live in trustee area five here in Redlands. I grew up attending these schools and I also have a child currently attending these schools in this district. I came here as well as Sam to voice support for the board. Support for standing up for student safety, support for not putting more on the plates of overworked teachers, and most importantly for aligning with state laws on protecting our LGBTQ students. All students deserve safe environments to learn and not only would this parental notification agenda as pushed in other districts impact students' ability to focus on academics, it places teachers in a policing position that would further detract from their ability to do their jobs and teach students. I stand as a parent with students and teachers in our district asking you to continue to trust our students to share personal information about their own lives and identities when, where, and how they choose. Thank you.

Thank you, Valerie. Up next, Jennifer Maravillas, followed by Amelia Gary.

Hello, everyone. My name is Jennifer Maravillas. I have some thoughts written out, but before I get started, I just want to start by saying that public speaking is not my favorite thing. Being up here is not my favorite thing, but I'm here as a concerned parent. My child has just started her career and she's a student here within our district and she has many more years to go. So I have a vision for her and I'm here to advocate for her future and for what I truly believe. So, diving into my thoughts here. Again, my name is Jennifer Maravillas. I'm a Red List resident and my child attends a school here in the district. I found myself absolutely, I found it absolutely necessary to be here today to voice my support for our school district. I want to applaud you and support you for keeping anti-LGBTQ policies off the agenda. I have spoken in a school meeting once before, that time I came to the school board meeting to advocate for my daughter. I did not anticipate hearing the amount of hate, bigotry, and racism that some folks made during public comment. Today I'm here to advocate for my child once again because I want my child to attend a school district that values all children, no matter what their ethnicity is, no matter what their socioeconomic status is, no matter what their gender identity is. Every child deserves to feel safe. Every single child deserves to be protected. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Next we have Amelia Aguirre, followed by Maria Montes.

Good evening. I'm not like everybody here that wrote something out. I'm winging it. First of all, I'm going to describe a scenario which is similar. But it's a similar concept, but different scenario. Is anybody here a parent or grandparent? How about you guys in the board? How would you feel if your child or grandchild was hit, pushed, bullied at school and the school did not notify you? Wouldn't you be enraged? Wouldn't you want that parent mode, Papa Bear, Mama Bear coming out saying, why wasn't I notified? That's exactly what's happening right now. We deserve to know what's going on with our children in school, outside of school. That way we know how to appropriately tell them what to do. We're not telling them to be violent. We're not telling them to be criticizing other people. We just want them to be decent human beings and know what is going on with them. Hiding stuff from parents is the worst decision that you guys could ever have. That is why, and trust me, I'm talking about experience because I was not notified when my son was punched in the nose. And I was livid. With that being said, our children do not belong to the government nor this teacher's union or classified union. They belong to the parents, not the government, not this district. What I am requesting is for parent notification to be placed in the next agenda. Because if we do not have that parent notification, I guarantee you, you guys will have this problem day after day, night after night. Regardless of whatever other people are talking about. It's not about discriminating, it's about being notified what our children are doing and going through. It was not fair for me to find out that my son was punched in the nose by him instead of our district. His school. By somebody negligent, not thinking of what's going on and just, oh, it's just a bloody nose. Not investigating enough what happened to him. That's why parent notification needs to be there. So we as a parent know what's going on and we can take appropriate action, not our children. Our children do not deserve to be going through that.

Thank you. Up next we have Maria Montes and followed by Dale Brim.

Good evening, members. Melissa, I'm here to reply to your ridiculous response to your email regarding the request to place parents' notification on the agenda. You cited education code 35160. However, you forgot to cite what is a pre-dempt by any law. You claim, Well, there's no law. 35160 has nothing to do with parental notifications. It consists of the boards to initiate and carry any program or activities or act in any manner which is not a conflict. We're not stupid. We can read labor codes. We can read cited laws. This excuse you listed has nothing to do with the ability to place the parental notification on the agenda. Furthermore, Attorney General Rob Bonta will lose his case against Chino Valley. Regarding the parental notification policy recently passed, we the parents have the right to exercise under the US Constitution and the laws of California to direct the upbringing care and the education of our children. Don't try to interpret Title IX to require affirmation of a child's asserted gender identity. Note, quote, note that our Constitution protects parents' rights to direct the upbringing, education, medical, and mental care of our children cannot be suppressed by Title IX. Unless parents are legally deemed unfit, the safety of the school district have no authority to lie, because that's what you guys are doing, lying to us parents. Access to the medical or health information. You forgot to read education code 35160.1A where the school district boards and superintendents of schools have the flexibility to create their own solutions. 35160.1B and 35161, the state that the school boards in California have authority to permit to do anything that consists with the purpose of schools and not prohibited by law. The Supreme Court never, never has ruled that a child's right to privacy supersedes a parental right to know about their children's health and safety at school. You will not find one. Our children do not belong to the government, nor the union rats, because that's what they are. These unions are a bunch of rats. They belong to the parents. With that, I request for the parental notification to be placed to the next agenda. The Latinos are awakening. I'm representing the Latinos here in this district. I live here in Redlands. The Latinos, we're going to start seeing more Latinos. We're opening our eyes. Juan, listen to me.

All right. All right. Okay. What we're not going to do right now is we're not going to get disruptive. I will clear this room if we can't keep order. Everybody is going to get their opportunity to speak. Everybody is going to have their time if they filled out a card. If we can't do that, the room will be cleared and only members of the media will be allowed. Thank you. Up next is Mr. Broom followed by Tina- I'm sorry if I can't see this property, if it's Golt, Tina Golt. Mr. Broom, go ahead.

Yeah, my name is Dr. Dale Broom. I'm a Redlands physician here. And I also want to speak in favor of placing a parental notification resolution on the agenda. And we've reviewed the administrative regulation 5145.3 for Redlands School. And this really does allow for parental secrecy regarding a student's gender transitioning in schools. It does permit secrecy, and we are against that. We need to be transparent. We need to communicate this information to parents. You know, gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder. It's associated with depression, anxiety, dissociative disorders, suicide, alcohol and substance abuse disorders. Don't you think that parents should know if a student is starting to social transition in school so that they can be tipped off that maybe there is some type of mental health issue that's going on in that child. And second of all, teens are not mentally mature enough to make life-altering decisions. If they transition, there are social and family disruptions. If they go on to get cross-sex hormone therapy, gender reassignment surgery, Mastectomies these are major health issues parents need to be involved in those decisions teens are also highly susceptible to peer pressure LGBT grooming all these things can impact a child's decision to transition and parents need to be aware of that also teens don't understand medical risk or complications as a physician I have consented hundreds of pediatric patients and their parents And I can tell you, they do not understand complications or risk. That requires a lot of life experiences and adult judgment that is necessary. And that's why parental consent and notification is really, really important. And also, I just want to reiterate. In terms of the constitutional rights of parents, the Supreme Court and other federal courts have consistently supported parental rights based on the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to control and direct the care and the upbringing of their children. And there have been over nine separate SCOTUS decisions supporting parental rights, including healthcare and mental health issues. The courts have found that parents possess what is lacking in a child's maturity, experience, and capacity for judgment. And parents are the most fit individuals to act in the best interest of the child because of their bond of affection to that child and their life experiences with that child. So I also want to just bring to the board a recent poll that was done about parental notification. This is a Rasmussen poll, a very reputable poll. 84% of California voters would support a local law requiring parents to be notified of any major change in the physical, mental, or emotional health or academic performance of their student. 62% specifically support a law requiring parental notification of gender transitioning. So I want to urge the board to put this on the agenda and approve a parental notification resolution. Thank you.

Thank you Dr. Brum. Up next we have Tina Golds followed by Val Zavis.

It's Tina, go.

My apologies.

Hello, I would say it's a good evening, but tonight is not a good evening. I'm here to talk about the parent notification that wasn't supposed to be on the agenda, but it's not. I'm a mother of three children that attend Rellen School District. We've been down a very bumpy road with you guys. Perverted teachers, pornographic books in school libraries, sexual abuse, now this. Not putting parent notification agenda for tonight is a bad move. The amount of emails you receive from parents regarding this issue, you would think you would respect parents, but you're not putting that agenda that tells me that you have no respect for the parents at all. Sorry, I'm just catching my breath here. The schools are obligated to notify parents of everything that is going on in school. Even if their child wants to change their gender or identify as someone else, we are the parents, not you. Not you. We have the right, not you. This isn't about protecting trans kids against abusive parents. That is very sad to hear about that, but they have resources. They can get help. This is about our parental rights and you coming in between that. By allowing parents not to be involved, you're opening doors to grooming and sexual predators. So do the right thing. Put parent notification on the agenda. Make it a priority. as parents will not give up, nor will we step down. And if you continue to ignore us, we will come back, we will fight, and we will not. We will not stop. So make it a priority. We demand parent notification. We demand to be notified about our children. We have the right. And it's not about protecting LGBTQ, just so you know. It's not about that. It's about all children, including the LGBTQ. OK? It's about all children. Can you imagine? Your child, you're not knowing anything that's going on in your child's life in school. Can you imagine? I know you guys as parents, you would want to know, right? Children are the most important thing. They're precious. They're minds. So please, do the right thing. Thank you.

OK, thank you. Up next, we have Val Zavis, followed by Candy Olsen.

So when did it happen that parents became extremists because we want to know what's happening with our children? I don't understand how anybody out there can call a parent who wants to know what's happening with their own child an extremist. How is that being extreme? How is it devaluing a child because a parent wants to know what is happening with their own child? It's because we value them. that we want to know. We value that child that belongs to us, that we want to know what's happening with them. I emailed you as well, asking you to put it on the agenda and it was declined and no reason was stated. There was no law stated, no code stated. In the Education Code 5153, it states no test questionnaire, survey, or examination containing any questions about the student's personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, religion, or any questions about the student's parents' beliefs and practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion shall be administered to any pupil in kindergarten or grades one through 12 unless the parent is notified in writing that this test questionnaire survey or examination is to be administered and the parent gives written permission for the student to take this test questionnaire survey. So the parent has to give consent for all of those things. But you don't feel it's proper for the parent to be notified if their child wants to be identified by a different gender, called by a different name, which is a life changing decision. If you did, I believe you would have put this on the agenda, as Orange School District did, even in light of the strong-arm tactics of the governor. That school board, along with many others, knows the importance of protecting the God-given rights of the parent on what is happening with their own child. Because who better to make decisions for that child than their parent a teacher a teacher who was with that child for a month Like how long is it going to be okay? When is it okay? Then that teacher says I know this child well enough a month is it six months is it the entire school year? We've been with that child. That's entire life and I guess it just follows how Redlands operates, though. You protect the staff member, the predator, not the child, as seen in the latest payout to the victim at the hands of the former Redlands High teacher.

Thank you. Up next, we have Candy Olson, followed by Joshua Hall.

All right. This is basically going to be a PSA for parents because our board is just too weak to stand for our kids. They operate in fear of losing money rather than guaranteeing our constitutional and God-given rights. I've pulled up their current policy and it reads more like a parent secrecy policy. It says that the compliance officer may discuss with the student whether to disclose their trans status to the parents and that support services shall be offered to students who wish to inform their parents. Current policy also states that a biological boy cannot be blocked from entering the girl's restroom. This is Redlands policy. You should also know the board is bringing in counselors from U of R where a child over 12 does not need parental consent. Wagner emailed us saying parental consent was required for all kids but that proved not to be true. The consent form specifically says parent consent is not needed if over 12 years old. I encourage every parent out here to opt out of any type of surveys or counseling services. Take your child to your trusted medical professional for mental health services if needed. Listen up, parents. Your children are not safe nor protected while at Redlands Unified, so you need to take it upon yourself to protect them. If you can't pull them out, then opt out of trans and gender ideology using our customizable opt-out form on awakenredlands.com. This same form has a comprehensive list of soft porn books that can be opted out of in addition to opting out of mental health services and counseling. You can download the form and enter your child's name and info, email to your child's principal. Awaken Redlands has a leadership info event on October 22. See our website for details. If you think you might be a good fit for local office, sign up for this exciting event. This same board was too cowardly to protect our kids during COVID, too perverted to remove the pedophilic and incestuous library material, and now again, they are too cowardly to protect our rights to our own children. It is time to go.

Thank you

sick and tired of the Redlands Unified School District and school districts across the nation working in tandem with the Biden administration, keeping parents out of the loop of what is going on in their children's lives and grandparents out of the loop of what is going on in their grandchildren's lives, not informing them when their child identifies as homosexual or bi or transgender or whatever. What you guys are doing is you're imposing a warped gender ideology on the children and using them as lab rats in your sick, twisted social studies experiment that is practicing medicine without a license. It's also what you guys are doing when you are imposing mask mandates, social distancing mandates. You have students sitting at their desks by themselves with plastic. You impose vaccine mandates on students. I was also practicing medicine without a license. You have no right to impose a radical gender ideology on students any more than you had a right to impose masks and vaccines on them. You are shameful. You are shameful. You should be booted out of your jobs. You should be run out of society. If I had my way, I'd like to see all of you run out of society. You guys are despicable human beings.

Thank you, Mr. Hall. Up next we have Tricia Keeling and Erin Mason.

Hello. My name is Tricia Keeling, and I'm here with Safe Redland Schools. I came here tonight to extend my appreciation to this board. I understand that you've been receiving numerous emails regarding the forced outing policy. It means to deny students of their constitutional right to privacy. You may not be aware, but this was a policy that was introduced in California Assembly by a Riverside Assembly member. It was quickly denied a hearing. Despite this, in July, the Chino Valley Unified School District voted to adopt it. I was at that meeting when it was adopted and watched as the school board president ordered the police to remove State Superintendent Tony Thurmond. They're happy about that.

This is the last warning. Everybody gets their appropriate amount of time uninterrupted. If we're going to keep having interruptions, I will clear the room. This is the last time I'm warning. Thank you.

I was there in that room and watched the Proud Boys and other known anti-LGBTQ extremists from all over Southern California cheer that this policy was adopted. All evening, parents, teachers, students pleaded with the board to not do this, that it would damage and cause harm to students, but they were ignored. Because of this, State Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against the district and just last week he won a temporary restraining order to stop it from happening. Last month a large group rallied in downtown Los Angeles attempting to disrupt the LAUSD school board meeting in session. You may have seen it on the news attendees attendees wore white shirts that say leave our kids alone and the usual large trailer accompanied them. This same group incited violent brawls in North Hollywood at Sadako Elementary where they beat up an unhoused person. And then they caused major fights, and an unlawful assembly was called in Glendale Unified back in June. I've seen what they're like in person. They're violent. They yell angry slurs. And most importantly, they do not live here. They do not have kids in Redlands. But local Awaken Redlands agitator Candy Olson also participated that day and gave a speech where she told the crowd it was her intention to bring them there and that they were going to get the policy on the agenda tonight. Finally, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for saving this district from a needless and expensive lawsuit. Thank you for keeping our queer kids safe from potentially harmful situations at home. Because if a kid felt safe to come out to their family, they would. We don't need people getting involved and forcing the government into that. Thank you for keeping our community and kids safe. Redlands is not a place where we will stand for hate. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next we have Erin Mason followed by Tracy Lowenthal.

Good evening. My name is Erin Mason. I am the parent of two current RUSD students. And I saw that Awaken Redlands group was upset that this board did not wish to entertain a forced outing policy and was soliciting for public comments for tonight. So I wanted to speak tonight myself as a parent who wishes to counter their message and instead thank you. The forced outing policy that has been making its way through politically purple areas of the state has been called dangerous and illegal by the Attorney General of California. And would no doubt result in immediate legal action against our school board by the state as we have seen occur in Chino. It leaves one wondering why a group would push so hard for a policy that we already know is very likely to result in a restraining order and costly legal battle. It seems illogical. But then I remind myself that this same group of people have been attacking the LGBTQIA community for some time, evoking their own interpretation of their religion's moral code as the reasoning. And it becomes more obvious that the people who are pushing for this policy don't care about the legality or about the stability of our school district or about the safety of the children who would be targeted by a policy like this. And while they claim it is because they believe in parents having rights, they don't seem to care if actual parents from this area are mobbed by a traveling contingency of full-time agitators. In fact, they invite it. They want nothing more than a huge truck parked on the street with a leave our kids alone sign on it and angry mobs of people who had to look at a map to figure out where Redlands even was. We know this because not only have we all been here before when our meetings have been inundated by outside groups, always invited by the same folks, but they posted their invitations very publicly once again. Lucky for us, our board did not create an opportunity for these hate groups and serial agitators to pose up for their celebratory photograph like they did in Chino or in Orange. Had you allowed this policy to be discussed, no doubt this meeting would currently be a different collection of people. All this to say that I do appreciate this board's discretion and protection. We do not need to be creating policy that only reflects the emotions of a few parents instead of the general well-being of some of our most vulnerable students. And personally, I do not believe that we should be letting the people whose ideal is to be able to take their money and walk their children to private schools dictate the policies for those of us who want and support our public education system. They are not working for us because they don't want to be a part of us. This group makes all of us less safe. Our LGBTQIA kids are less safe as they are clearly targeted by the forced outing, flag banning, book burning wish list of policies. Supportive families and allies are also less safe as this group purposefully misidentifies parents and allies as groomers using this dehumanizing language to encourage threats and acts of violence. All of us who come in person to these meetings, including yourself, are also less safe as a group when these people in white beg for outside agitators to come to bully their message through. And while school board meetings across the region continue to become more volatile, I came here to say that I appreciate you. And I will keep standing up here, just like I know you are, to say that Redlands does not want or appreciate attacks on our schools or our parents or any of you, and most importantly, not our children. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next we have Tracy Lowenthal followed by Michael Pazner.

Good evening, everyone. I'm here to express my gratitude to our school board. I am proud to be a part of a community that chose not to adopt the illegal and harmful forced outing policy. This decision showcases the commitment of our school board to create safe and inclusive spaces for all students, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. The simple truth is that if we create loving, accepting, and caring homes, our children will feel comfortable and supported enough to openly communicate with their family instead of relying on school teachers, counselors, and friends to protect their identities. Kids shouldn't have to choose where they are safe. They should feel safe at home and at school. We should be less focused on parents first and more focused on students first. Education is a place for nurturing minds and broadening horizons and embracing diversity. It should not be a breeding ground for discrimination or prejudice. School board meetings should not be filled with people weaponizing religion. Our schools exist to mold the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow, nurturing their intellect, acceptance, and compassion. We owe it to them to provide an environment free of dogma and judgment. The decision made by our school board should inspire us all to unite as allies for our queer youth. As parents, teachers, and members of the community, we have a responsibility to stand up against discrimination. We need to be proactive in ensuring our schools remain safe spaces where all students can feel a sense of belonging, support, and acceptance. I commend our school board for their compassion, courage, and commitment to the well-being of our students. Let us continue to celebrate victories such as these while remaining vigilant in protecting the rights of all of our students. By doing so, we will strengthen our community as a whole, nurturing a society that embraces diversity rather than fearing it, showing up for all kids in Redlands, not just the cis, white, straight, Christian ones, but all kids. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next we have Michael Pazner followed by Jorge Gonzalez.

Hello, Michael Pazner, District Five. Thank you for not considering discriminatory policies like a forced outing policy. I'd like to take this opportunity to remind ourselves, what is discrimination? Discrimination is treating someone differently based on their membership in a group. When a kid says, these are my pronouns, they're different than what's on my paperwork, they're telling you who they are, but they're also saying they're members of a protected group. You've been asked to have a policy specific to that group, trans and non-binary students treating them differently, outing them to their parents whether they're ready for that step or not. Having a policy specific to trans and non-binary kids is discriminatory. And in this case, this discriminatory policy is being requested by some that have publicly stated they consider homosexuality and transgenderism to be a sin. Their words, not mine. They can have their discriminatory beliefs, but they don't get to set public policy based on their discrimination. We all know discrimination is wrong, both morally and legally. California Education Code 220 states in part, no person shall be subjected to discrimination based on a variety of groups including gender identity and gender expression in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution. Thank you for not indulging requests to discriminate against trans and non-binary kids. But I'm going to ask you to do more. I ask you to prohibit discriminatory comments at these public meetings. Now I know some out there are saying, what about free speech? Well, we already put guardrails on free speech. If someone uses foul language while giving public comments, the board chastises them after they are done speaking, or sometimes you even interrupt the speaker during their comments. Code 220 requires you to ensure no one is subject to discrimination. But the law is not comprehensive in how to achieve that goal. You, as the board, set the tone of how to respond when discrimination occurs. Sit silently and tacitly give it your approval, or speak up and condemn it. If this board truly wants to make our schools free from discrimination, then you need to lead by example. This board needs to send a message loudly, clearly, and repeatedly to the staff, the teachers, the students, and to the whole community how people should respond when they witness discrimination. You are leaders. People look to you as their example. If you want to create an environment free from discrimination, you have to make it happen by speaking up. Because that is the only way the discrimination we are witnessing is going to end. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next, we have Jorge Gonzalez, followed by Felipe Alberto.

Good evening, everybody. My name is Jorge Gonzalez. I have two children that are attending currently the Redlands School District. I've been a military service member for 24 years now, currently still serving. I've also owned and operated an automotive repair shop in San Bernardino. If I can use an analogy real quick, it's pretty fair to say or an assumption that most people here own a car. And if you were to bring your vehicle to me for a tune up a service, a tire rotation or whatnot, you entrust your vehicle while you leave it and it's in my care. You would hope that while your vehicle's in my care that I'm not doing anything illegal with your vehicle, anything unscrupulous with your vehicle, that I'm not loaning it to drug dealers to mule a couple tons of cocaine up and down the coast or across the border, I'm sure you would be pretty upset if you got a call from the police department saying, hey, we have recovered your vehicle over the Tijuana border with 10 keys of cocaine or smuggling children across the border or whatnot. So from a standpoint of the parents' right to know. We're not here, I'm not here personally to argue whose rights I want to infringe on or have my rights infringe on. I just feel as a parent, it is my absolute right, my absolute right to know everything that involves my children, you know. So with that said, like I said, whatever policies the district wants to you know, wants to impose on the school system and the children and whatnot, all I'm asking as a parent is give me the respect to tell me, hey, if your child wants to sexually transition into a different gender, we're going to support it. And then me as a parent, I have the right to take my children out of your school district and into one that is not doing something like that. You know, and again, I know that the young lady spoke earlier and said that, It seems like I just mentioned that children don't feel safe at home to be able to open up to their parents to bring these type of things. As a parent, it's our responsibility to mentor and guide our children to be the better human beings that we are or better persons that we are, right? I have a three-year-old who runs up and down my house all day screaming that he's a T-rex. If he tells me tomorrow that he wants me to cut his arms off and give him the little nubs as a T-Rex does, is it pretty safe to say that I'm kind of an idiot if I want to go start cutting his hands off? Children don't know what they want. I can say the same thing for my 11-year-old who wants to explore different stuff. He wants to start drinking because he sees this drinking on TV, do we just start condoning and giving him alcohol because his identity is now to be an alcoholic like he sees on the movies, on the video games. Should we hand 10 year olds, 11 year olds that are playing video games Call of Duty, should we hand them guns because that's what they identify as warriors. We have to have a limit as parents. And it's our responsibility to coach and mentor these children. All we're asking is that you give us the right for us to choose if we want to partake in something like that. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next, we have Mr. Alberto. He's actually the next speaker. Please remain in your seats until the next speaker, um, the previous speaker has exited the podium, please. Um, following Mr. Alberto, we have Lawrence- I'm apologizing if I'm butchering this- um, Hebron? Hebron. Hebron, sorry.

Hi, my name is Philippe Alberto. I have a child at Redlands Unified, and I'm a member of Safe Redlands Schools. I came here to inform parents that our schools are under attack. Dr. Dale Broom, who is here, you heard from him before, he is at Beaver Medical, he donated $400,000 to end public schools and privatize schools. They don't call that, but that's exactly what it is. How do they do that? You just saw today the Redlands Unified has a multi-million dollar budget. They want to revert their money and pay for private schools. And to get to that goal, they come here and attack the school. So this month is the subject of the evening is the school parental rights. Last time was they were here for anti-LGBTQ. And before it was CRT, before that was immigrants. That's how I got involved because I'm an immigrant. And they bring outsiders. Proud Boys is also present here today. Proud Boys is a domestic terrorist group. They are a terrorist group and the leader was sentenced for 20 years of prison just this week. So I just want to let everybody know that if you are for Awaken Redlands, if you're for Dr. Dale Broom, you are associating yourself with Proud Boys and domestic terrorists. I also want to thank the school board and the workers, teachers, and administration for keeping us safe. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next, we have Lawrence Hebron. And then followed by Rachel Ugli. Thank you, my apologies.

Good evening. My name is Lawrence Hebron. I live in Highland in trustee area three. Speaking of names, let me give you three. Manly, Stewart, and Finaldi. Three names that should send a shiver down the spines of all of you sitting up there. According to a recent article published in the England Empire News Group, the Redlands Unified School District has paid out over $45.5 million to settle sexual abuse lawsuits with former students who were represented by this one law firm, $45.5 million. Now I'm not here tonight to talk about Redland School District's shameful record on dealing with the sexual abuse of our students. I am here to point out the obvious, namely that there are swarms of law firms circling the waters like sharks, looking for a target with deep pockets which they can sue for the slightest provocation. And instead of guarding against this possibility, I'm afraid the Redland School Board is opening itself to it. It's not hard to imagine how this could happen. Just follow the news, like this story reported a few days ago in the Washington Examiner. Michelle Blair, the mother of then 14-year-old Sage Blair, filed a lawsuit against the Appomattox County School Board. Why? Blair said that she had no idea that her daughter had identified as a male student at her school because administrators made sure to keep that a secret from her. They stole my right to protect my daughter, Blair told the outlet. I'm the parent. I'm an expert on my child. There is nobody in the school or court system that knows my daughter better than me. They will never know my daughter better than I do. The mother claims the school system secretly aided her daughter in transitioning. A public defender had the daughter placed in an all-male juvenile facility where Sage was sexually assaulted and kidnapped, raped, and sexually trafficked after she ran away from the facility. All of this because the Appomattox County School Board did not have a parental notification policy. I understand, as we've heard here tonight, that a number of local residents have asked this school board to adopt such a policy, but so far you have not. I strongly urge you to reconsider. The parents have a right to know what is going on with their children, and we taxpayers have a right to make sure that our taxes are being paid to educate our children, not to enrich lawyers. Thank you for your consideration.

Okay, up next, Rachel Ugly. Sorry, I- That's okay. Followed by Jeanette Wilson, my apologies.

My name is Rachel Ugly. I'm a resident of Redlands. I have a parent. I also lived in San Francisco for about 15 years after the child was raised. I'm here to let everyone know that we appreciate what the Constitution for both the United States and the state of California indicate. It's the parent, not the child, who determines what needs to be done in accordance with raising an upright citizen. I'm going to make reference to something that I think behooves both all communities whether they belong to the LPGQ, forgive me if I don't know my alphabet, and parents who disagree or don't agree with that type of parental right. Recently in California settled a $100,000 lawsuit they gave to the parent. The parent did not know and was never informed of her child wanting to be transitioned. The parent knew that her daughter had discussed with her that she was bisexual. The mother was not happy, but what she wanted to do was learn about it and guide and sort of acquiesce in a way to her child, making sure that the child knew that she was there to support her in whatever capacity. Now, the student was called in to have a conference. She was not told what the conference was about. Her child also, who was in the seventh grade, was called. The child also did not know why she was there. And what happened was that the mother said, I knew that my daughter was bisexual, but no one told her that she was being transitioned. The daughter wasn't sure about the transition program, and so she didn't mention that to her mother. She wanted a chance to discuss it. But the school interrupted that and broke that mother-daughter relationship. When this happened, she was discussing the fact that what she understood was that she knew she was bisexual, but she wasn't going to transition, even though she wanted a boy's name. The mother said, OK, you can change it and be a boy, have a boy's name. That did not indicate that she was approving, nor did the daughter acknowledge that she wanted to go through the transition. So what will happen is that right? Thank you. Okay.

Thank you Up next we have Jeanette Wilson followed by Paul Blatchley. Oh

Hi, my name is Jeanette Wilson, and I was going to talk about some of the library book issues. But in sitting and listening to the speakers, I really need to speak from my heart of some of the things that were being said. First of all, the first person, I believe her name is Sam, cannot speak for the city of Redlands. I don't know where she feels she has that authority, But she is sorely wrong about what the city of Redlands believes for their children. Many, many, many, many parents want parental notification. And those that don't, I would have to question why. If they don't want it, they can disregard it. But the parents that want parental notification are many in this city and it is very short-sighted and frankly a lie for her to come up here and state that she's talking for Redlands. Secondly, the man that was here saying he wanted to have you guys think about not allowing discriminatory speech, let's start with not allowing lies and slander what Felipe said about school choice and Dr. Broom was a flat-out lie. That is not even accurate information. So to let people stand up here and slander and use the names of specific people is very inappropriate. We have talked about that before. That should not be allowed. And then the therapist who spoke, Tracy, I would like to say as a licensed therapist, she should know better. She should know that many times parents don't know exactly what's going on with their children. That is why they even seek therapy. Especially teenagers who hide things, who sneak around. If you're a good parent, you still have problems with your kids. We all know that. So to imply that it's because it's not a good parent that these things are happening is very insensitive to parents and very short-sighted as a therapist. In addition, she should know more about gender dysphoria, depression, how a child can act unaffected but still be depressed. She should know more about autism and different conditions that cause a child to be more susceptible to peer pressure, social media pressure and know that parents need to be informed of what is going on with their child so that they can get involved in an appropriate manner. Thank you.

Thank you. Up next is Mr. Blatchley, followed by, I only have a Ryan S.

Good evening board members, Superintendent Cabral, cabinet. My name is Paul Blatchley. I live in trustee area five and I'm addressing you as a concerned high school parent. So on other topics, I've talked to you before about the homework policy for the district, right? So we've had this issue where the teacher will say, oh, that's a district policy that we have to give 20 to 30 minutes of homework per subject. And then the district will say, no, it's up to the teacher, the teacher's discretion. I've been asking and will ask again, please revisit this. Let's get rid of the homework policy. You're putting a burden on parents. And you're allowing teachers actually to be lazy and not deliver content during their classes, but instead just give the content to the student and have the parent actually teaching their kid. You've got to stop this practice of separating parents from their kids, right? Like I've talked to you before about the dangers of that, and I think you see it borne out in all the issues that the district has with violence and with sexual predatory behavior. You have this policy about equality through equity. There's no more stark example of a lack of equity than the high school arts programs. So I don't know what the policy is here, but I would like the board and the district to think about the idea of allowing art students to participate in activities that are going on at other schools. In other words, if Citrus Valley is putting on a production, a drama student from REV should be able to go and audition for that and participate in that Citrus Valley production. because there's no equity between the arts programs in terms of the ability of the teacher to deliver good outcomes there. A couple of board meetings ago, you approved myON, like we're renewing that license. I'm wondering if you consider PragerU as part of bringing into the curriculum within the district, PragerU kids. Never heard of it? Probably not, right? So I think that a lot of the parents that have talked about issues that they have right now with the way the board is acting, the way the district is acting with students, and I actually would like you to survey the student body, survey the parent body, and find out. Like, you've got people from Safe Redlands schools, and you've got people from Awaken Redlands, and they're probably about the same number of parents there. You know, that's like Safe Redlands schools. I forget. There's like 600 or something of them, right? They're just a tiny little percentage of the overall student body for the district. So let's survey, and let's find out where people stand.

Thank you, Mr. Wesley. Ryan S, followed by Nicole Gilliam,

All right, my goal is simply to refresh your memories as to the value of the family. So I put together a bunch of quotes from some of my favorite authors, kind of filled in the blanks a little bit. So one of my favorite authors, G.K. Chesterton, once wrote that, The best way a man can test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random and get along as well as possible with the people inside. Indeed, that is what each one of us did on the day we were born. The home is an adventure, a thing that comes to us. a thing that is autobiographical, not merely biographical. And those who rightly or wrongly desire to depart enter a narrower, not a wider world. Of course, the family is a good institution unto itself because it is uncongenial. It is wholesome, precisely because it contains so many varieties. It is, as a sentimentalist say, like a little kingdom. And like most other little kingdoms, it is generally in a state of something resembling anarchy. Our brothers may be mischievous like the world or think the corner restaurant or bar is a whole cosmos. Our sisters may be unreasonable or wish to see the whole world as a concert or theater. Our mothers may be warm or cold like the world. Our fathers may be excitable or stern like the world. Our grandpas and grandmas, ancient, like the world. But the point I'm making is this, life is not a thing that is outside, governed by mere external regulations, but inside, by the spirit of the law. Home is where the heart is. The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap. There we do see something of which we have not dreamed before. Our father and mother do lie in wait for us and leap out on us, like Bergans from a bush. Our uncle is a surprise, our aunt is, in the beautiful common expression, a bolt from the balloon. When we step into the family by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family, we step into a fairy tale. Family is, in fact, the factory that manufactures mankind. This trinity of truisms of fathers, mothers, and children cannot be destroyed. It can only destroy those fathers, mothers, and children that undermine it, those cities, those states, those nations, and empires that undermine it. as it did the Lacedaemon who went in for efficiency over the family and therefore perished and left not a trace behind. However, if children see that their teachers and schools despise what their parents desire, there is and must be an ideological clash of authorities.

Can we escort them out please? Thank you.

Our kids!

Apologies for the interruption guys up next we have Nicole Gilliam followed by Ashley D'Ambra Hi, thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.

My name is Nicole Gilliam. I am a mother of two currently attended

I'll restart your time. Okay. We're gonna finish this meeting civilly. If there's anybody else that wants to cause issues, you can get up and leave now because we're trying to hold a meeting here. Thank you. You can continue. My apologies.

As I was saying, my name is Nicole Gillum. I am a mother of two currently attending Highland Grove Elementary. I have been here many times before you trying to address our safety concerns, and yet I have yet to see any progress. The safety of our children needs to be our first and most important priority. We have reached out to the City of Highland and the Highland Police Department in June of 2022 with our concerns, and in August of 2022, an engineering analysis report was completed. I have a copy of this report with me tonight. The results showed that a crossing guard is needed at the intersection of Orange and Eucalyptus. Before this report was released, the Board of Education said they were taking care of the safety matter. What steps has the board taken to address this matter, and what is the plan moving forward? Because if nothing is done, it is only a matter of time before a child is injured or worse. And to make my concerns worse, now on Wednesdays, we are releasing over 1,600 students at roughly the same time between Beatty Middle School and Highland Grove Elementary. Not only has our student count increased, but the amount of car traffic and congestion is insane and extremely unsafe for our children. This matter needs to be addressed. We need to be proactive and prevent any and all mishaps. So please consider looking into this. Thank you.

Thank you. Our last speaker of the night is Ashley D'Ambra.

Good evening. And thank you for saying my last name correctly. I just really fast want to back her up. We just want our kids to be safe. And if I could stand out there in a vest and direct traffic, I would. But our principal said that wasn't a good idea. So good evening. I have two students in our district as well. And I've stood before you guys for many times for different reasons. Today is a little personal. My daughter started school during the pandemic. She spent half of the year in TK. I always cry in front of you guys. I'm too emotional. She spent half of TK. virtual and half of kinder. I'm not even going to read this. Then she starts school, she has to wear a mask. Then you go on to first grade and we have high numbers. Then we realize that first grade is so important for reading so we adjust our staff and we make smaller numbers in first grade and now she's in second grade. And these students are falling behind. I now have a third grader. And now I'm being told in our schools that we don't have funds for reading intervention. And as a working parent, two-income household, it's hard for us to reach out and find intervention. And I know that it's funding, and I'm not here to criticize my principal or my school or you guys for anything. I just want to know how we can help to get these students, because now we're being told that the intervention we do have is going to focus on the fourth and fifth graders based off our test scores. I want those babies to get what they need, but I also want my children to get what they need as well, and for our children that are under third grade, especially because these are students that we don't even know how they're going to test because they did not partake in these tests just yet. Let me see if I missed anything. Statistically speaking, third grade is a tipping point. As educators, we all know that. As our AP at our school said, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Third grade is a developmental key time in children's lives. And I don't want to see children like my daughter who have been struggling and had intervention last year from amazing staff. get behind because now we don't have it. We need less stuff and more people on our campuses. So that's all I'm bringing to you guys tonight is to please continue to support our principal and our schools and help us help you guys figure out what we need. As active members of the PTA, we even adjusted our budget. I'm the PTA president for our school to give more money towards field trips and items on campus that the principal could then move funds into other areas. We are trying to support these funds in any way that we can. We just want to work together and give these kids what they need. So thank you guys so much for letting me speak tonight and sorry for the tears.

Thank you. Okay, we are now on to a different section which we, usually this is where the board would be making comments, but we are going to allow Mr. Cabral, his own section, to go ahead and speak. So so pretend to Cabral, do you have any comments?

Yes, thank you appreciate our comments tonight any public comments that we get definitely to take the time to come very important want to just clarify a couple of things we we encourage all parents to be involved in their child's education and We also want to be clear that we want to work with every parent in their child's life. We always want parents to contact the school, speak with principals, speak with their teachers, speak with counselors. We're very clear that that is something that helps us. As you saw tonight, The academic excellence that exists in Redlands Unified exists because we have wonderful teachers, we have wonderful staff, administrators, and we have wonderful parents because we are a team and we work together for the success of our students. And so I just encourage all parents to be involved stay involved We always see more involvement at the elementary level and then it kind of all kind of wanes as it gets up to the high school level We also acknowledge that teenagers Probably talk less to their parents than any other person. And so we do need to work together we respect all of our parents rights we also protect all of our students rights and Uh, and so thank you very much for everybody's, uh, participation tonight. Uh, we appreciate your time. Uh, everybody's time is valuable. And so that ends my comments.

Thank you, Mr. Guerrero. Um, so we are on to board comments. Uh, we'll start. Michelle, do you have anything tonight?

Uh, since our last board meeting, I was able to attend, uh, the rest of the back-to-school nights, uh, Royal Verde, Lagonia, McKinley, Victoria, Mission, Clement, Cope, RHS, and Citrus Valley. I love how each school is so unique, um, with their back-to-school nights, how they do them. I want to thank the teachers, the principals, the VPs, custodians, counselors, our paraprofessionals, the office staff, the cafeteria workers, and the rest of the support staff at all our schools for going the extra mile every day for our students. We really appreciate all of you. I'm enjoying going to the high school football games each week, although I'm still learning the game. I ask my very patient husband, Dan, about a thousand questions every game. But I enjoy supporting the athletes and seeing all the students, the cheer teams. I see them really embrace their school spirit. It's a really, they're fun nights. I hope many of you were able to go to the first RUSD family workshop on understanding ARIES, the attendance, and Google Classroom last week. And I look forward to attending the parent and family engagement programs this year. The first one being this coming Monday from 830 to 10 in the morning. It's in the Professional Development Center. Also, the Superintendent Awards next week at REV. I'm excited about those next Tuesday at 530. And I'm really pleased to see over 200 substitute teachers returning this year. I was happy to hear also that we have hired 53 new paraprofessionals in our district. So that should help with some of the issues that we had last year. Thanks to Julie Swan and Jamie Quartz for your in-depth presentation on college and career indicators. I'm not surprised that the numbers are higher than last year because many students that I spoke to in June said they took more than four, more than four AP tests and one student took like 12, like it's crazy. And thanks to Jason Hill, your team, especially Brian, Sherry and Fernanda for putting together a clear and concise report. You always make it so much easier to follow and understand. And Adrian, welcome to Moore and to the Redlands family. Alyssa, congratulations on your promotion. We're so excited for you to continue and build on the great work of CNS. Um, also wanted to, uh, thank all those who came to speak tonight. I really appreciate your passion and dedication to the educational journey of your- of all our students. I- I recognize and understand the interest of some parents and community members to have a discussion around a parent- parental notification. Um, and I'm really hopeful that we might be able to discuss this in the future. And that is all I have tonight. Thank you Mrs. Rundler.

Patty.

Thank you to Jason and your staff on the presentation tonight. Mr. Guggersberg still back there. I know it's a lot of work putting this together. So Thank you very much and to the staff on there. Thank you to Julie and Jamie for your presentation tonight as well It's always nice to see the encouraging numbers going up when it comes to the AP exam. So Keep that up. Also attended back to school nights with some of my colleagues here at Mariposa and Kimberly Moore and Rev and Redlands High School. Attending football games, I have yet to go to RHS yet I've been to Rev and CV so looking to go into RHS especially as an alum and seeing how the chairs are doing because they're doing pretty good. So I'm excited about that. Looking forward to revs homecoming this week so I'm sure the Wildcats are gonna have a great week with the students and Then just as an aside to the parents was talking about the field trips I've asked our superintendent to look into that because that should be taken care of You shouldn't be paying all that for field trips Okay, okay, okay sounds like wait a minute Okay, so we're still gonna look make sure and then hopefully we get something going there Because the traffic is really bad and as a parent I can only imagine you're frightened They're all same time, yeah Yeah Okay, so he'll look into that and then just for the other parents who spoke tonight. Thank you for coming out. Thank you for civility here and Appreciating everyone's comments whether you're on that same side or not, but thank you for being civil. That's it.

All right No comments for tonight

Okay. I think I'm going to save my comments for another meeting, but I want to thank everybody for coming tonight. I know it's been a rough night. It's been a long night. I appreciate everybody that's come out and spoken. I know that there's some controversy going on right now and unfortunately this is a public school and Social media, you know, um, arguments aren't the place for us to be, you know, this isn't the field for that. Um, so when the time comes for us to discuss things, we will absolutely, we hear you. Um, we know that this is something you're interested, however, this is not something we take lightly. Um, and this is something we- a matter we take very seriously and we want to make sure that any decisions made going forward are done with student safety, um, in mind. So, um, I hope everybody has a great night, a great week, and we'll see you next time. I'll adjourn this meeting at 904.