welcome everyone thank you for your
patience as we had a a little bit of
technical difficulties um uh EVN can we
have a roll call please trusty Marcus
here trusty Weekley present trusty
McAvoy pres on Zoom vice president Wells
here president Lawson here um thank you
everyone we've got a full house in the
room and we've got a online so thank you
for um your engagement here
tonight you got it
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podium
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comment is provided in
Spanish um trusty Alisa Mao is
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streamlined teleconference procedures
enacted by AB
2449 she has just caused to participate
remotely because she has a family
caregiving need and she notified the
District of her need to participate
remotely at the earliest possible
opportunity um so with that said do uh
changes to the agenda I actually would
like to move 7.1 to um after
7.5 um and and joy will be here but
she's aware of that if that's okay okay
any other
changes
um okay so we we do need to do roll call
votes tonight so um we
need a motion to approve the
agenda I'll move to approve the agenda
I'll second it roll call vote please
trusty Marquez hi trusty Weekley hi
trusty
McAvoy I president Wells hi president
Lawson
I um so we do not have any items for um
item five oral communication they're all
um for later items um so we can move on
to
consent I'll make a motion to approve
thank
you seconded thank you roll call vote
please trusty Marquez hi trusty Weekley
hi trusty
McAvoy I president Wells I president
Lawson I okay thank you that brings us
to um item 7.2 adoption of resolution
number 7 reduction or elimination of
certificated services for fiscal
year 23
24 um and I think that's what most it
should be 2425 right um so I think
that's what
public oh it is okay
okay got
it goad all
right well good evening everyone and
everyone that's here in the audience
tonight it's great that you're here um
it's been a while prior to this it was
covid now we're back after um receiving
wonderful covid funds and those covid
funds are starting to end so um we've
had an enjoyable time with the money in
serving the students of the Redwood City
School District and now we're at the
point where we need to decide how we're
going to move forward and so this
evening what I'm going to do is um
present some information prior to uh
anyone coming up and speaking to this
item and to also elicit further
information for my colleagues who are up
here with me during this time so let's
start Onna with the next slide
but because I'm in here I can't read
right no no no it's fine it's just that
all my notes
are that's okay that's okay let's let's
go ahead and start go on to the next one
so as you as you see this information
here you see that we were funded very
heavily in the area of the P pandemic
recovery State and Federal funding
grants we had reading intervention
teachers additional reading intervention
teachers prior to um this money came and
I'm sorry prior to prior to the time of
these dollars we did have some reading
teachers at the school site but not at
the extent to what we have at this point
in time uh we have additional
instructional assistance tutoring
programs have become in existence uh we
did have some tutoring prior to covid
but it was very limited summer school we
had more dollars for summer school with
this money prior to the dollars coming
in we did have a summer school program
but it wasn't to the extent that we have
been
experiencing we've had the adoption of
instructional materials and our teachers
and staff who are in the audience do
definitely understand that because there
has been new math materials that have
been adopted for our primary grades and
then we ALS so adopted hegerty
especially in the primary grades for our
reading instruction in phonics and then
we brought in newcomer teachers other
staff members in the and at the school
sites and
materials so this is a big piece of the
pandemic recovery that still exists
today and will continue to exist for a
few more years the extended day programs
the extended day programs are at each
School site and it's in some form or
fashion some of the school sites
have more resources available to them
due to the number of unduplicated
students when I'm talking about
unduplicated students I'm talking about
those students who would qualify for
free and reduced lunch those students
who are El's those students who are
homeless so this these dollars are in
existence now and they will continue for
a few more
years next
slide we also with dollars from this
grant we purchase diagnostic tools again
instructional materials and we did
curriculum
adoptions next
slide a big piece of the dollars from
the pandemic recovery and the federal
grants was each School site has a mental
health clinician one one there are some
of our priority School sites that have
additional clinicians that is Hoover
Garfield and Taft and I believe um
McKinley was also going to start if I'm
not mistaken Roosevelt it was Roosevelt
that's another priority site and when I
say priority site that has to do with
our unduplicated pupils those students
who are non-english speakers who are
learning the language they're
multilingual those students again who
could qualify for free and Rel reduced
lunch and those students who are
homeless next
slide this
was Major piece of the money that we
received for covid testing the personal
protective equipment and the facilities
equipment needed during that covid time
for those of you that are in the
audience that were with us during the
time when we came back from being
at home with virtual instruction there
were different items put into place by
the state of California and then the
samel um office of Health Department put
some other restrictions on school sites
with the different types of PPE
equipment that you needed to have at
each School site and also how the
facility equipment at each School site
was going to be um cleaned after
students left
so dollars were spent in that
respect this is a major topic that we
have um that has just come to us last
year proposition
28 and um let's get into that
info so this was passed on November 8th
of
2022 so the voters did pass this which
provides additional funding for the Arts
music education in public schools when
this first came to be
about we received dollars and uh last
year when we received the dollars there
were some questions about the dollars
and how they were going to be utilized
so there was the previous assistant
superintendent contacted the state
department and the state department said
as long as your job description had some
items on it regarding um anything to do
with steam and art you could utilize the
dollars in that fashion and we made sure
that that was in
place receiving the
dollars we moved forward and we moveed
forward in that direction this year the
County Office of Education has
stipulated a different format for us and
even though at that time and we have in
written form at from that state
department official things have changed
in regard to the grant dollars and how
they're spent so you will see um the
district has received a little over a
million dollars and this is divided it's
not divided into 12 schools it's divided
by the number of students that are at
each School site and so it's going to be
manipulated each year and then Anna do
you want to show me this is the next
slide have piece
on so let's look at
um what we thought we were going to get
in
2324 we had a different number than this
but it was all changed but now look what
we're getting in
2425 when you look at these dollars
these dollars depending at the school
site that you are at and I have a slide
coming up that shows the average teacher
salary there it it's going to be very
difficult to hire a
1.0 you have to make sure that when
we're hiring our teachers and our staff
that you include not only the salary but
the benefits that come along with
it and here are listed what the school
sites received for the
2324 and that that dollar amount that
you see for 23 24 did change compared to
what we originally received which it
fluctuated up and down depending at the
school site you were at and so you see
for
2425 the dollars that were going to be
given Anna would you like to just to add
and that can change so and the reason it
can change is because everything's
funded at the state about what it it's
based on the money we get from from the
state on Prop 98 which fund it so it's
1% of that so if the state reduces that
amount what we get this number will be
reduced so I just want to make sure that
that's one of the things that happen
just currently you want to tell the
story that there's we're not even on the
yeah so they had put out the projections
on there were out came out just recently
at the beend of June um beginning of
February and now they're no longer there
which means there may be some changes at
the state level of what that money will
actually be for that allocation so
that's just some of the things because
it's all based on whatever is funded on
that proposition idea for school so it
can change up and down and this year it
already went down about it was it was
about three positions so three teaching
positions that's what I can say so we
had to put that into a different fund to
help supp that just so that you guys
know so that that was something that
happened just
recently next slide so this is a slide
here where we wanted to make sure we
know our our teachers definitely know
this because this is a
certificated um amount that at the entry
level for our teachers that we start at
$64,000 41 and with plus 25 years that's
the top of the salary schedule and when
you're talking about benefits when I say
this is not the
$4,041 actually is turns out to be um
with the 10 years of experience with an
average
salary that we're looking at a teacher's
average salary the 64 is the beginning
but we base this on the average and
right now the average salary this
average salary right here of the
$94,700 does not include
benefits so if we were to go back to the
previous slide it's very difficult for a
site level with the the dollars that
they are receiving to hire a one
fulltime equivalent staff
member for this program it has to be
augmented with measure U dollars uh sip
dollar PTA PTO dollars um can't use
title $1 doll for it because that is not
part of the requirements for title
one next slide we can go from
okay the process for planning so we
started we knew um back when we received
these dollars and these dollars were
received back in 20 what 20
21 we knew at that time they were
$1s and I know Mr Weekley you were not
on the board at the time but I had told
the board I don't want the onetime
dollars and there's a reason for those
onetime dollars is because they go
away um there is a superintendent on the
peninsula who many years
ago uh and it's happening again this
year there are trailer bills and there
are one time dollars I came that
superintendent got the permission from
his board not to accept him for that
reason um so with that being said we
were very happy to receive the money uh
there's so many things that we could do
with the dollars if we were funding to
this in this fashion year in year
out but everyone knew that it was one
time so as we started planning and
working with our site
administrators to look at dollars that
they had at their School site we I will
say we met originally with site
principles back in January to make them
aware that this was moving forward they
were to go back and meet and I know one
of my school one of our
schools had a little um difficulty uh
meeting with the site Council didn't
really materialize but every other
school did to warn where we were going
and what support we needed from school
site councils because they knew what
dollars were going to be lessened over
the over um the next school year so we
also wanted our
elac participants those parents who
participate in elac for those students
who are multilingual there is an elac
group group that parents attend meetings
to understand the rationale and the
reasons for this moving in that
direction now in future slides I'm going
to show you what's funded at school
sites I did not put on those slides
um how you can augment those dollars
because it's different at each School
site you can augment it with measure U
dollars which are fantastic because some
of the schools receive a hefty amount
you can augment it with PTO PTA dollars
you can augment it with Grant dollars
which we are utilizing right now at some
of our school sites for some of our
staff but at this point in time we we're
at a junct junter where we need to look
at the monies that we are going to
receive and the monies that are no
longer going to exist next
SL so adjustment to the services
so title $1 do move forward um at
certain School sites not all SCH School
sites so the title one dollars that we
receive have restrictions and guidelines
that one must follow we just went
through a federal monitoring review in
January
to view how we spent the dollars did we
follow the requirements and there were
some suggestions that were made for us
moving forward um starting in the next
school year here is the uh amount of
prop $28 that we've
received measure you dollars is a hefty
amount and that those dollars go
directly to the school site the district
office does not have anything to do with
it those dollars except for to approve
your plans and then those plans go
before an an outside committee that
looks to make sure that we're spending
the money correctly and that outside
committee is made up of parents and
community
members and you all this is all
dependent on the number of students at
your school
site the l cap and the site
concentration dollars those are dollars
that uh Miss Herrera uh will oversee and
she is in the process of this point in
time with the lcap starting on Friday
with our Spanish-speaking population who
will have in-person meetings to go
through the lcap and to determine how
these dollars should be spent next
year and when we're looking at lcap you
also have to remember we're looking at
the
unduplicated students that's what the
dollars were meant
for and the dollar amounts are
there next
all right total site budget and funding
sources so what you have on this slide
you have the slide that indicates the
schools at names at the bottom and then
you have the it's done it's kind of
colorcoded for you and I know it's kind
of hard for you to see maybe better on
that screen the large screens but um it
tells you the amount of dollars that not
the amount but the types of dollars that
uh
schools receive and somewhat of where
they are almost in in reaching the
amount of money that is a total of title
one if you're a title one school that
reach these dollars but prop 28 measure
you and lcap there is there are no other
their grants are not included in these
dollars in this amount here the uh PTA
PTO are not included in these dollars
either
now I'm going to go school by school and
we're looking and when a school comes up
and you see Title One you'll that's the
school that has title $1 so um as you
look at adante C Lane you see that um
they are going to use their prop $28 for
a 05 steam
person you see that they're also going
to use measure U dolls for a reading
specialist and they're to use their alap
dollars for uh a0 25 music
person when you look at this this was
number one developed and thought of by
School site I'm talking teachers and I'm
talking as uh classified staff and then
it went to the school site
Council that was the very first email I
got from a parent was when this took
place so this is for the the 24 25 year
this does not
include their PTO
dollars and it does not include uh any
type of grant funding that we're looking
at at this point in time
either sure and when you guys look at
the yellow which is alcap so music is
just a portion of it there are other
funding things that we put in alcap for
each of the sites that are not displayed
on here just so you know
okay
Clifford you again Clifford just became
a title one year before last if I'm not
mistaken and you see that steam they
want a full-time steam person they um
the reading Specialists they still need
to work with their School site funding
regarding that and um they have a PTO
and their Sky site counsil need to go
through this one more time and you see
music at this point in time they have
not elected right now but that does not
mean that they aren't going to do that
correct on
it
Garfield Garfield title
one uh steam they'll have one full-time
person a reading specialist there are
two there is a I know there's a reason I
know this is we have a grant out for
Garfield at this point point in time
Also regarding uh another reading or
math coach we will not know about that
soft funding again from Grant dollars
until probably
miday and that music at this point in
time there is no
music Henry
Ford uh Henry Ford does have its title
$1 they're having uh 75 steam which I
believe they have this year isn't it
they're going to maintain that they are
they want two reading Specialists and
they also would like to have a point 25
music person that
sign
Hoover has one steam person a reading
specialist this one says one but they're
in the hopper for another two if the
grant comes
through um and music
One
Kennedy a full-time steam person one at
this point in time no reading specialist
and they want one music
person McKinley a05
steam uh at this time no reading
specialist and one FTE
music
Northstar uh 0.5
steam a reading they don't no reading
Specialists and 75 music this does not
include any PTO
funding I think it is too this one is
should be the opposite music is through
prop 28 andos okay thank
you
Orion
alternative so the Orion alternative has
a 0.5 steam they had a 1.0 this year
a reading specialist and they want a 0
25
music
Roosevelt 05
steam here are the reading Specialists
for um it's a 1.0 and A6 site funded
they're still working on that piece and
a0 25
music Roy cloud5 steam a reading special
a full-time reading specialist and a
full-time music
person
Taft a 1.0 steam a reading specialist at
1.0 and a music at0 25 and we're also
looking for another reading specialist
through a grant for
them and Miss Kelly will take this
portion
of thank you good evening to the board
and to the the public my name is Wendy
Kelly I'm Deputy superintendent of human
resources and I am here tonight to talk
to you about employee transition and so
you were privy to all of the board memos
that laid out the position reductions
and that's a very legal Eed document we
do know there's a human Spirit behind
every every person that's here we valued
everybody and their contributions to the
district um with my team I have the task
of of once the the board takes action
managing how our employees will fare
through this process and so that
requires the start of multiple and many
conversations that will come to be the
good news behind this believe it or not
there's a slight Silver Lining is that
for almost all
individuals there will be a place in our
district so the employee transition them
in itself um will very likely work out
for many people and I say that because
each year we
have um a certain number of vacancies
approximately 60 certificated teaching
positions a handful of
management um and are classified
currently as at 53 expected as of June
and that's with typical attrition
retirements resignations we have the
start of that process right now um for
classified it's an ongoing process all
year long as as people are hired into
positions and leave us and then for
certificated the typical hiring season
starts about now and goes in through the
summer so that is that is the good news
but it is a difficult Journey you know
as people are are leaving their home
site and possibly traveling to other
sites uh we started the conversations
already with teachers through our work
with um rcta a president Aon wasburn is
here in the audience tonight and we will
be continuing forth on March 21st with
classified that's a formal meeting with
classified uh members in CCA Donna
Solario who's here tonight as well and
then I work with management so all of
those very important uh conversations
will be happening but I feel very
confident in knowing that the valued
employees that we have will still remain
with us as we progress forward unless of
course they choose to leave us for other
personal reasons they move or what have
you uh so that is that is good news it's
always hard to manage this in HR right I
I get the joy of bringing people in and
I'm I'm saddened when things have to
change the magnitude of services will be
different next year but they still will
remain and so I'm pleased to know that
we have a bright staff that of admin
team and site councils and the and the
staff that go with it that will help
make that Journey great for kids so
thank you for that hard work um I am not
going to give you a crash course in HR
tonight because that would take days but
I do want to point out a couple of
important pieces so Anna do you mind
next
slide
please the one
prior sorry thank you my screen looks
different so in the world of HR this is
a very short crash course we look at
positions and employees as two different
Pathways okay and and I'm telling you
this for tonight because tonight the
board is considering these positions
that were just listed in the
resolution and it looks like a halftime
person here a 0.25 there and so forth
and we're managing this districtwide and
it is true the positions that we had
this year will be reduced assuming
approval uh for next school year so that
is so I look at these like buckets
essentially and then people become
attached to a
bucket so once the positions decrease
then we shift gears and look at
employees okay so the employees in our
district based on their credentials
their licenses and all of the um
criteria needed to serve students and
their roles have an opportunity to
transfer into other positions that can
happen right away with these meetings or
can happen over the period of
time uh people can also choose to not
choose a position and if they do so
they're placed on what's called a 39
Monon rehire list and that's an ed code
but essentially the gist of that is to
say that should you come back to our
district you do have the same seniority
rights and salary within a 39-month
period so those are the conversations we
go over with people because if there
isn't a desirable position then they
need to make a choice at that time for
themselves uh but of course once again
we're always about recruitment we would
love to have the people that we have
trained that we've worked side by side
with to continue forth in our district
the next slide please so with that I
wanted to bring some data at this moment
in time and in HR the moments change
frequently
we have 21 certificated displaced
teachers and I say that with an
explanation the PKS board resolution
shows many more positions but in the
course of February because we've been
having these conversations for many
months with
administrators and um internally
certainly what principes do because
these are primarily at school sites um
and other district office off staff but
the principles primarily are working
with focusing on what the Staffing list
will look like for
2425 and in the rcta contract our Union
contract there's a deadline of February
28th so once that those conversations
happen a staffing list is posted then we
know what the true vacancies are moving
forward for
2425 because everyone at the school site
has been settled okay they might choose
grade they move grade levels or what
have you
um what principles decided to do in this
time period was recognize that there
were very valuable staff on their School
site with their own site
seniority um working in a union eni
environment the seniority is important
that could already be absorbed into
known vacancies and that's very typical
that happens in February within the
Union contract article
11 and at the end of February they give
to me a list of all vacancies so on
February 29th this year a leap year we
had 27 certificated positions
open when everyone was settled and The
Funnel of all the people you know sort
of shook out it came down to 21 people
that were still displaced and didn't yet
have their home for next year so rcta
President Aaron wurn and myself met to
work out how could we start
communicating this and we started um
advertising the
uh certificated vacancies to our
displaced teachers and that that term
sounds so horrible but it's a moment in
in time and then they find their new
home and so we're almost completed with
that list we have about six to seven
more people to place it's just
communication and trying to get through
our work week together uh so I'm
expecting that to happen to be completed
any day now and then everyone will be
settled there are a couple of positions
in which we have people that um may not
have a position due to their unique
credential or lure but once again they
can be put on the 39-month rehire list
and the moment a position comes up we
contact them and they have the
availability to return so I that's good
news the second item is our classified
uh staff so I will be speaking about
classified uh reductions in the next
board agenda item but I did want to
point out that we have 25 classified
displaced staff in 53 classified
positions and within the CSEA Union
contract it's a different type of
transfer process but we do have options
for employees so that feels good as
well we have one displace certificated
management employee after everyone
transferred into open positions for
management and we have one management
position available so likely that person
will move into that position so that
will be a closed item and then for
classified
management um we have a handful of our
uh Mental Health Counselors that will be
moving from 1.0 to 0.5 and so I'm
scheduling that meeting for next week so
that we can discuss options and so at
this moment we have almost enough
positions but if somebody resigns or
retires through the end of the year then
the displaced person will have the
opportunity to take that position and
that's assuming no other
resignations so I did to give you just
an add a glance moment in time of what
we're managing right now based on what
the
proposed um reductions will be I know
that my my realm doesn't affect program
as much any longer that would be honor
Herrera and others but I'm definitely
here to support the employees as all of
us are in the transition so that
continued Services can still occur maybe
not at the magnitude that we've enjoyed
over the last few uh years which has
been quite amazing uh but we still
strive to ensure that our students are
served well and I know our hardworking
employees also feel the same and that
leades us to this last bullet point um
supporting staff into the transition it
can be a little shocking to move from
one site to another so we want to make
sure that uh happens as seamlessly as
possible there are some union benefits
in the contract um for moving and so
forth that of course we will make sure
people are supported and within their
own role their new roles training and so
forth so that's already put in
place so that concludes uh the
information I was going to be presenting
on certificated thank
you all right so now we will open it up
for comments
questions however you would like to do
this so we have more presentations for
73 and 74 and whatnot
sorry okay um we have a lot of speaker
cards that don't have an item agenda
attached to it so
i' I don't know if we should just take
them all now because they're all kind of
related or okay are we good with that
okay yeah do we want to take those first
and then have discussion or yeah sure um
now question for the board we have 23
speakers cards at this point um do we
want to limit to one minute
or a little bit longer we go two minutes
two
minutes okay Alisa you're good with that
two
minutes did she yes okay um I'm going to
I'm going to yes in the order that they
were received um both online and in
person so if you are online and your
name is called um please just raise your
hand um in the zoom so that um our tech
department can give you permission to
speak if you're in the room and you're
called please um make sure that the red
light is on on the microphone by
pressing the little person icon um
button um let's see I pull up my list
refresh and Janet one comment didn't we
say that we were gonna take all in
person before we took Zoom so I would I
talked toy about that that's not in our
board policy okay um and I actually
don't know because I think some of the
ones that are filled out online might be
in the room they just filled out earlier
um in the week
um if I butcher your name please feel
free to correct me I'd love to learn and
and get it correct next time so we're
going to start with um Esther
Chan might be
online
yep hi Ester go ahead you can unmute
yourself hi everyone um I am a parent at
Orion Alterna alternative school in the
parent Co-op um uh in the parent Co-op
and I have a kindergarten and a second
grader um I have to say seeing the list
of layups have really been a shock um to
see the amount of cuts across um all the
district across the district and knowing
that the reading level of the students
already um low and seeing that the
reading specialist is also going to be
um the the ft is going to to be cut I I
think it's very disheartening as a
mother as a parent um and and really I
I'm also on the PTO board at Orion I I
know that we have worked really hard in
our fundraising efforts to really help
supplement the needs of our school and
our students and I'm just I I'm really
urging the district and the Board of
Trustees to um think of creative ways to
help support the students better to
support the families better um they I I
know Orion is not TI one school and I
know there are many needs in other
schools across the Reb City District and
I I and I I I really appreciate a lot of
the um presentations earlier on how the
fundings came through to begin with um
but I I also hear what Dr Baker
mentioned like you did not prefer these
one-time payments because they will go
away but I really urge the district and
the Board of Trustees on really coming
up on creative plans to think of a
long-term goal that is sustainable and
that can continue to help our students
and not have these positions that are
absolutely
necessary to be taken away thank
you thank you
Esther um sorry I have to keep switching
back and forth between app um the next
speaker is Tom
giry in person okay thank
you awesome so if you could um turn the
microphone on before you get started
icon the the right button one on the
right testing testing all
right since I have I thought I had one
minute but since I have two um my
daughters are selling Girl Scout cookies
so Market saturated uh we need all the
help we can get so I've told them to
come outside we can no I'm just no but
seriously yeah all right um as a parent
in Redwood City I am Gravely concerned
about the proposed cuts to music
programs as they are life to many
students certainly was for me uh
learning musical instrument gave me the
confidence that I could work hard and
get better in better at something in a
fulfilling way that no other subject
could now I know what was actually
happening in my brain at the time
deliberate practice of the Arts is
scientifically proven to stimulate
neuroplasticity the brain's ability to
change and
grow now voters overwhelmingly support
the need for expanded Arts education
in
California yet the proposed Cuts clearly
demonstrate poor planning of prop 28
funds uh in at least seven schools this
legislation was designed to expand Arts
and Music education not as a safety net
for Budget
shortfalls I understand the board faces
difficult financial decisions however
backt tracking on Arts education is a
gut-wrenching solution with potentially
long term consequences these programs
are not luxuries they are essential
components of a well-rounded education
thank you thank you
Thomas our next speaker is Hannah
ma in
person good evening president Lawson Dr
Baker board members um my name is Hannah
Ma I'm the parent of a student at a Ry
alternative but I'm here to raise some
questions about the the overall um
proposal and not just related to Orion
first I want to name that while this is
a very cold proposal for the parent
Community to hear I imagine it must be
just as difficult for all of you um
first I'm curious um I was curious about
whether the proposed cut reflected
Staffing that were added after the
influx of funding due to covid and Dr
Baker addressed that in his presentation
um second I'm curious whether I think it
be helpful for families to understand
what alternatives were explored before
you propos the Staffing cuts for example
could we consider more affordable
vendors for school lunches or
Transportation um or rather than
providing technology across the board to
all students consider prioritizing
unduplicated students um third I I do
have concerns around the distribution of
cuts across the district if I read the
proposal correctly Garfield and
Northstar both have roughly the the same
number of students however the proposed
cuts um from Garfield is 5.5 FTE while
the proposed cuts from Northstar is
2.7 and I was heartened to hear that um
displaced teachers May likely land a
home in a new position but um the
previous parent mentioned the term
lifeline and I do know that for some
young people and children certain
teachers can be lifelines for them it
took time for them to build that trust
and relationship with them and their
families so it would be a huge
disruption for them to lose that person
in their on campus and lastly I just
want to urge the board and school
leaders to think creatively about ways
to generate
Revenue um for example could we lease
out classrooms or other facilities
during weekends school breaks after
school or reach out to companies who
recently experienced huge layoff to see
whether they could donate the laptops
that they no longer need um thank you
for the opportunity to comment I
understand this is really difficult and
I really appreciate your um sharing this
with us today thank you thank
you um our next speaker is Anna
salorio uh eight is um border
reports but
um would do you want Anna what was it oh
resolution eight okay um okay well we'll
put you on there okay thank okay do you
mind thank you
so Jill deart
talk just looking through the list on
Zoom
don't no I don't see jel um so that
brings us
to Lauren
Abrahams here in person thank you I
think the mic is on right okay awesome
good evening my name is Lauren Abrams
almost got it and I'm the mental health
counselor at Taft Community School a
position which has been cut to 0. five
I'm speaking tonight because there have
been equal cuts across five sites and
Mental Health Counselors but the needs
at these sites are not equal tff
students are proud learning ERS half
students are creative many are
multilingual and all are able to achieve
any goal they set for themselves with
appropriate
support at Taff 94% of students are
Hispanic Latino 98% are students of
color 89% are eligible to receive free
and reduced
lunch many of our students have
experienced a really high level of
trauma related to migration having to
translate for their parents at legal
immigration uh appointments um having
family members parents who live in
another country um many of our students
experience poverty um are tripled up in
their homes doubled up in their homes
many of our students have experience
discrimination or their parents have and
students carry this unresolved trauma
with them uh like a heavy weight in
their backpack every day at school and
they carry it in their stomachs as we
know as counselors like a a buzzing
energy that's distracting them from
Focus right so the the role of the
district mental health counselor is to
ensure that every student at Taft
receives an appropriate and tiered level
support for their needs so every single
student at Taft receives and students
with a higher level of trauma receive
individual or group counseling ensuring
that all students can develop resilience
and skills for achievement achieving
what they're capable of later in life so
at Taff different than other schools
families rely on school-based counseling
as essential
Healthcare um families face barriers to
access these Services outside of school
right Insurance barriers Transportation
barriers working two to three jobs not
being able to transport your child to
therapy outside of school uh recently in
our lcap and ccsp student voice
committees that were just emailed in the
past week students directly highlighted
the importance of having counselors at
school so because of the unique needs at
Taft I really encourage you to
reconsider uh reducing the position to 0
five thank you so much for listening
thank you
Lauren our next speaker is Laura Lind
I'm just scrolling the list on Zoom I
don't
see sorry there's 157 names on Zoom to
scroll through so Laura what Laura Lind
yeah no I don't see Laura okay
all
get back to my document um after Laura
is Megan O'Reilly Green she's
here oh I think a lot than me um hi I'm
Megan O'Reilly Green Oh do I the red
button um I'm the parent of two students
at Orion alternative um and two more com
in in the next couple years the my I
have a kindergarten that's going to
start next next year so I brought them
with me um I know budget cuts
conversations are terrible and they're
really hard um and I just wanted to
express my appreciation for all of you
guys um and my gratitude because I know
that this is is super tough and you are
absolutely doing your best with a
difficult situation um and unfunded
mandates that's another one I didn't
mention that that's super tough but I
was hoping um to talk to the concerned
parents on the call um about a different
issue which is partial parcel taxes um
and I wanted to share that we are unique
in our district that we do not have um
parcel taxes that are um on par and can
measure it with neighboring districts so
I had to just a couple facts to read for
everybody um San Carlos levies is $334
for um a education budget of 10 million
poo Alto is $820 per house for $29
million for Education Belmont
$292 um per house for $9 million s
Matteo again it's very similar 324 for
$10 million menow Park there's four
different parcels that cover about $375
for $1.3 million in Redwood City we have
$85 per house at $ 1.9 million dollar so
I think that if all the parents on this
call could go knock on a hundred doors
with me and we could get a $400 or $500
parcel tax we can easily cover these
budget gaps and what's you know my kids
are my I'm very happy you guys have made
me very happy I think you should know
that you made me very happy this year um
and last year um my kids are doing great
but I'm concerned about the kids at Taft
you know Garfield and we need to level
the playing ground and the play the
playground for all of those um those
families out there so I hope that when
those parcel tax volunteer calls come
out we will get right on it and solve
these issues because this district is
amazing uh thank you so much and uh have
a good night thank you
Megan next we have um Marian NOA did I
get it good afternoon board members my
name is Maryann I'm a mental health coun
mental health liaison um at Henry Ford
and I understand you have some really
hard decisions to make tonight
nonetheless I'm here repping by Henry
Ford blue urging you to reconsider
cutting the mental health leaon
positions at Taft Henry Ford Orion and
adalante Selby the the mental health
Liaisons throughout the district have
worked so hard to build a relationship
with so many students on our campus we
have become an integral part
of our school communities many of us
providing seal individual and group
supports to many students on our
campuses to take that away would not
only be devastating to us but it would
also be devastating to the students and
families we serve there's so much work
still left to be done in order to
support our youth in the rcsd community
and I just want you to consider that
thank you thank you
Maran okay our next speaker is Elizabeth
Estrada um I believe she will be
speaking to us in Spanish and we have
itel on the line to provide
translation hi Elizabeth go
ahead um you you should be able to
unmute
yourself
okay um yeah yes go ahead okay
umer
um
is
he can you hear me yes
perfect hi good evening uh my name is
liset estada I am a Hoover mom and this
evening I want to express my deep
appreciation to you uh Dr Baker for all
of your focus on the equity and to give
every student in Huber what it's needed
to have the same opportunities thank you
because you're giving every every person
what it's what they need in a in a fair
and impartial Manner and you're helping
our community or the Huber Community to
have the same uh rights all the time
including or students from Special Ed
and also I want to thank you for giving
that priority to our to the schools that
need the support the most and you know
this that they need the support and for
your outstanding leader ship and also
for creating an an environment where all
of the students can Thrive and with the
dedication with passion and with uh with
the the passion that you have Dr Baker
you have had a positive impact in our
school community and like we said our
community like our Huber Community it's
really big so we are very thankful with
you and thankful for you and and and God
and God is with
you graus Elizabeth um I
think oh I'm going to butcher this name
I think it is sersa
rafy
[Music]
yes oh get
it
hi hi I am sua I am a fourth grader at a
Ryan and I wanted to say how much I I
love my school and my teachers but I do
think that if the budget is cut I think
that we will be able to adapt I
appreciate that all all that Dr Baker
and the school board is doing for our
our school and our district I love to
learn and I can't wait to go to
keny and I and really and I really
appreciate being being able to go to
school school school in a diverse
District these stem Cuts won't affect me
but I hope that we can pass a bigger
paral
talks get a bigger paral tax passed so
we so that all kids can have what they
need to
learn thank
you before before before you sit down I
just want to thank you for speaking
tonight um that was very brave of you I
know that a lot of grown-ups are afraid
to come to our meetings and speak to us
so thank you very much I'm proud of
you um Sue
jensson uh Sue jensson uh T School Taff
Library um hate to break run of all
positive I'm concerned tonight because
of the lack of
communication from the from the district
um my group
Librarians were I found on the agenda
that there are three that are going to
be laid off the official notice that we
got was 36 hours ago from uh HR and in
it that lovely HR person revealed that
Not only was it the three but she outed
three of us that are
retiring um completely unprofessional in
my opinion but it is representative of
the type of communication I found it
coincidental if you want to use that
word that the three people being laid
off got a
reclass uh approved it will not go be
before your board because they will be
laid off um they've been guaranteed that
they will have a job blah blah blah but
that won't the discussions won't even
start until tomorrow um we pay a lot of
money in this district for a
communications director I am not seeing
that I've lived here over 30 years I'm a
homeowner here I'm not agreeing to a
partiel tax at this point I want to be
convinced that it's a good thing all my
kids were educated here I want to stay
in this district and support it but I'm
not feeling that thank you thank you um
so I know that there's some
clarification that needs to be provided
on the librari and is that coming up in
a in in another presentation
or it is okay well we can address that
then um Salvador Gomez I can't read that
Nava should be in person because I have
a card oh I wonder if that's who just
walked
out we'll wait on that he may come back
um an Bera
sorry Hi everybody um good evening and
thank you for this opportunity to speak
my name is Ann beraa and I've been with
the Redwood City school district for
over 32 years I've had the privilege and
opportunity to work directly for and
with many of you up there and many of
you out here um and um I've lived
through Through The Good the Bad and the
Ugly of the budget cuts with the
district over the years as well and I I
know firsthand how difficult this is um
although my heart is surely heavy with
the this need to once again cut
imperative positions such as our
counselors our Librarians our reading
support and our steam teachers tonight
I'm actually here to advocate for our
collective bargaining unit um request
that we enshrine in into the contract a
25 to1 class size for our K2 classrooms
our Redwood City students deserve the
best and while the district has had the
foresight in the recent years to leave
the K2 classrooms at a 25 or below our
current contract allows these numbers to
be pushed to 31 with no additional
adults in the classroom and with the
specific needs of our incoming kiddos
the lingering effects of the pandemic
increasing numbers of neurode Divergent
students and students with different
abilities it makes managing a large
class size um in a primary primary grade
classroom just that managing um and not
allowing enough time for actual teaching
and relationship building teachers want
teachers and support staff um want to do
their best for all of our students
academically emotionally physically but
the reality is that when you have a very
large class size it makes all all of
these desires extremely difficult um in
a K2
classroom um research has proven that
and we know from firsthand um experience
during the pandemic that relationship
building especially with our littlest
Learners is key to future success in
school and speaking from my experience
teaching kindergarten in first grade in
the years past when we did have these
high numbers although we all did our
best we were not always able to reach
the needs and meet the needs of every
student the reality of having such a
large class size is that students will
inevitably fall through the cracks and
sadly the ones that are most often the
ones that fall through the cracks most
often are our quiet our shy ones our
eels and E English learn English
language Learners and students with
learning differences who might be
overlooked and become they
marginalized one more um I'm hoping now
that we are now that we're funded
through the basic Aid um as opposed to
Ada the district and the board will make
the choice that's best for our R City
School District students and that is to
enshrine the 1 to 25 ratio in K2 um
grades our Redwood City students deserve
this thank
you our our next speaker is Sher suama
good evening everybody um my name is
Sher tiama I'm a first grade teacher at
Roosevelt Elementary School and um I
would like to speak like an about class
sizes I too think it's important to um
enshrine the 25 or less um in our
contract because it has made a huge
difference in my classroom uh first of
all I would like to say thank you to the
district for making the last few years
we've had those numbers and I can tell
you my personal experience it has been
really uh really good when I first
started teaching here it was 20 kids in
my classroom and I didn't realize how
good it was was until the numbers went
up to 28 and
29 and you do see kids falling through
the cracks and it was hard um but now in
my class with only 25 students
I'm meeting with the kids much more
often in small groups I'm able to do
that um because the other kids I don't
have you know 30 other kids running
around um there's much more student
participation I'm able to call on the
students more often I'm able to
facilitate more student group work
there's less disruptions in class
because I am able to move around the
room and have more control over the
situation um after covid there are
many more needs that need to be
addressed and with a smaller class size
I'm able to give more time and energy to
those kids I have two students this year
who did not attend preschool or
kindergarten and I've had more time to
address their needs as well they're
coming along good by the way um also we
fit into the classroom better I think
our classrooms were designed for 20 to1
so I have more spaces Flex spaces study
spaces for the kids with this kind of
numbers um our kids deserve the best and
while I really think class sizes should
go back to 20 to1 um I think perly
making 25 students a cap for the TK
second grade would be a step in the
right direction thank
you Jessica
mlan hello board members my name is
Jessica McLean this is my six year
teaching in the district as a education
specialist I currently teach a
transitional kindergarten extensive
needs Learning Center with eight amazing
students um there are many types of
special education teachers but the eslc
classes or formally known as the
moderate to severe disabilities special
day classes teach students who have the
highest level of support needs um I'm
often told that I must be a patient
person to work with the kiddos that I
teach but it's often not the kids that I
have to find the patients for it's the
barriers that special Educators have to
work through that test my patients High
case load size being the main barrier
that I would like to talk about today
the California teachers associations
recommends the following teacher case
loads for special Educators autism class
six pupils moderate to severe classes 6
to eight pupils loow incidence
disability classrooms four to eight
pupils like I said earlier I currently
teach eight lovely students with a wide
range of disabil ilities um and I will
likely to end with um nine and my
projected case load number for the 2024
25 year will be 10 TK to first grade
students other projected special
education case load numbers in this
District are also pushing alarmingly
High numbers the highest I've seen since
I've started working in this District I
love my job and my students to death but
having such a high case load number
doesn't allow students to get their
specific and important needs met moving
around safely receiving the required
detention and instruction needed quiet
and calm environments these are just to
name a few strong safety concerns also
start to arise when Cas load numbers are
this High it seems like the answer has
always been to max out case load numbers
and then funnel in AIDS and behavior
therapist to Support classes that have
too many students or having issues this
unfortunately contributes more to the
problem reduced case load numbers will
remove the need for extra adults and
give our students the means to actually
focus and thrive in addition of just one
more eslc and SLC class for next year
will decrease case load numbers for all
of these classes I know budgets are
tight but I believe our most vulnerable
students deserve better our CSD students
deserve the best thank
you thank
you um Allison
sudol good evening trustees and Dr Baker
my name is Alison sudall next year will
be my ninth year in the district and my
seventh year teaching my little loves in
the first to third grade extensive
support needs classroom on the Roosevelt
campus my first year in this classroom
back in 2017 I had six students then
seven then eight followed by two years
with 11 students and the past two years
with 10 students every year for the past
four years I've had to advocate for my
students myself and my support staff to
remain at a realistic cap of 10 students
I currently have a projection of 12
students for next School
year since increasing class sizes in
2019 we've seen a significant increase
in unsafe behaviors disregulation and
elopement for those of you who don't
know the term it's just students who are
leaving the
classroom while adding one or two
students to a classroom like ours may
seem trivial anyone intimately involved
in a higher support needs classroom
knows this is not the case these
programs were designed to support
sensory needs and regulation adding two
extra students to the mix inevitably
causes disregulation of the entire
classroom which then leads to these
unsafe behaviors me and my colleagues
have come up with a solution for next
year that ensures the safety and
well-being of our students by opening
one more extensive support needs
classroom and one more specialized
Learning Center classroom next year five
plus High needs programs go from having
12 to 14 students to 8 to 10 I'm more
than happy to send my in-depth proposal
of you're curious to see what that could
look like I love my students and their
families who I think most are on this
call more than I can ever express and
raising class sizes in this way is a
diservice and detriment to us all thank
you thank
you um so Connie and Beverly I just want
to ask you both have agenda item eight
would you want to speak now or do you
want to wait for the
next okay um so next is Aaron
Washburn good evening my name is Aaron
wasir my pronouns are they them and
theirs and I'm a music teacher in the
Redwood City School District and tonight
I am simply here to tell you uh the
benefits of having a well-funded proper
music education program uh for our kids
uh because our Elementary music programs
are being cut um I'll start with
performance a lot of people think that
this is this is what a lot of people see
is the performance um but it's not
really about the beautiful sound of 30
kids playing recorder on a stage um
actually what performance provides for
our kids is the ability to be in front
of an audience to know what it's like
what that feels like to develop that
self-awareness consider perspective and
is foundational for um skill building
around public speaking and learning how
to face their fears practicing in
rehearsal spaces helps them to
understand that they're going to improve
over time it's not about instant
gratification but developing patients
with themselves and others it Fosters
work ethic discipline and it teaches
them about being part of an
interconnected system um to create
something bigger a song it's about how
to really listen it builds School
culture um creates a common catalog of
songs Bridges generations and brings
Community together and it gives kids a
sense of Pride and belonging at school
social emotional benefits include stress
relief it's fun um and for some of our
students it's really important because
it might be the one place on campus
where they actually can Excel um it can
help boost the child's
confidence academically it enhances
memory skills for vocabulary and
language
acquisition um Elementary music programs
help with fine motor skills I hand
coordination builds capacity for
multitask brain functions because you
have to read interpret and then the
physical action of making the music
while being present in the current
moment and thinking forward of what's
coming next so it's a it's really good
for your brain having these programs and
learning how to do music I would urge
administrators to seriously consider
what a great and well-funded music uh
education program could do for the
climate and the culture at their schools
and I would urge parents to insist on
this benefit of having a good music
education program for their children
thank you thank you
Erin Diane
Diane should be in person I have a
card um Lily yeah di
Diane good evening to all of you thank
you so much for your time I love that
this is my first time ever speaking to
Bo I've been a dual emersion teacher um
you can hear me dual immersion teacher
Spanish um first second third reading
recovery and then now I I've
transitioned thanks to Redwood City to
being a school counselor over at Orion
um Nam is danan good is I love what I do
and I love that I see Smiles on faces
every day and I receive Hells
um I was compelled to come and speak
because because I felt it a kind of a
sign yesterday there was a student um in
the library after um before school ended
he was really disregulated and the
teacher came in my room is in the
library and said please speak to this
student I said sure So I brought him in
we had some rice
krispies down and I said are you ready
to talk would you like to speak
and no that's fine you don't have to if
you don't want to would you like to play
or would you like to maybe read a book
or are you ready to go back what what
what would you like he said I'd like to
go back and then I said would you like
to practice asking your teacher if you
could come back and he said yes okay so
we practiced and then we went back to
the library where the class was I asked
his teacher if he could come back and
then before I left this part out before
we did that he said I I said to him
if you ever want to check in please come
I am here this is my room you're welcome
you can tell your teacher I can pick you
up maybe if I'm busy I can pick you up
later in the
day and chis had he said yes this
morning I was walking down the hallway
and he stopped me and he
said there be a mental health counselor
next year and I
said I C be by surprise I said I'm not
sure what it's going to look like but as
soon as I know I will let you know and I
said you can check in this year if you
would
like the security for a student to know
that there's someone there they can
check in with if they need to it just
dawned on me how important that is for
them that safety now and and I invite
you to
consider hopefully having Mental Health
school counselor at every site available
for students to have that safety net and
I realized all of you have this
difficult position make this decision
and I I thank you for for your time and
I'm so proud to work at Redwood City
School District I love the people I work
with and all that I do thank you thank
you Lily
Milton
hi everyone trustees and um
superintendent and staff good evening uh
thank you so much for having us my name
is Lily Milton I'm an O and Kennedy
parent and a board member of the Rood
City Education Foundation and I'm just
I'm here now actually for a lot of
reasons so many great comments I'm so
glad um but I really want you to
consider rejecting the resolution
proposed um and request an alternative
approach to finding Solutions uh I
really urge you to seek authentic input
from the Educators in the school sites
and please stop putting schools and
programs against each other which is
fostering the scarcity mindset that's
that that that paralyzes the Innovative
thinking based on the community response
to this resolution and agenda item I
don't believe an open and transparent
process has taken place please stop the
toxic pattern of launching expensive
initiatives and then abandoning them
when priorities shift the proposed Steam
and music cuts are examples of this I
love them for all the reason stated but
I also think that it's a problem the way
we come and go where any Cuts or
reduction in services are Dem absolutely
necessary take an equitable approach and
and um which means cutting from the last
from the schools who need it
most please hold our district
accountable for serving all of our
students and demand a plan for outlining
the steps to achieve it I Echo the
community comments that the district
needs to enshrine the 25:1 ratio into
the contract as an absolute District
priority and I agree that a paral tax
would be a much needed infusion of
resources but I do fear that the current
lack of trust in the district would make
the campaign
difficult at this time I urge the
district to work to rebuild the trust
with your greater transparency and
collaboration thank
you um Dave prush I believe is
online hi Dave go ahead you can unmute
uh hi good evening um thank you I won't
take too much time as been so many
articulate comments um I do want to
acknowledge you know that I understand
that the the board is in a difficult
position dealing with um you know budget
mandates that come from other places um
but it you know it does seem uncontable
in a in an area where you can't buy you
know a garage sells for a million
dollars that that we're talking about
cutting Librarians uh mental health
professionals stem teachers um it you
know there just seems to be a disconnect
and um you know I did look you know it
does seem like some you know greater
money has come into the uh into the
district from the county over the last
few years um I apologize that I you know
don't know um enough uh to say is that
money being allocated effectively but
you know I would just Echo that I think
we need some some creative uh Solutions
here and
uh that you know everything that Lily
said I I would I would Echo that we need
to um take a step back from from cutting
all these positions uh and see if we can
come up with a better solution thank you
thank you um we have one more speaker
card I'm not actually sure this is on
this topic but it's um James
K actually I'm gonna okay okay thank you
um okay so I'll bring it back to the
board for
comments thought
whoever would like to start or Lisa if
you want to hop in
sometime sorry um thanks for the
presentation first of all thank you
everyone that is here for um being
parents in our district for being staff
in our district and teachers for taking
your time to come in come in here and
and everyone that's online that's here I
deeply appreciate the work that all of
you do um and and how you really are
part of the you are the Redwood City
School District Community um you're the
ones that put that together and and I
just want to say thank you so much for
um participating tonight sharing your
thoughts um bring bringing your unique
experiences and your unique perspectives
uh and making sure that those get voiced
so that we can hear them all um uh just
wanted to make sure that uh you know you
knew how much I appreciated hearing from
all of you tonight um thank you uh the
also thanks for putting together the
presentation um I think that that that
did help uh answer a lot of the
questions that I had initially also that
we had received an email um I think the
big thing for me was around like the
process that happened here um and and
how how did we go about making these
decisions and those priorities I'm
pretty sure you covered it mostly in the
presentation that it was we identified
how much had to get cut and then you
each site administrator helped figure
out how that was going to work work for
their site is that there was should go
to the school site Council we do have
one School site um that didn't get in
that did meet with staff and did meet I
think with PTO but hadn't met with the
school site Council yet and
um that's all I'm going to say about
that uh but I that that's one site that
didn't um but the rest did they also
started they also met with Wendy and
Anna to go through each of the F funding
that they had with the fine tooth comb
the funding that um was not put into
play at this point in time is their
measure U dollars so measure you dollars
are still dollars that the site staff
and site Council are going to determine
how to utilize the monies so and we
looked at our priority sites but there's
one question I think we we're going to
look at is taed a bit for the 0. five
counselor so I I think for Taft there
have I think what's missing in here is
Taft actually has multiple counselors
not they have the mental health and then
there is an extra counselor they have H
one life as well as they have an extra
counselor that comes through the county
it's the only site actually that has
that right now so they do have an extra
counselor on staff currently and that
has been there for number of
years so I believe there's three right
now and I may be missing one am I right
Laura yes there are part-time providers
contract one through RCF also or and
then there's RCF hours yeah 30 yeah so
RCF also has the 30 hours
correct and then just to make you aware
um you know many comments have been you
know seek outside funding look for
Grants we do have about three grants in
the hopper right now we will not know
until April 15th but those are for our
April May those are for our priority
School sites um and I did get a
$500,000 donation from a funer that I
spoke to last week on Tuesday um that
will help
maintain the number of counselors that
um not all of them but a good set of
them up Wendy brings it down to I forget
what now the point FES but the full-time
people help maintain those that are
listed at the school
sites I asked for a million but I got
500
okay there's I'm still hoping that I
could get some but well right now I've
got 500k
coming and so in a lot of the the
there's a deadline here right that we
have to have the announcement be able to
put this thing can you remind me what
the deadline is I think it's mid mid-
March right March 15 March 15 and so you
unable to wait to find out what that
that answer is because we have to right
and the grants that were written were
were for the priority schools um they
were written in a manner where the
requirements um need to have a certain
number of unduplicated populated
students okay can we walk people through
what happens on March 15 I'll let Wendy
do
that sure i' be happy to so through
Education Code there is
requirement that uh School boards take
action on any type of reductions for
certificated or classified staff board
approved and individuals
notified by the deadline of March 15th
and so individuals who are not in
positions yet will receive certified
mail uh with very legal e letters that
describe the whole process um which is
required by Ed code and after March 15th
has passed the district has an
obligation to fund those position
positions for the following school year
so very unlike any other
industry uh the the problematic part is
that we receive initial budgets in mid
January for the following year which is
a draft and then you know further more
firm budgets come in miday so that's
part of the budgetary cycle I know that
Rick Edson has described in the past of
course uh but the problematic piece is
that we have to make and this is in a
typical year this is not even
necessarily addressing the one-time
monies it's any funding sources in which
we have to analyze an anticipation for a
budgetary problem for the next year or a
reduction needed the interesting piece
is there are as Dr Baker mentioned after
March 15 there are other positions that
can then be added that's when grants
come in measure you site Council
decisions are made and some other
fine-tuning pieces however the
elimination of positions or reductions
have to be determined by March 15th
under Ed code and you can't look back
and so that's why you know it's it's um
very strenuous for everybody involved
but certainly for the board to have to
forecast these items because once again
this budgetary piece in a typical year
is based on the January 15th Governor's
proposal the unique situation tonight is
we know that onetime monies were indeed
onetime Monies
and so the for you know the monies are
drying up and so therefore there the
alternatives are to um you know look at
other funding sources and so um so
anyway that's the nutshell version of
the Ed
code so then we've we've gone through a
process working with the sites um you
you sort of identified what the
reductions are going to be you sort
talked with the principls theyve worked
with their staff and there
councils um to be able to put that
together uh when we did our interm
budget um it was there was identified
that you know we needed to address uh um
a budget stabilization that was in
December now
um does this address the the how does
this affect the stabilization
plan thanks trusty Wells uh so yeah the
combination of this along with other
measures that we've taken uh along the
way right in terms of uh also looking at
potential savings this year from open
positions uh the recalculation of our
lcff uh estimated proportionate based on
the governor's January budget with the
low Cola which also uh impacts the
amount of money that we have to pay with
in L taxes to Charter Schools uh a
combination of all that would uh
put us on track for fiscal solvency in
the eyes of the state with our current
year and our two out years uh and
returning to positive
certification for a second inum which
will be presented on the 20th of
March so just to kind of recap there's
kind of two important deadlines coming
up that we have no flexibility or
leniency to move one of those is about
cuts for the upcoming year and that must
be locked and loaded on March 15th
that's not our decision and the second
is a budgetary filing due on March 20th
that has to show that for the next three
years we are fiscally
solvent is that a reasonable summary
current plus two current plus two I
sorry that's a better way of saying it
thank
you I just want to add on top of that um
and I forwarded it to the board I did um
as board president receive a letter from
the county that Rick and John were also
on um regarding our first interum budget
that was a qualified certification
um and the county um in that
letter says the county reviewed our
first interim budget report uh the
county super superintendent has decided
to direct the RO City School District to
submit a financial projection of all
funds and cash at second interim which
is March 20th and direct the dist
directs the district to submit a
proposal for addressing the fiscal
condition and just for the benefit of
members of the audience um if we were to
fail to submit a current plus two-year
plan on March 20th that showed these
reductions which I believe were a total
between all the different things we
could do of about $5 million if we
weren't to do that um can you give a 30
second summary of the
consequences sure uh well uh if we were
in the same position as we were at first
inum and we self-certified our budget as
qualified uh again the county then would
look at it the same as it would any time
we submit an interm report uh and they'
either agree with us or uh doubtful
they'd ever say you were positive but
there would be a chance that you know
they could downgrade us as well highly
unlikely but that is one of the options
the county has uh at that point if you
are uh self-certified as qualified at
the second interim uh you are then uh by
order of the CDE required to do a third
interim report uh that would take uh
expenditures through April 30th uh at
that report there is no certification is
just an update to the county uh and then
we go directly into budget uh budget
adoption in
June uh and carrying that through you
don't
self-certify uh or put a status on your
budget at first interim it would be
looked at again uh and if you were still
in a qualified State uh then uh the
county would have to contact the M which
is a fiscal crisis and management
assistance team uh and they would come
in and do a review so uh with the
expectation that on March 20th uh we
will return to positive uh then all of
that goes away and we go back to our
normal budgeting cycle where we'll come
back in June with the um public hearing
for Budget along with the ELC cap uh and
then budget adoption at the last meeting
thank you so we are required by the
state to have a current plus two-year
budget that shows fiscal solvency and
there's consequences for failing to
achieve that thank you we got really
close um and that's why we went in the
direction
to close schools you know I think my
second year yeah um they were ready to
come in and start telling us what to
do um yeah so the last thing I wanted to
say was that um you know I'm glad to
hear about potential grants coming that
that might come in there I know later
we're going to be talking about
feasibility studies for uh ways to be
able to um increase Revenue to come in
here I am also very grateful for the
one-time funds uh whether you wanted to
deal with them or not because they did
allow the establishment of look all
these positions are really critical I
mean it's it's just they're so valuable
for the students they're all having an
impact for how how our students are um
going to find success both in school and
in life
um and many times helping their families
support uh as well um you know and so
it's it's really difficult um and there
are real people behind it there's real
students behind it that are impacted in
families um and it makes it very
challenge uh challenging uh I will say
that I think that involving the
principles and the site councils and
getting the understanding what they need
at their site to pull that in um seems
like the right process to have followed
uh and um I realized there were hiccups
uh some communication didn't work out
well I think it might be worth like
reviewing you know how how this went and
are there ways to improve should this be
needed to be done again in the future um
but I I think because the because of all
of that um you know I I will be
supporting the resolution and saying
that you know this is the the right path
to go forward um as we talk about it and
and just to remind you this funer that's
giving us the 500k and the grants are
only for the grants are for two years
right and then they go time funder is
here for one year and that's gone right
yeah they're not an ongoing solution for
this um but you know every every year uh
every year helps especially you know
these years that are so critical for
we're still seeing the impact of you
know for for particularly for the
youngest learners coming through the
pandemic um and coming out and and all
of that so you know I'm not going to say
no to onetime funds I think that you
know we'll be able to pull those things
in and and and get them to support
because like I said look these roles are
critical um I to don't want to see them
go tot agree it's just that for the
audience and for the parents because
they all vote
when education needs to be funded in a
manner which WR Equitable across the
board for all schools in the state of
California California and that does not
happen yes we are basic aid but we are
poor basic Aid look at my neighbor to
the South the millions and millions of
dollars that get more than what we
do I I sh I get so upset every time I at
the superintendent's meeting and don't
talk about your budget you know you guys
have got
this I I just wanted to state that sorry
yeah and one last thing I I think I said
thank you to all our speakers I did
really appreciate hearing from everyone
but I did want to recognize s again just
for you know having one of our students
come up and and be able to speak at the
board love hearing students talking um
and presenting the in their voice their
message so
thanks so my comment is thank you Mike
because you always put things just so
well just I just want to say ditto to
everything you said um and of course one
time
funding um was crucial right after covid
there's many positions that became
available and it's really hard times
obviously us as board members um we're
putting this situation but again
principles know what they're doing um
again when it comes down to the
communication if there was any broken
communication we apologize if that um
didn't set um things straight um we're
regular people just like you are and it
does just like some of you the people in
the audience said with the heavy heart
we do have you know feelings and you
guys are all equal to us we are board
members but again we're just community
members just like you are um so I do
want to say that um it is really hard
times and it's very unfortunate just
like Dr Baker said there's other school
districts um that are better off than we
are and it is very unfortunate because
of the funding of the State of
California
my daughter is a teacher so I totally
understand when it comes out to
certificated staff and I'm a classified
employee at another's District so I
totally get what everybody is and I do
want to say um um a comment that
somebody made about communication I feel
because I do compare our district with
other districts we are transparent as a
matter of fact sometimes I think not to
say that it's wrong but even Dr Baker
says a lot more than what I was actually
even hoping for um and again I do
compare it and so I just want to say if
you ever have any uh miscommunication or
misunderstanding we are here we do get a
lot of emails I do want to say thank you
to all those people that sent us email
there's just so many and just not enough
time to respond but I do want to
acknowledge everyone and I just want to
let you guys know that we do care for
Redwood City we wouldn't be here I mean
I'm a parent I've always been an
involved parent um and we are here in
this position because we care um it's
not here for the money
CU we don't get paid much and it's not
again it's just we want to be able to
help all of our students in Redwood City
so I just want to make you aware that it
does hurt when it comes down to the and
I want to point out all of the mental
health clinicians or Leons are very
important but I do want to say in the
case of Maryann
I love
you I
mean and I don't want to get sentimental
but
um I wish I had a person like
you when I was in
school and I get that your
position is going to get
cut but it's tough
times and it is very unfortunate but
hopefully things will work out just like
they said there's some vacancy positions
I hope that all of you that are able to
either get another 02 or a0 five even if
it's somewhere else remember this is
still rid City and I think if we care
for our students which you guys all have
shown that we
do that you still remain with us because
we do care and who knows maybe you know
the governor will look at things
differently and hopefully we'll get
funded you know soon um it is very
unfortunate but I just want to let you
guys know that we totally
care
um it's it's tough it really
is
um and I I just want to let you guys
know I don't know how else to express it
that um we really do mean what we say
and again the recommendations
come from the principls from the
superintendent they are the Educators
that actually see what you guys go
through day in and day
out
so we trust them I trust them um and I
just want to say it's definitely hard
times but it's things that we have to do
otherwise even if we don't do it now
it's gonna have to be done next year or
the year before and if we don't start
cutting little by little eventually it's
going to get even worse um I'm going
back
to my daughter's now 27 years
old and I see three rosil uh staff
members that I've known for over 20
years and I remember when those cuts
happened back when my daughter was in
kindergarten and the district
unfortunately had to let go of very good
teachers and it was very unfortunate and
again because of the funding we have to
notify the staff that they're G to get
let go and a month later a position
comes open but unfortunately those
certificated staff already found a job
at another school district and it's very
unfortunate of how the system works in
education so I just want to let you guys
know that we do care and that there are
sometimes unfortunate situations um but
that we totally understand so thank you
for your
commitment so um Alisa or David I don't
know if you were done with your
comments yeah you want
Lisa Alisa Hing you can have the
floor oh
wait okay can you hear me
now I had double muted myself just in
case I think anyway um hi everyone I
really wish I could have been here
tonight um I'm really sorry that I uh
needed to to come on virtually um but
I'm helping uh with some elder care
right now so anyway um I'm there uh in
spirit and I certainly uh was able to
join uh virtually and listen to
Everything I wanted to say um first of
all thank you to all the speakers uh the
parents uh students teachers staff who
spoke tonight I really appreciate
hearing from you I know that um all of
us do um you help us make better
decisions and I also want to say thank
you for all the emails and phone calls
that I got that last couple of weeks I
was able to get back to most people but
not everyone but I was able to read
everything and I I'm sure that's the
case with all of the board members and
again it's really important for us to
hear from you I I I I truly believe that
it does help us make better decisions um
and then I want to give just a special
shout out to all of our teachers and all
of our staff in Redwood City you work so
hard every single day for our students
and families and much of that came out
tonight in uh what we heard from
speakers as well as the emails that I
got and I really appreciate it I've uh
been a Schoolboard member for 17 years
and uh when I started on the school
board back in
2007 I came on with all these ideas of
things that I wanted to do for our
district and for our students right and
then we went right into the Great
Recession and we had to do drastic Cuts
I mean much worse than what we're
talking about today we we got down into
class classrooms um it was horrible um
really horrible and so I have seen this
happen before um we're able to kind of
build back from the Great Recession uh
frankly Rood city school district has
never had enough money to fully fund our
education provide for our students what
they really
deserve however what I'm really proud
about is it's amazing that even with the
little engine who could is how I feel a
lot of times we are still able to
provide a high quality education and we
heard from some of the parents and
students both in emails and tonight how
they are getting the education um and
they're happy with school and they love
their teachers and they love their staff
and so even with all of that we're still
able to provide and I want to remind us
that we have all well actually since my
17 years in the school district we have
always relied on one-time funding we've
always relied on patchworking things
together it always looks worse in March
than it does in August um because by the
time time we get to August uh a little
more money has come in as a lot of
people have spoken about tonight so uh
we know that there's some grant funding
some donations um we have a parcel tax
we're going to talk about uh later
tonight and just to keep in mind really
there's very few additional funding I
mean we are a property tax funded
District so we get primarily our funding
from property taxes we get a little bit
of extra State funding a little bit of
extra Federal funding again I will point
out that the state and federal
government they have never funded
special ed fully in fact it is it's in
my opinion it's criminal how little they
give us for special ed students and it's
and and they're the ones who who mandate
it and of course we believe that our
special ed students deserve it right so
let's just start with there that that
that the state and federal government
are not providing the funding that they
need to provide so we have to we have to
look inward we have to look to our
community and we have very few ways of
doing that we can look for donations or
we can look for a part tax so I
appreciate the the conversations about
creativity and I certainly welcome any
ideas you have and certainly we do lease
out School sites and classrooms where we
can um but all of those things are on
the margin really of what we need so you
know we will continue to speak creative
creative creativity creatively sorry um
and I encourage you if you have any
specific ideas please email me I know
we're always happy to to um look into
those um anyway I want to also just
point out I was doing just a little
research and some of the data was a
little bit old but just keep in mind
like when people compare us to palala
Unified School District they are um
spending way more money including more
than $110,000 per student a year if we
had that kind of money we'd have another
$60 million uh in our school district
imagine what we could do because the the
cuts before us today are just minuscule
compared to that $60 million we would be
able to provide so much more right if we
had the P Alto funding um mow park has
more than $5,000 per student more than
us so again that'd be $30 million so
just think of what we could do with that
so the point I want to bring up is that
Redwood City is a little engine who
could I'm really proud of what we do um
but unfortunately this is the cycle we
get one-time funding and then when that
funding goes away we have to either lay
off those positions or we have to find
new money so unfortunately the way the
system works also is that we have to
give the notice to all of our employees
by March 15th as was discussed and so we
may still continue and I mean we've
already heard tonight that we we know
there's some additional money coming in
so hopefully we can bring back some of
these positions and I've seen it
year-over-year we often are able to
bring back a few of them um and I I
really care about all of the things we
talked about the mental health the steam
um ev Everything so anyway I I just want
to oh and music I think music's not part
of theme so I want to make sure oh no I
guess maybe it is
um anyway but I just want to say thank
you I'm I'm really sorry to those
individuals who are impacted um I know
how hard it is I've talked to a few of
you I've gotten emails um please know
that we value you and I I I'm really
happy to hear from Miss Kelly that uh we
should have positions for everybody if
we're not able to bring back the
position you're currently holding as
money comes in so anyway um with a with
a heavy heart I will be supporting this
resolution um but once again you know
I've had to make a lot of hard decisions
as a Schoolboard member and some of them
I believe are not the best interest for
students but it's what we have to do in
order to maintain our financial
stability because I can tell you that if
we don't maintain our financial
stability the state will come in and
they don't they don't even listen to all
these comments they're just going to go
in on a tactical basis to start cutting
things I mean it's not it's not a Humane
process you can talk to any of the
school districts that have had it done
and it takes years and years to recover
from that sort of thing so we don't even
want to get close to that happening so I
do want to say um thank you very much to
Dr Baker to our CBO uh Rick um and just
to all the District staff and to the
principles who have worked really hard
on this I know it's really hard hard
decisions um it's never easy to make
these recommendations um and I know that
I've had some conversations and I feel
comfortable with the process that we
used um so anyway uh thank you everybody
and um again I I W you know I I wish I
wish we just had more money so we got to
work towards that and we'll have an
agenda item later on the agenda where we
can talk about that thank
you thanks
Elisa hey folks um I I want to
acknowledge this is a really tough
situation uh my son Max is at Ryan you
heard a number of other speakers from
Ryan his favorite class there is his
steam class you know so we got a number
of notes advocating for steam education
that hey it's really important um and I
I I couldn't agree more um and this is
something that's going to impact my own
children so it's like I I I I resonate
um with the arguments that were made
about the importance here um I really
appreciated the comments like from Erin
about the the brain development in the
use of the the Arts and Performing and
music um I really appreciated the notes
from The Librarians um Li public
libraries played a really important role
in my own education and I think it's
really important that we support them
here in the district uh we are Pro Steam
we're proarts we're pro libraries and we
also have to be Pro balanced budget and
that puts us in a really crappy position
um so uh it's been really amazing just
to see the passion all of the different
people who care about a high quality
education for all of the students here
who care about Equitable education for
all of our students in the district I've
gotten a lot of emails we've filled a
room here and we've had uh one point I
noted over 160 folks online uh for a lot
of folks that's it burdened just even
tonight showing up people have spouses
people have kids who need care Elders
that need care and you've invested your
your time here because you care um so
thank you for caring that's what makes a
district work that's how we're going to
deliver quality education to our
students so thank you staff thank you
teachers thank you parents um that's how
that's how the district is going to work
um we got a number of prods from
speakers to be creative about how we're
gonna fun things amen let's get creative
I even uh heard from Allison that she
has an in-depth proposal uh yeah I want
to see it um let let's go and inap the
collective creativity of this group to
see like how can we make sure that we
get a high quality education for each of
our students so thank you um this is a
it's a tough call but we have to make it
you've heard the dates these are not
things that we have the power to to move
as as a district and so even though
we're going to have to move forward it's
a with a heavy heart and B we hope that
we can help support and fund these roles
going forward so thank you so much for
everyone who's come out who spoken and
who cares about the students of this
District this is
um the hardest or one of the hardest the
hardest part of the job um as a
Schoolboard member uh a few years ago we
we had to cut 18 million um that was my
first experience as a board member
having to having to cut um and that was
really difficult um thankfully I had
colleagues aside me that had gone
through like Alisa the the recession
before that
um I've read every email I admittedly
have not responded to every single one
but I've gotten to a lot of them I think
every email up through 5:30 tonight um
I've read all the comments on the
Facebook page I've read all the comments
on next door
um and I just I I want to remind people
this is not and I think everybody here
has heard this this is not a top- down
decision this went out to the school
sites um the principals helped make
decisions about what was important for
their school sites to keep and what they
felt like they could cut in order to
help us balance the budget um this is
not the school board sitting here
saying You must all reduce these
positions or else um we care very much
about what happens on each School site
um we care about the culture we care
about the students and the staff there
um I have always been a huge champion of
music and arts um that was my life
growing up
um my now high schooler um was in
Orchestra at Kennedy my now sixth grader
um just loves his steam Club at Kennedy
um you know I was on the road City
Library board for seven years um there
these are things I'm passionate about
and I don't disagree with you I've read
the science
behind what music and art does to a
brain um I understand how important it
is I wish we had an extra $60 million to
put into this District
um as has been mentioned and I think
everybody here knows
we don't have a choice as to when we
make these decisions it would be
irresponsible to um push this off and
then be
stuck having to find funding for them
when we don't know where that funding is
going to come from if that funding comes
in I am all for bringing those positions
back as much as we can and we've done it
in the past
um I'm I'm hopeful that we will be able
to do that come you know the fall I Dr
Baker is just absolutely like a magician
making money appear um
I it's always just only 500k and then
there's then there's a little bit more
and a little bit more um I I don't know
what money tree he found but um you know
this this isn't easy um
I I'm born and raised in rwood city I am
a product of the road City School
District as is Cecilia um I care about
it I care about the schools uh I care
about the community um and I hate to
make decisions that hurt people and hurt
families um as my dad taught me growing
up sometimes I have to do the hard
things even if I don't want to do them
um and so you know with that said I I
will support the
resolution
um
yeah number one is just to thank
everyone who's here tonight and number
two all those that are online virtually
um this is a very difficult time for
anybody that has to bring forward by
anyone I mean a superintendent that
brings forward uh a resolution like this
to the Board of Education I didn't think
I'd be in this situation since the
closing of school which was horrendous
as many of you went through that with us
um I'll get off my soap box but we have
to be funded well funded well and that's
by the state
um I I know an you made the comment
about basic aid but the basic Aid
dollars are minimal compared to our
neighbors on at in the South and to the
north of us um if that were to Able ever
change we'd have an equal opportunity as
they do to provide everything that um
they provide to their communities and to
their students uh but we're not there
yet and I don't know what or when
that'll ever happen it was very
difficult for the principles to even
hear this information when we went
through it right after winter
break um about what we were going to
need to do and we looked at each of
these different types of fundings we
were receiving and the amount of money
that was being allotted for each of them
and um they said aren't you going to
tell us what to cut no
they are there with you teachers and
staff and parents they know the
community so much better than we do we
are here to support their work and your
work and I know maybe you don't believe
that but we we do and so I have a lot of
faith in our site administrators and um
many of them right now are out searching
for additional
dollars they are looking at creative
ways of using the measure U dollars
which are the parcel tax dollars which
they have along with their schools side
councils and their staff's total control
of we do not mandate how they are
utilized with the exception that they
follow the guidelines that were
stipulated and the parcel tax language
and that's that that uh spreadsheet that
comes to the board every year sometimes
addendums come during the the year of
how that moneyy is going to be spent and
then it goes before our public oversight
committee that reviews it so I believe
with those small extra dollars they're
going to Cobble some things together but
as was expressed this evening we're just
up against that deadline for March 15 I
wish I wish it were May 15 but that's
just not going to happen happen it's
it's Ed code
so I value each and every one of the
employees that we have in this school
district many of you have known for you
for years and we go back a long time
Sherry we do too and the other K
teachers we do also at Rosevelt um and
have been with us during those rough
times when two years in a row this board
I was not the superintendent I was in HR
two years in a row they released 50
teachers I'm not talking just CL not
talking I'm not even getting to the
classified it was 50 teachers each
year and you talk about a board that was
crying at the end of each of those
evenings and each of those
years I'm glad we're not at that point
we're not there but this is just as
hurtful this is just as hurtful so again
thank you all for being here this
evening and we will move forward and get
through this together thank
you
I'm sorry Bor but this is an action item
that we need a motion
on I will make a motion to adopt
resolution
seven yeah sadly I'll second
it trusty
Marquez hi trusty Weekley hi trusty
McAvoy I vice president Wells I
president Lawson hi
done um so I I need to recognize it's
nine o'clock we usually take a five
minute break I feel like we have some
other important items to get to how does
the board feel right
now let not let's going keep going okay
so that brings us to
7.3
and yes thank you for those who are here
if you need to step out that's fine we
won't be
offended
so wheny do you want to move forward
with this next
item thank you so the next item is
regarding our classified staff the
reduction of classified staff and so the
resolution number eight outlines the
number of positions uh districtwide
Andor various School sites that um are a
result of a recommendation of a layoff
some of them certainly are with one-time
monies but others
are uh there's rationale for other
reasons for example our campus
supervisors and our school office assist
categories were really as a result of
looking at the enrollment the major
enrollment changes or addressing the
Staffing that was implemented right
after the merge or the closure of
schools and so um those particular
positions additional support was given
to Kennedy and
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um and you adante certainly because of
the merge and and Garfield as well for
many years and it was time to make a
recommendation for that uh FTE support
to be reduced based on the enrollment
for example Garfield is hovering around
312 students and so the extra office
support um was is a recommendation to be
reduced so that's one
example the other items on here um are
addressing onetime monies the bilingual
newcomer
programs um some lbns we talked about
the classified
managers so that those positions are as
a result of of the lack of funding which
are the two reasons why there's a layoff
lack of work or lack of funding the
recruitment migrant education program
has changed the SEL County of office of
Ed is now hosting that program and so
that is the rationale behind uh the lack
of work so to speak meaning that work
shifted
I do want to address the library media
assistant yeah I
know
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okay okay okay
see okay so the comment is oh well I'm
sorry my name is salvadora I want to
apologize I had to come out because of
my daughter and I had to came uh came
back I think I'm a bit late but right
here in this room they never spoken like
they they never spoke in Spanish and a
lot a lot of us or English is very
limited uh we don't understand
everything that is being said right but
uh but I'm here I'm here today present
because I want to give my opinion and
the way that I think and you know before
than anything I am very thankful with
the with the principal with the tff
principal right here present that was
two years ago right now Mr marara is
there and thanks to the staff H for the
education that they're giving our
children and well I I'm here uh to give
importance about the counseling H for
for students right I have a
seven-year-old a daughter that tends to
T then she needs counseling so then the
same thing that you know that I have a
girl there's many families that they
also need that support and what would
happen without support you know where
where are they going to send our
children uh you know the trauma that
they have they are not going to there's
not there's not a person that's going to
give a follow up to the trauma that they
have and where we sending them uh then
later on they're going to uh maybe
become drug addicts or uh there's like a
school shooting or for all of the trauma
that they have so I think that if
there's therapy in schools and if they
are those and if we have the necessary
budget to give them the support to our
children then that would be good and we
have it um yes so
then when I wanted
to I wanted to you know to I wanted us
to have enough funds because the way
that I have a a daughter there are many
families that have children in the same
situation we want our children to to
grow up happy and to grow up to have a
happy childhood hood and have good a
good education and to be successful in
the future thank you very
much okay
so uh I was addressing the PKS
classified reduction document
and describing the various um components
so the last group on the PKS reduction
is library media assistance and I I want
to be really crystal clear about this
every school will have a librarian next
year what needs to happen in this
process is that we need
to take a look at this position and the
district has an interest in changing it
and I'll
explain um we entered into a
conversation with CCA last week
regarding all of the layoffs of course
we do that prior to this meeting and
inform them and go through the list and
so forth and it will then lead to a
follow-up discussion which we've
scheduled already for March 21st but we
are meeting tomorrow uh specifically at
the about the librarian situation
there's a desire for the district for
Equity purposes to move the LMA we call
it library media assistant position to
an lmta and I'll explain what that
means gosh roughly 12ish years ago don't
quote me on that but a while back um
there were two job descriptions created
for librarians one is the LMA job
description and the other one is the
lmta the
lmta uh job description requires extra
education 18 units to earn an lmta
certificate it's a library media techn
technical associate certificate which
included you know quite a few things a
primary focus on digital media and so
forth and so years ago there was the
ability for the L all LM lmas at that
time to be sort of uh grandfathered in
to be in positions of lmta which came
with you know a significantly higher pay
increase with a different job
description so that was years ago so as
time has progressed we currently have 11
libraries in our district because
Northstar and MIT share one we have 12
sites but 11 libraries and they are
filled with nine lmta Librarians and
three LMA Librarians and while we adore
the people in those positions and they
have worked very hard um we do want to
infuse and ensure that the students at
the LMA Library Library sites can have
access to you know a more robust
librarian program which is being
developed by the teacher librarian uh
Beth Berlin Stevens and so in order to
do that we need to lay off the position
to add back the lmta position which is
the goal of the
district now once a layoff occurs for
example tonight should the board take
action the district negotiates the
effect of the layoff with CCA which
means that we sit with csca into a
formal meeting and talk through the
ramifications of this knowing that we
have seasoned Librarians how could we
make this work and so those are the
brainstorm ideas that will be occurring
tomorrow
afternoon
um and with the intent to do so two of
the LMA
libraries Librarians at the libraries
are at Garfield and Hoover which are two
of our high priority sites the other one
is uh Clifford and so with that it is a
desire within the board Equity goals to
really ensure that those
programs um are are essentially equal
amongst all of our 11 school 11 uh
district schools that are affected so
for multiple years we've had differences
in those job descriptions and I think
it's time to address that um in regards
to the comment made earlier regarding a
reclassification there has not been a
reclass approved um that was erroneous
it is going through the process but
there's not been an approval such at
this time so that um is one thing and
that reclass um topic was about making
the current
lmas uh that are in those positions earn
the same salary as the lmta without the
certificate and so that's why um you
know that's sort of irre irrelevant of
this topic tonight the district's desire
is to bring back the lmta C certificated
employees for those three positions and
so that's why it's on the resolution
tonight because this is the moment in
time in which we can uh consider that
request but to be perfectly clear every
single school will have a library next
year that's already going to be in place
a librarian excuse me at the library so
I wanted to uh describe the situations
regarding the um resolution for
classified
staff oh we have three speakers on this
um the first speaker is uh Anna
salorio good
evening uh next to me are some of the
people's some of the people that are
might be affected and
uh and and probably many others are
online right now and they um they as
many others are crucial for of our
Student
Success dear me dear board members Dr
Baker my name is s Solorio and I'm the
president of the CCA chapter 5 the
district classify employees union I
understand that you've been asked to
consider layoffs of classified staff at
tonight's meeting
csca opposes the layoff of any
classified employees and we believe the
district should explore Alternatives
mean of cutting cost which do not
include eliminating the staff that works
so hard to seror students and
communities
CSA respectfully requests that you do
not approve tonight's layup
resolution thank you for the time um I
know this come late because you already
voted but
if it can be we haven't voted on this
item yet oh okay um so I we really
appreciate if you can consider not to um
approve this
resolution tonight thank you thank you
um next we have Connie is it ham
Hamilton Hamil oh okay okay um well I've
started notes and then I've changed it
several times um my concern is the
students how is it possible that there
are going to be six brand new at the
highest rate of pay with medical
benefits when you're laying off the
three lowest paid Librarians and we did
not ask for the same rate as the
lmats we asked to be lower than them but
we wanted to be acknowledged that we did
the same exact job that they're doing at
our schools and we've been do I've been
doing this for 11 years I started at ha
I was there for seven years while my
students my children went to Haw um then
they closed Haw and I ended up at
Clifford and I love Clifford I love I
loved everybody at Haw but they're a
family to me and I have relationships
with all of the students at at Clifford
and I'm concerned for them I mean I find
joy in my job going to work every day
and
you telling me that oh yes there's going
to be a full-time librarian there in
August when you you haven't even been
able to find a sub for the
Hoover Uh School library who has this
certificate so how are you going to find
six full-time employees for the
libraries when there's three that are
retiring and then three of us that are
going to be laid off because we don't
have the certificate but yet
Bev's been doing it for 10 years without
their certificate we purchase all our we
choose the books for our libraries we
process all the books we are not just
sitting there checking in and out books
we have relationships with everybody at
our
school I it just if it's how is that
when you're looking for funding why
would you get rid of the I don't even
have medical so I'm like on the discount
employee plan here I'm one of the the
least paid Librarians because I don't
even get the medical I get that with my
husband so I mean when we're looking for
money how is that Equitable or what was
the word used uh cost efficient and
Equitable for us to not we haven't we
didn't need these certificates when we
started but my 11 years experience ought
to be enough I am loved I love my job I
love the people that I work
for this is ridiculous and and it's
really saddened and what's the word I
wanted to say it's
insulting and what was that and I'm
devastated I mean what about the
students we're talking about mental
health and counseling and covid and all
that they went through during that and I
have relationships Bev has relationships
with these kids and we're just GNA throw
that
away thank you con your your time is I
know I didn't know I thought that was
somebody's phone okay now is it B
yes and I'm on the
left good evening uh my name is Beverly
aguil and I'm the librarian at Garfield
School this is my fellow colleague
librarian miss Connie Hamilton from
Clifford school we are here to speak on
behalf of our library media Assistant
Group as our positions are being
eliminated at the end of the school year
we do not understand why our positions
are being eliminated as school libraries
still need Librarians for our students
our schools are not closing our student
population numbers may change and
therefore or we would understand that
there would be a reduction in hours for
our sites we were recently informed
through email this Monday that our
positions were being eliminated due to
lack of work and or lack of funds then
yesterday Tuesday we were again informed
through another email that our positions
were being eliminated because the
district wants to provide equ Equitable
Services for all School sites and have M
LM uh ta positions in the future this
was never mentioned to our group uh
before until now um there are two
classifications for librarians in our
district the library media technical
associate lmta at
25.5 and our group the library media
assistant L LMA at 19.5 our job
descriptions are very outdated for both
classifications the LMA since 2000
making it 23 years the lmta since 2004
making it 19 years this past October our
group applied to do a reclassification
since we all do the same duties except
for having the certificate we had the
support of the district librarian Beth
Berlin Stevens and the support of my
principal Miss Lupe Torres khil there
are three of us in this group our fellow
colleague is on leave we were informed
through email from Erin Kos Director of
Human Resources this past December 6
said after analysis of our our requests
the committee would uh be recommending
to the superintendent that our positions
be reclassified from 19.5 to the pay
grate of 23.5 this feels unjust for our
group that applied for the
reclassification and that it was
recommended to be approved and now our
positions are being eliminated we
understand if the district has a
different vision for libraries in the
future and that there are three
Librarians retiring at the end of this
school year if our positions are
eliminated it would be a total of six
schools libraries to be filled and or
for the remaining Librarians to co-share
all 11 libraries which will not be an
easy task and is not only not fair to
for their wellbeing but also not fair to
all the school communities that they
will have to serve we have been loyal
and faithful employees to the Redwood
City School District with a combined 30
years of experience between the three of
us we have worked with our school
communities two of us are bilingual we
see classes on a weekly basis and we
have worked on building and making our
library collections better for our
schools Connie and I have also received
excellent evaluations we respectfully
ask that you please consider not
eliminating our positions and to give us
the opportunity to continue to work and
serve our school communities thank you
for your time and attention to this
matter thank you thank
you comments the
board reler if you have any
comments and maybe Wendy um
clarify I was just a little confused
when they were talking about six
positions can you explain that
please so there are 11 libraries in our
district and we're a total of 11
Librarians three are
retiring three LMT are
retiring so that notice came in early
February and then we
have three
lmas and then the remainder are LMT so
six so the way it would so so the what
would happen is we would fly the
positions of the LMT that are retiring
right like we would any year for anyone
retiring and then after negotiating with
CCA the effects of the layoff we would
decide what our next step is to fill
those
vacancies moving forward so the
remaining
three
so Beth Berlin Stevens our teacher
librarian is also an instructor at uh
the city college in which the lmta
certificate is available to be sought um
and I spoke with her earlier regarding
filling vacancies and she's feeling
pretty confident that we can get the
lmta POS positions filled for next
year and when you mean by fill those
positions is that from outside people or
from so certainly for the for the
individuals that are retiring yes
because we need to fill vacancies for
people leaving us so that would be um
three lmta new hires and then after the
result of our negotiations with CCA
tomorrow I will know which positions I'm
flying for
2425 um and if there's an alter
to the recommendation of the layoff as a
result of CCA negotiations I will need
to bring that back to the board by May
15 so should in the course of of um
negotiating with CCA there's a I'm just
going to give you a hypothetical because
we haven't entered into this yet but
let's say for example we negotiate with
csca and the effects of the layoff and
one of the items is that you know
hypothetically we extend the layoff for
a year and say please go and get the
certification for that's 18 units for
example or two years or whatever it is
if the board takes action tonight to lay
off there is another timeline in Ed code
which is May 15th so at the May 8th
board meeting I would need to bring back
a finalized mou with cssea that alters
the projection of what this layoff would
be so for example if we kept LM is
intact for next school year with this
caveat in place about seeking the lmta
certification then that would actually
void the layoff from the board so the
board would then have to revote to adopt
that change that was that came as a
result of the negotiation that's why
it's a little premature but we once
again have this May 15th deadline and if
we don't layoff we we don't negotiate
with csca because you negotiate the
effects of a layoff
so I hope that makes sense it's it's
quite a complicated process but that's
why that moment in time has to happen
right now in a perfect world we would
have done this months and months and
months ago and hopefully have led up to
this process but you know out of all of
our work that we've been doing with
equity and so forth it was a timely
fashion so that's why we're here where
we are but we do have that secondary
date of May
I
you mind if I say something on this go
ahead can you hear me
okay um yeah so I asked this very
question when I saw this and
um maybe in Lay person's terms because
I'm not an HR director and I'm not
involved in the negotiations we
eventually see what comes out in
negotiations and that there's usually a
recommendation that well there's always
a recommendation that comes to the board
to approve so um because one of the
things of course was concerned about is
we do have three incredible uh
Librarians at the schools and um thank
you Bev and Connie for speaking tonight
and certainly we value you and um the
wonderful relationships that you have
with your students and um the services
that you provide I mean it's clear that
you love what you do and certainly I
know that I value you as well well as
everyone else so my understanding is
again this is sort of this crazy process
that education has per Education Code if
we were in a private business or in some
other realm we wouldn't have to do it
this way we could do it in a much more
Humane fashion but we have these
ridiculous deadlines these ridiculous um
sort of rules in place and and then we
also have collective bargaining which is
really important and I know that our
staff um you know value that as do we so
the way this works this is my
understanding and I think this is what
Wendy just said is that if if we approve
the layoffs tonight then that allows for
the negotiation of the effect of the
layoff and and part of that could come
out that those individuals are are able
to continue in those positions for a
year or two years whatever comes out of
the negotiations as they work towards
getting the ltma because I will say um
what's hard is that going back many
years ago we had we've been having
conversations all along about uh the
certification the requirements that we
want our Librarians to have and so we've
been putting it off in some regards
year-over year and so I think the
recommendation tonight is that we
actually move forward and do this and so
I do realize it's really hard and it's
also you know I AP you know Ju Just on
behalf of the district um you know it
does sound like communication was not um
as good as it could have been um and I
apologize for that just for you know my
role and whatever that might be um but I
but I do want to say we value uh you and
I do think that the process would allow
for us to come up with a plan that could
work um but that all have to be done in
negotiations and again I'm not part of
that I'm not the HR Director um but I
would look forward to recommendations
that could allow us to to do some of
that thank you Alisa I I would agree um
when the district meets with cs CA to
discuss all the layoffs in advance of
March 6th
tonight um you know the district has a
responsibility to notify staff believe
it or not after the decision's made so
that's not really the Humane process but
that's what the law says is that there's
this series of notifications that have
to be done and so between you know
administrators and and HR um and and
assumingly through
CCA um that process seemed like it
rolled out in a bumpy sort of fashion
which I'll go back and review um but
thank you for that I appreciate those
those words and those
sentiments um and and I just do um have
a comment and kind of a question um when
they spoke about the
miscommunication
with classified employees or the
Librarians and this
um they talked about getting a
notification on Monday and I forget
there was two different dates and I'm
just
wondering um in fact whether that is
true what happened as far as you know
was it a hiccup in HR because again I do
want to make you guys aware I am a
classified employee myself so I totally
understand that and there may be times
when obviously we're all human make and
make mistakes but I just want to make
sure that whether that did happen and I
don't you know mean it in a bad way but
if we could just be careful because
again and I do want to say not on a
personal level but a lot of classified
employees may
feel uh the districts cater to
certificated staff more than they do to
classified staff and so I do know that
our district is very um again
transparent and have always said that
there is no um
what's the word I want to use um like
difference and so I just want to make
sure that what we're saying is that we
what we are doing so I want to just make
sure that you know things are clear that
communication and again going back to
communication and I said it before I
think we we do a great job so I just
want to make sure that again classified
staff are being
um I can't even think
um I don't want to say like respected
because I know that they are respected
but you know that we make sure that we
communicate in other words I guess uh
so question comment because I was saying
like it was a question as to what
happened and then a comment you know
based on classified in place so I
believe I just answered that for Lisa
did you want me to expand
further I think I just answered that
that that question for you do you want
me to expand further on
that I guess so because I guess I didn't
understand like what actually happened
so last week we met with CCA to explain
all the
positions and then we spoke with side
administrators about the about the
librarian specifically in this
case and then on
Monday my office reached out to the
Librarians although it's not required to
do that until tomorrow
that's what
happened so that's that is by Edco that
it's required so I I want to go back and
unpack and find out you know what could
have been done better in that regard um
but that is what I know to be true that
occurred that's and I appreciate again
the clarification because again we want
to be uh transparent and you know for
everyone to understand what happened and
if there was a mistake that perhaps
could be corrected in the future so
thank you and I appreciate what you guys
do um you and your team of course but
again thank you very
much thank you Anna for speaking and and
Bev and Connie for coming in talking
it's clear that you have passion for the
roles and the positions that you're in
um and Wendy thank you you for walking
through the the how of the
decision-making process around this
stuff um you know which ones were coming
out of one-time funding which ones are
being right sized because of reduction
of funding and and then this this role
change that we're talking about
rightfully so um the job description
change um what it sounds like to me is
that we're at the beginning of a process
and we have partial information here um
and that this step is going to begin the
process process for figuring out what is
the right way to navigate through both
the position um the circles in one part
of your slide and the people the
pictures of humans in real life um
that's happening on the other side uh
and so I'm looking forward to hearing
how how that pursue has you know how
that progresses over the next month or
two um and I'm sure we'll continue to
get updates on it uh and so um with with
all of that information um I'll you know
I will support this resolution too um
thanks you good okay um I don't really
have anything more to add I I recognize
Wendy that you need to go into
negotiations um it feels like such a
backward process but um it it's the law
um I look forward to seeing what comes
out of that um um it's my hope that the
current lmas would be able to keep their
positions and um and pursue the the
certificate needed for the
lmta um so I'm hoping to see that come
forward but
I'm not in control of that
so one other thing I just wanted to just
I think we had said this during the um
certificated discussion but I wanted to
just double check did you say that there
is something looking into for some of
the um Mental Health Counselors I think
it t Okay so that'll happen there okay
great
okay all right
thanks we do need a motion on this
item again without enthusiasm um I'm
going to move to approve
this is there a
second I will second that a roll call
vote please trusty
Marquez hi trusty Weekley trusty
makoy I president wels hi president
Lawson
hi um 7.4 adoption of resolution number
nine so this particular resolution is
the is the document needed did through
Ed code once again for the release and
reassignment of certificated
specifically
administrators and so we are reducing
assistant principal support uh
throughout our districts and so
throughout our district and so this
particular resolution uh addresses that
the individuals effective affected have
already been placed in other
positions any questions or comments on
this
none okay Ian I'm grateful that they've
been placed already and that that's at
least been worked out there so with that
unless Alisa or you have something to
say I can go ahead and make a motion to
approve Alisa did you no comments okay
second is roll call vote trusty Marquez
hi trusty Weekley hi trusty
mavo hi vice president wels hi president
Lawson hi
um 7.5 approval of release of temporary
teachers this uh resolution actually
comes to the board each year there's a
handful of temporary teachers in which
we write temporary contracts for and
those are for usually Grant funded
situations in which the grants or
sometimes PTO or what have you funding
is not secure at this moment in time so
they may not come back or they um may
come back and we typically find out in
the April time session the good news is
that many of these
individuals um can choose from other
positions and we write them a
probationary contract which is a
different pathway so this is usually uh
a strict result to just soft monies that
come in and their contracts already have
an end date that were written in August
so they know this but this is a
customary
practice Yeah I'll say this is one that
I have been through before uh in the
past years even when we had the
additional onetime funding um so hope
hopefully we can continue to offer if
the valuable services
but so this sounds procedural you versus
some of the other things that are
Cuts correct y
okay there motion to approve I'll move
to
approve second roll call vote please
trusty Marquez hi trusty Weekley hi
trusty
mavo hi vice president well hi president
Lawson
hi thank you for that um we're going to
circle back to item 7.1 that we moved um
the feasibility study so this item here
is a feasibility study for a
person this item here is the feasibility
study for a partial tax measure um to be
placed you know on the November 24
ballot uh but we need to get information
from the community before we even go
forward there were people that spoke
here this evening and in support and I
sure there's others that have a
difference of opinion in regard to us
moving forward but this is not saying
that we are going for a parcel tax we
are doing a feasibility study that if
everything goes in the manner that we
would hope then a resolution would come
back to you before um the last before
the last meeting in June to move forward
or prior to that when we get the results
of it that no we we will have that
information too and previously um we had
one of the members we had uh Miss cummer
on here from Team CeX but she had to
leave because she has a early playing
cat catch
tomorrow
questions uh we do have one speaker uh
comment on this um Chris
Rebel okay go ahead Chris you can
unmute yes good evening um I'm one of
the things I think that's very important
if you're contemplating a parcel tax
which of course um is for people and as
one of you said earlier I think David
weekly um you know bonds are for
buildings partial taxes are for people
um and um you have done a $298 million
bond which will cost taxpayers more than
double that with measure s and then
measure T before that you know hundreds
of Millions for that and there's a plan
to do another Bond um that you know
there's there's at least three phases
right so and some you know I don't know
if it's a year from now two years from
now so this I think the key point is
that's that's lacking here is
prioritization right that that the
residents in the community don't have
unlimited funds right and so if you're
asking for more money from the community
for the schools the question I think is
is it more important to spend more money
on people in these jobs and teachers or
is it more important to spend more on
spiffy looking buildings and I think um
I think most people would agree that
money for a parcel tax for teachers is
more important than um the the the the
buildings the bonds so I think it would
be very it would behoove everybody to
and I think it would be to be
transparent with the community are you
still planning on doing another Bond
after this as well so you're going for a
parcel tax and a bond for more buildings
even though enrollments down that's a
it's a prioritization question and I
think it's something very very important
as you're trying to um be thoughtful
about the the ask of the
community um and I know this is
something that somebody else brought up
with measure S as well they're like
please we can only afford so much and
there it's also worth noting there are a
lot of other taxes which I'm sure I'm
sure your consultant will point out
there's a a state housing Bond there's a
State Transportation Bond there's a
multicounty MTC baffa Regional Housing
Bond there's a the city is has money so
they're looking at a property transfer
tax and a business license uh revamp
there's so many taxes on November and
you're now adding another one to it so
how much you know U money do we want to
be extracting from people that live in
our community and I don't think another
Bond down the pike I think it's
important to share that if that's your
intent in in addition to this parcel tax
thank
you thanks um questions or comments from
the
board this
item I think we had a robust discussion
on this last week um so I don't have
much more to comment other than I do
think we should go forward with the
feasibility study I think that you know
um if it were to pass a part tax could
make meaningful difference for many of
the programs that had been funded
previously through onetime funds uh that
that would be wonderful to put in um
it's an expensive area to live people
are very important um and being able to
pay pay for the salaries to be able to
offer the kind of service that we want
is yeah critical
so
yeah
that is it worth
$53,000 for us to explore whether the
voters are interested in having higher
quality education for the students of
our
district there are difficult questions
that come in front of the board and
we've had many of them and this isn't
one of them so yeah I I absolutely think
we should we should explore this and
find ways to fund our district and the
education that we deliver our
students um Alisa or Cecilia anything I
don't have any comments okay Alisa do
you want to add
anything yeah I made a lot of comments
at the last meeting and I think we heard
eloquently from a lot of speakers
tonight uh for the need for the parcel
tax so I agree with uh my colleagues uh
and the recommendation that we should
move forward with the feasibility study
to find out if our community
agrees y i I agree with my colleagues I
think given everything that we just
talked about tonight um you know there's
need and we need to see if the community
would support
that I would like to make a motion to
approve let's go find out seconded thank
you roll call vote please trusty Marquez
hi trusty weatley hi trusty
M hi vice president wels hi president
Lawson
hi great um 8.1 report from board
members and superintendent does anybody
have anything to report out
on I attended the Kennedy Black History
Month assembly that they had last week
which was awesome um Antonio perz was
there with me um Mrs Leonardo welcomed
everyone there was a choir from New
Beginnings Community Church um a
professor from San mono Community
College covered the roots of Hip Hop and
some of the history there um there was a
drummer of ethnic and ethnic studies
Professor that um had a drum group there
that performed the Kennedy jazz band
performed and they are awesome um in
terms of music and support that was
there uh you know and there was it ended
with the spoken word it ended with the
jazz band but before them the um there
was a spoken word performance by Miss
Chillin uh who was also giving away free
giveaways which was a big hit in the
audience um I think it was t-shirts it
felt a little bit like a sporting event
but it was kind of it was a lot of fun
so it was a it was a great great great
assembly I enjoyed being
there
oh oh and there were student per
presentations too um a couple of
students had done uh research and
presentation on historical figures um
and one read a poem uh so it was
great I didn't have a lot in the last
week but I've got actually two upcoming
meetings uh this week uh one with a
representative of the um a dental uh
Alliance to talk about like what are
best practices for dental care for our
students just to make sure that we
are adhering to best practices there and
then uh another on Friday U meeting with
Dr Geer from Stanford's Gartner Center
about our uh Community Schools and our
strategy
there I did
thator and um I attended along with Dr
Baker
and oh my God M Rivera m r and nurses
read the Spanish superintendent advisory
Council of
or um Alisa do you have any report I do
I have mostly been involved with csba uh
meetings this last couple of weeks uh so
a finance committee bylaws committee and
then Workforce housing conversations
that are going on there um by the way
there was just a lot of interest in
Workforce housing up and down the state
hundreds of school district interest in
that so um there's a lot of support that
csda is providing in that Arena and then
um finally I wanted to mention that next
week is csp's California school boards
Association I should say for the
audience um their legislative action
week so that's where we meet with the
state legislators and talk about
priorities and of course I will be
bringing up funding so we have a lot of
good examples of how they've sort of
given money and taken money away and the
real effects of it so um I will be able
to speak to what's going on in our
district as an example and hopefully
we'll get some movement from our state
legislators thank you I do not have any
reports superintendent advisory that we
did on Friday and then I guess just um
another comment to add to the to the
Spanish superintendent advisory uh
meeting is um kudos to Michelle um and
the team right because one of the
parents actually said how grateful she
was for her to actually help her
navigate and help her feel welcome and
explain to her everything you know how
things happen in their District so I do
want to say you know there's a lot of
people that work behind the scenes and
we really don't see it and hear it often
so just want to point that
out
um information on Santo County
investment
fund me
4% I know kind of surprised I mean I
guess I'm not surprised but that's good
news uh correspondence so we've received
lots of emails about this evening um I
mentioned that I received the County's
review of our first interim budget I
forwarded it to all board members this
evening so you can read it for
yourself any other
correspondents extensive but covered yes
possible other business suggested items
for future
agenda uh yeah um I want yeah yeah yeah
I'm thinking it was uh I had two things
that I wanted to propose that we do a
covering of bring to a future agenda a
future meeting um updates on the solar
program that we discussed last December
and an update on the progress towards
our phase two plans and what's happening
there um which I think has probably not
been discussed since maybe August uh or
so specifically right and and we need
yeah we need to have them come back yeah
so great yeah yeah
perfect I'm hoping one of the outputs of
my meeting with the dental group is a
set of recommendations that then can be
presented for for the District we'll
we'll see but like that's my hope that's
tomorrow yeah yep yep yep um I don't
know if that would be at the next board
meeting but some board meeting um
there's also some higher level
discussions about how the uh district is
engaging with some of these best
practices around Mastery learning peer
tutoring and space repetition I've got
some dialogue going on with Dr Baker
about it about sort of on a long-term
story arc how we intersect those themes
that are proven to be effective uh and
that we may only be variably engaged
engaging today thank
you changes to the board meeting
calendar I don't there's
any all
right it's not 10 o'clock yet is there a
motion to adjourn I Mo we adjourn second
second all those in favor I thank you
thank you everyone in the audience
there's a lot of people who stuck it out
with us thank you everybody online Ro
principles the principles are on here
too yeah I saw that