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[18] SPEAKER_24: Thank you. . .

[102] Phuong Nguyen: Good evening and welcome to the May 19th Newark Unified School District Board of Education meeting. I call this meeting to order at 6.01 p.m. In regards to meeting practices, we are holding in-person board meetings at our district boardroom and are following the state's and Alameda County's safety guidelines for public gatherings. Please refrain from attending from attending in-person meetings if you have COVID-related symptoms. If you are not able to attend the meeting in person, you may observe the meeting via the NUSD YouTube channel live stream transmission on Comcast channel 26, and we do have Spanish translation is available via Zoom. In regards to public comment, the public will have the opportunity to address the board regarding non-agendized matters and agendized items with a live audio-only comment via Zoom, with advance notice requested by email at publiccomment at newarkunified.org, or a written comment by submitting a speaker card via email at publiccomment at newarkunified.org, or with live in-person comments by submitting a speaker card with our executive assistant, Ms. Gutierrez. Roll call, please, Ms. Gutierrez.

[183] SPEAKER_37: Member Jeong?

[186] SPEAKER_30: Here.

[186] SPEAKER_37: Member Marquez. Here. Member Hill.

[189] SPEAKER_30: Here.

[190] SPEAKER_37: Member Grindel. Here. President Nguyen. Here. All present.

[194] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Before we move to approve of agenda, I believe there is an emergency amendment that we would like to make. Superintendent Triplett.

[206] Mark Triplett: Yes, thank you President Nguyen and good evening to board members and there's no one here in the public, but viewers watching at home, and staff. So we do have one time-sensitive agenda item that we wanted to add. I realize it is very irregular, but we do have a field trip that was not able to make it onto the agenda that was posted on Monday. And so we wanted to bring it forth. It's a trip for Kennedy. to go to Great America and if the board saw fit to approve it, the trip would be tomorrow.

[251] Phuong Nguyen: So at this time, how will we go about making the motion to add?

[257] Terrence Grindall: I don't think we can add that.

[258] Phuong Nguyen: We have to give 72 hours notice.

[266] SPEAKER_37: So this would be an urgent item. There are protocols policies that do allow for urgent items to be added to the agenda with board approval. And the motion would be to approve the agenda with the addition of the field trip item. And then it would be added to consent and non-personnel items. So it would be added to, it would be item 15.11. So can we cite those protocols? It is a legal recommendation. I don't have a protocol or a policy in place right now, but it was recommended from legal.

[307] Phuong Nguyen: OK. And then in order to put the emergency item on the agenda, what is the approval rate? I mean, we have to approve with?

[319] SPEAKER_37: We do have a supermajority that is required to approve. So at this point, it would need four out of the five members.

[324] Phuong Nguyen: OK. All right. At this time.

[329] Terrence Grindall: I'll move approval of the agenda.

[332] Bowen Zhang: So the other thing is... Hold on a second. The future will be paid by the parent donation rather than the district, right?

[339] SPEAKER_14: That's correct.

[343] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, Member Hill?

[344] Aiden Hill: Yeah, so I'd also like us to pull one... I have a question about the agenda and I'd like us to pull one item. I'd like us to pull 15.10, which are the minutes That's because that's been mislabeled. It says minutes for 519, which is today. But if you look at the minutes, it's from the last meeting. So, I'd like us to pull that and then bring it back in a subsequent meeting. And then, but then connected to those minutes, as I looked at them, it reminded me that in our last board meeting, we talked about the bond survey and we talked about how the survey was going to be brought back to the board in the next meeting. And I'm just curious why we don't have that on the agenda, since that was committed to.

[394] SPEAKER_37: So in regards to the minutes, if it is just a correction of the date, an amendment could be requested to make the correction and approve it as is, if the board so wishes. Or it could be removed and brought back to a later meeting.

[412] Mark Triplett: If I may, President, with regard to the bond, we will be discussing it in the superintendent report.

[422] Bowen Zhang: Thank you. So I guess if further questions during a consent vote, you can pull that one item out for further discussion on the minutes. That's generally what we do. If there's an issue with the minutes, you don't vote with the consent. You just pull that out and then do it individually and ask for change.

[439] SPEAKER_37: the motion is to approve the agenda with the added item of a 15.11 regarding the Kennedy filter.

[445] Terrence Grindall: That's what I was going to say.

[446] SPEAKER_37: Okay, thank you.

[448] Phuong Nguyen: I'll second that. How do you? Yes. Member Jean, how do you vote? Yes. Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill? No. Member Rendell?

[461] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[462] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also a yes. Four ayes and one no. Thank you. Okay, on to closed session items. We will be discussing 3.2, Public Employee Discipline Dismissal Release. 3.3, Conference with Labor Negotiators, NTA and CSCA. 3.4, Conference with Labor Negotiators, NEWMA. And 3.5, Conference with Legal Counsel Anticipated Litigation. 3.6, Student Expulsion. Thank you. We will recess to closed session.

[584] SPEAKER_24: you

[781] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you and welcome. Welcome back. Welcome everyone. Um we are back from closed session and there is no there isn't anything to report out from closed session. Item 5.1, Pledge of Allegiance. Dr. Triplett, please rise. Please begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Before we move on to employee organizations, I have a clarification and statement that I would like to make in regards to whether or not we have adopted parliamentary rules and procedures. CSBA clearly states that no particular set of rules is required for school or county boards, Ed Code 35010, the governing board of each school district shall prescribe and enforce rules not inconsistent with law or with the rules prescribed by the State Board of Education for its own government, meaning local boards are free to adopt a set of rules that works for them, which we as a board have our governance handbook. And thank you. On to item 6.1. Thank you. Item 6.1.

[890] SPEAKER_37: Yes, we do have NEWMA virtually. Ms. Vicenta Ditto, you may begin.

[901] SPEAKER_33: Good evening, President Nguyen, Board of Trustees, and executive cabinet members. May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. AAPI encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific Islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Many members of the Newark community identify as Asian-American and Pacific Islander. Students get to see themselves reflected in the adults that support them, from campus monitors, CSCA members, teachers, and leaders. Like a little girl who is first-generation American, whose entire paternal side of her family came to the Tri-City area from the mountainous northern region of Luzon in the Philippines. Through the efforts of her family and the welcoming arms of the Tri-City area, her family was able to become established and thrived. That is when this adorable little girl with the roundest cheeks you would have wanted to squeeze came to be. Her first language was Tagalog, and she didn't see many people at school that looked like her or sounded like her family. Still, she was supported, and school was an amazing place for her. It was because she experienced the magic of public education that she became a lifelong learner who never wanted to leave school. She went on to graduate from high school, get her bachelor's degree in education, become a teacher, go back to school to seek her master's degree, and ultimately became the principal and NEWMA president addressing you tonight. As leaders and managers, it is important to remember that our students deserve to have their heritage celebrated and recognized. As NEWMA president making the last address of the 22-23 school year, I want all of us to remember our NUSD resolution to reaffirm its commitment to foster a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. That we are charged with ensuring that all AAPI students, staff, and community members feel safe, welcomed, and valued. From my personal experience, we are holding strong to this resolution. On behalf of NEWMA, I'd like to thank all of the community members watching tonight we're going to continue to support students and educators. We're going to continue to support students and educators or watching in the future for supporting students and educators. This 2122 school year. Thank you.

[1068] SPEAKER_37: Thank you and there were no request from and here see a but I don't know if there's any NTA present here.

[1075] Penny DeLeon: No one else.

[1076] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Okay on to item 7.1 public Let's go with the virtual one first. OK. Thank you.

[1092] SPEAKER_37: Public comment is from Mr. Eric Tam. You may begin.

[1100] SPEAKER_43: Hello. Hi. Hi. I'll just get straight to it. Thank you, everybody. This is super short. I just wanted to give some shout outs. I wanted to thank you, Mr. Kabuto, for a couple of meetings ago that he gave an update for HVAC. I appreciate him trying to be more detailed and trying to provide more information. I want to say congratulations to Ms. Pallavino. I think she's being officially accepted as the full-time principal. Thank you for her. And I want to say thank you to Ms. Gallagher. I think it was a couple of sessions ago that she also presented. a metric-based kind of evaluation of baseline versus kind of progress. And I just really appreciate that work. So in terms of just requests, thank you to Lucia. I think we were emailing earlier. She's going to help me with some CPRA and also some open emails that I have emailed the board and also Dr. Triplett. So hopefully that can get resolved. And then I think my final kind of little topic was related to APEX. So I'm going to ignore the The personnel stuff, I was just really curious to ask Ms. Member Marquez if she was able to dig into the data that Ms. Pierce said that she would review with her. I think, you know, reviewing this, just trying to be objective, I was just curious about Ms. Pierce, why we didn't provide that data, if that was data that was available in the system. You know, I think, you know, Member Marquez raised some really good points in terms of the metric about, like, you know, exam repetition, how many were taken, kind of the duration of the course, you know, these are all kind of possible metric flags that you can evaluate to understand if, you know, if the accusations are true or not. So just wanted to ask if that was done or not, and thank you.

[1211] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Tam. Ms. Lisa Martinez, you have the floor.

[1220] Elisa Martinez: Welcome. Can I take this off to speak? I haven't been here in a while. Good evening. Hello, Board President Nguyen, Board Superintendent Triplett, and the exec team. Thank you for everything that you do. Can't believe it's another year. My name is Elisa Martinez, and I am a parent of two Newark Unified students, a high schooler and a junior higher. And I'm taking deep breaths because I've been thinking about how do I speak today without sounding angry, but I'm actually really ticked off. I'm angry. I'm angry because I listened to the last meeting, and this is not the first time that I hear all these accusations that our students are cheaters. I can't believe I'm the only one that's ticked off by that. There is a process that is followed if there is suspicion that somebody is cheating. But the fact that we are permitting people to get up here and just throw those accusations, and worse yet, Ward Member Hill, that you just sit here and amplify those accusations without following process. Do you even understand? I listened to the meeting. There were so many points that you're out of line. Do you even understand what your role is? Have you gone to training? I have to believe that if you went to one session of training, you would understand that you are completely, completely out of line. I wonder, and I mean, I am here really to speak to Member Hill. So I understand that most of you are asking the right questions and want to get to the bottom of this. I'm not naive. Some people, some kids cheat probably, right? But to go ahead and do this general accusation is just completely unconscionable to me. Member Hill, I'm not sure why you ran for the seat. I'm not sure what you think the role of a board member is, but I encourage you to go to training because it's clearly not coming here every meeting after meeting and spewing out negativity instead of coming here to help problem solve. Of any issue, this is something to come and problem solve with your years of project management experience. Come here and problem solve, not accused facelessly. And as I watch the clock, I encourage the board to consider making training for masters in governance to make it mandatory within the first year. I think that will do this board a huge service, and most importantly, to my kids. Because I don't understand why anybody so readily believes that kids are cheating, but I'm wondering if it's because the kids look like me. So it makes me really doubt what's at the core of all these accusations. Thank you for your time.

[1400] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Ms. Martinez. Okay, on to item 8.1, superintendent report. Dr. Triplett.

[1410] Mark Triplett: Thank you, President Nguyen, and good evening again to the board members and staff and community that are here this evening. Ms. Gutierrez is putting up the deck. Great, so this is the superintendent's report for this evening. There we go. Number one, I did want to appreciate the words of Principal Ditto and NEWMA president and acknowledge Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month this month. As you all will recall, the board passed a resolution last year And so this is, I think, important to just revisit and both celebrate and acknowledge the importance of all of the contributions of our Asian American and Pacific Islander people in this country. Next slide, please. And so I wasn't going to read out the whole resolution, but I did just want to read just the first part of what was passed last year by this board. The Newark Unified School District hereby remains resolved in the following. Number one, honoring May as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and denouncing hate crimes, hateful rhetoric, and hateful acts against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. And three, reaffirming its commitment to foster a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. And it goes on to speak about the month of May, set aside to honor the contributions of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. And the fact that Congress in 1990 voted to expand Asian American heritage from a week to a month. And so, again, just want to call out the importance of us celebrating that all month. Next slide, please. So just to touch upon some important things as they're happening in the next couple weeks. I know our teachers and students are well aware of the last day of school being June 1st. And so we're quickly approaching that and everyone is working really hard to wrap up the school year and to really acknowledge all of the hard work that's happened on the part of students and staff and teachers. Next slide, please. So I did touch upon this last time. We have our graduation and promotion ceremonies coming up. Newark Memorial on the 2nd of June, Bridgepoint and Crossroads on the June 3rd, Newark Junior High School on June 1st. And then if you go to the next slide, please, Ms. Gutierrez. And then we also have all of our promotion ceremonies for our elementary schools, as well as our adult education. So we'll be posting this on the website, and this is also being shared with all of the different school communities. So we're really excited to celebrate the end of the year and all of our students' achievement. I wanted to touch upon a quick update around COVID-19. And we have case rates from last week. So this is the second week in a row where we've seen a significant jump. So on May 2nd through the 8th, it was at 36. And this past week, it continued to be higher than it has been prior to spring break. So we had 37 cases last week for students and eight cases for staff. Because of this, we have made a decision not to adjust our parent-volunteer policy and continue to stay with the current policy of not having parents on campus during regular school hours with just a few exceptions, and that is certain end-of-year events. And so with schools hosting specific end-of-year events, we're having the schools submit to make sure that we have a plan and making sure that it aligns with all of our covid safety protocols. Next slide. earlier member Hill you you mentioned just a question about when we're revisit the school bond. Survey so we did have the survey was administered. We analyze them before bringing them to the board. So we will be bringing them all the results to the board at the upcoming board meeting. Ms. Delacruz, did you want to say anything else about the bond survey results?

[1719] Marie dela Cruz: No. We'll get into the details at the next board meeting.

[1724] Mark Triplett: And I believe we'll have our consultants come to go through each one and to really do a thorough analysis for the board. Next slide. And I think this might be my last slide. So we did, we touched upon Rocketry Clubs' fantastic achievements at the last board meeting. They did, they were able to go to Washington, I guess technically Virginia, had a great trip. I think did really, really well. But we did want to share one final what we call a sizzle reel that was done by the MCA and in particular by one of the MCA teachers, Mr. Ingham, and I believe with the help and support of some students. So I thought we'd just roll this quick video.

[1778] SPEAKER_25: One, two, three, four, five. you so so

[1838] Mark Triplett: So again, just wishing a big congratulations to the Rocketry Club for all of their achievements this year. And we also have coming up another aspect of the Star Academy that we're intending to fully roll out next year. But we do have a coding presentations that our students who are in the computer science class will be doing. I believe it's next week, Ms. Gutierrez. Does that sound right? The coding presentations by?

[1869] SPEAKER_37: I believe so. Correct.

[1870] Mark Triplett: Yeah. And I would like to invite the board to participate and come and see the incredible work of our students in that class. And that is the presentation for tonight.

[1884] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you so much, Dr. Triplett. On to item 9.1, staff report, 9.1, summer school staff report. Dr. Triplett.

[1895] Mark Triplett: Thank you. So I believe Ms. Kearns and Ms. Pierce are going to come up, or just Ms. Pierce? Just Ms. Pierce. Both of them have done amazing work preparing for summer school. We wanted to share out and give you an update about where things stand. A lot of work in a very short time to make sure that we have summer school up and running. And we have a lot of interest on the part of our families and students in the summer school program this year. So I'll turn it over to Ms. Pierce.

[1929] Nicole Pierce-Davis: And Ms. Cairns, if you want to join me, you're always welcome to do so. So summer school is here. It has been a long challenging year. This year you'll notice that we actually moved it up a week after hearing some feedback from families. That way families have all of July for vacation as well as staff have all of July with their families as well. So we will see how this works out, get feedback from staff and make adjustments next year if we want to continue with this. We're very excited. We have more we're going to be able to do that. We're going to be able to do that. Then we have space for in all honesty with our elementary program. We still have space in our actually in our credit recovery program but very limited. And then we're also running an ES why program. So the programs you see here elementary enrichment. Which will be at Lincoln elementary we've got secondary credit recovery housed in Newark We do have some guest principals this year. Mister Rotherhammer joining us for yes, why and this word Mike's who was a principal here in Newark. Some years ago will be supporting our Newark Memorial High School. And then we have So it will run from June 6th to July 1st. There will be no school in observance of Juneteenth holiday, federal holiday. We will run our extended school year from 830 to 12, as well as our secondary credit recovery. Elementary enrichment this year due to the ELOP grant that we've been discussing at length the last couple months. will allow us to extend the day for our TK6 families from 12 to 530 with enrichment. This will be with Think Together and SEWA, who will provide opportunities in VAPA, so Visual and Performing Arts, we're going to be doing a lot of activities in the afternoon. We're going to be doing STEM science technology sharing mathematics and then physical activities in the afternoons. In addition to we will also be sending some of our seal lessons in the summer as you know it's been quite hard and challenging to find substitute throughout the year. And so we're strategically putting some of our seal training into our summer school hours this year. As a way of that we were able to do this. Targeted language lessons also in summer school so sort of a win-win for for everyone that we were able to do this. Summer school opportunities are open to all like we registration is closed, but if you are interested. We are keeping a wait list as you know things shift and change over the summer. So if you are interested, please reach out to the district office and we'll make to youth with ELD low-income foster youth designations per the grant. And then priority placement in high school credit recovery. Obviously, we always start with our seniors and our juniors who require credits to graduate. Admission has been confirmed via email, messages, and calls to families. And again, admitted students will then complete the registration with emergency contact cards and et cetera to hold their spaces. we're going to continue to do that. In addition to our summer school academic programs. We also have our lunch programs continued. You can see here on our flyers and both English and Spanish that are nutritional services team will be working hard this summer to ensure that any families in need have We're also going to continue our family support. So our two parent partners will continue services for 35 hours a week through June. So they will help with things like enrollment support, online registration throughout the summer. They will continue to do food distribution days from Schilling on June 1st and June 15th. And then they're going to continue to do additional family outreach. We were able to receive a couple additional grants for our students that are houseless. And so we will be continuing to bring those funds in to provide things like PPE, eyeglasses, shoes, clothes, school supplies, and personal care items so that come August, they are ready to go. So we're very excited about that grant, and we're excited that our parent partners will continue to get the services to our families. And then we also have a fatherhood summit to any fathers that are interested. This comes through Alameda County, which is one of our partners that we discussed last time when we talked about parent engagement. I also just want to encourage all of our families to reach out to our principals, pay attention to those principal newsletters because we are also, these are some of the programs that we are offering in-house, but there are many programs offered throughout Newark. And so if you are interested in other opportunities, I highly encourage you to reach out to your site principal to get that information. And did I miss anything, Ms. Karen? Beautiful. All right. Thank you. I can answer any questions.

[2253] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Zhang, do you have any comments or questions? Member Marquez?

[2259] SPEAKER_19: Good evening. The one question I did have with regards to ELA not necessarily ELD but ELA if there are any students are looking for that bridge especially from fifth into the sixth now making that transition into middle school or an eighth grader who's looking for that bridge into high school. Are we offering anything with regards to ELA with the bridge.

[2283] Nicole Pierce-Davis: I do know that we were really looking and trying to set up some just bridge programs in general for transitioning grades, middle school in particular. At this point, it is looking just from what we're seeing about staffing for summer school, that we may not be able to offer that this year. That doesn't mean that we won't be able to offer it in future years, but we are, again, we're kind of beholden to what kinds of staff we can bring in. and what programs we can offer. So when you talk about ELA specifically with transition.

[2316] SPEAKER_19: Right, so from elementary into the middle school, or from the junior high to the high school. So you need math as well, right? But if we offered some type of bridge just to help with keeping the information or keeping what they've learned fresh, to be able to offer that to students. So right now, oh, go ahead.

[2335] Mark Triplett: We are planning on providing like an orientation bridge program a week or less closer to the start of school for our rising sixth graders. But it wouldn't be a part of the whole summer school, you know, four weeks, but more specifically targeted for our sixth graders entering the middle school.

[2360] SPEAKER_19: Thank you for that.

[2363] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill. Member Grinta.

[2367] Terrence Grindall: Oh, thank you for the excellent report. That's really great news. I'm just very happy to see that the food programs are continuing and they're associated. And I'm assuming that we'll be utilizing that program to sign up more people for the free and reduced lunch programs. Because these lunches are free for all at this point, right? Or is there a cost? we're going to be able to do that. So again that that's cost us some problems because there's incentive to sign up for the program hasn't been there so we've I think I think because of that we've kind of seen a fall off of that so I'm hoping and expecting that that will be that will be done. Beyond that just I think it's exciting and appreciate all the

[2422] Phuong Nguyen: 9.2 letter from Alameda County Office of Education regarding the 2021-22 second interim budget report. Dr. Chabut.

[2429] Mark Triplett: Thank you. I'll turn this one over to Ms. Dela Cruz. Thank you, Dr. Chabut.

[2436] Marie dela Cruz: Hello. Thank you. This letter was shared with the board and it's a review from the Alameda County Office of Education. The board approved a positive certification of the second interim report on March 3rd. And soon after that, we submitted our report to the county. And after the county reviewed it and analyzed it, they concur with the board's approval of positive certification. They did acknowledge and mention the multi-year projections and the $4.5 million and $4.7 million deficit that's projected in the next two out years and commends the board for passing a resolution to commit to implementing expenditure reductions to balance the budget. They also mentioned the audit finding and acknowledged that it may impact our financial condition based on the potential $600,000 that we may end up having to pay to the state. But as you know, we talked about filing an appeal. And that's still our plan. And we're hoping that that will be a positive outcome. But other than that, the letter does present a positive and they concur with the board. Any questions?

[2538] Phuong Nguyen: Any questions from the board? Member Zhang?

[2542] Bowen Zhang: Can you talk about the May revise and ask related to any change on that?

[2547] Marie dela Cruz: I could give you a little bit of information, just a couple of highlights. The school services workshop is being presented tomorrow, and I also have my Northern California CBO meeting tomorrow as well. So we'll get a little bit more detail on the May revise, but it does include 6.56% COLA. It was 5.33 originally. And there's also another provision to help us mitigate our declining ADA, where they're allowing us to use our historical attendance, ADA to enrollment attendance ratio pre-COVID to calculate our 21-22 ADA, and then to use that as part of the three-year rolling average. So that's really good. Eight billion dollars in one-time discretionary funds. And that's going to be allocated on a per ADA basis, one-time money. So, just a few highlights.

[2622] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Hill? I'm sorry, I skipped over Member Marquez. Member Marquez, do you have any comments?

[2631] SPEAKER_19: I do, thank you. with the $8 billion, do we know if that's going to be specific as to where it will need to be allocated, or will that be at the discretion of the school board directly?

[2642] Marie dela Cruz: It's discretion of the school board. It's very flexible in terms of allowable uses.

[2650] SPEAKER_19: Thank you for that. And my second question is, with regards to the deadline, was the deadline specified as to when that potential appeal that we want to place for the $600,000, when that deadline is?

[2663] Marie dela Cruz: So the clock starts when we receive our letter from the controller on our audit report. We haven't yet received that letter. So once we receive that letter, we have 60 days to file an appeal.

[2675] SPEAKER_19: From the state controller, is that correct? From the state controller, is that correct?

[2679] Marie dela Cruz: Yes. There's a letter that comes from the state controller. We submit our audit report to the state. And then they review it. And then they send us a letter saying that they certify our audit report. And we're still waiting for that report.

[2692] SPEAKER_19: that we're getting a positive certification.

[2695] Phuong Nguyen: But but what it's also

[2718] Aiden Hill: budget. The first interim budget report. While the district projects a budget surplus of 415,667 to the and reject unrestricted general fund in 2021 22. It projects deficits of 4.5 million in 2022 23 and 4.7 million in 2023 24. The second interim budget And then it goes on to end that paragraph saying, because of the compounding effect of reductions on MYP, NUSD's proactive efforts to mitigate deficit spending will minimize the need of reductions required to the out year. So, but, and then as Member Marquez was indicating, you know, we have an added issue, which is the 657,000 in, you know, potential clawback. we're not going to be able to do that. So I guess you know number one I think that we we really need to keep in mind that we have a structural deficit and we really need to be watching every penny. And not. Not engaging in unnecessary expenditures. But but question for you miss Stella Cruz. Let's let's say that we that the basically unplanned costs.

[2808] Marie dela Cruz: It would either come out of our reserves or a carryover.

[2817] SPEAKER_19: Madam President, if I may. I just want to interject and let the audience know, if you haven't had the opportunity to read this, that there was a crucial line that was left out in the sharing of the document that came from ACUE. And it actually states that ACUE commends our board for its approval of the resolution. 2021.22.29 committing the district to implementing expenditure reductions. It says, excuse me, reductions of up to $4.5 million for 22-23 and up to $4.7 million for 23-24. So when I read this, what I'm understanding is that ACOE is committing because we are aware of what's going on and that we are preparing ourselves to take care of whatever's coming our way. currently in a concerted manner, right? That's when we went through our budget, we were maintaining that conservatorship, knowing that in the event we were not to receive the funds, this is what we would be up against. Am I correct?

[2870] Marie dela Cruz: That is correct. And in fact, remember we had a study session where we addressed the deficits and offered potential balancing solutions. That's correct. Thank you for the acknowledgment.

[2882] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, Member Hill?

[2883] Aiden Hill: Yeah, and so yes, I I agree that the ACOE is commending us for the resolutions that we've taken. But the thing that I think that shouldn't be lost on everybody is that both in the first interim as well as in the second interim, they are emphasizing the fact that although we are, you know, above water at this point, we are in danger. And the part that I really want to emphasize with the board is resolutions are words. Right? What we need to focus on is actions, and we need to make sure that we actually take the actions that result in chipping away and hopefully overcoming these deficits. So, the resolution's a good start, but I think that they're expecting, and that's why they're warning us, to say, you know, you now need to follow through on what you've committed.

[2937] Phuong Nguyen: Member Gandel?

[2940] Terrence Grindall: Member Marcus took all of my questions, so I'm going to be done with that.

[2945] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Ms.

[2945] Bowen Zhang: Doug. Yeah, just one final comment. Yeah, I think, ever since I got on the board, I think we have a pretty decent track record when it comes to cost reduction. So, ever since I got on the board, we already have three years of consecutive budget surplus. So, I think we'll be okay.

[2962] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Member Zhang. And I do want to echo that we, as a board, in the past few years, we have been really diligent about making sure that we respect the financials of the district and have made significant, I guess you could say, reductions and sacrifices in that sense, too, to be able to balance the budget. And then not only that, the multi-year projections that were made, that were submitted for the second interim was made very conservatively without any additional information in regards to the May revise. I just wanted to put that out there. Thank you. On to item 10.1, termination of student expulsion, case number E2122-08. The recommendation is to terminate the expulsion for the expulsion case. May I get a motion to approve?

[3025] Bowen Zhang: I move that we approve the termination of expulsion.

[3031] Phuong Nguyen: I second motion made by members on seconded by member markets members on how do you vote yes, I'm a market yes, member Hill, yes, number going down. Yes, I'm also yes, 5 ayes. On to item 10.1. The recommendation is to terminate and readmit the student into NUSD as it relates to the expulsion case. Make it a motion to approve.

[3065] Terrence Grindall: I'll move to approve 10.2.

[3069] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by member Grandel.

[3071] SPEAKER_31: Seconded.

[3072] Phuong Nguyen: Seconded by member Marquez. How do you vote, member Zhang? member Marquez, yes, member Hill, yes, member Grindell, yes, I'm also yes, 5 ayes on item 10.2. 10.3, readmission of student expulsion, case number E2122-07. The recommendation is to terminate and re-admit the student into NUSD as it relates to the case. May I get a motion to approve? President Nguyen?

[3105] SPEAKER_37: Yes. Sorry, are we on 10.3?

[3108] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, we're on 10.3.

[3110] SPEAKER_37: In this case, the recommendation is to re-admit the student. No termination right there.

[3120] Bowen Zhang: I move to re-admit the student.

[3122] Phuong Nguyen: We had a clarification, yes.

[3125] Bowen Zhang: I move to readmit the student.

[3128] Phuong Nguyen: Okay, motion made by Member Zhang. I second. Seconded by Member Marquez. How do you vote, Member Zhang?

[3133] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[3135] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill?

[3138] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[3138] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindell?

[3139] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[3140] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also a yes. Five ayes on 10.3. And the last one item 10.4 in student expulsion is the extension of suspended enforcement of student expulsion case number e 2, 1, 2, 2 dash 1, 4, the recommendation is to extend the suspended enforcement of expulsion and additional academic semester for the expulsion make it a motion to approve.

[3166] SPEAKER_19: I move that we approve. I second.

[3170] Phuong Nguyen: motion be made by member Marquez, seconded by member Zhang. Member Zhang, how do you vote?

[3175] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[3176] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill?

[3178] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[3178] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindell?

[3179] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[3180] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes. Five ayes on item 10.4. Thank you. On to public hearing item 11.1, Sunshine Proposal Reopener for Newark Teachers Association NTA contract. Public hearing is now open. There's no comments. Public hearing is now closed. Thank you. I apologize. Ms. Villa, please come on up.

[3216] Chery Villa: Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm late. The Newark Junior High seventh grade girls basketball had a championship game. Oh, awesome. My daughter's on that team. So it was a good game, and the traffic was tough getting back there.

[3226] Phuong Nguyen: Did they win?

[3227] Chery Villa: They lost. It was close. It was 10 to 9. Oh, OK. I know. So it was really close. And traffic trying to get here, I apologize. No worries. But thank you for letting me. And I didn't turn in a paper. I apologize. OK, so let me get started here. Yes. Yes. All right. Well, good evening, Mr. Triblett, board members. My name is Sherry Avila, and I'm the head negotiator for our NTA negotiations team for the upcoming negotiations. Our NTA negotiations team, we have three elementary teachers and three secondary teachers representing general education, special education, and alternative education classrooms. Work has already begun on our side, as I'm sure it is on your side as well, to have meaningful and productive negotiations. We, our NTA members, and NUSD, we're all coming from a place of understanding that students come first. So I'm confident that together, we're going to begin to heal relationships and build a new path on a different direction to make Newark a destination place like we all want it to be. That's all I got. Thank you.

[3301] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you so much, Ms. Villa. With that, public hearing is now closed. OK. On to old business, item 12.1, elementary report card, Dr. Triplett.

[3314] Mark Triplett: Thank you, President Wynn. So as you recall, we have come to the board with updates on the elementary report card progress throughout the year. And so we are now bringing this item back. We have some fantastic elementary report card committee members here in the audience, teachers. And I believe Ms. Pierce is going to lead this. And then also we're going to hear from some of the members of the committee. We also do have Mr. Dulwich, who's led this process on Zoom, but he was unable to attend in person today.

[3359] Nicole Pierce-Davis: All right. So forgive me, yes. We do have him on call in case we do have any questions. But I'm going to go ahead and get us started. board. So as you know we had the board that we go back and we look at. Elementary report over the course of this year. So the presentation outcomes are to provide the background and history of elementary report card in Newark over the past few years to communicate the goals and work of the elementary report card committee for the 2122 school we're going to talk a little bit more about this process. First I want to acknowledge the elementary report card committee members. That you see here. They worked this and really gave us I think this was a board request to really make sure that we involve our teachers. In this process and they they were in effect our experts. Throughout the year. On their committee we have 2 of them with us today we'll talk a little bit Following the Common Core State Standards, NUSDK-6 teachers expressed interest in improving alignment with those standards and the report cards. So the main goal was to upgrade report cards to reflect alignment with those Common Core State Standards and really continue kind of the conversation and the movement towards more standards-based grading. So a report card committee was formed in 2018-19 school year. Site representatives made contributions to the report card for the 19-20 school year. And then on February 21, 2019, the report card committee voted for grades K-5 to change from a 1-4 rubric to a 1-3 rubric, 3 being met, 2 approaching, and 1 not met. The report card changes remained internal as part of a pilot, and the report card changed to a 1-3 scale for the 19-20 school year. At that point, there were questions brought, I want to say, towards the end of last year around the 3-scale and wanted more information around whether we would stick with the 3-point scale or go back to a 1.4. And so that became some of the work of the committee this year. So a little overview. The Curriculum and Assessment Council sort of overviewed projects. and the report card committee met 6 times. 81% also part of this was getting more staff feedback besides just the committee. Out of that survey, 81% of our TK5 teaching staff did complete that survey, which we will show a little bit of the results later on. And the report card committee conducted working meetings and then recommended updated drafts. And the Curriculum Council reviewed and approved on April 28, 2022. the data from the survey to discuss next steps and specifically discuss. The one to 3 of the one to 4. They then continue to meet to make updates. And that we're going to continue to do that. On May 10th 2022. There's also report card community engagement as well with families. If Mister dollars here, I'm sure he could tell you more about that. Doctor triple if you have anything to add before move on. The goals for the committee throughout this year were to do 3 items to update grade level language as necessary to and to formally receive board approval, again, regarding a final TK-5 elementary report card in spring so that we could finally move forward with a more permanent report card. There were working groups. Again, the committee met six times this year. So one of the working groups' goals were to correct errors on grade-level report cards, so really reviewing the staff feedback for some errors that they may have noted. and then recommend changes for any grade-level mistakes. So if a particular standard had shifted between grade levels, making sure that, again, it really aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Two, to identify themes and patterns of grade-level feedback. So identify and incorporate suggestions for improvement. And then, again, improve grade-level standards alignment. And three, to improve grade-level language regarding the standards. So coordinate with principals to share at staff meetings, and then elicit colleague input to improve that grade level specific language. To talk a little bit more about this, we have Brandi Wex and Lena Yepp, grade 1 and grade 2. So I'm going to invite them up at this time. And they're going to tell a little bit more details about the process. And I'm hoping, again, Mr. Dollage was here today, so hopefully I didn't take too much of what you were going to say. OK, great.

[3667] SPEAKER_35: Hi, I'm Brandi Wex. I teach first grade at Coyote Hills Elementary. I am happy to say that I was a part of writing the original Newark Unified Elementary Common Core report cards about 10 years ago when we met from the try copy, write your pencil through carbon copy report cards that we did when I first started teaching. And I said, you know, guys, we really should have something digital. And luckily, new standards came in right about that time. So I was a part of that committee with some of my colleagues now. So coming into this, it was great to get to start to look at how do we continue to take what we've learned over the last decade of being teachers in Common Core, and how do we make a report card that even further reflects the teaching that we're doing, the learning that students are doing, and how we know now to communicate that with parents. And something that I feel strongly about is that our report cards are not only a reporting document to parents, but they're also a reporting document between professionals. As our students move between districts in the state and out of state, we want to make sure that this document is something that other professionals understand what a student is learning, what a student may need more work on, and as well as making sure parents know what their students need work on. We are... Sorry, just let me check. So one of the things that we wanted to make sure is that we take this document now and we continue work with it. It's not finished. It is not a single piece of paper. It's not six individual documents. The elementary report card is something that is It goes across all of our grades. And it encapsulates a student's learning from kindergarten through fifth grade. So it's an entire document that is made of several different parts. And we want to make sure that there's alignment from kindergarten and even through TK all the way up through fifth grade. So there are strands of standards that you can follow across the grade levels and watch a student's progression and see where their learning has strengthened or maybe where they need focus as you go back through a student's report cards. As we continue, we really noticed that the next thing that we need to do is start building rubrics so that all of our teachers have the same tools that we're scoring students with, and it really will bring some validity to what we're scoring. And when we say a student has this score, we know that across all of our, for instance, first grade classrooms, that that score means the same thing. Those students were taught the same thing, they were assessed in the same way, and that score means the same thing across all of the schools. So that's a really big job to take on. And Lena's going to talk a little bit more about how we approached some of the things that we changed as well this year.

[3844] SPEAKER_09: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Lena Yepp, and I'm a second grade teacher at Birch Grove Primary School. So I've been a part of this committee for a few years. And this year, our goal was to really kind of finish out the job that we started, I think, of this particular section of the community about three years ago, or three school years ago. And so this year, we really tried to figure out, OK, what are our goals? And as we went through, our goal is just to figure out what we need to fix on the support card and make it a document that we could finally carry through with as we switched over into standards-based grading. In November, December, right around the time of the first trimester, when teachers had been working with report cards, we asked for teacher feedback. We heard back from about 80% of our teachers regarding what they liked about the report card, changes they wanted to see, and just per grade level, what it was that teachers were interested in seeing. So once we took a look at that, we found that there were some different focuses in terms of what K to two teachers were looking at and what three through five teachers were looking at. So within our committee, we broke up into grade level groups. We kind of took a look at those and crystallized what each grade level was asking for. And then we took that information back to our school sites, checked back with teachers to see if it kind of aligned with what they thought, and were able to just gather new feedback. So based on these ideas, how do you feel about these changes that we're looking at? Once we had our grade level information, we were able to take that. And within our committee, as Brandy said, the previous committee spent a lot of time trying to make sure that there was vertical alignment from K through five. So we saw similar standards all the way through. So now that we knew what grade levels we're interested in seeing, we went through and made sure that we tried to align the language across all six grade levels so that And you're mostly seeing the same type of language from kindergarten all the way up through grade five. TK standards and language is a little bit different. They're a more specialized program. So our committee did focus on the K through five aspect. And what we found was in third grade through fifth grade, students have the skills that at that point, they're really reading to learn. They're applying the skills that they have gained over the years. However, in kindergarten through second grade, many of the teachers were working on concrete skills. So skills such as identifying letters, knowing your letter sounds. Can you read sight words? Can you read one, two, three digit numbers? Do you know your math facts? Those are very much concrete skills. And they're skills that you either know or you don't know. There's not really a lot of room to see this deeper understanding. You can really see that in terms of when you take a look at the report card drafts. In the reading foundational skills, you'll see seven lines on the K report card, whereas there's only one line on the third through fifth grade report card. Because our goal is to build these skills into our students. And once they have all of these skills, they're able to hit third grade writing and really ready to apply their knowledge to learn new things and to grow from there. That's one of the reasons why, in terms of talking about the question of the four, it was really a very different feeling from the K-2 teachers versus the 3-5 teachers. And some of the reasons for our eventual recommendation were that we felt like for teachers that were in the K-2 range, the four could be misleading to parents, especially the way that it's been done to this point in our district. Instead of tying it to a rubric-based grade, which is what standards-based grading is meant to be, it has been tied to percentages. And so in terms of if you know your letter sounds, well, we have 26 letters. You should know all 26. If you know 26, you're meeting the standard. There's not really a way to exceed the standard because it's concrete. However, parents, especially of younger students, when seeing a 4, would feel that their students might be doing advanced level work, or maybe they're ready to go to the next grade level because they have a four. The other thing was we were seeing the four did not necessarily carry through all the way because a student who knew all their letters and sounds, they might have more difficulty as the set of skills got a little more challenging once they hit first grade and second grade. So it was causing some distress or frustration among parents and students of how their student was scoring a four, And suddenly, they're getting a three, or possibly even a two. So the students were not falling behind. It was just showing how they were meeting standards as they moved on to different and more concrete skill sets. So hopefully, that's, as Mohandy said, that's something that we hope to address once we switch over to standards-based grading and help teachers, parents, and the community understand what standards-based grading looks like. versus a percentage report card grading. Thank you.

[4181] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Thank you both for sharing. Obviously, it comes back so much clearer when you have a teacher come explain it. So please stick around in case there are any questions at the end. Just to elaborate a little bit on what they both said, again, 80% of our TK5 teachers did take this. And as you can see, when it's just a straight question, should a 4 be brought back, it almost appears split. But what you see here by the yellow is we should just stick with a 1 to 3 all the way through grades TK5. the light green is, okay, we can bring back a four, but really for our upper grades, three, five, at that split that was just mentioned, right? At the TK to second grade, you're really learning to read. Starting in third grade, you're reading to learn. And it's quite a bit of a shift there for our students. And then, versus teachers who thought all grades TK5. I think what's interesting about what our teachers just said, though, is they really went and unpacked the feedback that was given as well and saw sort of a shift between our 3.5 teachers versus our key TK2. And I think that's the powerful part about surveys. We can show the chart. But they really dived into the feedback that was provided by our teachers to give their recommendations today. So again, the rationale for maintaining a three in the lower grades, and at the risk of reiterating here, this was a unanimous decision. So this really is about teacher advocacy here around the elementary report card. There was some confusing points for parents. I think we talked a little bit about that. If the skill for maybe kindergarten is to know all of your letters, what is a four then? Knowing all of your letters and some of your phonics is a four. Knowing your letters in English and Spanish is a four. Knowing, you know, it becomes less clear when you start going beyond a very concrete skill, foundational skill. And we wanted to make sure it was very clear for our entire community. And then really it is developmentally more appropriate to consider that one to three specifically at the lower grades when they're learning how to read. For the upper grades, It's actually in alignment with some of our neighboring school districts as well. I believe both Fremont and Pleasanton, also at the upper grades, kind of make that shift as a transition into getting to the older grades and then transitioning through middle school. So it's not uncommon to kind of make that shift happen around that third or fourth grade year. It also feels more developmentally appropriate as they're reading to learn. And then again, the majority of the upper grade teaching staff, again, that full survey with all of our teachers don't show this, but the majority of our upper grade teaching staff are the ones that started advocating for that, bringing in that four. So some considerations, they also updated our TK report card. PE teachers, there were no changes made. Our science resource teachers also made updates to align with standards. The committee itself unanimously recommended bringing back one to four for grades three, five only. I think that unanimous vote is quite a strong statement of advocacy. They also want to shift four from exceeding to strongly met. Again, they're looking within those grade level standards, and so exceeding could imply very different things. Strongly met is sticking within that grade level standard that they're assessing in that moment. conjecturing about what exceeding could mean. Let's stick within our grade level standards and get really focused around our instruction there. And then Ed Services held community engagements, where parents also reiterated some of these feelings and statements that you're hearing tonight. Here is the pilot report card front. And again, these were in the notes, so I'm not going to take too much. The pilot report card back. and then our official recommendation to the board tonight. It is the recommendation of NUSD Elementary Report Card Committee and Curriculum and Assessment Council that the NUSD Board of Trustees formally approve the updated grade level report card for grades TK5 as presented. And we have teachers, we also have Mr. Dolowich on the line, and myself, if there are any questions.

[4432] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Ms. Pierce. Member Zhang, do you have any questions or comments?

[4437] Bowen Zhang: No questions. that we're going to be able to bring this back to all grades based on the survey result that one a half of the teacher has initially wanted to bring this back to all grades so I will my top top choice will be bringing this one to force go back to all grades.

[4454] SPEAKER_19: Thank you and first of all I wanted to congratulate the staff and all the work they put in the time and I wanted to and letting the families know and so they can actually see and lay one report card next to the other and see the progression of the child versus waiting for a report that comes in the summer when the school year is over, I think is very impactful. And also reviewing, I noticed that some of the actual categories, if you will, when we're testing for LPAC is reflected in our actual report card overall, right? The reading, the listening, so it's just not unique to the that we're going to be able to provide. We're not going to be able to provide that to all students but overall it's something that's been addressed which I've always asked when I gave previously. What type assessment we could get that would be just as effective as the pack to students as well just to see our full picture so it's very pleasant and rewarding to see that it's

[4524] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Member Marquez. Member Ho.

[4527] Aiden Hill: So, thank you for the presentation and thank you both for coming and explaining more. And I understand the logic that you're laying out. At the same time, I share with Member Zhang a little bit of nervousness or worry about moving to a less or fewer categories. But I understand your logic. I'm not sure if that's a good idea. But I I would personally like to see because it sounds like we did we we surveyed the teachers maybe there's some gradation there. but did it I don't it doesn't like we we surveyed the parents. It would be nice to maybe hear the parents viewpoint on this before we support make a decision and so I'm I'm recommending that maybe we do

[4582] Terrence Grindall: and I'm going to turn it over to you. Thank you. Well first I want to thank the and particularly. This week's mission for coming and explaining tonight. You certainly made. The logic of the of the of the proposed change very clear. I'm I I believe that we need to rely upon the train professionals that are familiar with our and the logic that you presented. I'm in strong support of the staff recommendation to do this. It's very important and the board made this clear starting this process and in others. We want to hear and have the teachers involved. The teachers are the ones who are interacting on a day-to-day basis. They're the ones who are teaching our children and we have to really listen to them we're going to have to have a discussion with the board about what's the best way to go and in this case, it's very clear that our professionals are telling us to go this way and that's that that's the way I'm going to be voting.

[4648] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you member can go. So lastly and as a initially. I was really thinking that yes, it would make sense to have one through 4 across the board so her stating the fact that percentages really did confuse parents. And I was one of those confused parents at the lower grade levels. So that definitely changed my perspective coming into the meeting versus after hearing your explanation. From that perspective and then also looking at all the report cards from kindergarten through second grade and then third through fifth, you guys did definitely put a lot of thought into it and effort into what is needed to be captured and how it is being relayed back to the parents and how the students will be able to improve moving forward. So with that said, yes. Please.

[4720] SPEAKER_35: I just want to add, on the committee, there's a high proportion of the teachers there that are K to second teachers. So I think that coming from that committee that it was a unanimous vote really represented those grade levels. But I'm not going to speak for all the schools and all the teachers in saying that the representatives that were chosen to be on that committee, not everybody is going to love every decision. So I'm sure that there's some of that there. But I also wanted to add that we have a lot of tools to communicate to students and to parents and to other teachers that our students are performing below, at, or far above grade level. So we have a lot of measured assessments that we use and communication tools and rubrics. For instance, our DRA, I'm working with students right now as I'm assessing students for the end of the year. For their reading, I'm assessing students in kindergarten levels as well as second grade levels as a first grade teacher. And I'm able to communicate that with parents, that your student, yes, they're getting a three on our report card, but their ability is far beyond what maybe we expected this student to be able to do. And I have tools to communicate that with them. What does that look like? What does the reading material that's appropriate for that student look like? And how can that continue? And that goes directly to their next teacher to continue them. They're not starting back at where all first graders, where all second graders will start. at the beginning of the year. In addition, we have rubrics that come with the writing program, the Lucy Calkins writing program, so schools that are using that closely are able to score students. As a first grade teacher, I'm able to score a student at first grade as they're on grade level, at kindergarten level, below grade level, or at a preschool level, in addition to a second grade level, and in different items. So I'm able to communicate that a student has those skills to their parent, to that child, and also to their next teacher. So I just wanted to add that. The report card is only one tool that we have, and it's a really small way of communicating. Most teachers will put the most important part of that report card is what you don't see there, which is the comments. So I think reinforcing that we have a lot of ways that we can communicate that doesn't have to be a grade for a six-year-old. I think that's it. Any other comment? I'm happy to answer any more questions if you have them on that.

[4848] Phuong Nguyen: No, thank you so much. But and I am in agreement that, yes, third through fifth grade definitely should be at one through four. And I think because at that point, I mean, with my own children, you know, I wanted them when they got the three and the way that it was weighted at that time, you know, knowing where she had fallen and stuff like that. I think it gave way to her feeling really confident that she did really well. knowing what the material was, she really didn't, you know, understand and fully grasp the material, even though she earned the three. So I think that, yeah, definitely from, you know, grades three to five, that makes a huge difference. Thank you. Okay. With that said, would you like to make the motion? Yes, ma'am.

[4905] SPEAKER_19: And at present, I move that the board approve the updated drafts of the elementary report card for grades TK through 5th as presented this evening.

[4912] Terrence Grindall: I'll second that motion.

[4913] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by Member Marquez, seconded by Member Grindel. How do you vote, Member Zhang?

[4919] Bowen Zhang: So, not my top choice, but still better than the current status, so I will vote yes.

[4926] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill? Yes. Member Grindel?

[4932] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[4932] Phuong Nguyen: you. Thank you. Also yes for me 5 I thank you so much.

[4938] SPEAKER_14: Thank you miss you in the specs.

[4940] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Okay on to item 12.2 e l d curriculum adoption amendment. Doctor

[4961] Mark Triplett: and the teachers have been implementing that curriculum. However, there was certain parts of the curriculum, certain levels, that was not originally adopted, and so this is being brought back as an amendment to get approval from the board to adopt these additional ELD curriculum levels. And I believe Ms. Cairns is here to speak on this or add any other information.

[4986] Abbey Keirns: Pretty brief, but nice to see you all this evening. We did a great adoption process. However, I think the gist is we didn't adopt the series formally. So I wanted to bring that back to the board and we did do some work with our students and teachers to make sure this was still the right stuff. So this is what was adopted in May 2021 for the junior high. Beginners got Get Ready. And intermediates got Pathways Level 3. In high school, beginners also got Get Ready. And for intermediates and advanced, we got Edge Fundamentals. So I think the thing we need to point out here is when this adoption was made, I think maybe the intention was to adopt the series. But what was on the documents was these individual textbooks, which are just a portion of the series. So for Pathways Level 3, there's also Pathways Level 4. And for EDGE fundamentals, there's also EDGE A, B, and C. So I'm just going to share a little bit. So our suggested revision is to adopt the full sequence of the EDGE curriculum in order to support all levels of ELD courses and to adopt Pathways 4 to support the addition of the advanced ELD classes at the junior high. So what it will look like in total, a little more comprehensive view. Beginning ELD will continue to be Get Ready at the junior high. Intermediate ELD will be Pathways 3. Advanced ELD would be Pathways 4. Beginning ELD, again, Get Ready and EDGE Fundamentals, so what was formally adopted was also a sort of beginning level. Then the early intermediates would get EDGE A, intermediates EDGE B, and advanced EDGE C. So we just do a pilot process on those additional textbooks. In October, I met with the teachers to discuss their concerns regarding what was adopted from the previous year. That's sort of when it came to my attention. In November, we received pilot materials for Edge A through C for the teacher to review and pilot. The teacher prepared to pilot materials in semester two. They piloted it with students in January, February. Then March collected data for the students. And their survey responses were also collected in April. the presentation and approval of the amendment, the modification basically to the Curriculum Council and it was approved. I think that is pretty much the gist of it. I think that's, I have additional data regarding the student surveys but they were all very positive, nothing particularly to note there. So this is in a sense a continuation of what was adopted and merely a correction of what I think was intended to be adopted last year.

[5158] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Ms. Kearns. Are there any questions or comments from the board? Are we ready to make a motion? Member Zhang?

[5165] Bowen Zhang: So I asked this question before the board meeting regarding the lottery funding source. Can we talk about what kind of items the lottery fund can be paid for?

[5179] Marie dela Cruz: The lottery is mostly for instructional materials and any instructional-related type and benefits.

[5195] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Ms. Stella Cruz. Any other comments or questions, member Zhang?

[5199] SPEAKER_19: Member Marquez? None at this time. I'm ready to make a motion.

[5204] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Hill?

[5206] Aiden Hill: Thank you, Ms. Cairns. I suspect you probably know what I'm going to say. But so as a teacher, I've had exposure to Cengage. And they're this educational behemoth that creates all these materials. And to be frank, the materials that I've been exposed to have been pretty poor. Now, I can grant that, and I can acknowledge that there could be, again, different areas where it's stronger or weaker. I don't have personal knowledge of this. But my question to you is, is that the district has a history going back decades of adopting new programs, new curriculum, and then with no real clear goals and no way to measure success. And then at some point, nothing really works out, and then it just quietly kind of dies, and we move on to something else. So if we're going to adopt this, what are our goals? What are we hoping to see? And why do we need to be adding this to achieve those goals?

[5271] Abbey Keirns: Fundamental one here would be to make sure we're in compliance with having the appropriate curriculum for the provided course level. So for example, if we are adding an ELD course, an advanced ELD course to the junior high school, we'd need to make sure that we have appropriate materials for that class. So that's sort of, I think, at the base level. Linda, did you want to add?

[5293] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Yeah. In terms of data, eventually we would love to see, again, what we always want to see. We want to see an increase in reclassification. We want to see an increase in our language scores, but we do have a legal responsibility to provide ELD to students in need. And that is our responsibility. As at a base level. On a grander scale, we would want to see an increase in our data.

[5317] Aiden Hill: Right, but this is in addition to what we're already providing.

[5321] Nicole Pierce-Davis: This is to complete the series of what we're providing. for instance, we've got different levels of ELD. And so if we were to only say, we're only going to offer beginner ELD and then get audited, that would be an audit finding. That would be inappropriate to be giving ELD 1 instruction to ELD 4 students, let's say. And I think I'm using salt numbers there. It shows my age a little bit. So we have a responsibility to offer at the level that the student's at. OK.

[5350] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Grundell?

[5354] Terrence Grindall: I just want to reiterate, and if you can confirm, this is really sort of a technical filling out of what we've been doing. It's not really a change in course.

[5363] Abbey Keirns: No. I think there was a testing of, like, is this program the right program, and I think there was just a sort of a blip on what was actually formally adopted, and it should have said the full series, and it didn't, and I didn't want to move forward without your approval. Thank you. Great.

[5377] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you for the clarification. With that, may we have a motion to approve?

[5383] SPEAKER_19: I move that we approve the ELT curriculum adoption amendment.

[5387] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by member Marquez, seconded by myself. How do you vote, member Jean?

[5392] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[5393] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez?

[5394] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[5395] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill?

[5396] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[5396] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindell?

[5397] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[5398] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also a yes. Five ayes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. OK. On to new business, item 13.1, board policy and administration regulation, 3551 food service operations cafeteria fund. First reading.

[5417] Mark Triplett: Thank you, President Nguyen. I'm going to turn this over to Ms.

[5419] SPEAKER_14: Delacruz.

[5423] Marie dela Cruz: This board policy is an update to the food service operations regulations. It needs to be updated for the upcoming audit that they're scheduled for.

[5438] Phuong Nguyen: Are there any questions or comments from the board Are there any findings in the documentation that needs to be changed or brought back for a second reading? Or are we ready to make a motion to approve?

[5453] SPEAKER_19: Madam President, motion to approve.

[5454] Phuong Nguyen: Okay. Motion made by Member Marquez. May I get a second, please?

[5462] Terrence Grindall: I'll second.

[5463] Phuong Nguyen: Seconded by Member Grindel. Member Jean stepped out. Should we wait for him to vote, or can we move forward? Move forward. OK. Member Marquez? Yes. Member Zhang, we move to approve. Yes. Thank you. Member Zhang. Member Hill?

[5482] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[5482] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindell?

[5484] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[5485] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes. Bye-byes. Thank you. Ms.dela Cruz? On to item 13.2, resolution 2021.22.40, PG&E easement for electric vehicle charging stations. I will hand it over to you, Ms. Delacruz.

[5502] Marie dela Cruz: Thank you, President Nguyen. This board item is to approve a resolution that will provide PG&E easement to the area in our maintenance yard so they can provide the power to the charging stations. This is related to a couple of grants that we received and the board approved related to electric buses that we purchased, as well as charging stations that PG&E is helping to pay for. So in order for them to start, we just need to give them access to our property, basically.

[5543] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you so much. Any comments or questions? Member Zhang? Member Marquez?

[5552] SPEAKER_19: None at this time.

[5553] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill?

[5554] Aiden Hill: Yeah, thank you. Just a quick question. So is there any cost impact to the district in voting for this resolution and this easement?

[5564] Bowen Zhang: So I believe it's $45,000, but we're looking for the grant. That was the question and answer before the school board meeting.

[5572] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, so we are committed as part of our condition to accept the grant with PG&E to add three more charging stations, and the estimated cost for that is about $45,000. The first two are covered by grants that we already received.

[5591] Aiden Hill: So maybe just a clarification, because I know that we made a decision earlier. So it sounds like what you're saying is that the decision that we already made has committed us to an additional $45,000 or whatever if we don't get these grants.

[5607] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, you can look at it that way.

[5609] Aiden Hill: So that was the prior decision. My question is, is this resolution and this easement, is there any additional cost that we're committing to through this?

[5618] Bowen Zhang: No. OK. So the interesting thing I want to ask is, if each chart is $25,000, then why the additional three will be total $45,000? That's why initially on the email, I thought it was $75,000. Right.

[5637] Marie dela Cruz: The first grant that we received, the $77,000, will provide the basic foundation for the chargers so that we don't have those costs for the next two.

[5656] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindel?

[5657] Terrence Grindall: Yes, I just wanted to... I just wanted to compliment staff for bringing this item forward and for moving us towards a more sustainable transportation network. I also am glad to see that there's a quick claim requirement if PG&E contract is, we don't want to have this entangling us working with another provider, so I compliment you on clearly that as well. Thank you.

[5685] Phuong Nguyen: I don't have any other comments. My other board members pretty much summed it all up.

[5690] Bowen Zhang: So, one last part about the additional cost. I guess there's this nominal or minimal cost on that, our commitment on maintaining, I guess, the maintenance work, which will be part of our routine maintenance cost, right?

[5706] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, that's correct. And right now, there are no trees or brushes around this area. trees on the other side of the fence, but it's further away from the property and the area that they're proposing to install the charging station.

[5724] Phuong Nguyen: Any other comments, Member Zhang?

[5726] Bowen Zhang: No, I'm ready to make the motion.

[5727] Phuong Nguyen: Okay, would you make the motion?

[5729] Bowen Zhang: I move that we approve Resolution 2021.22.40. May I get a second, please?

[5737] Phuong Nguyen: I second. Motion made by Member Zhang, seconded by Member Marquez. How do you vote, Member Zhang?

[5741] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[5743] Phuong Nguyen: Yes. Member Hill. Yes. Member Grindell.

[5745] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[5746] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes. Five ayes. Thank you. On to item 13.3, Newark Junior High School Paving and Striping Project. Dr. Triplett.

[5758] Mark Triplett: Thank you, President Nguyen. Do we have any guests for this, Ms. Delacruz?

[5763] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, I do have our representative from RGMK available to answer any questions.

[5771] Mark Triplett: Great. So this item is with regard to the paving and striping at the junior high school. We do have considerable areas of the parking lot and the route for student drop-off that are in dire need of repair. You will notice on here that, and Ms. Delacruz will probably speak more on this, but that this is for, really for repair and not completely overhauling the parking lot. And we made that decision from a frugal standpoint, that the cost of doing a complete overhaul would be significantly more expensive. However, we do welcome board input into whether it's more advisable to overhaul the entire parking lot rather than just some repairs. There's obvious trade-offs, but I do think that we're coming forth with the recommendation as it is We do have so many other significant needs that while it would be nice to completely renovate the parking lot, we also recognize that there are so many other needs across the district that we're just thinking in that way. But I'll turn it over to Ms. Delacruz to add anything.

[5854] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, as Dr. Triplett mentioned, the condition of the parking lot as well as the main drive main drive-through is in really bad condition right now. This was part of our deferred maintenance, part of our list of deferred maintenance projects. And the striping right now is really faded and the parking spaces in the parking lot are not clearly marked. And plus, because of the solar project, we had to incorporate some ADA-compliant parking spaces. Um, we had to redo it anyway. And the proposed, um, striping plan right now does provide for, uh, a better flow of traffic as well as provides, uh, a second, um, drop off area in addition to the main, main drive drive through. So what we're proposing is Dr. Shipley mentioned is The main drive-thru would be completely replaced, but in the parking lot, we'll be just doing a lot of patchwork on the areas that are really badly damaged in terms of maybe potholes and some alligator-type cracks that are occurring right now. So in order to... The estimate for this The scope of work is $311,000, but if we were to completely repair and replace the drive-through as well as the entire parking lot and re-stripe it, the estimate is about $700,000 to $800,000. Okay.

[5968] Phuong Nguyen: Comments or questions? Member Zhang?

[5971] Bowen Zhang: So, once we do this, once we complete this $311,000, I mean, does the remaining really strictly equal to this $750,000 minus this amount, or is it more than that? Because you are separating the two projects, rather than doing it as a whole. I'm sorry, is it in... So I understand the total cost of completely revamping this is $700,000 to $800,000. But if we approve this $311,000 today, that means we're sort of splitting this into multiple parts. So does that really, because sometimes when you split something into multiple parts, you actually incur additional costs. My question is, if we do $311,000 today, is the remaining cost strictly the difference between $800,000 and this number?

[6021] Marie dela Cruz: Yeah, so what I might suggest is if you're thinking about considering the total replacement as a possibility, then you can change the recommendation so that it would allow for the board to accept an alternate bid, because the way that we bid it is the base would be the repair, you know, based on the 300. But there's also an add alternate where it would include the total replacement. So then we would have a choice to accept just the base bid or the base plus the alternate.

[6063] Mark Triplett: Could I add a little bit? I think I understand your question, members. So it's not that we would only be doing for $300,000 half of the job. It would be doing that we'd be doing repairs versus complete overhaul. So in other words, if we do the half price one, Then in, I don't know if it's about four years or so.

[6086] Marie dela Cruz: Four or five years maybe.

[6086] Mark Triplett: We'd have to be revisiting, maybe doing the complete overhaul.

[6090] Marie dela Cruz: Or doing more patchwork in some other areas type of thing. Yeah.

[6093] Bowen Zhang: Sure, like when you do this, it's just every couple of years you do the patchwork. Yeah. Until you don't want to tolerate that anymore.

[6099] Aiden Hill: Exactly.

[6100] Bowen Zhang: And you still end up spending 1.1 million and totally replace that.

[6103] SPEAKER_14: Yes, that's the sort of risk.

[6105] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez.

[6106] SPEAKER_19: Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My my question was that difference of the 490,000 almost 500,000 with the change that we've just received the budget. I have have we started the process as anyone for the process to see if any of the funds allocation that may be coming to us as a school district. Cover this additional cost if we were to go with the full 800,000 so that we would not be maybe one-time monies are we so that we would not be using the what I was trying to think of is thinking of like a Caltrans approach, right? Because you see a pothole on the 880 and instead of fixing the entire lane, they just go out and do a little remedy and then two weeks later or a month later, the pothole's back, right? So I'm trying to think long term, what would be the better investment for the school district if we're doing our homework or if we're doing the research to find where we could come up with that other 490,000 now knowing that with the budget, when it's just happened within the last week. Has that process started?

[6170] Marie dela Cruz: With the May revise? So that's not for sure yet. So we can't really count on that. But I mean, if it did come through, you could use that. Not that I would recommend it, because really this is a capital project that you would be better off using the restricted funds, Fund 40 for capital outlay. And it's not that we don't have the funding, it's just we're trying to spread it out, knowing that there's so many other projects that need to be done. Because we do have about $8, $9 million in Fund 40, and maybe another $10 million in our developer fee account. But the district is in dire need of so many other projects that we just want to make sure that we think about the other schools as well.

[6216] SPEAKER_19: OK, so from my understanding correctly, then what we're looking for is to be equitable, right? to take care of many needs versus taking care of one and leaving the others waiting. Is that correct? That's right. That was our thinking. Thank you for that.

[6233] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Hill.

[6235] Aiden Hill: Thank you, Ms.dela Cruz. So I just have a question about, so this is a construction project. I don't remember the the competitive bid limits, but they're fairly small for a construction project. I think it's like, I don't know, $15,000 or $20,000. So obviously this would go out to competitive bid. But then I guess my question is, and I didn't really think to ask it before, but what is, so who's going to conduct this competitive bid, and what's Mr. Caputo's role in this whole process?

[6271] Marie dela Cruz: Yeah, so RGMK is already let it out to bid, Our CAPCA limit is $200,000. So this has to go out to formal bid. And in order for us to be able, in terms of timeline, just to make sure we catch the next two board meetings, we're kind of doing it all at the same time. And if the board had rejected it, then we would have rejected the bids. So it's already out.

[6300] Aiden Hill: So we're having an outside consultant manage our bid process.

[6307] Marie dela Cruz: In this case, yes.

[6309] Aiden Hill: OK. I mean, and he's done it for other things, too. Yes, he has. And why don't we use staff for this?

[6318] Marie dela Cruz: Well, right now, we really don't have the capacity.

[6322] Aiden Hill: OK. So he helps us put together the RFP.

[6331] Marie dela Cruz: They put the bid specs together, the front end, they conduct all of the mandatory bid walks, they meet with the contractors, they do our bid openings, there's a lot of work involved in the whole bid process.

[6346] Aiden Hill: Okay, and then we pay him to manage this project, or this process?

[6352] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, for planning and then managing the project, yes.

[6356] Aiden Hill: And then he also acts as the as the manager for all these projects?

[6363] Marie dela Cruz: The construction projects, yes, the ones that we contract for, yeah.

[6367] Aiden Hill: So aren't we needing to actually put his services out to bid also as it starts to achieve certain thresholds?

[6377] Marie dela Cruz: Well, we contracted with RGMK a couple of years ago when we contracted for the bond projects. And because, I mean, it is a professional service. It's not anything that's required to go out to bid.

[6393] Aiden Hill: So the professional services limit, I think, is $99,000. So have we paid him more than $99,000 so far?

[6400] Marie dela Cruz: Not for professional services. Not in that. For all of these projects? For like architects and those types of services, construction services.

[6409] Aiden Hill: So for all of these projects, we haven't paid him more than $99,000?

[6412] Marie dela Cruz: I didn't say that. I said that the RFP and bidding process doesn't apply. to like architect services, professional construction services. It doesn't apply to those.

[6429] Aiden Hill: You're saying that there's no competitive bidding limits for that? I mean, there's not a threshold for when you have to put these out to bid?

[6439] Marie dela Cruz: Not for the professional contracts. That's not true. Well, I checked with legal before we did this. You can get quotes, you can get, you can do the RFP process, but it's not mandatory.

[6451] Aiden Hill: Yeah, that's not according to Ed Code.

[6456] Phuong Nguyen: Okay, thank you.

[6457] Terrence Grindall: Member Grindel. Thank you, President Nguyen. All right, a couple things. So if this were done in this sort of halfway, we'd end up with three different ages of striping out in the parking lot, right? We'd have the original, which is barely visible now. You'd have the stuff that was done for the handicap work due to the over, and then you'd have a brand new striping in other places. Is that correct? Yes.

[6489] Marie dela Cruz: I'm sorry.

[6490] Mark Triplett: Sorry to interrupt, but just want to make sure that I'm clear.

[6492] SPEAKER_14: Would all different striping would be visible, or part of the striping process is you remove the original striping so that there's not all these cross?

[6503] Marie dela Cruz: Oh, yeah, there wouldn't be any cross as it is.

[6507] Terrence Grindall: No, no. What do you mean? I'm referring to the fact that there'll be areas of the parking lot that have the existing striping that is now, because they're not being touched by this project, right? There are parts of the parking lot that are not being addressed at all.

[6520] Marie dela Cruz: OK, so for the striping, the part that we wouldn't touch is the part that was already the new striping that was done for the solar project.

[6532] Terrence Grindall: So the entire rest of the parking lot would be re-striped?

[6536] Marie dela Cruz: Everything else would be re-striped. Because there's really nothing existing that we could keep other than what was done for the solar.

[6543] Terrence Grindall: I understand. That does raise other concerns of trying to stripe in gravel. So we also have a situation where you're looking at going back, and I do appreciate staff's desire to try to make our precious dollars go far and across the district. However, if we have to go back in three or four years and end up redoing all this work, then that really causes problems, that really causes concerns for me. I'd rather spend the money that we have and do it efficiently in a way that gives us a product that's going to have a longer life cycle. When you start looking at life cycle cost, this three-year fix doesn't really score very well. You know, I'm back of envelope, right? So I'm concerned about that. I'd rather spend the money that it takes to get it done properly that's going to last the time. In addition, in what I've experienced, when you have a project like that's a patch kind of project, the opportunities for change orders and cost overruns is much, much higher than if you do a project in total, which you can really bid it out and provide the information. Is that your experience too?

[6623] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, that's right.

[6626] Terrence Grindall: Yeah, because I'd really rather, I'd really like to to get a contract that's done, and then we can hold the contractor to accomplishing the clear objective, but not to be arguing of, well, I wasn't supposed to fix that pothole. That's your problem, and yeah, we striped on gravel, and the wind blew it away, but that's too bad. It wasn't specked. So I'd like to see it done really properly. I'd rather invest the money now. Otherwise, really, this $311,000 is gone when we go back to do it in three or four years. And maybe this is an emotional thing, but whatever, we're all human. We're opening a new middle school. We're really inaugurating a new era for this facility, and it seems just odd to be doing it halfway. I'd like to see us reach down and find a way to fund the whole project. I understand the best way to do that probably is to add it as an ad alternate into the RFP that's already out. that makes perfect sense. But I'd be very much in favor, assuming that it's in that price range, I'd be very much in favor of doing it properly one time with a life cycle of 10, 12 years, rather than having to be doing whack-a-mole on the Caltrans approach of throwing sand in holes and it disappearing into somewhere. So that's where I stand on this. Thank you.

[6727] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also in agreement with member Grindell. I think that we should consider redoing the entire job and not piecemeal it and be more efficient with the funding. That way we don't have to revisit it and make additional fixes or repairs later on. I just think that that would be you know, using up more district funding, unnecessary funding. And then also, I do have an issue with the current striping as is. I think that although, you know, we want to make the drop-off, the green secondary drop-off, you know, efficient for parents, but I think it would be best if the loop was just made all around and that we have singular striping for all the parking going, you know, one direction, and then having one exit pathway. And instead of having multiple, I could see people, like, trying to run, you know, and eliminating that middle, that middle entry right there. So, anyways, those are just my two cents. But, so, yes, Member Hill.

[6808] Aiden Hill: So, I think, and this is kind of to Ms.dela Cruz's earlier point, I think that we could be losing sight of the larger issue, which is that we have limited funds, but lots of potential needs. And so I'm looking at Mr. Caputo's facilities maintenance plan that he brought forward. I don't know if it was the last session or the session before. It basically built on the prior facilities maintenance plan. The unfortunate thing is that he's listed outside priorities, but there's no real sort of order $1 amount that's associated with it, so it's hard for us to see. But I think that before we make a decision on one, I would suggest that we get more information about this, and we actually maybe get some cost estimates for these things, and also maybe have a discussion about priorities, because I'm just going to list off a few of them. I mean, we've got this one for the parking lot. We've got asphalt maintenance for playground and quad areas. We've got repair water fountains. replace HVAC units and portables, we've got remove, repair old portables, we've got a whole variety of things here. And I'm just concerned that we could be zeroing in on this because it's on our current agenda item and maybe we're... No.

[6890] Phuong Nguyen: There's definitely a need there. I top off my kids there.

[6893] Aiden Hill: Right, but the question is, is it the most pressing need of all of the... Yes.

[6898] Phuong Nguyen: There's damages to people's cars and vehicles.

[6900] Aiden Hill: Okay, so that's your opinion. I mean, I'm just asking to say that I'd like to get more information before we vote on this.

[6909] Phuong Nguyen: Member Zhang, do you have any additional comments?

[6911] Bowen Zhang: Well, I would just say let's go out with the $800,000 bid and bring it back next time. Because we're talking about Fund 40, right? These capital budgets. How much money are you losing every month in an inflationary environment by letting the funds sit idle? That's my question.

[6932] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez, do you have any other comments?

[6935] SPEAKER_19: I just want to thank my fellow board members for the amount of information that's been offered by each and every one of you because it's enlightened me and it's helping me see things differently. In my opinion now, currently, after previously asking where the money would come from, I feel that listening to my fellow board members, that it's better to take care of it now if we're able to, if we're in that capacity, versus patching. So thank you, everyone, for your information.

[6963] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Grindel, any additional comments?

[6966] Terrence Grindall: I'd like to make a motion. I'd like to make a motion when you're ready.

[6969] Phuong Nguyen: OK. Go ahead.

[6971] Terrence Grindall: I'd like to approve the staff recommendation with the addition of sending out the ad alternate for a complete repair replacement, as indicated in the staff report. I'll second that.

[6984] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by member Grindel, seconded by member Zhang. How do we vote? How do you vote? Member Zhang?

[6989] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[6990] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez?

[6991] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[6991] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill? No. Member Grindel?

[6994] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[6995] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also a yes. Four ayes and one no. Thank you. On to consent item, personnel items. 14 may get motion to approve item 14.2 14.3 and 14.4. I'd like to pull 14.4 Okay, we will pull 14.4 may get a motion to approve 14.2 and 14.3. I move to approve 14.2 and 14.3 I second motion made by member Zhang seconded by member Marquez. How do you vote member Zhang? Yes member Marquez. Yes member Hill Yes, member Grindel.

[7039] SPEAKER_30: Yes

[7039] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes, five ayes on items 4.2 and 4.3. Item 4.4, member Hill.

[7049] Aiden Hill: Yeah, so looking at the PAL and looking at the recommendation for basically filling the director of special education, I have a concern with the approach that we're taking. And this dates back to the concerns that I had echoed all the way from last year, which is that, again, I really believe that it would be helpful to have board, if not involvement, in the hiring of key positions, at least proper briefing. And we really haven't had either, and there's very little transparency. And my concern is that we know that we've had significant issues in our special education area, We get emails as a board all the time from parents about issues that have come up. And then we've also had, you know, numerous basically decisions that we've had to make to provide separate services because our district hasn't been capable of providing what's needed and at significant cost. And so, you know, we really need to bring in, in my opinion, you know, a very experienced person to come in and do a, you know, really kind of a turnaround in this area. And, you know, with all due respect to the proposed candidate, so again, I don't have any detailed knowledge, but I'm concerned that we're recruiting from within and not looking at all the potential best candidates. And as I've described before, if we want to go to the Super Bowl, the way you go to the Super Bowl is with the best players. And I want to make sure that we have the best players on our team. And I think that we're rushing this, and I'm concerned about it.

[7163] Bowen Zhang: So one comment I want to make is that on that position, the proposed candidate actually originally came from special education.

[7173] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Member Zhang. Member Marquez, do you have any questions or comments?

[7177] SPEAKER_19: Two comments. So first and foremost, in recent training, when it comes to the hiring, And that's why we, as a board, have our superintendent. So when it comes to our superintendent having his executive committee, we need to remember that this is the board, as a board, this is the superintendent that we chose. And so we have our invested time and decision making when it comes to hoping that he makes the right choice for us when it comes to the hiring. Because it would be impossible for us as a board to find ourselves getting involved we're not going to be able to do that. We're not going to be able to do that. When it comes to the hiring because of the processes as if you do not have the background of knowing the laws in itself. I was going to hold this item for a little bit later but. remember how to use this I just want to. Go ahead and chime in in looking at our fiscal year. February 1st 2022. and I was looking at local school districts and we consider ourselves and we want to consider ourselves competitive. So going off of the comment that was made in order for us to be competitive, we as a board need to support our HR department as well as our superintendent when it comes to not only negotiating but looking at what the cost of living is. It was great news to see that it was actually at 6.56 the Cola versus the five, I was thinking it was going to be three, and here we are, double that, right? So if we want to be competitive, especially with our local and surrounding areas, I took a moment to look at what we have. So for example, English dual emergent Spanish teacher for 22-23, okay, starting off, $55,000 to the $98,000 with an annual $10,000 retention bonus plus a $2,500 stipend if you hold the B-CLAD. This is for Spanish. Dual immersion Korean, $65,000 starting and that's at the entry of the BA plus the $30,000 with a $2,250 stipend for Korean. And then it goes on to show Mandarin. Dual immersion. So we as a school district, in order to, and as a board of education, in order for us to maintain competitive and to retain the employees that we have, this is the type of homework that we need to do. What does it take for us to retain and to want someone like the current candidate that we have in place that's willing to step in and apply for the director of special education, what is it that's keeping that current employee wanting to stay here? And those are the type of questions that I would hope that our executive board, along with superintendent, is actually asking during the process, the hiring process. So thank you, Member Hill, for opening up this conversation, because in doing my homework, we have to maintain competitive. And I'm hoping that that 6.6 is something that comes into fruition and that that we see that dream or that number actually become a reality, all right, because we need to maintain and retain excellent staff. Thank you.

[7391] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Grindel?

[7394] Terrence Grindall: Yes, I was, thank you Mr. Hill for pulling this item. I wanted to talk about two issues as well. the first issue is I was hoping the superintendent or other staff could describe the process that you use to fill these very, very important positions. I do want to first state that I strongly support member Marquez's concept that we hire you to do this work, but I would appreciate if you could explain to the board the process that you use.

[7428] Mark Triplett: Absolutely, thank you. I'd be happy to, although I think Ms. Ingham-Watters probably can do an even better job than me at explaining all of the different levels and layers of this process.

[7441] SPEAKER_16: So for our principal positions, we have, after adjoined posting and screening for requirements, We invite qualified candidates to a performance-based interview, and that is a series of role plays and scenarios that principals will face in any given year, month, week, maybe some all in a day. And we can really, instead of them just talking about what they can do, they actually can demonstrate it and show it. And so after that process, district leadership debrief and select really the best of the best to go into a pool. And then from there, we do a panel interview with parity among the stakeholders. So we work collaboratively with our teachers union to have two NTA representatives. We work with CSCA leadership to have two CSCA representatives, two administrators, as well as two parents. And we try to have variety there. That is more of a traditional panel interview with questions and answers that stay consistent for all of the candidates. We have a ranking system and we debrief. We will, as an advisory panel, they're not the hiring panel, they're advisory, they will recommend a number of candidates to move on to the next round, which is with executive cabinet. That's obviously with Executive Cabinet, which have different sets of questions, maybe follow-up, maybe more information wanting to be known about them from the panel. We can personalize the next level. We also do thorough reference calls before we make the offer.

[7554] Terrence Grindall: Great. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Appreciate the explanation. I think that's a really good point. And the other the other point it was it was going to make I was going to I was going to pull this for this reason that never had to be to it. Which is really just to congratulate. These educators for these for their for their interest in and their and their selection for these positions were really excited to have such high quality people in our. And I believe that if you can grow your own people and hire your own people, that's a net positive, not a negative.

[7596] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill.

[7599] Aiden Hill: Yeah, again, I know that many people up here on the dais, as well as probably in the audience, are Warriors fans. And the Warriors are in the championships. And I promise you that the general manager and the leadership of the warriors are involved in the hiring of key positions. And so not only is that true in professional sports, but it's also true across corporate America and across all corporate boards. And I think that we, if we're going to become a great district, that we, the board, need to get more involved and that we need to really make sure that we're recruiting the best to take us to the heights that we want to achieve.

[7645] SPEAKER_16: I just wanted to add one more detail about the process. We also held input sessions. I hosted sessions with all interested staff at the site level. focus on what characteristics and attributes they desire for their next principal, as well as what are the needs of the school and kind of the vision moving forward. We also hosted Zoom community engagement nights with the same kind of process and task. And so those questions and those feedback were also a data point in creating rigorous questions, as well as, you know, listening to the details in the candidates answers. Just wanted to include that as well.

[7690] Phuong Nguyen: Okay. Lastly, I'm ready to make a motion if there's no other comments, but I just wanted to remind member Hill, our GM is the superintendent. So we do put all of you know, our faith into the superintendent while he makes these decisions with his executive team. So I just wanted to appreciate them for all their hard work and effort into, you know, doing all the interviews for the staff. So with that, I'd like to make a motion to approve the personnel report. May I get a second, please?

[7722] SPEAKER_31: I second it.

[7723] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by myself and seconded by member Zhang. Member Zhang, how do you vote? Yes. Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill?

[7733] SPEAKER_30: No.

[7733] Phuong Nguyen: Member Rendell?

[7735] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[7736] Phuong Nguyen: I'm a yes as well. Four ayes and one no.

[7742] Mark Triplett: Thank you, President Nguyen. And if we may, we'd like to introduce the two principals and the director of special education and say a few words. And so with your permission, I'd love to start by inviting Ms. Elba Herrera to come up to the stage. So Ms. Herrera, if you'd allow me, I'm going to say a few words, and then I'd love to hear from you as well. So we're just really, really delighted, excited to have Ms. Herrera become the new principal of Schilling. I'll say a little bit about her. Elba was born and raised in the East Bay and is a product of public school education. She currently lives in Hayward with her husband and two children, one of which I believe is here with us tonight. Elba Herrera has served the Newark Unified School District for over 25 years, working as an elementary school teacher supporting Schilling Elementary. Since the beginning of her career, she has been dedicated to Schilling Elementary and student achievement, making sure students get a rigorous education. These past three years, she has been the administrative designee, supporting staff and students in the absence of her principal. She has been a mentor for the NUSD induction program for the past seven years, supporting and guiding new teachers with challenges they face through their first years of teaching. She has assisted Schilling Elementary to achieve platinum PBIS status, currently the only school in our district to do so. And Elba is trained in the Sobrato Early Academic Language, or SEAL, model, which we've spoken to this board about, which is used to improve literacy outcomes for monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual students. These past two years, she has led and supported the development of the Dual Language Immersion Program recently implemented at our school. And she has been one of the teachers in that program. Elba is passionate about being an advocate for education focused on offering support to all students and staff, promoting commitment and sharing a sense of responsibility for implementing change. As principal at Schilling Elementary, she has high expectations to secure a successful DLI program and to ensure that all students are meeting academic success. And I will say that I appreciate some of the comments of board members. couldn't be more delighted to be hiring from within and hiring from candidates who have shown a lifetime of dedication to our district. It's tremendous. We are hiring rock stars and future champions. And I am proud of our HR department as well because this year, we already had a rigorous process, but this year the process has become even more rigorous. So with that, I just want to, if you all could join me again in applause for Ms. Alba Herrera.

[7936] SPEAKER_38: Thank you so much. Good evening Dr. Triplett, board members, cabinet members, and community members. It is my pleasure and honor to introduce myself as principal for Schilling Elementary School. I am extremely proud and excited to make my transition from teacher to principal at the very school where I started my career 25 years ago. I look forward to working with the staff, the students, the families, and the school community to make sure we focus on student achievement. I am dedicated to continuing our students' success and will strive to continue the positive relationships, rigorous learning, and continue to encourage our students to celebrate their unique strengths. Es un gran placer poder asistir a la comunidad de Shilling y el recito de Newark. Estoy aquí para servirles. Thank you for your time and support.

[7994] Mark Triplett: Muchas gracias, Directora Herrera. Next, I'd like to call up Miss Christy Palomino. So Christy Palomino grew up in Newark. She's an alumni of Russian Elementary, of McGregor Elementary, of Newark Junior High, and Newark Memorial High School. Mrs. Palomino attended San Francisco State, San Jose State, Ohio State, and Cal State Hayward for her teaching credentials and her administrative leadership roles. Mrs. Palomino has been a dedicated NUSD employee for 27 years. Well, sorry, Ms. Herrera, she's got your feet. And 26 of those years spent serving the Snow Elementary community before the merger of, into Coyote Hills Elementary this year. She began teaching at Snow in 1995 and served as a teacher, literacy coordinator, BITSA mentor, administrative designee, and interim principal at Snow Elementary and now Coyote Hills Elementary. Mrs. Palomino is devoted to the school community and continues to serve on several leadership teams and various district-level committees, such as the Curriculum Council, Essential Standards Committees, Curriculum Adoption Committees, BITSA Coach, Mentor Committee, Peer, Coach, Teacher. You're going to have to give up some of these, Ms. Dahlman. Report Card Committee, Induction Support Provider, and Core Literature Units Committees. Throughout the Snow and Graham merger process, Mrs. Palomino has gone above and beyond to advocate for our newly merged community and has served as a teacher leader to promote positive experiences for our staff and students this year. She served as an active member of the Snow and Graham design team last year and has continued to work hard to help build positive relationships amongst our staff, students, and parents this year. Mrs. Palomino has worked collaboratively with others on our staff to problem solve and to support during this challenging school year. And as the current interim principal of Coyote Hills, Mrs. Palomino has put into place weekly communication with staff and parents with opportunities such as Tuesday announcements and weekly community letters to families and the community of Coyote Hills. She makes herself present in classrooms and all the learning taking place at Coyote Hills. And Mrs. Palomino comes to work every day with a positive attitude and spreads joy across our campus. And Mrs. Palomino is looking forward to continuing to create a caring and safe school where every student feels validated and strives for their personal best each and every day with the support of all Coyote Hills staff. So please join me in re-welcoming her.

[8172] SPEAKER_13: you. Thank you so much for believing in me for having the faith to give me this incredible opportunity to give back to the community I was raised in and I became an educator and my passion is truly for kids. I believe all kids can learn given the right This year, and I really focused on cell for our kiddos that we've merged these 2 schools, we're building this new community. It's been a bumpy road, but we've made a lot of growth and progress and I really want to see our vision come to life and continue to grow our Coyote Hills Elementary community. So thank you so very much for this opportunity.

[8225] Mark Triplett: Thank you, Ms. Palmino. And last, but certainly not least, I would like to call up currently Principal Rangel, but now soon to be Director of Special Education Rangel. So I do want to start by saying Olivia has worked in Newark Unified since 2011. which that's 11 or 12 years. But I do want to say that in high school years, that's probably like 30, 36 years. So prior to her work in Newark, she worked as a paraprofessional and inclusion specialist. She began her career here as an SDC special education teacher at Newark Memorial. This is where she developed her love for the Cougar community and Newark. Over the years, she began to take on further leadership roles, such as lead teacher and program specialist, and then ultimately proudly served and is serving as the principal of our flagship high school, Newark Memorial. Olivia looks forward to continuing to serve this community in her area of expertise and also deep passion, special education. She is ready to support all members that serve the special education community with best practices, increased inclusion, and balanced leadership. She looks forward to working with new and familiar families to provide the best education for our most deserving students. And I just want to say, I personally feel like one of the most important criteria for district leadership is for someone to have sat in the seat of principal. Because until you have been principal, it's really hard to fully understand how to support principals. And so I'm really delighted that Olivia is coming back to special education, having had that experience in the high school as the leader. So please join me in welcoming Olivia Rangel.

[8356] Olivia Rangel: Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Triplett, board and executive cabinet. It is, I am standing up here with some mixed emotions because I have proudly served the students of Newark Memorial for the last three years. Every time, I knew I was gonna cry. Don't start. I know. I proudly serve the intelligent, respectful, driven, and compassionate students who've made my job at Newark Memorial easy. I've appreciated working with the staff and long time behind the scene leaders who've motivated and inspired the students to be better. All of these students and staff have supported me along the way and were collaborative when I needed them most. That's to say this decision to step back into my dream job was not an easy one. But ultimately we ask our students to reach for their dreams. And today I get to do that in my new role. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm proud to be able to provide this department with stability, improvement, compliance, and best instructional practices for our most deserving students and our most vulnerable students. I know it seems like I don't have a lot of experience in this role, but I have a lot of experience in this community. And this community has developed a lot of trust in me to do this job and do right by our kids. And I will continue to do what I've done for the last 11 years for this community. So again, thank you for this opportunity.

[8445] Phuong Nguyen: All right. Thank you so much. to all of our wonderful no longer interim principals, Ms. Herrera and Ms. Palomino, and to Ms. Rangel, congratulations on getting your dream job. And we have huge expectations, to say the least. But I'm very confident that with all of your passion and drive, we will see a lot of success through you moving forward in those positions. So thank you so much. OK. On to consent agenda items. We do have a public speaker for items 15.10 and 15.11. So we'll pull those. And is there any additional items that board members like to pull? 15.2 15.6 15.8 15.9 please.

[8523] SPEAKER_19: 15.2 15.6 0.6 point 15.8 15.9.

[8550] Bowen Zhang: We have a motion to approve item 15.2 15.6 15.8 9.10 and 11 make it a motion to approve.

[8579] Phuong Nguyen: Okay, great. Um moved by motion made by member Grindel and seconded by myself. Um how do you vote? Member?

[8588] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[8589] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez. Yes. Member Hill. Yes. Member Grindel.

[8594] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[8595] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes. Five eyes. Okay. Um item fifteen point two. Member Hill.

[8602] Aiden Hill: Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, This is the non-curricular trip for the junior high school. And I don't fundamentally have a problem with what they're doing. But what I do have a problem with is the labeling of what we say we're doing, right? So if we look at what the agenda item says, so it says this is Newark Junior High's principal and leadership teacher requests permission to take students on a non-curricular trip to San Jose. And it says that what they're going to be doing is participating in team building, collaboration, problem solving, community building, and strategizing activities. So it sounds fairly academic. But when you pull the actual request, it's to go to Topgolf. And so again, I don't have a problem with students going and especially using ASB funds to sort of celebrate the end of the year. But again, I don't want us to be representing that things are going to be going on that are really not going to be going on, right?

[8681] Mark Triplett: It's miniature golf. Should I respond? Yes, sure. The field trip is labeled as a non-curricular trip. And so that's actually why it's being brought to the board, is because if this was some sort of trip that was academic, then because it's not out of state and it's not overnight, it doesn't require board approval. But this one is labeled as non-curricular, even though the articulation within is because there is opportunities for some fun, team building, collaboration, problem solving, et cetera. But yeah, it isn't curricular and there's no attempt to claim that it is.

[8733] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Dr. Triplett. And any other comments or questions by the board? Member Zhang?

[8739] Bowen Zhang: No. Ready to make the motion.

[8741] Phuong Nguyen: OK. Member Grindel, did you have a comment?

[8744] Terrence Grindall: I was just going to thank the superintendent for that description. It was something I was going to say that it's non-curricular, but these kinds of activities do build teams. They do enhance the educational experience as well.

[8756] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Okay. Motion made by member Zhang. May I get a second, please? I second the motion. Oh, motion. Seconded by member Marquez. Member Zhang, how do you vote?

[8765] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[8766] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill?

[8768] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[8769] SPEAKER_30: Member Grindel?

[8770] Phuong Nguyen: Yes. I'm also yes. Five ayes. On item 15.2. Next item, 15.6, member Hill.

[8791] Aiden Hill: So 15.6, the Think Together contracts. So we've talked about this before. So we've had an after school program we went through some pretty severe cuts a couple of months ago that basically, you know, if they're finalized, for the most part, eliminate that program, right? There's not going to be enough personnel to run it. And even though we're saying that Think Together is different, but it seems that we're really using it as a quasi-substitute to provide after-school services. And it's a pretty hefty price tag, right? So we're talking about 1.6, almost $1.7 million. And the challenge that I have with this is that it's not apples to apples in a lot of respects. Not only is it, I mean, because essentially it's proclaiming that we're going to be doing, you know, again, some, we're going to be including some academic content or some, we're not going to be able to provide. You know curricular activities as a part of this. The challenge though that we face and where I think that we really need to be treading carefully as a district. Is it's my understanding that think together only provides after-school It doesn't essentially quote unquote after school program actually provides both. And I think the thing that we should be thinking about is that as we all know we have an enrollment issue and a declining enrollment issue and we're trying to recruit a lot of parents, new parents and kids into the school. I think that many of the ones that we're trying to recruit are working professionals and being able to have the ability to drop off your kid early is a pretty critical function if we're going to be attracting them and if we get rid of our after-school program and substitute this in its place, it's going to be challenging. The second issue that I have with this is that this is being funded with grant funds. And so we're, you know, we can see that this can be funded over the next year, maybe two, but after that if these funds disappear, You know, what are we going to do about our after school child care program, before and after school? And are we going to be in a situation where we're going to then have to try to rebuild? And are we going to be even further behind the eight ball? And so I'd appreciate some feedback from staff in terms of How we're going to address if we eliminate our child care program and we substitute this in as a quasi-substitute. How we're going to deal with kids that need to be dropped off before school starts. And then secondly, how are we going to fund this important activity that I think it really is a tie to future enrollment after these funds disappear. So those are my two questions.

[8994] Phuong Nguyen: Superintendent Chappell.

[8995] Mark Triplett: Sure. Thank you for those questions, Member Hill. So that is correct that this is not a early drop-off program. And so that's something that this Dink Together does not provide. So it's not part of this agenda item. When referencing the current after-school program, so this is the current after-school program. This is an after-school provider. at two school or three schools currently. One, the junior high, one chilling, and one at Coyote Hills. We do, I think you're referring to our child care program, which is child care, it's not after school program. And it has not been, child care program has not been eliminated. We're currently in conversations with our labor partners with regard to how to make sure that we are continuing to provide the important services that child care does provide, and in particular, the early drop-off is one of those important services. In terms of funding with grant funds, so these are ongoing funds from the state. So these funds don't have a time limit, and the expectation is that they will continue as is. Any additions to that, team?

[9088] Aiden Hill: Could you just give us a little bit of insight? Because when we had to approve all the layoffs and we looked at the, and thank you for correcting my terminology, I meant child care. But when we were approving these notices and these layoffs, it looked like we were only going to have about two people left in the child care program. So has that changed since we last looked at that data?

[9115] Mark Triplett: So this agenda item is not related to the child care program. We are, like I said, in conversations with our labor partners right now with regard to trying to make sure that we do provide the best services to our families with regard to early drop-off, as well as some of the other services that are provided by child care. So we have not eliminated child care, but we are this grant. We are. Taking advantage of this grant. And this grant provides for the type of services that are articulated by think together. I will also just say that this the board did approve this this grant plan. So this is merely the contract to back up what the board earlier this year.

[9175] SPEAKER_19: the fact that we're moving on, not just three schools, that we're moving into a fourth campus. And the fact that we have these opportunities available for all of our campus would be a great goal to strive towards, as long as there is the funding available, and it is continuous, to create equity for all the students so that they can also receive the benefits of these programs. Because not only are they working with them with SEL and enrichment, but they're also The staff that works for these particular type of programs are also prepared to assist our students academically. So, kudos. Thank you.

[9211] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. With that, I'd like to move to approve. I second it. Motion made by myself and seconded by Member Zhang. How do you vote, Member Zhang?

[9221] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[9222] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez?

[9223] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[9224] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill?

[9225] SPEAKER_30: No.

[9226] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindell?

[9226] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[9227] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes. Four ayes and one no. we're going to move on to item 15.8 member Hill.

[9242] Aiden Hill: The moving services contract. So moving services contract. I see that I understand that we need to do a move. It looks like we put Maybe more. Do we only have two bids?

[9270] Marie dela Cruz: We only have two bids that were responsive. The third one was not responsive, meaning they were supposed to submit it here, and they submitted it by email.

[9281] Aiden Hill: OK. And so the ones that were responsive, one was for $77,000. The other one was for $52,000. We're going with one for $52,000. My question is, why are we sending this out for RFP?

[9301] Marie dela Cruz: So we wanted to give potential moving contractors the opportunity to look at the scope of work and provide us a quote. So normally we get quotes, one or two, and it's a project this size. And so we decided to do an RFP.

[9321] Aiden Hill: OK. Because the part that I'm confused about is, I mean, when you guys submitted to us last year, when we were talking about delegation of authority and procurement practices, et cetera, you provided to us the procurement policy that the district is following. And in that, when it comes to services, and this is one of the things that you've been maintaining, is that when it comes to services, you've maintained, I'm not sure if this is 100% correct, but according to our policy, it says For services, anything under $99,000 doesn't have to go out to bid. So why are we making an exception here?

[9364] Marie dela Cruz: This is an informal. We can do informal bids.

[9369] Aiden Hill: OK. But you've sent out an RFP. Isn't that a formal process?

[9377] Marie dela Cruz: Not necessarily. So if it was formal, we would have advertised. done the formal process. Just because it's called an RFP doesn't make it formal.

[9392] Aiden Hill: OK, so then we pre-identified a couple of vendors that we wanted to have bid on this.

[9398] Marie dela Cruz: Yes.

[9399] Aiden Hill: OK, but we didn't make it open for public bidding.

[9404] Marie dela Cruz: Well, it's on our website, so I'm not sure what you mean. So we normally will put it on our website.

[9410] Aiden Hill: But if it's on the website, then it's published.

[9414] Phuong Nguyen: We take every, we do what we can to... While I understand the line of questioning from Member Hill, I just hope that Member Hill, if you could read over the governance handbook and ask these questions to staff for clarification prior to the board meetings so that they are prepared to answer any additional questions you may have in relation to all of the processes.

[9446] Aiden Hill: had questions about this and I sent to Dr. Triplett, I said I would like to see the RFP so that I could understand more about the process. And so I submitted that yesterday and got the RFP. And so I'm now only having time to come back as I've looked further at this. So I have been following the process.

[9465] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you so much. With that, is there any additional comments from the board? Member Zhang, do you have anything?

[9471] Bowen Zhang: No, we're ready to make the motion.

[9473] Phuong Nguyen: OK, great. Motion made by member Zhang make it a second. I'd second. Oh Seconded by member Marquez. How do you vote member Zhang? Yes member Marquez. Yes member Hill. Yes member Grindel. Yes. I'm also yes. Bye. Bye. Thank you Item fifteen point nine. You have the floor again. Mr. Hill member Hill.

[9497] SPEAKER_37: Oh This is the one that has a public comment. Oh, oh 15.9. Are we on 10 or 9?

[9503] Phuong Nguyen: No, we're on 9. 15.9. Member Hill, it's the warrant report.

[9508] Aiden Hill: Yes.

[9509] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you.

[9511] Aiden Hill: So I have two questions about this. And one of them was a follow-up from the last session. And so I didn't have the information handy in front of me. But I noticed that the same topic came up again in this warrant report. Can you guys tell me, I mean, what is this Learning Leadership Academy?

[9543] Mark Triplett: Which item is that?

[9543] SPEAKER_24: Oh, LLA.

[9545] Mark Triplett: Are you talking about the Leadership Learning Academy? Yes. Yeah, so I believe we've talked about this with the board in the past. So part of our professional development for our principals is a bimonthly what we call a leadership learning academy. And it's essentially like a half day, a morning time, where all the principals meet together and we support their professional growth. And so I don't have the item that you're referring to, but I'm going to guess that it's a food item. Is that correct?

[9587] Aiden Hill: Yeah, so what I'm noticing, I mean, and so again, I saw this, I was curious about it. And then when I saw it again, you know, wanted to sort of look a little bit further. And so it seems that we've been incurring a lot of charges here. And so on September 2021, LLA meeting, $290. On October 1st, I would like to make a motion to approve this meeting. So this meeting $314.11 to $21 to a $171 to the Mexican Mexico Turkey a factory. On November 21st on January of this year, LLA meeting 137. So basically all the way up to the present. And so it seems that we're catering food to these meetings. And then as I look at the account screen code, and I'm still kind of learning how all this stuff works, but I'm understanding that this is coming from donation money. And it's my understanding actually that both in terms our policies that we formally adopted, as well as other guidance in Ed Code, that these are actually inappropriate expenditures. And if I, let's see if I can find the actual specifics here. So we have a policy, 3,300 expenditures and purchases. says the governing board recognizes its fiduciary responsibility to oversee the prudent expenditure of district funds in order to best serve district interests. The superintendent or designee shall develop and maintain effective purchasing procedures that are consistent with sound financial controls. If you go further into this policy, and this policy was originally adopted in 1996 and was last revised in 2018, It says the superintendent or designee may authorize expenditures for light refreshments for in-service and or award meetings in which staff, students, volunteers, and parents or guardians participate as a part of the educational program. The cost of light refreshments will not exceed $7.60 for breakfast, et cetera, et cetera. So my concern is that, you know, are these basically a gift to public funds? Again, I mean, you know, we've been talking earlier about how we understand that there's a deficit and we understand that, you know, and that we've made resolutions to, you know, basically commit to change our structural deficit. But in my experience, everything that I've learned in business is that you can't the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves. And yet what I see constantly is I see, I hear us mouth the words that we understand the deficit and we're going to take action. And yet we're engaging in really, you know, inappropriate behavior here. And I actually think that this violates our policies. So I just, I'd kind of like to get, you know, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe you can provide more detail to me, Dr. Triplett, on this.

[9807] Mark Triplett: Yes, so if you can, the policy that you read, I think, really articulates well how this purchase or expense is in alignment with policy. So I'm not really clear on how that would represent.

[9824] Aiden Hill: Yeah, so I'll read it again because I know I read it fast. It's okay. No, I got it. So let's just, I think we want to make sure that we understand. So what it says is, The superintendent or designee may authorize expenditures for life refreshments for in-service and or award meetings in which staff, students, volunteers, parents, guardians participate. All right, it's not for breakfast meetings for staff. We don't do catering to our employees. And I can tell you that in my district, they don't do that either. And so again, I don't think that we're living up to the policy.

[9862] Mark Triplett: correct me if I'm wrong, Ms. Delacruz, but in-service is the definition of professional development for staff. So that is in alignment with that policy.

[9874] Marie dela Cruz: There's nothing inappropriate in the purchases that have been made. So all of these expenses have to do with the meetings and the in-services and the professional development that we conduct. The Learning Academy is a professional growth development meeting. The other LLAs, that's what they are. They're meetings to help our staff and our administrators develop and grow as professionals. So there's nothing inappropriate.

[9905] Aiden Hill: So $7.60 for breakfast.

[9907] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. With that said, I'm ready to make a motion. Member Zhang may get a second or for many other members.

[9915] Aiden Hill: I have one other item. There's already a motion on the table. Ma'am, excuse me. Point of order. There is no point of order. Yes, I made a motion. We don't have parliamentary procedure here. No, we don't. We do have parliamentary procedure.

[9928] Diego Torres: No, we do not. So ma'am, I have one other warrant that I would like to equal.

[9932] Aiden Hill: Point of order. There's a motion on the floor. Thank you. Ma'am, I'm going to read to you from the governance manual. Make it a second, please. I'm going to read to you from the governance manual right now, because apparently you haven't read it. OK, so I'm happy to read this to you. So it says right here, OK, in terms of duties of board officers, the president of the board, OK, it says right here that you are supposed to enforce and maintain the board's policies related to the order of business. And I am. Thank you. Excuse me. And the last, the second to last bullet point is rule on parliamentary procedure. OK, that's what it says right here. It doesn't say rule on what's in the governance handbook. It doesn't say rule on something else. It says rule on parliamentary procedure.

[9980] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, the parliamentary procedures that we have already approved as a board is the governance handbook. Thank you.

[9986] Aiden Hill: There are no parliamentary procedures in this governance handbook. And until we adopt these, you cannot continue to act like a tyrant. No, you are the tyrant. Thank you. I have one additional issue. I would like to know why we are going out and renting facilities for retirement parties when we aren't using our own. And there's a warrant in there to go out and basically hold an event at the Portuguese Club for $700. And then there's additional rent costs for renting tables. We have ample space. So I don't see how we are walking the talk in terms of saying that we're trying to work on our structural deficit when we are fritting away money in a variety of areas.

[10032] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. I still move to approve the warrant report. May I please get a second?

[10038] Bowen Zhang: I'll second.

[10041] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by myself and seconded by Member Zhang. Member Zhang, how do you vote?

[10045] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[10046] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez?

[10047] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[10048] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill? No. Member Grindell? Yes. I'm a yes. Four ayes and one no. I apologize, we should have allowed you to go first. Item 15.10, minutes.

[10070] Cindy Parks: Now, you already wrecked my night. I was supposed to be at home with my grandkids. But at the very beginning of this meeting, and I happened to watch the very beginning to see if these minutes were pulled because of the typographical error, which meant I had to foist my grandkids on my husband to put them to bed so that I could be here to address this item. You know that you have, for a regular meeting, you have to post your agenda 72 hours in advance. You cannot deviate from the items that are before you that are on that agenda that list the items that you're going to determine you're going to vote on 72 hours in advance for a regular meeting. If it were a special meeting, that's 24 hours. Emergencies are catastrophic. 15.10 is your minutes dated today. Clearly, that's a typographical error. When the agenda came out, the minutes were not attached. So anybody who looked at the agenda, and even Ms. Marzano here was questioning me on why the minutes would say that they were for today. So you've told the community that you were going to approve the minutes for tonight. So to listen to the discussion at the beginning of this meeting where you were going to approve the agenda and listen to the conversation blowing off the fact that, and nobody really taking ownership for the typographical error and saying, well, in your motion or however, whatever the terminology was, I was so angry when I heard that this was just being belittled that way. You can't just change the agenda item. You can't just say, OK, we're going to not motion to approve the May 19th meeting minutes. We're going to now say that they are the May 5th. That doesn't work. You need to pull them, and you need to bring them back at your next meeting. Thank you.

[10194] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. You also have the floor. Are we going to be pulling this item?

[10199] SPEAKER_37: Yes, we should be loading on that. Just wait. Separate item.

[10203] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, thank you. you. It's been a long night. Thank you.

[10209] Terrence Grindall: Madam president. Yes, number I don't live in abundance of transparency. I'd like to move that we continue this to the next meeting given that there's no urgency.

[10233] Cindy Parks: I repeat everything I just said regarding your agenda. And I have to say that it's very disturbing to me to listen that there was some kind of a mistake made to where this item was left off the agenda and that this field trip is scheduled for tomorrow. And don't think that it doesn't make me sick that I had to listen to what I did at the very beginning of this meeting and have it be deemed an emergency. An emergency, according to the Brown Act, is where you, the only terminology is when you're having an emergency meeting. And that emergency meeting means that it has to do with a crippling disaster, a mass destruction, terrorist act, threatening terrorist activity that poses peril. It's not an emergency to add another item. You've been in other Brown Act committee meetings where you don't get to just add an item. It has to be, you just don't add an item. You just don't get to do that. You have a protocol. You have a law that says 72 hours in advance on a regular meeting, you have to post what's on the agenda so that anybody in the public can come and express their opinion on that item. That's the reason this exists. You could have very easily, unless this was just determined today, you know, maybe that's where all of a sudden now this is coming up as an emergency. Again, it doesn't excuse it. But if somebody knew this yesterday, you could have called a special meeting at 545 and heard this item then. I think it's disgusting. I think it's shameful that it's being labeled an emergency under some guise that is supposedly the discussion before was, oh, this can happen. And really not committing to when it was asked, where is it said that you can do this? And nobody would come up with an exact reading of the law or quoting something that says that you can do this. You have laws that you have to abide by. and adding an extra item because somebody made a mistake isn't the way. And it is disgusting, like I said, that these kids are being used, I mean, I don't know what you're going to do, but that they might not be able to go on their field trip because somebody made a mistake. But that doesn't mean that you get to circumvent what's out there and how you're supposed to conduct your meetings. Thank you.

[10390] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Zhang, do you have a comment?

[10394] Bowen Zhang: Yes, so the supermajority rule that we have clarity about the availability of that supermajority rule to add an item, whatever I add on, if I can see that, that would be good.

[10410] Terrence Grindall: Member Grindel. Yeah, I just wanted to indicate it's quite easy to get confused about the rules for calling a special meeting versus a body changing its agenda and adding an item by supermajority. But I would appreciate it, Dr. Triplett, if staff could provide the citation that's involved here.

[10433] Mark Triplett: Certainly. But before we go there, I do want to point out it is 950. Do we want to make sure that we don't go over?

[10440] Phuong Nguyen: I'd like to make a motion to extend the meeting to 10.15 or 10.30 just in case.

[10448] Bowen Zhang: I second it.

[10449] Phuong Nguyen: A motion made by myself, seconded by Member Zhang. Member Zhang, how do you vote?

[10453] SPEAKER_31: Yes.

[10454] Phuong Nguyen: Member Marquez? Yes. Member Hill? Yes. Member Grindel? Yes. I'm also yes. Five ayes to extend to 10.30.

[10462] Mark Triplett: Thank you. Ms. Gutierrez, do you want to share the statute, so to speak?

[10468] SPEAKER_37: you. Thank you. Yes, this is from a Brown act manual I'm quoting reading exactly as is an urgency item may be considered when the board determines there's a need for an immediate action and the need to act came to the agency's attention subsequent to the agenda being posted. This determination must be made by 2 thirds vote of the board members present or unanimous vote if I move to approve item. 1511. 2 subsequent be too.

[10502] Terrence Grindall: Thank you miss if you don't I can see where the confusion might be the difference between emergency and urgency maybe where the difficulty is. So thank you.

[10513] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. second. Motion made by member John seconded by member can tell how do you vote member John yes. Member Marquez yes member.

[10532] Aiden Hill: No because I don't believe that's the correct reading.

[10537] Terrence Grindall: Yes because I think it is the correct reading.

[10540] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also yes for eyes and one no thank you so

[10555] Bowen Zhang: So just hope everyone finish the school year strong.

[10559] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Member Marquette.

[10562] SPEAKER_19: I just wanted to wish everyone good luck with their finals and to all the staff for all the hard work they put in this school year and looking forward to a great graduation celebration.

[10574] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill.

[10576] Aiden Hill: I would like to show appreciation for the U.S. Constitution and the California State Constitution and our way of life. which indicates that we are a country of laws, not of men. And what that really means is that we don't make arbitrary decisions based on personalities. We have rules, and we follow the rules. And I think that what we've been seeing is that we've been playing fast and loose with a lot of rules, including the fact that we apparently do not have parliamentary procedure, and people keep on invoking the governance handbook, but I don't think they've ever gone to read it. And by the way, there's also been a contention that somehow CSBA is in alignment with this, and I will tell you that I've gone to research what CSBA's position is, and it's no such thing. And not only that, I've also contacted and discussed with our former CSBA board advisor, the fact that what we're doing is lawless. And I will tell you that if you read our manual, if you read our governance handbook, We do not have parliamentary procedures. We do not identify motions. We do not identify points of order and all these different things. There's no such mention of that. We do not have sufficient procedures to actually conduct a meeting. And because of that, there is a clause in there that clearly states we need to follow and that the president needs to invoke and follow parliamentary procedure. And so again, we can decide to be lawless, but it's not a good path.

[10681] Phuong Nguyen: members. Thank you.

[10682] Terrence Grindall: Thank you. Thank you. Member can don't. Yeah, I'll try actually stick to the agendized here going off on other areas. So I just want to recognize and appreciate the district's and also want to compliment all the teachers and students, you know, on the homestretch of this year. And I'm very excited about that. And one last time to congratulate our new principal and head of special education. I'm really, really thrilled to have such high quality people continuing to work for our district, generated in our district. And they went through a rigorous, rigorous process. I feel sorry for them, actually, once you describe the process. I think I might have bailed out after phase two if I were involved. So I'm not encouraging you to relax it. I'm just saying I'm impressed. So I wanted to compliment them. They're going to be part of turning this district to the positive and increasing enrollment and putting any financial problems behind us. So thank you.

[10752] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Member Grindel. With that said, I also echo your sentiments, Member Grindel and the rest of the board. And also, I also wanted to make a point that it is National Mental Health Awareness Month, also along with Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. And we do all need to take a deep breath sometimes. And there are a lot of chaos going around in our lives. And especially this year with returning to school in person and the challenges that that all invoked for not only our students, but also our teachers as well and our staff. And a lot of times we don't take time to really think about that. allow ourselves to digest while we're moving in this fast-paced environment. So I just want to recognize all of the hard work that our teachers have done for our students and all of the hard work that our students have put in throughout the year. But not only that, but I know how much our executive team have persevered with shortages in staff and taking on multiple roles and also responsibilities. And I just really wanted to really, really appreciate you all up here and thank you for all the hard work that you've done along with all of our teachers and the rest of our classified staff and all of our preschool teachers and our paraprofessionals. So, thank you. Okay. Um on to Board of Education Committee reports. Um are there any reporting out from

[10859] Terrence Grindall: nothing of substance to report.

[10862] Phuong Nguyen: Member Zhang, is there anything from SELPA? No. Member Marquez, is there anything from EBIC? None at this time. And is there anything from the Audit Committee? No. And there is nothing to report out from the Parcel Tax Committee and also we don't have anything to communicate out for the Liaison Committee as well. So on to Board of Education requests. members on do you have any requests at this time request. Member Marquez.

[10894] SPEAKER_19: Yes, I do thank you. I'm not sure if it was where but I have been attending I'm about to have one more course to go and then with yes, with the MIT in doing so I've learned quite a bit and I want to thank everyone for giving me the opportunity to attend and also to my principal who has allowed me to do so while supposed to be teaching so many shots out to my principal. I'm secondly in reviewing some of the committees and some of the responsibilities that we have as a school district what I came to to realize or to notice is that. What our charters look like versus. What it is that the expectation is of our public and people that we serve and currently because I am serving on the audit committee I would like to request that. We have in the future. new school year, that we put our actual charter for the Audit Committee on an agenda item, if not for a study session, so that we can review and see how we can improve our Audit Committee's charter if we can lessen and be more pinpoint versus many pages or excessive and then find ourselves convoluted or lost. So at this time, that is my request.

[10967] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you.

[10968] Terrence Grindall: I agree with that request.

[10970] Phuong Nguyen: OK. I also agree with that request. So we have a majority. Member Hill.

[10983] Aiden Hill: Thank you. So I'm going to provide some handouts. And then I'd like to explain and make, I think you want to have a copy of this, number one. Thank you. And Dr. Triplett already has a copy of this. So, board, on May 10th, I submitted a California Public Records Act request to Superintendent Triplett, Luz Gutierrez, and William Tunick, our outside legal counsel. I would like to provide some background on this topic and then request that the board instruct the district to expedite the production of the information I am asking for. On February 24th, 2022, I received an email addressed to my board email address from Mr. Tunick of Dennis Walliver Kelly, There are legal counsel and the email stated good morning member Hill. I'm assisting district staff with working through a backlog of public records requests and wanted to reach out regarding the following requests for records under the California public records act. And here's the here's a here's the cut and paste of the request. Hello, Miss Gutierrez and Dr. Triplett. I would like to make a public records request for the following. any and all records created, modified, updated, used, reviewed, or opened by member Hill on the laptop he used during the public board meetings of September 2nd, 2021, September 16th, 2021, and September 21st, 2021. Please include all records, such as any notes, messages, any communications from any applications used, emails, documents, Excel sheets, communications from social media accounts, and any program used specifically during the above dates and times, which is limited to public meetings being in session. Digital records are an acceptable format for this request. Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you within the next few days. With gratitude, Mrs. M.A. Crossley. So my first reaction to this email was, why is the district retaining outside legal counsel at probably over $300 an hour to process a backlog of CPRA requests. For a public entity which should be following the California Public Records Act, the Brown Act, and Proposition 59's mandates reinforcing the public's right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business, engaging a lawyer to review CPRA requests really should be done on an exception rather than a regular basis. But as I read through the abbreviated request, I haven't seen the original document, I could see this was no ordinary request. In our district, usually most CPRAs come from private citizens who live in our city. In this situation, however, I did a Google search for MA Crossway, and I found no such person living in Newark. As I expanded my search, there was a crossway living in nearby Fremont. But I'm not sure if that was the person who submitted that request. And why would they have any interest in our school board proceedings and my laptop? As I read the request more carefully, however, I could see that this was written by a lawyer. Interestingly, the dates requested were at approximately the same time when we, the board, were conducting an appointment process for the board seat left vacant after former member Elisa Martinez resigned in August of 2021. At that time, I came into possession of information that indicated that Superintendent and Ms. Gutierrez, at a minimum, had been involved in rigging this appointment process and committing fraud by publishing false notices on our website and social media, indicating that the board had met and decided to reopen the application process after it had already been officially closed. As this was unfolding, I publicly called out this malfeasance in open session and requested that the board meet in closed session to launch an investigation into this matter. which the board refused to do. Is this new request for information from my laptop on those dates merely a coincidence, or is it connected? And is it also merely a coincidence that the only people who could see that I was using a laptop were those up on the dais, Superintendent Triplett, Ms. Gutierrez, the cabinet, and the board? My laptop was not visible from the ground-level audience section of the boardroom. nor on YouTube videos of the board proceedings. I checked. The question I have is, am I now being spied upon by those who should be falling under boarder oversight? I do not know the answer to this question, but the circumstances are highly suspicious and troubling. My response to the above request was as follows. William, thank you for the email. The only information I access on my laptop during board meetings is to see the electronic version of board docs, including the board agenda and associated attachments. I do not have other records, as I purposely do not check email, text messages, social media, or other electronic applications, as I consider it rude. And I strive to give my full attention to board proceedings. As a consequence of this unusual exchange, however, I became interested in knowing who specifically was requesting the purported contents of my laptop on those dates. Thus, on April 27th, I sent an email to Mr. Tunick, asking him to forward me the entire CPRA request from Mrs. Crossway, as well as the contact information for that requester. Mr. Tunick replied back that, quote, In general, the district does not disclose the email address or other contact information of requesters. If the board seeks this information through the board president, the district could provide it at that time," end quote. For those of you that are not familiar, this is mealy-mouthed lawyer talk for, I don't want to give you this information, so I'm going to make up a phony process to obstruct your access. I have since responded with a formal CPRA of my own requesting this documentation, and a response is by law due back from the district tomorrow, Friday, May 20th. Board, the public has a right to know whether the people they elected to represent them are now being spied upon by those that they have been elected to oversee. We need to know whether we have corruption in our district, and if so, to what extent. The best way to get to the bottom of this is through full transparency. Consequently, I'm requesting that the board instruct the district to expeditiously respond to my CPRA request so that we may answer that question. Thank you.

[11386] Bowen Zhang: So after seeing the public records, I think it is very problematic that I see somebody wants to access information on a personal laptop, because I thought board members whatever we do on a laptop shouldn't be subject to public disclosure. So it is somewhat very, very unusual request to see MemorHill's laptop, particularly on that one particular, oh I guess it's three meetings, not just one meeting. And yeah, so this is very, very unusual. So I do think MemorHill might be targeted for some, whatever,

[11426] Terrence Grindall: The request was for Mr. Hill to, whether or not we wanted to extradite his public records act request. We didn't agenda as a discussion of this item.

[11437] Aiden Hill: So I don't think there's an agenda. I mean, I think he can discuss it.

[11441] Terrence Grindall: He made his point. You can discuss your request. Absolutely.

[11445] Bowen Zhang: Well, the request is just to see who is actually requesting this, or who this Ma Crossway really is.

[11453] Aiden Hill: Yeah. I want to know who that is, because by the way, And I will show you right here. This, everybody, is my laptop. You can see it is very small. If I open it up like this, nobody can see. The only people that can see it are the people up here.

[11474] Terrence Grindall: My understanding is that there is no process for jumping the line when it comes to public records requests, but I'm confident that staff would respond to Member Hill's public records request in the proper course. Am I correct in that, Mr. Triplett?

[11491] Bowen Zhang: Yes, that's correct. So the question I want to ask is, are we legally allowed to disclose the requester's information? Yes.

[11502] Mark Triplett: So per guidance from legal, we do disclose the name of the person. However, we don't disclose the contact information.

[11516] Aiden Hill: That's not what Mr. Tunick's response to me stated. He said that I can ask the board, through the president, So number one, the CPRA is a completely independent process. So as I've said before, no secret can be kept from the board. We can see any and all information. My CPRA request is an independent action as a private citizen. But we as the board have the authority to tell the district to disclose that. And they can disclose it either in open session or in closed session.

[11556] Bowen Zhang: So given the proper process, given the unusual nature of this request, I would say just do it in time following the regular procedure. The law is 7 days or 14 days?

[11569] Aiden Hill: 10 days and it's expired tomorrow. The 10 days is up. They have to make a determination.

[11576] Mark Triplett: I believe the request on the table is

[11581] Bowen Zhang: I'm sorry.

[11581] Mark Triplett: I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm

[11610] Aiden Hill: and that is separate from my CPRA. So that's my request.

[11615] Mark Triplett: So just to be clear, because I just want to make sure that other board members are clear on the request. So we intend to respond to the CPRA request. But what I hear, member Hill, you saying is that you are asking the board to approve beyond what we normally do with CPRA requests to actually provide the contact information of this individual. So if the board agrees to that, then they are saying that they are directing us to provide the contact information. We did provide the name of the person, like we do in any CPRA request. But that's what's on the table.

[11660] Aiden Hill: So the name of this person appears to be a pseudonym. And so we need to get to the bottom of who this person actually is.

[11669] Mark Triplett: I have no idea. All I know is that that's the name of the person.

[11673] Aiden Hill: Well, it'll be very clear if we see who the contact information is for. So that will provide whether this person truly exists or not and how to get a hold of them.

[11684] Mark Triplett: So it sounds like the request is on the table. Does the board want to direct the district to provide not just what normally is provided in the CPRA request, but above and beyond that?

[11697] Phuong Nguyen: No. I'm not okay with that and I hope that my other fellow board members agree that, you know, we should definitely follow our current procedures on how we reply to CPRA requests and provide the information that is laid out by our legal team. If there's a reason for us not to be able to disclose contact information for any reason, especially if the intent of releasing the information and that person is harassed for their public legal right to request a CPRA request, I don't think that's OK.

[11745] Aiden Hill: So I think it's unfair to make an assumption that harassment would occur.

[11750] Phuong Nguyen: You're making assumptions about all of us here. So yeah.

[11757] Aiden Hill: So well then, like I said, the best disinfectant is sunlight and transparency. But if you're not interested in providing transparency on this project process, we'll have to go through the formal legal process of the CPRA. Point of order. Point of order.

[11774] Mark Triplett: There is no point of order. Is there a second, or is there a majority of people who want to?

[11781] Terrence Grindall: I agree with Member Nguyen. Thank you. Sorry, President Nguyen. Thank you. I do have a request. I hope I can get to it.

[11787] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, I will let you get to it. I won't skip over you.

[11790] Terrence Grindall: Mr. Hill, are you done with your request? So I don't have any other seconds.

[11798] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Thank you. OK, Member Grindell.

[11803] Terrence Grindall: Yes, I have a fairly long I have a request as well fortunately. I don't think as long as that one though. It does sadden me to have to make this request. As will be clear to anyone who's been watching our meetings, member Hill and I have strong disagreements about the proper role of school board member. I believe it's our role to provide policy direction, hire and evaluate the superintendent, approve and monitor the budget, It appears that member Hill believes that our role is to micromanage this district, and even to get directly involved in personnel issues. His approach is incorrect and is dangerous to the district. As much as it saddens me, I feel an obligation to stand against damaging statements made by member Hill. In the meeting of May 5, 2022, there was an extreme example of this behavior. For clarity, I'll describe a particularly egregious situation. Mr. Froster, a Newark Memorial High School teacher, well a Newark teacher now, spoke at a public comment claiming that he had been reassigned due to his expression of opinions regarding APEC's credit recovery. to the junior high school. He was not able to do that. Among other issues. Mister Foster has claimed that there was there was rampant cheating by students and that the cheating was enabled and by counselors and teachers. Mister Foster reported that he that he was told that his that his opinions and the way he stated them made numerous other teachers feel uncomfortable and created a hostile work environment for them. Mister Foster stated that he the board meeting. Mr. Foster has every right to complain about alleged retaliation even if a board meeting is a less than ideal venue. Claims of retaliation for expressing opinions is a serious charge and I take it very seriously. However, a complaint is not necessarily true it must be investigated impartially. There are always 2 sides to such stories and member Hill then read a two-page written statement. In his statement, member Hill made accusations that there was a massive staff-enabled cheating going on with Apex Credit Recovery by students, teachers, and counselors. Member Hill also described his conclusion with certainty that the complaint of retaliation was true and accused staff of covering up the alleged cheating. and even going to the extent of listing phone numbers and website addresses of agencies that could receive complaints about retaliation. No evidence for these serious charges was or has been provided. Mr. Hill has an obligation to be impartial and not to project unfounded criticism from the dais. He betrayed his obligation and in so doing cast a cloud over the students and staff of Newark Memorial High School and this entire board. Jumping to this unfounded conclusion with no evidence or investigation was unfair to all the students and teachers and other staff who were involved. By these actions, member Hill may in fact be contributing to a hostile work environment at the high school. the board. This situation makes it clear that the proper role for for the member of the board is to consider all information, including a report from the superintendent and to study and to studiously avoid commenting on personnel issues member Hill has been reminded of this numerous times yet he continues this are irresponsible behavior which harms the district. A board member repeating damaging statements attacking the I will speak up to defend our students and educators from such unfounded slander. I unequivocally reject these accusations and support the students and staff's right for a presumption of innocence in the face of unsubstantiated accusations. Therefore, I want to request that staff direct our legal advisors to review member Hill's actions on this and other cases and to prepare a report that describes any legal exposure that may have been created by member Hill and what board actions could be taken to formally reject his statements, defend our students and staff, and to protect the district from liability. I hope that a majority of this board will support this request.

[12065] Aiden Hill: So I would like to comment since this request is directed at me. So it's important when people speak to put on your listening ears. And I have my statement in front of me right here that I read. And I said numerous times that these were allegations. I never said that they were a statement of fact. I said they were allegations. And I said that these allegations have been made for the past year, and there has been no investigation. And I was calling for an investigation. I was not calling for a pronouncement or a verdict. I was saying, we need to have an investigation. And I'm happy to provide, you can go back and watch it. I'm happy to provide a copy of this. I said allegations. But furthermore, Member Grindel, I would like you to understand that earlier, so you dismissed my recognition of the US Constitution and the state constitution. But I would like to encourage you to go back and read more in that area. Because as an elected official, we have something that's known as absolute privilege. And if you're not familiar with absolute privilege, the founders believed that it was so important to have free speech among elected officials, that they provide virtually unlimited protection for anything that elected officials say.

[12149] Phuong Nguyen: And it is so that with, ma'am, and so they're- We have a request on the table and this is not a discussion. This is a request session. Thank you.

[12160] Terrence Grindall: So repeating my request, I hope there's a majority of the board that would direct staff to investigate the actions of Mr. Hill and to report to us.

[12176] Bowen Zhang: So the request is to investigate whether what he said in the last meeting when I wasn't here will pose any legal risk to the district?

[12183] Terrence Grindall: that action and any others, whether or not it creates legal risk to the district, yes. Okay.

[12195] Phuong Nguyen: Do we have support?

[12198] Bowen Zhang: I want to first get from the superintendent, do you really think there's legal risk? I mean, if you think the legal risk is minimal or nonexistent, probably we don't. If you do think there is a validity of all the claim that we might, what was being said two weeks ago.

[12218] Aiden Hill: So point of order. Point of order. So point of order. So Dr. Triplett is not a lawyer.

[12224] Mark Triplett: I'd be happy to respond to your question, Member Jeon. So I believe Mr. Member Grindel's request was to have a legal counsel review it. I agree with Member Hill that I am not a lawyer and so I wouldn't, I wouldn't deemed to pass judgment in that way, but I believe the request was for legal.

[12246] Terrence Grindall: That was my request. That was my request.

[12252] Phuong Nguyen: Go ahead, member.

[12253] Bowen Zhang: Well, if it's only for legal, I hope this can be minimal, I mean, rather than being a public agenda item.

[12262] Aiden Hill: I'm happy to make it public because it needs to be public. So, you know, here on the one hand, the board is refusing to actually show transparency around, you know, what seems to be a spying on my laptop. And yet you're very willing to actually go in and challenge me on my political positions on things, which I was elected to actually provide, and try to claim that they're illegal. And all I'm going to say is that you're going to waste a whole bunch of money in doing that. A whole bunch of, because I've just told you what the law is. Absolute privilege, we elected officials have absolute privilege in speaking.

[12304] Phuong Nguyen: Okay. Member Marquez.

[12308] SPEAKER_19: Yes, thank you, Madam President. So as I sit here and I listen to my fellow board members, my concern is this. I do not find it our place to sit here and quote law. That is not our responsibility. I'm one thing is for us to attend and to participate fully when it comes to the correct proper training so that we understand what our roles are fully here out here on the on the board. When it comes to my fellow board member Hill's request. I look and I think the legal steps what are the steps are we taking the steps that we're supposed to are we following the CPR CPR a when it comes to transparency what he mentioned as well. If I was to vote and say, well, yes, I'm in favor. I think that we need to stop and, yes, deal with his, then I would have a public member or someone from the community come in and say, well, why is his situation being handled or put to the forefront? And I've been waiting and I haven't been responded to or had a resolution with what my request is when it comes to CPRA. Then in listening to also to my fellow board member, former president is the fact that when it comes to just listening to legal, I am not the attorney, neither are any of us here. So if we have legal counsel and those in place who will guide us and say, this is what you can and cannot do, this is what we recommend that you do and cannot do, this is what's favorable to you, and to make sure that we are not damaging our youth nor our academic community from pre-K all the way through the high school, then yes, we do need to make sure that we have our legal counsel tell us what we can and cannot do. We are not the law. Correct.

[12415] Bowen Zhang: I just want to add on the previous request from Member Hill. I was a Member Hill, if I were you in that position, I would probably work with the police first. Because like you said... Okay, point of order.

[12426] Mark Triplett: We're on Member Grindel's request.

[12429] Phuong Nguyen: Yes, point of order. Okay, is there a majority to support Member Hill's request? I mean, sorry, Member Grindel's. Thank you, Member Grindel.

[12442] SPEAKER_19: For legal purposes and clarity, yes. OK.

[12445] Phuong Nguyen: I'm also in agreement with Member Marquez. So we do have a majority. Thank you.

[12450] Bowen Zhang: But when I say minimal, I hope this is not like a character campaign attack. It's just from a strict legal point of view. Sure looks like it.

[12458] Phuong Nguyen: OK. So I do have one request. And that request is for all of the board members who haven't completed master's in governance to be able to do so. So if I can. I hope that you, my fellow board members, agree with me in that.

[12477] Terrence Grindall: A point of clarification. Yes. Do you want to pursue in your request making it mandatory for board members or just to make it an encouragement?

[12487] Phuong Nguyen: No, a mandatory.

[12490] Terrence Grindall: I support that, even though that means I have some work to do.

[12493] Phuong Nguyen: Yes. I need another. I agree. OK, thank you. OK, with that, Superintendent, concluding comments.

[12514] Mark Triplett: OK, thank you, President Nguyen. So I just wanted to end with some appreciations. One, we did have an event for our retirees and for staff members who have been in the district for the length of time that we awarded them longevity awards. It was a really beautiful event. When I think of the lifetime of service that these people have dedicated, I wish we could have done more, to be honest. to dedicate one's life to our kids, our district, our community. But I was really, really pleased and appreciative of the HR department for creating that event. And I also really wanted to thank the board members, Member Grindel, Member Marquez, Member Jun, Member Nguyen, who attended the event and supported it. It was really lovely. I also want to appreciate President Nguyen for her badminton skills. So those of you who don't know, President Nguyen went and taught some of our junior high badminton. And I wasn't aware of how good she was, but come to find out that she probably should have gone pro at some point. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for I think it's, all joking aside, I think it's really indicative of your dedication to our kids and our community. I remember when you put in so much time above and beyond what we do here, which in and of itself is such a tremendous amount of time. You brought cookies to every school the other day for appreciation of teachers and staff, as well as helped us to deliver food to all the schools. So I just really want to thank you. And then last, I wanted to appreciate Member Marquez for the amount of time you put into the Masters of Governance. It is a huge, huge undertaking to be trained in all of that. And you've been determined to do that and really inform yourself and educate yourself. And I myself have gone through some of them, but not all. So I think you have me beat at this point. I need to continue and to go to some of those trainings as well. So thank you very much for that.

[12669] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, Superintendent Triplett. With that, may I get a motion to adjourn the meeting?

[12677] Terrence Grindall: So moved.

[12678] Phuong Nguyen: Motion made by Member Grindel. May I get a second?

[12682] SPEAKER_31: Second.

[12683] Phuong Nguyen: Seconded by Member Zhang. Meeting adjourned at 10. Oh, sorry. How do you vote, Member Zhang? Yes.

[12694] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[12694] Phuong Nguyen: Member Hill?

[12695] SPEAKER_30: Yes.

[12696] Phuong Nguyen: Member Grindell? Yes. I'm also yes. Unanimous, five ayes. Thank you. Meeting adjourned at 1028. Thank you.

1. CALL TO ORDER

Meeting Practices and Information

Type Information, Procedural IN-PERSON MEETING INFORMATION:

NUSD has opened its boardroom for in-person meetings and will follow the State's and Alameda County's safety guidelines for public gatherings. Please refrain from attending in-person meetings if you have any of the following symptoms: Loss of taste/smell Difficulty breathing Vomiting Diarrhea Fever Cough Headache Sore Throat Runny Nose

For additional COVID-19 information please go to https://www.newarkunified.org/covid-19 or https://www.acoe.org/guidance

OBSERVE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING :

Members of the public may observe the meeting via the NUSD YouTube Channel, live transmission on Comcast Channel 26, or in- person at the NUSD Boardroom. Spanish translation will be available via Zoom.

PUBLIC COMMENT:

The public will have the opportunity to address the Board of Education regarding non-agendized matters and agendized items with a live audio-only comment via Zoom with advance notice requested by email at PUBLICCOMMENT@newarkunified.org, a written comment by submitting a speaking card via email at PUBLICCOMMENT@newarkunified.org, or with live in-person comments by submitting a speaker-card with the Executive Assistant.

Roll Call

Type Procedural TRUSTEES:

President Phuong Nguyen Vice President/Clerk Terrence Grindall Member Aiden Hill Member Alicia Marquez Member Bowen Zhang

STUDENT BOARD MEMBER:

Member Estaina Resendiz Ortiz

2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Approval of the Agenda

Type Action

Recommended It is recommended that the Board of Education approve the agenda for this meeting. Action PURPOSE:

Members of the Governance Team may request that the agenda be amended or approved as presented.

Motion & Voting It is recommended that the Board of Education approve the agenda for this meeting, with the amendment to add 15.11 for the Kennedy Field Tripl.

Motion by Terrence Grindall, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Nay: Aiden Hill
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

3. CLOSED SESSION

Public Comment on Closed Session Items

Type Information PURPOSE:

The Board of Education encourages the community's participation in its deliberations and has tried to make it convenient to express their views to the Board. If a constituent wishes to address the Board on any agenda item, please fill out a virtual speaker card via email at PUBLICCOMMENT@newarkunified.org.

PUBLIC EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE/DISMISSAL/RELEASE (Gov. Code, � 54957, subd. (b)(1))

Type Action, Information, Procedural PURPOSE:

Information will be provided by the Superintendent and Executive Director of Human Resources.

CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Gov. Code, � 54957.6, subd. (a): Employee Organizations - NTA and CSEA

Type Action, Information, Procedural PURPOSE:

Information may be provided by the agency negotiator, the Executive Director of Human Resources. Assistance from the legal firm Dannis, Woliver, Kelley, Attorneys at Law may be provided.

The employee organizations include NTA & CSEA.

CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Gov. Code, � 54957.6, subd. (a)): Employee Group - NEWMA, Unrepresented Supervisors, and Contracted Management

Type Action, Information, Procedural PURPOSE:

Information may be provided by the agency negotiator, the Executive Director of Human Resources, and the Superintendent. Assistance from legal firm Dannis, Woliver, Kelley, Attorneys at Law may be provided.

The employee organizations include NEWMA, Unrepresented Supervisors, and Contracted Management

CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL � ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Gov. Code, � 54956.9, subd. (d)[(2) or (3)]

Type Action, Information, Procedural PURPOSE:

Information may be provided regarding significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 54956.9: One case

STUDENT EXPULSION (Ed. Code, � 48918)

Type Information, Procedural PURPOSE:

For the Board to review the expulsion cases.

BACKGROUND:

California Education Code Section 48916 requires that "an expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board orders a readmission of the pupil."

The following expulsions are up for termination or readmission. Staff recommends the following actions:

e2122-08 - Terminate Expulsion e2122-07- Re-admit e2122-16 - Re-admit e2122-14 - Extend suspended enforcement of expulsion for an additional academic semester with the option to attend summer school (located at NMHS) on a probationary basis

Recess to Closed Session

Type Procedural PURPOSE:

The Board will recess to Closed Session, and reconvene to Open Session on or about 7:00 p.m.

4. REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS

Report of Closed Session Actions

Type Action, Procedural PURPOSE:

If available, a report of the closed session will be provided by the Board President.

5. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION

Pledge of Allegiance

Type Procedural PURPOSE:

The Governance Team will recite the Pledge of Allegiance

6. EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS

Employee Organizations

Type Information PURPOSE:

At regular Board meetings, a single spokesperson of each recognized employee organization (NTA, CSEA, NEWMA) may make a brief presentation.

BACKGROUND:

Discussion items are limited to updates, celebrations, and upcoming events.

1. NTA: Sean Abruzzi

2. CSEA: Sue Eustice

3. NEWMA: Vicenta Ditto

7. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS

Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items

Type Procedural PURPOSE:

The Board of Education encourages the community's participation in its deliberations and has tried to make it convenient to express their views to the Board.

BACKGROUND:

Please see the instructions on the link below for public comment information on non-agenda items and agenda items.

http://go.boarddocs.com/ca/nusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C4Q2D4019F40

8. SUPERINTENDENT REPORT

Superintendent Report

Type Information PURPOSE:

The superintendent will provide the Board of Education with district information, updates, news, or anything in the jurisdiction of the board or the superintendent.

BACKGROUND:

The presentation and information will be provided by the Superintendent

9. STAFF REPORT

Summer School Staff Report

Type Information PURPOSE:

To provide information to the Board of Trustees about the 2022 summer school program offerings.

BACKGROUND:

This presentation is intended to provide information regarding summer school enrichment and credit recovery offerings that are possible in part due to the Expanded Learning Opportunity grant.

File Attachments Summer School Staff Report 2022 (2).pdf (1,481 KB)

Letter from the Alameda County Office of Education Regarding the 2021-22 Second Interim Budget Report

Type Discussion, Information PURPOSE:

The CBO will discuss and review the letter from the Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) regarding the Newark Unified School District (NUSD) 2021-22 Second Interim Budget Report.

BACKGROUND:

The Governing Board approved a Positive Certification of NUSD's Second Interim Budget Report on March 3, 2022.

Based on the Alameda County Office of Education's (ACOE) required review and analysis, the Second Interim Budget Report approved by NUSD's Board on March 3, 2022, accurately reflects the financial status of the district based on the budget assumptions and the Board's actions committing to budget balancing solutions in fiscal years 2022-23 and 2023-24. ACOE concurs with the District's POSITIVE certification.

File Attachments ACOE 2021-22 Second Interim Board Letter.pdf (276 KB)

10. STUDENT EXPULSION

Termination of Student Expulsion (Ed Code. � 48918) Case# e2122-08

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education terminate the expulsion for the Expulsion Action Case e2122-08. PURPOSE:

For the Board to take action on expulsion case e2122-08.

BACKGROUND:

California Education Code Section 48916 requires that "an expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board orders a readmission of the pupil."

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education terminate the expulsion for the Expulsion Case e2122-08.

Motion by Bowen Zhang, second by Alicia Marquez.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Readmission of Student Expulsion (Ed Code. � 48918) Case# e2122-016

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education readmit the student into NUSD as it Action relates to the Expulsion Case e2122-16. PURPOSE:

For the Board to take action on expulsion case e2122-16.

BACKGROUND:

California Education Code Section 48916 requires that "an expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board orders a readmission of the pupil."

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education readmit the student into NUSD as it relates to the Expulsion Case e2122-16.

Motion by Terrence Grindall, second by Alicia Marquez.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Readmission of Student Expulsion (Ed Code. � 48918) Case# e2122-07

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education readmit the student into NUSD as it Action related to the Expulsion Case e2122-07. PURPOSE:

For the Board to take action on expulsion case e2122-07.

BACKGROUND:

California Education Code Section 48916 requires that "an expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board orders a readmission of the pupil."

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education readmit the student into NUSD as it related to the Expulsion Case e2122-07. (lucia look at the motions)

Motion by Bowen Zhang, second by Bowen Zhang.
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang, Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Extension of Suspended Enforcement of Student Expulsion (Ed Code. � 48918) Case# e2122-14

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education extend the Suspended Enforcement of Action Expulsion an additional academic semester for the Expulsion Case e2122-14, with an option to attend the 2022 summer school. PURPOSE:

For the Board to take action on expulsion case e2122-14.

BACKGROUND:

California Education Code Section 48916 requires that "an expulsion order shall remain in effect until the governing board orders a readmission of the pupil."

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education extend the Suspended Enforcement of Expulsion an additional academic semester for the Expulsion Case e2122-14, with an option to attend the 2022 summer school.

Motion by Alicia Marquez, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

11. PUBLIC HEARINGS

Sunshine Proposal Reopener for Newark Teachers Association (NTA) Contract

Type Procedural PURPOSE:

The purpose is to publicly disclose or "sunshine" the proposals for reopeners at which time the public has an opportunity to provide input on the proposals prior to the commencement of negotiations between the Newark Unified School District (NUSD) and the Newark Teachers Association (NTA).

BACKGROUND:

Effective June 30, 2022, the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Newark Unified School District (NUSD) and the Newark Teachers Association (NTA) is set to expire. The California Education Code requires parties to publicly disclose or "sunshine" their proposals for reopeners at which time the public has an opportunity to provide input on the proposals prior to the commencement of negotiations. The Newark Teachers Association (NTA) proposal for the reopener agreement is attached and is sunshined at this meeting. Copies of the proposal are made available to the public. This is the public's first opportunity to express itself regarding the proposal. Newark Unified School District will sunshine their initial proposal at a future Board meeting.

File Attachments #NTASunshineProposal2022.pdf (151 KB)

12. OLD BUSINESS

Elementary Report Card

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $3,000.00

Budgeted Yes

Budget Source LCAP

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the updated drafts of the Action Elementary Report Card for grades TK-5, as presented.

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this presentation is to provide a recommendation to the Board of Trustees to approve updated elementary report cards for grades TK-5 as recommended by the NUSD Elementary Report Card Committee. This presentation will detail steps the Elementary Report Card Committee has taken this year to update grade-level report cards as well as receive staff and community input regarding the Elementary Report Card.

BACKGROUND:

In the 2018-19 school year a Report Card Committee was formed and representatives from each of Newark's elementary sites contributed to an updated pilot elementary grading scale. The NUSD Elementary Report Card Committee continued to meet until the pandemic began and resumed meeting in the 2021-22 school year to make updates to grade-level report cards at the elementary level. Ultimately, members of the Elementary Report Card Committee worked collaboratively to update the pilot report card after receiving staff input in order to bring recommendations to the Board of Trustees for approval.

File Attachments Elementary Report Card Quote.pdf (134 KB) TK-5 Final Drafts 2022.pdf (2,545 KB) Elementary Report Card 5.19.22.pdf (2,058 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the updated drafts of the Elementary Report Card for grades TK-5, as presented.

Motion by Alicia Marquez, second by Terrence Grindall.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

ELD Curriculum Adoption Amendment

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $35,077.25

Budget Source Lottery

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the ELD Curriculum adoption Action amendment. PURPOSE:

To adopt additional curriculum needed to complete the course sequence for all ELD courses.

BACKGROUND:

In May of 2021, NUSD Board of Education adopted ELD curriculum for Newark Junior High School and Newark Memorial High School. The curriculum adopted for the high school included Edge Fundamentals, which is the first level of curriculum materials,

but didn't include the full sequence of materials for intermediate and advanced ELD. After piloting the full Edge curriculum series, we would like to recommend that the Board amend the curriculum adoption to include the comprehensive set of Edge curriculum in order to serve all ELD courses.

File Attachments Cengage Learning - ELD NMHS.pdf (257 KB) Cengage Learning - Pathways.pdf (214 KB) ELD Adoption Amedndment - Board of Education Presntation 5_19_2022.pdf (1,037 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the ELD Curriculum adoption amendment.

Motion by Alicia Marquez, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

13. NEW BUSINESS

Board Policy & Administrative Regulation 3551 Food Service Operations/Cafeteria Fund (First Reading)

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the revised Board Policy and Action adopt the Administrative Regulation 3551. PURPOSE:

For the board to review the recommended changes and approve the updated policy and adopt the administrative regulation.

BACKGROUND:

The Child Nutrition department needs to ensure that all policies are updated pertaining to Food Service Operations/Cafeteria Funds.

This is the first reading for the attached Board Policy and Administrative Regulation. The language is sanctioned by the California School Board Association. The administration has reviewed these documents for accuracy and made revisions to reflect district practice. This will include the adoption of the Administrative Regulation.

If any revisions are recommended, the document(s) will be brought back to the Board of Education for a second reading.

File Attachments BP 3551 Food Service OperationsCafeteria Fund_first reading.pdf (520 KB) AR 3551 Food Service OperationsCafeteria Fund_first reading.pdf (218 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the revised Board Policy and adopt the Administrative Regulation 3551.

Motion by Alicia Marquez, second by Terrence Grindall.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Resolution 2021.22.40 PG&E Easement for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve Resolution 2021.22.40 PG&E Action Easement for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Newark USD's Maintenance, Operations, and Transportation site to provide power to five electric vehicle charging stations. PURPOSE:

To approve Resolution 2021.22.40 providing easement for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to provide power to five electric vehicle charging stations at Newark USD's Maintenance, Operations, and Transportation site.

BACKGROUND:

    June 19, 2019, the Board approved Resolution 2139, confirming its interest in applying for the funding to replace its five
    school buses with zero-emission buses and the related charging infrastructure.
    December 3, 2020, the Board approved the commitment to purchase two electric buses and a charging station
    infrastructure for a district match of up to $356,304 through the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD),
    California Air Resources Board (Hybrid Voucher Incentive Project � HVIP) and PG&E grants. The Board also approved
    future electric vehicle and infrastructure grant applications.
    December 14, 2020, the BAAQMD grant was executed with fund awards for the two electric buses and $75,770 toward
    infrastructure to install and construct two Level 2 Electric Vehicle Service Equipment charging stations.
    December 2020, two electric buses were ordered and delivered.
    June 17, 2021, the Board accepted the invitation to join PG&E's EV Fleet Electrification program. The PG&E program
    requires the commitment to acquire a total of five electric vehicles over a five-year period. The two buses purchased count
    towards the five required purchases.
    Currently, Beacon Consulting is searching for new grants to help fund the three additional electric vehicles. The search is
    focusing on finding funding for two refrigerated trucks and a dump truck (or similar), depending on what grants and
    electric vehicles are available and the most cost-effective, by 2025.

Temporarily the buses are being charged with a regular outlet that takes up to two days to charge one bus. Charging stations will only take six hours to charge a bus.

The PG&E grant for five charging stations, covers underground conduits, pipes, manholes, service boxes, wires, cables, and electrical conductors; above-ground marker posts, risers, and service pedestals; underground/above ground switches, fuses, terminals, and transformers with associated concrete pads; electric vehicle charging supply equipment, bollards and/or curbs and other associated safety equipment and signage; and fixtures and appurtenances necessary. PG&E covers the costs up to the meter. The infrastructure from the meter, including the chargers, will be at the district's cost. Two charging stations (including the infrastructure from the meter to the charger) will be paid for by the $75,770 BAAQMD grant. Beacon Consulting continues to search for grant opportunities for the three additional chargers. The estimated cost for each charger is $25,000.

The work done by PG&E will provide the necessary distribution of electric energy needed for five charging stations. The area PG&E has identified for the easement island strips of 10 feet near the MOT bus barn and where the electric energy and communication services come from. This strip of land is the former Central Pacific Railway Company site.

As part of the easement, Newark USD agrees to: 1. from time to time, trim or cut down any and all trees and brush within the easement area which may interfere with or be a hazard to the facilities; 2. not build on the easement area; 3. right to assign these rights to another public utility company, as defined by the CA Public Utilities Commission, to install, maintain, replace, remove, and use communication facilities within the easement area including ingress and egress therefrom; 4. In the event the PG&E contract is terminated, a quitclaim shall be executed by PG&E returning the easement to Newark USD; and 5. PG&E will not unreasonably interfere with, disrupt, or materially adversely affect Newark USD's business operations or access rights to property owned by Newark USD.

The next step is for Beacon Consulting to continue working with PG&E to get plans and drawings completed and approved for the charging stations. Once these have been received, then Beacon Consulting will get three quotes for the infrastructure from the meter, up to and including the chargers, in order to confirm actual costs.

File Attachments 31548723, Easement Binder_PG&E.pdf (251 KB) Resolution 2021.22.40_PG&E Easement for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.pdf (65 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve Resolution 2021.22.40 PG&E Easement for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Newark USD's Maintenance, Operations, and Transportation site to provide power to five electric vehicle charging stations.

Motion by Bowen Zhang, second by Alicia Marquez.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Newark Jr High School Paving and Striping Project

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $311,000.00

Budgeted Yes

Budget Source Fund 40 Special Reserves for Capital Outlay Projects

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Newark Junior High School Action Paving & Striping Project and the preliminary project budget to provide safety. PURPOSE:

To approve the Newark Jr High School Paving & Striping Project and preliminary budget of $310,352 to provide safety for campuses and authorize staff to proceed with consulting agreements and bidding as outlined in the budget. Construction Bids will be brought back to the Board.

BACKGROUND:

On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees approved the Deferred Maintenance plan and a list of project priorities. The first item on the Project Priorities List is Asphalt Maintenance Repairs, Sealcoat & Restripe Parking Lots.

At Newark Jr High School the condition of the existing parking lot is nearing the end of its useful life. More than ten (10) areas have alligator cracking, longitudinal cracking, and potholes. The parking lot striping is faded. The current parking layout is not clear and the parking spaces are not clearly marked. In addition, the installation of solar panels required new striping to accommodate DSA accessibility/ADA requirements. Consequently, staff requested a new and improved parking layout. The proposed design (see attached) incorporates the new DSA required spaces and allows drivers to weave from one end of the lot through each row to select a parking space. The new layout also improves congestion during student drop-off times by providing a secondary drop-off route.

The scope of work for this project will include asphalt concrete overlay at the main drive loop, patching repairs at the parking lot, seal coat at the parking lot and restriping at the drive loop and parking lot, and new gates at the drive loop (entrance and exit) and parking lot. To keep the budget minimal, the work being prescribed, while more than just cosmetic, will not fix all of the

deteriorated areas or significantly increase longevity. Many areas need a full replacement or more patches than the budget allows for. The estimated cost for this limited scope of work is $310,352. This work is scheduled to be completed in the Summer of 2022. For budget comparison purposes, the estimated cost to completely repair and replace the asphalt in the parking lot and the main drive loop is $750,000-$800,000.

Planning and appurtenant costs include architectural fees for restriping design, planning and construction management, testing and inspection, and contingency allowances for design and construction.

File Attachments NJHS Parking Lot Diagram.pdf (344 KB) Preliminary Budget - NJHS Paving Project 05-10-2022.pdf (56 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Newark Junior High School Paving & Striping Project and the preliminary project budget to provide safety. (with addition to make a complete the entire)

Motion by Terrence Grindall, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Nay: Aiden Hill
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

14. CONSENT AGENDA: PERSONNEL ITEMS

PLACEHOLDER - One Consented Vote

Type Action

Recommended It is recommended that the Board of Education approve, under one consented vote, the Action agenda items under Consent-Personnel, except for agenda items: PURPOSE:

This is specifically a placeholder, and will only be used if multiple agenda items are approved under a consented vote.

BACKGROUND:

Items within the Consent Agenda are considered routine and will be approved, adopted, or ratified by a single motion and action. There will not be a separate discussion of these items; however, any item may be pulled from the Consent Agenda upon the request of any member of the Board and acted upon separately.

Motion & Voting It is recommended that the Board of Education approve, under one consented vote, the agenda items under Consent- Personnel, except for agenda items: 14.4.

Motion by Bowen Zhang, second by Alicia Marquez.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

MOU Between NTA and NUSD to Provide a DLI Stipend

Type Action

Preferred Date May 19, 2022

Fiscal Impact No

Dollar Amount $4,200.00

Budget Source General Fund

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the MOU between NTA and NUSD Action to provide a DLI stipend. PURPOSE:

The purpose is for the Board of Education to approve the MOU between NTA and NUSD to provide a stipend for those currently teaching in the Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program at Schilling Elementary for the 2021-2022 school year.

BACKGROUND:

Schilling Elementary School began its DLI program in the 2021-2022 school year with Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes. Each cohort of students has a teacher who instructs in English and a teacher who instructs in the target language. Because of the additional preparation and communication with families, NUSD and NTA agree to provide a tiered stipend to those teaching in the DLI program. This stipend will provide support for the following additional duties including but not limited to: preparation for parent conferences, additional testing, planning, and preparation of aligned units and materials in the target language.

File Attachments SIGNED MOU_NTA_DLI_final_4.27.22.pd.pdf (221 KB)

MOU Between NTA and NUSD to Address Physical Staffing Moves

Type Action

Preferred Date May 19, 2022

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $27,000.00

Budget Source General Fund

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the MOU between NTA and NUSD Action to address the physical staffing moves. PURPOSE:

The purpose is for the Board of Education to approve the MOU between NTA and NUSD to address the physical staffing moves including, but not limited to, Musick Elementary School, Junior High classroom reassignments, and Sixth Grade transition to Newark Jr. High School for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.

BACKGROUND:

With the closure of Musick elementary school and the transition of Sixth Grade to Newark Junior High School, it is necessary to address the physical staffing moves such as hours allocated for the move; affected unit members; packing and moving supplies; furniture, materials, and curriculum; and timelines.

File Attachments SIGNED Moving_MOU_final_5.3.22.pdf (224 KB)

Personnel Report

Type Action

Absolute Date May 19, 2022

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education ratify the personnel report as presented. Action

PURPOSE:

The purpose is for the Board of Education to ratify the Personnel Report as presented.

BACKGROUND:

All personnel activities including new hires, changes in status, resignation, leaves, and retirements are routinely submitted to the Board for ratification.

File Attachments HR PAL 05-19-2022.pdf (375 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education ratify the personnel report as presented.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Nay: Aiden Hill
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

15. CONSENT AGENDA: NON-PERSONNEL ITEMS

PLACEHOLDER - One Consented Vote

Type Action

Recommended It is recommended that the Board of Education approve, under one consented vote, the Action agenda items under Consent Non-Personnel, except for agenda items: PURPOSE: (This is specifically a placeholder, and will only be used if multiple agenda items are approved under a consented vote.)

BACKGROUND: Items within the Consent Agenda are considered routine and will be approved, adopted, or ratified by a single motion and action. There will not be a separate discussion of these items; however, any item may be pulled from the Consent Agenda upon the request of any member of the Board and acted upon separately.

Motion & Voting It is recommended that the Board of Education approve, under one consented vote, the agenda items under Consent Non- Personnel, except for agenda items: 15.2, 15.6, 15.8, 15.9, 15.10, 15.11

Motion by Terrence Grindall, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Non-Curricular Trip for Newark Jr High Leadership Students to travel to San Jose, CA

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $350.00

Budgeted Yes

Budget Source ASB Funds

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Non-Curricular Trip for Action Newark Jr High Leadership students to travel to San Jose, California as a team building activity. PURPOSE:

The Newark Jr High Principal and Leadership teacher request permission to take students on a non-curricular trip to San Jose, CA.

For Newark Jr High Leadership students to participate in team building: collaboration, problem solving, community building and strategizing activities. School: Newark Jr High When: May 27, 2022 Where: San Jose, CA Chaperone requirements met Grade K-3, one adult for every 5-8 students; Grades 4-12, one adult for every 10 students; Board Policy requires at least two adults on every trip regardless of number of students (BP 6153 and AR 6153) Overnight trip supervision must be gender-appropriate No student will be denied due to lack of funds

BACKGROUND:

According to Board Policy 6153, all trips in excess of 100 miles, non-curricular trips and overnight trips require Board approval.

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Non-Curricular Trip for Newark Jr High Leadership students to travel to San Jose, California as a team building activity.

Motion by Bowen Zhang, second by Alicia Marquez.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang


Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Non-Curricular Trip Request for Lincoln TK to travel to Newark, CA

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the non-curricular trip request Action for Lincoln TK to travel to Newark, CA. PURPOSE:

The Lincoln Principal and TK teacher request permission to take Lincoln TK students on a non-curricular trip to Newark, CA. This is a walking field trip. This trip is for an end of year celebration.

    School: Lincoln
    Dates: May 25, 2022
    Location: Newark, CA

Chaperone requirements met Grade K-3, one adult for every 5-8 students; Grades 4-12, one adult for every 10 students; Board Policy requires at least two adults on every trip regardless of the number of students (BP 6153 and AR 6153) No student will be denied due to a lack of funds

BACKGROUND:

According to Board Policy 6153, all trips in excess of 100 miles, non-curricular trips, and overnight trips require Board approval.

Non-Curricular Field Trip Request for Coyote Hills First Grade Class to travel to Newark, CA

Type Action

Fiscal Impact No

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the non-curricular trip for Coyote Action Hills Elementary First Grade class to Newark, CA. PURPOSE:

The Coyote Hills Elementary Principal and first-grade teachers request permission to take Coyote Hills Elementary first grade students on a non-curricular trip to Newark, CA. This is a walking field trip. This trip is for students to have a class picnic.

    School: Coyote Hills Elementary
    Dates: May 25, 2022
    Location: Newark, CA

Chaperone requirements met Grade K-3, one adult for every 5-8 students; Grades 4-12, one adult for every 10 students; Board Policy requires at least two adults on every trip regardless of the number of students (BP 6153 and AR 6153) No student will be denied due to a lack of funds

BACKGROUND:

According to Board Policy 6153, all trips in excess of 100 miles, non-curricular trips, and overnight trips require Board approval

2022-23 Designation of California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Representatives to League

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education ratify the district representatives to the Action California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Representatives for the 2022-23 year. PURPOSE:

To ratify our designated representatives to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) for the 2022-23 school year.

BACKGROUND:

School districts and Boards of Education are required to send the names of league representatives to the CIF on an annual basis to ensure they receive voting rights as full members of the CIF.

File Attachments CIF Designation of Representatives Form 2022-23.pdf (380 KB)

Think Together Contracts

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $1,683,693.00

Budgeted Yes

Budget Source Expanded Learning Opportunities Grant Funds (ELO-P)

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the contract with Think Together. Action PURPOSE:

To approve the Think Together contracts in alignment with the approved ELO-P plan.

BACKGROUND:

In February of 2022, the NUSD Board of Education adopted the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Plan for the 2021- 2023 school years. The plan includes expansion for Lincoln after-school in 2021-22, a summer school program for unduplicated TK-6, all unduplicated TK-6 students with after-school programming for the 22-23 school year, and all unduplicated TK-6 students with intersession programming for at least 30 days at a minimum of 9 hours per day. NUSD has contracted with Think Together for these services, as was outlined in the approved plan.

File Attachments Think Together MOU Summer 2022.pdf (110 KB) Think Together MOU InstructionalDays FY23.pdf (133 KB) Think Together MOU Non-Instructional Days FY23.pdf (110 KB)

Motion & Voting (The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Think Together Contracts)

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Nay: Aiden Hill
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Service Agreement between Newark USD & BaySci 2022-23

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $55,000.00

Budgeted Yes

Budget Source LCAP

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the 2022-23 Service Agreement Action between Newark USD and BaySci. PURPOSE:

The purpose of this item is for the Board of Education to approve the Service Agreement between the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Hall of Science, and Newark Unified School District. This Service Agreement outlines the services to be provided by BaySci for 2022-2023 to support district science initiatives and curriculum development and implementation.

BACKGROUND:

BaySci at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley supports the development and deepening of district- wide capacities for equitable, high-quality science education and environmental literacy. BaySci is dedicated to leadership, innovation, and excellence in STEM education and learning, and has a long history of addressing the needs of groups who are situated at the margins of equitable, high-quality instruction in science, math, engineering, and environmental education.

In 2022-2023, Services: University will: 1. Provide support for the Newark Unified School District (District) a science/environmental literacy leadership team to develop an implementation plan for Districtwide coherence across these disciplines and in connection to other district initiatives and efforts overseen by the District Educational Services department. 2. Provide support for partnerships with community-based organizations as part of a Districtwide, coherent science/environmental literacy program.

 3. Provide support for meaningful teacher collaboration, the building of District structures, and lessons learned during COVID
    to sustain teacher collaboration around science, environmental literacy, and computational thinking.

File Attachments BaySci Newark 22-23 Agreement.pdf (227 KB)

Moving Services Contract

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $52,415.06

Budget Source General Fund

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the award of a contract to Crown Action Worldwide Moving and Storage for moving services based on RFP #02-2021-22. PURPOSE:

To obtain Board approval to award the moving services contract to Crown Worldwide Moving and Storage, the lowest, responsive and responsible bidder for RFP #02-2021-22 Moving Services for the consolidation of Musick Elementary School and the transition of Newark Junior High School to a middle school.

BACKGROUND:

In November 2020, the board voted to move all sixth-grade students to Newark Jr High for the 2022-23 school year.

On April 25, 2022, Newark Unified School District sent out RFP #02-2021-22 Moving Services to potential bidders.

The scope of the work includes, but is not limited to, moving services for the consolidation of Musick Elementary School and the transition of Newark Junior High School to a middle school. Services include the furnishing of equipment, supplies, and crews as required by the District for the physical relocation of classrooms, offices, and other spaces within the boundaries of the Newark Unified School District, at such times and places as directed by the District, as rapidly as possible with minimal disruption of District staff and the daily operations of the District.

A mandatory bid walk was held on May 4, 2022, and the bid was due May 10, 2022.

Three (3) moving companies attended the bid walk and three (3) submitted bids but one was non-responsive.

The bid results were as follows:

Company Bid Amount Crown Worldwide Moving and Storage $52,415.06 Suddath $77,487.52

Based on bids received, staff, recommends award of a contract to Crown Worldwide Moving and Storage, the lowest responsive, responsible bidder, for moving services based on RFP #02-2021-22.

File Attachments

Moving Services-RFP-02-2021-22_Bid Sheet.pdf (94 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the award of a contract to Crown Worldwide Moving and Storage for moving services based on RFP #02-2021-22.

Motion by Bowen Zhang, second by Alicia Marquez.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Warrant Report for April 2022

Type Action

Fiscal Impact No

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Warrant Report as presented. Action PURPOSE:

The purpose of this item is to present warrants, for the total amount of $2,984,793.61, made from District funds for April 2022.

BACKGROUND:

The warrant registers represent a complete listing of all payments made from District funds for a month. Because Newark Unified School District is a fiscally dependent District, each warrant must pass through two separate audits; first by the District's Fiscal Services department, and second by the County Office of Education. No warrant can be paid until such time as it is examined and approved by the County Office of Education.

File Attachments Warrant Report April 2022.pdf (660 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Warrant Report as presented.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Nay: Aiden Hill
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Minutes of the May 19, 2022 Regular Meeting of the Board of Education

Type Minutes

PURPOSE:

For the board to review and approve the minutes

BACKGROUND:

The attached minutes are reflective of the May 19, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education. The meeting may be viewed on the NUSD YouTube Channel HERE

16. BOARD OF EDUCATION: COMMITTEE REPORTS, REQUESTS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Board of Education Recognitions and Announcements

Type Information PURPOSE: The Trustees may acknowledge or recognize specific programs, activities, or personnel at this time.

Board of Education Committee Reports

Type Information PURPOSE:

The Trustees will provide an update, if available, on the committees of which they are members.

BACKGROUND:

Each year the Board of Education members liaise with schools and committees in order to build relationships, hear from staff, students, and families, and act as a conduit for information to and from the schools.

Board Committees 2020-21

Board Adopted on 12/16/21 RepresentativeAlternate

Mission Valley Regional Occupational Center/Program 1. Terrence(ROC/P)Grindall1. Bowen Zhang Executive Board

Regional Policy Board of Special Education Local Plan Area 1. Bowen Zhang 1. Alicia Marquez (SELPA)

Newark Teacher Induction Advisory Council (Formally 1. Alicia Marquez 1. Aiden Hill EBIC)

Audit Committee 1. Alicia Marquez 1. Terrence2. Aiden HillGrindall

                                                               1. Terrence

Bond/Parcel Tax Committee Grindall2. Phuong 1. Bowen Zhang Nguyen

                                                               1. Phuong
                                                               Nguyen

City of Newark � NUSD Liaison Committee 2. Terrence 1. Bowen Zhang Grindall

Board of Education Requests

Type Action, Discussion, Information PURPOSE: This is an opportunity for the Board of Education to suggest items for placement on future agendas and to review Board requests.

Approval from the majority of the Board will be required for direction to be provided to the Superintendent.

BACKGROUND: The following derives directly from the Board approved "Governance Team Handbook"

Authority is Collective, Not Individual: The only authority to direct action rests with the Board as a whole when seated at a regular or special board meeting. Outside of this meeting, there is no authority. A majority Board vote provides direction to the Superintendent. Board members will not undermine the ability of staff to carry out Board direction.

Bringing New Ideas Forward The Board will be open to having "brainstorming" discussions, or study sessions, around any idea that a Trustee may feel merits exploratory consideration. "New Ideas" are defined as any proposal brought forward by a Trustee, at their initiative or at the request of a constituent, which was previously discussed during a board meeting. Trustees will first notify the Board President and Superintendent of their interest in bringing forward a new idea at a board meeting.

    When initially agendized, the preliminary discussion of a new idea will not require staff research time. Initially, staff will be
    expected to respond to new ideas based on current knowledge.
    Only a majority of the Board may direct the Superintendent to conduct research regarding the exploration of a new idea.
    The Superintendent will decide on the delegation of assignments to District staff.
    The new idea may be agendized for discussion only. The Board majority will decide if the new idea should be further
    developed and studied by staff. The Board majority will decide if staff time should be invested in the "fleshing out" of new
    ideas.
    Individual Trustees, in the course of interactions with constituents, will be careful not to make or imply the commitment of
    the full Board to explore or proceed with implementing new ideas.

17. SUPERINTENDENT'S CONCLUDING COMMENTS, UPDATES FOR THE BOARD AND FUTURE AGENDA REQUESTS

Superintendent's Concluding Comments, Updates, and Future Agenda Items

                       AGENDA REQUESTS

Type Information PURPOSE: This is an opportunity for the Superintendent to make any concluding comments, updates, agenda requests, or provide information of future meetings.

18. ADJOURNMENT

PLACEHOLDER - Extend Meeting

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education extends the meeting to ____P.M. Action PURPOSE: This is a placeholder, only to be used if the Board adds a motion and action to extend the meeting.

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education extends the meeting to10:30 ____P.M.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

Adjournment

Type Action, Procedural

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education adjourns this meeting. Action

PURPOSE: No items will be considered after 10:00 p.m. unless it is determined by a majority of the Board to extend to a specific time.

This action will conclude the meeting.

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education adjourns this meeting at 10:28pm.

Motion by Terrence Grindall, second by Bowen Zhang.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Terrence Grindall, Aiden Hill, Alicia Marquez, Bowen Zhang
Not Present at Vote: Estaina Resendiz-Ortiz

No minutes available.