{"date":"2024-05-08","type":"Board Meeting","videoId":"xSE2S51UgBg","audioDuration":2687,"speakers":{"A":{"name":"Janet Lawson","role":"Board President"},"B":{"name":"Evelyn Sanchez","role":"Executive Assistant to Superintendent / Board Secretary"},"C":{"name":"Rick Edson / Eric Van Pelt","role":"Chief Business Official / Bond Program Manager (shares label; Rick Edson introduces, Eric Van Pelt presents bond items; also Angela Lee presenter shares C in audit section)"},"D":{"name":"Alisa MacAvoy","role":"Trustee"},"E":{"name":"Maria Stockton","role":"Public speaker / CSEA member"},"F":{"name":"Anna Herrera / Wendy Kelly","role":"Assistant Superintendent / Deputy Superintendent (shares label in discussion segments)"},"G":{"name":"Mike Wells","role":"Vice President"},"H":{"name":"Mike Swire","role":"Public speaker"},"I":{"name":"David Weekly","role":"Trustee"},"J":{"name":"Angela Lee","role":"Audit Manager, Eide Bailly"}},"utterances":[{"start":5840,"end":11120,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay, it's seven o', clock, so we can go ahead and get started. We have a roll call."},{"start":11120,"end":12640,"speaker":"B","text":"Please. Trustee Marquez?"},{"start":12880,"end":13280,"speaker":"A","text":"Here."},{"start":13600,"end":14600,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee Weekley?"},{"start":14600,"end":14960,"speaker":"C","text":"Present."},{"start":15760,"end":16960,"speaker":"B","text":"Trustee McAvoy?"},{"start":19040,"end":19440,"speaker":"D","text":"Present."},{"start":20400,"end":24080,"speaker":"B","text":"Vice President Wells? Not here yet. Vice President Lawson?"},{"start":24320,"end":24880,"speaker":"A","text":"I'm here."},{"start":24880,"end":25440,"speaker":"D","text":"Thank you."},{"start":32550,"end":116680,"speaker":"A","text":"En espanola, per favor, llama al nueve, siete, ocho, nueve, nueve. Cerro, cinco uno, tres, siete y prescione. Ocho, tres, siete, siete. Cerro, cuatro uno. El signo de numero parla contrasena siesiste a la reunion en Persona y necessita pe interpretation and espanol solicite un transmissor situado alondo de la sala. That was tough. The public is encouraged to speak to the board on issues of concern, whether or not the issue is on the agenda. To address the board, please complete a speaker's card available at the entrance or on the Google Doc and you can turn that into Evelyn. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes unless otherwise noted. If you wish to speak to the board on a subject listed on the agenda, you'll be called on at the time. Sorry, I got a scroll. At the time the item is being considered by the board. If the item is not on the agenda, you'll be called on during oral communication. So we are on changes to the agenda. I do need to pull 8.3 from consent and put it on action because we have a speaker's card for that. Any other changes, we have a motion to approve."},{"start":118280,"end":120440,"speaker":"D","text":"So moved. Seconded."},{"start":120440,"end":136530,"speaker":"A","text":"All those in favor? Okay, we have two. Two speakers cards for oral. Three speakers cards for oral communication. First is Anna Salorio. So you have three minutes."},{"start":151810,"end":274630,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you. Good evening. Dear board members and administrators, My name is Ana Solorio and I'm the classified member president. With me are some of the members in our negotiation team. We are making progress with different articles in our contract negotiations for the 2324 school year. But one thing is still missing. A fair race for our dedicated classified staff of nearly 400 individuals who are the backbone of this school, of this school district. The district team shared with us. This board approved $50,000 to be used in some articles we cost for the district for the entire classified personnel. This along with 4% raise that our teacher received for the 202324 school year. In reality, this is not enough and doesn't reflect the value classified members bring. We were told a mere 1% increase for just one classified group like paraeducators reportedly consumed that entire amount. This makes us wonder, doesn't our work Matter just as much. Teachers and administrators rightfully enjoy benefits not available to classify staff. But we are all here for the same reason. To help our students and parents, ensure schools run smoothly, keep our classrooms clean and safe. To support educators. We are the foundation upon which a quality education is built. Today, we urge you to reconsider the amount you approved to negotiate with us. A fair contract for classified members is an investment in the success of our entire district. It demonstrates your appreciation for our tireless work and commitment. Let's work together on a deal that is fair for everyone and that reflects the value we bring every single day. Thank you for your time and your thoughtful consideration."},{"start":278310,"end":279670,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. Maria."},{"start":279670,"end":280030,"speaker":"B","text":"You can."},{"start":280030,"end":281350,"speaker":"A","text":"You can stay where your card is next."},{"start":281750,"end":285270,"speaker":"B","text":"Oh, okay."},{"start":285270,"end":285670,"speaker":"D","text":"Thank you."},{"start":285670,"end":421560,"speaker":"E","text":"Maria Stockton, member of RCSEA, Chapter 5, California School Employees Association. I was going to talk on a different subject, but Anna brought something up that I think is important that I need clarification on because I'm also the chief union steward, and so I need clarification. One of the things that came to our attention is classified members are not permitted to take leave of absences, even though it's in our contract. We can. We have been denied to take leave of absences. We had a person whose mother was very, very ill. She asked for a leave of absence, was told classified, don't get leave of absences. She had to resign. So she signed the paper to go to take care of her mother. Two days later, her mother passed away. She came back to the district to ask for her resignation to be rescinded, and she was told no. The district had her work over a year, every single day as a substitute without benefits while her position remained vacant. We also had an employee who came up with a bad disease. He was having difficulty, so he asked the district if he could have a leave of absence for three months only so he could get his retirement together. We were told that a letter. A letter would have to go before the board. A few days later, we were told the board denied this employee the leave for three months. We're a little confused of who makes that decision. Is it you board members that look over the needs of the classified employee and that are asking for your assistance? Or is it somebody in the district making that decision? We'd like to have a little bit more compassion because you have some very dedicated people who work very hard and they need a break, and when they have an ill member that they have to stress over, and it's a decision of them giving up their job and not having an income or staying here and allowing the member of their family to get worse, I think is really unacceptable by the board. And I wish that you would really take more consideration if indeed these letters and these requests go to the board for approval. I thank you very much."},{"start":430040,"end":433240,"speaker":"A","text":"We can clarify or clarify."},{"start":435560,"end":443170,"speaker":"F","text":"Normally we can't respond during this time of oral communication, but there would be a clarification, so if that's fine."},{"start":443330,"end":443810,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah."},{"start":443970,"end":445330,"speaker":"F","text":"Wendy, do you want to clarify?"},{"start":449650,"end":470250,"speaker":"A","text":"I was just going to say that I can reach out tomorrow to talk to you further about your concerns and review contract language that applies to leaves for CSEA employees and the responsibilities of the board. That's written in the contract language and we can discuss it together. Okay."},{"start":470250,"end":475450,"speaker":"E","text":"Can you also put in writing the process of how it goes before the board?"},{"start":475930,"end":476810,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay. Thank you."},{"start":477850,"end":490650,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you, Wendy. And our final speaker card is for Mike Swire, who is online with his hand raised right now so somebody can give him permission to speak. Hi, Mike."},{"start":491450,"end":491850,"speaker":"D","text":"Hey."},{"start":491850,"end":492490,"speaker":"G","text":"Can you hear me?"},{"start":492710,"end":493670,"speaker":"A","text":"Yes. You have three minutes."},{"start":494310,"end":663020,"speaker":"H","text":"Awesome. Thank you for the time to speak and thank you to the board for your service to the Redwood City educational community. I think it was the last meeting I issued a public comment or notice for hopefully future business asking the board to agendize a change of name and removal of the name Henry Ford from the school in the Redwood City district. I mentioned at that time that had been almost a year. I think it's a year now since I had first contacted the board and or the district asking that it removed the name of Henry Ford, one of the worst anti Semites and Nazi sympathizers of the early 20th century, from the name of the school in the district and had not had any follow up from the district at that time. I want to thank. Now I'd like to thank Trustee David Weekley who immediately responded to the email that I sent after the meeting. I appreciate the trustee's rapid response. I thank him for speaking out in that email against anti Semitism. I thank him for the kind words on the importance of making sure that anti Semitism does not impact the children in the Redwood City School District. And although it's still TBD in terms of how this is going to get resolved, I appreciate the rapid response and this is what I would expect from board member that's responsive to the public. Unfortunately, I did not receive any response from anyone else on the board or in the school district. Despite my public comment and my email. That includes President Janet Lawson, Vice President Mike Wells, Trustee Elisa Green McAvoy, Trustee Cecilia Marquez, and Superintendent Dr. John Baker. I did not receive any response from them. I'm disappointed at that. And I hope this is not a signal that you believe that Henry Ford is worthy of continue continuing to be honored by the Redwood City School District. I don't believe that's the case. But even if you believe that he should not be honored, I would urge you to take immediate action instead of relying on the local school community to take action. Hopefully you think that this is an egregious enough matter that the board should step in. The name's been in place for decades and change has not happened to date. So I would expect the board to take action as the school has not, which is the current policy, or at least the policy is stated. I would like to follow up with you guys through another email, and I'm hoping for a response that lets me know whether or not you support a change to the Henry Ford school name and how that process can move forward. Thank you so much for listening and for creating a community that's truly inclusive for all members of the community and honoring those who merit it and not"},{"start":663020,"end":664340,"speaker":"C","text":"honoring those that don't."},{"start":664340,"end":664980,"speaker":"F","text":"Thank you."},{"start":667780,"end":678100,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. That was the end of oral communication. And so that moves us to 6.1 approval of measure S Architectural pool."},{"start":682420,"end":899080,"speaker":"C","text":"Good evening, board members. Tonight we're bringing forward the architectural pool for measures. Joining me is one of our bond program managers, Eric Van Pelt, who will give details on the process, the procedure, and moving forward. So if Eric is available, please jump in. Thank you, Rick. I appreciate the introduction. Good evening, board. Good evening, superintendent, trustees and community. As Rick stated, today, we're bringing forth the port pool of architectural forms for measure S. We're excited because this is one of the very crucial first steps of a bond program to get designers on board and ready to begin working with us. So professional service pools are are allowed through public contract code to be established. For school districts, the process is the district issues an rfp, a request for Proposals. They receive proposals from various architectural firms. The proposals are then evaluated by the district, and the district is able to select any number of firms that they would like from from that group to be part of its architectural pool. Once that pool is established, it the district is then able to either select architects from that pool to provide services based on their qualifications for specific projects, or they are able to issue another rfp, an informal, smaller RFP to just the pool members. It allows the district to be nimble and it allows the district to be quick on its execution of projects. To have this pool versus having to submit formal RFPs for every single project, individual. So with that said, on March 1st of 2024, the RP was issued for the pool of architects for measure s. There were 21 respondents, which is a great number of respondents. It shows an excitement about the projects here at Redwood City. It shows also the respect that the community has for the business services department wanting to do business with this school district. So that was a real positive experience. We received all 21 of those proposals. They were all qualified responses, all qualified firms. The Rick Martin and the facilities team reviewed the proposals and selected six firms to be a part of the architectural pool for Measure S. CAW Architects, HED Architects, HKIT Architects, HMC Architects, Quatroche, Quoc Architects, and PBK Architects. These six firms scored the best in the system in the RFPs that were responded to, and we are recommending their approval to be in the pool of architects. There's no financial commitment at this time. This is just establishing that initial pool, and then projects will be distributed among these architects as they become available. We have distributed the first informal RFP for the master planning services to this pool, and we'll bringing. We'll be bringing that contract back for approval at the export meeting once the final selection is completed. With that said, I will turn it over, turn it back to the board if you have any questions or comments."},{"start":901080,"end":905230,"speaker":"A","text":"Thanks so much. Any comments or questions from the board, go ahead."},{"start":905950,"end":931150,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, just. I have a small one. It looks like there's a number of good companies in the pool. Just curious, procedurally, like, how many companies were cut? Like, did. Did we. Was this a selective process where we looked at a wide range of companies and then used the rubric that I'm seeing you represent here. Thank you. To whittle some out, or did it just happen that all of the companies that we looked at passed our rubric?"},{"start":932820,"end":957300,"speaker":"C","text":"No, you're. You're exactly right. We use the rubric to whittle some out. So we received 21, and we landed on six different firms. So there were 15 that were left out. You try to strike a little bit of a balance. You don't want to have too many in the pool and just have people in the pool who you're not. Who aren't going to get projects for the life of the bond. It. It just doesn't make sense. And so you want to get down to. To the best firms that fit for the district."},{"start":957720,"end":959240,"speaker":"G","text":"That makes perfect sense. Thank you so much."},{"start":959720,"end":960280,"speaker":"C","text":"No problem."},{"start":961640,"end":962440,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah, go ahead."},{"start":964040,"end":1146020,"speaker":"D","text":"Hi, Eric, thank you very much for the presentation. And it looks like, you know, that's that's great news that we had 21 architects interested in working with us. That is a big number I think probably for a lot of school districts to get. It looks like the six are, you know, good in terms of your rubric. The one thing I wanted to bring up and it. It may be too early, but you know, it's probably never too early. Just planning. But you know, one of the things we talked about at the last bond agenda item that we had just around kind of. Oh, I think. Well, it was planning and such. Since then I was able to attend a sustainability kind of climate ready symposium that the San Mateo County Office of ED put together last week. And there were a lot of good ideas and resources coming out of there, including one of the key things was early planning. And all of this is really important in the architectural plans to really look at. You know, we talked about this at the last meeting, but I think I know our board has talked about it and I just want to re. Emphasize it, particularly as you're talking to the architects and we move forward in the facilities master plan and what have you is that I think this board is really interested in any sort of, you know, green schools, climate ready, where we can reduce energy. I mean even it'd be amazing if we could get to, you know, we are producing all of our own energy sources storing because of all the storms and other things that we know are going on and that would help reduce the impact on the general fund that then would free up monies for our operations, which is exactly kind of salaries and other things that we heard from earlier tonight. So anyway, I just want to reemphasize that. One of the things that I learned was that a lot of the. Well, not a lot. Well, some of the schools in San Mateo county particularly. Well, there's, there's a San Mateo County Office of Ed, but Cabrillo, actually our neighbor at the coast, is 1 out of 10 getting the highest ranking 1 out of 10 in the United States out of all the schools getting the highest ranking. And the way they moved is they actually followed the green School, the federal green school application. You start to look at what the rubric is there to actually get the. They have different categories that you can work towards. That's a really good way to think about what are the things we're going to need from a facility standpoint. There's other things that have to do more with curriculum and that sort of thing, but I just want to encourage us to really look at that early and often. I think It'll be a good guiding post that would help us not only become more green and set a good example for our community, but also potentially save us money long term and kind of do the right thing with climate and be more climate ready. As we know we're moving into warmer days and stuff. So I do have a resource list along with all the PowerPoints Eric, that I would like to send you. I think I sent it to Rick, or Rick. You can send it to Eric."},{"start":1146340,"end":1146980,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay."},{"start":1147220,"end":1148299,"speaker":"D","text":"All right, thank you."},{"start":1148299,"end":1161860,"speaker":"C","text":"Awesome. Thank you very much. And just to tie that back to this item, we did ask for sustainability information from all these firms as part of their proposal. So we did. We definitely kept an eye on that with the proposal and we've got a very good team here."},{"start":1162580,"end":1163060,"speaker":"B","text":"That's great."},{"start":1163060,"end":1163700,"speaker":"D","text":"Thank you."},{"start":1164420,"end":1165060,"speaker":"C","text":"Thank you."},{"start":1166420,"end":1198550,"speaker":"I","text":"Thanks, Eric. This looks like a good selection process. The rubric makes sense and it was good to hear about the number of respondents and the selection process there. So then on the 22nd, our board meeting. On the 22nd we'll have the successful respondent for the facility master plan update. Is that when we'll start putting kind of timelines together around community engagement and getting feedback from the schools, getting principals, communities, families and neighbors involved in the process. I'm just trying to figure out like the, the win. Does the wind start happening?"},{"start":1199190,"end":1249210,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah, absolutely. So it's going to be a little bit of a whirlwind after we, after we have that next board meeting, we'll have the, the proposed contract and the proposed firm coming forward to you. And it will, it'll start to happen quick. We'll start to build some momentum then. But yes, that will be when we talk about schedule as part of that initial informal RFP that we had for the master plan that we're doing the evaluations on now that we'll be bringing the contract forward with. We did ask them to include a schedule, a preliminary schedule. Obviously once we get them under contract, we'll work on that schedule, make sure zero in a little bit more on dates. But they've got a preliminary schedule that will be included with that contract and we'll be able to speak to it at the export meeting about what's going to happen when and the dates that we're targeting, the key dates that we're targeting for the facilities master plan. Great."},{"start":1249210,"end":1256010,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah. I mean the steps that are happening right now are kind of foundational for setting the program up to go, but it's going to be pretty exciting to start seeing things accelerate."},{"start":1256010,"end":1262650,"speaker":"C","text":"So absolutely. It's. There's a lot of procedure at the beginning, but once we build momentum, it'll start going fast."},{"start":1265050,"end":1267210,"speaker":"A","text":"Celia, did you have any questions or comments?"},{"start":1267770,"end":1271210,"speaker":"D","text":"Of course. Like everyone said, thank you so much for the process."},{"start":1272090,"end":1275340,"speaker":"C","text":"Of course to Martin and Rick to"},{"start":1275340,"end":1276380,"speaker":"A","text":"be part of the selection."},{"start":1276380,"end":1279540,"speaker":"D","text":"I know it's very important. So again, thank you and I look"},{"start":1279540,"end":1282260,"speaker":"C","text":"forward to working with everyone in the near future."},{"start":1283860,"end":1314220,"speaker":"A","text":"So thank you Eric for bringing this to us. And thank you, Rick. These look like some great firms. I was checking out some of the work they've done especially around the education facilities kind of in our area across the bay. And it looks like they've done some fantastic projects that we're looking at doing also and focused on sustainability and all that too. So looks like some high quality firms that you've brought to us. With that said, this is an action item, I believe."},{"start":1314780,"end":1315420,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah, it is."},{"start":1315580,"end":1317660,"speaker":"I","text":"I'll make a motion to approve the architectural pool."},{"start":1317979,"end":1318580,"speaker":"G","text":"Seconded."},{"start":1318580,"end":1319900,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. All those in favor?"},{"start":1319900,"end":1320380,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":1321420,"end":1332170,"speaker":"A","text":"Great. Thank you so much. We are in 7.1 Information on 2223 Financial and Performance audits. Building fund Measure T and S for rcsd."},{"start":1332570,"end":1352010,"speaker":"C","text":"Good evening. As I pull up the presentation I'd like to introduce Angela Lee from Mike Bailey who is our auditing firm that does both our district's general audit as well as audits for major snt. She'll be presenting on the outcome of those audits for the 2223 school year."},{"start":1353610,"end":1661580,"speaker":"J","text":"Good evening board and Superintendent. I'm Angela Lee. I'm one of the audit manager who do the district audit and the bond audit today present to you is the financial statement for measure T and measure S and also the performance audit for measure T for fiscal year 2023. Next slide. To explain a little bit about the different responsibility between auditor and the management teams. As an auditor we we form we gather information and forming expressing opinions based on the we received from the management teams. The management teams are responsible for completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and maintaining internal controls per financial reporting and compliance with the law and regulations. Next slide. This explain about the timing of the bond audit. The district closed the book during June to August. We start the district audit during September to October. The district wide financial statement is issued during December and we usually will do the bond audit together with the district audit. But we since the bond audit is a March deadline. So we always wrap up the report and anything like pending item during January and February. So this year the performance audit and the financial audit are issued on time before March 31st. Next slide. So we have two different report that we issue for bond audit. One is financial statements audit. There's two one for measure T and one for measure S. There's two separate report. The financial statement opinion is about whether the financial statement are prepared by US GAAP which is the accounting standards. And for the performance audit it's only we did for measure T last year because only measure T has expenditure measure S. There's no expenditure in fiscal 23, only the issuance cost. So that's why there's only one performance audit for measure T. To explain to you a little bit about what we did on measure T for performance audit. Next slide. And next slide. For performance audit, we ensure that the fund were expand on specific project that was listed in the ballot measure. And also we verified that the fund were expanded for the construction, renovation, finishing and equipping of school facility on the allowable authorized bond projects. And we also test and verify that the fund were used to pay salary of the district employee were allowable. Next slide. For the methodology we did on performance audit, we consider policy and procedures that about payment processing, salary, procurement and bidding, any change order approval and the cbox. We only we sample some vendor transaction for testing. We obtain the source document like PO invoice warrants and the bidding documents. All those is to check there's evidence for approval, good internal controls and also the procurement procedures was was aligned for the district policy. And we also review payroll, HR and accounting records for salary that charge to the bond program. Next slide. This is a conclusion that we did on the performance audit for measure T. For all the sample that we select the expenditure are aligned with the voter approved bond project list, the payroll expenditure are allowable. And also we we also gather evidence for bidding and procurement procedures and we obtain all the evidence that the district are in compliance. Next slide. This is the result of our of our audit and the audit opinion. The opinion is a clean opinion. The financial statement is fairly stated, there's no deficiency of internal control and the district is in compliance for the performance audit. So that's the end of my presentation. But I'm open for any question about the audit opinions or any question on the measure S and measure T financial reports."},{"start":1665270,"end":1671750,"speaker":"G","text":"Any questions or comments made for some gripping reading. But nothing jumped out at me to be honest."},{"start":1674390,"end":1710600,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah, it looks like a clean audit. As you said, it's an important part. Yeah, it's what we want. You know, I think it's a, you know, it's a really important part where we are entrusted with our community's money to be able to spend on. On facility projects here. And the audit, along with our bond oversight committee, are kind of two of the mechanisms that we have in place to ensure that, you know, everything is going on right now. I trust everybody here to make the right decisions, but it's very important to have this. So thank you very much for doing the audit, helping make sure that, you know, we're. We're true to our word and then also giving us these artifacts that demonstrate that, you know, the money's in good hands and being well spent. Thanks."},{"start":1711480,"end":1734710,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah, thank you very much. And thank you, Rick. I know it's a lot of work for your department also, and probably, I'm guessing Wendy's also the HR work, working with auditors. And I say this every year, but my husband used to be an auditor, so I know some of the. The work that goes into that and working, you know, with the other team that has to provide the information for you. So thank you very much. We appreciate that work. Yeah."},{"start":1737590,"end":1738070,"speaker":"B","text":"All right."},{"start":1738070,"end":1747510,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. That leads us to consent items. And just as a reminder, we have but 8.3 on action"},{"start":1750230,"end":1750910,"speaker":"G","text":"make a motion"},{"start":1750910,"end":1754950,"speaker":"B","text":"to approve consent second."},{"start":1755430,"end":1756750,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. All those in favor?"},{"start":1756750,"end":1757150,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":1757150,"end":1757590,"speaker":"E","text":"Aye."},{"start":1757590,"end":1772010,"speaker":"A","text":"Excellent. So 8.3 is the approval of addendum number two to Orion's 2324 Measure U application. And our speaker is Sue Jorgensen. Sue, you can come to the podium. Three minutes."},{"start":1775610,"end":1776050,"speaker":"B","text":"Hello."},{"start":1776050,"end":1840130,"speaker":"D","text":"It shouldn't take three minutes. I was poking around the agenda today, which I usually do, and if I discovered it sooner, I would have sent emails because I didn't really want to speak about it. But on the addendum for Orion, it has provide stipends for teachers to lead and or participate in school site council. That struck me as such a conflict of interest since the site council, like, they're the ones that decide where the money goes and so they're technically voting to give themselves money. I try to look up ED code Mike Wells. I saw that you were the contact for the Measure U oversight. I tried to find any email on one of them so I could actually express my concerns that way. And I don't know enough about this, but it just struck me as wrong. So hopefully you'll look into it before it's actually approved to have money spent on Measure U going to site council people that do that. So that's it. Thank you."},{"start":1841490,"end":1849790,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you, Sue. Any we can have a discussion on this is it's an action item."},{"start":1850340,"end":1862260,"speaker":"I","text":"It seems like it's been regular practice before for staff to get stipends to be able to participate in outside of working hours activities. I wasn't sure. Maybe you could."},{"start":1863780,"end":1884590,"speaker":"F","text":"We had checked with council prior to this going forward on and there are some other sites that do this with other dollars also in their budget, not just measure U dollars. And so council said with this to attract and retain, I think that's where they're at. It is feasible to use it in that manner."},{"start":1887470,"end":1904800,"speaker":"G","text":"Just a matter of process here. Like did this go by the folks there with teachers who would be receiving the stipend, recusing themselves or just like what was the process that was followed to present this in front of the board? I guess is my question the process"},{"start":1904800,"end":1921520,"speaker":"F","text":"to follow this, bring this before the board. It goes before myself and Mike to make sure that it is in line with what was stated in the ballot and to make sure that the X's are in the correct places as they're spending these dollars."},{"start":1921520,"end":1934520,"speaker":"G","text":"But school site. School site council ratified this plan for presentation. Right now I'm just curious that if a vote was taken like at school site council where self interested parties could recuse themselves and still have."},{"start":1934680,"end":1936460,"speaker":"F","text":"I don't know the answer to looking"},{"start":1936460,"end":1941380,"speaker":"A","text":"at the first page of the report. The only person that abstained was the principal."},{"start":1943300,"end":2011610,"speaker":"D","text":"I mean, what's an interesting question? I mean I think it is an interesting question, right? I mean it's. It's a very small amount of stipend because it's mostly for lots of other stuff. But you could also potentially make the same argument. What if you had a librarian who's sitting on the site council and then they vote for an amendment. Amendment, amendment. That has to do with buying library books. Right. So you know, it's sort of an interesting gray area I suppose if you want to say, because you know any of the staff on here and you could even potentially say that the parents who are then benefiting from the program. So I would certainly say we just need to turn to our attorneys. You know, are you having everybody recuse themselves for the little bit that they would have some in such a minor part? I mean the teachers are. The teachers and the staff are going to get a stipend one way or the other. So it's either coming out of the measure. This is you. Right? Yeah. The measure you funds or it's coming out of another fund. I mean we pay the stipends, right? I mean that's part of the contract."},{"start":2011930,"end":2015330,"speaker":"F","text":"We pay stipends and it's according to what's on the. In contract language."},{"start":2015330,"end":2020310,"speaker":"D","text":"So it's. Yeah, so you did check with our attorneys and this is fine."},{"start":2020310,"end":2037350,"speaker":"F","text":"The language we checked years ago when this first started. Yeah. Staff can get. If you're. If it's beyond your work hour, you're classified, you get the extra. The overtime or whatever it's called."},{"start":2042880,"end":2043520,"speaker":"A","text":"Sorry, we can't."},{"start":2044080,"end":2044400,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah."},{"start":2044400,"end":2046000,"speaker":"F","text":"We can't have a discussion of the audience."},{"start":2048480,"end":2052800,"speaker":"A","text":"No. Okay. We're going to bring it back to the board for any other discussion or comments."},{"start":2052960,"end":2062880,"speaker":"F","text":"Yeah, it's for any staff member. It's not just teachers. So we will make that clear to the principals. And if this happened in the past and someone didn't receive. We can't go backwards."},{"start":2068280,"end":2071720,"speaker":"A","text":"This is an action item, so we need a motion to approve."},{"start":2076920,"end":2077720,"speaker":"I","text":"Yeah, I'll second."},{"start":2078680,"end":2103490,"speaker":"A","text":"All those in favor, post or abstain. Thank you. So we are see 10.1 reports from board members and superintendent reports and board members."},{"start":2105890,"end":2106330,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah."},{"start":2106330,"end":2114050,"speaker":"I","text":"Okay, I can start. Yeah. So on. On Friday, I was up at Clifford, so that was fun. Got to see the Move a Thon and visit some classrooms."},{"start":2114130,"end":2114690,"speaker":"F","text":"So that was."},{"start":2114690,"end":2170020,"speaker":"I","text":"That was really nice. The weekend before was Dia del Nino at Hoover and Analante Selby. So that was fun to get out there and visit. Really well attended. Exciting to see all of that. Kennedy had their Addams Family musical. Hope everybody got a chance to see it. It was really good. Really good. There's a bunch of talented middle schoolers over there. Two casts. I only got to see one of them. I'm sure the other cast was just as amazing. And then we had a couple award ceremonies for Dr. Baker for winning the AXA Superintendent of the Year. One was put on by AXA, San Mateo county or Region 5. Sorry. And then the other was at Henry Ford in the afternoon. It was awesome to see. Just great to see so much. So a lot of staff, teacher staff and everyone there. Just really nice day out. Kind of cool. And a really good time to be able to connect with everyone sort of in a more relaxed and festive environment. So that. That was fun."},{"start":2173780,"end":2310390,"speaker":"D","text":"All right. So, yes, I also attended the. Both the dinner that AXA had as well as Henry Ford. And I do want to say thank you to Mike and Janet and Wendy who emceed. You guys did a great job. And it was really nice to see everybody out there honoring our superintendent. Let's see. I went to the Roy Cloud family Day and was able to kind of see them in action. They had their art show up, a lot of games for the kids and science experiments. In fact, the principal was out there with an science experiment all day. That was kind of fun. I was able to stop by the ADELANTE Selby and the Hoover D El Dia del no and agree. They were just packed with families and super fun. And then I already mentioned the San Mateo County Office of Ed Sustainability workshop, but I also was able to it's funny, they had two of these great workshops in the same week. They had one on artificial intelligence, which was super interesting. And Kathy James and I are going to just meet and she's going to tell me everything we're doing, or not everything, but some of what we're doing that she knows about, everything that she knows about. And she's got some idea for policy. Because actually one of the things that came out of this is that there really we should be looking. I think there's only maybe one policy that CSBA is working on, but there's opportunities for other policies and our county is going to have a policy committee as well. There is just so much going on with AI right now. Let's see. And then I did meet with Math Nasium, couple reps from there. They've been doing some tutoring work at Orion and I think they're starting at Clifford and they were just curious about the process in terms of how one might, you know, do more tutoring. So anyway, I pass that on to Anna and then you can let me know who it goes to if it's you or somebody else. And let's see, csba, I had a finance committee, a bylaws committee, a delegate meeting with our pacer. So there's a lot going on. And then we have our board of directors meeting coming up in a couple of weeks and that's it."},{"start":2312390,"end":2313350,"speaker":"A","text":"Great. Thank you."},{"start":2317040,"end":2337120,"speaker":"D","text":"Same as Mike, both the EXA and then the Henry Ford celebration for Dr. Baker. And then I also attended the DLAC at Hoover. And I just want to give thanks to one of our parents here that I just saw on the audience. So I appreciate him being here. He's one of the D Like representatives for Kennedy. So thank you."},{"start":2343370,"end":2392230,"speaker":"G","text":"I met with several parents to talk about sort of the future of Orion and sort of our real estate plans here as a district. I had a wonderful meeting with Erin, who's our RCTA president and talking about metacognition and best practices for our priority schools to go and help make sure that all of our students can be fully English proficient by the end of grade 3. Had a number of conversations with other parents about acceleration and what the research shows on that. And so I've been coming down a learning path there around both, both single subject acceleration as well as whole grade acceleration and the District's policies, both informal and informal there. I think there's a lot that we could do for our students there. And then I had correspondence also with a couple different vendors about possible use in the district, including do Chinese for Chinese instruction."},{"start":2395510,"end":2414510,"speaker":"A","text":"The only thing I have to add would be, gosh, two and a half weeks ago now, Aaron Washburn invited me to the CTA brunch. So yeah, I know you weren't able to go, so it was nice. It's time for the union leaders to have a board member to come and have an informal brunch. And I think you went last year, right?"},{"start":2414510,"end":2415150,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah, David."},{"start":2415150,"end":2416710,"speaker":"D","text":"Yeah, that was a great, that was fabulous."},{"start":2416710,"end":2421390,"speaker":"G","text":"And the output of that was doing the student initiated learning plans this year."},{"start":2421390,"end":2434870,"speaker":"A","text":"So just it's wonderful the conversations and meeting other board members from around the area too. Got to talk to some of the, if you guys remember the chaos that went on in San Francisco a while"},{"start":2434870,"end":2437230,"speaker":"D","text":"ago, one of the San Francisco people."},{"start":2437230,"end":2444030,"speaker":"A","text":"Yeah. So I met with one of their, their new board member. That's I think their president. Yeah, yeah."},{"start":2444590,"end":2445390,"speaker":"D","text":"I can't remember."},{"start":2446990,"end":2501430,"speaker":"F","text":"Dr. Baker, everything's been mentioned, including Dino and then also all the other activities that you went to. The only other one is I met with Haley Dupree yesterday from Connect and so we had a really good conversation. She is looking into some other items to be refreshed at Connect. And so I told her that I would get back to her after I've spoken to, to Martin and to Rick in regard to these items. And she has. It's 152 students at this point in time. Cecilia, I told you 182. It's 152 when we talk. We're talking earlier this today it's 152. And she would like to present to the board. So I said I will put her"},{"start":2501430,"end":2504910,"speaker":"C","text":"on a June meeting. I think I'm putting her on the first June meeting."},{"start":2505710,"end":2506590,"speaker":"G","text":"I had had some."},{"start":2506830,"end":2508830,"speaker":"A","text":"She was at the same sustainability conference."},{"start":2508830,"end":2509350,"speaker":"H","text":"Yes, she was."},{"start":2509350,"end":2513110,"speaker":"F","text":"She asked if I was going. I go, I can't make it. I, I, it was on my schedule."},{"start":2513110,"end":2522030,"speaker":"G","text":"But yeah, she and I talked some in April about facilities improvements as well and like solar and ac. Yeah. So yeah,"},{"start":2527310,"end":2544280,"speaker":"A","text":"Let's see. Item 11.1. Information on SAMATO County Investment Fund. Any questions or thank you. Do we want to take 112 through 114 is bulk. These are all review of second interims for Kip Connect and Rocketship."},{"start":2546840,"end":2551160,"speaker":"G","text":"Should procedure question. Should we have moved these to consent or."},{"start":2552120,"end":2553719,"speaker":"A","text":"No, no, it's just information. Yeah."},{"start":2553719,"end":2554120,"speaker":"G","text":"Thank you."},{"start":2554120,"end":2555400,"speaker":"D","text":"Sorry thank you."},{"start":2556200,"end":2556760,"speaker":"J","text":"Okay."},{"start":2557000,"end":2560600,"speaker":"A","text":"No comments. Great. Correspond."},{"start":2564610,"end":2564850,"speaker":"D","text":"No,"},{"start":2568770,"end":2574170,"speaker":"A","text":"it's been quiet. Okay. Possible other business. Oh, go ahead."},{"start":2574170,"end":2576130,"speaker":"D","text":"Yeah. I've gotten a few texts."},{"start":2576130,"end":2578690,"speaker":"A","text":"You want to microwave? Microwave it."},{"start":2581250,"end":2585170,"speaker":"D","text":"Yeah. I. I have gotten a few texts and phone calls from a couple of community members."},{"start":2587730,"end":2593710,"speaker":"A","text":"Let's see other business suggested items for the future agenda. So one would be the connects report to the board."},{"start":2596590,"end":2607710,"speaker":"G","text":"I have a request for formalization of the board's policy around acceleration. So we had been talking about that. It'd be nice to make that more formal."},{"start":2609470,"end":2642530,"speaker":"A","text":"So that would be. That would have to go to the policy committee first and I know we. Sounds like Wendy's got some pictures. Yes. Okay. We'll add that to the policy committee list. Thank you. Actually have board policy 5123. That's. Changes to the board meeting calendar 15."},{"start":2644690,"end":2647730,"speaker":"B","text":"A close session was added for the 22nd."},{"start":2647730,"end":2649250,"speaker":"D","text":"It will begin at 5:50."},{"start":2655730,"end":2668940,"speaker":"A","text":"Five. 55 50. Perfect. That brings us to the end of the agenda. There's a motion to adjourn."}]}