{"date":"2020-04-22","type":"Board Meeting","videoId":"DVMh89SIUFY","audioDuration":8516,"speakers":{"A":{"name":"Dennis McBride","role":"Board President"},"B":{"name":"Eliana (staff)","role":"Board Secretary / Roll Call"},"C":{"name":"María Díaz-Slocum","role":"Trustee"},"D":{"name":"Janet Lawson","role":"Vice President"},"E":{"name":"Janet Lawson","role":"Vice President (meeting chair)"},"F":{"name":"Kyle (IT Director)","role":"District IT Director"},"G":{"name":"Alisa MacAvoy","role":"Clerk"},"H":{"name":"Cecilia I. Márquez","role":"Trustee"},"I":{"name":"Dr. John Baker","role":"Superintendent"}},"utterances":[{"start":6720,"end":6960,"speaker":"A","text":"Here."},{"start":7520,"end":12320,"speaker":"B","text":"Tracy Marquez. Here. Trustee Diaz locum. Here."},{"start":12640,"end":15360,"speaker":"C","text":"Trustee McAvoy Rabbit."},{"start":15680,"end":16960,"speaker":"B","text":"Here. Trustee Lawson."},{"start":17440,"end":17840,"speaker":"D","text":"Here."},{"start":21040,"end":66260,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, let's see. Report out on closed session from April 22. The board received information and accepted legal advice from council. So welcome, everybody. Happy Earth Day. And just so everybody knows, all the members of the public that are here, you're muted when you joined. And just a reminder that this meeting is being recorded. For Spanish translation, there's a number to call into. Are we able to just put that in the chat and have people see it, or do I need to read it all now? Why am I echoing?"},{"start":68260,"end":69540,"speaker":"A","text":"There's a lot of feedback"},{"start":71460,"end":72820,"speaker":"C","text":"I shouldn't be echoing."},{"start":75380,"end":78420,"speaker":"F","text":"So, Janet, Ellie's putting it in the chat right now."},{"start":78660,"end":105690,"speaker":"E","text":"She got in it. Okay, thank you. So check the chat for the login information. For Spanish interpretation, we will hear public comments. And on the agenda, there's a link to a Google Doc where you can fill out a speaker's card. We do need your name so that we know who to unmute when the time comes. We do have a couple of cards right now. And the link to the Google Doc is also in the chat box. Now."},{"start":111770,"end":113370,"speaker":"A","text":"I can hear the echo as well."},{"start":113950,"end":114190,"speaker":"E","text":"What?"},{"start":114590,"end":115710,"speaker":"A","text":"I can hear the echo."},{"start":116270,"end":155240,"speaker":"E","text":"I'll figure it out once I'm done with this. Public comments are limited to three minutes per person, per topic. And if the item you would like to speak to is not on the agenda, you'll be called to the podium during item five, oral communication. If you're speaking on an item that is on the agenda, you'll be when that item is being addressed. And just a reminder that because we're meeting via teleconference, all votes are going to be by roll call. With that, we have our Pledge of Allegiance. This time, we will be led by Mrs. Barstadt's kindergarten class from room three at Henry Ford."},{"start":156840,"end":159640,"speaker":"F","text":"So I'm going to mute and then just unmute you, Jan."},{"start":185730,"end":186370,"speaker":"G","text":"Here we go."},{"start":190620,"end":190860,"speaker":"C","text":"I."},{"start":215340,"end":239800,"speaker":"E","text":"Please arrange standing for liberty. All right, thank you. To Mrs. Barstad and room three. If any of you are here, we really appreciate you leading us in the pledge today. Let's see. We are on to. Are there any changes to the agenda?"},{"start":247890,"end":248210,"speaker":"A","text":"None."},{"start":250450,"end":254690,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, so is there a motion to approve the agenda?"},{"start":257490,"end":258130,"speaker":"H","text":"So move."},{"start":258690,"end":259570,"speaker":"E","text":"Cecilia."},{"start":260929,"end":261330,"speaker":"C","text":"Second."},{"start":262210,"end":263370,"speaker":"E","text":"That was Maria."},{"start":263370,"end":263890,"speaker":"C","text":"Maria."},{"start":265090,"end":268770,"speaker":"E","text":"So, Eliana, can we have a roll call vote?"},{"start":270620,"end":271500,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee McBride."},{"start":271820,"end":272300,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":272540,"end":276460,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Marquez. Aye. Jesse Diazloca."},{"start":276860,"end":277340,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":277740,"end":278860,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy McEvoy."},{"start":279580,"end":280140,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":280460,"end":281420,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy Lawson."},{"start":281740,"end":293180,"speaker":"E","text":"Hi. Moving on to oral communication. Ellie, I see one name here. Was there another one?"},{"start":296390,"end":301670,"speaker":"B","text":"I have not received any other speakers cards. But I received emails that people are unable to connect."},{"start":303110,"end":318710,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. Oh, and this speaker's card is actually for an item 13.1, so it's not actually oral communication. Did we update the agenda with the RCSD password?"},{"start":319590,"end":322310,"speaker":"B","text":"I did. I did include the RCSD password."},{"start":325890,"end":327970,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. I don't know how to get people on here with."},{"start":329970,"end":330450,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah."},{"start":331730,"end":353820,"speaker":"E","text":"So if we have no oral communication other than the 13.1, we can go on and we'll address that when we come to that item onto the bond program. Consent items. Item 9. Is there a motion to approve?"},{"start":354140,"end":354940,"speaker":"A","text":"So moved."},{"start":355100,"end":359260,"speaker":"E","text":"Dennis, is there a second?"},{"start":360620,"end":361740,"speaker":"C","text":"Second. Maria."},{"start":362460,"end":365500,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria. Roll call vote, please."},{"start":367260,"end":367980,"speaker":"B","text":"McBride."},{"start":368300,"end":368780,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":371340,"end":371820,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":372380,"end":373740,"speaker":"C","text":"Cressy D. Slocum."},{"start":374200,"end":374600,"speaker":"D","text":"Aye."},{"start":374840,"end":376040,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy McAvoy."},{"start":376760,"end":377320,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":377720,"end":378680,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy Lawson."},{"start":378920,"end":405400,"speaker":"E","text":"Aye. Okay, item 10.1. Recommendation for the approval of agreement for abatement construction with ATI at Hoover Community School. Do we have any questions or comments on that? Will, you're. You were talking, but you're muted."},{"start":410360,"end":411400,"speaker":"A","text":"Will, unmute."},{"start":412040,"end":413080,"speaker":"G","text":"Can you hear me now?"},{"start":413560,"end":414040,"speaker":"A","text":"Yes."},{"start":414200,"end":414760,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah."},{"start":414920,"end":416280,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay. Thank you, guys."},{"start":416520,"end":416880,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah."},{"start":416880,"end":418040,"speaker":"G","text":"Does anyone have any questions?"},{"start":421800,"end":422200,"speaker":"C","text":"No."},{"start":424600,"end":426440,"speaker":"E","text":"I see people shaking their heads now."},{"start":427400,"end":427640,"speaker":"H","text":"No."},{"start":430520,"end":432440,"speaker":"E","text":"Is there a motion to approve that?"},{"start":433400,"end":434200,"speaker":"A","text":"So moved."},{"start":435480,"end":436440,"speaker":"G","text":"I'll second it."},{"start":437000,"end":441400,"speaker":"E","text":"Dennis and Elisa, roll call vote, please."},{"start":443720,"end":444760,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse McBride."},{"start":445080,"end":445560,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":446200,"end":446920,"speaker":"B","text":"Marquez."},{"start":447560,"end":448120,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":448360,"end":449640,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse Dia Silocum."},{"start":449880,"end":450360,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":450600,"end":451800,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy Macava."},{"start":452770,"end":453170,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":453730,"end":455330,"speaker":"B","text":"Lawson. Aye."},{"start":457490,"end":463890,"speaker":"E","text":"Item 10.2, approval of new Jim and modernization project. Change order."},{"start":467650,"end":468050,"speaker":"A","text":"Yes."},{"start":468050,"end":469730,"speaker":"G","text":"Does anyone have any questions on this item?"},{"start":473890,"end":475650,"speaker":"A","text":"Looks like a bunch of bobbleheads."},{"start":475810,"end":480570,"speaker":"E","text":"No. I see. No. So moved."},{"start":480570,"end":481490,"speaker":"C","text":"This is maria."},{"start":481570,"end":488690,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria, is there a second? Who was that? Sorry. Cecilia."},{"start":490050,"end":494530,"speaker":"B","text":"Roll call vote. Christy mcbride."},{"start":494930,"end":495410,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":495650,"end":496770,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy marquez."},{"start":497570,"end":498130,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":498290,"end":499650,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy diaz. Locum."},{"start":499810,"end":501810,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye. Christy mcavoy."},{"start":502690,"end":503170,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":503410,"end":505240,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy lawson. Hi."},{"start":507400,"end":517160,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. Item 10.3, adoption of resolution 24. Questions? Comments?"},{"start":518280,"end":524760,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah. So this is the upgrade of the district's energy management system. Does anyone have any questions?"},{"start":530850,"end":531330,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay."},{"start":532450,"end":532850,"speaker":"G","text":"Bell."},{"start":532850,"end":533410,"speaker":"A","text":"Moved."},{"start":534130,"end":534930,"speaker":"E","text":"Alisa."},{"start":538290,"end":538690,"speaker":"H","text":"Second."},{"start":543730,"end":544770,"speaker":"E","text":"Roll call vote."},{"start":545410,"end":546450,"speaker":"C","text":"Trustee McBride."},{"start":546930,"end":547410,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":547650,"end":548770,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Marquez."},{"start":548770,"end":549250,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":550130,"end":550610,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":551010,"end":552370,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Diazloka."},{"start":552530,"end":553090,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":553410,"end":554610,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy McAvoy."},{"start":555330,"end":557090,"speaker":"C","text":"I. Jesse Lawson."},{"start":557330,"end":557810,"speaker":"G","text":"Hi."},{"start":560770,"end":565090,"speaker":"E","text":"Where are we? 10.4."},{"start":565730,"end":567930,"speaker":"G","text":"Wait, correct."},{"start":567930,"end":569250,"speaker":"E","text":"Are we on 10.4 now?"},{"start":569650,"end":570130,"speaker":"A","text":"Yes."},{"start":570370,"end":572930,"speaker":"E","text":"Approval of agreement for energy management systems."},{"start":579010,"end":579490,"speaker":"A","text":"Yes."},{"start":579490,"end":611580,"speaker":"G","text":"10.4 is one of the supporting components of the energy management system. The intrusion design and the security camera system design, which will both tie into the EMS system. Does anyone have any questions? I just want to say that I'm really happy we're doing this, so when we're all back, we'll be safer. That's great. Thank you for all your work. Don? Well, yeah."},{"start":613980,"end":614980,"speaker":"E","text":"Is there a motion to approve?"},{"start":614980,"end":617180,"speaker":"G","text":"So I guess I'll move it. How about that? So move it."},{"start":617260,"end":618060,"speaker":"E","text":"Elisa."},{"start":619740,"end":621020,"speaker":"H","text":"Second. Cecilia."},{"start":621180,"end":623740,"speaker":"E","text":"Cecilia. And a vote, please."},{"start":627420,"end":628060,"speaker":"B","text":"McBride."},{"start":628700,"end":629260,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":629340,"end":630460,"speaker":"B","text":"Chrissy Marquez."},{"start":631900,"end":632460,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":632700,"end":634060,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy Diaz. Locum."},{"start":634300,"end":634940,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":635260,"end":636380,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy McAvoy."},{"start":637230,"end":637630,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":638190,"end":638750,"speaker":"B","text":"Lawson."},{"start":639150,"end":656430,"speaker":"E","text":"Aye. And item 10.5, recommendation to approve the construction management consultant fee reconciliation proposals with RGM Creamer. Were there any questions on that."},{"start":667320,"end":669560,"speaker":"C","text":"In that case? So moved. Thank you."},{"start":669560,"end":670040,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria."},{"start":674040,"end":674440,"speaker":"H","text":"Second."},{"start":675560,"end":679640,"speaker":"E","text":"Cecilia. Second. And a vote, please."},{"start":681080,"end":682200,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee mcbride."},{"start":682920,"end":683480,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":683640,"end":684760,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee marquez."},{"start":685400,"end":685880,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":686280,"end":687640,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee da slocum."},{"start":688090,"end":688410,"speaker":"C","text":"Hi."},{"start":688730,"end":689930,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse mcavoy."},{"start":690730,"end":691290,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":691610,"end":692570,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse lawson."},{"start":692890,"end":696490,"speaker":"E","text":"Aye. All right, well, thanks for being with us, will."},{"start":697530,"end":702490,"speaker":"G","text":"Thank you guys. Thank you."},{"start":705610,"end":720310,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, so we are moving on to item 11.1, a discussion on COVID 19. John, did you want to."},{"start":720310,"end":832850,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah, I will start. I just have to mute. So. Good evening everyone. So what I'm going to start out with to begin with is Elise had sent me a set of questions that she wanted to have addressed during this time. And there are some that I can address and others that we're going to have. I'm going to have to wait to get for the information. But just to make you all aware at this point in time, you did everyone did receive the superintendent's letter that went out last week on Friday and it gave an update on the distance learning, which I want to thank both Linda and Wendy for working with staff development and making sure that we got the nuances that we wanted to start with with our staff online. And it took a lot of work, a lot of effort, and hopefully it's a little bit more easier for parents. I did receive an email from one parent who was a bit concerned about the office hours of the teachers. But I have talked to the principal and the principal has met with that parent by email and said that she was going to send something out further regarding her school and what she meant by what it means by office hours for her. So very pleased with what's out right now. I know we may be hearing at this point in time from staff, you know, if they're having difficulties or if they're not having difficulties. But we're here to support them. So that is up and running. One of the questions from Alisa was regarding meals and how many meals are we serving? So in talking with cns, our child nutrition system. So yesterday, I beg your pardon, on the 20th they served 1,090 meals."},{"start":833730,"end":834930,"speaker":"F","text":"And today,"},{"start":836930,"end":932130,"speaker":"I","text":"sorry, phone's going off, I don't know why. And Yesterday on the 21st, they served 1,210. So as I look at the amount of food that is being distributed, it averages anywhere from one day. On 4:15 they served 3,837. And from yesterday was 1,210. So it fluctuates. And understand when it's fluctuating, it may be students from throughout Redwood City that are coming to get meals. Because it's your 18 and younger, we don't ask, you know, what school you go to. And also some of our students maybe going to the Sequoia High School District, also with their older siblings when they're getting food. So what I will do is as cns, at the end of each week, I can send you the spreadsheet, so that way you'd have an update. So that's where we are at this point in time. We started off with. When we first started on March 16, it was 460 meals. So as of yesterday, we're up to 1,210. So it fluctuates, as I said. And it could be because students are going to the Sequoia High School District for meals. And also when we have more students on our end, it could be that their siblings are coming with them to receive meals, or it's other children within Redwood City that are coming to the schools to receive meals."},{"start":933410,"end":963170,"speaker":"G","text":"Well, and I also realize if you look at 4:15, that's the Wednesday, So they're picking up meals for Thursday and Friday as well. So I was trying to figure out why is that number so vastly different? Does that make sense that it would be triple what the reg. Anyway, that's helpful just to get a sense of how many meals. And certainly I really appreciate. That's a lot of work for our staff. You know, when there's the variance to know how much to prep for and all of that. Okay, thank you."},{"start":963250,"end":976320,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay, and then the next question you had was about assistance being provided to our most needy families. And I know Pati bought these, not these on as a. As a participant, but she's on. We can't. I don't think I can."},{"start":976560,"end":981600,"speaker":"C","text":"Some of the directors are not able to get on. I got text. So some of them aren't able to get on."},{"start":981600,"end":982800,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah, they're not able to get on."},{"start":983120,"end":985840,"speaker":"A","text":"Potty's actually on under attendee."},{"start":986560,"end":988200,"speaker":"I","text":"Right. So she can't get on, so. Right."},{"start":988200,"end":990240,"speaker":"A","text":"Well, no, Kyle should be able to move her over."},{"start":991360,"end":992480,"speaker":"F","text":"I can elevate her."},{"start":992720,"end":995320,"speaker":"I","text":"Could you elevate her? That would be great. I'll find her."},{"start":995320,"end":1002430,"speaker":"E","text":"Right now, I'm still not able to get on as a panelist using my cell phone. I mean, not a panelist, a participant."},{"start":1003390,"end":1014430,"speaker":"I","text":"There is Pati. So, Pati, if you would unmute yourself and you can give an update on the different types of support that we're providing to our neediest families."},{"start":1015390,"end":1254910,"speaker":"D","text":"Hi, yes, unmuted and participant. So basically after five weeks at least, the community schools department has kind of reshifted to what their work would have looked on site, where we receive requests from either families or teachers or any district employee helping a family navigate, locate services, connect. Whereas at the beginning there was just a lot of confusion around even information dissemination and how to provide a distance essential services from mentoring to counseling to some of our after school partners wanting to support with tutoring. So now we're kind of in a better groove. We have increased our second harvest distributions dramatically. We're getting 500 plus families coming through the drive thru with each one we're having multiple a week. Chicken harvest has been great. They've been bringing management out to help kind of with any tensions or learning the process. And dawn and Martin and their team have been great. They're supporting us with getting law enforcement to sometimes go out there and do some traffic control. It does get really backed up. I can imagine maybe some of the board members have gotten some feedback or frustrations about it. But it gets backed up precisely because, I mean, we feel it's just such a big need right now for families to be able to get food free. What else? So obviously the biggest need right now is socioeconomic and social emotional. At a financial level, we partner with the community center who's like the core agency receiving funds, city funds, RCF funds, county funds. What that has created for them and us is a bit of a bottleneck around manpower. They got within a week over 500 rent assistance requests. And it is kind of a lengthy process. Even though the criteria to get the rent assistance is low. We don't ask about documentation, proof about your rent agreement or your employment is very lax. We even allow families to do their own testimony with an hourly worker or an informal worker or I don't have a formal rent agreement and they take all of that, but you still have to provide it. So what we do is we all, my team and a lot of other agencies got trained as rent assistants, navigators and then we get assigned a caseload and we just help families go through the process. They literally text us pictures or a screenshot of the text their employer might have sent us telling them to come for the foreseeable future, that kind of stuff. But it is quite lengthy. I do want to give a shout out that I feel all the local agencies have really stepped up. So at the Fair Oaks Community center is not only their core staff, but Right now most of Chris Beth's staff is working out of there. Both their parks and rec team that do our after school programs, Red Martin or city events are just they rotate to be able to provide in person services there as well as online services. They now have a call center. Once you go online and try the process, if you get stuck at any point, it just tells you what, oh, we'll call you. And then someone calls back and helps them through the process. Redwood City 2020 is also supporting that. I don't know if you guys saw they put out also Redwood City north for Oaks resource guide similar to ours, but there's just been a lot of coordination. However, I will say it does move slowly in terms of the amount of requests they're getting for support. In terms of social, emotional support. We're not getting a lot of requests directly, not through the Google form at all. But we are struggling sometimes with reaching families. We might have been worried about pre"},{"start":1254910,"end":1255270,"speaker":"E","text":"Covid"},{"start":1257030,"end":1280580,"speaker":"D","text":"it's a hit or miss how and when you reach them. I appreciate also student services and Antonio are helping us think through that flowchart of when to get worried. What are next steps? We're also coordinating with the county's child abuse prevention Council, domestic violence agencies around what other resources exist around, you know, family welfare and I would say that's it."},{"start":1285620,"end":1286980,"speaker":"I","text":"So Elisa, did you want to."},{"start":1287540,"end":1331190,"speaker":"G","text":"Oh, I just. So one follow up. Thank you very much, Pati. I really appreciate everything that you're doing. The city and all the local resources. I know it's amazing the need out there and you know, we're lucky in our community to have community schools, to have the North Oaks center because there's a lot of communities that do not have that. So I know they're not getting the resources maybe as quickly as they want, but at least there's a place to go, right? And hopefully more resources will continue on the food. I did hear in the north part of the county that in their food lines that we're running out of food at second harvest. But do you know if we've seen had that same situation or has everybody who's gotten in line gotten a food"},{"start":1331190,"end":1382480,"speaker":"D","text":"box hit or miss? Depending on the site, we're getting better at quantifying. We have doubled and sometimes tripled the amount of food we're getting from second harvest at certain places to make up for that? I would say mostly we're right at the cusp. Like we're pushed, right. Sometimes we miss. But because we're having multiple in a week families can then go the next day or something. But they are increasing as the need arises. They're also short staffed on their end, even though they do have a part of the National Guard helping. But there is a vast amount of food that I will say the food agencies locally are giving out like crazy. They're now Second harvest is giving out through other local agencies, not just us. And there are basically daily pantries wherever you look. The north for Oaks area."},{"start":1385040,"end":1385440,"speaker":"E","text":"Great."},{"start":1385600,"end":1387040,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay, thank you very much."},{"start":1388880,"end":1526600,"speaker":"I","text":"And then also, just to add a little bit more, we, the superintendents had a meeting with Jackie Speier, Congresswoman Jackie Speier on Friday and we were able to talk to her about what we felt our needs were. And in my discussion with her, it was to reiterate that, yes, it's great that our students have devices, but our most neediest do not. And so devices is one thing that we needed to loan. And Kyle's going to give you an update of what those numbers are in a few moments. The other piece that I was really concerned about when I spoke to her was the Internet access, especially on the east side, the Fair Oaks area, the Taft area, because once we take back those hot spots, because they're only given to us for, I believe it's four months, four to five months. And then we return them. And if we go back into this situation again, then it means getting the hot spots again for those kids. What we really need in that area is some type of a tower out there that will allow them to have access. So my plea to her, along with other superintendents was if she at the federal level could get an outside entity at and t Verizon whomever to work with the federal government to put something out there in that area that would help us would be. We'd be very grateful. And the other piece that I spoke about was the social, emotional piece that we need more support in that arena more so than what we have right now. I know parents are definitely filling out forms and so forth. But there's a but here. Many of the parents that are filling them out sometimes cannot get a Spanish speaker. And that's what they need is a Spanish speaker. So if there's some way to whether to be hired, a contract or something to have additional staff through the county, San Mateo county, that are. They are Spanish speaking, they are available during different times during the day and different times during the evening. Even if they're doing a phone call would be very helpful to us. So in that realm, I wanted you to know about that part about COVID 19, the conversation that supes had with Jacque Speer. Okay Kyle, the next one is yours. On the number of computers, hotspots and so forth."},{"start":1526600,"end":1678700,"speaker":"F","text":"Okay, so since we started this process of at home learning, we issued Chromebooks to any student that required or asked for a Chromebook to be issued to them. We did get 500 hotspots loaned to us for several months, as Dr. Baker mentioned. That is on top of the hotspots we already had available for students at Kennedy and McKinley from their one to one program. So as of right now, just at Kennedy and McKinley we have just over 1,200 Chromebooks out between those two schools. And then with the process that we used to issue Chromebooks to the students at the other 10 schools, we issued another 1791 Chromebooks out. So we have a total of 3079 Chromebooks out right now. And that is based upon the number of just students in grades two through eight. If you look at the percentage of just the students outside of the one to one JFK and McKinley population, that's 40.11% of all the students who were eligible received Chromebooks. As far as the hotspots go, we've issued a total of 558 hotspots, 439 of the loaners and 119 in the group from McKinley and Kennedy. The percentage of students just from the loaner hotspots is 9.83%. We've also been holding tech support appointments at the district office because we want to make sure that we're maintaining social distancing. So we're not having any more than five families come in in any 15 minute period. We have three techs on site and they're basically doing exchanges. There's no troubleshooting, there's no long appointments. It's just come in, exchange your Chromebook for another one and then, and then leave. We have received 231 requests for tech support via the phone line, people leaving messages on the main district line and and 189 on our English Google Form, 117 on our Spanish Google form, for a total of 306 on the Google form and then 537 total requests for support from families in the district. Since we have gone to the at home or remote teaching model."},{"start":1682380,"end":1686950,"speaker":"I","text":"Are there any questions on that? Questions, Comments?"},{"start":1691670,"end":1702870,"speaker":"H","text":"So just a question regarding those last numbers you said Kyle. Is that in the last few days or is that just all together after we went to at home learning?"},{"start":1703110,"end":1708710,"speaker":"F","text":"That's just, that's from the beginning since we went to at home learning until today's parking day."},{"start":1714480,"end":1775110,"speaker":"G","text":"So first of all, thank you very much, Kyle, to you and your team. I know you guys have really done an amazing job giving out all the Chromebooks and hotspots and tech support. It's a lot to roll out in a couple of months. So thank you. I did have a question and John, I don't know if this one's for Kyle or for somebody else, but it's sort of a tag on, I think I put it in the email to you is do we know how many students have either not logged on at all or are not logging on regularly? And when I say logging on, I suppose I also just mean connecting with the school or the teacher in some way. And I know, I think the last you gave the update you talked about, you know, the office managers and teachers and others are following up to try to make sure all the students were connected. So if you could just talk a little bit about that. I mean, it's some technology, but it's more just connecting into the classroom, the virtual classroom that we're having."},{"start":1775910,"end":1776870,"speaker":"I","text":"That's your next question."},{"start":1777830,"end":1778790,"speaker":"G","text":"Oh, okay."},{"start":1779430,"end":1837140,"speaker":"F","text":"Okay. So I'm going to answer that a little bit. So we're able to see the number of students who are logging into our Google Apps domain and we're able to see the number of students who are logging in to Clever on a daily basis. So we can see those statistics. Neither one of the base tools gives us a really good picture of who hasn't, who is and who isn't logging in. But I did find another report in the back end of our Google Apps domain yesterday which will allow me to basically take a list and download all of our students and it will show me the date of their last login. So I can see, we can go, go through those numbers I downloaded yesterday, actually provided a copy of it to Antonio so we can actually see the last day they logged in. So if somebody hasn't logged in for three weeks, we know that they're not eng."},{"start":1842910,"end":1871180,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, I guess the bigger picture, I was just wondering. That's great. So there's a way to do it technologically. So it's really up to you. I mean, the teacher or the principal or whoever sort of has the students. But I know it's that I think earlier on we were concerned that some students weren't even checking in at all and we were having trouble getting a hold of them. So have we been able to get a hold of all the students at this point? And Are."},{"start":1872460,"end":1872860,"speaker":"D","text":"No."},{"start":1872860,"end":1873420,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay."},{"start":1873820,"end":1876700,"speaker":"I","text":"No. And let me segue into your next question."},{"start":1876700,"end":1891500,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you so much, Kyle, before you go to the next question. So that number of students, you don't think connecting is overstated because your data doesn't collect all the teachers that are using Zoom, correct?"},{"start":1892940,"end":1937180,"speaker":"F","text":"It doesn't? No. It doesn't collect the data on Zoom at all. It collects the data on their Google Apps account. So all of our students have to connect because all of our teachers are required to have Google classrooms in grades, I believe, three through eight. Dr. Montes can clarify if I think it's two through eight or not. But we asked all teachers to have a Google classroom in grades three through eight so they would have to log into their Google Apps account to get into Google Classroom. So that would be a way to at least measure some level of engagement. We don't know if there's some engagement via video conferencing via Zoom because we can't see those statistics."},{"start":1937740,"end":1947660,"speaker":"A","text":"Right. But we know that there are teachers that are using Zoom, so you're not capturing those. That's why I say the kids that aren't connecting is overstated."},{"start":1948160,"end":2117820,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah. So Antonio did go on to. We've asked the principals to give us numbers, to give us numbers of, you know, students that are. They've connected, but maybe they have not connected. Again, they're not connecting regularly. And so at this point in time, what he has is district wide and district wide. This number has to be split in manner of which we have to do. How we're going to find out how to do this, we're going to ask for Kyle's help. But those that have only connected on sporadically and those that have connected, not connected on at all. The total for those two groups, the sporadic people and those not connected at all is 349 district wide. And so when we were meeting with the principals yesterday, there is a flow chart that the county office help student services administrators put together in regard to connecting with families. And there is a check that the principals do with their teachers according to the questions that are asked when children are checking in and not checking in, and then the name of the student who hasn't and the one that doesn't do it often enough. And what happens is the office staff starts calling them first, and then if the office staff still can't get a hold of them, then it becomes the task of Michelle Ramon. She does it and so does Antonio. And he went through that explicitly again yesterday with the principals. But this is a soft number that I'm giving You it's not, like I say, it's a combination of both. So it's 349 total at this point in time. So we'll dig into it deeper because we need to get to know who those students are that are not connecting. What is the reason they are not connecting and for those that are just doing it sporadically, why? You know, at first we thought maybe it was because there are several children in the classroom and maybe they only had one hotspot. And so the hotspot was not enough. But then Kyle went and met with Verizon and Czi and they increased the bandwidth for it so it could accept more users, which is one hotspot. So that piece has been corrected. So now we really have to understand what is going on with the other students that maybe are not connecting at all. So we'll dig deeper into that and then get back to you on it."},{"start":2121110,"end":2150440,"speaker":"C","text":"John, can I say I know that the teachers are also checking in with the students. After the phone call, they do send a little email, and then they're told that if the student or the parent doesn't reply, the principal will be following up or the vice principal. They also tell them if they need support, who to reach out to to get organized, at least in some schools. That's what some of the parents were saying."},{"start":2150920,"end":2188110,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay, good, good. I know principals are involved in it also, but I know the office staffs have been extremely involved. And we have quite a few school sites that they're fine. They have zero kids that they have always. The whole school's been connected in some way. So we have some of our schools that they have zeros there for connectivity. They're connecting, they're meeting with the kids. So it's from school to school. It was really interesting to see this layout, but we will look into it and get back to you on that. The next."},{"start":2188510,"end":2210260,"speaker":"G","text":"Thank you. Thank you very much on that, John. And then I was thinking some of it also might be. If you looked at our absentee rate that we normally have, it'd be interesting to see are they the same kids that are chronically absent or APP centers or a different set of kids? So mostly just as long as we're reaching out and trying to get them connected and figure it out. So, anyway, I appreciate all of that."},{"start":2212580,"end":2579220,"speaker":"I","text":"Your next question was on extra money spent to date on COVID 19 and any changes or needs. I know we did, you know, provide the. Our office staff and so the business office and members in HR that needed to work from home but did not Have a device. Some of them did have. Some of them needed to have a printer that they were able to scan. So a couple of those I think were purchased also. But as far as, you know, other needs, we will definitely need some additional custodial supplies. I'm sure as we move down the deep cleaning realm that we're going to be doing in that manner. And then also the PPE equipment, the gloves, the masks. Because at this point in time we just got an order of masks in. If I'm not mistaken, it was on Monday. But you know, I think they were only like what, one day I'm gonna. You can not. 500, 600, something like that. And. But you know, if people are coming in and doing cleaning, the deep cleaning that they're going to be doing, there's gonna be masks that are gonna have to be used every day. So that's going to probably be a cost to, to our needs. And as we move forward, we'll bring back definitely more information to you of our needs and how much we're spending. I know Priscilla, I know she's keeping a chart of some sort because just in case we're able to go back and get reimbursed from whether it be FEMA or whether it be some other entity, she wants to make sure she has her backup material to apply for the funding. So that was the one question. And the next question you have. What are the urgent needs by the district, school staff, families? Well, I'm going to move down to when we're talking about re entering because that's when the needs are going to become very great. At the superintendent's meeting, the last one was Tuesday. Tuesday and we have one again on Friday. They are going to be working on protocols. By they I mean the county office of Ed is spearing the protocols for reopening schools. When that occur. With that being said, this plan will be developed and then it'll be brought to the superintendents to review and we get to have our input. And I'm sure that those of you that are on the calls with the Cemetery School Boards association, along with other elected officials will probably also be able to look at that draft when it's completed. The part that concerns me most is when you hear the social distancing and the recommendations or the comments that our governor has given during his announcements that he does every day at about 12:00'. Clock. I just listened to one today again and he said schools were further down the line, further down the list to open. He was not worried about schools right now he's worried about all these other entities first, which I get. Which I get. But the. But here is social distancing that they want us to do. What does that mean for our teachers? What does it mean for our staff? What does it mean for the administrators if you're social distancing? And they're saying that the guidelines that are being used right now for those entities that have child care, for the essential workers, the doctors and nurses, so forth, it's 12 to 1. It's 12 to 1. And Governor Newsom, one of his comments this week, he brought it, he said 10 to 1. And I go 10 to 1 what? 10 to 1. So the needs, when you talk about what are going to be the needs of the schools and the staff and the district, they're going to be great. What does that look like? So we'll have to see within the next few weeks how this all plays out with these protocols and what they look like. They're hoping to have them ready by the week, during the week of May 4th. So we'll see. But we're going to have to meet with our teachers to understand what this will look like. We're going to have to also talk to parents so they understand what it looks like when we come back. And he doesn't want to have assemblies. He doesn't want us doing lunches like we normally do lunches. So what does that mean? And you know, if you look at the news, and I believe it was Finland and now they're all back, and even when you look at the clip about the schools, you see that they're distant in the classroom the best they can. But when the kids leave, there are like, you know, little bunches and they're going all over, so they're not able to do the social distancing in that regard. Then he wants us to change how we do recesses and so forth. So that's a whole big concern for myself and for staff and, and to see how we do this when we re. Enter. And I just hope that I know the county will listen, the county superintendent will listen to the superintendents. But I'm hoping the bigger picture is, is that the, the state level will listen because it is going to cost extra dollars. It is going to cost extra dollars for us to do what they're hoping that we can, can can that what they're hoping that can occur if they wanted to happen in that manner. So there's a whole other issue with that. So with that question, Elisa, it's, it's A. It's a big, it's a. There's no specific."},{"start":2581040,"end":2684690,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, no, that, that's helpful what you said. And I mean, today on, today on the county call, assembly member Kevin Mullen mentioned the budget hearings that they've had recently. And you know, the state's looking at huge deficits, of course, moving forward. What did they say, Dennis? I think it was like 35 million next year and then getting up to like, I'm sorry, billion. Of course, billion. I always think it's million usually to us and billion to them. But yeah, billion and then like 68 billion a couple years down the road and then from for many years. And so of course, since education is 50% of the budget, we're going to be hit hard. So it is interesting they're talking about needing more resources if you're going to 1 in 10. And yet they're also talking about probably cutting us. So. And they're using all the rainy day funds, which many of those I think originally were expected that they would help with education to sort of even things out. But those are all going away helping with health care. And then they said any extra funding coming in will be prioritized for healthcare. So it's pretty scary looking forward in terms of what this means to provide a quality education, take care of our staff, take care of the students and families that were responsible for. So I'm glad to hear that the county is taking a lead, working with, you know, you and I know they've been having conversations with school board members as well just to come up with county protocols, because I think there is an opportunity there not to do it district by district, but to think about as a county, how do we want to do it and hopefully economies of scale to help us think this through."},{"start":2686450,"end":2747770,"speaker":"I","text":"Right. And when you're even thinking of the cleaning, the cleaning that has to take place after the county children leave for the day and the next day. He wants us to the gut by he, the governor. He says those rooms need to be thoroughly cleaned every day. You know, we can't go to the schedules that we're using right now. So what does that mean for Redwood City? We're on that. You know, every. Is it. I think it's every third day, if I'm not mistaken right now. So that would definitely have to change. So there's a lot to think about. There's a lot that has to be planned and it's going to. We're going to need additional revenue resource. I said, when I speak, I always say resources. We need Additional resources. That's always time, money, and people. And the biggest one is money. And, of course, then finding the employees to, you know, to make sure that they can do the job. So it's a large question, and I don't have a true answer for it. The other piece we talked about was, you know, we've always had a summer school here."},{"start":2748090,"end":2757610,"speaker":"A","text":"So, Dr. Baker, before you move on, I think it would be helpful for you to share the discussion we had today about the matrix for deep cleaning."},{"start":2758890,"end":2859840,"speaker":"I","text":"So I will. Yes, that's a good point. So. And then Wendy can pipe in on it because she. And she's been working very closely with Martin. So I was incorrect with some of my figures that I gave you, Dennis, but I'll correct it now. So the deep cleaning, what Martin has told me is that there will be two custodians in one room to clean a campus. So two custodians, the night and the day guy, and they'll go room by room. And Martin says it's two to three days per room to clean the room. So with that in mind, that's why we started this schedule that I'm gonna allow Wendy to talk about at this point in time, which I know you all know about, because she met with you either individually or in groups of two. So if we were having to do something like that after each time the kids were in school every day, how. How would that work? Right now? We can do it because we do not have the children there. We don't have staff there. But coming back to school, I don't know if the regulations are going to change for how classrooms are cleaned every day. Every day the students leave the classroom. Because doing it like we're doing right now is not only. And of course, it's the custodian's responsibilities, but doing it in that manner on a daily basis, we can't. We can't do that. We can't survive in that mode. And, Wendy, I don't know if you wanted to add anything in regard to the schedule."},{"start":2861440,"end":2861840,"speaker":"C","text":"Sure."},{"start":2861920,"end":3112770,"speaker":"B","text":"So thank you for that. So last week, it was determined after really an analysis, as John had mentioned, about the rigorous cleaning schedule needed to bring people back, assuming in August with the social distancing. So we went back and forth between one and two, and we're finally able to work out the two in one room, which is more efficient. But we still need, if you think about it, the custodial staff really cleans. And in this case, a deep cleaning. Every surface on a campus, the library, you know, what Used to be the computer lab, the office, all the classrooms, et cetera. And so I really want to say kudos to Martin and the staff. The custodial staff has been phenomenal. They are in for a big ride. Starting Monday, we put in a schedule out and I have to say I'm so pleased with the response. Many teachers emailed saying, thank you so much, I really appreciate your dedication to this. And staff, classified staff as well, that let us know that we were moving in the right direction. As you know, the week of, well, March 13, teachers left the campus and then the following week the rest of the staff left campuses throughout our district. Except, you know, of course food service. And some custodial staff are still there working obviously and other classifications. But the desire to really minimize the number of people on campus, we was an urgent matter for us. And so people left everything as is. They literally for the most part walked out the door. And so there was a need to help our custodial staff to get people back in for two reasons. One, to pick up any other distance learning items they may have forgotten or decided they needed at this time. And second, to prepare a very, in my opinion, a light job considering what they're normally asked to do at the end of the year. And of course usually they have student support for that, the teachers at least. So there was a modified list that was sent out to staff. We also wanted to make sure that parents were aware that our teachers were being diverted for this task, this very important task as well. So that communication. The principals sent out gloves and masks were provided. Although the requirements started today actually for masks, Martin was able to get the masks out starting Monday. We had a little delay at some sites, but eventually everyone received their masks, certainly before the deadline. So that was helpful and I appreciate Martin's quick action on that. That was really wonderful. We also are accommodating those people that are 65 or have underlying conditions. We're following all the public health order requirements, but certainly those are the two top that come to mind because people that fall into those two categories are really, really need to be at home more so. And so that's why there's that allowance certainly and you know, so that we can start on Monday. As of Monday, the schools will be closed for people to go in and get the items or, or two, we really don't want anyone on campus so that the custodians can start this hard work. Staff were also given the option of coming in last weekend or this weekend if they 1 felt more comfortable or 2 needed more time. We also have teachers that will be retiring or resigning. And so we wanted to make sure that they had some extra time as well to pack up some of their things. So, once again, kudos to the classified staff. They have been just mean, amazing in this work in trying to, you know, continue forth with food service, the maintenance requirements of a district, because, as you know, we're an essential business. And so just wanted to say kudos to them and kudos to our teachers. The distance learning was. Is quite remarkable. I'm sure we'll talk about that in a bit. So that's the update on the cleaning schedule."},{"start":3114300,"end":3292840,"speaker":"I","text":"And just to go back to when I was going to talk about summer school, we as the superintendents, we were all taken a little back. Some of the majority of us, not, I wouldn't say all of us, But I guess Dr. Morrow, with his next order, may come out with some type of. We could have. If you can, you could have a modified summer school program. And I was one that said, I don't understand how I could have a modified summer school program with the deep cleaning going on and then having students at a 1 to 12 ratio coming in every day, leaving and then having to clean that room. I don't have the resources to do it. So I said, we normally do have. Of course ESY will continue. It'll be continuing as a distance learning program, a special ed. And I know the Boys and Girls Club has always supported us in doing a summer school program and working very closely with us. And this year they were doing it again. But they're thinking, I said, distance, you do it. Distance learning. So they're planning in that direction if we go. But to come into the classrooms with that 1 to 12 ratio, that. That's part of the guidelines. If you have child care for essential workers, we, number one, cannot afford it. And then children leave and get in there and do a really deep cleaning Again, I just said for Redwood City, we couldn't do it. And then the other superintendent started chiming in too and saying, there's just no way that we can do it and still have to maintain the type of cleaning that we would need to do for a summer program. So we'll see what happens. It seems that it could come out. Maybe he won't now since Nancy will take back to him what she heard. So we'll just, just wait and see. But a modified program, and he said it would help us to get a better understanding of what this may look like when we open up schools. And I just said, I said my piece and my piece was that I don't feel comfortable running a summer program in that fashion. So that was about summer school, about the plans for. But the teachers are doing a fantastic job. And I know Linda and Wendy have been working with staff development closely. Staff development is working closely with the teachers. We're getting information back from the teachers. And so we're now going to have to probably relook at some of the things again, because when you put out information and you put out what you want to be done, of course they're the practitioners, they're the ones that are doing it on a day to day basis. So we have to get feedback from them to see what we need to change and how we need to when that change occurs, how we definitely communicate that to families. Linda, did you want to say anything in regard to that?"},{"start":3295400,"end":3386580,"speaker":"C","text":"Yes. So thank you everyone. Good evening. I think right now what we're looking at is second grade because they were the last group to receive their Chromebooks. And so we initially had some thoughts. And so now the thing is to provide the professional development for those who need it to take that next step forward for the students to use that platform now. So that's the sessions that are starting next week for that group. For TKK first grade, the challenges, because we don't have the devices for all of the families to ensure that if we are offering online support that all are able to access. And not being able to access is the issue, you know, the issue with equity that we see statewide. Right. So thinking about their next steps, I think is the response right now is to create kind of packets that are going out. And so what we're looking at is the ability for teachers to share those amongst each other because there were obviously some, you know, wonderful examples and work that is being done in creating these learning opportunities for students. And then our next step, of course, is to work and better support those who might have learning challenges that could be English learners or those in RSP, etc. So that's where I met."},{"start":3388420,"end":3388820,"speaker":"A","text":"Great."},{"start":3388980,"end":3390260,"speaker":"I","text":"Thank you, Wendy."},{"start":3392180,"end":3471230,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you. I'm really proud. I was able to speak to about 95, 6, 8 teachers last week. We had sent out information about key standards that students may have been introduced to but might need to go back to or new units. Mainly because, for example, science and social studies has some new concepts. But the staff development team, I have to say, are just so amazing. They have stepped up in every facet that we've asked and created just great resources really to help the teachers as best as they can. We know it's hard work. We know this type of learning was not what some people signed up for. They want to be with children right there with them, and that's not happening right now. So a lot of patience is required to go through this time. And while it's not perfect, we're really trying to do the best we can. And I say that over and over again. I want our teaching staff to know, just try to do the best you can. But we recognize that they have families and so forth. So trying to par down what they're already normally doing and providing guidance to them is really the best we can do at this time. So once again, kudos to the teachers, kudos to the staff department team for really jumping in. I've been just so impressed."},{"start":3474510,"end":3479390,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay, so I think that that answers most of your questions, Elisa."},{"start":3481710,"end":3489870,"speaker":"E","text":"So are there other questions or comments from the board? We do have one speaker's card on this item, but I want to give the board a chance to talk if you would like."},{"start":3493000,"end":3514920,"speaker":"A","text":"So I just would like to share what a teacher wrote. I'm learning a lot about online teaching. I will say our district is rocking all capitals, the support and everything it has put together for us. So that's a huge bonus. It was surreal to clean out the kids desks and pack up the room for summer. Still processing that one."},{"start":3517880,"end":3519400,"speaker":"G","text":"So I just wanted to."},{"start":3520890,"end":3523690,"speaker":"A","text":"So I just wanted to thank professional development for all they're doing."},{"start":3530810,"end":3642220,"speaker":"G","text":"I just wanted to say thank you very much to all the teachers and the staff development. I've been getting some emails from some teachers sharing, you know, different projects they're doing with some of the kids. And it's great to see, see that. I've been hearing from some parents how happy they are with some of the work they're seeing. And I know it's really hard and it's different and like Wendy just said, it's not perfect, but, you know, it's amazing if you think what we're really about four or five weeks into this and just to go from sort of what we've always done in the classroom to sort of moving to this and everything that's taken. I know we have a lot of teachers on the meeting tonight. I can see some of the names and then there's other phone numbers. So I just want to say thank you very much. And then like Dennis said, the staff development team is just really rock fit to really support the teachers and get all the materials out. And then I also do want to just say thanks to the Principals, of course, assistant principals, and all the classified staff, you know, listing out the custodians and the student service workers and office managers and, you know, just everybody. And then, of course, the district staff. I. You guys have been working so hard, and John, I know you're on all these extra meetings kind of strategically and leadership wise, trying to figure out, you know, what we're doing as a county and what we need to be doing as a district. So just thanks to everybody. I know how hard everyone's working, and I, you know, and I know there's some parents who are. And students who are frustrated and not happy and either want more or want less or want something different or what have you. And, you know, I think what I've been encouraging parents to do is talk to their teacher, talk to the principal, communicate, you know, and I think this is a work in progress and we'll just keep trying to meet everyone's needs that we can. So thank you."},{"start":3643420,"end":3643820,"speaker":"A","text":"Great."},{"start":3643980,"end":3644620,"speaker":"I","text":"Thank you."},{"start":3649580,"end":3737530,"speaker":"E","text":"So I want to just. I want to echo the thanks to all of our teachers and our principals and all the staff and the cabinet. Everybody's working incredibly hard. I'm really proud of our district. I'm on, you know, a lot of calls and meetings, and it seems like, you know, we got out of school March 13 and the district just pivoted the way that we do. And I know a lot of districts are still trying to catch up to speed. Some are just starting their distance learning, even though they've been out as long as we have. And so I just want to say kudos to everybody for all of your hard work. And, and I really appreciate the collaboration with, you know, the county superintendents from around everywhere and the school boards. And everybody's working together really well and sharing information and best practices. And it's. It's been really amazing to watch and be a part of that. And I do want to say, as a parent, this is really hard, and I totally get that. And I know it's hard for the teachers, and I hear from them, none of us have ever done this before. I've got my three boys that are working in different programs in different paces, and it's just not easy. And sometimes we just have to say, school's out today. We're not going to do this, because our mental health is really important, too, and I hope that everybody remembers that. Take care of yourselves also through all this time, and don't stress about the"},{"start":3737530,"end":3738100,"speaker":"C","text":"schoolwork"},{"start":3740010,"end":3744730,"speaker":"E","text":"if there's anybody else that wants to share first. Otherwise, we have a speaker's card to get to."},{"start":3746970,"end":3783240,"speaker":"H","text":"So I would just like to also, kudos to everybody at the district office, the teachers, the staff, and just like Janet said, as a parent myself, I am working remotely, but working from home is not what I thought it was going to be. And so it's a lot of work. And again, teachers have their own kids that they have to teach, and yet they actually have to be on board teaching their own students. So, again, kudos to all the teachers, but hopefully this time will just pass super quickly. But thanks, everyone."},{"start":3784920,"end":3823670,"speaker":"C","text":"And I would just like to thank not just our staff, but also our community partners that are helping us with our families, because I think this is a time when we all need to pull together and it hasn't been easy, as you said. Janet, as a parent, I can only imagine what it must be like. But I think if we all just pull together and as you said, take a break and just keep going, keep moving forward. But I think you all said it very well. We are way ahead of where other districts are, and I think it's"},{"start":3825510,"end":3825830,"speaker":"A","text":"a"},{"start":3825830,"end":3854340,"speaker":"C","text":"great thing to see. And you know, even with those technology issues that Kyle and his staff have been dealing with, we still keep moving forward, keep moving forward. And that's just what we need to do. But I. I would like to say thank you to Dr. Baker because it takes a leader to set the pace, and I think that he has been doing that greatly. So thank you, everybody."},{"start":3854980,"end":3855540,"speaker":"I","text":"Thank you."},{"start":3855780,"end":3885290,"speaker":"A","text":"So I won't repeat what was said. I totally agree with it. But what I would remind everybody is everybody in the district was already working at about 110% capacity, and now we've added like another 45, 50%. So it's just really amazing to see everybody respond so positively. Every employee is just doing so much and has the best attitude. It's just. I'm just very. I just am filled with gratitude."},{"start":3887050,"end":3887450,"speaker":"C","text":"Great."},{"start":3888730,"end":3963360,"speaker":"G","text":"Can I just say, Janet, just real quick before we move on, I think you brought up a good point that I think I know we have parents on the line as well. And I do want to just reiterate that, you know, I've definitely been hearing from parents and if you look at Facebook or nextdoor, the emails we're getting, and it's really hard on a lot of the parents, particularly for those that, you know, have multiple kids, different grades. Those that have the young ones, the preschools, the kindergarten, TK first, second grade, those kids need a lot of one on one attention, hands on. You can, you know, you can't just say, like, to a Middle schooler, you can say, okay, get online for an hour and do your homework. Right? So really, I think, you know, I just want to express my empathy, sympathy, support to our parents out there. And I, you know, I hope the communication that Dr. Baker sends out and communication that's going out, you know, basically says exactly what Janet just said. You know, some days it's just going to be schooled over and, you know, let your kids play or, you know, bake some bread with them or cookies or whatever. But we're just, you know, it's not going to be the same as always. So anyway, just thanks to all the parents. I know that they're really picking up a lot of workload at home as well."},{"start":3965599,"end":4022160,"speaker":"E","text":"So I think it's really awesome. We actually have over 100 people in our audience tonight. We couldn't have even fit everybody in the boardroom. So I think it's super cool that everybody's here hanging out with us. I do see a few hands up. We're not taking comments by hands. If you can find, fill out the speaker's card. There's been a link in the chat and we can put it back in again if you just joined us, but we'd love to hear from you. But please do fill out a speaker's card so that we can call you in for this Again, for public comments. We have three minutes per speaker, and on this item, we do have Teresita Carlos. So I think Kyle's going to unmute you and then you can speak to the board. Teresita, are you there?"},{"start":4022400,"end":4026400,"speaker":"C","text":"Yes, I'm right here. Can you hear me, guys?"},{"start":4027520,"end":4028960,"speaker":"E","text":"Yes. Yes, we can hear you."},{"start":4030640,"end":4061030,"speaker":"C","text":"I just wanted to say, you know, I wanted to thank all the teachers, actually, because they've been doing a phenomenal job. They hit the ground running the first day. We found out that we were all going to be, you know, doing all this from home. They did an amazing job. The teachers at Henry Ford did a marvelous job. We've had all types of meetings or just one on one meetings. You know, the packets, videos sent out to us as parents. Some of the teachers have done daily videos, which I don't know how they find the time to do it, but"},{"start":4061030,"end":4062510,"speaker":"B","text":"you guys have done an amazing job."},{"start":4062980,"end":4064100,"speaker":"C","text":"I want to thank the school district"},{"start":4064100,"end":4065620,"speaker":"H","text":"as well for doing such an amazing"},{"start":4065620,"end":4068660,"speaker":"B","text":"job, but mainly the teachers because they"},{"start":4068820,"end":4073260,"speaker":"C","text":"have a phenomenal job and made it"},{"start":4073260,"end":4074500,"speaker":"E","text":"a little bit easier for us as"},{"start":4074500,"end":4076740,"speaker":"C","text":"parents to keep up with those packets."},{"start":4076740,"end":4080100,"speaker":"B","text":"I have a daughter in kindergartner and"},{"start":4080100,"end":4088140,"speaker":"C","text":"one in first grade as well as A freshman and a sophomore in high school. And with just having those daily videos"},{"start":4088140,"end":4089420,"speaker":"E","text":"that the teacher has been sending out"},{"start":4089420,"end":4099770,"speaker":"C","text":"to us, you know, giving us exactly what they need to do for the day, makes it 20 times easier as a parent. So I just want to thank all the teachers for all the work that they've been doing."},{"start":4107530,"end":4118490,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you, Teresita, for sharing that with us. I don't see any other speakers cards on this item. Ellie, can you confirm that for me?"},{"start":4120250,"end":4122210,"speaker":"B","text":"Yes. I have not received any more speakers"},{"start":4122210,"end":4123210,"speaker":"C","text":"cards on this item."},{"start":4123290,"end":4130010,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. Was there any other. Dr. Baker, was there anything else you wanted to go over with regarding Covid?"},{"start":4130410,"end":4134250,"speaker":"I","text":"No, that was plenty for this evening, I think."},{"start":4135450,"end":4156299,"speaker":"A","text":"So I'd like to just. Teresita reminded me the schools are putting out videos that are not educational content. But they're so inspiring. Like when you. When you watch those videos, you just get a huge smile on your face and feel better. So thank you to all the teachers and administrators that are putting all that energy into those videos, because they're very uplifting."},{"start":4161499,"end":4184470,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, if that's it, then we can move on to our other discussion items. I did want to ask the board. We do have an item on oral communication, a speaker's card that came in for that. And since we were having technical difficulties towards the beginning of the meeting, would it be okay to move oral communication to after all the discussion items?"},{"start":4185510,"end":4186630,"speaker":"A","text":"Why don't you just do it now?"},{"start":4187670,"end":4188390,"speaker":"E","text":"What was that?"},{"start":4188630,"end":4192150,"speaker":"A","text":"Why don't you just do it now? Since we already passed it?"},{"start":4193520,"end":4207760,"speaker":"E","text":"Do you want to do that? I'm looking for the other board members. Nod. Yeah. Okay, so then we will go ahead and take the speaker's card for oral communication. Right now we have Kevin Sugar."},{"start":4215440,"end":4216080,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay."},{"start":4217760,"end":4218910,"speaker":"A","text":"Am I unmuted, Kyle?"},{"start":4219460,"end":4220180,"speaker":"F","text":"Yes, you are."},{"start":4220500,"end":4221900,"speaker":"E","text":"You're on. Go for it, Kevin."},{"start":4221900,"end":4286770,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you, everybody. I hope all are well, and it's wonderful to see you healthy. I appreciate you setting up this format. As you know, president of the Redwood City Teachers association, and we are currently in trying to pan out our tentative agreement with the Redwood City School District. And I'm calling just to emphasize how necessary it is to continue to commit to the agreements that were signed off and made. I appreciate all of your comments. All of us do. Teachers, staff, principals. I have to reiterate, many have been just tremendous to work with. Shout out to Ms. Guzman, my vice principal. She's been able to communicate and chat. That just shows us how hard we've all been working. I appreciate the comments. The 110% down, up to 140% work. We all know how stressful the job is. We all miss our kids. We want to get back to them. I just want to reiterate how important it is for the Redwood City Teachers association to continue to be in this district, to be prosperous and to continue"},{"start":4286770,"end":4288210,"speaker":"G","text":"the great work that they are doing."},{"start":4288530,"end":4311240,"speaker":"A","text":"Please consider sticking to the commitments that the board made with the district, with the incredible negotiating team that was recently signed, and we will cross these bridges at the appropriate times in the future. So again, it's Kevin Sugar. And I just want to emphasize how important it is, and I hope that"},{"start":4311320,"end":4313319,"speaker":"I","text":"the board is going to stick to"},{"start":4313319,"end":4331310,"speaker":"A","text":"their commitments signed on the tentative agreement for us so we can continue together in solidarity to prosper and make this district even stronger after this strange Covid era that we are living in. I really appreciate you listening. Take good care, everybody. And that's all I've got to say."},{"start":4331310,"end":4331870,"speaker":"I","text":"Thank you."},{"start":4338750,"end":4351080,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. Thank you, Kevin. So we are item 11.2, discussion of revisions to the board policy 5131."},{"start":4354520,"end":4501810,"speaker":"C","text":"Good evening. I have a series of board policies that we'll be reviewing tonight and also in the coming meetings. This is continual response in preparation for our federal program monitoring. So some of these items you'll see are going are coming back again for revision. And the main reason is so we use the platform Gamut that holds all of our policies. Gamut works with the California School Boards Association. So CSBA supports the development of those. For whatever reason, there are some elements that are part of policies at the federal level that don't quite make it into our policies here through csva. And so our federal monitoring uses the most current policies that could have been revised just two weeks ago. Right. And because we're under this federal review right now, we have to use the most current policies. And so some of us read these and you all reviewed them and adopted them back in November, December in preparation for this federal monitoring. But if there are any updates, we're required to include these. And so for a number of different reasons, you'll see some of them through this evening. In the next few meetings, I believe that we will update. So this is just one example. So in this particular one related to conduct, the only change in this one was that as school board members, you could prohibit or for the students, use of smartphones while at school or while under the supervision and control of the district employee. So that was the item that was added. Otherwise, I think this one is pretty much, again, taken directly from csba. And then once we review them and discuss them today, the idea is at the next board meeting. Adopting this would be wonderful. And that is true for all the upcoming ones. So our federal review could continue through the following week as needed. Even with that, some of our board policies won't be improved in time, but we continue to review these. So I guess my. Do you have any questions on this first one related to conduct,"},{"start":4505500,"end":4507020,"speaker":"E","text":"seeing people shaking heads? No."},{"start":4507100,"end":4509500,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay. Okay, thank you."},{"start":4511420,"end":4518540,"speaker":"E","text":"So then we can move on to 11.3, discussion of revisions to board policy 5145.9."},{"start":4519980,"end":4585330,"speaker":"C","text":"So this one is one that we did review and approved a while ago. This one is updated to define hate motivated behavior and expands the group protected class. And in addition, this one is related to more extensive training and enforcement of rules regarding student conduct. It provides for ensuring the use of uniform complaint procedures for any kind of behavior and complaints related to any of the protected groups. And so that's the one item that's changed here, which is the bold paragraph and the policy that you're looking at. So again, that was a difference between what CSBA has and what the federal requirement is to include other protected groups. So that's what you see here, are those changes. So are there any questions related to this particular with on hate motivated behavior?"},{"start":4589890,"end":4601970,"speaker":"E","text":"I'm seeing shaking heads. No. And I'm saying this for the audience sake, because the audience only sees the person that's speaking. So the panelists, we can all see each other. So that's why I'm seeing everybody shaking their head. No questions."},{"start":4602290,"end":4606370,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay. And I'm reading off of my pages here, so I apologize."},{"start":4607650,"end":4608210,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay."},{"start":4608940,"end":4616620,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. So that would be where we Item 11.4, Board Policy 6143."},{"start":4617100,"end":4667280,"speaker":"C","text":"Correct. This is on the course of studies and the process that we follow when we're adopting new courses in our district. And so again, this is updated policy. We took our, I guess our current Redwood City policy updated to meet CSBA requirements, and we're updating it again to meet in addition to federal requirements. So the changes that you see are that which are reflected, that includes again, the protected class, knowing that any classes should be available and offered to any group of students and that it is prohibited to discriminate against any of the protected class groups. And so that's what's provided in our board policy. Any questions related to that?"},{"start":4669840,"end":4670960,"speaker":"E","text":"None, it looks like."},{"start":4671280,"end":4671840,"speaker":"H","text":"Okay."},{"start":4671920,"end":4688250,"speaker":"C","text":"So I think I did receive some feedback actually from Dennis and Cecilia. I wanted to say I took your suggestions for there were some editing things and et cetera. I appreciate that. So thanks for reviewing those. And I did receive Those comments earlier. Okay."},{"start":4689290,"end":4697930,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. So item 11.5, discussion of revisions to board policies 145.5."},{"start":4699290,"end":4790250,"speaker":"C","text":"So one of the areas that we're being reviewed this year is the area of educational equity. As long as I've been doing these federal reviews as well is the first time that educational equity was reviewed in our district which included a number of different policies related to student organizations, LGBTQ, again, hate policies, uniform complaint procedures, etc. And so this one I don't believe you've seen for us in reviewing. And so I don't that there were any. From our current policy to what is here, I don't think that there were any significant changes. And this is for any organization, any of the students. So let's say a middle school group wanted to start an organization or a club. Again, we would based on protected class and educational equity. All groups would as long as they followed our policies. So the specific areas for them is under the ars. So our administrative regulations letting them know how to apply and what they needed to do and basically that it would be open to any group, any protected class and if it was going to be run during our school day, that our staff or advisor would support the group. I think that's so the highlights of that particular one."},{"start":4790410,"end":4806090,"speaker":"A","text":"So I had a question on that one and my question says there shall be no sponsorship of the meeting by the school or staff. So that sounds like we're going to have students in some sort of club unsupervised. Isn't that a change from what we do?"},{"start":4806650,"end":4836690,"speaker":"C","text":"Yes. So this particular one is open to those who are not just within our school, but let's say an outside organization who wants to use facilities as well. So two different groups that we're talking about, those that are school sponsored during the day and those that are school sponsored or those that are part of our student body, but not necessarily happening during the school day. So this particular policy includes both. And so can you tell me what specific one you're looking at, Dennis, or"},{"start":4836690,"end":4856660,"speaker":"A","text":"what it's under limited open form and it's item two. You and I talked about this. This policy feels like we're mixing kind of students on campus and outside people. And if there was a way, I know it's csba, but if there was a way to have it be a little clearer."},{"start":4857300,"end":4865620,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay. So definitely if it's, if it's during the school day, they wouldn't be able to use our campuses that are. That our students are using."},{"start":4866010,"end":4866170,"speaker":"H","text":"Right."},{"start":4866170,"end":4876330,"speaker":"C","text":"So I think that was a question that you brought up. If they were able to hold meetings during lunchtime and not if it was an outside organization because our students are using it during the school day."},{"start":4876330,"end":4902970,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah, I'm actually going the other way. This to me reads like a student chess club. You couldn't do. This with like there will be no sponsorship of the meeting by the school staff. So that, that sounds like I can create something and staff does not have to be involved. And I don't think that's true during the school day."},{"start":4903930,"end":4908410,"speaker":"C","text":"This one says access to meet on school premises during non instructional time."},{"start":4908810,"end":4910010,"speaker":"A","text":"So where do I see that?"},{"start":4910970,"end":4922500,"speaker":"C","text":"Well, the one I'm looking at is your section limited open forum in the second paragraph. So all student initiated groups shall be given equal access to meeting meet on school premises during non instructional time without regard for their."},{"start":4923060,"end":4925620,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. Thank you. I missed that word. Thank you."},{"start":4925700,"end":4927100,"speaker":"C","text":"That's okay. Yeah."},{"start":4927100,"end":4955790,"speaker":"G","text":"So, Dennis, just so you know, when we, you know, the policy committee, we review these before they come to the board and. Yeah, I had some of the same questions. I don't think it's as well written or as easily easy to read as it could be, but. But this is sort of the guidance and it does set up the legal requirements. I guess we could take another look at it to see if there's any way for us to clarify it. If you have any great ideas, let us know."},{"start":4955870,"end":4956670,"speaker":"A","text":"No, that's fine."},{"start":4956910,"end":4959030,"speaker":"G","text":"I appreciate that."},{"start":4959030,"end":4971840,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah, I appreciate. The issue is anytime we make a change to csba, we then have to keep track of it anytime it changes. So we want to be really careful. But I had never missed that word. So thank you."},{"start":4971840,"end":4990680,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah. And then before we move on, I just want to say thank you very much to Jerry, who helps us keep all organized and gets everything out to us and all of that. And thanks to Linda as well. I know we have a few policies to go and I will look at those tomorrow, I promise."},{"start":4993160,"end":4994120,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah, we'll have a good."},{"start":4995490,"end":4995970,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you."},{"start":5001890,"end":5030120,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. It looks like we're moving on to consent items. I do want to say, just for the audience, we've had a couple of speaker cards coming in, but they're for items that have already passed. So if they're items that we've already passed, we're not going to go back and take speaker cards for those. So if you want to email the board, feel free to do that with your comments or questions or you can come back and join us at our next meeting. So moving on to consent, do we have a motion to approve?"},{"start":5033640,"end":5034360,"speaker":"A","text":"So moved."},{"start":5036200,"end":5042520,"speaker":"E","text":"I think that was Dennis and Cecilia was the second, can we have a roll call vote, please?"},{"start":5044280,"end":5045400,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse McBride."},{"start":5045640,"end":5046200,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":5046520,"end":5050680,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse Marquez. Aye. Trustee Diaslocco."},{"start":5051080,"end":5051560,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":5051880,"end":5053080,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy McAvoy."},{"start":5054040,"end":5054600,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":5054760,"end":5055720,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Lawson."},{"start":5056280,"end":5058280,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye. Thank you."},{"start":5059800,"end":5084620,"speaker":"E","text":"So we have now item 13.1, the recommendation for the approval of permanently renaming 170 Selby Lane in Atherton. We do have a couple speaker cards on this, so if anybody would like to go ahead and fill out a card, please get that in. We'll let Dr. Baker and the board have a discussion, and then we'll take the comments."},{"start":5087820,"end":5113050,"speaker":"I","text":"So, board members, are there any questions in regard to this item that's on the agenda at this point in time? If you recall, we had a hearing back. Gosh, March. I have to look. When we were at McKinley and we had many parents at that meeting, it was not only in regard to this, but two other items on the agenda. But my recommendation is to move forward"},{"start":5113690,"end":5114090,"speaker":"A","text":"with"},{"start":5116090,"end":5171780,"speaker":"I","text":"the name to be the Adelante Selby Spanish Immersion School. And we went through a discussion last time that I felt that this was a manner of honoring both Adelante and the Selby Lane communities. And I also at this time want to commend Mr. Seder, the principal, and Ms. Danelli, the vice principal, for their leadership and always making sure that everyone who was in the community was involved, that wanted to be involved. And he listened to. I should say, he and she both listened to pros and cons of the names that were brought forward. And they worked very, very collaboratively with the group that was working with them. And I just want to give kudos to them for moving this along and bringing it."},{"start":5181070,"end":5184990,"speaker":"E","text":"So, board, do you have any questions or comments on this item?"},{"start":5187310,"end":5278540,"speaker":"H","text":"So I would like to make a comment. First of all, again, just to, you know, clarify, I am a parent at that school site, and it is very hard for me. I don't want to sound like I'm biased. It's a very hard decision. And, you know, being a board member, it's really hard putting you on the spot. And I understand that, you know, we take the oath and we're here for the community. Being at the one board meeting at McKinley, I was a little torn. And I'm like, okay, don't go by the emotions. And I. And I understand. I made a clarification. Was the public hearing. I do want to just point out that when the proposal to merge schools came along back in 2018, that was before I was a board member, it was said that the merger was or the closing of the schools so that the most popular choices were going to come and actually Attract more students. Right between, I guess, and I don't even know. And again, because I shouldn't say that I'm a new board member, but I'm torn between the recommendation that Dr. Baker is telling us to go with and actually what the community wants."},{"start":5278540,"end":5278860,"speaker":"E","text":"Right."},{"start":5279020,"end":5399220,"speaker":"H","text":"I also would like to pause and also have the community know that not in every situation, when you join a committee, the committee is going to get what they want. Right. It is unfortunate. Sometimes it goes one way or goes or it goes the other way. The other thing too is, you know, I'm sure all of you guys got emails from a lot of the parents from both sides. I do feel that Adelante had two and again, I don't want to sound biased, but had two losses. Adelante lost their campus and Adelante principal. So now the Adelante population had to be coming into this new campus and again, making the best of things. I also, if you search the word adelante, it means to move forward onward. And again as a community, as well we should do. But when it comes down to permanently naming the school site is where I find myself again, as a board member, try to make a decision that is best for the community. And again, I heard by the story. I also remember an email from a parent where they talked about perhaps there's a lot of nostalgia going on with Selby Lane. Now, for those of you that don't know Spanish, when you say the word adelante, Selby, it almost sounds like you're saying Selby Lane, move forward. Right, In Spanish because it's Adelante, Selby versus just the Adelante program. Now, the other Atlante program, as all of you guys know, is a program that started, that is internationally recognized. And at the same time, the word means move forward."},{"start":5399380,"end":5399780,"speaker":"B","text":"Right."},{"start":5401700,"end":5422970,"speaker":"H","text":"Ultimately, the community came with the highest numbers. And I understand, obviously, when I was looking at the numbers, the atalante students were 464 versus the Selby Lane. The remaining again. And the remaining 250 students from Selby Lane were a strand from the Adelante program."},{"start":5423130,"end":5423530,"speaker":"B","text":"Right."},{"start":5423770,"end":5448890,"speaker":"H","text":"The Adelante program was so popular that that is a reason why the district decided to open up this new strand at Selby Lane. So I just wanted to open it up. I mean, I'm open for discussion. I'm just again, I guess I would stay torn on this situation. So I'm open for discussion. Suggestions?"},{"start":5457930,"end":5461450,"speaker":"E","text":"Is there anybody there, any board members that would like to speak?"},{"start":5464180,"end":5478420,"speaker":"G","text":"I'm open to hearing from the community members who would like to speak first. I mean, that might be helpful for me in terms of commenting. Thank you, Cecilia too, for what you said. Appreciate hearing from you."},{"start":5480420,"end":5486420,"speaker":"E","text":"So we can take the public comments on this item then. The first person is Michelle Smith."},{"start":5490270,"end":5490990,"speaker":"F","text":"Working on it now."},{"start":5490990,"end":5491470,"speaker":"G","text":"Hang on."},{"start":5498430,"end":5501470,"speaker":"E","text":"And just a reminder, public comments are limited to three minutes."},{"start":5501870,"end":5502510,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay."},{"start":5502910,"end":5504430,"speaker":"F","text":"Michelle should be unmuted."},{"start":5504670,"end":5506270,"speaker":"E","text":"Michelle, you're unmuted now."},{"start":5506910,"end":5703520,"speaker":"G","text":"Hi. Thank you so much for having this meeting today and for listening to us speak. I wanted to speak, I didn't get to talk before about what's all been happening, but I just really want to give a huge sort of shout out and gratitude to the teachers at the Spanish Immersion campus. I was bragging about all of the work that they've been doing on Facebook and just really remarkable about all the work that they've put in to being so thoughtful and putting into the packets for our students. Similarly, my daughter is at Kennedy and, you know, the transition was much smoother for them because of their. They already have their Chromebooks. But to the topic at hand, I spoke last time and I was advocating for the name Adelante Spanish Immersion. And while, and the thing is, for me of the sort of three choices that still is worth my heart is. But I spoke to parents afterwards and even my own children. My daughter graduated from Adelante and my son is now at the Spanish Immersion program in first grade. So he will, you know, spend the next few years there. And from what I heard, and from what I hear my kid from my kids is they said it should just be different. It should just he's. They're like of the choices, it should be Unidos. And that's what I heard from other parents as well is, you know, for me it's either one or the other. Adelante Selby, to me doesn't really make sense. It's kind of inconsequential. It's sort of like trying to appease both parties without really satisfying both parties. I feel like it was a bridge name and it wasn't meant to be this forever name. And Cecilia also sort of talked about how it doesn't, you know, really make sense, especially when you talk about it in Spanish. And so for me, the choice is between, you know, obviously for Adelante, but appearing from other parents and from my own kids. You know, it's one of those two options. It's either Unidos, which also got a about the same proportion of the vote as Adelante Selby. So if it's going to come to sort of like The a name that's not Adelante. I think Unidos would be more appropriate. And also, and my son said he's like. Because that represents both of our communities coming together. Adelantez. He did not recognize people as something that really defined what we're doing. So again, I want to thank you all and I really appreciate every. All the work that is going on behind the scenes. We value it, as frustrating as it may be sometimes working with my son, but it is because of all of the hard work that's going into it that this is not as crazy as it should be. And appreciate all of the community services that are also available to our students and families. Thank you."},{"start":5705360,"end":5727930,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you, Michelle. And our second, I think it's our last comment card on this item is Rita Melton. Hi, Rita. It's like still muted. There you go. You're unmuted."},{"start":5728330,"end":5728890,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you."},{"start":5729290,"end":5849320,"speaker":"C","text":"Thank you for listening to our concerns. I want to reiterate what Michelle said about. I truly appreciate how the DO and Linda and John have supported teachers throughout this process. I have. It was. It's phenomenal as far as, you know, giving us the opportunity to kind of just flower in this, up in this. In this process. I mean, it really was an opportunity we didn't want and we are learning and not necessarily in ways that we expected. So thank you for that. As far as the name before, the week before or a few days before we closed, a group of teachers and I met and we were just not really feeling good about the. What it seems to be. The choice was to be going towards Adelante Selby. And so we started writing a letter. I'm going to read that, so it's going to sound like I'm reading a letter. Dear Dr. Baker, the process of naming something is important. As those who have witnessed naming a child, niece or nephew, brother, sister, can attest, there is deep meaning that goes into this decision. A name is the first interaction that one has when meeting somebody entering a new space or community. A name deeply matters. And thus when we heard that the name process would be put off until the two communities merged, this seemed highly appropriate. The community needed time to coalesce, and for this we are appreciative. The naming process appeared transparent and open, which gave us hope that an equitable choice would be made. Having a voting process gave all community stakeholders the opportunity to be heard. Sadly feels like it has changed in the near term. When we heard that the majority choice would not be chosen, would not be honored, but that the less supported name would be chosen. We, as a staff of Adelanto Spanish Immersion School. And because the process that we were writing this got cut short. I don't have all the names of the teachers, but I will share them when. When that's possible, we'll be honored. I'm sorry. We, the staff at Adelante Spanish Immersion,"},{"start":5849400,"end":5850200,"speaker":"E","text":"and they were all."},{"start":5850200,"end":5938890,"speaker":"C","text":"These were all Adelante former teachers from just the Adelante school are in united and strong disagreement. This is wrong for several reasons. The first being the name Selby is a person's name which has no connection to bilingualism or immersion. Thomas H. Selby was a successful businessman from New York City who served as the mayor of San Francisco. This namesake could not be further connected from the current mission of our school. He came to California due to the gold rush, not to become bilingual. So there's no valid reason to include this person's name in our school. He was not an advocate for bilingualism nor immersion. There is no connection between the name Selby and the immersion program. The name Adelante Selby was established through a community process over 25 years ago. Our Adelante program is award winning, internationally recognized. Last year, our school was told that we were going to move to a new campus and merge with the Selby Lane origin strand. There seems to be a misunderstanding in which some think that a new school was created, but this is not the case. Per our MoU, there was a consolidation of the programs. The majority of the community voted for the name Adelante Spanish Immersions through a transparent process, and we feel that this should be honored. In hearing what Michelle said about the name being something else, I also agree with that. If it can't be Adelante, then the name Unidos would be a second choice that I would myself as a person support. Thank you for your time."},{"start":5942810,"end":5959850,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you. Rita. We did have another comment card come in. Sorry, there's a lot of feedback. If you're not speaking as a panelist, can you mute yourself so the feedback won't go around? One more speaker's card came in. James Carrig."},{"start":5971060,"end":5971540,"speaker":"F","text":"Okay."},{"start":5973220,"end":5974820,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, James, you're unmuted."},{"start":5975940,"end":5976500,"speaker":"F","text":"Hello."},{"start":5978420,"end":5978980,"speaker":"I","text":"Hello."},{"start":5980340,"end":5981620,"speaker":"G","text":"Go ahead, go ahead."},{"start":5982180,"end":6049590,"speaker":"F","text":"Thank you, board members for hearing me. I just wanted to reiterate what I said last time, that I really believe that the name should fully either change for a fresh beginning for these students or the Selby Adelante. I know the Adelante won or whatever you want to call it with that vote, but that vote was definitely equitable for all students. You had Adelante parents in particular making phone calls, basically like a telethon for names, which, you know, Selby parents, not apt to do. I'm highly disappointed to hear that teachers are signing petitions from Adelante and that they are still hung up kind of on this issue and wanting it to be strictly Adelante. I remind the board that. And parents of students there. I'm a parent as well. My daughter still goes there. But highly disappointed to hear the teachers there kind of holding on as well. Especially when other teachers from Selby had to move on. The students at Selby 400/ had to move on and were separated."},{"start":6049590,"end":6050910,"speaker":"I","text":"They were not moved together."},{"start":6052270,"end":6055390,"speaker":"F","text":"I just highly disappointed now in the"},{"start":6055390,"end":6057550,"speaker":"I","text":"staff over there to hear that that's going on."},{"start":6058030,"end":6071360,"speaker":"F","text":"Again, I would say fresh start, new name altogether. But again, I do thank you for your time and I know it's not an easy decision either way. I would also point out that if"},{"start":6071360,"end":6074000,"speaker":"I","text":"a board member is a parent on"},{"start":6074000,"end":6082920,"speaker":"F","text":"this vote, I don't know how you can't be biased. I would say maybe abstaining from this vote or not voting might be a"},{"start":6082920,"end":6084360,"speaker":"I","text":"good way of action there."},{"start":6085640,"end":6087080,"speaker":"F","text":"That's all. Thank you for your time."},{"start":6092210,"end":6103570,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you. There are no further speaker cards. So if the board wants to continue with the discussion, anybody would like to go first?"},{"start":6110290,"end":6287620,"speaker":"G","text":"Well, I can take a crack. So, you know, I'm struggling, Which I'm sure, Dr. Baker, you did as well with the decision. And I think, you know, some of the speakers who spoke tonight and other emails that we've gotten, I think it's a hard decision. I appreciated hearing the sort of Spanish translation of Adelante Selby in terms of moving forward Selby, because I hadn't really thought about that twist. I liked the Adelante Selby because I felt like it was honoring both schools merging together. But in terms of the fresh start, I think that's a really interesting idea. So there's a part of me now, I mean, I'm always one as a board member, like, let's make a decision and move on because we have so many other things to do and we certainly have a lot of things to do now. But I also think that idea of a name is important and it's also important to honor people at the school site. So there's a part of me, even though it would sort of throw it back potentially to the drawing board, and I don't know if we have the capacity or the will to do that right now. But maybe a new name then, because I do have concerns if it's Only Adelante. I do think that we're not honoring Selby and all that they went through and all of that. And yet the merged name I'm not sure everybody loves, so it honors both communities, but it's kind of lengthy and blah, blah, blah. So, you know, Unidos or maybe another name. And so I got to thinking, I don't know, is it some. Is it a conversation that maybe the principal or teachers have been having? Would they want to use this as an opportunity over the next couple of weeks to have conversations with their classrooms and come up with a handful of other names? I sort of like the idea of the students taking the lead if we were going to go that route. I mean, it may be that the vote just says, let's go Adelante Selby or the vote let's go Adelante or Unidos. But there's a part of me that thinks, well, maybe the students, you know, now that we sort of know where we got to, is there an opportunity for the students to come up with a couple of other additional names? A new start, a fresh beginning is, I think, you know, Jane said eloquently. So I'm open. I'm struggling with this one as well you can get from what I just said. But I do want to honor everybody at the site. So that's where it feels like it starts to get difficult to do that unless you use both names, but then it's added too much and so then you need a new name. So anyway, that's my thinking. I would love to hear from other board members or Dr. Baker, because I know you probably had more conversations with the principal and staff and parents there. I don't know. Or what other board members think."},{"start":6289140,"end":6296580,"speaker":"E","text":"Thanks, Elisa. Dennis or Maria, do you want to jump in at this point? I have some thoughts, but if you guys would like to speak. Go ahead."},{"start":6299940,"end":6302500,"speaker":"C","text":"Go ahead, Janet. Then we'll go."},{"start":6302900,"end":6303460,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay."},{"start":6305360,"end":6417840,"speaker":"E","text":"I'm with Elisa on this. Really feeling torn. I understand the desire to honor the Selby community with the name Adelante Selby. I don't like keeping it just Adelante because I feel like that doesn't recognize everything that the Selby group has been through, and we want to bring them together as one community. And that's where I'm feeling like a new name would have been really appropriate. From what I'm hearing from people who have reached out to me directly, nobody's happy with Adelante Selby. And especially given the translation of it, it does seem a little strange and like One of the speakers brought up, like, naming a child is a big deal, and I feel like I would. I mean, I couldn't name my own child something that I hadn't really, really put a lot of thought into it and knew was the right thing to do. And in this case, I'm feeling like I still don't know what the right thing to do is. And I don't want to vote for a name that even in a year or two or 10 years, I'd look back on and say, geez, I really wish we hadn't done that. I know that the school site really wants to get this done and get a name and, you know, work on changing all the things that need to be changed, but I'm not feeling comfortable making a decision right now unless somebody can sway me tonight. Dennis, you're unmuted. Were you trying to say something?"},{"start":6418320,"end":6419440,"speaker":"A","text":"Maria can go first."},{"start":6422320,"end":6436400,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay. So for me, this is about not just bringing the communities together, but really creating a new place."},{"start":6437600,"end":6438640,"speaker":"G","text":"So, wow."},{"start":6439720,"end":6451200,"speaker":"C","text":"We were trying to honor both of them by keeping both names in there. It seems like it may be best to just give it a brand new"},{"start":6451200,"end":6451560,"speaker":"G","text":"name"},{"start":6453400,"end":6538990,"speaker":"C","text":"and hopefully after that we can get more people that can get behind. Won't be looking as though you favor one over the other because. Because if you just name it Adelante, well, that would create hurt feelings and to me is more about having a community that's really together, not one that's unhappy for this reason or that. And, you know, the children adapt a little bit more easier than us adults. So I think it's for that reason, Dr. Baker, that I would suggest that we send it back and look for a new creative, new name. Having said that, though, I think it would be important if you could provide some guidelines, because as we heard, you know, we had a lot of ideas, and it could be a person name, it could be a place, it could be a word. So if you could kind of give them a little guidance on where to go, I think that might narrow the feel a little bit and make it easier for them."},{"start":6539310,"end":6546920,"speaker":"E","text":"So, Maria, the board policy on naming school actually does have it spelled out very clearly, and they did have that."},{"start":6547480,"end":6551000,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah, I couldn't remember exactly what it said, so."},{"start":6551080,"end":6551560,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah."},{"start":6552280,"end":6554440,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay, Dennis."},{"start":6555080,"end":6614120,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah, so. So I've been struggling as well, and that's kind of why I went last. I. You know, if I think back to when I got on the school board, someone wisely said to me, when you make a decision, half the people are going to like it, and half the people aren't but this feels different to me. This. This feels like it's a school and it's a lasting name. We have history where we've changed things and people are upset. And then when people come in after that group of parents have kind of moved on, they don't know any different, and it seems to be fine. But with all that said, I would suggest we. As much as I don't want to do this because everybody's so busy, I would go back to the drawing board. I am struggling with the name. You need us. That doesn't, like, grab me. So that's not to say you don't come back with it, but that's not a name that really kind of gets me excited for school. But I do feel like we're just going to alienate everybody. You know, nobody's going to be happy with what's been done."},{"start":6617080,"end":6640610,"speaker":"E","text":"I know there were other names that were suggested that were already in the list that weren't in the top three that went to Dr. Baker. I really would like this school to have a name to go back to, you know, next year when we go back to school, hopefully. I don't want to draw it out past summer. Is there any way we could"},{"start":6642610,"end":6642930,"speaker":"B","text":"bring"},{"start":6642930,"end":6654700,"speaker":"E","text":"that committee together one more time, you know, via Zoom? Would that be too much for them to be able to go over a couple of new names?"},{"start":6656300,"end":6664940,"speaker":"I","text":"So what I would need to do, number one, I need a vote from you. So maybe after you give me the vote, then I can go forward."},{"start":6669820,"end":6671420,"speaker":"G","text":"So I will make a motion then."},{"start":6671420,"end":6673670,"speaker":"E","text":"Oh, go ahead, Alisa."},{"start":6675190,"end":6716830,"speaker":"G","text":"So I will make a motion that we very much appreciate Dr. Baker and his recommendation and all his hard work and the committee's hard work, but after hearing from the public and comments and trying to come up with a name that's moving forward, that's uniting the community and moving us forward, that we'd like the committee to meet again, maybe with feedback from students as well as, you know, parents and staff, and coming up with maybe two or three other new names that we could consider and try to do it sooner than later. And I guess. Well, that's."},{"start":6717150,"end":6717790,"speaker":"E","text":"So can we."},{"start":6717790,"end":6718670,"speaker":"C","text":"I think we need to."},{"start":6719070,"end":6720270,"speaker":"G","text":"That's a long motion."},{"start":6720270,"end":6721630,"speaker":"E","text":"We need to modify the motion."},{"start":6721630,"end":6781330,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, send it back to. Send it back, Dr. Baker, to. I mean, I guess to follow. We need to follow our policy. Can I say before I make the motion, you know, one thing. I know that, you know, the list of names had a variety of names. I do think, in hearing a lot of the comments, that since it is a Spanish immersion school that it does feel like it should have a connection to Spanish immersion, because I think there were some names on there, like maybe an astronaut or something, something like that. Now, maybe it was a bilingual astronaut, you know, someone who knew Spanish and English. That might be different. But I do think a way to honor the school is to ensure that the name does have something to do with Spanish immersion or Redwood City or something like that. Anyway, I didn't really give you a motion, John, but other than. I think we'd like some other names that would be unifying that are a fresh start or new. I think that's what I heard from my colleague."},{"start":6782210,"end":6790610,"speaker":"A","text":"So I think we're making this harder than it needs to be. I think the motion can be as simple as we reject the name of the school."},{"start":6790930,"end":6794290,"speaker":"I","text":"Yep. That's it. That's it. That's all I need."},{"start":6794290,"end":6800610,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay, I'll make a motion to reject the name. Adelante Selby Spanish Immersion."},{"start":6802370,"end":6803170,"speaker":"E","text":"Is there a second?"},{"start":6804050,"end":6804450,"speaker":"C","text":"Second."},{"start":6805580,"end":6808380,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria, Ellie, can we have a roll call vote, please?"},{"start":6809980,"end":6811020,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee McBride."},{"start":6811340,"end":6811900,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":6812380,"end":6813180,"speaker":"B","text":"Marquez."},{"start":6813500,"end":6814060,"speaker":"C","text":"Hi."},{"start":6814220,"end":6815580,"speaker":"B","text":"Kelsey Diazloca."},{"start":6815820,"end":6816380,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":6816940,"end":6819020,"speaker":"G","text":"McAvoy. Aye."},{"start":6820380,"end":6832230,"speaker":"E","text":"Aye. So, Dr. Baker, then what would be the plan going forward?"},{"start":6833270,"end":6857020,"speaker":"I","text":"So the plan going forward would be for me to regroup with Mr. Seder and Ms. Dennelli, and then I have to look at the board policy again and follow those guidelines, because I need to go by those guidelines. That was policy that was put in place that you approved. So I will not deviate from those guidelines. So just to understand that, I will go by it word by word, what's on that policy? Follow through."},{"start":6857580,"end":6878860,"speaker":"E","text":"So I don't have the policy in front of me, But I will say, I think that it gives you a lot of freedom in even just going back to the names that were presented and not even having to go back to a full committee. I think it does give you that freedom to do that. But I don't have it sitting in front of me right now."},{"start":6878860,"end":6884600,"speaker":"I","text":"I'll reread it tomorrow. But I want to definitely meet with Mr. Caesar in Winston Alley for sure."},{"start":6885320,"end":6886680,"speaker":"E","text":"I don't think you need the whole committee."},{"start":6887080,"end":6889000,"speaker":"I","text":"And then also Jorge about it."},{"start":6889800,"end":6891000,"speaker":"G","text":"And then I think also."},{"start":6893480,"end":6894360,"speaker":"E","text":"Go ahead, Dennis."},{"start":6895880,"end":6941610,"speaker":"A","text":"So I'm very concerned by Mr. Kerig's comments where he believes the deck was stacked. And my words. I think that's what he was implying. And so is there a way to. I mean, it's going to be hard because parents are in a really hard time right now with survival. And so this probably for a lot of our parents, this isn't going to rise to where they're going to really focus on it. And so how do we assure that we can get as many parents to vote and weigh in versus, you know, some parents do a phone tree and kind of skew it. And I don't know the answer, but if there's a way to get, you know, if we can get like 60, 70% of the parents to vote, and that may just be too high, where he's laughing, probably, that I would think it could be that high."},{"start":6944490,"end":6952650,"speaker":"E","text":"According to the policy, they didn't even have to go to the parents for a vote. It was just up to the committee, and the committee decided to go out for a vote."},{"start":6956490,"end":6958890,"speaker":"G","text":"And in fact, you know, one of the things I wanted."},{"start":6959530,"end":6964220,"speaker":"C","text":"Oh, Cecilia. One of the things I wanted to"},{"start":6964220,"end":7011600,"speaker":"G","text":"mention is I am looking at the policy, and it does say the committee will choose two to three names to be submitted to the superintendent. The superintendent will then make a recommendation to the Board of Education. The Board of Education should approve the name by a majority vote. So one of the things, I think when we do go back to the school site or the community, the committee, we need to make sure that they understand the expectations, because I think that there were some committee members or some school members that thought that the vote was sort of the final thing. And so I think that's where some of the disappointment lies. So really it's the recommendation of two or three names, and then the superintendent would then in turn make a recommendation to us. So."},{"start":7015050,"end":7026330,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, well, I think given that, it might be better not to have them go out for a vote of the top three names and just for the committee to choose their three."},{"start":7029290,"end":7045440,"speaker":"I","text":"Are we violating that policy, though, by doing that? See, I need to go through and I need to read it. So would we be violating the policy? Because I don't know if we put anything in the policy, if it was not approved, what you would do. Does it say that, Elisa? Since I don't have it pulled up in front of me, I have the agenda."},{"start":7045440,"end":7049480,"speaker":"G","text":"Well, I'm just. I'll make sure I'm unmute. Can you hear me?"},{"start":7049560,"end":7050120,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah."},{"start":7052040,"end":7068040,"speaker":"G","text":"You know, basically, we need to approve it by majority votes. We have not done that. So you would then be sending it back to the group. So. No, it doesn't cover. Like, what if they say no, it's that it just says the Board of Education should approve the name by majority vote."},{"start":7069130,"end":7074970,"speaker":"I","text":"All right, so it goes back to the guidelines that are in the policy, though. That's what I need to read. And that's what I need to follow."},{"start":7075370,"end":7105990,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, yeah. And it does say before adopting any proposed name, the board shall hold a public hearing at which members of the public will be given an opportunity to provide input. So if this goes back to the committee and they choose two to three names to be submitted to you as a superintendent, then you make a recommendation. We would have a public hearing again and get input from everybody and then have another meeting to approve or disapprove. Right, right."},{"start":7106630,"end":7110630,"speaker":"E","text":"So do you think we'd be able to have a public hearing by June or is that too soon?"},{"start":7111910,"end":7123720,"speaker":"I","text":"I don't know. I need to talk to again. I want to go back to the principal, the assistant principal and have Jorge on there. We have a timeline and see how we can do this. We'd have to do it all, you know, virtually like we're doing right now,"},{"start":7125640,"end":7160390,"speaker":"G","text":"you know, and maybe if the committee, I mean it, you know, it gives, gives direction to the committee to come up with the name. But maybe in the principal talking to the committee members, you know, maybe there was a survey monkey or something that could be developed or you know, something to make it easy but collect data. But I do sort of agree with the voting. I think since the community is. Well, if it's a new name, it's a good different story. When you had, you know, 2/3 Adelante parents and 1/3 Selby parent, it kind of skews the data coming in. I think if it's a new name then it's a little different."},{"start":7163110,"end":7163670,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay,"},{"start":7167590,"end":7197430,"speaker":"E","text":"and thank you John and the committee and Mr. Seder. I know that there was a lot of work that went into this, a lot of meetings and a lot of thoughts. So I do want to acknowledge that and I appreciate all of the thought that has gone into this. With that said, it looks like we can move on to item 13 2, the joint use agreement with Touchstone Learning."},{"start":7200230,"end":7216560,"speaker":"I","text":"Priscilla, did you want to give an overview on that piece? The agreement that we changed due to COVID 19, Can you unmute her? There she goes."},{"start":7216560,"end":7221320,"speaker":"B","text":"I'm sorry, I'm muted. So we have an agreement with Touchstone"},{"start":7221400,"end":7227640,"speaker":"C","text":"that provided the first agreement that we have with Touchstone provides them a 60"},{"start":7227640,"end":7236730,"speaker":"B","text":"days flexibility to obtain permits and everything. And that 60 day would have ended in April 17th."},{"start":7237290,"end":7240290,"speaker":"C","text":"And so because of the shelter in"},{"start":7240290,"end":7243370,"speaker":"B","text":"place, a Touchstone is unable to move"},{"start":7243370,"end":7254490,"speaker":"C","text":"in and start operation. So since they are unable to start business, they have asked for a waiver of the rental."},{"start":7255370,"end":7255770,"speaker":"B","text":"So."},{"start":7255910,"end":7264750,"speaker":"C","text":"So since we and Touchstone also made an effort to determine if they could"},{"start":7264750,"end":7268590,"speaker":"D","text":"get some fiscal assistance or financial assistance"},{"start":7268590,"end":7271829,"speaker":"B","text":"from any agency, but because they weren't"},{"start":7271829,"end":7297250,"speaker":"C","text":"able to start operation, they don't qualify. So they have asked for a waiver. And so we work with them, including our legal counsel. So we have, we decided we're going to provide a waiver of the rent through August. So whether or not the school reopens in August, the rent will start on August 1, 2020."},{"start":7300770,"end":7423620,"speaker":"I","text":"So just some other information, and I know that Priscilla and I met with each of you board members in regard to definition and so forth for many of our entities that are renting with us right now. So since COVID 19 started and people were being had to work from home, there were some of our entities that furloughed their staff. And so they are not receiving any dollars at this point in time as far as to deliver their services. So with that being said, we have put into place a deferral plan for those people who are renting with us right now. Like Kids Corner, that's up at, I think that's what it called, that's what it's called up at Cloud in Clifford. And there's some others that have also approached Priscilla regarding this. Now, we also put into the letter that if they were able to receive any of the federal dollars and they could, you know, know, pay that back. But what I've since learned, especially from the owner of Kids Corners, they applied for the money, but the money was already gone, as we've heard in the news. So I don't know with this next piece of stimulus that is coming out, if they will be able to those that were in existence, not Touchstone, because Touchstone was not in existence with us. So that's why it should she couldn't even apply. But the others that are with us, if, with the new stimulus dollars, are they able to apply for those and receive some dollars? They're going to try the entities that I've spoken with, but you know, it's not a guarantee. So we'll just see what happens. But we are doing deferrals for other entities that are with us right now. The letter was is going out and I think many of you have seen the letter that we sent out. Lisa?"},{"start":7425700,"end":7500910,"speaker":"G","text":"Yes, I was just going to say, John, on what you just said, you know, San Mateo County Strong, their small business program will open on Monday and it's, it's a first come, first serve and the employees need to be between 2 and 10 and the employer can be counted as one of the employees. You could have the owner employer and then One other, that's between two and 10 employees for the business. And Redwood City put in $300,000 so you can apply for up to $10,000. And so that'll be for 30 businesses. Plus there's other county money. But what they said is that it'll be first comes, first serve for the. You know, they have to be eligible. They have to get through the eligibility, but then they'll be along with. And I think it opens at noon. I'll send you the link again, but to make sure, we should get that out to any of our leasees who might be eligible for the local funding, and then they should also apply again for the state funding because they're basically putting more into that."},{"start":7501310,"end":7512190,"speaker":"I","text":"Right. And did you know, did they have to maintain their employees on the payroll or if they let them go, would they still be eligible, you know, I don't know."},{"start":7512270,"end":7521310,"speaker":"G","text":"For the local. Dennis or Jan, or does anyone else remember? I didn't see that as one of the criteria, but I. I don't remember."},{"start":7521630,"end":7522190,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay."},{"start":7522350,"end":7525710,"speaker":"A","text":"I think that money will be gone by 12:10."},{"start":7526670,"end":7528030,"speaker":"G","text":"I think you're right, Dennis."},{"start":7528190,"end":7535390,"speaker":"A","text":"It's only 130 people. And they're gonna have probably thousands of people."},{"start":7536510,"end":7573930,"speaker":"G","text":"Right. And then what they'll do though is they said they'd have a price. You know, they'll keep the list and then figure out the need. And I think they are going to be going to ask Worth, you know, they're going to try to find more donations stuff. So anyway, the point is, you may as well get your name in if it's not too much work because, you know, and they'll tell similar to what Tati was talking about. They'll take different, like, you know, photos of things and that sort of thing. But I do think you want to get in the queue because if you wait a couple of days, you're never going to see money. But if you got it in, try to get it in at noon or 12:02. You might at some point see some money. So I'll send you that link."},{"start":7574010,"end":7574570,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay."},{"start":7579850,"end":7591610,"speaker":"E","text":"Are there any other questions or comments on that item? Is there a motion to approve?"},{"start":7594170,"end":7595130,"speaker":"G","text":"So moved."},{"start":7596980,"end":7601860,"speaker":"E","text":"Second, Lisa and Maria. Roll call vote, please."},{"start":7603380,"end":7604500,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse McBride."},{"start":7604740,"end":7605300,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":7605620,"end":7606740,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Marquez."},{"start":7607140,"end":7607700,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":7607860,"end":7609300,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Diaz Locum."},{"start":7609540,"end":7610100,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":7610260,"end":7611460,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy McAvoy."},{"start":7613300,"end":7613780,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":7614180,"end":7615220,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy Lawson."},{"start":7615620,"end":7616100,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":7617380,"end":7622500,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you. Item 13:3, the approval of personnel report."},{"start":7624070,"end":7643990,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you. The personnel report is brought to you a few times a year to review, and it shows the changes in the classified and certificated personnel as it surrounds leave designations, retirements, etc. So I was wondering if there was any questions regarding the report for either group."},{"start":7646550,"end":7653920,"speaker":"E","text":"Anybody have any questions? Seeing heads shaking? No. Okay. Is there a motion to approve?"},{"start":7654640,"end":7655440,"speaker":"C","text":"So moved."},{"start":7656000,"end":7660480,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria, do we have a second?"},{"start":7661760,"end":7662560,"speaker":"H","text":"Cecilia?"},{"start":7662720,"end":7666240,"speaker":"E","text":"Cecilia. And roll call vote, please."},{"start":7669200,"end":7670320,"speaker":"C","text":"Trustee McBride."},{"start":7670640,"end":7671120,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":7671440,"end":7672480,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Marquez."},{"start":7672800,"end":7673360,"speaker":"H","text":"Aye."},{"start":7673520,"end":7674850,"speaker":"C","text":"Trustee Diaz Locum."},{"start":7675160,"end":7675560,"speaker":"I","text":"Aye."},{"start":7675880,"end":7677000,"speaker":"C","text":"Trissy McAvoy."},{"start":7677880,"end":7678440,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":7678600,"end":7679640,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy Lawson."},{"start":7679880,"end":7682200,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye. Thank you."},{"start":7682520,"end":7688040,"speaker":"E","text":"Item 13.4, approval of variable term waiver request. Yes."},{"start":7688040,"end":7709810,"speaker":"B","text":"We have a phenomenal STC teacher up at Roy Cloud, and we do have sometimes difficulties between state to state credentialing. And so in this particular case, the teacher needs an extension of time to fill fulfill one requirement, but very, very qualified teacher. Any questions about this?"},{"start":7713650,"end":7714690,"speaker":"G","text":"So moved."},{"start":7715490,"end":7716690,"speaker":"E","text":"That was Elisa."},{"start":7717490,"end":7717890,"speaker":"C","text":"Second."},{"start":7719410,"end":7721330,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria. And a vote, please."},{"start":7722690,"end":7723730,"speaker":"C","text":"Trustee McBride."},{"start":7724130,"end":7724690,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":7724850,"end":7725970,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy Marquez."},{"start":7726210,"end":7726770,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":7726930,"end":7728130,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse Diazilco."},{"start":7728690,"end":7729010,"speaker":"C","text":"Hi."},{"start":7729330,"end":7730530,"speaker":"B","text":"Christy McAvoy."},{"start":7731330,"end":7732930,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye. Christy Lawson."},{"start":7733490,"end":7741170,"speaker":"E","text":"Aye. And moving on to our final action, item 13.5, approval of resolution 25."},{"start":7744450,"end":7746610,"speaker":"I","text":"Are there any questions for Priscilla on this?"},{"start":7751250,"end":7752130,"speaker":"A","text":"So moved."},{"start":7753010,"end":7753410,"speaker":"B","text":"Second."},{"start":7754180,"end":7758180,"speaker":"E","text":"Dennis and Maria. And a vote, please."},{"start":7759780,"end":7760820,"speaker":"C","text":"Trustee McBride."},{"start":7761140,"end":7761700,"speaker":"A","text":"Aye."},{"start":7761860,"end":7762980,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Marquez."},{"start":7763460,"end":7763940,"speaker":"H","text":"Hi."},{"start":7764260,"end":7765620,"speaker":"B","text":"Jesse Diaz Locum."},{"start":7765860,"end":7766420,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":7766740,"end":7767860,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee McAvoy."},{"start":7768740,"end":7769300,"speaker":"C","text":"Aye."},{"start":7769540,"end":7770580,"speaker":"B","text":"Trissy Lawson."},{"start":7771700,"end":7806770,"speaker":"E","text":"Hi. Thank you. Okay, I did check in with Ellie, but it's after nine. Does anybody need a break right now or are we good to keep. Keep going. Can you give me a thumbs up if you want to keep going? Okay, we'll keep moving on. Moving on to item 14, reports from board members and superintendent. Who would like to go first? Dennis?"},{"start":7807660,"end":7839270,"speaker":"A","text":"All right, I'll go. So I was working with Jerry Hill's office to try to get the state CD federal monitoring delayed, and I had an epic failure on that. So they're actually in. Working with. They were actually on spring break working with Linda, and they're still here. So apparently, bureaucracy trumps distancing and common sense. That's all I have."},{"start":7839510,"end":7987970,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, it's amazing that we can be in an emergency situation and they're just gonna carry on. Right. Well, thank you, Dennis, for trying. So I'll go ahead and go. We did have a San Mateo County School Boards association virtual zoom meeting, and we're beginning discussions about how to move forward as an association and still providing networking and educational opportunities to our members. So more on that. But I will say that some of the topics that it seems like we're hearing from board members that they have an interest in is, of course, distant learning and what the school might look like for next year. Kind of like what we talked about earlier. And of course, whatever we would do there, we'd be coordinating with superintendents as well. But just in terms of sharing best practices practices, coming up with protocols, those sorts of things. There was some conversation about ethnic studies that evidently is still moving forward in the state and the ability to comment and provide information there. Special education was another topic of interest. Interest and then equity. So I think the idea is to maybe try to have some working sessions where school board members who are interested in various topics could come together and discuss and share best practices and sort of like what we would do with our dinner meetings at moving those to Zoom. So more on that. If you have any ideas of things that you'd like for the San Mateo County School Boards association group to be talking about, let me know, or you can let Lima know. And then, of course, we're having those county calls on Thursdays, which I think others of you are participating in. And I don't. I think the link that is going out as an announcement. Right. Is everybody getting that? Cecilia and Maria? Janet? Okay, I'm getting it, Jeff. Yeah. So those are Thursday meetings that Nancy McGee is leading. And there's a couple of other superintendents on the calls as well. And then just, you know, sitting in on the county calls that the county manager does, and I find those pretty useful. I like the federal and state updates. So that's about. Oh, and then of course, our policy committee. We've been working a little bit there."},{"start":7988770,"end":7989250,"speaker":"C","text":"Thanks,"},{"start":7994210,"end":7995970,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria or Cecilia. Did you have any."},{"start":7998010,"end":8001130,"speaker":"C","text":"We had the Redwood City two by two meeting."},{"start":8002010,"end":8002410,"speaker":"B","text":"Right."},{"start":8004570,"end":8009930,"speaker":"C","text":"And I think that was it. I think the rest of them were mentioned."},{"start":8011610,"end":8012970,"speaker":"E","text":"Cecilia, do you have anything?"},{"start":8013290,"end":8014010,"speaker":"H","text":"I do not."},{"start":8014170,"end":8019610,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. And then mine would just kind of be a little bit of everything that you've already said."},{"start":8019610,"end":8020010,"speaker":"C","text":"Policy."},{"start":8020330,"end":8021610,"speaker":"E","text":"I think we had a bond team"},{"start":8021610,"end":8021930,"speaker":"G","text":"meeting"},{"start":8024760,"end":8051690,"speaker":"E","text":"and then the county calls and the San Mateo CSBA call also. I really appreciate the ones with the county manager. I feel like we've gotten a lot of information from that. I do think that the school board one could be a little more robust, some more information, but, you know, we'll get there. So that's all I have. Dr. Baker."},{"start":8052170,"end":8080770,"speaker":"I","text":"I think most of mine was conveyed during the COVID 19, with the exception. I just need to make sure that we need to have a closed session and we can't get in discussion right now. But it's regarding the Stratford project. We did get a letter that we're not they're out of the agreement at this point in time, but I'm not going to any specifics because I can't. But we need to have a closed session with Janet Mueller regarding that, and that'll Be at the next board meeting."},{"start":8080930,"end":8082450,"speaker":"E","text":"So you want to have that at the May 6th."},{"start":8082770,"end":8083250,"speaker":"I","text":"Yes."},{"start":8083250,"end":8083810,"speaker":"B","text":"Okay."},{"start":8088130,"end":8117870,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. Moving on to 15 information. 15.1 is contract update information and credit card summary. Are there any questions or comments? Can you shake your head so I can. Unless you want to. Okay. 15, 2 information on San Mateo county investment fund. Were there any questions or comments? None. Okay. 15.3 quarterly Williams report. Questions or comments? None."},{"start":8117870,"end":8118510,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you."},{"start":8119870,"end":8126470,"speaker":"E","text":"Correspondence? None. Okay."},{"start":8126470,"end":8131820,"speaker":"A","text":"I think we all got emails regarding the Arlante Selby Lane name."},{"start":8133100,"end":8133900,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah, I got one."},{"start":8134460,"end":8146620,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah. And then we also got a really nice email that Patricia forward us about the special ed department at Roosevelt and all the amazing things they were doing for special ed students there."},{"start":8148860,"end":8149340,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah."},{"start":8149500,"end":8173980,"speaker":"G","text":"So I think that was nice email. Yeah. I love the correspondence that we're getting from some parents and teachers and staff and just highlighting some of the highlights that are going on. And then I have gotten. And I'm sure you're getting to. From some parents that I think are struggling where it is really hard to have their kids at home and to feel the responsibility of educating them. It's a lot."},{"start":8175740,"end":8192950,"speaker":"E","text":"And I will say, because they're in the audience right now, Amy Barstad and Michelle Butler have sent a lot of good information to and sharing what's going on in their classrooms and virtually. So I appreciate getting those from teachers. So if there are any other teachers out there that want to share what you're up to, we would love to see it and hear it."},{"start":8195990,"end":8203430,"speaker":"G","text":"Yes. Because now we cannot just drop into a school and drop into a classroom. So you've got to invite us into your classroom now."},{"start":8203830,"end":8204950,"speaker":"E","text":"That's a really good point."},{"start":8204950,"end":8205990,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah. Yeah."},{"start":8207910,"end":8212710,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. Number 17 other business suggested items for future agenda."},{"start":8215550,"end":8247640,"speaker":"G","text":"So one thing that I noticed when I looked at the. Well, I guess it's the board agenda calendar that I think it needs to get updated, you know, in terms of what we're actually talking about at the different meetings. So I think it's. Anyway, so maybe Dr. Baker and Janet, you could take a look at that and figure out staff what still makes sense to actually talk about for the rest of the year."},{"start":8247880,"end":8248600,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, that's."},{"start":8248600,"end":8250920,"speaker":"G","text":"And then what you might just put off to next year."},{"start":8251400,"end":8252440,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah. Thank you for that."},{"start":8255240,"end":8265790,"speaker":"A","text":"So could I ask a question? And it's a really simple question, but I think every board member has it on their mind. When does the governor's may revise commercial out? Priscilla?"},{"start":8267550,"end":8270110,"speaker":"C","text":"It's scheduled around May 15th."},{"start":8270670,"end":8273630,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay, thank you."},{"start":8280510,"end":8302360,"speaker":"E","text":"Nothing else. Okay, where are we? Item 18, changes to the board agenda schedule. Other than having to Move things around and remove some items. I'm assuming nothing else. Okay, looks like we're at the end, John."},{"start":8303400,"end":8353170,"speaker":"G","text":"The only other thing I might mention, and I don't know, I'll just ask the other board members, you know, with the stay at home shelter in place, Work at home. I personally have flexibility in the day, so I don't know if Maria and Cecilia if you do as well, but I thought I would just throw it out there because I know normally we've been locked into needing to do things that, you know, after 6 o', clock, but for some of the closed sessions, if it's easier to do it during the workday, I just wanted to throw that out there. Or whether it's a committee meeting or something like that, I just wanted to say that I have more flexibility because I am home more and managing the schedule that way. So anyway, but that may not be that. I don't know, Cecilia. Maria, if your days have more flexibility or if you're, you know, at a virtual desk in the same way."},{"start":8353970,"end":8361730,"speaker":"H","text":"Yeah, so I'm working remotely, so it would be. I mean, I could do anything after 4:30, so I could just do it earlier, just not during the day."},{"start":8362530,"end":8363170,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay,"},{"start":8366050,"end":8366410,"speaker":"E","text":"yeah."},{"start":8366410,"end":8375699,"speaker":"C","text":"And I can do it after 4:32 on home at the moment, but that could change. I just have to work part time. So"},{"start":8377619,"end":8383459,"speaker":"G","text":"anyway, it may not be necessary, but I just thought I'd throw that out there in case it's helpful."},{"start":8385219,"end":8420670,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. I meant to say this earlier in the meeting, but to all of the teachers and parents that are in our audience right now, if you have a classroom or a student that would like to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please take a video of it and email it to me. Either janetlawsonmail.com or jlawsoncsdk8. We would love to have more students. I've just been emailing the people that I know, but if you're out there and you want to show off your student, we would love to see it. With that said, is there a motion to adjourn?"},{"start":8421250,"end":8422650,"speaker":"A","text":"So moved, actually."},{"start":8422650,"end":8467130,"speaker":"G","text":"Oh, hold on real quick, Janet. I love that idea of the, the Pledge of Allegiance. That got me thinking that maybe there's an opportunity. I don't want to add more work onto staff, but if, you know, there was a teacher or school side who wanted to have a little video clip or something as part of our board meeting, it might be nice to have sort of a student inspiration to kickstart the zoom meeting again. I don't want to make it complicated. Maybe it is just sending it to Janet and then she plays it. But in addition to the pledge, that might be kind of a nice thing to do, you know, partway through the meeting or. Because, you know, we had been getting school reports or sometimes you'd have students come and talk about things, but it's a little harder. So."},{"start":8467530,"end":8475580,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah. And I think if we do that, it would be. Probably just send it to me, because I think we decided that's probably the easiest way to do this. And I can just share my computer."},{"start":8476060,"end":8491740,"speaker":"G","text":"I mean, even like a little video of artwork that they're doing or something, you know, kind of inspirational moment from a student or students or classroom. Okay, so anyone who's on the call, feel free. Janet just offered."},{"start":8492540,"end":8495420,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, so there was a motion from Dennis. Is there a second?"},{"start":8498060,"end":8498460,"speaker":"C","text":"Second."},{"start":8498950,"end":8499190,"speaker":"G","text":"Second."},{"start":8500310,"end":8503510,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria? I think so. All those in favor?"},{"start":8506950,"end":8507430,"speaker":"G","text":"Hi."},{"start":8508950,"end":8514790,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, we'll see you at our May 6th meeting at 7 o', clock, but we'll have a closed session before that."}]}