um welcome everybody sorry we're running
a few minutes behind um if we can have a
roll call please trusty Marquez here
trusty Weekley is absent trusty
McAvoy as a
guest so trusty uh weekly and trusty
McAvoy are both attending as a guest
they won't be participating in uh the
voting
vice president wels here president
Lawson
here forgive me I feel Rusty after
missing one meeting here um report out
on Clos session for March 20th 2024 no
action was taken um report out on close
session from April 3D no action was
taken um so welcome everybody
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uh the public is encouraged to speak to
the board on issues of concern whether
or not the issu is on the agenda to
address the board please complete a
speaker card online or uh at the
entrance um and you can hand it to
Evelyn
um okay so with
that we're on changes to the agenda um
we need to uh pull item 11.2 due to a
family emergency that will come back to
us at a later
meeting any
other
changes
think which which the with measure you
are they coming in someone coming in
were I thought they
were
okay okay so we we may P another item
once we might have to table it um
but we'll wait on that one I guess I
don't want to pull it
down it's just the three of us so I'll
make a motion to approve the agenda as
Amendment thank you all those in favor I
I where are we thank you everyone oral
communication um we have two speaker
cards um first oh we have three um so
speakers will be allowed um three
minutes to address the board and if
Spanish transl is needed there'll be
three minutes for speaking and three
minutes for
translation um our first speaker is
Ariana
Bal um yes you can if you can just press
the button on the right that turns the
microphone on there you go thank you hi
my name is Ariana Bal I'm a teacher at
Northstar I've been teaching there more
than 20 years um I want to talk about a
move for Northstar um I don't want to
reflect back on Northstar forward that
might be conu my movement as Northstar
backward which I would not want but um I
do want to ask that we consider moving
North Star to the old um 3150 Granger
old ad Alan campus I think that it would
solve a number of problems and um I
would like to go over some of the things
that I think it would do first of all
there's been some changes since the
larger problems that we discussed in
past campaigns um in first of all there
was about 120 new students added to MIT
and next year another 60 more are coming
this is going to make our yard pretty
untenable right now already we're
experiencing a crunch not that we have
the same schedules our schedules are
staggered but when we're at PE and mits
at lunch or changing classes Etc we're
finding that the students are
overwhelming all of our areas of school
and in addition when I do something like
a Shakespeare project down on the yard
or there's carpentry or um students are
doing other activities like we did a
buddy uh share with another class at the
lunch tables there are um there's a
mixing going on of the MIT students and
our students um so it's it's really
overcrowded um Northstar has a need for
more space in general as well we're
bursting at seams we have one science
lab that we've taken all the science
equipment out of that we're using for
everything from cooking classes to dance
classes to PE overflow to uh everything
and I have my cooking class on one side
of the room at the same time we're
cleaning the floor for the dance people
to come in and I'm bargaining for 15
minutes with the art teacher so it's
really um it's our space is scarce rainy
day lunches teachers are having to leave
their classrooms and lose their prep
time so they can put PE in their
classrooms during lunch um and uh
there's there's a lot of a space of CR I
believe that going to the adante campus
at Granger Street would allow us to have
a few more students um I think that aant
that adante hold 640 and 520 is what
we're at at Northstar that additional
amount would also allow us to fix
another problem which is that we have
four core subjects and three groups of
students at each grade level so if we
were allowed to have 640 students we
could solve the problem that we have for
example I'm teaching English and social
studies 8th grade twice nicely CED
nicely balanced and my colleague David
Flint is teaching 1 eth grade science
I'm sorry 1 eth grade social studies 1
seventh grade social studies 1 eth grade
language arts and one seventh grade
language arts that's four preps it's
crazy
over the years 20 years I've been there
I've had sixth grade English and eighth
grade English next year I'm teaching uh
eth grade English and one seventh grade
English which I've never taught before
it's just a mess so that that problem
could be solved um also I genuinely feel
that would be an advantage we're trying
to attract Spanish speakers and Bayside
students and I think it would honestly
be an improvement for those students to
be at aolan for a number of reasons one
is that the MIT students flowing into
our campus are interacting with all of
our kids but especially I believe that
they're putting peer pressure on our
Spanish speaking students at Northstar I
think those students feel that it's not
cool to read books not cool to excel at
their academics and what I uh I think
that if you look at Northstar kids we
test in and we take in we are Asbergers
Central we test in our kids because
they're geeky and they want to really be
able to be have be cool to share books
they my daughter came to Northstar and
she found that it was a it was a thing
the kids traded books all the time they
they want to be doing their Shakespeare
and feel safe to do that and I think the
parents sorry your three minutes is up
so if you could wrap it up okay um so um
please consider reassigning NorthStar
Academy to adelante's Old campus AT 3150
Granger for more space for a dedicated
campus that won't be disrupted by the
constantly increasing presence of MIT
students who may pressure some of our
students to focus on distractions rather
than the joy that they would otherwise
take in their academics and help us
solve some of the problems that were
experience St nor thank you thank you
and I forgot to mention earlier but
because this is oral communication we
can't have a discussion but we can hear
your comments thank you thank you next
is Edison Chang
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file good
evening good evening my name is Mr
Chang and I'm
here to speak a little bit about what's
happening with my
daughter
mainly my daughter is in special ed
receiving services from the
beginning we've requested and we've
noticed that she was going through
different
challenges in receiving
therapy however over time what we've
noticed is that her braids were not
improving currently she's reusing to
attend to Kennedy where she's
enrolled and she's going
through very challenging
times and but we she's happy with that
school
however we're taking different steps and
we know they have different kids but
she's getting
affected by minimum
things with certain differences of
behaviors or circumstances within the
classroom and I know that every
parent has their kids in different
challenges trying to take care of
them and within
that there are kids that we could say
that for
instance they're doing things I would
say they're affecting her emotionally
all the kids from the classroom and so
we've tried
to sort this through an IEP meeting to
see if my girl we suspect that
somehow
she is a special ed kid but she's not
progressing one
there we requested a 101 that was
declined
and
we are concerned about her education and
her
progress and we've been wanting to get
more therapy and more support for her
but nothing's happening we know that
she's improving and her gr little by
little are improving she's growing
but in her
through her reports they're very low
from Kennedy her grades are very low and
they're getting lower and
lower and so the reason why she has had
a lot of absences too and I know that's
one of the reasons why she's very low
but we're requesting the right support
the right help what we've done twice we
requested twice as a a
parent was
to make this very clear that she's a
13-year-old
girl and she's at an age at a very
difficult age but we suspect that she
has some form of autism and we don't
know truly because we're not
Professionals in that regard so we
requested to the Department of special
ed but they've said that she doesn't
need it because she's progressing which
is not true therefore we would love to
highlight
this that
she she's not progressing the way we
wished sorry when you told her that so
we were suspecting that there was a form
of
autism and we are requesting evaluation
so that on top of that she may she may
has she I think she has
dyslexia and because she can't recognize
symbols
and and twice we've requested this
support it is as
though it's her right this is what I
feel this is her right the opportunity
for her to we don't want her to lose the
year the entire year she's not attending
current ly and so that will be truly the
most important point I'm trying to make
here to please if you could soon support
us to receive those
evaluations that will be it what we are
requesting because we are extremely
concerned as
parents and the moment of
okay
so you what what Gonzalo was doing you
know he he had recorded the news
recording do you want me to translate
what you said do you want to just let us
what I said is that at during this time
we can't have a conversation I can't
have any responses but what I will do is
have Evelyn give him a call so that I
can meet with him and then also I need
to get the name of his daughter because
the last name is check thank
you um and final speaker we have Maria
Stockton
and if you can yeah turn the microphone
off thank you oh hi there uh good
evening uh U president Lon and trustees
my name is Maria Stockton you may have
received a email or two and I'm putting
the face with the email so you know who
speaks to you when I send you emails uh
I am a Redwood City School District
employee for I think John what on my
45th year here I am a member of
California School Employees Association
rwood City 5 the union for the
classified I am also a product of the
rwood city school district since
kindergarten so I have stayed here all
my life it isn't that I don't have a
life it's just I've enjoyed my life here
in the Redwood City area and working
with the school district girls I would
have left a long time ago it's not the
money that's for sure it's the love of
the job and the kids so I want to name
some people
Margaret Marshall Pat Brown Ed Riley
Dennis McBride Alicia McAvoy these are
board members and many others that truly
showed all our members they were board
members interested in knowing what was
happening in the school district they
went out they visited the school sites
they talked to administrators teachers
but they also took their time to talk to
the classified employees from the
kitchen to the custodian from the office
staff to the liberians and everybody in
between they actually went and talked
and said how do you see us improving our
district what are your concerns what do
you need and they really turn around and
worked as a partnership with everybody
in the school
district these are these are board
members that shown that their education
and their positions of the school board
members and trustees by visiting their
sites and talk with with with us
all they were asked let's see they asked
the real questions and talked to the
students um I bring this up because I
actually was going to come and talk on
one thing but then Margaret Marshall
happens to be a volunteer at my school
and she tutors students and so today was
just a delight and I thought oh okay I'm
going to change so uh one thing somebody
mentioned today is about libraries and
Librarians and other people I want you
board members to really consider the
decisions that you make not by just what
you're told but go out and ask questions
and find out what's really
happening you may have children that
have gone through the road city school
district have you ever had one come home
and say I really hated the library I
dislike this years ago Wendy Kelly
2015 was part of the uh uh committee
that increased the hours of the
liberians through a $100,000 Grant I
think it was from uh elcap which was
board members teachers principales
administrators parents classified
community members and students input
they all felt it was important enough to
put money into libraries and provide
services and increase services not just
to come in but for the liberians to go
out and do their different things at
their
schools not every library is the same it
depends on their environment and their
need of the students it's really
important that you go out and meet these
people and talk to them as well as the
office staff and everybody we'd like to
be equal with everybody and provide good
and great service to this District thank
you thank
you that was our final speaker
card so that brings us to um Bond
consent
items do we have a motion to approve
I'll move to approve
second thank you all those in favor
I um great and now we have will here for
10.1 pleas to solar uh yeah are there
any questions
theid will what is the timeline on this
uh this project has to be completed by
April of
2026 and uh we will get it completed
before
then that's to maintain the pg&
grandfathering the more financially
advantageous uh rate that we got you
guys grandfathered in on okay and just a
reminder uh estimated project cost is
around 14 14 million for hard cost and
the 25y year uh savings to the general
fund uh was around like 22 or 23 million
so and what what is it it's going to be
solar like about Park Lots is that kind
of what I was looking at or solar on
like how's it do you do you know yet I
don't know how far we had some
conceptual um plans from a couple years
back that we're going to need to Circle
back on but it would probably be a
combination of all some some uh parking
lot carport systems uh some shade
structures on you know asphalt and
Fields potentially some roof mounted uh
so yeah like phase one was a combination
of all including the roof mounted on top
of this building so um that'll be the
first thing that we do is dig in on that
a little bit more and make sure that
it's uh coordinated with any updates to
the facilities master
plan I was at a school campus in conquer
over the weekend and they had solar
shade structure just on like their black
top for where the students like hang out
and stuff can't remember if we have that
like at utante Selby or is that just we
do uh we do at Selby and initially it
was kind of questioned by the sites and
the stakeholders
and once we installed it there I
understand that it was really well taken
that uh the staff and the students uh
really appreciate that shade and so
we've definitely looked at um we will
definitely look at maximizing you know
where we can create more shade
structures uh you know on the edges of
asphalt and fields are great locations
um asphalt Fields um anywhere that we
can um we'll maximize that great
this is an action
item you guys are having to work hard
today I need
some I'll move to approve I'll second
all those in favor thank you guys thanks
well nice to see
you all right
so us 11.1 citizens measure you
oversight committee we do not have yeah
uh Megan O'Reilly Green is online she is
online okay perfect if we can
um so if we
can is Evelyn doing that
yeah Hi Megan hi this here this is
Megan um can you hear
me
unmuted she is yeah can you guys hear
me Megan are
you uh uh can you guys hear me I can
hear her can you hear me I yeah I can
hear you
you okay I can hear Megan can you guys
hear
me um oh going I can't hear so I can
only hear Alissa I think that's is that
you Alyssa so Megan we're having an
audio is like because we can see that
your
microphone was going up and down yeah
let me
let yeah it's funny I can hear you
clearly and you can hear me I'll just
send him a chat real quick I'm on Zoom
so
I'm wondering if maybe you can you could
turn the laptop up just so we can hear
it oh I don't
know yes that's the room oh the room
there's something in the room that's not
working we recording so we could turn a
laptop volume up just so okay let me
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right okay
go ahead all
right uh is it working now or yeah go
right ahead go ahead okay so hi this is
Megan um um I'm on the measure youu U
parcel tax committee and we met uh
recently to approve all of the
expenditures um that were that were
allocated for each school um and I was
wondering if the the uh board had any
questions for
me this is where the sound is gonna
start beating back try to do this
yeah so any questions from
anyone um guess if Alisa or David had
questions they really
can't then we have no questions thank
you
Megan appreciate it um okay thank you so
much I guess we don't we don't need to
vote on this right no no there are any
questions from any other board members
or or comments yeah I mean I can make
some comments but I don't have any
questions for Megan do you want to just
have me yelling into this sure um just
that I want just wanted to thank the
committee members um they really do a
diligent job of going through the
measure you reports and looking at
everything there um and you know I think
it's a real privilege to live in a
community that entrusts the school
district with this local funding
um from a parcel tax and uh you know I
know I take the responsibility I'm sure
my fellow board members take a
responsibility of ensuring that the
money is spent as the voters intended um
and so I really value and appreciate
what this the oversight committee does
um and that again the diligence they go
on from school make sure it's really
meeting the the goals there also want to
I think I did it last week but our new
chair for this committee um was elected
uh Stephanie Gibson and I wanted
congratulate the outgoing chair Janet
borgens again right um who turned out um
you know there were important things
that the voters authorized improve local
Elementry and middle school education
for all public school students in
Redwood City um enhanced math science
reading and writing skills in local
classrooms attract and retain qualified
staff to enhance quality arts and music
programs and to update classroom
computers and structural technology um
and supporting School libraries and and
so I appreciate the committee for what
they do to ensure that you know
everything's being spent the way it was
meant to be
yep ditto for just that thank you Megan
for being on the on the meeting in the
meet I should say on the meeting today
and sorry for the technical difficulties
we're having oh yeah no worries I don't
know if you can still hear me or if it's
a fe yeah through my through my computer
yeah we can hear oh okay all right yeah
I just wanted to Second what Mike said
um you know being on uh School site
councils for many years it was it was
such a it's been such a pleasure being
on this committee to see how um you know
how all of the other schools are
allocating this money um to in order to
you know plug the gaps uh in education
and um it was really such a joy to to
get it all approved and I I'm I'm happy
to participate on the committee and I
just hope that there more parcel taxes
in the future to be allocated more
Committees of the sort that's all I have
to say well thank you we really
appreciate all right
get
again
there okay we are on consent
items thereo motion to approve I will
make a motion to approve consent items
I'll second all those in favor I thank
you we have no action items oh sorry I
skipped over we we had to pull 11.2 so
for those of you who missed it um we
will bring that back to another
meeting um board and superintendent
reports would like to
start um I only have one thing to report
I attended the um deac meeting last week
at Roseville um Katherine went over
attendance and so we actually did have
parents from Garfield Oran
and Kennedy representing um that evening
so that's all I have to
report I attended the citizens Bond
oversight committee um and ven Pelt
construction service did a presentation
there which I think was nice um
hopefully they'll come back and present
to the board when there's a little more
information I think otherwise you can
just watch the video from the oversight
one um and I thought the members had
some good questions about Community um
input about future major construction
projects you know how the how asking how
the community be involved um you know
how their input will be reflected back
to them after they put it in and you
know if engagement is going to include
beyond the school I thought I thought
they ra some good points there also went
to the SMC SBA dinner um presentation
they had with the Dr Baker and Mr Sara
we saw mtss for literacy dyslexia
experience the science of reading and
preparing for Universal screening um so
it was a little bit of the dyslexia
experience that we all did at the
library a few months back um but it was
really interesting to hear how other
school districts are approaching
literacy and what they've done um you
know and some of the things that they've
can learn from and I I know John you
probably talked to you probably talk to
the superintendant all the time and and
learn from them so um it was my first
time hearing from some of them about
their program so that was
neat um let's say I also attended the
citizens Bond oversight committee
meeting um and Dr Baker and I were at
the 2 by two by two committee which is
with um the city council and the high
school district um and just received
some updates uh what's going on in their
areas of work and then I attended the
induction committee the by anual meeting
um Nicole Crawford just went through the
induction process um what the um the new
teachers go through to clear their
credential um and then I think everybody
got an invitation to the colloquium for
the induction program May 14th at Henry
Ford if you can make it it's always
really nice it's a great event
the only item that I have that's not
different is I attended um Tap St steam
Steam and stem uh bear that they had on
Wednesday week ago it was from 5 to six
it was really good it was I you get to
meet go to the one they had at Selby
adant Selby the next night because I
have different meeting to go to but it
was great it was very well attended
David was there a lot of his parents
were there there people from Stanford so
it was a really good uh event for
families and kids and it was a lot of
fun to see the kids playing with the
different types of apparatuses that were
brought in and so so it's good very
nice
okay um information on S County
investment fund any questions on
that no
correspondence we received an email from
the speaker that we had tonight
regarding Northstar um media request
regarding Henry Ford school and I think
that went to everybody um yeah okay I
think that's it yeah
okay um possible other business
suggested items for the
future we do have the constru we do have
the construction coming I believe at our
next board
meeting okay yeah um along we will
definitely try to see where we will put
the I ready piece with the
information um moving forward
and we're all set for our May 10th
offsite which is the retreat everyone
agreed where to go a
long everyone agreed it's uh May 10th
and right now we're looking for a
location
okay uh let's changes to the board
meeting calendar
lightning round meeting really so it's
uh what are we at 7:41 do we have a
motion to
adjourn we'll make a motion I'll second
in favor okay all right thank you
everyone for being here and thank you to
the audience members too there are a
number of people out in the
audience have a good night