Board of Education — June 11, 2024

okay this is a call to order the regular meeting of the governing board of education is called to order by Dr Joseph Koski at 3:59 p.m. on Tuesday June 11th 2024 at the district office Conference Center are there any requests for changes to the agenda I'll take a motion in a second and I actually uh would like to make a motion to move the

information and reports to before the action items do I have a second on that second okay got it I'm sorry oh you know oh uh Steve I want to move the information reports the anti-semetic resolution thing I wanted to move that to before all the aution items okay good any other changes want to I got the motion on the floor so

let's let's just amend it for we got that one aboard now let's amend it for the other okay Steve wants to pull the warrant list okay just to make a comment and item 68 um uh consent calendar okay I got it can you my computer's still updating Steve what's item 68 uh hiring an attorney it's not hiring I think it's a pay raise for orok

and huff and Henderson pay raise correct yeah okay um I would like to pull number seven on the consent list number 16 and number 35 for discussion give me a second okay so I'll do this say it again last 16 and 35 number seven 16 and 35 okay so do we have anything else we have um on the consent calendar items three

7 35 and 68 and then we have moving information reports to before the aution items anything else oh oh yeah I have that you have that yep I do so I'll do it one more time on the consent caler 3 76 35 and 68 and uh information reports to be moved okay do we have a motion a second or I moved so

do we have a second second second by Mr Schwarz Len would you mind calling rooll Barkley yes Schwarz yes wman yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you Len announcement of the Clos session items in accordance with government code section 549 57.7 the board will meet in Clos section for consideration the items listed in section e uh do we have any

public comments no okay so then we now go on to close session I need a minute

3474 278 556 3 40869 32214 89608 335 499 345 686 21177 24 9857 3261 132 321 869 and 206 6961 effective at the conclusion of the 2023 2024 school year and again the vote was for Z thank you m WMA okay now we have four student disciplinary um I call for a motion of second to approve the

recommendation of the administrative hearing panel regarding the following student expulsion matter 29624 suspended expulsion do I have a motion in a second move by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs WMA Len would you mind call and roll barklay yes Schwarz yes wman yes Koski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L I call for a motion of second to

approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing panel regarding the following student expulsion matter 334 654 suspended expulsion do I have a motion in a second moved was that M WMA barklay barklay M move move by m barklay do I have a second second by Mrs WMA Len would you mind calling roll barklay yes Schwarz yes WMA yes kraski yes motion

adopted 4 Z thank you L I call for a motion a second to approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing panel regarding the following student expulsion matter 3 38655 expulsion do I have a motion in a second on this moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs WMA would you mind calling Barkley yes Schwarz yes WMA yes

come yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L and last I call for a motion a second to approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing panel regarding the following student expulsion matter 141 528 expulsion do I have a motion in a second moved moved by Mrs WMA second second by Mr Schwarz L would you mind Barkley yes Schwarz yes WMA yes kamasi

yes motion adopted 4 Z once again thank you l comments we have 11 public comments are an important part of the board meeting and they are given careful consideration by the board public comment is restricted to items listed on the meeting agenda or otherwise within the board subject matter of jurisdiction all comments will be limited to three minutes for a

maximum total of 30 minutes unless otherwise determined by the board the board does not take any formal action on items items during public comment or any item that has been not not placed on the published agenda in in accordance with the brown ACT public comment provides members of the public with an opportunity to speak to the board accordingly public comments

are to be directed to the board only and not to the audience in attendance or to individual audience members hate speech obscenity and other conduct during public comment that actually disrupts the board meeting from uh proceeding is prohibited similarly conduct by audience members that actually disrupts public comment or any other aspect of the board meeting from proceeding is prohibited

attendees who actually disrupt the meeting will be warned and removed in accordance with government code section 549 57.95 and let's do a little recall from last time there's no talk about an election so please do not use the words election elect vote campaign or recall once again election elect vote campaign or recall this is a public forum you are

totally free to criticize or praise your public officials you can compliment us or criticize us but please do not um resort to using those words on Election I will be Swift with the Gabel this time we had two people that uh went against that last time please don't do that finally if I use these cards I will use

them to give warnings to save time if you see me point to you and give you a yellow card it's your first warning that you're actually disrupting the board meeting for proceed uh proceeding if you receive a second yellow that automatically turns to a red card you'll be asked to escort yourself out of this board meeting if your behavior is

egregious enough you'll be given a red card you will be asked to escort yourself out if asked to escort yourself out and you don't I will ask security to help escort you out if the audience gets too disruptive as a whole I'll give a warning after that I reserve the right to have the entire audience remov so

that the governing board of education can conduct business publicly without disruption any of these situations if you're asking to leave you can still watch the live stream board meeting online those are the option before us now I hope we can have a smooth and productive governing board meeting tonight with that we have 11 so it's so close to 30 minutes I think

I'm in for three minutes a piece for all 11 what's the board say yes yep Len first up is Dr George Mau followed by guia Ruda and the lesson uh what exactly is critical race theory in one example a parent took a photo of a lesson plan for kindergarteners about Freedom they were told to discuss the following sentences

black people have less and whites have more whites make it harder for black people whites boss around people of color threatening body language and you have to fight in a war I don't know many adults who would have the emotional maturity to have that conversation and now imagine the impact on five and six year olds additionally CRT has hijacked ethnic studies programs

Across the Nation to further explain ethnic studies is the healthy positive exploration of one's culture leading to self-awareness and self- understanding things one needs to be successful in life in life conversely CRT relentlessly focuses on only the worst moments in our history without giving due credit to the tremendous progress we've made over the last 75 years yes we should teach

slavery but only in a completely truthful and age appropriate manner in addition the state of California says that our new ethnic studies C model curriculum does not contain critical race Theory during three years of research for my book and doctoral degree critical race theory in your school how to fight back I found in the first 600 pages I found

591 direct references to critical race Theory principles I did not see the phrase critical race Theory one time but that's one of the tricks that c CRT supporters do they remove the word CRT but they leave the principles in and then claim there is no CRT here Dr Joseph kroski and the Tula School Board baned CRT for very good

reasons and thank you for having the courage to do that I know it wasn't easy when CRT supporters say they want to protect real history or that CRT is not taught in K through2 schools nothing could be further from the truth I've been studying it for three years I know exactly what I'm talking about they are trying to steal your children's

education for their selfish political purposes make no mistake thank Preston for the past year and a half we have repeatedly heard certain board members justify pushing a national agenda by claiming they were doing what they were voted to do when you promise to do something that denies equality to certain students based on your personal religious beliefs it is illegal and your

illegal campaign promises do not outweigh the law many have repeatedly reminded you remind you that uh you represent the entire diverse District not just people who voted for you so my question is where do we go from here because things may change the makeup of the board may change the question is are you willing to practice good governance

and focus on the students focus on fiscal responsibility and working with the diverse public that you serve we're all entitled to worship the way we wish but those religious beliefs have no place on this board I'll say it again and again and again and again because apparently every time I've said it before you haven't listened and that is

this is not a theocracy this is not a theocracy this is not a theocracy how about if you just do your job focus on the budget focus on saving money instead of racking up $750,000 for attorneys and advisers that you hired in your incessant desire to push your religious beliefs on the district do better prioritize the students prioritize completing the

budget before the next School year and if you can't do that do us a favor and just resign and finally regarding item number 63 contract with Melendez Consulting really do better uh she campaigned for you sir and I won't say what it was for because I don't need you red carding me but it smacks of Kickbacks and

favoritism so I urge this board to end the contract with Melinda's consult Bing immediately thank you thank you Preston Miller Follow by Bach I know a lot of you are going to roll your eyes at what I have to say and I want you to know that if you do you are part of the problem I know many of

you simply care about local issues and nothing beyond what doesn't affect you directly but this is important the blockage of the Gaza Strip is incredibly well documented so I don't know what the superintendent meant when he said and I quote the caption also falsely claimed that there was a total blockage of the Gaza Strip by Israel with no supporting

detail you want to talk about false claims then let's talk about that you can find such evidence regarding the blockade from multiple credible sources including but not limited to the international humanitarian law databases from the international Committee of the Red Cross for one if you would like me to email you the aforementioned sources let me know but I

think you're grown and you're capable of doing it yourself look there's a lot of things I don't know about either but at least I have the decency to do my research and listen to people who actually know what they're talking about instead of making a statement of what's true and what's not or providing accurate and reliable sources which mind

you honestly probably would have been easier and saved you from all of this you bent over backwards for zionists and provided them with a sticker to put over the Gaza caption that's crazy girl a sticker is crazy you said that for the 2024 to 2025 school year there will be two student forums to explore the multifaceted Global issues I look

forward to seeing what that looks like if it's anything like we've seen before hopefully you won't provide a sticker that is real apologists can slap over facts that make them uncomfortable but yes all evidence should be provided not just evidence that you don't like and dismiss with the wave of a hand and the slap of a sticker

oh and personally free Palace that's all thank you Jen Bach followed by Christine MSA good evening uh my name is Jen Bach and I'm here just to First acknowledge um that my kids had a wonderful year in tvusd and I want to just publicly thank the students or the well the students too but the staff they her teachers we

had an amazing year and I I just want to acknowledge that um we've had EXP exper with a lot of different districts growing up or my kids growing up and um this is probably one of the best years that we've had um for my kids um but on that note it's been a very stressful year I think on the parents side on the

board side um and so I'm just ask that as we move forward we just redirect our leadership's priorities to focus back on the education Focus back on finding ways to mediate issues and Community concerns without further polarization I think that we can find ways to move forward we can find ways to work together and make this an even better District I would

love to work on issues of like teachers having the resources they need when we started this year I was actually quite appalled walking into my TK room for my son and looking around at how dirty the classroom was and like I know 5-year-olds are pretty gross but starting the year off that way is concerning and so I'm wondering like

what kind of resources these teachers have hearing throughout the year that they don't have funds for paper and printing or funds to do things and getting um teachers AIDS and different emails on signup Geniuses for these teachers to really do the things that they're looking to do throughout the year I would love to focus our efforts back on education back on teachers needs

back on students needs and make this more a of a board that is working for the goal of education and less so less focused on political endowments political um movements and priorities um that are further dividing our community so I just wish that we could work together more and I hope to see that more in the future thank

you thank you Christine MSA followed by Greg Langworthy hello board and executive staff happy pride month I recently attended the graduation at chapparel high school and it was such a pleasure to see Mrs lash and Mr AR there thank you very much for being there um I got to watch my daughter make big bold moves as she expressed her opinions and now

moves on to the next St next phase of her life I'm happy to say she received an achievement award from her government teacher For Better or Worse she's had a lot of lessons from her mom to her best friends being antagonized as a result of these meetings however as it was graduation I can now say I'm the proud mom of two TB

USD grads and have only one student left but having only one Junior now a junior I'm no less invested in this District as a taxpayer a volunteer and as of course a parent I'm very much looking forward to this District getting back to the business of education and support of its students and staff you know while I was

waiting to watch my daughter graduate I was working with the cheer team to raise money for the multitude of items that are not funded for their sports like safety equipment spe items uniforms and trainings please keep these things in mind as you prepare to approve a budget shortly Mrs Barkley I'm going to miss seeing you at stunt matches now that

your daughter has also graduated and I hope that I will see you return for the annual chaperel tvhs bear hunt and Mr Schwarz I always appreciate your school spirit and one day I will catch you wearing your chaperel cheer and stunt shirt and as the yearbooks say have a great summer and keep in touch thank you Greg Langworthy followed by

Nadia well good evening board um I just like to address Christine also just kind of introduced the issue I want to talk about the budget um and I know schools both Murietta and tular facing budget shortfalls so just want to give you my experience in a small school that had very little money and the things we did

to uh produce quality education that really didn't cost a lot of money first I think you you always start with the Common Ground uh when we say the Pledge that's always what we focus on one nation under God and and that we're all created equal everyone needs to be treated with respect and and I think that's where you all will start in a

school but then also quality curriculum the curriculum you choose doesn't have to be expensive just has to be good has to be interesting the best you can with with students uh then there needs to be structure I think this is is such an important thing in having a successful school is structure in the classroom which is clear Behavior policies clear

grading standards consistently applied and that uh ends up with a peaceful atmosphere in the classroom which is good and then there has to be structure outside the classroom this this is probably the biggest challenge in high school you have to have good solid written rules written as important because especially teenagers are always going to argue with you so you have to

have it written down and then they have to be consistently enforced and that creates a safe good atmosphere uh in on the campus and those things really don't cost money either the next thing is a very clear open door policy for parents do a good job in the classroom invite parents to come in to see what you're

doing and that really sells the school as well um and that also provides accountability for teachers I know that I always was on best behavior when people were watching me so that that's good to have that open door policy and then a Cooperative relationship with parents you know when parent kids are having trouble reach out to the parents

let them know what's happening uh try to um fix the problem these are all things that I found in my experience that that provide quality education for the students and really don't cost much money so that's all I'd like to share today thank you thank you naria followed by Melanie good evening president karaski members of the board and superintendent

Dr Woods I stand before you today with immense gratitude on behalf of Dem International Academy our dedicated staff and the support of parents of our wonderful student Community we are deeply appreciative of your decision to reconsider our space needs and to provide us with an additional rle while we acknowledge that our school requires more than one room to fully accommodate

our growing needs this addition is a significant step forward it will make a meaningful difference in our ability to provide a nurturing and effective learning environment because of your thoughtful decision our children will have more space to learn grow and thow life thank you for your support and for recognizing the importance of investing in our students future we are excited

about the positive impact this additional room will have on our school Community thank you so much again thank you Melanie followed by amarissa three minutes never had this much time um look last month there was an incident with a with sharf and there was a consensus this wasn't going to be talked about it was going to be the the bear in

the room um I did email Dr Woods because I had concern that some of the behavior that was exhibited was predatory behavior it wasn't just one woman that has been followed out to her car it has been seven women have been followed to their car and Dr Woods I do appreciate you getting back to me on this and

saying there's going to there's changes have been made we've looked into it we've done this there's no Penal Code however this was only done after a woman stood there and yelled I'm not going to take this anymore and faced the public humiliation that came with that a 90-year-old woman is followed a her car and there wasn't a single

officer saying whoa whoa whoa this might not be right it wasn't right but this brings up another thing see one of the teachers that was followed to her car was followed by the same man with his predatory behavior and slime I mean slim slim slim and this man followed a teacher to her car at 10 o'clock at

night taunting her by her name I met with you your very first week here of school met with you we sat down and meeting 12 kids four adults and while the kids talk to you about how hurtful the school board policies were to their self-esteem and their anxiety every single person in the room told you a story about slime slim every

single one of them told you that they were harassed by him and that included my 11-year-old daughter excuse me will you pause the clock one thank you so much that person clapping while somebody's speaking that's really rude please keep that down so we can hear the speaker thank you okay he followed my 11-year-old daughter home from school screaming at

her with a bullhorn if that if I had done that to my own child CPS would have come out and taken her away I reported it to the former superintendent nothing was done I reported it to you nothing was done but now I have had other mothers come up to me and and along with every single person who is in that room who has

experienced that if our children are telling you the Schoolboard policies are causing me anxiety but also a man who stands on the corner and harasses me personally with a bullhorn is my second most leading source of anxiety in this school and the school board isn't doing anything about it there is a problem the school board we spoke to our

attorneys I can't get a restraining order against him for that one in for that one incident but our attorneys told us the school district could there are enough parents that this has happened to and that needs to be looked into predatory behavior from any man around here is not acceptable thank Kimberly hello my name is amarissa kubana and I just wanted to come up here

and thank Mrs WMA and Dr k for all that you guys have accomplished in the last year you have fought very very hard to protect the innocence of the children in our community and I sincerely thank you for that you have been insulted and attacked again and again and you both have handled it all with such Grace and

Poise I don't know how you do it I know that I never could I want to speak directly to Dr k um you're amazing wezma but Dr K has been getting a lot of fiery arrows lately I want to thank you so much for your resilience most people would have given up by now but you never have once cave to the pressure you put

your Godly principles above your popularity and even above your job security I know that God is not only your on your side but that he is so proud of you continue to lean on him and remember they came after Jesus too John 15:1 18-19 if the world hates you you know that it has hated me before it hated you

if you were of the world the world would love its own but because you are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you thank you thank you Kimberly tayor Cruz followed by Edgar Diaz good evening my comments tonight Are For You Mr Woods at the May 7th board meeting you referred to the recall

election and the election in November you stated I strongly believe that what we do and what we say up here on the day matters we definitely set the St the the tone and it starts with us you also stated be hard on the issues debate like crazy but I'm also recommending that we be soft on the people along with that you recognize

there are people within the tvusd organiz ganization who feel targeted and I appreciate that however earlier in the meeting a new position was being discussed and the soon to be ex-board member Mr kroski asked about a task force Mr Woods you described who would be part of this task force some of the things that would be done and you stated

we kind of become the strong arm so if things are not functioning at a certain then the task force or a person like me would make their visit using words with negative connotations like task force and strong arm do not match what you previously stated about words mattering and tone and while I do not believe you use

these words with Mal intent I do believe the up upcoming ex-board member and his sidekick over here do thrive on this this type of language and attitude of strong army people with the chaos this board has created over the last year and a half you are right words do matter and we are listening thank you for your

time thank Diaz good evening board members staff uh I'm just here to address a couple things that were said in this forum many disparaging comments were mentioned about unions in this forum including using CTA and TVA in negative ways uh just so you know when CTA was founded in 1863 only a few hundred students attended public schools and teachers

were poorly prepared and seriously underpaid accomplishments run the spectrum of CTA preventing the firing of female teachers because of marriage investments in California for education of California Youth and the focus of my comments today are just going to be to let you know because I've heard some things about CTA in a negative Spotlight or TBA or teachers

unions but in 1866 free public school for all children in California was guaranteed by the work of CTA including schools that educate students of color 1895 uh brings back the first class siiz reduction law it limited students in a classroom to 80 I guess that's the one one room classroom 1911 community colleges were helped to be established

by CTA with free textbooks for all students 1913 the state pension system is created uh in fact CTA continues to ensure insolvency as a way to be able to attract uh qualified people to be able to serve the students of California 1915 CTA endorsed and outlawed the child labor and other protections for students 1946 prop 3 set the first funding first

student at $120 per student and the teacher minimum salary at $2,400 after Prop 13 was passed and it destabilized school's funding because uh property taxes were limited and so schools could no longer be paid by the property taxes of the community uh CTA worked for S SP 813 significant additional revenue for California schools through Equalization of Revenue

limits and categorical funding also included rigorous graduation requirements longer school day and year and a higher beginning teacher salary uh it also encouraged model curriculum standards so that everyone in California every student receives a similar high quality education uh prop 98 was passed for minimum portion of State money to fund k14 schools uh again minimum that is a

floor funding for schools to be established when many times you know T things get tight politicians want to reduce funding coming into classrooms CTA has heartfully endorsed the ability for minimum funding 1996 class siiz reduction is K through three uh and also a legal protection of prop 98 was upheld in courts series of bonds over the years

have brought $30 billion do uh to public education uh throughout California lastly days ago I was contacted by a CTA volunteer who connected me with my state representation when I urged them to support full funding for previous current and future years yes we would have been at a Brink without California protecting minimum funding even last week thank

[Applause] you next up is Jack marsten followed by upne hello hello good evening School Board I just want to give a big thank you to Dr kroski and Jen WMA for all you have done thank you for all the policies you have put in place and for standing strong despite all The Nasty hateful threats you both have received you are both

truly an inspiration and I will stand with you both Until the End thank you thank you upne followed by Danny Molina hi um good evening I I would like to address some misinformation circulating around in our community I've been talking to a lot of people a recurring topic of discussion that keeps on coming up again and again is the

California healthy youth act what is the purpose of comprehensive sex Health Ed is the first question everybody ask why do we even need it in short it's for public health this education has proven effective in decreasing teen birth rate which benefits both the mother and the child's health in fact the birth rate for teens 15 to 19 has seen 50% drop from 2016 to

2020 and the number of STDs have decreased by 27% from 2019 to 2021 this not only eases the strain on our Healthcare System but also allows students to concentrate on their studies then another common question that keeps coming up again and again is can I inspect the curriculum to ensure that it aligns with my values absolutely you can

the law mandates that the parents or Guardians be informed that the med materials are open for inspection the next is most commonly asked question that I have what if I don't want my child to participate in these l lons you have every right to opt out and it is stated in the State Education Code why is it a default to opt out

instead of needing to opt in is another question that keeps coming up that's simply how the law is structured and I'm going to read out the law right now it's Ed code 519 38 a parent or guardian of a pupil has the right to excuse their child from all or part of comprehensive sex health education HIV prevention

education and assessments related to that education through a passive cont consent opt out process a school district shall not require active parental consent or opt in for comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education so there are like more questions where can you discover more details about this your other rights or subjects of Interest as a parent please review your

annual notification packet before signing it has a lot of information for parents where you can your rights and then you can uh all you have to do is go to the school's website click on the parents link and it is full of useful information talk to your kids teachers they want you involved and don't let anyone tell you otherwise thank

you thank you Danny Molina followed by Emil baram good evening board today I'm going to talk about leadership uh I did nine years in the Marine cor I got promoted fairly quickly um I I I wouldn't say I was a great leader but I knew a lot of great leaders uh I seen a lot of bad leaders uh and I

had the opportunity to lead Marines um so I will say that something that every leader knows his good leadership will always lead by example and they understand extreme ownership so this recent situation that our community is in now um it's a problem for the whole board and if the whole board doesn't look at it like that then you're not taking

ownership of the failure it's not a board it's not a president it's a board when one Falls you all fall and uh if you're not going to take ownership of that you're just not a leader and uh that's why we'll be filling four new seats in a couple of months um one thing that I want to talk about to the board

that I find concerning is the recent State Testing that our students have gone through I've spoken to uh several parents and I would like to understand why it is we have students in the district who are below grade level for State Testing but they're on honor roll how does that make any sense I mean what exactly is the problem here now I

don't want to point the finger but I would like to know and get involved and at least get some answers is it because the testing is different is it because the testing's on a computer and the students aren't used to that through the year are we preparing them for our in-house exams in process and not the state exam um because I would like to

see a a remedy of that I think that's a serious concern that um a lot of parents should have issues with um other than that um you know there was an incident last month I wasn't going to bring it up but somebody else brought it up and I handled it very very professionally the truth is that I could have easily I

could have easily have felt threatened and offended with the words that were used and I could have pressed charges and if the other and if the shoe was on the other foot that's probably exactly what would have happened but I didn't do that and I left it in the hands of the district Mr R say thank you very much

and it is what it is now I'm here that teacher still back to work the truth is that incident should have been a disagreement I asked her a question I had nothing to do with the recording or the video that went viral I didn't share it I didn't post it I didn't do any of that so what I'm trying to say is let's

get past it because I could have handled it much differently that would have a lot more people upset in here and I didn't thank you very much I appreciate it have a good evening thank you and I'm just addressing the board uh we're at the 30 minute Mark with all the comments we have two more comments do you want to

or two more speakers Allison you good two more speakers do you want to end it all right good as a teacher I love talking about education and I'm glad to see that some of the people here tonight want to return to that um but tonight I'm not going to talk about that um I was stunned last week when Scott weiner

a senator from California doubled down with the expression our kids knowing this expression is a trigger for parents across the state who are committed to the care upbringing and nurturing of of their own children in my opinion this misguided fool who has no children of his own reinforces the battle lines drawn in reference to assembly Bill 1955 with regard to the children of

others measures a huh just a friendly reminder no no discussion of bills and measures oh okay thank no discussion of bills and measures I didn't know that sorry about that um okay all right with regard to the children of of others I say to Scott weiner Tony Thurman as and respectfully Mrs barklay and and to you uh Mr Schwarz

you didn't change their poop when they were infants you didn't feed them or pay for their food you don't pay for their medical issues you don't take care of them when they are physically ill you don't dry their tears when they fall down you are not there to help with homework or coaching Sports and you're certainly not there to sit and talk with

them as they navigate through the challenges of growing up in the final analysis stronger families mean a stronger country families must feel secure and their Liberty to raise their children according to the dictates of their conscience parents should be applauded not penalized for investing time in the Care Management nurturing and upbringing of their children other than in cases of genuine child AB abuse

which should be treated as a crime the right of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their own children should in every case Trump the policy objectives of State officials bureaucrats social workers and other school official officials can't read the uh Bill stuff okay um how bottom line the state has got its nose in everything how is school

disciplines a defiant student how much homework students should receive what curriculum should be taught and when how schools are going to be forced to deal with students who abuse drugs and alcoholism on school property these are all issues an elected School Board represent pres in a community should be addressing not a tyrannical state government who in my opinion is quite

frankly determined to destroy school boards and take away the voice of people who elect them no matter the positions you take on these issues you as school board members should be speaking to this all of this is clearly government overreach the state government has failed miserably with regard to the important issues of our time the budget crime criminal justice taxes un

employment the San Diego border homelessness etc etc so what do they do they pivot you you you CL speaker Josh [Applause] shering I didn't plan to speak tonight but I did want to to um relay a couple pieces of information uh I was talking to our district librarian she told me that many of our school district sites

their libraries their annual budget is $250 I want when you guys make decisions about money please think in the terms of every $250 that doubles a library's annual budget for maintaining their libraries it's not an insignificant amount of money different notes uh somebody who mentioned some of the people that have been protesting or having signs out in front of our some of

our intersections in our community my child is um autistic she goes to sha realm and because of one of these people we I used to pick her up in front of Jack in the Box we now have to pick her up on the back side of the school by the baseball fields because he got he spooked her because of my daughter being who she

is is um she's gender fluid she's figuring things out and that's challenged me in my faith and my upbringing I was raised very Orthodox Christian my parents were both ordained ministers and I got to thinking about if she wanted to be a he or a they what would happen if they did everything physically did the surgeries got to heaven and were

judged well I would imagine they would ask what did you do to yourself and then I thought about it honestly I looked at me in St Peter St Paul Jesus God whoever it is judging me was like Josh what did you do to yourself or what if I got breast implants butt implants Botox in the F what did you do to yourself what if I

was an alcoholic can kill my li like everything we do in life causes us to have something that doesn't measure up to this idea but when it comes to trans kids what they're hearing is we don't want to see you we don't want to acknowledge you because we have these this Dogma this religious belief but a song came to mind I'm a

terrible singer please forgive me Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world lesbian gay trans and straight they are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the world please as a community as leadership we need to find a way to allow these children to feel loved and safe in our schools and our community

thank you thank you thank you okay consent calendar all matters listed on the consent calendar are considered routine and all will be enacted with one vote there is no discussion of consent Al uh consent calendar items unless members of the governing board or staff requests that specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action and before we start on this is there any

public comments on agendize items including that we have 11 across the board board do you want to do two two minutes three minutes keep it consistent at three or go to two I don't know what do you guys want it's 11 in various places total no more than Allison okay two minutes so we have um let's do this which ones are they on

because I'm going to before we vote if you can give us a minute audience thank you so much we're just going to find out who's speaking on what items before I vote though I'm not allowed to vote until they until they talk and then we'll vote okay we'll listen to all the public comments first and then we'll do our voting two minutes

a piece all right thank thank you okay we have our first speaker okay Jen Bach followed by Jen Bach she's speaking on two different items yeah and all the speakers will you please let us know the number you're speaking towards please thank you so much so I believe the first one was under the warrant list um the second one was uh the

Melinda's contract um so the first one I just wanted to just ask that just like like Josh had mentioned this the amount of money that we spend is not inse inconsequential um I get that the district spends a lot of money throughout the year on a lot of different things contracts that are much bigger um contracts than I've ever had

to spend or could fathom trying to manage um it's the legal fees that are at the Forefront of my concern I get a lot of the expenses of on running a a huge District like this it is going to be quite costly um and I just Wonder on the necessary spending of some of these legal costs and if we can cut some of

those out um there's a lot of a lot of costs in here that are going they seem quite redundant seem unnecessary um and I just ask that we move to a more fiscally responsibility fiscal responsible uh position and we look at those a little bit closer rather than just passing these along and spending and and hiring all of these firms

constantly it seems excessive um and given the concerns like teachers not having enough equipment and being able to print things and being able to they really have to fundraise for our student athletic teams and uniforms like our band just got new uniforms this year but they were in shambles before this year and they were you know going they're go

to parents left and right to try to fund all of these things and I don't think that that should be the case I think that that's something that you should take into account when you're looking at these budgets that's all I ask thank you thank you and me again um the Melinda's contracts so um I think that ethically it is wrong to have these

the the Melinda's firm tired um I think if the if the shoe was on the other foot um and you're looking at who the district is hiring and where those funds are going I think ethical responsibility should be a factor that is taken in account on um you know what that looks like what the perception is like not

just for your supporters or the people that don't maybe support you as much but ethically are we doing the right thing are we hiring the right people for the right reasons and spending this money responsibly or are we doing this and could that look wrong could it be wrong and looking at that I ask that you do

not accept the mendus contract for Renewal um and you look at more ethically uh conscientious decisions thank you thank you Christine Masa Follow by Melania hello board I am also speaking about item 63 the Melinda's contract first it's unclear what the attached contract covers and item three it says it commences July 1st 2025 and shall continue through June 30th 2025 so

it ends before it begins and item seven it also States the agreement covers July 1st 2023 and ends June 30th 2024 and has no approved extensions so what is the actual coverage term of this agreement that you're proposing second the public has seen no evidence of any deliverables produced by this firm although I understand there are a few and yet the is still paying a

minimum of $2,500 I think monthly retainer although I may be wrong about that regardless of any work produced that amount could more than easily pay for the JV stunt coaches that each High School had to fund ra for in order for our schools to have JB stunt teams and believe me they put in much more than 15

hours a month if these services are INF fact needed by the district perhaps the district could bid out the contract unlike the last time they brought on Melendez and find the needed deliverables last we should demand that Dr kroski recuse himself for any discussion over this contract due to the multitude of political endorsements that he has received from the contractor's

wife in order for any approval to not appear as quid proquo thank you thank you Milana I just noticed that it says here that what you wrote is under information and reports though so is that where you want it okay so then up next is up neat I will start with consent calendar item 63 just for the sake of

continuity the irony is not lost on me of having this consent calendar item and the action item on updating the conflict of interest policy in the same agenda the person's wife uh Melissa Mendes was uh Melendez was campaigning for Dr kroski just before last week our academic achievements should Define our district not media consultants and certainly not the one

whose political VI campaign just last week the other aspect of this consultant's job seems to be crisis management we are cautiously optimistic that we will see fewer crisises moving forward I advise against repeating the same past mistakes and this quid proo instead of these expenditures consider using funds for town halls and engagement events with parents fostering a culture of humility transparency and

Trust we've had competent District individuals handle past issues even before this consultant was hired we really need to work on controlling uh Mis information which starts with not spreading it on social media we could use some of the funds for training on responsible use of social media Dr kroski should recuse himself because of his personal connections with the

contractor as best practices d dictate that there should not even be an appearance of impropriety let alone actual impropriety I urge the rest of the board members to vote no on this item thank you thank you am I okay so the next item I'd like to I'm going to go in numerical order I'm just going to continue

speaking I think all of them are mine yeah so uh the first item I'm going to talk on is the uh ready and uh the actual description of the consent calendar it has caused a lot of misunderstanding that there is something new being expanded into middle school as the parent of a middle schooler I would like to clarify that irrespective of

individual opinions on the actual software and its approach it is not in the process of expansion the software has already been implemented in middle school as a diagnostic tool for intervention this is merely extending the contract I see that we negotiated a price well as we have almost 500 more licenses and uh than the 2021 session and a relatively small change in the

actual cost for the software this software helps teachers demonstrate measurable Improvement in both math and reading and is only one of the metrics used if your child isn't advanced in math or reading you have the option of testing out and that ends my comment for uh item 35 the next uh the next four items I'd like to talk about is like softwares we

have a lot of softwares that are being updated I think it'll be good for the public to know what are these softwares actually how parents can use them so item 49 is let's talk which is the software for responding to bullying and communicating with administrators anonymously please use it to report any bullying incidents or security concerns instead of social media so the

administrators are actually aware of the issue and can do something about it it can be used for reporting incidents anonymously if you're worried about retaliation that'll end my comment on item 49 the next one is item 55 Desmos this software is for math algebra one and was piloted in my daughter's sixth grade class and she found it quite

engaging I distinctly recall this software because the math teacher mentioned the pilot program during the back to school night and at the end of the year I received a Google feedback form which I promptly filled out as it allows parents to provide input into the selection of our curriculum the school district gains important feedback when parents complete curriculum feedback

forms I urge all parents to take a few minutes and do it every time you receive any feedback form this helps improve the curriculum so it fits your child's needs and ensures that your opinions are considered thank you that's end of 55 the next item is uh item 56 can you give us a second to update your time yeah

thank you so much so the next item is uh 56 turn it in which is a software designed to uphold America sorry academic Integrity by preventing plagiarism and the misuse of AI in completing assignments it is understandable that many of us are concerned about the students using AI to finish their work however it is important to remember that the essence

of writing is in learning practicing research and effectively communicating ideas rather than us using complex vocabulary or flowery language thank you item 56 is the end and the next item is 76 in finite campus where you can track your child's lessons assignments and grades you can also do things like enrollment sign the annual notification pack where you are

informed of all your rights the laws related to the school discipline expectations and of all the services available to your child it is a great way to stay involved and get notifications from your child's teacher make it a routine to check at midweek for your child with your child for any missing assignments and grades thank you this was item 76 I have one more item on

the content calendar item which is 68 the contract for Orbach huff and Henderson we hired these lawyers because the new board members didn't trust the old legal team and wanted to help with the new policies from then on until last September we spent a total of uh 99,5 74 .95 however concerns were raised by several parents myself included

regarding these escalating legal fees we still don't have a good answer for what all the expenses were for we all know lawyers can be expensive but I have specific worries about this team because of their past with the Beverly Hill School District this involved troubling stories and a lawsuits and involvement with the district's facility director resulting in financial consequences for

the district without going into the unpleasant details I suggest we don't renew this contract especially since we haven't used their services since last September thank you is that it for the comments onay what's that we're done okay so I would like to have the board vote on items one through okay so Steve pulled item three Jen pulled item 716

35 yep I'm getting there and then Steve pulled 68 so we'll pull those for discussion let's vote in items um do I have a motion to Second for items 1- 2 4- 6 8 through 15 17 through 34 36 through 67 and 69 through 85 moved mve by Mrs M WMA second second by Mr Schwarz Len would you mind Barkley

yes Schwarz yes wouth yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L now we're on to item number three warrant list and Steve you have the floor uh yes I just like to Echo the uh looking in the warrant list that the uh legal costs uh last month almost uh $120,000 uh for Legal Services um n 90,000 to Adam Silva um uh

and 30,000 to I can't read the law firm uh I am continue to be troubled by these escalating costs that as people in the audience have said could well be spent on things for children and we have to get these legal costs under control Mr R I'm wondering if you can speak to some clarification with that I

know I sent you an email today and figur uh that perhaps there would be some questions regarding that so I don't know if you saw it because it's been a busy day but with 120,000 there's um chunks of um different lawyers that are involved and I'm just wondering if anybody can speak to that because I do think it's good for

people that have questions to have transparency I saw facilities I saw several different categories and again because this is a continuing conversation in the community if there's anything you can give us with this particular warrant list or anyone else Mrs lash I don't know if that would be you that might be helpful we didn't pull the specific

backup for all of these payments but we can speak to what we use those attorneys for is that what you're asking for yes if you can just give us a categorized idea just so it's not nebulous and if people are concerned about what we spend best we can and I think I wrote down a couple things but I

have so many notes I know you know this agenda was huge so I can try to look back but there were certain categories um there was a bigger chunk of money I believe for 40 or 50,000 so I just thought if any of you might be able to speak to one or two of them that would be helpful I could speak to a few

examples of how uh we use legal counsel through Adam SOA mcnali for example um which is actually the an extension that contract is between you and I have a strong recommendation that we reup that contract especially because we have a reduced amount for office hours with legal councel so in Human Resources development we use uh legal council for a lot of different

matters pertaining to things ranging from employee discipline situations investigations for which Ed code or applicable law needs to be uh reviewed recommendations need to be made um more recently to process and appropriately um review public records requests in accordance with state law and then provide responses to those um and just a myriad of different situations that that come to our table

but um legal council also supports other departments such as risk management facilities and providing different different advice most of our administrators actually use the time that's provided during office hours to then schedule a time to meet with legal councils um during that one day of the week uh to then minimize the impact the fiscal impact for those legal services

so it's quite a variety of issues that come up including complaints that surface as a result of an incident or a situation that kind of garnered some public public attention um but to be quite honest u in the time that I've been here I've seen an influx in those types of situations uh for which legal council has had to be sought um to the

degree where I think that's what's Gathering more attention from the public now in looking at the warrant list because there's been a significant increase in the past uh few months especially and so um we use them on a consistent almost everyday basis I'm sorry I have to apologize I just got an email from my wife who said

my microphone was off I was commenting on these excessive legal bills I don't blame I don't blame it on anybody but I just find it distressing that we're spending so much money on that and not on our classrooms and our children thank you thank you Mr R I appreciate it I just want people people to realize in a

$450 million budget a year that there are a lot of things that legal utilizes and we appreciate their service so thank you okay do I have a motion to second on number three warrant list April through May 2024 purchase orders contracts direct payments moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barlay L would you mind barlay yes Schwarz yes where's M

yes come yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L uh second item was pulled by Jen number seven 20242 Master assembly consultant list Jen you have the floor so one thing that I did is I took the time to go through our Master assembly consultant list there's quite a few here and it was a bit challenging because there are so many um I love the

fact that we have many many good things here that our students and schools can take advantage of um there are a couple that I have concern and so I'm not sure how the board will want to deal with this tonight a few of them I would like to pull and possibly bring back but there are some things I'd like to point

out so Jen give me one second uh Dr Woods are we allowed to amend the motion for the assembly consultant list if you pull you yeah okay good thank you okay I'll keep note thank you so one that I noted was and I'm not sure how to pronounce it Epoch education basically um it's a left-leaning consulting firm that

provides critical race Theory aligned diversity equity and inclusion consulting services to schools companies associations and nonprofits and to me what I found interesting is that the CEO uh said School District Dei train she's a Dei trainer says the American flags become a hate symbol and that employe resisting CRT should be fired this was something I looked into

and thought with everything that we've been in conversation with this past year this isn't a vendor that I think should be with us at TV USD so what are they used for because I lo I looked them up as well so that's one thing I think we should get further clarification on so I me did you ask staff in the last three

days what what about these vendors that you have questions about can I keep speaking before I'm just curious if we have more information as you're going through do you have more information on them or you're just asking it now my point tonight is with four huge binders to go through and I know you had the information as well I

think this needs to be pulled because I would like to know further information okay so you're asking it now is is what you're saying what I'm doing is asking it now okay just these are the ones that I would like pull for look let speak thank you because what I want the at a time J Jen let's go one at a time let

Jen finish and then we'll have discussion between the board members it just helpful okay so that's one um Kevin Cary at 19,200 he addresses a lot of American higher education issues he's a policy analyst a writer 19,200 I'd like more information on that and what the schools see using him for uh jockey Hunter I didn't see a

website or any information so that would be another Robert pilio what topic purpose that was another I wrote lots of notes with the ones I could look up online and discern this is probably what it is uh Shannon Rowley again there were multiple Shannon Ries with no description for me to look at Royal Management Group LLC that's just a

marketing company so I'd love more clarification there s grander Associates Inc I'm wondering if it's s Groner Groner I I Googled some different spellings just not sure what that's for um and I think that is it so I highlighted them but again I think for board members if we can pull these get further information and clarification I'm happy to do the homework with that I

think it's really important and I know a couple years ago when I was out talking to families that wasn't often something that was done to really scrutinize vendors I think um oversight's important so that's where I land with these um I do know who Jackie Hunter is um she's the mom of an autistic child and she's an expert on speaking on those

issues that's who she is thank you Mr Schwarz I did look for websites and information so again if we can write these down and can get further information that would be great and I would suggest moving forward with lists like this whatever we can do principles schools if you can give websites in kind of a short synopsis that would be

helpful in the future so I would just you know reiterate it isn't coming upon us as board members if we have questions to take that to staff before the meeting because what happens when we bring the questions to the meeting is it slows down processes that you know need that may need to happen quicker than waiting another month so I think it's important

for us as board members with questions those get sent on as quickly as possible I don't disagree that we shouldn't look through I did as well look through a lot of these um to get an idea of of what they're for but if we have further questions that's where we can ask well this is what I'm reading who uses this

and for what so I don't personally I don't think it's fair to bring it to a board meeting and ask a question when staff aren't prepared for it when we could have dealt with it sooner so well let me let me tell you I understand and I don't disagree but I did my best I probably spent about 20 hours reading

the agenda this weekend as you did so I did do my best and wrote emails on several things and believe me if I could have sat down I would have when the agenda drops Friday you're finishing a work week taking care of family doing all of this so again I'm just asking for some more time to get into this uh I

couldn't get to every single thing but I saw enough that I'd like to ask some additional questions so I would appreciate Grace with whoever needs to make that decision to bring these back okay let me read these out Epoch education Kevin Cary Jackie Hunter Robert villo Sharon Raleigh Royal Management es ronner Associates Inc yes those are my

highlighted vendors and believe me there's a lot of great ones on here so I definitely appreciate what we do have for our kids do I have a motion in a second to pull these items from the master assembly consultant list to further think about I mean it it is it possible Mrs WMA that if these are pulled they can be discussed at the next

meeting no could bring it back as a separate item I know it's a short meeting I know you want to get out early Steve totally understand that completely agree just saying the I mean can these be wrapped up by you with staff behind the scenes any concerns in the next two days and would the board be willing for that to

happen I would that works okay then we have consensus all right so let's pull these items um and then vote the rest through do we have a motion in a second moved have a second second second by Mr Schwarz Len would you mind barklay yes Schwarz yes WMA yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you Len okay so three and seven

have been done now we're on to 16 contract Panorama education Jen you have the floor so Panorama I've done some study on and here's what I would really prefer with this there are definitely some concerns um I know social emotional learning is here to stay and we need to make sure we're taking care of our kids without a doubt the study that I did um

gave me some insight into this particular program that really needs more time I don't know if anyone's here to speak to it tonight we have a huge agenda so I want to respect that but if you look at technology and the questions that are being asked and the invasive aspects of what's going on I think that we need to take some more time with this

when I looked at the surveys in the lcap of teachers who had positive um I don't want to say positive but maybe saw some sort of benefit with the last three years and I looked at the data it was about 50% a little bit over that so we I think what I need is the ability to ask some additional

questions um I have gotten some concerns from parents I understand there are important things to track I've looked at the questions with the surveys and I would like to know is this Anonymous when our students take it if we're looking to reach our students who need that extra help are there names on that do parents view it prior is it Anonymous afterwards

I know it's in a student's file but there are too many questions I have with behavior analytics the legal ramifications and possibilities of what could happen in the future can a child consent to answering do you have the ability to calm yourself down in a class and move on or I don't know that's a question in third grade that I wonder is

a little weighty for a student so when I look at this and analyze it I want more information I want to be able to speak to our staff cabinet People Who oversee this before I with any good conscience can vote this through I just think in this era there's there's too many questions that still need to be answered

and in a public forum where parents are able to listen I have a thought we have the Jewish Community here to speak on information reports items 35 have been pulled as well as 68 as well as 16 if we flesh these out we will um it's a Jewish holiday we'll call it Pentecost there's a different name Steve shio shio

so we have the Jewish community and we've have 11 comments I'm willing to pull these three and stick them on with the other ones for the next meeting to allow the Jewish Community to speak I would be before that do I have consensus because we've moved that information reports before the action items to allow that and I I in light of

what the concern is I don't want to um you know Overlook their ability to speak because some of them will leave because of this holiday so now I'm asking the board what you think my thought is to pull those items and bring it back on the 13th it's a total of uh what is it one two three

four it would be items 7 16 35 and 68 I have no problem moving um the information report item up as quickly as we can get on you know like do it now even if we need to was totally fine my issue is that we have time constraints on Thursday and you're talking about you need research you need time you need parents like you

going to do that by Thursday I mean that's my question is is I mean this is a survey mechanism is what Panorama is and people can opt out of it I mean there's it's these are things that our teachers and our staff need to have to do their work as required by state requirements if you think there's

something bigger and better cool let let's hear it but when we're getting into you know is this question appropriate that has nothing to do with this mechanism that delivers surveys to kids so I think we're just going to talk in circles around this so taking it to Thursday and have another extremely long meeting I mean I've expressed my concerns about that to

Dr Woods already okay I I I have I have a second option Mrs barklay if you don't mind it's it's that maybe we could push the information reports to right now then do these other four consent items right after that here's one here here's one other thought one other thought is in terms of especially Panorama and mental

health I would be up for July having a time where we cover that in information and reports I've looked at the contracts when they're due there shouldn't be a push for this to happen tonight we're not under duress for that and I do think it's important to have this conversation for the community um um it is a bigger

deal than just a survey there are multiple ways across the country to survey information and take care of the kids in terms of some of those questions and issues so that's what I would like let's do information reports now and talk about this a little bit more a little bit got it I that's what I would say do I have consensus from we have me

Mrs barlay do I have consensus from another board member to push information reports now then we'll return back okay we got consensus let's do that I'd like to honor those here all right now we have I think it's 11 comments L okay um Bard you want to do two seven okay do you want to do yeah three

minutes a piece all right first one and let's let me read this out officially Three and sorry I got a lot of public hearing stuff okay so information reports we have resolution 2021 2243 on anti-semitic and anti-jewish Prejudice and affirming the value of the Jewish students staff and families so seven comments two minutes or three minutes a piece here we go

thank you first up is Dr ner RI dear members of the tvusd board fellow resident pres and concerned citizens dear Dr kraski School Board president first I would start with a big thank you to you Dr kraski for working with me on these matters of grave importance for the last few weeks you're a dear friend of the Jewish people and

we thank you we gather here today to address a matter of grave importance to us the recent incidents of anti-Semitism and misinformation at the Tula Valley High School as a community we're deeply troubled by the inclusion of blatant anti-semitic content and distortions in the school's yearbook as well as the incident involving a Jewish student being subjected to anti-semitic slurs

and pressure by none other than a tvhs teacher during school organized tour to UC Riverside I stand here before you after contacting Mrs Leon the principal of tvhs several times asking for a time to meet to know a veil she did not respond only after my first email to you Dr Koski and to the board she sent an

email to the whole Community not acknowledging the grave mistake the school made but just call in incomplete information her words this is unacceptable to us in the yearbook Israel was wiped off the map to be replaced with a non-existent entity Palestine essentially eliminating the Jewish States for from existence so I ask all of you is this just in complete

information moreover she suggested to cover it up with a sticker a Band-Aid so I say let's rip off the Band-Aid and uncover the truth a few years ago the school board passed a resolution on anti-semitic Prejudice however the recent incidents in tvhs indicate that more action is needed to uphold the principles of this resolution hence we asked the board first to reinstitute

this resolution and second to convene a close session and vote on imediate action remove this band-aid and call for a third party investigation into both anti-semitic incidents identify who is responsible and hold them accountable we are not satisfied with the school investigating itself which I just heard is finished the investigation is finished and we will not sit aside and

let the mouse guard the cheese the Jewish community and concered residents of Tula are counting on you to ensure that our schools remain safe welcoming and free from anti-Semitism and pre Prejudice in the words of morai from The Scroll of Esther who knows whether it was just for such a time is this that you attain your Royal position board

members you have been chosen to serve in this capacity for a reason if you pass on this opportunity to stand against anti-Semitism you risk losing faith however if you rise to the occasion and take decisive action you will be remembered as leader leaders who stood up for what's right thank you thank you next up is Jennifer or Jen Bach

followed by amarissa kubana good evening um I actually uh have that yearbook at home uh my daughter brought it home and it's about as thick as an encyclopedia so I actually didn't see the uh remarks myself until I was scrolling on Instagram and saw that a board member and his supporters had U blasted an image of it with some accusations online

um and which is a primary concern of mine um I think this is a prime opportunity to show how we can better handle situations this um the the conflict the differences and opinions in the different sides it's going to be a contentious topic right um hate rhetoric slurs things that are clearly offensive to people but may not be even un fully

understood by others are are going to happen I think this is a time where you really need to just professionally move forward in ways that can address the community concerns without further divisiveness blasting stuff online and accusing kids um spreading messages spreading misinformation is not properly handling the situations at hand um this is actually the second of the well the

first of two incidences that was tried to have been addressed through social media this week by board members I don't think that's the right way to go um I would ask that we address this situation in professional ways that can take into the accounts of all of the members of the community and the sensitivities at hand and the the very conflictual nature

and the complex nature of these issues um I had several emails from the school I got one from Gary Dr Gary Woods I got one from the principal I got one from another person I forget all trying to address this and I appreciate the efforts of trying to address this in a in a in a manner that is befitting of

the significance of how important and personal it is to people and I just ask that you just take that into account and step back away from trying to make this newsworthy trying to make it a popularity contest we can do better we can be more professional and I just ask that you use this as the prime example

of how we can better address these issues thank you thank you next up is amarissa followed by Greg Langworthy hello my name is emerisa kubana I don't even know where to start with this topic um it truly just blows my mind that as a society we we have gone so far backwards how can we not have learned

from the mistakes of our past how can anyone want to mimic the behavior and attitude of Hitler and Nazi Germany we've all read the history books we've seen the documentaries we've heard from the survivors I mean seriously we're going to start hating Jewish people again have you all lost your minds you're going to support the murder of Jewish people you're going

to support the rape and kidnapping of Jewish people you're going to support the attacks and destruction of their country Israel are you going to treat every Jew like they are guilty of some crime their only crime is being Jewish shame on anyone who can be filled with this level of evil it is absolutely disgusting I'm sorry to Mr Schwarz and

to any other Jewish person in the room who had to hear free Palestine right now while Jewish people are still being held hostage please work as a board to protect the Jewish families of tvusd I stand with so I just have a a short comment um this this issue kind of brings to light the importance of teaching um proper

teaching of American History American this country was founded by a small group of pilgrims who came across and founded a nation but one of their main principles was their understanding from the scripture that the Hebrew Bible the the Christian scriptures uh that all men are created by the same God and therefore they have equal rights and they uh founded a country um inhabited

by at the time by Indians but they treated those Indians with respect not all colonists did that but because the pilgrims held their beliefs seriously they treated the uh Indians in their in their Nation or where where the in Plymouth they had a treaty with them that treaty lasted 40 years they they to show that they really did believe that

the Indians were just like them they actually had a trial for a man who had murdered Indians and on the basis of the witnesses of those Indians they executed their own colonists so they really put their faith into practice that um example was what our Founders looked at when they wrote the Declaration of Independence with the words that all men

are created equal and therefore they have in aliened able rights among these are life liberty The Pursuit of Happiness that's why the the uh saying this pledge to the flag every before every meeting should be done in every classroom is such a good reminder that even though we look different different cultures different beliefs we're all created equal and therefore all are are

U entitled to equal respect and that reinforced curriculum may have kind of a leavening effect on the students realizing that that really is where our commonality comes from thank you very upney hello I'm Milana most of you guys already know me um I'm speaking on this action item today to show support for our Jewish community members especially

the Jewish parents and students of TV USD anti-Semitism is on the rise not just in our country but around the world I've seen things these past few months I never imagined I'd see in my life I've seen people openly expressing pure hatred of the Jewish people I do not want that hatred to reach tvsd I'm afraid it already has and

I asked this board to stand up and take action to protect Jewish students please hold staff accountable if they have a part in targeting these students I'm speaking to all political parties reminding everybody there was a significant time in our history when the Jewish people were targeted and too many people fell silent Dr Koski you express sympathy and

support for Israel after the attack on October 7th I trust that you will take action and do the right thing and I hope that the rest of the board follows suit thank you thank you upney followed by EML Barham so I would like to thank this Community member for bringing up this past resolution I firmly oppose all forms of

discrimination including anti-Semitism and islamophobia we need to start respecting modeling respectful behavior in our communication with each other for our children and not use hateful language against anyone regarding regardless of their religion and I speak as one of the communities who if you know the largest movement of people was in 19 47 about 1.1 million were moved

and slaughtered I belonged to that community and it was very disheartening to observe the board president's silence when certain anti-semitic text of his supporters one of whom is unfortunately the city councelor became public the other supporter also posted hateful comments regarding Mr Schwarz on one of your social media accounts that you frequently interact with quite back and

forth but you remained silent on that I hope the silence does not mean that you agree with their views and will unequally condemned those actions today somebody who just issued an apology to Mr Schwarz today was screaming for an apology to Muslim Students a little while ago it's on video please watch that our social studies curriculum provides a comprehensive study of this

issue starting in 10th Grade right starting at 1928 before with the with the World War I students should use this comprehensive well research curriculum which offers various perspectives as their main resource for understanding International conflicts and not rely on earbook blurbs of current events I do understand the concerns with the ear book in the light of the current hostile

climate the superintendent has informed the parents of the issue and also given Solutions and plans to make sure this doesn't happen again and provide training forums to promote better understanding of international issues in today's world where people often express anger on social media and try to be more outraged and offended than their next person I encourage everyone to start

discussions with understanding and empathy these complex issues span centuries and can't be reduced to short statements treat each other with kindness and respect and let let's make sure that in our quest for Divinity we do not lose our Humanity I would like to read out a little prayer from Rabbi Tamara Goen May your children all of us

unique and in your image come to know the quiet truths of shared pain Shared Hope shared land shared Humanity shared risk shared courage shared peace Made It Be Your Will and may it be ours thank you thank you [Applause] baram um throughout this conflict I have thought about you so many times as I watch the TV um as I see the images on the TV as I

watch the protests um I hate this War I hate watching what is happening um on both sides but particularly since we see more of what's going on in Gaza with the killing of the children it's a killer for me um we have to history is objective truth we have to study our history and we also have to

study our geography um because if we don't do that we're going to have mischaracterizations like we had in that yearbook um so even on TV when you with the protest Etc when you ask them what river and what sea from The River To The Sea they they don't know and we need to do a better job with

history and geography and you know what's happened to the Jewish students is not being able to come to class and all of that that stuff it's horrible and we need to get past all of this and and affirm that we we've got to stop dealing with with anti-Semitism we've got to we've got to come together and uh we do

that not by looking at this conflict through the lens of critical race oppressor and oppressive we need to do it uh by looking at history and geography and objectively what it says so um the state of Israel has done a lot okay during the past years to uh help bring about peace um they give up land they

they I believe they want to live in peace and I believe that the that that the gazin and the Palestinian people want to live in peace but they elected the wrong government in 2006 and that's the problem their their whole uh premise their whole mission is to annihilate the state of Israel Israel and uh the state of Israel is not going

anywhere I mean the state of Israel is uh God's plan centers around the state of Israel and if you're a Christian you know how this is all going to end so let's stop the hate let's pray for the Palestinian people let's pray for Israel and hope that all this nonsense stops thank you thank you okay so I guess we can go one on a

time I'll go last um yeah basically I talked to Dr RAB and said he wanted the board to take an official position so after we're all done talking including the superintendent I'm going to ask the board to take a motion a second to reaffirm this anti-semetic resolution that was adopted by the majority of the board back when Steve Schwarz it here so

that'll be the end goal of what I want to do um but yeah um who wants to go first I'll go last all right I'll go first then I wrote my comments down um as a school board member I'm deeply sadden and outrage by the recent anti-semitic literature seen in the T High School yearbook against our Jewish

community in fact I think it's downright disgusting our schools are built on principles of inclusivity respect and understanding and any form of hate or discrimination is utterly unacceptable the Jewish Community has long been an integral and cherished part of our district contributing to the rich diversity that makes our schools vibrant strong I stand in unwavering solidarity with our Jewish

students families and staff all of you thank you for coming tonight and I commit to to ensuring that our schools remain safe havens for you all because right now this conversation isn't about anybody else but you right now and I'm honoring you right now because of this anti-semitic hate that you had to endure we must educate our children on

the importance of empathy and the dangers of intolerance fostering an environment where every individual is valued and respected together we can combat this hate and build a future where love and acceptance triumph over Prejudice and fear and as a professor I'm disgusted at the amount of anti-Semitism I see all over the campuses in the United States I

can't name them all there's so many where this occupy Palestine where they won't let Jewish professors or Jewish students on campus and their vandalism of our greatest um educational institutions it's absolutely disgusting and it's racist and it's a religious bigest Tre at its finest and it's evil it's moral evil because it uses these people as a means to an end especially

this yearbook post I'm with Dr rev I think it's absolutely disgusting to allow a yearbook to be sent out and then to say we'll put a sticker over it I'm sorry we could do better as a district and we should do better as a district and the time is now and Dr Ray said it Esther for such a time as now and he

meant it there's four School bmers up here right now and we can make that stand so that's how I feel and I get emotional about it because it's pure hatred and it's all around our world right now just not our it's not in just the United States it's all around the world and people are dying from it and I

don't want any Jewish student to feel neglected and inferior because it's evil it's also unamerican as one of the speakers said and I've said many times when we pledge allegiance to the flag every single time we do it we're reminded as American people including the Jewish Community we are all Americans under one Banner United indivisible this divides it's unamerican

and it's evil I'll be the first to make the motion and I'll wait for a second later to take a stand and officially vote this in again to reaffirm our commitment to the Jewish community and um right now I just want to say that each and every student here at tvusd matters and especially right now the Jewish students because this is

about you we're talking about you right now and your parents and our community members and yes Mr Schwarz I am sorry if you're offended at this as well because I would be also thank you so well said Dr kroski there's there's no place for religious bigotry on any of our campuses with any of the religions or faiths and the rich

diversity that we have there is no place for religious bigotry the oversight was egregious with the yearbook when you look at ethnic studies the thing to know in the history of the state and how they've developed it did you know the Jewish people had concerns because one of the first drafts that came out was inherently biased and

anti-semitic this ethnic studies discussion that's going to continue throughout the year that's been an issue so these people have suffered it's important for us to call it out it's also important for us to let our students know this applies to all of you and I am sorry I apologize to the Jewish Community one thing that I couldn't help but be

grateful for here at tvusd is in looking at the situation I'm thankful we passed a flag policy in the past year because if you watched the news and you watched the flags and the burning and the demonstrations perhaps here at tvusd we grabbed on to something that was important because what Dr kroski said is the American flag does unite us and we

didn't see a variety of flags or other kinds of chaos that might have come with it and to those of you listening I want you to understand that's one reason why we passed that policy it doesn't apply to just one group this is a prime example of what we avoided and so we can give each other Grace we

understand this was more than an oversight it was egregious I'm thankful for the letters that have gone out but perhaps there is something more that we can do and like Dr kroski our Jewish students this moment is about you we appreciate you we love you and you should not face discrimination in TV Schwarz well I did write this resolution

and I did uh offer it up at the time I did um it's nothing new there's nothing new folks 50% of hate crimes in the United States are directed against Jews and if you don't know it you should educate yourself now when I went to uh City Hall last month for Jewish American Heritage and Asian-American Heritage I thank my

colleagues who were there but they were very few and far between very few so uh as far as the resolution um it's a statement but it's only a statement what matters is what's in our hearts and in our minds uh I could argue the establishment of Israel to that young man from now and forever and he will not understand it

okay if you want to read the real history do your research find out what happened when the UN partition Palestine into Israel and an Arab country find out do you know where that Arab land went you know where it went Dr regev into Jordan because the jordanians took it that was the land that was supposed to be

Palestine that's what happened that's the truth I thank my colleagues and my neighbors and my friends here for their support but it's not for me it's for our country and our neighbors and our friends we need to live in peace with each other we need to respect each other's religions we need to respect each other's uh traditions and I've

spoken to friends on the board about that and I will comment someone said to me well what's the essence of Judaism what is it all about and a great Rabbi once said treat other people the way you want to be treated everything else in the Bible is commentary so I thank you guys for your support and please treat your neighbors

the way you want to be treated and everything else will be okay barlay I think we should just end on your note I just want to um to offer my support to you Steve and to our Jewish students I do feel like um this resolution I was on the board when it was originally passed and I do think

it's very important to to honor our students and to renew um that pledge um to our Jewish students especially in this time where um you know this incident has arisen and I do look forward to um the plan that Dr Woods has discussed with our Administration about how can we not just put words behind this but now action how can we make people feel

the things that we're talking about up here tonight that we're treating each other with kindness and that we are looking at each other through a lens of love and not hatred and judgment and um I appreciate your words Steve thank you Dr Woods I have something to add after to you Mr Schwarz I also definitely support you and I don't want

to Trump anything you said because I know where it comes from I strongly encourage the board to reaffirm this resolution and I'm so sorry that this happened in our community and I just wish we can get over it together and expose our love instead of all that other stuff thank you Dr Woods so Mr reave made a a mention of a few things and

since this is the time to talk about it wanted an investigation of both the anti anti-semitic incidents conduct a thorough third party investigation in the yearbook content and reported in the incident revolving the Jewish student during the school organized tour identify the individuals responsible for these actions and hold them accountable Implement third party anti-jew hatred training for both

students and staff these are two separate points third remove involveed staff members take appropriate disciplinary action including the removal of Staff members who were involved in the creation or approval of the anti-semitic yearbook content or who failed to address and participated in the incident involving the Jewish student adequately and last establish procedures to prevent reoccurrence of such incidents Dr Woods will you will

you please speak to this since since this is the time and place for a publicly well my letter says it all that's the plan we have in place and we will execute that plan one step at a time would you mind reading your letter an open session as we talked oh as you may already know one of our high

school yearbooks contain inaccurate historical information about the conflict between Israel and Gaza in a yearbook section highlighting Global issues for example the Gaza caption appears to mislabel parts of Israel as Palestine in a zoomed in graphic representation of the region the caption is not complete in its characterization of the cause and effect of the conflict it faed to mention that October 7th

Hamas stormed across Gaza border into Israel killing about 12200 people many innocent individuals were abducted and some remain in captivity now the caption also falsely claimed there is there was a total blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel with no no supporting detail we understand these inaccuracies cause deep pain and concern for many in our community our responsibility is to

ensure that the information we provide in student Le Publications is accurate balanced and unbiased although the damage is done we will take appropriate action to mitigate some of the adverse effects caused by this oversight in response to this situation we will we will one allow full refunds for any student who desires to return the yearbook two provide assistance to those

who want the page in question removed from the yearbook three provide a sticker that can be placed over the gazic caption four provide two student forums during the 2425 school year to explore the multi faceted sides of global issues including the current Israel Gaza conflict five increased levels of oversight and supervision from designated advisers regard regarding all

student Publications six provide parents with an opportunity to meet with site Administration and other parent groups to discuss ways to improve the culture and climate at the designated school and provide staff members with additional professional development related to cultural competencies and bias we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for all students we appreciate your attention

and consideration and hope you will accept our apology as we work to improve our protocols and procedures thank you Dr Woods and we have a motion in a second to reaffirm our commitment here moved and seconded by me moved by Mr Schwarz seconded by myself L would you m barklay yes Schwarz yes WMA yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you so much

if I could um for those of you who don't know what shuis is does anyone in the audience know besides the gentleman in the front it's commemoration of the day we got what is shivu the commemoration of it's the day we got the Ten Commandments on Mount Si that's what I said thank you it's above my head thank you so much

Mr Schwarz but I appreciate shift a little and we don't know what each either talking about we all figure it out good thank you so much all right so um now we can now we can return back to the four consent items and to the Jewish community that uh want to break out for the holiday I'm I'm glad we could get

you right around the time that you requested okay we actually had two comments or sorry a comment from one individual Cole on two separate action or two separate consent items so we'll allow those that was already in here we just had missed it so if you want to come up and let us know the number you're speaking to

please and then we'll return to those four that we were about to pull sorry about that Cole if you could just please remind us which ones you're speaking towards is this on okay so I just want to be clear I miss my public comment opportunity I will email that to the board I'm allowed to speak on 16 and 35

correct yes okay uh first is 16 I'm asking that the governing board vote no on this item Panorama education surveys are complete invasion of privacy and a great overstep and how much our education system and contracted companies like this think they play a parental caregiving role of our children the surveys themselves will also introduce language thought processes Etc

that many of our children never had so it has and will continue to harm their mental health which is counterproductive to the proposed intent of this Mass data collection the preface of helping to identify at risk students doesn't carry much weight as we already have other practices and interactions in place with working daily with our students especially those already receiving

services and having relationships with their teachers and School site staff as if the invasion of privacy wasn't enough the company's co-founders the son-in-law to attorney general Meritt Garland who compared parents to domestic terrorists and the district thinks they have good intentions with their children's private and sensitive data of course not this would be another data mining practice

ultimately resulting in a breach there are just no guarantees the data is safe and mishandling information to suit whatever suggestions or Services they'll push especially without parental consent parents including myself will not stand for this please do the right thing protect our kids and their privacy and vote no my next comments are on 35 regarding I ready my children have used I ready for

four years and it's only ever had negative effects on them they do not like the platform sorry I just lost my place here at all and are forced to use it due to how highly our district regards it and has uh to make use of it since so much money is being spent on it each year the feedback I have received

and witnessed from many students parents and teachers is that it rarely ever fills the Gap and does not accurately represent a student's progress or level of achievement within their grade level again I can personally attest to this as I just mentioned it's had negative effects on my children along with many other students in the district it's become a deeply undesired task in the

classroom and at home for homework and has had negative effects on students m Health due to the pressure to perform well not just by the platform itself but by the district to collect data that supports spending an outrageous amount of money on a program that has not had significant benefits over the last couple of years please vote no and find

another option to invest $ 1.5 million productively thank you thank [Applause] you okay here we are back to the original conversation I'm up for taking votes on these in conversation or I'm up for pulling them and putting them on the 13th meeting in the interest of time and the fact that we have a huge agenda I would

I would like to advocate for pushing it to the 13th I ready Panorama more in-depth discussions a time for questions uh I think it's really really important and if you look at the contract for example for Panorama it's for the next three years a big decision one of the board members does have to leave or actually two of

them promptly so the the anxiety it might create on the other two board members is that if we push this off it's going to put pressure on their schedule which I I probably might agree with I'm ready for the Long Haul I'm ready to go right now if we have to vote I feel like staff are I think staff are here and

ready to discuss this and we would it would make them have to come again on Thursday which I don't think they're planning on having to St the meeting on Thursday I think we should just discuss it if we have questions you know let's talk it through because I mean the the thing is is that if we don't approve

these then what are we going to use these are in the lcap these are in the plans for our year we need the data that these platforms provide so we can't just say we don't like it we're not voting for it and go on our merry way there there we need the data it's not simply just a way for kids to for us to get

data on kids to just you know randomly find out about their feelings it's literally required data that we have to have so we have to have a plan for for how to get that data and the reason that we have these platforms is because I mean I've spoken with several teachers and you know during Co there were a

bunch of platforms used a ton of them because that was the only thing we could do and as time has gone on a lot of them have been eliminated because teachers didn't use them we don't really like them lots of different reasons and it's boiled down to just these few that are most used by teachers and most

successful for our students sure nothing's perfect if you ask any kid my kid always hated homework but you know sometimes there we have to do things to find out information to um assess kids I mean when my kids went to school the teachers had to sit oneon-one and you know give a subjective test to kids it's not how it's not how it's done now

because the Casp is also done online so if we're not testing kids online we're not preparing them to take the Casp so we have to have a solution and if it's not this then what so you're speaking of I ready versus just speaking of all of those if we could separate them out I think Panorama is the same we still need

the data from Panorama what which aspect of the data the surveys that Panorama distrib the survey platform it's a platform so what we use panorama for but I think we should have our you know we can go one by one and have our staff come up and and answer whatever questions you have because I I don't personally have

questions I've already talked to staff and teachers and some parents and gotten some feedback but whatever questions you have like let's let staff come up and present to these I might agree and I'd like to let Dr Woods address the staff so any questions that we have towards staff I'd like because they're District employees under Dr Woods and I'd like

him to speak to that and maybe direct who he wants to come up to answer if we want to talk about panorama we would need Lisa Brown to come forward come on down Mrs [Music] Brown if we go into I ready then Anna probably would want to join her an a to okay yeah okay depends how long you want to stand up

on it's green oh there we go okay um so Panorama actually has two sides of the platform that we use so one is the survey side of the platform the survey is a secure survey with a secure link for each student parents are given the option to opt out at the beginning of every single survey window um so about a

month prior to the survey window we do send an email to every single student um and their well every single parent of a student thir through 12th grade who has the option to opt their students out the um survey questions are linked for parent review within that opt out form um we had couple hundred students opt out last

year in both windows um the other side of the platform that we have is what they call Student Success the Student Success platform is instrumental in our data analysis and allows teachers to get at a variety of data as it talks to our student information system um Infinite Campus so Panorama takes all the information that is in Infinite Campus

such as attendance rates and discipline and grades and I ready and it puts it all in one platform so that a teacher can have a One-Stop shop for student data and student performance that data is then used to provide enrichment for students who are Beyond grade level or intervention for those students who might be at risk in a

particular area what's great about the platform is that it syncs nightly with our information information system so a stu uh um if you're having an SST or an IEP a teacher an administrator can get at all of that global data um instantaneously we did a lot of really great things with the Student Success part of the platform this year in

particular with our um chronic absenteeism data Statewide chronic absentee data was abysmal coming out of covid we've had certain schools that have dropped nearly 10 percentage points this year just by mon monitoring the students as their data comes in so the platform kind of like assigns a color band for each student depending on like their grades um how many lowlevel

Behavior incidents they might have and so if a student's Green in all categories they've met you know all the different criteria if a student might show up in yellow or red there might be like a caution or a warning to to put some sort of intervention in place to help students so it's kind of like our One-Stop shop of all things um

assessment and data related our local assessments go into there so the CIA that um our teachers build um also report into Panorama so it's a great platform to really help teachers meet our students where they're at um back to the survey side of things all of the survey questions are vetted by executive cabinet um we do have the

ability within the survey to pick and choose survey questions um there are other survey options out there one of them is um California healthy kids survey that is the one that the state will provide to districts for fee um in the past some some of the questions embedded within that particular survey our district has thought maybe weren't

the right survey questions for our students um so this platform not only is secure so we know um one of the things that we can do is if a parent opts out we can turn off that secure link for that student prior to the survey window even opening so if Lisa Brown's parents opt her out my survey link gets

completely turned off I can't even access it you say that the survey link if the parents opt in um is protected from any data mining or sharing no sorry sharing of data to third party vendors yes okay got it's part of our data agreement thank you and then you mentioned third through 12th grade and sorry to interrupt I know you're on a

roll but I'll probably forget my question u k who um second grade why not those where the parents can opt out is it is it just not offered at all through that grade or is there something else um we don't offer it at all kinder Garden through second grade and the law mandates starting in third grade that we

look at um climate surveys they have to be included within lcap so they have to be included within priority six of our local dashboard indicator which we have to report out yearly not only in the lcap but also on our local dashboard so if we don't report out this survey data then we will have not met standard on

priority number six uh what's the frequency of the Panorama surveys are they weekly bi-weekly quarterly a year how long or how do they gr so parents and teachers take the survey once a year um and students we do once each semester so twice was this okay so that's not too much frequency would the board ever be privy to the questions asked sure uh I

shared them with Mrs WMA earlier this week okay what do you think about those m because I didn't see those if it's totally transparent and it's a secured link and the parents can opt out it enforces parental rights let me ask you this with the checkin there's 46,000 set aside for that aspect is that what are check-ins as opposed to surveys that go

out a couple times a year check-ins is another part of the Student Success portion of the um platform so what happens is if a counselor is looking at all of the data within the platform and they do a check-in with a student let's say a student has all failing grades so all of their grades show up in the red a

counselor might do a check-in and they might complete a note or a plan within the system for a six week monitor of the grades and a six- week check-in with that student so that's part of that check in for Student Success so if teachers are using this consistently why do you think the percentages of people who listed it as a benefit I looked at

the breakdown for both teachers and staff and it was 50 53% it depended on the year so what can you speak to that aspect with obviously it wasn't an overwhelming yes this is helpful I utilize it what do you think that sta itic says I think it just depends on who's completing the survey at the frequency in which they um use it I do

think that we have different staff populations who utilize the platform more than others um part of it is it's a fairly new platform to our district it did roll out during covid um and what myself and my counterpart in assessment and accountability Mrs Medina have done done is we've been going to staff meetings to kind of retrain staff on how

to use the Student Success side of the platform and so that did happen throughout this year um and just kind of getting ourselves back to the frequency in which we are looking at student data and monitoring student data um so like any platform just making sure that we're using it with the frequency but it's also who completes our surveys

so there was conflicting information online with whether or not it's Anonymous are you saying because teachers are looking at this I'm assuming it's not Anonymous is it associated with a student number and name so that they know or is it Anonymous for us so the parent side of the the parent survey and the teacher survey are Anonymous um they are linked

to a school site so for instance as a parent I have two kids within the District I select which two schools I'm filling out this information for because as a principal it also provides me a great deal of data on how the parents perceive my school climate and culture how do they perceive student safety at my school site all of those things are so

beneficial when you are a principal at a school site right um so they are tagged to a school site the teacher and the parent data the the student data is linked to the student within the platform so um you are able to see how the student answered the questions um and whether or not there were any questions that the student answered that

would lead us to want to check in with a student for concern like a concern um most of that information is housed with our counseling staff so the counselors that might check in with a particular student based on a student response I did have several parents reach out to me about their student responses this year and we do provide

those to parents on when they ask is there any way to do an optin versus simply opt out so um just like I believe our board policy states is that it's an opt out and not an optin um we want to make sure that we are also getting like a wide breath of data right um that we're

getting information from as many stakeholders as humanly possible including our students with $60,000 per campus no that's I ready okay for Panorama is there any other aspect of what we could do and I kind of did a survey to see what different districts are doing is there anything else in your mind because I know we're a larger District right that could cover

that aspect Student Success we believe in we know data has to be collected on some level it's just some of this is invasive even with the questions that I looked at um I just wonder if there's a better way we could go about it I think I think we just have to be mindful of the questions that are out there in the different

platforms and what are the types of questions that have been beded through cabinet in tvsd over the last couple of years um I looked really quickly at like the healthy kids which is the California um survey question and it does ask particular questions about drug drugs and alcohol it does ask questions about um gun safety it asks questions

about um student sexuality um and uh so I think that that it's finding the right fit for tbsd that allows us to get at the information that we need in order to meet our obligations under priority six of lcap and have the disaggregated data that we have to report out by law for foster youth homeless socioeconomic disadvantaged um fost uh uh so it's that

balance right and what I like about panorama and I'm sure there's others that do this but what I like about panorama is our ability to pick and choose the questions Andor write our own questions that we feel best represent tbsd our students the community um and strike the balance between getting the data but still protecting kids innocence

so one more thing so there's the survey there's the check-ins are there videos material that are watched in the classroom that the teacher utilizes that students utilize no not through Panorama okay and the board can get an overview of the questions if that was something we were to agree on before they would go out we could be another set of eyes well

what i' what I'd like to do is ask Mr Brown is it possible before the end of the week if the board could get the questions from the last year sure I have the last three years that I can share with you I love it yep and you're saying oversight would be possible with that I mean I don't know

if that has to be a board voted on decision or not but I think I think that's important to talk about because there are concerns that parents have and I appreciate you saying there are different questions you can choose from and you can tailor it accordingly I think that's important well the board could look at all those questions and

then bring them back if wanted to it's totally transparent I see no problem I just want to reiterate I think what Mrs Brown mentioned is that our LC cap and approval approval of our lcap and one of the goals that we are required to meet is contingent upon gathering this data in which we need Panorama to do and so

the lcap um is along with what's been built into the budget for lcap all these things are intertwined I know before Mrs Brown was in this position uh we brought on Panorama when Dr Karen Valdez was over educational support services and um Mrs ail zika Fus was in this position and I remember we vetted every three software out there so and it was far

beyond just the surveying component but it was the functionality of the software itself that Panorama didn't have anything else comparable to it in the way that it uh gathered data allowed you to select the questions and then was able to put the data in useful in a useful way it's a tool that we use and so and I know this precedes you that's

why I wanted to make sure that um I said I said this we did vet a lot of options when we were shopping for um a survey system and Panorama was where we landed after extensive you know looking into it so one last question the lcap this is a general question can be edited at any time correct I mean we know that there's

the money and the allocations and requirements by the state which we want to meet what can you speak to there sure um it can be edited at any time but it would have to come back for board approval upon being edited every every single time gotcha okay thank you could we call the question because I you know

I I respect Lisa and all the work she's done and again I go back to respecting our staff and their expertise and uh having been a teacher having not had all the data at some point is very discouraging when you're trying to teach certain skills and you don't know who needs what so uh I don't want to be here all night on every

little thing on the consent calendar because we have the action items so I would like to call the question on Panorama I'll second and and thank you all right L would you mind barlay yes Schwarz emphatically yes where's M so I'll be a yes but the questions are what oversight consists of kroski yes motion adopted for Z thank

you Len now we're on to item 35 uh dealing with I ready Jen you pulled this could Gary could you speak to I ready please thank you we have an expert sitting right here in a Tapley I know who can definitely do it I didn't know if I should wait for questions first all right would you like me just

to share a little bit about the program right now all right thank you so much good evening governing board and cabinet members and superintendent I just want to share with you a little bit about the journey with I ready and what the purpose for I is and how it's utilized so that we can make our informed decision in order to best be able to

support students learning needs um that they have within the classroom just so we know I ready um does serve a federal purpose as well as a state purpose and I want to start there um in educ every student succeeds act Essa we have an obligation to provide research-based intervention programs on our campuses to meet the needs of our Learners who are

below grade level or not performing as they should be on grade level standards when we look at State mandates we have a mandate for Universal screeners embedded within the multi-tier systems of support framework as well as dyslexia and I ready meets the requirements of all three of those from a federal and a state perspective in fact we're able to

use I when it comes to Federal program monitoring and what we do with our English learners as well as our socioeconomic disadvantage and atrisk kids as well and by utilizing I it's one of the reasons why we were found 100% compliance with our academic interventions during the federal program monitoring process now I would like to share that I ready is very closely

aligned with the California state standards and that's an important piece to to be mindful of because in being so aligned it's also very closely aligned with Casp so it gives our teachers realtime data on how our students are going to perform on Casp which is really not just about the test but it's about the rigorous thinking embedded within

Casp and I ready is a tool that provides students to get the scaffolding they need in order to be able to have evidence of that rigorous uh thinking when they are taking the Casp assessment I ready really consists of multiple uh Pieces Just as Panorama consisted of two pieces the first piece of I is a diagnostic assessment the diagnostic

assessment is crucial because that's where our Universal screener is embedded all of our students in let's say second grade will take the same assessment at the beginning of the year the middle of the year and the end of the year the assessment grows in rigor and complexity in order to match the growth a student should be making throughout the year so

by the time the second grader takes the assessment at the end of the year it's more difficult than the assessment that they took at the beginning of the year the data from the diagnostic assessment is then calibrated and it shows the teacher very specific areas within Ela and math at each student needs to continue working on especially if

they're below grade level so if I'm in math and I see a student needs help with number sense that's fantastic it's going to give that student a pathway or a differentiated way in order to be able to accomplish uh meeting grade level standards in that particular area it might be number sense it might be algebraic thinking it might be geometry

and if you think about a second grade class we have 24 students who may have 24 different needs of what they need extra support in and that's where the differentiation comes within the my pathway so a student takes that diagnostic the information is calibrated within the system the student is put on a my Pathway to meet the need that they

have in order to come to grade level standards and then they're tested again halfway through at the diagnostic number two to see if they've made growth the same thing is true in ela and it will look at areas of phonics it will look at areas of vocabulary in fact TMS used I ready data for vocabulary and had a

schoolwide focus in ela and Social Studies classes when the students took the second diagnostic they found tremendous growth all of the students were more than 40% higher halfway through the year just because of the systematic effort that was put into vocabulary so I already has a diagnostic component it has a my pathway component in order to provide the individual

differentiation that our students need and if you think about it at a middle school level it's imperative because if I'm a PE teacher and I have 36 students who come into my room for intervention I don't necessarily have that degree in ela and math so I won't know specifically how to help each one of those children with the individual needs

that they have but another part of ir is that it provides teachers with lessons for small group instruction so if during an intervention period students are engaged with the IR system itself a teacher can pull three kids who might need to work on Geometry with the lessons that are provided within the system to provide them teacher student

one uh small group instruction to be able to support the needs that they have as they're engaging with the system so we are it's been a process and a journey as we've trained our teachers on what the diagnostic means how to use the data it's very complex every year I ready gets better with that data that we can

use it systematically and it's been a journey as we've trained teachers on what does my pathway mean how do you support a child who's having trouble with the differentiated task that the computer program is asking them to do at that particular moment moment what's an appropriate amount of time to use for I ready then we train on what the next

diagnostic is going to mean for these students what small group instruction looks like and now I ready has another component called standards Mastery standards Mastery takes all the standards that we have in ela and math in the state of California and it says here are questions that you as a PLC team can generate that are going to be

standards based so we can ensure that your students are receiving the rigor that they need to make sure we're at a second grade level because if I'm going to be honest right now sometimes I'm a second grade teacher and one group of kids may not present the same as another group of kids so it levels out the

understanding our Educators have of what should be appropriate for second grade standards for these particular students to be able to get to where they need to be at the end of the year and into third grade as we get closer to the end of the year the diagnostic gives us information about how the students might score in

Casp what areas do we need to work on with those students so that they can be successful it does build some end endurance but as I mentioned before we're on a journey with this Elementary's been doing it for four years Middle School's been doing it for three years we're at a point now through feedback that we have received with our

curriculum design teams with our principles with our teachers on campuses informally formally from some of our parents to say this is a fantastic opportunity for our students but what's the most effective use of it and just Monday we had our yearly review with the IR uh Team uh from the company itself and they came out to present the data

and one of the things that we're finding great success with is students who are a little bit below grade level even further below grade level are meeting their stretch growth if not even more and stretch growth means you might make a Year's worth of progress within six months so it's having an impact on these students and we have the data with some

slides that I can share um after today if that would be helpful uh for these decision- making points but I want us to understand collectively that that's making a huge difference we're now looking as an ESS team do we need to refine when a student takes a diagnostic and they're at grade level now going into the enrichment part of the PLC

questions that uh we want to make sure that we're giving kids an opportunity to expand their thinking and then and engage in their curiosity but it's had to be a journey for us to be able to understand the components of I ready how it's aligned to the standards how it's aligned to Casp but most importantly how we can use it a as a tool to partner

with our parents because I ready has afforded us an opportunity in ssts and all kinds of parent conferences and other meetings that we have to say we have a tool let's partner together with this for four to six weeks let's see if we see growth with this tool if we see growth with this tool we're going to

continue on if we don't we're going to explore some other avenues to make sure that we can get your child as close to grade level as possible if not above grade level by the end of that year so it's a tool that we use uh mightily to support the needs of our students to partner with our parents to engage in

the work it's a PLC to engage in the work in curriculum design team we find the data to be invaluable and in this short amount of time it's been become ingrained in our curriculum systems and uh it's it's just become incredibly important not because federal government says we have to have it not because the state says it's a universal screener but

because it gives us realtime data across all 18 Elementary campuses across all seven middle school campuses where we can look at the data and measure how are our programs doing against a norm referenced research-based assessment that our kids engage in and what can we do to best move forward with our kids okay so I have a question for you

and it's screen time one of the counterarguments and this might be a minimal one but I'd still like it you know an answer is screen time how significant is screen time when you factor in the I ready data that you want to get per grade level uh inside outside of school and then and then the argument where well you know my

kids are on the screen too much can you tell me how many minutes per or hours or so that I can understand it so that maybe you can push against the screen time argument for in one week's time it's recommended that each student has approximately 45 minutes for ELA and 45 minutes for math so if I take a 5-day

week and I divide up by the 45 minutes then we're looking at about 9 minutes I guess for ELA a day and 9 minutes for math a day so it' be about 20 minutes of homework maybe 20 minutes so do you find there's a direct correlation between the um Diagnostic and the tasks in I ready and the actual

cast tests that the state has given that they're really we're we're teaching them the skills that they're going to be tested on rather than we're teaching them skills that are good to learn but not going to be measures that we're going to see on the dashboard because that's what a lot of us are concerned with when we talk about lcap and

Improvement how we doing on the dashboard so if this these programs are designed to boost the performance on those State tests which make our dashboard look better then I'm all for it and that is correct and so it's a lot of work that is done with um research search based at the company itself and how it is vetted across the state of

California and actually across the nation and um we get the the results so to speak from the second diagnostic that indicate where we're going to be for Casp in the spring and we're finding that they're very closely aligned this is just old stuff but I remember as a teacher being told you got to teach to the test but if we're if what we're

teaching is not what we're testing then what's the correlation between what we're doing in class and why are we testing kids on other stuff so if what you're saying is the curriculum in math and reading both correlate to what we're testing on the Casp and what's going to be on our dashboard yeah thank you and I think it's um I need a second yeah

you're good thanks I had a thought but I uh I have one do you have any metadata on I ready uh I ready and its correlation to cast score within the county meaning when we use I ready we're seeing a significant impact on our math and reading scores here in Tula versus other districts because we're on The Cutting Edge of using I

ready if I'm formulating that right I'm trying to find out do we have any metadata that compare to other districs on how we use I ready I don't know that we do I'm going to defer to Lisa for a moment our data expert not yeah not within the county I don't believe but it's an interesting question that I canose to our rep from I ready to

see if there's something that we can glean from that and our scores fluid meaning weekly adjusted or even daily adjusted I forget can we see the scores and the impact on the educational setting here at TBD on a weekly matter so what you would see is it being measured in the three diagnostic assessments beginning of the year the

middle of the year and the end of the year and then when the kids are on the my pathway the differentiated task the teacher then can monitor and adjust Accord according to how the students are moving through what it is that they need to be moving through daily so that they get ready for the try what is it Tri

masterer I don't know what per year to where the scores are calculated for a cast for the state correct it's a very intricate system then it's taken us some time to Train everybody on it so now that we have the bulk of our teachers trained on it is what is our next best step going to be and what are the

refinements so that we maximize the benefit of the system moving forward okay so here's a here's a counterargument that I'd like you to try to push back on it's that I ready is nothing more than a digital babysitter postco and it's a buffer you know to help students you know postco because there was there was a detriment and um a

disparity with students coming back and now that we're past that and now we're in in you know in the classroom more why do we even eat I ready when that was brought out postco can you try to push back on that so first I'll go back to what I mentioned at the very beginning of this the federal and state mandate in

the bathroom Oh that's oh that's okay so we have some called um every student succeeds act and every student succeeds Act is federal and it mandates that we have a research-based Intervention Program that is within our school system itself State of California has a multi-tiered systems of support framework as well as a dyslexia framework that require Universal

screeners so I ready fits for the universal screener and it helps us meet the Essa act that's important because when we just had a 100% pass rate academically with Federal program monitoring revieww that happened back in March part of it was because we had the IR system in order to account for the interventions for all of our different

populations of socioeconomic disadvantaged uh English Learners Foster youth homeless and that type of thing um going back to the original question a moment I apologize the push back for oh okay so if I'm a middle school teacher again and it's PE and I have 36 students who come into my room they all have learning that needs to be addressed

differently so one student might be a little bit weaker with geometry another one might be a little bit weaker with algebra another student might be a little bit weaker with phonics or with vocabulary engaging in this system allows us to have a starting point to meet the learning needs of the students where they are and to be able to partner

with um parents in terms of supporting the education of those kids nothing replaces the instruction of a teacher with a student and that's why we are highly advocating for the small group instruction that occurs while students are working on the m my pathway and while teachers are monitoring that as consistently as they can I got it and I

could see how a teacher might be juggling working with a sped student a normal population and when I mean normal I mean in layman's terms not sped or not gate and they're juggling and then the I ready might compensate for that so when I say digital babysitter on the one hand on the other hand it actually is helpful

like an assistance so and that's part of the refinement and the piece that we're engaged in from all the work we've done with our curriculum design teams and the input we received from different educational partner groups is where are we going to maximize so we've just seen the current data that says if I'm a little bit below grade

level or even further and I engage with I ready I'm making incredible growth which they call stretch growth so let's say I'm making a Year's worth of growth within just a six-month period because I've engaged in the system and people are committed to helping me engage with the system but we want to make sure that we're meeting the needs of all oh sorry

we're meeting the needs of all of our students including gate so that's part of what we're going to look at this summer and into the Fall For What the refinements need to be so that we can make sure we're addressing PLC questions three and four what are we doing for intervention and what are we doing for enrichment for our kids during the

intervention blocks that we have I thank you for your patience I got two more do you think that I ready significantly helps sped students because it's now it's it's a screen versus tactile learning when they're hands on without a screen and I've heard that tactile learning me myself I mean I love books when I look at PDFs I go nuts and I

can't really grab grasp things or apprehend when I'm on a PDF as quick as I can with a book when I'm touching it when I'm flipping pages and I wonder if a sped kid with high sensitivity of tactile learning is it a detriment to them to use VI uh you know digital technology with I ready so that's a

difficult question to answer just simply because of the range of special education students that we serve within our district and we really have to look at the IEP goals and we have to look at the strengths of learning for those individual students and some of them do do better on a computer some don't but regardless I ready is going to provide

the appropriate um lessons for the teacher to be able to engage in the instruction because remember there's pullout lessons the teacher can do for differentiation it doesn't just have to be on the computer so we would be able to meet the needs of those special education students based on their strength of learning modality got it one last question thank you for being

patient if we didn't have I ready what would be the next alternative well that's the dilemma and so um we would need to um find another research based interven system and so we wouldn't necessarily be saving any money because that would either involve us creating our own or looking to other systems and I will say three years ago when we began

this journey we looked at two other companies and I apologize I can't remember their name right off the top of my head at the moment but they were both far more expensive than I ready and they were not aligned to the California standards as well as I ready nor were they aligned to giving us Casp data and

I continues to improve the data that they provide to us which makes it very actionable and very easy to obtain talk about M plc's day-to-day look at it with the kids and move on to the next steps we have teachers that are taking I ready right now with the kids and individually meeting with the students in order to

establish goals for the year and they're celebrating the progress that they're making along the way so we're learning how to ingrain it even further within our system as a celebration of the learning not as a burden of a task that needs to be done and just to add one more thing I think for that reason most districts in the the county do use I for

this exact purpose in fact I know Rancho Christian uh uses this it's a highly popular assessment tool because of its functionality and I would say most districts in southern Riverside County are using this tool I don't for sure uses I ready yeah and I when you when you tell me about nine minutes a day was it 9ine minutes a day or 20 minutes a

day it's nine minutes for both content areas each so about 20 minutes a day seems reasonable okay thank you yeah exhausted my questions with so quick question and I'm sorry if you covered this but are any of these uh tests used for grades so they are at the middle school level but it's the standards Mastery assessments that are being used for

grades okay so standards Mastery and I I did reach out to Edgar with a question I didn't hear from him but with a survey has there been a survey done with teachers to kind of get some of their feedback because I am positive about I ready but it's interesting to see see some of the commentary with lack of

consistency or kind of a shotgun approach I know there's a nothing's going to fit everyone's needs perfectly so I totally get that and understand that um but is there a survey or something that you take in to kind of get that feedback so that um there is more consistency campus to campus so we have not done a formal survey and that's

certainly something that we can engage in but I will say that we discuss it very thoroughly within our curriculum design team so if I'm at the elementary level I have one representative from every school at every grade that's going to attend that day at the elementary level if I'm at the middle school I have a representative from every school for

each content area sixth grade seventh grade and eighth grade ELA and math we're engaging in the conversation they're bringing conversations back that they've had at their site level about it so we've had lots of I would say I guess informal conversations through the several venues that we have to address curriculum but we don't have a formal survey that's been completed one thing

that I got is that math tended to be uh more looked at as beneficial versus the ELA and the reading on the screen and some of the difficulties there would you agree with that and I would love to see a survey maybe in the future to kind of cover it because if it's intervention or a test or a tool that we're we're

counting on for data um I think I'd love to hear from teachers on that and and kind of see how that varies from campus to campus we're always trying to balance print and um technology in order to make sure that we're developing readers um who can both comprehend and have fluency at the same time so I do believe one

piece that we have to keep in mind is we live in a digital world and um my my own self included I I will never Proclaim to be a digital guru but um I've learned to read things online as opposed to not reading things online my husband is a High School AP English teacher the entire AP test is online now it didn't

used to be online he used to opt for the paper form and now that's had to change as well so one thing that I already affords us is the opportunity to build students skills development comprehension and even endurance in what does it take to read something on a screen what does it take to remember that information what does it take to

process that information and be able to respond to that information to show what it is that I've been thinking through that entire process but I ready is not the be all IND all it's that moment it's the 10 minutes of ela a day we still want kids to have books in their hands we still want kids to be spelling with

words and time we still want kids to craft stories together with pieces of paper and puppets and do those types of things as well so I think we have to remember in the context of a student's educational time in a day we're looking at a 10-minute piece on average each day if we do it space it out for the week I got

one last question I promise the site reps that go they represent their interpretive communities at the site level would you say above average they they they value I ready the district level I missed the first part of that question would you say that the majority of the site reps that represent their schools you know um would you say that

the majority of them value I ready yes because of the information it affords them to make instructional decisions moving forward as well as the support it provides them for the kids who need the intervention in the different areas okay thank you I wanted to give a shout out to Carolyn Thomas too if you're out there listening she gave me some great

feedback in the positive sense and echoed a lot of what you said so um I I do want to continue to glean from the teachers and she was great so wherever you are thank you and we just always appreciate the opportunity to kind of explain these programs so that we have a greater understanding collectively of how we're supporting our kids so thank

you and I want to give you a shout out to both of you for sharing your knowledge it's very impressive great job with no nose I never have that many questions thank you so much that's okay and if you have further questions please don't hesitate to reach out don't go have another one I I'm going to say what I

always say I am constantly Amazed by the expertise the knowledge and the sophistication of our staff and um thank you Emily Thank you Lisa we really respect what you guys do and we appreciate your expertise thank you thanks I don't have any questions per se you can keep going I don't have questions I was just gonna say that um

that yeah I mean I've observed I already in classrooms when I go visit and what I love is exactly what um what Anna described as what you see when you go into the classroom you see kids working on the iPads on I ready you see the teacher pulling kids out doing more tactile type um reading and math

exercises and everyone in the class is engaged and I think that is a really great thing that I ready AFF fors as opposed to when my own kids were in elementary school and there weren't you know programs like this that's not what you would typically see when you went into the classroom so I think that um I'm also a paper reader you know I I

don't love reading things online but you know our kids are going to have to do that increasingly and they do have to take assessments online so I think it's fantastic that we have this um that we can you know that this district is large enough to afford this type of um program for our kids um I have seen you

know other is used a lot of them you got to do reading on one program math on another and there's no consistency so I think as um and as was spoken to as you know we've only had this a few years and so I think teachers are really starting to learn and understand and you know taking next steps on how to use in the

classroom so I think um it would be great to get continual updates on how it's going and um how teachers are implementing that to help our kids you know reach their Pinnacle of achievement so thank you parents put books in your kids hands this summer right take advantage of that I'm waiting for Mr schw so we can

do a motion in a second but do we have a motion a second then we'll at least wait for him to vote so moved moved by Mrs Mark sorry it's late Mrs barklay where's Steve do we have a second seconded by Mr Schwarz second by Steve Miss Mrs L no problem barlay yes shortz C uh where's SM yes Koski yes

motion adopted 4 Z okay now we're on to item thank you Len we're on to item 68 Orbach huff and Henderson do we have any comments we have we already exhausted all the comments okay I wanted to speak to this first there was a statement made in the audience that was false that we haven't used Orbach and huff we actually had and

they were um in our arsenal of lawyers for a while they came on as uh their specialty was facilities and HR and now they you know they've become a full service Law Firm they can do everything except Public Finance Bond measures workers comp those three things they cannot do um we have full faith and confidence the majority of the board at

least when we voted Orbach and H in as general legal counsel this is not to bring them on I believe this is an extension by certain amount of an hour we can we can have that clarified and uh yeah but just to correct that falsehood we've had them they just were made our general legal councel I was just looking at the uh it

says motion to approve the continued use of legal service providers as required from July 1st 24 to June 30th 25 so it would be to continue using them my understanding is when I had it analyzed it was to continue using at the um higher rate I think I don't know excuse me I don't know who analyzed it

I'm reading it for myself and what it means to me I didn't ask anyone else to read it to me it's exactly what it says is what it says well we'll take a minute here then to confirm this is very significant it is as it is our general legal counsel so let's see if we can who can speak to that is

it Dr Woods or Mrs slash what the details of that contract is not you okay Dr woodz so that was a question I did ask Mr Huff um I also I'm not excuse me that's that's fine I'm reading the document that's here and I I passed all my reading tests without I ready I got 99 on the Iowa test on reading and I can

read exactly what it says motion to approve the continued use of legal service providers from July 24 to June 2025 that's what it says hear you Mr Schwarz but you can also validate Mrs wouth talking to the actual lawyer from orok and huff there's nothing wrong with that he said that's irrelevant uh no it's not actually because it is

irrelevant it's not part of what's in the word this this is getting into bickering Mr Schwarz please I'm reading excuse me I could have one of the reading Specialists come up and read it and explain what it says now you're mocking a fellow no I'm not mocking anyone I'm reading what it says if you want to change the wording that's up to

you but I'm read I read it when I read the agenda and that's what it says thank you all right you're so as we have it out up to July 1 um we use the we have the continued use so if if this doesn't gets passed now we still use them until July 1st but then there will be a question of who's our general

legal counsel and so what I would what I would have the board think about is we have nine uh what is it 10 current law firms but really eight that are significant we have and the reason I say this is because if you don't go with continued use of our general legal counsel you're probably going to have to

appoint another General legal counsel Danny woliver Kelly mccon and harbor Adam Silva and MCN Fagan fredman and full Frost of course Orbach huff and Henderson harbottle law Lozano Smith T Rini and then the other two abstein Becker green which are used very at a part-time and then Bob Tyler representes for advocates for Faith and freedom so outside of those

two we have eight so this is significant because You' have have to consider another General legal counsel do you have an alternative Mr Schwarz I'm just voting on this one issue I'm not talking about the future I'm just talking about tonight well you'll have to consider the future I will I will consider it in the future after July 1 but right now I want to

deal with this issue that's on the agenda perfect who knows what's going to be here in July 1 I might not be here who knows um I just want to add something because I did the homework with this looking at the firms and comparing rates and so forth so interest inter inly with Orbach and huff highest partner rate 355 lozana and Smith which

we have 395 Fagan fredman and full Frost which we did renew tonight 420 danis wolver Kelly 485 Adam Silva and MCN 365 so they're a little bit more than Huff Dow rosini 370 so they're a little bit lower but it was interesting to do the comparisons and know that Huff is definitely on the competitive if not one

of the the lower fees so just for the record I wanted to let people know that okay any other comments all right do I have a motion in a second to approve moved and this is to approve the contract yes okay moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs W L would you mind calling rooll Barkley no Schwarz no

whereis M yes kroski yes motion not adopted as we have a split so so we let the clock run out on Orbach huff and Henderson until July 1st unless this is brought back at a future meeting okay so now we're on to I think that was it for the action items now we're on to action that's what I meant um so what

I was going to attempt to do we have to read out uh a triplet um where I have to um do a uh conduct a public hearing one of those is related uh related to the meeting on um the 13th so we read off two things and then on the 13th we vote on it and then another one we we we read

out and then vote on it now all these other action items unless we have discussion on them we could do in Omnibus and vote them all on at once didn't we vote them already no not the not all the action items no we just we did we did information report I know it's late we we bumped information and

reports before oh I'm sorry we did consent I'm sorry I'm trying to oh I hear you agenda on my phone CU my computer do we have a computer expert anything try I need you my computer doesn't work then let me let me conduct a public hearing on uh let me go to action item one we'll start with the

public hearings and get those out of the way and then we'll figure Omnibus if we can do it do I have an action or a comment on um one can you bring it up on thank you I can't get my computer to work okay so do I have a uh motion a second to well oh sorry let me just read it out notice

to conduct a public hearing for the T ofal Unified School District Sela local plan along with annual service plan and annual budget plan for the 20242 school year I call for a motion a second to provide notice to conduct a public hearing for 2024-25 Sela local plan along with the annual service plan an annual budget plan at the governing

board meeting to be held on June 11 2024 and we have a motion by Mr Schwarz do we have a second second second by Mrs WMA would you mind Schwarz yes where yes kroski yes motion adopted three Z one's not present Mone two conduct a public hearing for the T Val Unified School District Sala local plan along with the annual service

plan and annual budget plan for 20242 school year do I have a motion in a second to conduct this public hearing moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs wman Len would you mind Schwarz yes where's M yes Koski yes motion adopted 30 Z One not present m barlay not present for the last two and then now we will

do public hearing this is the time and place designated for the public hearing to review and consider the 20242 Sela local plan along with the annual service plan and annual budget plan plan I declare the hearing now open at 8:34 p.m. um is there anyone who wishes to comment on the 20 20242 CA local plan along with the annual service plan and

annual budget plan no comments if there are no more comments I will declare the public hearing closed public hearing end time 8:34 p.m. n action item three I call for a motion oh let me read it out notice to conduct a public hearing of the California School Employees Association in its Tula chapter 538 in Tula Valley Unified

School Districts joint proposal for reopener contract negotiation negotiations for the 20242 school year I call for a motion in a second on this moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barlay Len would you mind yes sorry Schwarz yes rman yes Koski yes yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you Len item four conduct a public hearing

of the California School Employees Association and Tula chapter 538 and Tula Valley Unified School Districts joint proposal for reopener contract negotiations for the 2024-25 school year do I have a motion and a second on this moved moved by Mrs wou second second by Mr Schwarz barlay yes Schwarz yes wman yes kroski yes motion or yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you Len and

then we will conduct this public hearing this is the time place designated for the public hearing to review and consider the joint proposal by the California School Employees Association in its Tula chapter 538 the Tula Val Unified School District for reopener contract negotiations for the 2024-25 school year I declare the hearing now open at 8:36 p.m. is there

anyone who wishes to comment on the joint proposal by the California school employees Association and its Tula chapter 538 Tula V Unified School District for reopener contract negotiations for the 2024 25 school year none if there are no more comments I will declare this public hearing closed public hearing end time 8:36 number five acceptance of the California School Employees Association

and it's t chapter 538 T Val Unified School District's joint proposal for reopen or contract negotiations for the 20242 school year I call for a motion in a second on this moved it's getting late this is bar moved by Mrs barlay there's movement second second by Mrs WMA L would you mind barlay yes WMA yes Koski yes MO adopted

301 not present Mr Schwarz six notice to conduct a public hearing for the 20242 local control accountability plan I call for a motion oh and by the way before I do this is there any presentation or is that on number seven by Mrs lash seven number nine okay good we'll get you um I'll come back okay eight oh

okay and we're on six on okay notice uh six notice to conduct a public hearing for the 2024-25 local control accountability plan do I have a motion in a second moved moved by Mrs barklay second second by Mrs WMA would you m barlay yes where is M yes Koski yes motion adopted 30 one not present Mr Schwarz seven

conduct a public hearing for the 20242 local control accountability plan I call for a motion of second second to conduct this public hearing moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs wo any would you mind barklay yes Schwarz yes wman yes kraski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you and now I'll conduct this um this is the time and place designated

for the public hearing in to review and consider the local control accountability plan elcap for the 2024-25 school year I declare the hearing now open at 8:38 p.m. is there anyone who wishes to comment on the local control accountability plan ELC cap for the 22425 school year no comments if there are no more comments I'll declare the public hearing closed

public hearing end time is 8:39 p.m. eight notice to conduct a public hearing for the 2024 25 budget Mrs lash welcome oh we do have a public comment okay we'll do the public comment online thank you oh okay yeah I'm not uh you know what we could yeah yeah we'll do the public yeah that's right because we do the hearing

okay good evening everyone I know it's been a long night uh but this is kind of the meat and potatoes for me so um budget and lcap will be presented together tonight um and really it's an two entire departments that put in the work that put this presentation together so a huge shout out to our fiscal Services team and our accountability and

assessment team that prepared the lcap and the budget that led us to this evening so we'll be um talking about lcap first and looking at state and local indicators I know I've heard the word dashboard a couple times already this evening and we'll look at the budget overview for parents that's related to that lcap then we'll look at

estimated actuals and adopted budget and then um and some staffing changes that are projected for next year so just as a reminder um the timeline for this is dictated by Education Code for both the budget and the elcap as you mentioned Dr K there are public hearing requirements that are required to happen at a separate board meeting from the actual

adoption so on Thursday we'll see you all again for the actual adoption and with that I'm going to pass it over to uh my friend Lisa Brown who will be going through the elcap okay so tonight we're going to review um some of the components of lcap particularly are local indicators but as a reminder these are the six State

indicators that are presented within the dashboard um the 2024 dashboard is slated to actually come out early this year which is great we should have it before Thanksgiving break in November so we will take a look at our academics and Ela and math our English learner progress chronic absente ISM um graduation rates suspension rates and the college career Readiness indicators

those are reported out by our data our local indicators um are indicated standards met or standards not met there are five local indicators that are reported on the dashboard the basics teachers instructional materials and Facilities implementation of our academic standards family engagement the local climate survey um and the access to a broad course of study so we're going to work our way

through these five local indicators tonight the first one being the basics so we have to report out the number of misassigned teachers um for our English Learners which we currently have zero misassigned teachers which is great the percentage of students without access to their own Learning Materials this is through our Williams Act and so all of our students stents have access to the

appropriate materials and the number of facilities that do not meet good repair or standard and all of our facilities meet good repair or the standard so we're happy to report out zero in that category in that case Zero is a good thing um one of the things that is new to the dashboard um this past year is

the teacher assignment monitoring outcomes and there is a 2-year lag in the data that comes out of the state for this um it's affectionately called the Tamo and so 89.5% of our teachers were considered clear which is above the state average so we might have student or we might have teachers that are working on clearing their credential

through a two-year bitsa program they might be interns um and so they're working on making sure that they have the appropriate credentials so that's why you see the differential there implementation of State academic standards so the rubric is down there in the bottom right hand corner five is full implementation of the state standards um and goes down from there so

as a district we have to rate ourselves in the following areas and you can see how through a variety of data points and our curriculum design teams and meeting with our directors we rate ourselves each year this does get reported into the dashboard um so it's ready to go as soon as you guys approve lcap on Thursday

hopefully I can click submit um as far as providing professional learning to our teachers in ela ELD math we're looking at full implementation and sustainability uh we did have quite a few new curriculums in um science last year particularly at the high school level and so we're in the initial implementation of making sure that teachers have the proper training to in

that new curriculum in that adoption the adoption full implementation in history social science instructional materials full implementation and sustainability or full implementation across the standards also the same for identification of programs to improve instruction and then you'll see down there in the bottom left implementation of standards for CTE Health PE vapa and World Language at full implementation

and sustainability there's kind of this catchall other category where we identify professional learning needs of specific groups at full implementation identify the needs of specific individuals such as teachers um who might need extra support either through bitsa or mentoring or our coaching model at full implementation and sustainability and providing support for teachers on the St when they're not

meeting standards at full implementation so what is our process for supporting teachers that are struggling School climate so this is where our Panorama survey plays into our local dashboard so we have to report out school safety School climates um supportive relationships so you can see based on the nearly 177,000 students um staff members and families that took the

survey um students in 3 through five five reported 80% a favorable favorable response to student safety 6 through 12 73% and parents TK through 12 at 82% School climate um in grades 3 through five at 72% 6 through 12 62% and TK through 12 for parents at 75% and staff at 73 and a half supportive relationships in grades 3 through five

at 91% student students 6 through 12 at 84% and parents reporting respectful relationships with teachers and staff at 74% so then we have to take a look at how are we engaging parents and families um and building respectful relationships and building um trust and so we rated ourselves at full implementation for building trust and respectful relationship ships and learning about

each family's strengths cultures language and goals as it relates to their children we uh rated ourselves at full implementation and sustainability for creating welcoming environments at each of our schools and using multiple opportunities to engage in Communications with families um the these are specifically from the parent survey results in building respectful relationships 74% % um felt that it was a positive uh

response creating an environment that helps students learn 75% valuing valuing the diversity of children's backgrounds at 70% and then we always ask the question about how they prefer to get their communication from our district because we're always trying to engage parents more and more and I know Jimmy and his team work so hard to do this so um most of our

parents look like they engage through our newsletters which not only the school sites do on a regular basis but Jimmy um and jod work so hard to put out for our district as well so the parent engagement uh reflection tool goes on to look at how teachers and principles um partner together to improve school capacity partnering um and providing families

with information and resources to Pro per uh to support student learning um so we rated ourselves at full implementation looking at the policies and programs for teachers to meet with families and students to discuss progress and ways to work together um that might be parent teacher conferences it might be one-on-one meetings and then understanding their legal rights or

advocating for their students at full implementation and sustainability you can see that parents rated um 86% they feel like they have the ability to make choices about their student schooling 91% felt like they had the ability to help their student at home 73% felt like they had the ability to ensure the school is meeting their students needs and again really through

a variety of communication sources so we also look at how we're seeking to make um to get input from our parents and our community uh we rated ourselves at full implementation so family members um engaging with advisory groups in the decis decision-making process this could be School site Council it could be cap it could be elac it could be our CAC we have a variety of

advisory groups that meet regularly opportunities to provide input on policies and programs um full implementation and sustainability on staff effectively engaging with families within that setting to uh support decision- making processes and the process for providing opportunities for principes and teachers and families and District administrators to work together to implement um activities family engagement activities at the school and

District level so that might be like at our elementary schools our literacy nights or our math nights it might be our um academic or our athletic programs we have lots of ways for parents to get involved we do have to report out our access to a broad course of study so this mainly looks at our high schools so

the selected measures that we have reported out are graduation rate at 93% our a through G completion rate at the high school which is at 68% that is an increase from last year as well as an increase in the enr in the AVID program um enrollment in CTE is also up by several percentage points as is enrollment in our AP

classes um all of our students have access to these broadc course of study we will continue to have access to se to seventh period um as well as expanding or refining our Avid and CTE programs so that we can ensure that we're meeting our students needs Avid and CTE as well as 7eventh period are funded through lcap so when we look at the totality of

the lcap this year for the brand new three-year cycle we did meet with over 48 committees and they're listed there below we did have input um on over 250 survey responses we did break down our l cap a little bit differently this year while we're still going to look to respond to students diverse needs um and refine our practices as well as reaching

out to our families we wanted to make sure that our actions and services align to a specific metric as well as a very specific goal so we looked at writing six goals in elap this year Ela and El Math and Science graduation rate in college readiness indicator a system of support for supporting struggling students chronic absenteeism and engaging educational

Partners so there are three main components of lcap that we're going to um well Mrs lash is going to take you through the budget overview for parents affectionally known as the bop and we're um we're going to look at the alignment of our six goals actions and the metrics so this year with carryover we roughly had a little over $22 million in

lcap so you can see that well goal number six is a little bit down at the bottom but um looking at students demonstrating growth and academic standards in ela and our English Learners demonstrating progress towards language proficiency and you can can see the five actions there that are listed and then the several metrics that we used to kind of create a through line

about how we will measure the effectiveness of that goal and so you can see the six goals there demonstrating growth towards academic standards in mathematics and science maintaining a broad course of study and a graduation rate higher than 93% while increasing our college readiness indicator um the district will decrease the number of student groups in the red on the

dashboard um while creating a system of support for identifying the diverse needs of students so this really looks at the individual needs of our student groups but also the individual needs of our sites and then the district will decrease chronic absenteeism while increasing student connectedness which is one of our lower indicators um in the Panorama survey and then the last one is increasing

educational partner engagement so you can see we tried to create a very strategic through line with the goals the actions and then the metrics and with that I'll turn it over to budget and before I get into the numbers I just want to remind everyone that lcap is a qualitative plan where the state asks us to com compete against ourselves

every single year how are you going to look at your data and get better and get better and get better this isn't a comparison of us compared to other districts in fact I think we outperform um State average in every single category and I think outperform most other districts uh if the majority of other districts even in the county so

this is a measurement of us against ourselves and how are we going to get better each and every single year lcap is that qualitative plan that tells us how we're going to do that with just one subset of of dollars right we're going to get into a $400 million budget and lcap is only $20 million but how do we

all these things come together and meet the needs of students so um the budget overview for parents was the state's way of trying to add transparency to the lcap um and so this is the template here you'll see we receiv received a total of 303 million in total lcff funding local control funding formula funds with within the lcff funds within that 303

million 20 million is for lcap okay those are the supplemental that's the supplemental Grant which we've talked about in the past it's um a computation of unduplicated pupils So within the 303 million are lcap dollars it's 20 million now a few slides ago Mrs Brown showed $22 million and you might say well wait a minute I thought the LC cap was $22

million 22 2,518 not $20 million well that's because we have a couple million dollars in carryover right that we didn't spend in years past that we've now added to actions and services to be spent down this year so that's why the lcap plan has more money in it than we're actually receiving in Revenue this year so I hope that makes sense um this

is just all of that information in a pie chart so with that remember we're looking at two budgets tonight we're looking at the closing out oh that's a typo the closing out of 2324 budget which is the estimated actuals and we're also looking at next year's 2425 adopted budget and we'll look at those things simultaneously snapshot of all you're

going to get more information on these numbers in detail on uh the following slides but Revenue you can see total revenue is actually going down next year and we'll we'll talk about why that is and then it will slowly begin to climb back up up um expenditures again uh are also going down next year but will'll then start to climb back up in 25 26 but

the story to tell here in this snapshot is that net increase decrease line that says are we spending more or less than we're bringing in and we are spending more in every single year in this budget than we are bringing in we have a structural deficit I think every District in the state of California has a structural deficit due to what's going

on in the economy um and so uh that's going to be important to remember as we work our way through the budget is in tough Financial Times how are we maximizing our resources since they are limited and then if we look at our ending fund balance you can see that it's uh projected to go from 153 million

down to 100 million in 2627 based on all of our given assumptions and we can look up uh we'll look at what fund balance is in detail in a later slide also but this is a snapshot so very important what are the assumptions we use to build this budget the um items in highlighted in blue are related to revenue the

Highlight uh the yellow highlight down at the bottom is related to expenditures so Cola we talk a lot about the cola the cost of living adjustment all this is is what the state is going to fund us uh how much more are we going to get in lcff than we got last year so you can see this year 23 24 8.22 % that was Cola

plus an augmentation it goes down to 1.07% next year and then the projections are for 2526 and 2627 it gets a little bit better um these are very important numbers and as of the budget period the governor has said originally that he would fund this Cola he would be able to fund the full Cola since building this

budget we have heard that um the state actually might declare a suspension on Prop 98 which is School District funding and we might not at the end of the day be able to afford the full Cola so we'll we'll know by June 30th what that looks like but for now we've made the assumption that we will be get our full

funding funded Ada average daily attendance right how many days did kids show up out of how many days possible so this is and you can see this year our fun Ada goes from 25577 down to 24,90 a huge drop off that will directly correspond to revenue in a couple slides and the reason for that is during the

pandemic and in 2122 um and 2021 there's lots of relief for Ada because attendance rates throughout the state were really low so the state constantly were we providing language for to say you know what you don't have to calculate that this year or we're going to give you some Grace this year all of that expires next year

and so you there's a cliff that's going to happen next year in our funded Ada which directly impacts our Revenue so you couple that with that low Cola and you're going to see what that does to our lcff funding on the next slide our unduplicated pupil percentage that's the number of kiddos that are either English Learners Foster youth or

socioeconomically disadvantaged you can see that's going up that's just due to better identifi identification of kids right we've included the questionnaire in our online registration and so we're better able to capture that data which is why that percentage is going up not because we have more students qualified and then um the supplemental Grant as I mentioned this is embedded in

the numbers you're going to see on the next slide in lcff Revenue but you can see with the associated increase and up comes more funding for the lcap so from 18.7 million to 20 3.5 million by 2627 stir and Pur rates stirs luckily is remaining flat for these this fouryear period but you can see Cal Pur which is

what the retirement system that our classified staff are on it is going up every single year um in all four years so labor related costs for classified employees uh are going up so all of these assumptions feed into revenues and expenditures okay so I know lots of numbers on a page with me lcff sources you can see we are going down in Revenue

next year which has not happened I I don't know the last time that we received less than we did the year prior this is because that decrease in our funded Ada so this year we were funded 306 million next year even if we are fully funded for the cola which we might not be we'll get 303 million next year

and that is the Lion Share of the revenue we receive it's 303 million out of 394 million that is our bread and butter okay and then it will slowly climb back up as we recover from that Cliff of ada8 federal revenues are high this year because of those one-time dollars it's the last of the one-time Revenue this

year so it returns to normal levels uh next year other state revenue is pretty stable and then local Revenue we received uh onetime e- rate Revenue this year as well as those RDA funds that we were recognizing in our general fund that will be recognized in our Capital facilities Fund in the out years and lastly interest has been really good for

the last couple years we're projecting that that's going to go down so you can see we go from 421 million projected Revenue this year to 394 million next year so we've been doing a lot of adjusting to make sure that we're able to sustain everything that we've built over the last four years with this windfall of onetime money

and then again we can start climbing back up in our Revenue proceeds um by 2526 is the projection I just wanted and this is not part of your printout but I just wanted to remind everyone lcff calculator tells us how much money we're going to get but where that money comes from is a very important story to tell because only 31%

of our Revenue comes from local property taxes EPA varies from year to year that's the education protection account so the state's unrestricted general fund steps in and pays for the rest of our money so for next year it's approximately 40% of our Revenue where does that money come from The Big Three taxes corporate tax income tax and sales

tax right so how the economy is doing how taxpayers are doing has a very direct impact on school districts and another thing that's so important to know the top 1% of earners in California provide more than 50% of tax revenue in the state so I'm going to say that again it's a very progressive tax system the top 1% of earners in California provide

more than 50% of the revenue generated at the state level so how 1% of Californians do has a huge impact on our economy right so if they move out of state or they have a bad year it impacts funding for all governmental entities that benefit from state aid so just keep that in mind as we talk about the

economy and moving forward how the economy of California does which is a huge economy how we do in our tax collections have a direct impact on school districts and our funding okay so with that let's talk expenditures a little bit you can just see salaries U and benefits are going up in future years just based on projected

staffing needs we'll talk about specific Staffing changes for 24 25 that are projected um but you can see those employee benefits climb because of that the increase in the pur rate but then also as we add staff those labor related costs come along with that steping column is built in here we uh have a budget system where we don't just guess

we actually build every single position into our budget by specific position by specific salary so it's not an estimate this is all pretty exact the only estimate is enrollment right how many staff we're going to need that's the only question mark out there really um and so that's what we build our staffing projections on WE budget site by site

Department by Department from zero we don't roll things forward we literally build the budget from scratch every single year um and we we do that because provides a more accurate picture of our projected expenditures so books and supplies um we have it's a little bit inflated this year because we have that social science adoption next year we

have a huge textbook uh or I'm sorry Tech purchase budgeted and then these years look off by one year so the math adoption is 2526 the tech purchase is 2 2425 and the social science adoption was 2324 so I'll make sure to update these slides before we post it capital outlay if you'll recall we did we used Esser

funds to upgrade a lot of the HVAC throughout the district that's what those funds were for and then um the transfer out is so high this year because of the RDA funds that we reported in the general fund that are moving to the capital facilities fund okay Staffing changes so this is certificated only the net impact of

Staffing changes is 1.5 FTE these are FTE and these are all based on projected enrollment and programs for next year um for classified staff uh projected increase of 26.6 this is mainly due to our projected increase in our special education population and then lastly the admin ch changes the net impact is a change of 1.0 FTE so um we are com uh recommending

converting we had two directors in special education um and when one of those positions became vacant we tried a new kind of structure where we had one director one assistant director and had this plan for differentiating what they did because of the increase in in special education students and I think we went from 14% to 18% of our students

being special education it's turned into all Hands-On deck and it and both employees are both um administrators are doing the same work they're just dividing and conquering essentially so we are recommending that we go back to the original format of two directors so that is why we're decreasing one assistant director and increasing a a director that is the promotion of one

position um we are decreasing one principle at elementary which is the com combining of the Home Instead campus with the Vintage Hills campus and the principal on special assignment was the position that you approved at the last board meeting in the elcap so the um true change in FTE the the net increase is for Summit Academy as they are

getting a seventh grade next year we are adding an intervention administrator so that's that 1.0 uh change and all of these assp ions have been built into the budget so ending fund balance this is our rainy day fund right and the rainy day is here as I've mentioned but we are doing so much better than most districts in the state

of California the we did a really good job of saving our pennies knowing that this day was was going to come and you can see our savings account I I highlighted two arrows in red that's really our savings account or money unaccounted for or spoken for already um and it is going down definitely it is decreasing you can see the 54 million

that goes down to 16 million um but that's what it's there for we're intentionally um going slow and not making reductions to programs until we have to and we are hoping that the economy can continue to do well and we can kind of grow ourselves out of this problem because obviously it's not sustainable to continue to spend more

than you bring in um for a long period of time the concern is how what happens if the economy gets worse than we projected or it lasts this dip in the economy lasts longer than or projected how long will that savings account last us but for now based on our assumptions in 26 27 we'll still have $33 million in

our piggy bank so some budget highlights that I want to make sure that we um give a a big shout out to everybody in the district because this is not Nicole lash's budget um and this is honestly a collective effort throughout the entire organization um we have no project projected reductions in force which is huge right we already have neighboring

districts that are is have issued layoff notices and are planning reductions in force we have no reductions in Force at this time planned which is so incredibly beneficial to us as an organization it's great for morale it really really is um and we have budgeted to sustain all the things that we have built over the last four years which is

incredible we have a healthy ending fund balance which is um you know again going to get us through these rainy days our attendance rates are are some of the highest in the county and are finally making their way back post pandemic we don't think that we'll ever get back to preand pandemic attendance rates because kids have figured out ways to get their

work done and not show up to school on some days and so we're never going to be in in um those attendance rates again but we are definitely getting better each and every single year um we've done a really good job of maximizing our resources moving things around um I as I've mentioned multiple times we uh are

moving the off schedu payment that we made this year into one-time uh block grant Revenue and um that's been built into the budget we are really maximizing our restricted dollars first before we move to our unrestricted general fund and we've maintained all of the board commitments that have been made over the past five years number one we have a

six% reserve for economic uncertainty where the state only requires three that's wonderful we um are maintaining 1% for deferred maintenance because we know our facilities need to maintain be maintained in good repair and lastly we are maintaining our onetoone student technology devices all of those things are built into the budget for uh being sustained so great great things to

highlight in this budget so what is next we are going to see you all in two days um to adopt the three things that uh were or to present the approval for the lcap the dashboard local indicators and the budget the state will finally adopt a budget but we will be all done and so we do if the changes are significant we

do have an option for a 45 day budget revision I don't think we'll need one um but we'll see what the state does and remember I showed you that progressive tax system we're just going to keep an eye on how the economy is doing and what's happening um with other legislation that could have a financial impact and what happens with enrollment

that's always like the lingering question out there and which whites of which eyes are going to show up in August and we just adjust accordingly so with that I'm happy to take any questions that you might [Applause] you I know I can always count on you for a question I see you looking over I'm gonna ask just a quick question okay

just a couple quick ones okay when you were on the slide that was titled assumptions you said something about um adjusting the cola that's next year's Cola right correct so that's the 1.07 got it but he will decide because I know we've talked about that sometimes um the governor can say there's going to be a cola but then

like not really pay up so exactly so if there's a couple things that could happen one he we could say we can't afford to fund that one 0 7% so we're going to use the state's rainy day fund to pay for it or we're going to issue cash deferrals which is yes we're going to give you your money just not

when it's due so they keep us whole and then we just have a cash flow problem and we usually have to borrow money to pay our bills as they come do but again they they say yes you're getting all your money just later only it's been a long time but they could suspend prop 998 which means means they actually

don't give us the funding the good news is is um once the Rainy Days Are Over and the state has funds they will have to catch us up for that so um it could be that we don't get it now but we do get it eventually when the economy is looking better right so we just don't get the cash now correct well one is

Cash which is like a one-year problem the other one is they actually give us Less in revenue and and they have no idea when they'll be able to pay us back for that and it could be any number or combination of those things and we won't know until probably another week or two which route the state goes okay um I know we've

talked before about I probably ask you this every time um if they're gonna um change their mind on Ada and you had mentioned that there might be some move in the legislature towards that do you know of any I think most of the bills that were um proposed to fund districts based on enrollment instead of ADA have died um

yeah so okay well I for one I think that I'm sorry just quickly um when I was in csba they were talking about prop 98 and basically they said um if there is a reduction it will be money owed to us not we're not giving it to you it's we're not giving it to you this year but

eventually you're going to get it and there was a big push at csba for people to talk to their assembly people and their state senators to make sure that that's what they do with the prop 98 and not change it around yeah and to that point if you've heard about the maneuver the state was trying to um make a maneuver they've been calling

it a maneuver where they give you the money today but it's not guaranteed in the future he uh the governor has since backed off of that so the good news is if we don't get it today it's still a minimum guaranteed promise which is a great news the ADV advocacy worked and only the last thing I just

wanted to make a comment on is that that 6% Reserve is amazing and I know that has been work done by the district but also previous boards I mean Steve and I were there um me less than others but um I I was a witness to it but I know in the past that was the absolute priority of our

boards and I just have to you know give a hats off to them because if that did not happen and that had been prioritized we would be in a much different situation we would be in layoffs and I everyone is laying people off and I know Frank's over there with a big smile on his face because he have to do layoffs

this year he's the favorite person around but um but it really it really is such a big deal and it's such a big deal that we saved that much far beyond the required 3% just having that forethought so just wanted to give that recognition out there thank you I know this is much much work you and to all of your

departments so thank you okay thank you thank you Lisa could I ask you a quick question I'm sorry something that we talked about at csba when I was up there a couple couple weeks ago was the time change for the high schools was that did you get any feedback from The High School principles or the teachers about whether or not they thought it was

good or bad or it really didn't make a difference that wasn't one of the questions that we asked within the survey um so I would have to defer to am Amy still here oh Amber's here yeah I would I would have to defer to some of my I was just curious because it's something we had a lot of feedback from

other districts and uh some were like well of C like here we had to put in lights at the fields for practice but a lot of a lot of people said that their their kids really did better by having the extra sleep so I don't know maybe it's something we could ask just you know not as a professional survey just

kind of get some feedback from people absolutely thank you thank you okay call for a motion a second to provide notice of the uh to conduct the public hearing for 20242 budget do I have a motion in a second moved we're on action item 8 thank you Mr Schwarz mov by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs WMA

Len would you mind Barkley yes Schwarz yes WMA yes Koski yes motion adopted 4 Z now we're on to the public hearing action item nine I call for a motion a second to oh yeah but I'll do that I call for a motion a second to conduct a public hearing for the 20242 budget do I have a motion in a

second yes Mo uh do you move Mr Schwarz move by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barlay L would you mind barlay yes Schwarz yes WMA yes Koski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L this is the time and place designated for the public hearing to review and consider the 2024-25 budget I declare the hearing now open at 9:21 p.m. if

there's anyone who wishes to comment on the 2024 2025 budget or is there anybody who wishes to comment and I believe we have two speakers so a total of 30 minutes is provided so members of the public can address the board speakers are limited to three minutes a piece uh we have two speakers I believe board you say three

minutes a piece or two it's up to you three yep okay first up is upneet followed by christe McClure so I have two different comments one is addressing I've seen some misinformation in the community so just a clarification uh I would like a clarification have we actually received the prop 28 funds for uh vapa and uh if I know it is

restricted uh uh restricted funds that can only be used for specific purposes but I did read like you know you don't have to use all of them because they didn't give us the funds till the end of the year so you can use up till three years to have those funds the second thing is I read in the budget if you

remember the first time I ever walked into a board meeting was for transportation for band and like majority of our efforts are for fundraising for transportation in the capital outlay I did read uh uh purchase of Transportation Vans and capital equipments facility improvements for expansion of VAP vapa and through prop a funding so I'm interested in knowing

more as to how these will help in keeping the FI field trips Transportation cost low we encountered some unexpected additional costs with the recent band trip and while the district's prompt intervention in covering these costs is very much appreciated but these annual trips are planned like well in advance and un like unexpected Financial hiccups can cause a

lot of disruptions and could in lead to ending up like you know to cancellation of trips too so could you please provide me more details about this purchase since it's mentioned with vaa it seems to look like it's going to be for that but I might be wrong so um and uh the other one is I uh uh the band room the

actual band room I had spoken about back in November of 2022 about how limited the space is and how they use the multi-purpose room and they don't have lockers for instruments so uh can those funds be used for that purpose also that was the other question thank you that's my comment thank you chrisy mlar I usually come up here more

prepared and just sort of going off the cuff tonight um it's been a busy few weeks um with the budget and I know I tend to come up here about the warrant list and talk about the attorney's fees and sort of unplanned unpredictable expenses and when you have a budget that's created with such specificity to each position in salaries and there are

times on the warrant list that we see expenditures in the legal categories that far exceed one person's salary for an entire year um that we've seen spent in one month say and there's a contract we have with a legal firm where there's an acral of fees that are pro bono but at some point with this contract the

district could be on the hook for paying that amount but there's no transparency and there's no honesty with the public um I understand with legal proceedings especially as it pertains to HR and students you want to maintain confidentiality and privacy um and I'm not advocating for breaking laws uh but it seems that in general terms the amount of money that the district is

legally on the hook for that could be paying out at some point in the future when we're planning ahead through 2027 um and we're talking about amounts that exceed multiple staff salaries I know it's easy to say oh what's $100,000 when you're talking about a $400 $400 million budget um it's a lot for the Disneyland field trips that kids want to

go to at the end of the year it's a lot for an intervention specialist it's a lot for a special education classroom that needs another set of hands I mean I could go on and on and on of the meaningful expenditures that 20,000 50,000 300,000 could do for students um and it's disconcerting that we don't have more visibility into legal fees

specifically The Advocates of faith and freedom contract that is racking up money without anyone knowing what that is um except for a few of you behind closed doors in back rooms and for a community that wants to reduce divisiveness transparency and trust and communication are great ways to enhance parental involvement um and for us as parents to feel like we know what's

going on in this District um is there some sort of line item in the budget that we could see that pertains to potential legal fees based on this last year maybe forecasting since we have um kind of a a year to look at compared to previous years that's what I'm interested you if there are no more comments I

declare the public meeting uh public hearing closed any more comments nope public hearing end time is at 9:26 p.m. Rond to 10 notice to conduct a public hearing for a material Vis Vision to the Tula Valley Charter School uh sorry Charter Schools Charter do we have any discussion on this okay I call for a motion of second

to provide notice to conduct a public hearing on June 11 2024 do you have a comment sorry oh yeah we'll we'll do it we'll do it on okay sorry let me finish reading this uh and I heard I call for a motion a second to provide notice to conduct a public hearing on June 11 2024 regarding the tku Valley Charter School

material revision was that moved by you Mr Schwarz yes okay do I have a second second second m m WMA Len would you mind Barkley yes Schwarz yes WMA yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L this is the time and place designated for the public hearing to review and consider the proposed material revision to the Charter of T valy Charter

School I declare the hearing now open at 9:27 p.m. is there anyone who wishes to comment on the proposed material revision to the Charter of Teka Valley Charter School four speakers four speakers three minutes or three minutes shorts what do you think three or two minutes say it again three or two minutes we've all been three we got four

speakers yeah that's fine three minutes okay a total of 30 minutes is provided so the members of the public can address the board speakers are limited to three minutes a piece and we'll take the first one first up is Dr Charity plaxton Hennings followed by Samantha good evening Dr Woods cabinet members and board I want to take a

moment tonight to express my appreciation for the collaborative work that went into the recommendation from tvusd to approve Tula Valley Charter school's material revision we greatly appreciate the staff recommendation this evening and truly appreciate the administration's willingness to understand our school's potential moving forward we were able to work collaboratively to address the SSC findings and recognize that tvcs has a

long history in the community that positions us well for the future we are so excited to move forward with realizing our new school campus our goal is always to make the district proud of our work and our service to this community and to that end we look forward to continuing to partner with you you as we serve the students and

families of our Valley of our Valley and Beyond thank you so much thank you Samantha followed by Alyssa hello good evening everyone my name is Samantha stackle house um I proudly serve as the associate director of local advocacy for the California Charter Schools Association um today I stand before you to express our association's unwavering support for the

approval of Tula Valley Charter Schools material revision um as you know Tula Valley has cultivated a sterling 30-year Legacy of providing exceptional education to students throughout our region Tula Valley Charter School originated in 1994 and their Charter their Charter was founded by a group of parents who wanted something more for their children Tula Valley is the oldest

Charter School in Riverside County and the 63rd established charter school in the state um Tula Valley Charter School is an alliance of parents Educators and community members dedicated to providing K through a grade family centered atmosphere which creates Dynamic learning environments the tvcs vision and Mission allows students and parents and staff to know each other on a

personal level their Hands-On learning is a strategy that centers on opportunity opportunities for students to think build and create all students receive instruction in Spanish Visual Arts Performing Arts physical education commu computer technology and participate in Hands-On experiments in the science lab on a week basis the California Charter School Association wants to highlight that Tula Valley as

an organization has continued to reach new enrollment Heights in recent years they are ready for the next chapter of their school's progression in a state-of-the-art updated facility that will allow for even greater levels of education and environment for their Scholars we feel extremely confident in the leadership at Tula Valley to steer this process of higher enrollment and

facility transition in a safe effective and manageable way in closing we we endorse this Charter School material revision and urge you to Grant your approval the need for choice and educational options within our county is high thank you for your time and consideration and have a great evening thank you Alyssa followed by upne good evening y'all can you hear me

sounds very quiet uh just wanted to introduce myself Alyssa Ross with Red Hook Capital Partners I submitted a letter to you all and I know some of you reviewed it I just here to let you know I'm here if there are any questions regarding the financing of the project Rook will be developing and financing the new property thank you so

much thank you upate so um my comment is regarding I really appreciate the third party review I do not have the complete knowledge about this Charter or its students demographic to comment on this students progress but the SSC review did raise some concerns especially regarding the deficit projections and seemingly unrealistic enrollment projections could we perhaps please discuss why we would

go ahead with this despite the warnings and why the charter school did not provide appropriate Financial documentation to the review firm in the first place or maybe they have been addressed um and then I'd also like to highlight the fact that Summit Academy and another K through 8 facility is currently located adjacent to the school and the proposed new location is just

three miles from away from Summit Academy in our previous meeting we discussed the declining enrollement projections and the rationale for not establishing a high a new high school could you please address like why we think like the enrollments are going to go up when we're projecting declining enrollments everywhere and um yeah I think those are the major concerns for

like why would we continue because a majority of the charters that have failed I know it's been that for 30 years like if you go back in history all of them fail because of financial issues and the report was very concerning so I I uh it seemed like we're waving it off so I would like to hear more like why is

it being waved off thank you thank you there are no more comments I'll I will declare the public hearing closed public hearing end time 9:33 action 12 adoption of the material revision to the tmia Valley Charter Schools Charter I call for a motion as second to conditionally approve the material revision of the tvcs enrollment to 900 upon the opening

of the facility on Washington Street this conditional approval is not an approval of Tula Valley Charter Schools future Financial plans and borrowing do I have a motion in a second moved moved by Mrs WMA I'll second it Len would you mind barlay could could we have some just a little bit of discussion oh sure was that okay yeah yeah yeah I'm just

curious um I my understanding was that there were some additional Provisions put into the contract based on the third party review can you speak to that at all Mrs lash just a quick clarification did we change that motion because what I'm reading it reads a little bit differently but anyway I'm sorry so um to speak to this topic the

we are recommending approval of the material Vision um it's important that while we have a second set of eyes if you will over the charter school we don't have overreaching jurisdiction to say no you're not going to move forward with this or yes you are going to move forward with this we're we provided that context for them to do with what they

will we're recommending that we approve their relocation and upon relocation their new enrollment would be up to 900 and separately if they submit you know in in every budget period the charter schools were that uh were the sponsor for submit to their budget proposals and we provide our feedback and our projections but they have their own set

of uh financial advisers they have their own expert experts and so we just are kind of this this second set of eyes that says here's the information that we have as we believe it to be we absolutely want to mecula Valley Charter School to be successful um and we have a great relationship and partnership as we have for 30 years so this um information

was just provided for context that we are not agreeing with their financial projections their enrollment projections their um loan plans but it's not that's not necessary they're simp simply asking us for the relocation and Associated enrollment increase with that relocation and we are recommending approval for that but with the caveat that um we it's without constitutional approval of or Assumption of liability

for any future borrowing or construction plans does that make sense yes that's helpful thank you appreciate that can you also speak to the hold harmless Clause either Dr Woods or Mrs lash I've heard that briefly when I was prepping for the meeting with Dr Woods and I'm forgetting what that meant right meaning that we are not responsible for the

financial implication of if they if there is a loan and um the repayment of the loan and if the enrollment doesn't come to projections any of that we're held harmless from any liability or responsibility okay thank you I'm just confused about um do we have oversight over any of what's going on it seems unclear to me here we're

approving that we're saying yeah they're GNA have 900 kids and they're going to move and build this building why are we in I don't understand why we're involved if we have no oversight of the school itself it's kind of confusing it's like yeah we're we're saying okay but we don't have any I don't I don't really get the whole

thing I'm sorry and I know there you don't have to answer the call I I would like maybe someone from the school to answer because I don't really understand our relationship ship with that part or any particular charter school maybe Dr Woods can answer well the law surrounding Charter Schools is in this case 30 years long so

I understand I just don't understand our relationship why we have to be involved in giving them approval for anything if we don't have any control or interest in it it's I think we trust the expert maybe we could trust the expert Mrs lash she gave an excellent she has a good as I mentioned it's more like a second

set of eyes and we provide our opinion but we don't and we are there the sponsoring Charter so there is an agreement between tvusd and our Charter Schools including Tula prep Tula Valley Charter School andula well CIA is we're not the sponsor for the county is um but anyway and my understanding from our attorney is you know we review and provide insight and

as long as we provide that insight to the charter school it's not that we say yes or no it's we provide our opinion and then they do with it what they what they please um but we do have an agreement when specifically like right now when they're using our facility um there are capacities established there are um facility use

fees that are established when they're on our property and so this revision would change that to say they're no longer going to be located on our property and now they're going to be located at a facility that they own instead of one that we own and with that comes the associated that's the clarification I needed I didn't realize

we own that building or if it was part of our uh facilities okay thank you okay and I have to adjust the motion because it's wrong in the text that we read from so I have to read it from the screen um there's a um I'm going to ask for a motion in a second to approve the

material so I guess I guess we had a motion in a second on the floor but we need to exhaust that and then come back to the because that's an incorrect motion yeah so I I I suggest we vote it down because it's not correct so um Len would you mind calling rooll parlay no Schwarz I'm sorry I hear the I read the

wrong uh so basically we can have a new one got where's no kroski no motion not adopted 4 Z so here's the correct motion from the screen L was just informing thank you L motion to approve the material revision request submitted by Tula Valley Charter School to update its facility description as presented and extend and extend maximum enrollment to 900 as its

future campus but without consulting approval of or Assumption of liability for any future borrowing or construction plans do I have a motion to second moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs WMA Len would you mind barlay yes Schwarz WMA yes kamasi yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L and if there was any confusion the text that I was

reading from here is different from the screen and that's why I think Mrs lash pointed that out too so yeah now it's all corrected okay now we're on 13 certification of signatures I call for a motion of second to approve the revised certification of signatures by replacing Cheryl to is this Joe is this where you were going

to just maybe do all them together from this point on yes but there needed to be discussion on one of them and it's a board meeting in December because of uh timing um okay so let me get through that like after 14 got it I think we can roll okay just checking yeah know I'm glad you asked um so we're U I call for

a motion of second to approve the revised certification of signatures by replacing Cheryl tuku ya Tua Tua with with Jamie LMA in column 2 in the form effective July 1st 2024 pending fingerprint clearance do I have a motion a second moved move by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barlay M would you mind barlay yes Schwarz yes WMA yes kroski

yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you Len now item uh 14 December board meeting date um this is where maybe Dr Woods can provide clarification but what I have is the 10th there's a meeting on the 10th but the budget is due on the 15th of December so this is a request to have a meeting for the December 17th instead

yeah it's a this is a weird seven-year cycle uh normally we would do this meeting right around the 10th uh to meet the uh the state and County standards but because of this strange configuration of dates we are now all allowed to go on the 17th of December and still do everything we need to do officially with the county so

we're just asking for the meeting to be held on from December 10th to December 17th because of all the unique circumstances okay do I have a motion in a second to approve that so we're just moving it from the 10th to the 17th fine moved moved by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barlay L would you mind barlay

yes Schwarz yes wman yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you L okay now we have items 15 through this is the Herculean Omnibus motion possibility item yep and I'm going to I'm going to ask if somebody wants to pull an action item separately to where we can Omnibus the rest is there any board member that wants to pull one of

the action items 15 through 36 to where we can take a SE vote on it can you scroll down L yeah it's a lot sorry um I'm going to pull 16 then what I'll do we'll just do 15 and 16 one at a time and then we'll try to Omnibus 17th through the rest that's the easiest one okay 15 Community

advisory committee cic appointments I call for a motion of second to approve the new additional uh members of the community advisory committee and we have any conversation do I have a motion in a second moved moved by Mrs barklay second second by Mrs WMA sorry and uh Park uh yeah just trying get my calendar Schwarz yes where yes kroski yes motion adopted

4 Z thank you Len now we're on to item 16 this is an amendment to employment agreements for assistant superintendent educational Support Services business support services Human Resources development and student Support Services between the tul Val Unified School District and Dr Kimberly valz Nicole Ash Frank Francisco Francisco R and Nicole I love saying that and Nicole deis so I

know we have discussion on this with Mrs WMA you have the floor so my thought in advocating for this is I'd like to see the current contracts filled and uh working through that then in the future I know districts right now in looking at liability length of contract TR s should anything happen all of those things are

important so I would prefer to look at that in the future knowing right now they go for another year or two um versus extending it all the way out I would like to be able to revisit that um for whatever reason and in terms of liability for the district I think this would be a good move yeah Mr Schwarz yeah I think we're

fortunate to have the people we have who are amazing at what they do and uh I would totally oppose doing anything to curtail their appointment um it maybe you can speak to the S say isn't it um Upon A positive review that contracts are extended can you can you speak to I can't remember the exact wording but I know we've talked about

this before for yes so our contract language States as such so in essence um it this is typically an automatic renewal uh to maintain U all members of cabinet on this kind of contract on a three-year contract so this would um extend the time frame for another year so the current contract is 2026 yeah I believe all the assistant

superintendents are through 2026 when are theevs on a yearly basis your mic's not on J I'm sorry reviews are done mid July T yeah typically at the end of the school year so right now through July is around the time when the performance evaluation and review is done great and I definitely want to say I appreciate everybody on the team this is not a

question of that I um was just looking at the idea of filling the contract and looking at all of the particulars to know in the future where there might be changes so um what's your specific question like what's holding you back from doing that today well I think for one thing if anything were to happen if there was

some Scandal or some issue and we don't know if there would be anything at all there could be a buyout up to a year well that's for cause though a cause neges a contract so it's a moot point well it's only if it's no cause that there's a bu cause which any kind of Scandal or poor performance would it negates the

contract yeah and that's also spelled out in the contracts right assistant superintendent I just think all right is there a an ability to bring this back in July after review and having further discussion it's more traditional I think to go ahead and do this but I'm just asking for particulars on the back end that I would like to ask questions about

so that's that's where I'm coming from with this um and I'm understanding the review is in July and so forth what are the questions I don't have them right at the moment after a five to six hour meeting but good that's how I feel about this so we can call the question fine think of some questions to ask I mean I

get I'm I'm not trying to be rude I'm just literally asking like you you pulled this you wanted to discuss this but for what purpose like this is like you said this is what usually happens it's expected unless we had a concern um it seems to me that we should move forward because like we've said we want

to retain people in this district and this is how you do that extending their contracts as per agreement pulling things for unless we have a reason I mean if we want if you have a specific reason then let's talk about it well my understanding is we have it through 2026 my question is only in being able to discuss things regarding

pushing it out to 2027 I know it's tradition I don't have all the questions right at the moment but that's just my opinion of how I'd want to analyze it so we can take the vote and I'm fine with that um I hear so many words but not understanding what what your point is Alison my understanding is we do this

once a year it's a yearly contract correct Dr Woods right it's it's a three-year contract but it is an automatic year extension we've never even well I I would just like to call the question well let me just if you don't mind see if I could ask one more question I mean Dr Woods are do you have concerns about

extending these contracts you are their supervisor is there something we should be looking at no okay thank you I'll second so we called a question we have a second Len would you mind barklay oh yes yeah oh sorry sorry yeah this is this is to call the question and then we'll then we'll take a motion to vote sorry oh okay so yeah

um we are yeah we are call we are taking a vote for a call to question and then I'll call for a motion I know Barkley yes Schwarz yes wman no kroski motion adopted to call the question three to one so now I call for a motion in a second to approve the amendment to employment agreements for assistant

superintendent's educational Support Services business support services Human Resources development and student Support Services between the T ofal Unified School District and Dr Kim lez Nicole lash Francisco AR and Nicole Dez do I have a motion a second moved mov by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barlay L you barlay yes Schwarz yes WMA yes krosi yes motion adopted 4 Z thank

you Len now for the Omnibus motion I call for a motion a second to Omnibus uh a motion a second for Omnibus vote for action item 17 through 29 do I have a motion in a second moved move by Mr Schwarz second second by Mrs barklay Len would you m I'm sorry did you say 17 through 29 17

through oh6 36 Infinity excuse me what a okay let me let me amend that motion um I call for a motion wait did we have a we had a second right I oh yeah because I would have called technically due to robertt rules of orders let's vote this down and then do the the next Amendment okay so barklay no Schwarz no where'sa

no kroski no motion not adopted 04 so yeah that one of those pages look like half a page so it looks like gets me um okay so my printer ran out of ink running the agenda yeah totally um I call for an Omnibus motion for items 17 through 36 do I have a motion in a second moved move by Mr Schwarz second

second by Mrs barklay Len would you mind barklay yes Schwarz yes wherea yes kroski yes motion adopted 4 Z thank you Len and thank God for the Omnibus motion there yep I noticed that in consent item 63 which is the Melendez Consulting contract I do not believe was actually voted on it was pulled but we didn't take a vote on it

did did anyone pull it we you know what I will find out because if I circled it we pulled it let me see I know we had a public comment on it three and 68 that's all I wrote down okay if it's okay so which number was that 63 6 three was not pulled that's right so we voted in yeah we voted in yep yep I

got it because I didn't Circle it okay so now we're on hold page negoti uh we already did information report so now we're on to item o negotiations update Mr RSA do we have any very briefly Dr kraski will we uh will be negotiating with csca on June 18th and we met with TVA on May 31st and

we look forward to meeting again with TVA TVA for negotiations upon the start of the school year that's it Dr kroski thank you thank you Francisco okay so now we have board comments last anybody wants to go first okay Mr Schwarz yeah I had the pleasure of going to uh two promotion ceremonies bar which is a a school around the

corner from my house and uh ve Ranch which is a school where a lot of people I really like have their children and then Great Oak which was absolutely is a is Amber Lane still here Dr Lane it was amazing absolutely amazing thank you and Amy for doing all the ground workor it was just wonderful the students who

performed who sang we had the native Native American uh children dance it was just an absolute joy and then the fireworks from Pachanga at the end were just wonderful and then um I went to Rancho Vista um Rancho Vista Susan Nelson and Tula Valley Adult School which was a lot smaller but it was also with Great Oak and it was amazing so

just just really a lot of Joy seeing a lot of people I know seeing their children so happy it was uh just congratulations to all the people did the organization and I'm Schwarz Dr Woods and I attended the open house at French Valley Elementary and what really moved me that night was how many families attended it was everyone I

appreciated the warm welcome seeing the classrooms full of projects and art and memories it was great and I think Mr Cole truly is a leader he cultivates relationships on that campus in addition to Gardens just an awesome night I also appreciate how many of our elementary schools make a point to embrace patriotism in our country and I always

admire what Alamos Elementary does with their Memorial Day event it was really moving there were students who danced and sang celebrated our veterans there was a red carpet experience they always welcome our men and women in service um I think this is an important part of the educational process that we provide and I was really honored to be a

part graduation is definitely one of our favorite times of the year and it was an honor to attend bellista middle school with over 400 eth grade students it was just a great great morning um and then I got to go to Chappel high school at shop there were two highlights for me and the first I think Mr aray would agree the

first highlight was one of the students who was up on stage was reading through his prepared speech and he literally flipped the page and realized his second page was gone and it was so neat to see him recover and to look at that struggle in the moment and see him persevere and move through it just as he was speaking

to thousands of people I think he really exemplified the ability to persevere regardless of the struggle and having resilience Under Pressure so that was definitely a high for me and then I think another highlight was shaking so many hands of our students just trying to offer an encouraging word that they have achieved great things that they're beautiful that they matter it was really

awesome so I appreciated that so much I want to say congratulations to all of the tvusd students and their families um as I was looking for graduation quotes this one stood out to me just remember the people who are crazy enough to think they can change change the world are the ones who do and sometimes you do have to

take a stand and talk about what you believe in and you might be standing alone and you might not always be understood and that's part of the character building process and I hope that we're instilling this in our students I hope I exemplify that as a leader we're all continuing to learn and grow and make mistakes and I hope we can

offer Grace and empathy for one another but um finally I just hope families you embrace the summer do some reading with your kids enjoy all of that and celebrate the good things because I know fall will be here all too soon so thank you for letting me share tonight thanks M wor M Barkley um wow I have such a long list

so many things have happened um I was I got to attend the musical at Tula Valley high school so great so much talent there it was really really fun um I didn't think I was going to make it my daughter texted me last second and said my practice got cancelled come meet me at the school so I drove from work and

and we made it and it was I was so glad I did it was really really fun play um I attended the Dollars for Scholars Awards night so impressive even if you don't have a kid getting an award you should go check it out it's amazing how much um how much money these kids earn and it's from uh people all over the community

who set up schar scholarship funds to to pass on to our students and uh it was really exciting also exciting because my own kid got some money so good for much better for my bank account um attended the CTE completer ceremony I guess that's the second one that's been held it was really fun so exciting held like

a graduation so many kids um completing their CTE pathway um just really setting our kids up for so much success ESS it's amazing what our what our district has um has been able to do in that area um and you know Mr dignan are you still here okay well shout out we're we're gonna miss you it's been great um the

retirement Gayla so fun always wonderful to to um get to recognize all of our retirees and shake their hands and give a few hugs um I went to some um recognition events over over at TV this year um really fun to be a part of that and see all of the kids their rally was a ton of fun and their Awards night um

so many kids achieving so much and I know it's the same at all of the schools um but I love that our district um I've just never seen a district provide so much recognition for kids in so many different ways it's not always just GPA it's so many things that kids are recognized for and I really appreciate

that um attended state of the City with with some people up here and that was also really great to go out and uh represent our district in the community um and um I went to the banquet for um Unified sports over at TV and this is the one that always chokes me up is it's this program if you haven't seen it you

need to go um it's kids from the general education population paired up with kids from special the special education program and they go together and all six high schools three here three in Marrietta um compete in sporting events throughout the year and we went to the banquet over at TV because my daughter's the founding president over there and just seeing the

kids and their parents kids who don't fit the mold for traditional Sports and would never receive a varsity letter those kids got a varsity letter for their letterman jacket and they got Patches and special Awards and it's so amazing and you go to the events and they're wearing their jackets with their letters and I love that this district and that these two

districts prioritize that for students it's just it's so heartwarming and to see the looks on the parents faces and the kids faces being celebrated in that way probably a way that their parents never really imagined would be possible for their student it it's it's my favorite thing um and to just be a small part in that to be able to see it is just is amazing

so I'd encourage everyone if you haven't been to a Unified sports event you have to go it's it's so great um and then of course um graduation uh was fantastic my baby my last one I'm no longer officially a parent hopefully I won't get kicked out of here now but um it was such a great ceremony and to sit on the stage and my

daughter in the front row I could see we saw each other the whole time once in a lifetime opportunity that I really appreciated and Mrs Leon um and Mr Burlingham and everyone over at TV just made it such a special night the kids were amazing the speeches the performances um it was so it was so great and yeah more than I could have

anticipated so I really appreciated being there and um I did miss the margarita promotion which I always go to but with all the festivities I wasn't able to make it this year um and um I will still be at the stunt games next year so I have committed to the girls I will be there to support um I can't stop I

can't stop going um but it's so fun just to um have an excuse to get out to all the events across the schools and I do love that's my obviously my favorite part of being on this board is being able to go to the schools and observe the classrooms and the events and especially here at the end of the year and a just huge um

appreciation to all of our staff all of our teachers once again tremendous year obviously always full of challenges but I love seeing everyone rise to the occasion and continue to prioritize students and do what's best for kids so thank you thank you all thank you Mrs barlay okay last time we met I said I was going to go to the Edwin drood play

The Mystery of Edwin drud um wow that was sophisticated I needed to see it a second time to really understand what was going on but it was impressive um and then I didn't know the stage dropped below to where an orchestra could be below playing music that was live that was another gem uh really loved it so I would say out of

the three and I I need to see more but out of the three I I saw Shrek at Garder I saw Mean Girls at Chael in the mystery of Edwin drood and if I was to choose one oh my gosh Mean Girls they were mean I was blown away by their acting if I were to look at all three they they

captivated me the most blown away but um I loved I loved all of them of course I'm not supposed to choose a favorite but that would have been my favorite loved it um the acting was like I said blew me away um yes Dollars for Scholars that was a awesome event um so many contributors I mean the line went forever and ever and

ever but I thought that's more money for these students so really cool uh being there I had the honor of doing the um Galla retirement speech um I wish I could have stayed more to honor all the people that served our district that got to retire but that night right after the speech I had to go to my own son's award

ceremony at Trail life but that was fun and it was an honor to be able to do that I attended the TMS graduation totally fun hanging out with Marvin down there and all the kids at TMS um tooa High School uh love that one got to hear the violin solo soloist um which was really cool um gr Oak High School got to help

hand out diplomas which was awesome and got to see the gems there graduating Ranch of Vista High School Susan H Nelson and the adult school and David schlotman if you haven't met him he is a gem and I loved loved loved hanging out with him and those students it was it was really cool um and then um I wanted to give a

quick update I wasn't going to do this on information reports but the board can get this from um Dr Woods it's basically I was um emailing Dean on the EMF reports for the three towers I think two of them have been given to us uh us finally and any board member can ask Dr Woods for those but I won't read those

out um two things and the board members can ask as well there's two signs being put up by the AT&T Towers the lawyer of AT&T emailed and I have those um and I'll I'll just read them briefly the one sign that is above the chapparel bleachers and again this is me because I am I'm a you know I'm a

pro advocate for reducing EMF and keeping the public aware so this is just reporting out to the public above the um or on the 5G Tower um above the chapparel stands it will read AT&T operates antennas at this structure above this point you are entering an area where radio frequency ARA Fields May exceed the FCC occupational exposure

limits I say that to the public um because it's important for me to read out the big deal was were we are we within FCC limits yes according to those tests that were monitored but then this even admits that you know it could it could exceed and it says follow safy guidelines for working in an RF environment keeps 69 ft away from the

fronts of the antennas so that will be posted if it's not already there on that sign and then the AT&T tower at TMS says on this Tower R uh radio frequency RF fields near some antennas May exceed the FCC occupation or exposure limits and it gives you a phone owner phone number to contact AT&T so those are the updates

we're trying to get T-Mobile to post a sign on the Marquee at chapparel so that has T-Mobile the other two towers are AT&T that's just me reporting that out and to keep context I'll read something from La unified it'll be pretty quick since um this was their position in 2007 and I drew from that when when we brought up

the policy to ban the future 5G Towers contracts after 15 years their position was and they're very aware of the FCC limits since 2007 The District staff this is me reading from their report has utilized a precautionary threshold level that addresses these non-thermal exposures our threshold meaning la um unified is 01 microwatts per centimet squared and this is the Salient feature

of me reading this out or 10,000 times lower than the FCC standard It is believed that more conservative that a more conservative level is necessary to protect children who represent a potentially vulnerable and sensitive population so this is this is a extremely conservative take that a um very large school district took so they know the FCC limits and they're

saying we're going to go 10,000 times lower that is the context by which I read this out so to to loot back to previous uh statements when somebody asks are we safe well it depends what the FCC says and the FCC you know gives a standard and it's very high compared to many areas in the world and I just

want to draw attention to anybody that might have a concern or maybe even not um um those signs are posted La UniFi took an extremely conservative stand 10,000 times lower and we're um we're not as on The Cutting Edge of them but that's what another District did and I love their take on it so with that being

said I think I'm done for oh wait yep one more because I don't think we have public comments on the 13th I was asking Dr Woods I want to thank my community for allowing me to represent your voices and I look forward to serving my community again beginning in November thank you Dr Koski thank you to the audience to the

board for putting up with today this this agenda in particular has been an absolute bear to put together but I couldn't go any further without thanking my assistant right behind me Miss lenee for all her work [Applause] we had to do it this way this isn't the way you normally do it you normally have two meetings in June and they're both

packed and they're very important but we had to combine everything into this meeting tonight because we were concerned about not having a quorum as you can imagine so the items that we the 80 five consent and 36 action items now cover us for the month of June we have a little work to do uh here in a couple of days on June 13th uh

but uh on behalf of all of us thank you uh for for sticking with us on this meeting this was a tough one for us I also would like to thank our classified staff our certificated staff our admin team for finishing up the 2324 school year it's been great all around tough difficult challenging but also great in

many many ways thank you but now a lot of work begins because we have to put together a whole series of things for 24 and 25 this upcoming school year one of the first things we're doing which is kind of unusual a little different for the district is our admin team we're meeting with every principal for 45

minutes they are using I ready data and all kinds of other data they are talking about their schools uh they're they're talking about lcap talking about student groups and we're meeting with each of these individual principles coming up with a plan um by elementary middle and high and getting a really good sense of where the district is these principal meetings have been

really outstanding especially for a guy like me me who's still pretty new and doesn't know all of the nuances in the district so for the principles out there we'll see eight of you tomorrow uh one every hour uh we look forward to those meetings and we wish all of you have a wonderful June and we and you get a

chance to rest and relax all of you here tonight thank you for coming thank you Dr Woods I completely agree um so we have future agenda items I have a few to remind of this District of but do we have anything else by anybody else okay so we have uh this was back in the warrant list I believe we agreed

to po Epoch education Kevin krey Jackie Hunter Robert basillo Shannon rley Royal Management s Gardner Associates Inc that was agreed to go on to this June 13th meeting which should be pretty quick so we have time to talk about that uh couple reminders at least from my perspective is last I think it was the last board meeting I was asking if the

district could send out a survey to the parents and the teachers um on profanity in the classrooms I'd really like that to be done to get uh Community input like what is going on in the classrooms because I've heard complaints from some teachers that feel so overwhelmed I don't know if there needs to be more training but I'd like a survey on

profaning the classroom throughout the whole District just to see what people say the board could entertain that um Jimmy please get the quotes on the emblems so that possibly we can have all the schools represented in here and then maybe that gets on the agenda I would love to see that so that the students could have pride when they come in here

and then last but not least this is just is something that I've seen in different reports it would be it would be also helpful if the district sent out a um districtwide um survey on EMF exposure whether the parents teachers and the district even think it's a concern or not either way I would like a survey to

go out to ask parents teachers and the District staff what do you think about tablets and exposure with EMF problem or no problem some like art scale like least likely less likely something like that I think it would be good for theity Community to get involved maybe put that to rest I've seen other school districts where the teachers union is highly

involved in that where they have banned EMF and and certain uh Tablets before I can give you that um the names of those districts but that's just my request for future agenda items and I think that's about it and announcement of the next meeting which is two days from now is the next regular open session business meeting

the governing board of education is scheduled for July 23rd 2024 but before that we're meeting on June 13th which is two days from now so we will approve that agenda tomorrow for a special meeting on the 13th and what time does it begin lene 3:3 3 40 just to be sure 4:30 5 4:30 to 5:30 okay okay this meeting is adjourned

on June 11 2024 at 10:16 p.m. thank you