Yeah, let's go ahead and get started.
Get started. Started. Evelyn, if you can
start us with roll call. Trusty Lee
here. Trusty King. Trusty Marquez is
absent. Vice President Weekly present.
President Wells here. Uh good evening.
It's May 8th, 2025. Welcome to special
meeting of the Redwood City uh school
board.
Um not many people here are online. Um
but uh we we will be taking public
comment. It's going to work a little bit
different at this evening's meeting than
how we handle at a regular meeting.
We're going to hear comments related to
only to the special meeting topics. Um
the two resolutions that are up our uh
action item tonight and we'll hear them
when we get to 6.1 on the agenda. Um, so
if you do have public comment, um, you
know, on the special board meeting
items, um, either post it on the links
online for the participants that are
online, um, they're in the public
content section of the agenda online,
um, or fill out a speaker card in the
back and hand it to Evelyn before we get
to 6.1,
um, so that we can, uh, be sure to hear
from you. And then, of course, to be
fair to all speakers, we limit public
comments to three minutes per person,
um, unless otherwise noted. Uh, with
that, do we have any changes to the
agenda?
All right. Can I get a motion to approve
the agenda? I move we approve the
agenda.
All in favor? I I. Great. Then let's
move into our two action items. We're
going to start with 5.1. This is
adoption of resolution 22 uh regarding
non reemployment of classified employees
for the 2526 school year.
Thank you. I appreciate the special
board meeting tonight. We do have um I
want to tell a little bit of a story
between what has occurred from our
layoff uh meeting that culminated in
February to where we are arriving to
tonight. So, as you recall, there were
two layoff um sessions, one in December
and one in February in which we were
addressing for our classified group,
which is this first action item, lack of
work or lack of funds and the board took
action on those resolutions and then
subsequently
um
we met with CSEA, discussed the
positions. Um, we are still in
negotiations regarding the librarians
reduction of hours, but for the other
positions due to uh funding coming back
or um new requests coming in, the number
of FTE has been changed since our
original prediction, which was back in
December and February. And actually,
that happens from time to time. That's
not anything new. Um but that did occur
in between March and April and so that
is one resolution is essentially
correcting the new number to make it
accurate certainly for the business
office and so forth. It will result in
notification to the employee again as
the final layoff number. Okay. So those
that have other positions now or with
the classified group has bumped into
other positions, they will still be
notified of the process but recognizing
that their employment will still
continue. We do have some employees in
which we don't have positions for for a
variety of reasons and they will be
placed on the reemployment list as
outlined in ED code. So that is part one
in this in uh action item
5.1. The second item, I just wanted to
update the board that we did have one
employee who had requested a hearing
under ED code
45117 but withdrew prior to the hearing
date. So that is just an update that was
in the board memo. The board memo has a
lot of detail about what I just said.
And uh this resolution is requesting
approval from the board for the
reduction of
18.6668 FTE at this time.
Any questions?
Does anyone have
questions? Any
comments?
Um Okay. Yeah. I'll just take a moment
to acknowledge that um you know that
this is just a spreadsheet of numbers.
These are real people that are there and
you know they've contributed
meaningfully to our students in schools.
So I definitely appreciate that. Um, you
know, and I understand sometimes
budgetary shifts require these kind of
things to happen, but um, just don't
take it lightly and uh, definitely
consider that during these reductions.
Um, so then if there's no comments or
questions, this is an action item. Uh,
can I get a motion to approve?
I move to Oh, wait. Oh. Uh, I thought
think we were going to take Sorry. Um, I
mentioned this at the beginning. We're
going to take it during the oral
communication at 6.2. Yeah. Sorry.
I'll move to uh approve resolution
number 22. Seconded. All in favor? I I
Okay, we'll move on to 5.2, which is
resolution 23. Uh this is
non-remployment for certificated
employees for the 2526 school year. Yes,
thank you. And thank you, Mic, for those
comments. That was appreciated. So this
is very similar to the classified item I
just mentioned but it does pertain to
certificated certificated teachers and
certificated management as well. Um and
the same situation applied where we had
two layoff sessions in December and
February and the board took action and
um and approved the resolutions at the
time. Since that time period, there have
been shifts and changes in regards to
the services that are required for next
year. So 3.25 total FTE was reinstated
due to additional funding sources. And
that could be as simple as the PTO sends
in a commitment letter. Um there could
be a shift in supplemental concentration
requests, what have you. And so those
were um those were essentially brought
back maybe with the change of a funding
source. And so as a result the
recommendation was to um approve the
30.7604 FTE as a reduction
um at this time. So that is the the
reduction of 3.25 that we brought back.
Okay. The second piece is that we had
two affected employees who requested a
hearing under the ED code. One employee
withdrew their request prior to the
hearing. The second employee went
through the process with an
administrative law judge. And um by ED
code, the board and the employee were
emailed the results of that decision
prior to May 7th. And so you did receive
that. Um and so we also attached it as
exhibit A here. And so therefore it is
our recommendation that we adopt the
proposed decision by the administrative
log judge as outlined in resolution 23
uh and take action on this particular
item. There any questions regarding
these two resolutions for
certificated questions or
comments? again another you know not not
the easy part of the job and of course
these are educators who you know poured
their energy into our students um so I
want to thank each one of the affected
ones and I understand that the hardship
and the uncertainty that that you know
these kind of resolutions represent um
is there a motion to approve
I'll move to uh approve resolution
number 23 seconded all in favor I I
All right we'll will move on to oral
communication which is 6.1. Uh we have
one speaker card and it's Maria Stockton
and you'll have uh
Yeah. And three three minutes.
Can you press the button on the right?
There you go. Perfect. Thank you. Thank
you. Maria Stockton, uh uh classified
president CSA City5. Uh this is I was
just going to talk on the reductions of
classified. Thank you for your your
words. We don't ever want to see
somebody laid off because they're hired
because they're needed and some of the
positions unfortunately with changing of
schools and everything. It's understood
of some kind of changes. Uh as for the
librarians, we are in discussion right
now. I believe the district is receiving
a letter today from CSEA. So that will
continue until whatever happens. Uh, as
for the one uh person who submitted a
letter for uh the hearing or something,
she was confused and she didn't know
what that was. So that's why it was
withdrawn. It wasn't that she wanted to
challenge anything. She just didn't
understand it. So, uh, we want to thank
everybody, you know, the district,
especially Patricia Perez, who has loads
of work, you know, on her desk, uh, for
working with us on getting this done and
with Wendy and us continuing discussing
discussing discussing the librarian
positions and we'll bring information to
the board as well. Also, the third week
of May is classified week. And so, if
you don't know all of who you represent
beside children and parents and the
district people, please learn who your
support staff are. And please come visit
the sites and not only visit teachers,
administrators, please stop in the
kitchens, the library, stop in the
office and say hello. We want to know
you as well as we hope you want to know
us and what we do. So when you decide to
make cutbacks or you know have to make
decisions, you'll better understand what
we do. Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Maria, for your comments and
we appreciate all the work that CSAA
does in the district. Um certainly and
thank you for coming last night and
sitting through the bond oversight
committee. I understand that the you
know the special meeting was scheduled
on on on different day uh
but good meeting. Okay, great.
Um, I think with that we're up to 7.1 to
adjourn the meeting. Um, can I get a
motion to adjurnn? I move we adjourn and
a second.
All in favor? I. Meetings adjourned.