Regular Meeting

Introduction

• Meeting Date: March 16, 2023
• Key Themes: Budget sustainability, staff compensation disputes, curriculum updates, facilities improvements, and community concerns about student wellness and safety.

Agenda Items

Budget & Financial Sustainability

• Second Interim Budget Report:
  • Certified as positive, with reserves at 7% ($6.6M total).
  • Declining enrollment (-300 ADA projected over two years) and rising special education costs ($9.9M contribution from the general fund).
  • Action: Approved 5-0.

Curriculum & Assessment

• iReady Data:
  • Reading: 54% of K-5 students at/above grade level (up from 43% in fall).
  • Math: 46% at/above grade level (up from 33% in fall).
  • Double-digit growth in grades 1–3 for reading and 4/5 grades for math.
• ELA Curriculum Survey:
  • Staff dissatisfaction (average score 1.5/4) led to unanimous Curriculum Council vote to pilot new state-approved materials in 2023–24.

School Safety & Facilities

• Kennedy Elementary Fencing Project:
  • Approved $62,000 contract with LCA Architects for security fencing design.
  • Funded by developer fees.
• Lincoln Elementary Concerns:
  • Cockroach infestation and math intervention needs flagged by students.

Policy Updates

• Board Bylaw 9300.11: Restructured agenda to prioritize employee organization reports and public comment.
• Complaint Procedures (AR 1312.1): Updated to align with CSBA guidelines.

Technology & Communication

• ParentSquare Adoption:
  • Approved $33,000 premium license for district-wide communication platform (translation, secure docs, analytics). Pilots at Coyote Hills and BGI showed success.

Public Comments

• Key Themes:
  • Teacher Compensation: NTA members highlighted 12% pay gap vs. neighboring districts (e.g., $21k less than New Haven). Urged competitive salaries to retain staff.
  • Bereavement Policy: Teacher requested contract language for leave after a student’s death.
  • Student Safety: Concerns about bullying in bathrooms, insufficient facilities at junior high.
  • Curriculum & Behavior: Critiques of Lucy Calkins ELA program and PBIS inefficacy due to disruptive students.
  • Student Voices: Lincoln students advocated for math support, pest control, and better cafeteria food.

Follow-Up & Commitments

1. Staff Compensation: Continued negotiations with NTA; deadline for "serious proposal" set.
2. ELA Curriculum Pilot: Committee formation (April 2023) to review state-approved materials.
3. Special Education Presentation: Upcoming overview of program costs/services for board members.
4. Wi-Fi Upgrade: Phase 1 (high school/junior high) underway; hardware pending shipment.
5. Summer Programs: Expanded ELOP-funded K-6 enrichment (650+ seats), credit recovery, and ESY.

Conclusion

• Next Steps: Focus on retaining staff via competitive wages, addressing facility issues, and improving curriculum/behavior supports.
• Upcoming Events: Hmong American Transition Summit (March 18), Joy Prom (April 22), and superintendent search updates.
• Adjourned: 9:46 PM.

1. CALL TO ORDER

[564] Nancy Thomas: Welcome to the March 16, 2023 regular meeting of the Board of Education. Ms. Croce, would you please call the roll?

1.2 Roll Call

[574] Jodi Croce: Thank you. Student member Torres is not present. Member Nguyen? Here. Member Jones? Here. Member Hill? Yes. President Thomas?

[582] Nancy Thomas: Here. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we move on to public comment on closed session items. Let's begin with Cheri Villa.

1.3 Public Comment on Closed Session Items

[601] Chery Villa: Good evening, Cheri Villa. I am vice president of our Newark Teachers Association. First, I just want to thank you guys. I'm going to keep it short for myself because I have a lot of my members here that are going to tell you what they need to say. So what I ask is to hear them all out. Thank you.

[633] Nancy Thomas: Ms. Laura Knoop.

[641] SPEAKER_21: Thank you, guys. I'm Laura Knoop. I am a teacher at Newark Memorial High School. I teach AP Psychology this year. I'm number 10 on your seniority list, and I'm 52 years old. If you think about it, that's a problem. But I'm also the site director at the high school, but I don't want to talk about that today. I do a lot representing teachers and stuff, but I really want to just talk about myself. because I'm so angry about working in this district for 28 years. And time after time after time, I've come up here and tried to explain to you how much we love these kids. and how much we give to these kids every single day. I mean, we sat in the dark with these kids this week, and we taught them, because our superpower is teaching, and we do it all the time. And for some reason, we don't get rewarded for it. For some reason, the teaching in Newark is not as important as the teaching in New Haven, where I would be making $23,500 more this year if I taught there. That is so unfair to me and to my family. I have committed myself to you, and I want you to commit yourself back. I want you... I want you to have the guts to figure it out. To stop saying, we can't, we can't, we can't. That somehow you're not worth it. We will never be as good as Fremont. We will never be as good as New Haven. Give us what you can, because what you're giving us isn't enough. We lose teacher after teacher after teacher. One of my very good friends is out here. She was my student and then she was my colleague. We had babies due on the same day and then she left. She left for New Haven because they would pay her and we wouldn't pay her. And she was great. And she was in a high need area in special education and she's not with us now. Because of you guys not making the difficult decision and finding a way to reward us for our hard work. Okay? Find a way. And I'm sorry. I am, like, some things, like, you guys presented a COLA minus two. You're going to present me a COLA minus two and tell me, as your most experienced teacher in the district, one of the most experienced people here, that I should make less money every year I work for you from here on out. what that proposal means, because I get to pay for the cost of living. You're not going to pay my cost of living? It doesn't even make any sense. All it is is rude. It's rude. It's disrespectful. It's not what I deserve. I have given my time, and I would like to be respected in return. Thank you.

[815] Nancy Thomas: Diana Kataki.

[823] Carina Plancarte: OK.

[824] SPEAKER_17: Hello, everyone. In case we haven't met before, my name is Diana Kodaki, and I'm currently a fourth grade teacher over at BGI. Recently, a student of mine passed away unexpectedly. Since then, life has been a bit of a blur. I never thought I would have to sit with a group of 29 children and tell them that their friend and classmate would never be with us in the classroom again. The process has been hard on so many levels, I spent the first week since his passing keeping it together. I went into autopilot, putting my students first in every decision I made. I advocated for them to receive counseling for two weeks instead of one. I was in constant communication with my classroom families. I was comforting the students and helping them grieve all while putting my needs aside and putting my work first and my love for these kids first. I take a lot of pride in my job and I think my students have come a long way since February 27th. I will never regret devoting all of my attention and energy to my students during our time of immense loss and tragedy. However, I know that in order to continue showing up for them, I also have to take care of myself. Take care of yourself. I heard this from numerous people, yet I found it surprising that it was given no bereavement. There's currently nothing written in our contract that gives teachers the time to mourn the loss of a student. Because it is not explicitly worded, I was provided no grace to take time to heal. Even on the day of his funeral service, I was told to market a school business. This is simply not okay. While I know this kind of situation is rare, it does happen. Just because it won't happen to every teacher doesn't make it hurt any less for the ones it does happen to, like myself. We need language in our contract that provides teachers who lose a student time to grieve and step away from the classroom. Every day I walk into my room, I'm reminded of who isn't there. I need time to process that fact, and I should not have to use my own personal or sick leave in order to do so. I have shown my students care and compassion, and I hope you all do the same. I'm not advocating this to my benefit. I'm doing so for the benefit of the teachers in the future who will face similar situations and deserve to have time to heal. Thank you for your time.

[970] Nancy Thomas: David Hernandez.

[975] SPEAKER_19: Good evening, board. David Hernandez, Executive Director of Newark Teachers Association. And thank you, everybody, for coming out tonight. I just want to remind the board that we've been striving to make Newark a destination district. We've had lots of enrollment. We've been trying to do programs to get people to come to this particular district. But we've got to have a competitive wage. And the CPI and the COLA over the last 10 years has been at least 30%. And yet, you have only paid your employees 18%. Think about it. 30% CPI and COLA over the last 10 years, Newark teachers have received 18%. New Haven over that time, 27%. Fremont over that time, 37%. Hayward over that time, 41%. Do you get the picture? And you're wondering why we are going to lose staff? You have a good experienced staff. Let's not make Newark a stepping stone to go to other districts. Let's keep our experienced people here. Let's have a competitive salary that's going to bring teachers here and make them want to stay. I'm just asking to consider those things as you look at where we are. and to do something about where you are now and to give us something better tomorrow. Thank you.

[1071] Nancy Thomas: Kelly Gunther.

[1078] SPEAKER_26: Hello. My name is Kelly Gunther. I was a special ed teacher at Newark Memorial High School for nine years. It was my very first job after finishing my credential and moving out to California from Chicago. I loved teaching in Newark. I loved my kids. I loved the community. And I loved my coworkers. I thought I would never leave. Honestly, I thought this was the district I would retire in. As the years went on, though, the job got harder and harder. Teachers, particularly special ed teachers, left. About 80% of the special ed teachers in the district who were there when I started had left by the time I left. And there was no one to replace them. I was asked to sub pretty much every single day. I had no time to lesson plan, to write IEPs, to help my students when they were having a hard time. We were asked to write IEPs for kids we had never met. because there simply weren't enough case managers to cover all of the students in special ed in the district. All of this meant that our students who needed the most care and attention didn't receive it. I could no longer do my job. I could no longer serve my students. And I actually considered leaving the teaching profession. Instead, I left Newark. I took exactly the same teaching position at James Logan High School in New Haven. Instantly upon signing my contract, that was a $10,000 pay raise. Five years later, I now make $17,000 more than a Newark teacher with the same education and experience. Next year, that pay difference will be $21,000, unless Newark finds a way to plug the gap. More and more Newark teachers will come and join me in New Haven. This district has allowed teacher pay to fall further and further behind that of neighboring districts. More teachers will leave and Newark students will ultimately pay the price. Thank you.

[1227] Sean Abruzzi: I've been in this district for 23 years. Not only do I have family that have taught in this district, I have family that was administrators. I have family that built the Newark Pavilion. I have family that lived on Derry Street. We have a special thing here. We have people that come to our school district, graduate, come back, and teach. We're losing those people. You want to have competitive rates? You want to be a designated school district? In 10 years? This school district might not be around because you can't have teachers. You talk about last board meeting. We talked about providing a track and field, a turf. Great. But if you don't have qualified teachers, that's just going to sit there and not happen. When is this board, this district, going to wake up and start paying us for what we need? You keep low-balling us. That's fine. I wish you luck. But it's about time that this board comes back with a serious proposal. And like Mayor Knoop said, I'm paying out of my pocket because you can't do COLA? Really? I'm sorry, but I'm speechless. And I'm hoping that when we go to the table on Friday, that this board and this district comes back with a real proposal. Because what you have done is insulted me. said basically that you are not worth being here. You are not worth our time and effort. And that's sad. And the thing is, don't these students deserve the best teachers? How are you going to retain high qualified teachers? I've seen people leave. I don't have many friends in Newark because all my friends have left. In the 23 years, I've seen them go. I've seen them go to New Haven. I've seen them go to Fremont, making hand over fist money. And you guys are sitting there, oh, we don't have the money. We don't have the money. You don't have a choice. You have to pay us, or you're going to lose us.

3. REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS

3.1 Report of Closed Session Actions

4. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION

4.1 Pledge of Allegiance

[1360] Nancy Thomas: Thank you, Sean. Is there anyone else that would like to speak? OK, then. We will be recessing to closed session, where we will talk about public employee dismissal, discipline release, conference with labor negotiations, employee organizations, NTA and CSEA, conference with labor negotiations, negotiators, employee group, NEWMA, unrepresented supervisors, and contracted management. and conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. With that, we're going to close session. Thank you for coming this evening. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. March 16, 2023, regular meeting of the board of education is called to order. We have just returned from closed session. No action was taken. Please join me in the pledge. 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. Unless any board member wants to pull any item from the agenda, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda.

5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

5.1 Approval of the Agenda

[4343] Aiden Hill: I move to approve the agenda.

[4346] Kat Jones: I'll second.

[4348] Nancy Thomas: Motion by Member Hill, seconded by Member Jones to approve the agenda. Please vote. Oh, student member.

[4357] Diego Torres: Yes. Thank you.

[4369] Jodi Croce: Votes are in. Five ayes.

6. EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS

6.1 Employee Organizations

[4372] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Our next employee organizations, do we have anyone from NTA? Do we have anyone from CSEA?

[4385] Jodi Croce: Oops, yes. We have nobody from NTA or CSEA, but I do have Ms. Lizaday is here for NEWMA. So, Ms. Rancap Perez, are you with us? Ms. Perez, you may begin. Ms. Rancap Perez, you may begin.

[4430] SPEAKER_33: Thank you. Good evening, President Thomas, Board of Trustees, and Executive Cabinet members. At the beginning of this month, NEWMA members plan and facilitated professional development sessions for our teachers. Elementary principals led their sites and using current i-Ready data to drive instructional planning for the last trimester. Our members continue to seek professional learning activities to broaden their knowledge and skillset. We continue to encourage our members to participate in these opportunities for professional growth. We would like to recognize the NEWMA members who organized and participated in yesterday's reclassification celebration at Newark Memorial High School. It was great to see our communities come together to celebrate our students across the district for a momentous occasion. On behalf of NEWMA, we thank all of our members for their collaboration, hard work, and true commitment to the Newark Unified School District community. Thank you, and have a good night.

7. PUBLIC COMMENT

7.1 Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items

[4489] Nancy Thomas: Thank you very much. Next, we're moving on to public comment on non-agenda items. Branch Brewster.

[4508] SPEAKER_43: Good evening, school board and members of the executive cabinet. My name is Branch Brewster. I'm here tonight because I run the student leadership program at Lincoln Elementary School along with my colleague, Mrs. Garrett, who couldn't be here tonight. But as part of our program, we were teaching our leadership students about having a voice in their community. So we wanted to encourage some of our students to come out tonight, witness this board process, and have a chance to address the board, and even though they're young, use their voice. So some students wanted to share what they do as part of leadership, some wanted to bring concerns that they have to your attention, and some haven't shown me their speech, so it's gonna be a surprise to me too. So we have five students tonight who are gonna be speaking to you and being engaged in the community and using their voice, so thank you.

[4560] Nancy Thomas: Thank you very much.

[4561] Jodi Croce: We look forward to it.

[4572] Nancy Thomas: Are they online?

[4574] Jodi Croce: No. So Kimberly Grover, come on up to the podium.

[4594] SPEAKER_18: Good evening, my name is Kimberly Grover. I'm a third grader at Lincoln Elementary. I'd like to talk about two things tonight. First, there is no math intervention at Lincoln. Many students need help in math, including myself. Second, our school has a cockroach infestation. I am scared to use the bathrooms because they hide. When you flush the toilet, they'll run out. Please give us the math support we need. Please help us get rid of the bugs. Thank you.

[4631] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Staff, could you take a note to check on the bugs? Next, Lauren Grover.

[4653] SPEAKER_09: My name is Lauren Grover. I am a fifth grade student at Lincoln Elementary. I am part of student leadership. I want to talk about Spooktacular. spectacular is where you play games, eat and hang out with your friends and is also a fundraiser for leadership. During spectacular, I helped with games, scaring people in the haunted house and setting up. I learned how to run games and collect tickets, which was more than that to me. I had to be a positive role model and just watching the community come together was amazing. I want to thank my leadership teachers, Mr. Brewster and Ms. Garrett for giving me the opportunity to be a leader. It is good to see you again, Ms. Jones, and thank you.

[4692] Nancy Thomas: Thank you very much. Madhav, I don't know if that's pronounced correct. Sharma?

[4718] SPEAKER_18: Hello. My name is Madhav Sharma, and I'm in grade four at Lincoln Elementary School. Today, I want to share how our school's leadership program led by Mr. Brewster and Ms. Garrett has helped me become responsible, respectful, and confident. During Halloween last year, we held an event called Spooktacular. This event had lots of fun things, such as a hand-held house, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and other amazing things, all put together by leadership students. Not only was it fun, but it brought the morale up for everyone after COVID. We had record turnout because it was so well done. The second thing we did in leadership was the Spirit Monkey. In the Spirit Monkey, leadership kids held a toy monkey and gave out candy to kids who were wearing blue and yellow. This was yet another thing that brought the morale up for everyone. After COVID, students were socializing awkwardly with each other, and the Spirit Monkey helped bring the school together. Finally, the leadership program allows leadership students to make morning announcements. This helps students feel comfortable talking to the large audiences and boosts their confidence. It also allows students to take responsibility toward their school and life. In all, the leadership program is unique to Lincoln Elementary, and it is helping shape the confidence of students like me who want to be in the public service when I grow up.

[4806] Nancy Thomas: Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Christine Benga.

[4819] SPEAKER_18: Hello, everyone. My name is Christina Benga. I am a student from Lincoln Elementary School. I had the best time at the school. One of the best things I did was the spooktacular and Valentine's crumbs. But one thing I would like you to do is change the food a bit. Sometimes the food isn't too good, so I would love it if you changed the food. Thank you.

[4839] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Was that Naomi? OK, we have one more student, right? Naomi Ibarra.

[4861] SPEAKER_18: Hi, board members. My name is Naomi Ibarra, and I'm a fourth grade student in Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary is a wonderful school where there are amazing, awesome fundraisers, such as the Spooktacular Breakfast with Santa and the Valentine's Grant. I love my school, but one thing a lot of students and I are hoping for are better food choices as well as better food quality. Thank you.

[4888] Nancy Thomas: Thank you very much. My goodness, students, thank you so much. You really did a good job addressing the board. And Mr. Brewster, hats off to you for bringing these students forward and letting us hear about it. Thank you. Rachel Bloom.

[4922] Rachel Bloom: Hi, everyone. I wanted to come up super quickly and let everyone know that this week at Schilling and Coyote Hills is the Pi Day slash circle-themed STEAM Week. So I'm sure you're going to learn more about the event because administrators will show pictures soon. In general, though, the idea is students go around. They rotate through the classes, do science, technology, engineering, art, math activities. When STEAM Week started about five or so years ago, I was passionately opposed to them because STEAMweeks are basically the antithesis of authentic STEAM. So in reality, STEAM isn't meant to be broken up into distinct disciplines like science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Not at all. The whole point of STEAM is to integrate it. So I think part of the problem is that people don't really understand or know what that could look like. So I brought what I thought is kind of an integrated STEAM lesson. Third graders are supposed to understand how water flows, and so we learn about that. There's a chapter in the book. So we could read the book. We could take notes on the chapter, but we didn't. What we did instead is we painted how water flows from the mountains, brooks, streams, rivers, and to the ocean. And I love this activity for a few reasons. One is it integrates art. It gives us a break from boring note-taking. And then it provides students with an authentic opportunity to actually experiment. So what I do, and I think is kind of what's special about this, is the kids come in, and I introduce them. I do a little tutorial about watercolors. Thank you, YouTube tutorials. And they paint. And I tell them, experiment with the amount of color, the amount of water, experiment with mixing. And so you get, on the first day, stuff like this. But then, the next week when they come back, I have them try it again. And then you end up with things more like that to show, like, one, an increased understanding opportunity of the actual content of how water flows and some more knowledge about how watercolor works. And so I just wanted to give my two cents about it. I think sometimes lay people or just kind of people not in the classroom or just community members don't really know like what that is when we say let's do STEAM. And so I wanted to just show a little bit about one way that I think it can be used in the classroom.

[5090] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. So is STEAM week already over?

[5093] Rachel Bloom: I mean, tomorrow is Friday, so they're going to finish up on Friday. But I think all the admins are collecting pictures, and they'll show you. And so it's actually gone really well.

[5104] Nancy Thomas: Well, maybe next year we could, if we're not disruptive, could board members come in and see what's happening? Yes. OK, thank you.

[5116] Rachel Bloom: The next one is going to be May the 4th. It's going to be a May the 4th slash Star Wars slash Forces Steam Week.

[5124] Nancy Thomas: So could we get an invitation?

[5126] Rachel Bloom: Yeah, so I'll let you know when that is.

[5127] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Guadalupe Lopez.

[5152] Guadalupe Lopez: Good evening board member and administrators. Newark has been my home for many years. I own a business and through the business I have the honor to be part of so many people's lives. As I am proud to say that our family has truly integrated as part of the community by not only volunteering through different organizations but finding ways to improve the community. My kids are products of Newark schools. system, and I can say they not only had a great experience, but they were prepared to enter the college of their choice and keep up with the challenges a higher education represents. It saddens me to see it's no longer the case. Our schools are performing poorly, our students are behind, they are lacking services, facing hunger, and frankly, being abused. We can sit here and blame COVID pandemic, lack of funds, teachers leaving and many other factors. But the reality, the real difference is the environment they face. I believe as a community, we have failed our kids. We have a school board that doesn't care. A school board that has a political agenda. a board that believes they can run the district as they see fit, a board that believes the district funds are their personal wallet, and a board that prioritizes their agenda and not our kids. This week, a mother shared with me she has two children attending children's school. One of them is in third grade. She's so behind, she can hardly read words, much less sentences. And this is third grade. Another mother is worried about the summer coming up and the lack of programs for kids to be busy, to attend some type of summer school. But the real punch, the real one that I felt to my gut is when I read a post from a mother describing the experience. Her son pays when he urgently need to go to the bathroom to relieve himself. This mother described how the students feared to go to the bathroom. As the bathroom is the location the students choose to smoke and bully others. This boy apparently asked four different school officials to allow him to use a different bathroom and all four refused. The boy after to call his mother to have her pick him up and take him home to the bathroom. This is shameful. Later, I conferred with a junior high student and was told many students avoid drinking water and sometimes even eating so they can last all day without going to the bathroom. As they feared being laughed at, shamed, and he said one student even photographed as he went with his pants down. The photo was later published in social media. I was told by the seventh grader the school currently has only two bathrooms open. one for sixth graders, and one for seventh and eighth grades to cheer. This bathroom has one stall and three journals. It's fascinating how with a large population we have, the school believes one bathroom is enough. I know I would like to ask the board, do you know this is going on? Do you think this issue is priority? And I ask you to ask that our superintendent, at the cost of $350,000 plus, whatever the new superintendent will cost us. Now, please ask yourself, how many tutoring programs hours you could have paid so our students could catch up? I see a lot of teachers here. How many raises could you have given to our teachers so they don't have to leave our district? How many hours of after school programs could you have been created? And lastly, I will ask you, when your students are going to start taking priority, please ask yourselves.

[5427] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Ms. Lucia Gutierrez.

[5446] SPEAKER_27: Good evening. I came here today to start off with a brief public service announcement. For the Clintons of this world who pride themselves in suing school districts, I'd like you to know that when you block school districts from visiting your own Facebook group, you also block yourself from seeing the school district's Facebook group. So please stop wasting student funds. Please stop wasting taxpayer funds with frivolous lawsuits. And please use how to use social media.

[5481] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. I noticed Mr. Bruese is back and wasn't here when we called for employee organizations. Would you like to speak now? Please.

[5502] Sean Abruzzi: Good evening, board. Good evening, district. Thank you. Sorry about that. And I'd like to give a shout out. And I'd like to give a shout out to Mrs. Kotake, fourth grade teacher at BGI. Mrs. Kotake has experience in unimaginable. For a teacher, when she received news that one of her students had passed away. Despite her grief, Mrs. Kotake showed up at school every day for her students. She agreed with them, supported them, and comforted them in their time of need. She put aside her own needs because her students needed her. For many teachers, our students are our family. When something happens to them, we feel it. NTAA should not have to use sick days because grieving the death of a student is not a sickness. NTAA hopes this will never happen again. But if it does, teachers need meaningful time to grieve. Our students deserve the best. They deserve teachers who can take care, who can take the time they need to heal. Thank you, and I appreciate that. Thank you.

8. SUPERINTENDENT REPORT

8.1 Acting Superintendent Report

[5588] Nancy Thomas: Next, we move on to the superintendent's report.

[5593] Jodi Croce: I think we have a public comment on agenda.

7.2 Public Comment on Agenda Items

[5597] Nancy Thomas: I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you for calling that to my attention. For 9.1, Rachel Bloom.

[5614] Rachel Bloom: So the funny thing about public comment on something is I'm commenting before the presentation even happens. So I believe Ariel is going to come up.

[5623] Nancy Thomas: We will allow you to wait until after.

[5626] Rachel Bloom: No, I always have an opinion. I looked at the presentation already. So spoiler alert, about half of all elementary school kids read and do math below grade level. And Lucy Calkins is so bad that even Lucy Calkins says Lucy Calkins is bad. And the reason why I'm speaking now is because Ariel's presentation will kind of make it seem like the curriculum is the problem. Kids aren't learning to read because ELA curriculum is flawed. That's not the case. Kids aren't not learning to read because the curriculum is bad. Kids aren't learning because teachers aren't teaching. Teachers don't have time to teach because there are too many disruptive students in our classes. We have to spend too much time managing behavior, filling out PBIS forms. It gives us less time to actually teach. For example, two weeks ago, I was working on sound lessons with first graders. I wanted to pull a group. I couldn't because I had to debrief with a kid about a think sheet. A few weeks ago, again, with fourth graders, I was trying to help them make their graphs. I couldn't work with them and walk around and give feedback because I had to debrief with kids and deal with a disruptive student. You better believe that graphing is going to be on the fifth grade CAS test next year. They need to be able to do that. So here we are. Behaviors happen. Teachers use their bag of tricks to manage behaviors. Sometimes that's not enough. So after in-class interventions don't work, we fill out a PBIS form. And then here's the thing. Nothing changes. Nothing. Kids that were written up on day 15 of school are getting write-ups on day 28, 26, 44, 68, 101, 119. Nothing actually happens. There are no consequences that actually made the kids stop doing the unwanted behavior. All it is is just teachers are constantly filling out forms. And that's why test scores are low. Scores aren't low because kids can't learn. Scores are low because kids aren't given the opportunity to learn. Their teachers can't teach. Their teachers have to spend way too much time managing classes. So I teach at Coyote Hills and Schilling, two elementary schools in the district with the lowest test scores. They also happen to be the schools with the largest population of Latino students, students of color, English language learners, students that come from a lower socioeconomic background. So here's what's effectively happening. You have five kids. making the other 25 not be able to learn. All right, but those are just from one class. So you have in each class there's let's say five kids and then the other 20-25 can't learn. So at a school that's 100s, hundreds of kids that can't learn and it just so happens that most of those students are Latino, students of color, students with IEPs and so We have hundreds of kids that can't learn. Now, we have PBIS so that admins can say, oh, we have fewer suspensions and da-da-da-da-da-da-da. But we need to do something. And so I'd like you to think about your values and your priorities. Are you OK with five students completely ruining the learning opportunities for other 25? I don't accept that. I don't think it's OK. I refuse to just throw up my hands and give up. Please encourage our district administrators to act. Give them, have them empower our site administrators to intervene in the disruptive behavior. And once we do that, the i-Ready scores will go up and so will the standardized test scores. Thank you.

[5829] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Anyone that wants to speak on an agenda item can just note on here that they'd rather wait for the agenda item or they can speak at the beginning of the meeting. Ms. Gutierrez wants to speak on 10.1, board bylaw 9300.11.

[5859] SPEAKER_27: All right. Good evening. As we have come to see, the school board members can pretty much do whatever they want. So with regard to structure, and so this is the same with regards to structure of the agenda. It is your meeting, you can choose how to run it in any way you want. However, the members of the school board represent the students at the school district. In addition, parents and voters advocate for the students by contacting the board. So with that in mind, I hope you actually take into consideration students and families when making these decisions. A few families had reached out to me asking me why public comment was so late at the last meeting. The agenda was previously structured to have all student-related items towards the beginning of the meeting because previous administration and board wanted to encourage students and family to participate in board meetings. However, taking public at 8.30 is not telling students and their families that you care to hear their voice or that you care to have them attend their meetings. Instead, At the last board meeting, your actions showed that hearing union leaders was more important than hearing the students. At the last board meeting, your actions showed that it was more important to get a facility update than to hear the students and allow them to go to sleep at a decent hour. If you approve the current method of operation, it will be a disservice to the students and the families, and you will be telling them that you don't care about what they have to say. You may claim that they will still have an opportunity to speak. However, it will be at the late hours. And that is not inviting to families, especially students who have early bedtimes. CSBA states that successful board meetings are focused on school achievement. However, that is not what's happening here anymore. In addition, when you were previously on the board, Nancy, there was a huge list of convoluted requests from the board. The superintendent at that time could not keep track of what requests were made by whom, or if the board majority had approved them or not. Therefore, the previous board restructured and redesigned agenda requests to make sure that all requests had board approval, since one member cannot request that the superintendent act, as it does require direction from the majority of the board. The currently proposed structure will allow for that confusion to come back. So in this situation, the president, who is the person running the meeting, will have to keep track of the order, keep track of the structure, keep track of the request, and make sure that appropriate approvals are given to the superintendent so that it's not taking up inappropriate staff time and in return, taxpayers' money. And with regards to how you take public comment, allowing it to be done during the agendized time or during each agenda item, the only person that you're really affecting is the person taking minutes. All you've done is added one more task to the many tasks that are already in place when it comes to running this meeting. So to me, that sounds like a lack of consideration for the staff.

[6056] Maria Huffer: Thank you.

[6063] Nancy Thomas: So I believe we are ready to move on.

[6068] Jodi Croce: I think Ms. Gutierrez also had a comment on 13.3.

[6073] Nancy Thomas: Thank you for, yes, the vacancy. Thank you. Sorry.

[6080] SPEAKER_27: So it's no surprise that once again the board has different rules for themselves and the rules that they demand for everyone else to follow. In the history of NUSD, the timeline of an appointment has always been based on the submission of the resignation to the Alameda County Department of Education. However, this board has now decided to do something differently and interpret the code in their favor. By doing this, the board has chosen to shorten the timeline for the public to apply to be a board member. You have shortened the window for the community to participate in this appointment process and to think about possibly applying to be a board member. If this action was taken by the previous board and administration, they would have been accused of fraud and attempting to rig an election. I wonder if those comments also apply to this board. Maybe this board just wants to allow their friends to apply instead of the community at large. Expecting these kinds of actions has now become the norm. So I cannot say that I'm surprised. But I am once again disappointed and saddened for our community.

[6141] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. There's been a request, board, that we move item 11.3 up to the next, to be handled next, because there are several principals here. So if it's OK with you, can we move 11.3 up? OK. Take 11. Do I need a motion? We'll just do it. OK, we'll just do it.

[6175] Phuong Nguyen: I move to approve. I move to approve. Sorry, I move to move agenda item 11.3 up. May I get a second?

[6188] Aiden Hill: Second.

[6189] Nancy Thomas: OK. Member Fung. Member Nguyen has moved and Member Hill has seconded to move 11.3 up. Please vote. Student member, how do you vote? Yeah. Yes. You can just break in and vote yes.

[6205] Jodi Croce: I'll do this as a roll call. Thank you. So student member is a yes. Member Nguyen. Yes. Thank you. Member Jones. Yes. Thank you. Member Hill. Yes. And President Thomas. Yes.

11.3 Universal Communication Platform

[6218] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. 11.3 is a universal communications platform. Acting Superintendent.

[6229] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Thank you so much. We had a reclassification ceremony last night. Our principals were up pretty late last night, so I appreciate this. I'm going to invite the principal of Coyote Hills Elementary up to the podium. Please come on up. You're not going to speak right away, but you're going to help. And Olivia Wong of BGI. There are two. Yeah, give them a round of applause. They are two piloting principals of the platform that we're going to discuss a little bit more in depth tonight. And so at the end, because these are the two principals who have actually used the platform, they're here graciously giving up their time to answer any questions that you may have about the platform. And I want to thank you both again for being here two late nights in a row. So we are looking at a universal communication platform tonight. The reason for this is because during our 22-23 LCAP process, and so it says year 22-23, remember that process happens in 21-22, our community in the process of giving feedback, and just as a recap for our community, the way we do this is we go to each school site, we get LCAP feedback, we collect that feedback, And then that informs our LCAP. And overwhelmingly, when we ask the question of our parents, how can we better support parent involvement? And specifically ask the question, what do you see as the strengths of our communication systems to engage families, and what can we do better? They all told us that what they really want is a universal communication platform. They want the same platform that they use in kindergarten to be the platform they use for high school. They don't want to switch between the many platforms we have. And so part of what I believe Director of Special Projects Abbey Keirns has shared at her LCAP mid-year review is how we're using our dollars. And that's right there on 2.9 for our LCAP this year, communication platform and technology support. So we had budgeted about $100,000 for both the platform and to increase with an IT technician hired in our IT department. We have yet to actually move forward with this purchase, and so we wanted to make sure we chose the right platform. So again, early feedback was that School Messenger is cheaper, and we use Peach Jar right now to supplement. It's a free district license. And schools use a variety of platforms, everything from Class Dojo to Peach Jar to Blooms to a variety of other options. to augment what we offer through School Messenger. So given the size of our district, again, what parents said is that it would be really convenient if we just had one common tool. One of the items that did come up through that process was ParentSquare, but it is quite a bit, it is a little bit more expensive than what we would see. It's about $25,000 for the regular license, and you'll see it's a little bit more if you decide to move forward with the premium tonight. It is a cost. But it is a cost in a goal area that we want to improve, which is communication, specifically communication with our families. So just to give a little bit of timeline, we selected ParentSquare to pilot because we didn't want to make a decision without that, since our community asked us to really look into that option. We did our EduPoint data sync in August of this year. We continue to use Bloom, SchoolMessenger, Peach Star, and ClassDojo with the other schools. Our pilot schools, again, Coyote Hills and BGI, And then in February, we engaged with our principals, and we did some pros and cons for each of these, asking which one do you prefer. Unanimously, principals chose Parent Square. So today, we're coming forward with a board engagement, and we hope to be able to roll out a universal platform in March, not as a full rollout, but really just to get people used to the platform, learn it, test it, and then do a full rollout in August of next year. This was our engagement with principals. We specifically looked at sort of the top three, maintaining school messenger, class dojo, and then parent square. You can see some of their opinions there, some pros and cons. And we really looked at both elementary and secondary too. They do have different needs, but we were trying to find a platform that would work for all of them. And again, principals really do prefer parent square, in part because of the functionality that parent square offers. They do do automatic translation. So if a school sends out a message in English, it'll be received by the parent in the language of their choice. Not just Spanish, but other options as well. So that was one of the functionalities that was really desired, right? It can also happen directly from teachers. You can do smaller groups, messages as well. So teachers can be sending out a message to a parent, it will automatically translate for them. It also has other functionalities. Again, I'm going to let our principal speak a little bit more to that. But it includes setting up parent-teacher conferences. It includes things, if we do the premium route, secure docs. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that now. The automatic preferred language, here's a sample of this. School sends a message out in English, automatically translates in Spanish. Parent can reply in Spanish, and it'll automatically show up as English for the receiver, if that is their choice, their language of choice. Obviously, we might have some teachers who prefer Spanish, in which case it will show up in Spanish, their preferred choice. There's also forms and permission slips that can happen through Parent Square as well. Again, two-way translated. So that's another option. parent-teacher conferences. I got a little ahead of myself here. And then there's the secure docs and community groups now again, this is only if we go with the premium route But what this would allow us to do is send documents such as state test scores IEPs report cards other legally binding documents Which we cannot do or we should not be doing via email now, but this would allow us the option to do that so this really is not just a this would be nice, but this really could improve the functionality of our district and What they promote out is increased contactability. And I just want to give a quick sample here. We sent out our civil learning emails to all of our parents. Ms. Abbey Keirns actually sent out all 2,000 emails instead of going through School Messenger because it needed to, the functionality of School Messenger did not allow her to send a personalized message. So she literally maxed out the amount of emails she is allowed per day and was cut off for email for 24 hours that day. Because that's all you're allowed with Google, apparently. We found that out that day. But what she also found is out of that 2,000 emails, 500 bounced back. And so that's 500 phone calls that now we're doing to say, hey, we need updated information. One of the things that ParentSquare does is it does talk about contactability, and it allows you to continue to refine that over time so you don't try it once, realize you have 500 and need to make that fix. Every single time it gives you that notice. And what they boast is that they end up increasing the contactability of the parents within the district. It also has analytic reporting and dashboards. I just put three samples up here. You can see it across the district. A principal can see it across their school, and a teacher can see it across their classroom. So our recommendation tonight is to actually go with the premium but again you can also choose the regular option or you could give us other direction tonight. We do believe that Parent Square is the right way to go for our district and we do believe that if we get it started now it'll give us a chance to really roll out strong in 23-24. And with that I'm gonna have if my principals want to say anything they can or they can also just field questions.

[6696] SPEAKER_36: I'll begin. Good evening. Thank you for inviting me here to give some feedback tonight regarding Parents Square. I began using this platform this year and the Great thing about this platform is it's very user intuitive. It kind of, you're able to text, you're able to send phone calls. We actually, an example, we had our power out at our school at Coyote Hills, and I was able to use ParentSquare to alert our community. And it sends, there's different choices of how you can alert your parents. And it went to all of the parents included. And it even hit some of the emergency contacts. So the message got out immediately. So it's a great way to get information out. And there are so many ways to set up ParentSquare. You can set up individual classroom groups, or your PTO group, or your ELAC group. And the user could choose how they receive their information, whether it's on a digest, coming in at a certain time. As the administrator, you can also override messages sent out. So I'm very happy with using it thus far. And I have a couple teachers on site who are a staff member, but they also have children in other districts. So they use the same tool to receive information about their own children and get updates about our school. So I've had nothing but good reviews thus far from ParentSquare.

[6787] SPEAKER_39: Hi, thank you for considering Perrin Square. I was looking for... a platform from our site because we also use several different platforms as classroom teachers are communicating with their parents. So with ParentSquare, we're finding that it is an easy tool. Parents who are pulled in from Synergy, they're automatically pulled in every 24 hours and updated. So when I send a message, if a parent changes their phone number or changes their email, I get a notification and I can see exactly whose email's bouncing back within 24 hours. The other thing is that parents don't need a code. So they just have to register at our school and they're automatically entered into ParentSquare. So it's been very helpful with new families and just having that consistency across our school.

[6836] SPEAKER_36: I want to add one more thing. We've had the opportunity to work with a rep from ParentSquare. We've had a couple, she's very accessible so she's been a huge help. to troubleshoot if we run across problems. So they're very supportive with implementing Parrot Square. Great.

[6856] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Ms. Lin? So thank you for your comments. And that was one of my questions was that, is it integrated with Synergy? And you had indicated that it does. So that is a big plus to hear. The only other question I would have for staff is, for the premium license, that a one-time license fee or is that an annual license fee?

[6879] Nicole Pierce-Davis: So that would be an annual fee I do believe there is a there it would be slightly less it'd be about 2,500 less because there is a 2,500 sort of setup fee for the district so if it's 33 the annual would be 31 25 would be 23 now that being said We do have that funding already set in our LCAP for this year, and then we have rollover funds to carry over the rest. So it is a fully funded initiative already.

[6907] Phuong Nguyen: Okay. So that was the leading question. So thank you for that. And yes. I think that any tool that is useful and is efficient for staff and families to be able to communicate with each other is something that we should definitely invest in. And the mere fact of us trying to get away from multi-platforms and being at every site having the same platform, I think that's really wonderful. So thank you. Ms. Jones.

[6942] Kat Jones: Has secondary used it at all? Do you know? Has secondary piloted or experienced using it?

[6952] Nicole Pierce-Davis: I do not believe. We did not pilot it at Newark Memorial. We did not pilot at Bridgepoint or Crossroads. They were involved in the conversations. They both unanimously chose Parent Square just based off of the feedback. And their voices were certainly heard in that process as well. I'm sorry, I'm pausing for a second because I remember Ms. Calderon specifically saying something about how they liked that over some of the other platform options because of the, I want to say the maturity level or something like, getting a little bit of feedback there, but I can't remember her exact comment. I'm so sorry.

[6988] Kat Jones: That's fine. Other question is, what are the teachers saying about it?

[6994] SPEAKER_39: I do have some of my teachers using it regularly. One of my teachers who claims not to be so tech savvy said even for her, she says it's so easy to use and it's so intuitive that it's just something that's not as fearful as she thought. But she found that with the communication piece, when she posts a message, parents can respond and it can be a private message to her or she can make it a public so that it's not seen by all the families. So she likes that feature of having the communication right within.

[7024] Aiden Hill: parent square app or on the on the online features member hill thank you um i have a few questions and if we can maybe take them one at a time so you went over it quickly but i i didn't catch it so how many current platforms do we have across the district and like who's who's supporting them and what are the associated costs i'm going to just give me an estimate

[7051] Nicole Pierce-Davis: School Messenger normally runs around $10,000 a year. Peach Jar is currently a free platform, but we really only use it for flyers, which is a capability within ParentSquare. ClassDojo I want to say is free as well. ClassDojo you can still use for points and things like PBIS, but it can also, it does have a communication feature. And I think you can pay for like a more premium, but I think right now it's being used with a free model as well.

[7082] Aiden Hill: And who's supporting these currently?

[7086] Nicole Pierce-Davis: I don't have a list of schools. Do you guys want to help me out?

[7088] SPEAKER_39: Do you guys know? I believe that majority of those are just teacher managed.

[7096] Aiden Hill: OK, so it's not managed by our IT department. OK.

[7103] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Thank you. We have a teacher in the audience helping us out a little bit. So Schilling only does Class Dojo. And who only does Blooms?

[7110] SPEAKER_36: Coyote Hill.

[7111] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Cody Hills, used to do Blooms. We only use Blooms. And now ParentSquare.

[7117] Aiden Hill: Okay, the second question is, so now the new platform ParentSquare, so the $33,000 buys us the software license, it's an annual license, and it's site-wide? I mean, it's across the entire district? Yes, district-wide. It's not user-based?

[7139] Nicole Pierce-Davis: District-wide. We pay by student. And so it's $4.50 per student for the regular. And I want to say $6 for the premium.

[7151] Aiden Hill: OK. So you came up with that number by multiplying out the students.

[7156] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Yes. And we did get a formal quote from our vendor as well.

[7159] Aiden Hill: OK. And then do we have a sense of implementation costs? So getting it set up. and then doing the, you know, any associated training, and then also like ongoing support?

[7176] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Yeah, so we've done actually the heavy lifting already just to pilot in terms of the SYNC. So our IT department did much of that work. We're sort of ready to hit the ground running now that we've already gotten the SYNC with Synergy. That was really the heavy lifting here, and we were able to accomplish it with the pilot. We would have had to do it anyway because we did have some school sites saying, we're going to do parent square. So we wanted to help them and be responsive to them as well. In terms of the cost of training, most of that training they're doing as part of the program. And again, they've been incredibly responsive about that. So we would love to kind of work on a train the trainer model. They may not know it already, but our two principals up here then would be responsible for also supporting training our other principals. And we would sort of work out in our system most likely before the school year starts and towards the end of this year as we roll it out.

[7231] Aiden Hill: Okay, so currently Parent Square is providing training but you're thinking that from a rollout perspective it would be train the trainer and so and then that would be ongoing it would be handled by the different sites as you're trying to bring people up and then and then from a supporting standpoint are you going to have different people at different sites so you know as they're you know because inevitably they're going to be issues right you got to get new people set up You know, somebody forgot their password. You know, how is all that stuff going to get handled?

[7260] Nicole Pierce-Davis: So that'll be primarily the principals, just like they are with School Messenger, just like they are with Bloom's, if they're using Bloom's, or Class Dojo for Glass Dojo. I know I was at BGP recently, and missed it. Every week, they actually spend a few hours onboarding all of the new students, because it doesn't directly sync with Synergy. So for instance, we had a parent who was actually quite upset, because they were pulled They had been they had said, okay, we're gonna leave the district. So they were pulled from from Class Dojo thinking okay They're gonna leave and then they didn't leave and they felt really left out because they were no longer getting the communications This wouldn't happen with parent square because synergy will automatically sink So miss ditto and her office staff don't have to spend the couple hours every Friday trying to keep it updated okay, and and and just one thing I want us just to be cognizant of because I

[7312] Aiden Hill: I mean, it seems like a cool system, right? But no system gets set up by itself. And sort of a rule of thumb, you know, around a lot of these systems is you've got the license cost or the software cost, and usually implementation cost is 2X, right? And so if you spend $30,000, you know, in terms of implementation cost, you're spending $60,000. And so, and we're saying that we're going to, that it's kind of embedded. Parent Square is going to do this for us, you know, and then we're going to do a lot of this ourselves. But I think we just need to be really cognizant of this and really watch this carefully. Because that's, I mean, that's how software implementation efforts fail is, you know, basically it's cool software, but there's nobody really there to set it up and to maintain it. So, and then just one final question, and that is, these existing systems that we're going to retire, is there any information in those systems that we have to archive, right, or like keep, or can we just like shut them down? Or, you know, and hopefully we don't have to migrate any data. Do we have to migrate any data from any of these systems?

[7375] Nicole Pierce-Davis: No. So we wouldn't have to migrate any data. There are some systems like Peach Jar that you might see sort of still around. Because again, we have an MOU. It's a free program to us currently. But I think what you're going to start to see is a gradual less use as people become more and more comfortable with Parent Square.

[7395] Aiden Hill: OK.

[7395] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. I'm going to ask in the future that we try to have two questions and then Then we'll come back to you if you have some more. The only question I have is, do you anticipate any pushback from people that want to continue using Peach Jar, Class Dojo, or one of the current?

[7419] SPEAKER_36: One question that was brought up was if Parent Square has, for example, Class Dojo and Blooms uses different portions of their site to support PBIS. But I know the representative we've been meeting with, with Parent Square, they're very open to feedback. So I'm sure they would consider some kind of support if we haven't learned about that yet. So they're very receptive to feedback, and they want to find the answers.

[7446] Nancy Thomas: OK. So we want to make sure that issues like that are in place before we roll it out next year?

[7453] SPEAKER_36: If that's something that teachers would like, yes. Or need. Or need, yes. Thank you. But otherwise, there's been no pushback from that. They've been very grateful for it.

[7464] Nicole Pierce-Davis: And teachers can still maintain Class Dojo, right? Schools can still maintain it. Just the work on the back end, we should be aware of what that work looks like.

[7473] Nancy Thomas: Are there any further comments or questions?

[7476] Diego Torres: I'll just make a comment. Well, obviously, I'm not a parent. And I probably won't be for a little bit longer. So I don't know much about these platforms. My mom probably does. But I would say as a student, yeah, it's really difficult when you have to manage between different platforms, like from class to class. When one class uses Google Classroom and another just emails all your work, or another one will just use a different website for all the work. So having one central platform for all the messages is really helpful, and especially for a community that I think right now we're at a moment where a lot of people, what I know for me, and a lot of students don't really check our emails or don't check every single platform that we have. So I think having one central platform is really beneficial to the community.

[7519] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. If there's no further comments, I would entertain a motion and staff is recommending the premium.

[7529] Nicole Pierce-Davis: That is what we were recommending.

[7532] Phuong Nguyen: I'd like to make a motion to approve the recommended action by staff.

[7539] Nancy Thomas: I'll second. Member Nguyen made the motion and Member Jones seconded it to follow the staff recommendation for the premium version. Please vote, student member.

[7550] Diego Torres: Yes.

[7556] Nancy Thomas: If you're wondering why the pause in voting, we have an online system that we wait until it comes up and allows us to put in our vote. And that's why it takes a minute or so.

[7571] Jodi Croce: Thank you. Votes are in. Five ayes.

[7574] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Thank you.

[7582] Nancy Thomas: So next, I think we have the acting superintendent report.

[7602] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Alright for March 16th, I will try to move Just as quickly because I know we've got quite a few presentations tonight But I get really excited about this report because I get to share all the amazing things happening across Newark First our monthly enrollment update as you can see here. We are still down students in enrollment It's about the same from about a month ago And I'd also like to update us just on how we did during our enrollment priority window. So during this time, again, our priority enrollment window was from February 7 to March 7. During that time, we had a total of 2,096 returning, 2,384 total. And so we still have a long ways to go if we're going to get to that about half of our families that have registered during this time. That includes, out of those students, TKers, we've got 97 that have enrolled, 53 that are already in seats, meaning they finished the process. And they are in seats ready to go. For kindergarten, we have 154 with 75 in seats. And then at other grade levels, so these are not our returning, these are new student registrations, we have 37 with 18 in seats. We do want to note that our DLI program has almost doubled the early interest. So that's really promising. And we want to continue those efforts. So families, if you're out there and you're listening, please go register if you haven't already. We had our multilingual awards. We had a reclassification ceremony last night. It was a really beautiful expression of cultural joy. And so I just want to take a moment to highlight for our whole community, we do have the state seal of biliteracy for our graduating seniors. These are seniors who have demonstrated proficiency in at least two languages. We have over 20 students that we're going to bestow this award to in their senior year. We also have bilingual service and participation awards happening at 5th and 8th grades. We have specific programs for our DLI program. or awards for our DLI program. And we also had our annual reclassification award ceremony. As you can see there, we tripled our attendance for the ceremony. It was amazing. It was truly full of joy. Everything from taiko drumming to folklorico to just really getting a chance to celebrate in community. Yeah, you see two of our board members right there in the audience. We also have our hats assembly tomorrow and the rally tomorrow night. I'm sure member Torres can tell us more about this event, but I'm looking forward to going tomorrow night and I wanted to make sure the community was aware as well. It's also Women's History Month. I want to take a moment to really truly value all of the women working across our district in every field. We really could not do this work without them, whether they serve on the board, whether they serve in the classroom, whether they serve in the cafeteria or they serve in the auditorium. It doesn't matter what they do. They make our district stronger and we appreciate them. It's also Youth Art Month. So there's a lot of activities happening across the district. This is one of our art classrooms here. So we look forward to sharing with you next session in April some of the artwork that students actually created during this time. Ms. Bloom discussed our Pi Day activities. So those are happening at Schilling and Coyote Hills Elementary. We do have some samples but I look forward to sharing with you some of that work and then hopefully we'll share that event ahead of time so board members can attend in May. In May. We have a Newark community scholarship fund. So this is really for our seniors We want to make sure all of our seniors know that we have about 34,000 and scholarships for students continuing their education Please apply It is tiny URL comm Newark scholarship If you don't know already talk to your counselor and make sure you take advantage of this fund We also have, we are looking for freshmen here to join our Media and Communications Academy at Newark Memorial High School. They are currently recruiting students for their 10th grade class. So if you're a freshman, please reach out again to your counselors, get that information, and sign up. As you can see there, they clearly have a good time. We're also doing our attendance challenge, Spring Into Action. Right now, on the right there, you see pictures from the high school award. They had a, I wanna say an ice machine come out for all the students who earned it. So you see them enjoying their treat after being bestowed the award. We also have our elementary Cougar Cup in full action. You can see the schools who won, Kennedy, Schilling, and Birch Grove Intermediate last week. But every week is a new week, so we'll see what happens in round two this week. We have National Groundwater Week happening as well. March is the month of activities. So they came to all of our seventh grade classrooms at the Newark Junior High School and presented information to them. You see some pictures there in each of the classrooms. We also have the Ohlone Culture Program. This is our third graders of Coyote Hills Elementary. That's where these pictures are from. And this is at Coyote Hills Regional Park. And coming up soon, we have Lincoln's second annual Family Science Day, where they'll have a series of community partners there. Right now, specifically, Lincoln has taken on environmental literacy as one of their areas of focus for professional development. And so this will be the second year in a row we do it. We also have a Girls Who Code after school club at the junior high. So any students that are interested, again, please reach out to Carol Rose. This is an amazing program. It's about 10 sessions. It'll go right after school, and it starts on March 15. So please sign up if you're interested. This really is an amazing program, and Ms. Rose has done some tremendous work. We have a transition town hall for all NUSD special education families who are interested. They're going to really discuss the transition of elementary to middle, middle to high school, and high school to adult school as well, and adulthood. So if you are interested in that, please reach out to our Director of Special Education, Olivia Rangel, who can give you some more information. In addition to that, we also have Getting the Right Support, the connection between eligibility goals and services. This is offered by our Mission Valley SELPA in partnership with Newark Memorial High School, with Newark Unified School District. And so if you're interested in that as well, it is part of our dues for the SELPA. So we really want to encourage more of our families to take advantage of these opportunities. We are also sponsoring Joy Prom. So this will be at Newark Memorial High School, but it's for all of our students in Mission Valley SELPA. So that includes New Haven, as well as Fremont Unified. And this is for all of our special education students from four to eight. It is their version of prom. And we expect it to be an amazing event. Finally, this was a request from the board last time to do a quick Wi-Fi timeline and update. So right now we are in the phases of project, trying to get the planning, the project planning done. And we're waiting for the hardware to be shipped from the manufacturer. Once that is shipped, we will go ahead and install the Wi-Fi controllers. They'll be configured and ready for initial testing and when complete testing. We're not done then. Then we want to work on phase two, really getting our quotes for the remaining access points that we want upgraded. But right now, our priority is the high school and the junior high is the next. I don't want to forget tomorrow, St. Patrick's Day. So happy early St. Patrick's Day to everyone. And we hope that you really have a great rest of your week and weekend. Thank you.

[8113] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. So next, I will return it. Oh, any questions or comments? Sorry.

[8128] Diego Torres: I would like to say, yes, please come to our hats performance tomorrow. It's going to be a wonderful performance. We are currently in spirit week, and you can't really see on my hand, because I kind of wiped it off a little too early, but I have some henna that some students did for me at lunch. It was a really fun event. This whole week has been super fun, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow, because everyone's going to be dressed up in their cultural clothes. So that's going to be really wonderful to see. So I hope you come. And also with Joy Prom, yes, our leadership has been working really hard to get that through and get that accomplished. And so I'm glad to see that it was highlighted on the superintendent report. And lastly, the ice cream thing. Yes, I was there. I got some. It was really good. Seniors on top, because we had the best attendance. And we're going to continue that.

[8168] Nancy Thomas: All right. So are you going to be there tomorrow night? Because that's when I'm going.

[8173] Diego Torres: Yes, I'll be there all day.

[8174] Phuong Nguyen: Way to be attendance role model seniors. So I just want to make a really quick comment. Last night, I was also there at the reclassification celebration. And it was a wonderful event. I was there last year. So we did have triple the attendance like acting or interim superintendent Pierce stated. But I also just really wanted to highlight two student individuals who really helped out with the lighting and the sound because without them, we wouldn't have the beautiful production that they were able to give us. So I just wanted to really appreciate Ale, Ronnie Castaneda, and Leila Malakara for stepping up and really helping improve the event for our whole community. So thank you. And then also Sophia Rollins, because she coordinated and helped bring the two individuals in. So thank you, girls, doing, helping out and being amazing partners in the community and allowing the events to happen beautifully. So thank you.

[8256] Nancy Thomas: Okay.

[8257] Aiden Hill: Yes. Could you pull up the enrollment slide one more time, please? So we're doing this from the projection versus from The last time. So what I mean is, is that like traditionally we've been sort of looking at, okay, so I mean obviously the projection was a long time ago, but then we're sort of tracking each sort of whatever the reporting period is, whether it's monthly or whatever. And so I'm just curious, do we know what it was the last time we reported it?

[8329] Nicole Pierce-Davis: I don't have that in front of me, but I could pull up the last superintendent report. I am noticing a quick, that needs to say enrollment 310.23. So I'm noticing a quick error that I'm fixing in real time, but you won't be able to see it. And so I'd have to pull it up to show the difference. If you'd like during my next superintendent update, I can absolutely add sort of month to month so you can see that if that's a, or we could even just start doing like a line chart. I think that could be a really easy way. sort of followed the way it's been done in the past, but there's no reason we can't do it differently.

[8360] Nancy Thomas: I was asking the same question, because you had mentioned that there wasn't much of a change since last time. And that begs the question, well, what was the change from the past month? So that sounds like a good solution. Thank you.

[8372] Aiden Hill: Thank you.

[8375] Nancy Thomas: OK. Moving on. Superintendent, it's your call to introduce the staff reports.

9. STAFF REPORT

[8385] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Thank you. So next up, we do have a presentation on Curriculum and Assessment Update. For this, I'd like to bring up our Director of Teaching and Learning, Ariel Dolowich, as well as our Coordinator of Access and Equity, Heather Decker.

9.1 Curriculum and Assessment Update

[8411] SPEAKER_45: Let's start from the beginning. No problem. We'll preview that. All right. Good evening, members of the board. For tonight's presentation, we will focus on two presentation outcomes. So one is going to give a midyear growth report. with a comparison between fall and winter I-Ready data, and then also draw a correlation between I-Ready data and SBAC, which is our summative end-of-the-year assessment results. And then second, we will share an update with respect to staff results from a district-wide survey. We know English language arts K-8 curriculum has been a hot topic, so we'll share those district-wide results as well as our engagement with curriculum and assessment council. Before we compare the data, I'm just going to root us in the winter report, the winter window, January 30th through February 24th. And if we look at this by itself, just a few things to note for reading comprehension. One, total students assessed does not include TK nor the majority of the junior high or high school. Some English language learners are assessed at the secondary level, but the vast majority of students are not, so primarily K-5. So you see that with the total students assessed there. And then one positive way to view these results is to look at grouping those two green bars at or above grade level. So you can see here clearly 54% are at or above grade level, 31% one grade level below with yellow, and then 15% two or more grade levels. So just to kind of root ourselves, if we disaggregate this by grade level, you can see Over to the right, total students assessed. So the vast majority of our K-5 students were assessed for reading with this winter window. You can see, for example, kinder and grade three, for example, two grade levels that have the most in terms of both green bands, 66% at the kinder level. And then third grade, you can see 64%. So just kind of root ourselves in what the data is telling us. Mathematics, similarly, you can see total students assessed, not TK or the junior high or high school. little bit lower and we know math is the main content or subject area that we wish to improve in as a district. Similarly at the state level but you can see right here 46% are at grade level or above according to i-Ready. Again it's just one measure for teachers but it is I think the most useful regular assessment tool we have at the elementary level so we want to bring it here this evening. Again, if you look at this disaggregated by grade level, is that someone else? No. There we go. If you look at this disaggregated by grade level, you can see, for instance, grade three and grade four especially. Grade 4, for instance, 50% at grade level or above. So not where we ultimately want to be, but want to share with you the winter report so that we can look at the comparison with the fall window. So fall window occurred October 11th to November 4th. And so we're going to do a little deep data dive together. and compare and see if there's any growth, as well as some optimism and hope that it may provide. So if you look at reading, you can see the winter bar is at the top, and you can see the fall bar is the second one below. And if you look at those, the fall bar, for example, with the two greens, 43% total for at grade level or above. At the winter level, the green bar becomes 51%. So we do see growth there. And at the very bottom, you can see the number of students that were in a respective category. and then how many students changed and in which direction. So you can see here, 421 students were one grade level below in the yellow, and then that raised up to 468. If we continue on, we can look at this by grade level. And again, since kinder was not assessed in the fall, really no data for kinder comparatively at the winter. But if you look at grade one and grade two, you can see, for example, grade two jumps out. And you can see that difference between fall and winter. If you go on to grades three through five, You can see progress that has been made specific with grade three, for example. You can see a total of 52% in the fall, and then in the winter, you can see 65%. So with respect to mathematics, there is growth. And this is reading. And so just to draw your attention to the overview here, three grade levels experience double-digit growth. I think that's very positive and recognition of our teachers that deserves to be celebrated. Even at grades four and five, there is growth, 4% or 3%, respectively, with reading. And then math. As mentioned before, the subject area we want to improve significantly in, and you can see here fall, a total of 33% in the fall at grade level or above, and then that goes up to 44%. in math overall for mathematics. And we disaggregate that by grade level. Again, kinder, disregard, no kinder assessment in the fall. But you can see, for example, here, grade 2, jumping up from 30% to 48% in grade 2. That deserves some celebration. And then finally, grades 3, 4, and 5. And you can see, for example, grade 3, jumping up there from, let's see, 37% to 49%. So they're experiencing some growth there. Again, one measure. of our growth, and if you look at math, four out of the five grade levels experienced double-digit growth in i-Ready. Not only useful for parent conferences, but also for planning purposes, as grade levels plan collaboratively. So four out of five grade levels in math, all five experienced some growth and didn't go in the wrong direction. And then I think the ultimate question is, is there that correlation between IREDI and SBAC? And I appreciate the board raising this up. And so let's just jump into this. The fact of the matter is, it is not apples to apples. We're going to look at two different grade levels here, fourth grade in reading and math, and then fifth grade in reading and math. You can see, however, for example, SBAC for 21-22, it categorizes it as exceeded, met, nearly met, not met. So in Ed Services, we did our best to correlate that to what i-Ready states as middle of grade level or above, early on grade level, one grade level below, or two or more below. If you look at this, for example, exceeded and middle and above, there's a similarity there, 24% to 29%. But you can also see, for example, one grade level below and nearly met, not so similar in terms of a comparison. But if you look at fourth grade math, for instance, you can see generally that the SBAC results from 21, 22 do correspond with i-Ready results. I think, if anything, one theme that emerges from this is that i-Ready, if it's just as rigorous as the SBAC or, perhaps even more rigorous than the SBAC. You see this, for example, in grade five. You can see that a total met and exceeded for the SBAC 49%. And then you can see for mid above, early on, put those two together, and it's pretty similar, 43%. If you look at math, for example, grade five math, You can see that it's more of a comparison, a little bit similarity in terms of where those bars end up. And you can see that just in generally gleaning that across the bar graphs for grade five. Ultimately, for us, we're celebrating good news with our staff. We did this on March 3rd with the PD. We've had two professional developments that allow for collaboration. and then sites to collaborate with one another. We absolutely want to lift up double-digit growth with grades one through three in both English and math. This falls under one of our instructional priorities, which is assessment for learning. And then our instructional leadership teams with their principals, they inform staff meetings with this and site-based decisions. So just some quotes from teachers highlighting the fact that they appreciated collaboration around some of this data, also the celebration. It's always nice to see growth in the right direction. And in fact, fall to winter showed this, especially with math. Four out of five grade levels had double digit growth. So I'm happy to answer any questions. This is really the conclusion of part one. So part two of this. focuses on our Ed Services update with respect to the ELA curriculum K-8, and then the staff survey results. So March 8, we met again with Curriculum Council, and we received direction from them after analysis. So I'm going to ask Heather Decker, our coordinator of equity and access, to come on up and join me and speak a little bit about that process.

[9052] SPEAKER_38: Good evening, everyone. For those watching at home, our staff, our students who are here with us, and our board members. I'm going to go over our timeline of events so far and the next steps based on the feedback about our ELA curriculum. We want to recap what we've done up until today. And overall, our intention is to be responsive to the feedback from our staff and community and take steps necessary to pilot a program for next year. So once again, this survey is about staff's feelings and feedback, and it's not correlated with data testing as far as students' outcomes. This is really about how staff felt using this curriculum and what their experiences were like. So going through these pieces, you've seen this at the last meeting, so what we've done so far. We have had six curriculum assessment council meetings this year with dedicated significant time to talking about the topic of this curriculum. In order to better understand the satisfaction and the experiences from our staff, we provided a feedback survey for them. The survey was sent out via email to the K-8 staff in February, and we had 83 people respond to the survey. After the survey was completed, Ariel and I tabulated the results and presented them to the Curriculum Assessment Council at our March 8th meeting. From there, the council was offered two options as far as next steps. On the top of our timeline, they could recommend a new curriculum adoption and a formation of an adoption committee. Or the bottom of our timeline, if they recommended to maintain our current curriculum, they would talk about different support staff would need to continue that curriculum. So this is a recap from last time. So at our March 8th meeting, the council was given norms to understand the data and gave time to review what the survey results found. They discussed noticings and wonderings as a whole group conversation. The data was from the survey reinforced the feelings the council had had about the satisfaction and success of the ELA curriculum. I will share some of the highlights from the data to give everyone an overview of what the survey found. When looking at our data, I want to say in advance that the scale was rated on 1 to 4, 1 being the lowest score and 4 being the highest score possible. We gave people a 1 through 4 scale because if you know anything about statistics, if you give them a 5 option, everyone will pick 3 in the middle and you won't really force anybody to make a choice. So we picked 4 to make sure they made a choice. With that in mind, across all questions that you will see tonight, no response received a score higher than a 1.7. So just know that. Question one, how do they feel about the ELA curriculum? The average score was about 1.5, with 59% picking score of a 1. When we went into what positively impacted them across many of the areas within the curriculum, they could select as many of them as they wanted out of that list. They also could provide topics of their own. As you can see on here, staff indicated 33 of them mentioned meaning making as something that was positive within the current curriculum. They also talked about in their quotes about students being able to pick books at their grade level, being able to do fictional writing, and mentioned a bunch of the interventions that they were using. currently. When we asked how successful they felt with the curriculum, the average score was a 1.3 with 49% picking a level of one unsatisfaction. When we dove into it asking them what's not working for your students, they were given the same lists of areas of the curriculum and were allowed to pick as many as they wanted. About 50% of the staff selected items that were not working at the highest, including phonics and decoding. One quote said, the current program has assumptions about the level of comprehension that a lot of students don't have. Explicit grammar instruction is missing, as well as ELL support. Quotes went on to continue to talk about things like Not easy to follow, does not provide supports for students with learning differences or intervention components for students who are two or more grade levels below. Teachers were modifying the curriculum significantly in order to fit the needs of their students. And there was great holes in our DLI curriculum. When we wanted to talk about what trainings or supports would be needed to be beneficial of this curriculum, 50% of them mentioned phonics and decoding. And many quotes were mentioning needing supports for science of reading. They went on to talk about spending a significant amount of time having to prep, create, or modify the curriculum in order to be able to teach lessons, and that the professional development that has been provided wasn't working. The current curriculum may support successful readers, but does not address the needs of struggling students. They then broke it down by specific target group areas. I'm not going to spend too much time on each one, but just noting we did break it down by how did they feel it was supporting the needs of our English language learners. Average score was a 1.3. Students with IEPs, as I flip through my slides, as you can tell, about 69% also gave it a 1 rating with an average score of 1.3. For our dual language immersion program, the average score was a 1.17, which was the lowest out of the options. And as far as intervention supports for students, they gave it an average score of a 1.22. The final part of the survey asked what additional resources they would need. Staff lifted up success with teacher-created materials instead of using the current curriculum has been what they've most been doing. They need a lot of phonics and differentiating instructions for struggling students. And overall, it doesn't feel like a standalone curriculum, but more of a supplement. With that data, the Curriculum and Assessment Council met on March 8, went through this data analysis, had discussions, and determined the next steps. By unanimous vote, they voted to create an ELA adoption committee and look at beginning piloting materials for next year. There's already a lot of interest and excitement from the committee to join from the council members that we already have. I'm now going to hand it over to Ariel to talk about the composition of what that committee would look like.

[9447] SPEAKER_45: All right. So as a part of that process, we shared with them a comprehensive project management plan As a piece of that, it included Heather and I as project managers, ensuring that we have one teacher from each grade level and we have equal representation from across the sites. That was important for our council members. Then of course we want to have a representative from our special education group as well as DLI and an English language learner representative. So we want to make sure that our significant subgroups are represented. And there is excitement. And we have our first scheduled meeting in April. And then we'd look to select pilot materials from state adopted curriculum. So that was a lot of information, two-part data. But we also want to be conscientious of time. So happy to revisit any of those slides or any of those data points or answer any board questions.

[9512] Nancy Thomas: Member Hill.

[9514] Aiden Hill: Thank you, Mr. Delawarge and Ms. Decker. Great presentation. Two questions. One, first is why were we not measuring secondary? So that's the first question. And then the second question is in the I-rated graphs that you were showing. So it's great that we're seeing improvement from fall to winter, right? And so you showed that. I'm just curious, though, as you look at the grade level, it seems that we have an increase in the people, the percentage that are falling behind, do we have any theories about why that is? So those are my two questions.

[9549] SPEAKER_45: Thank you. Both really good questions. So this is the first year we purchased i-Ready for sixth grade. And the principal has requested that we do the same for grades seven and eight next year. The other assessment system that we use is Illuminate. Candidly, it's not required. And so principals have encouraged teachers to conduct formative or regular Illuminate assessments, but we don't have comprehensive data to share with you with respect to secondary.

[9584] Nicole Pierce-Davis: We also, just to add, we use the i-Ready assessment for students in high school that want to reclassify.

[9592] SPEAKER_45: Good point. Oh, not at all. And then I think there can be a number of different theories with respect to diminishing achievement. I mean, one thing to state, grade three consistently has high achievement in both English language arts and mathematics. So even if there is a decline from grade one to two, you see a spike in achievement in grade three. That's something that caught our department's attention. The other thing is oftentimes you go from reading to learn or reading to learn to learning to read, the other way around. Flipped that in my mind. And so sometimes students have that difficulty in terms of grasping content as they go through the upper grade levels, and then applying that when it comes to reading comprehension or vocabulary development. And I don't know if there's anything else.

[9650] Nancy Thomas: I have a question. Have you done any disaggregation of the different grades in terms of unduplicated students or English learners by ethnicity? I mean, does that tell you anything?

[9668] SPEAKER_45: It does. We have that information just in the spirit of being as concise as possible. We didn't include it, but we certainly can share that with the board and it does have implications, and it does reveal certain things at different grade levels.

[9685] Nancy Thomas: Yeah, so I think that would be, at some point, good to do a deep dive into that, because we are about reaching all students. And if there's groups that are consistently falling more and more behind, what are we doing to catch them up? Absolutely. Thank you.

[9707] SPEAKER_45: You're welcome.

[9709] Nancy Thomas: So next, we move on to another staff report.

9.2 2023 Summer School Overview

[9721] Nicole Pierce-Davis: And I'm going to go ahead and do this one with my assistant, Sue Pat. Can you go ahead and pull it up? Thank you. So we're going to share a little bit of information about our 2023 summer programs. We heard that a little earlier tonight. We'll make sure our community is aware. There will be a change. So last year, we ran three programs. We ran our ESY program there in the middle. We ran a K-6 enrichment program. And then we ran a 9-12 credit recovery program. We used some of the funds, some of the one-time funds that we had in the past, I believe years even before the pandemic, LCAP funds were used. And we generally ran a pretty typical program, four weeks, five days a week, located at three locations. This year with the ELOP money, we really are tasked to, in the same way that we were able to expand our after school programming from three sites to all of our elementary sites as well as our junior high, we also need to extend that summer school opportunity to more and the ELOP funds allow us the opportunity to do that. which is really exciting. We are prepared to serve between 650 and 700 students, which is far greater than the 140 that we were able to serve last year. We had quite a few students on our wait list, and so we're really excited to hopefully not have to wait list any students this year. But again, we do have a limit at 650, 700 number. It will be primarily think together with some options for some pull out programs and intervention support along with enrichment. We will continue to offer our ESY program for those who qualify through their IEPs as well as our 9-12 credit recovery program. Our K-6 program runs June 7th through July 21st. Again, we will not have school on June 19th, nor will we have it on July 3rd and 4th. There's always that awkward Tuesday 4th or midweek 4th, and so we just decided to allow our families to have that full weekend. The hours will be full day from 830 to 530 the locations at this time. We're planning for Schilling and Lincoln If we have the the need and the want we will expand to another location as well The program will be led primarily by Think Together site coordinators for this program, and again, include opportunities for STEM, arts and craft, field trips, athletics, and community building. There'll be two weeks of that. We'll include really specific ELD instruction using SEAL strategies. And then again, priority placement will be given to youth with ELD low income or English language learners low income or foster youth designations as part of the ELOP requirements. Our ESY program will run June 7th through July 7th, same program, 830 to 12. The location will be Schilling Elementary School and Newark Memorial High School for our secondary students. We will have a dedicated ESY administrator. Any administrators out there interested, please contact me. And we will support, supports will include speech, other services as outlined in the student's IEPs. And it is available to students who, again, have this designation in their IEP. And then finally, our 9-12 credit recovery program. This one we're going to shift slightly. So now classes will be held Tuesday through Friday, but instead of going four weeks, it'll go five weeks. We're hoping this will feel like a support to our high school students, give them a little bit of that summer feel for those weekends, but still make sure that they have enough time to really do well in those classes and get the credits that they're trying to recover. The location will be at Newark Memorial High School. It will be led by our Assistant Principal Murphy and students will be able to recover a maximum of 10 credits during this time. Again, priority will be given to students in need of credit in order to graduate. So some background again, our ELOP grant really allows us to expand this program significantly. There are requirements to that, though. And so some of the changes are due to those requirements. We must provide 30 days of non-instruction enrichment. We need to do it for nine hours. We need to be able to provide our unduplicated students at least 50% enrollment or offerings to them. And again, this funding source completely allows us to take care of the entire cost of summer school without going into our discretionary or LCAP funds, which is really a great opportunity. And again, for our credit recovery, we do have the learning recovery grant and we may even be able to use some of our extra ELOP funds that we have left over from the remainder of this year. Any teachers that are interested in this actually will get a $1,000 bonus stipend if they sign up before spring break. So we would love to encourage all of our single credential teachers who are interested in helping out with credit recovery, please apply soon. Again, this is a little bit of an incentive to get in there. Let us know you're interested so we can offer it to as many students as we have teachers available to serve. Any interest, please contact Ophelia Malero. You're going to see in the next week or so all of our summer school flyers. We just developed our new flyer today. You're going to see that spread across all of our school sites in the next couple of weeks. But if you want to get ahead of it, please email Ophelia Malero. Thank you.

[10055] Nancy Thomas: Questions or comments from the board? Member Hill.

[10061] Aiden Hill: Thank you, Ms. Pierce. Just a quick question. Regarding the high school and credit recovery, is this going to be in-person instruction, or are we going to be using APEX?

[10072] Nicole Pierce-Davis: It's going to be a combination of in-person and APEX, but the APEX program will be led in person. So students will still be expected to go to the school. They'll still be expected to do their work there, except for, obviously, the Mondays that they have off.

[10085] Aiden Hill: OK, thank you.

[10088] Phuong Nguyen: Member Nguyen. Thank you for the presentation. And it's great that we're able to extend the duration of the summer school program and then also increasing attendance for students who may need it. So thank you for that.

10. OLD BUSINESS

10.1 POLICY UPDATE: Board Bylaw 9300.11 Methods of Operation

[10104] Nancy Thomas: And I'd like to thank you for the report and look forward to the results at the end of the year, the end of the summer. Thank you. Next, we move on to old business. 10.1 is policy update, board bylaw 9300.11 methods of operation. We discussed this at the last meeting and made recommendations which are on the recommended new bylaw or recommended change on the bylaw. And I believe the major change was to move the employee organization reports up before the superintendent report. So if there are any questions or comments, I would entertain them now, or I would entertain a motion to approve. Yes, Ms. Pembuin?

[10165] Phuong Nguyen: Is it possible to also move up the public comments before the superintendent report?

[10173] Nancy Thomas: They are before them, aren't they?

[10176] Phuong Nguyen: No. The employee organization, and then superintendent report, and then public comment on the on the revised on the recommended methods of operation but yeah but right now yeah our current agenda so what I'm saying is that we have the existing and then the recommended so the recommended Bylaw, I just caught it right now, doesn't match what our current agenda is.

[10210] Nancy Thomas: So you would say swap 10 and 9. Yes. That sounds fine to me. OK.

[10217] Phuong Nguyen: So we just need to make the change, and then I guess we can make the motion to make the change and then have the approval.

[10223] Nancy Thomas: Yeah, approve it with that change. Swapping numbers 9 and 10. So is that a motion? Yes, please. OK. Member Nguyen has made a motion to swap 9 and 10 and approve the rest. Report. I will second that. And member Jones seconds. Student member.

[10243] Leonor Rebosura: Yes.

[10245] Nancy Thomas: Please vote.

[10247] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. Yes, because we did make that change last time. It's just not reflected.

[10251] Nancy Thomas: It didn't get reflected. Yeah, it only makes sense. Yes.

[10255] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you. But our agenda is correct. So perfect.

[10260] Nancy Thomas: That's what I was going to say. Sorry. I should have made the correction. The agenda was correct, but this was not. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I was in the wrong place.

[10283] Jodi Croce: Votes are in. Five ayes. Thank you.

11. NEW BUSINESS

[10288] Nancy Thomas: Next, superintendent, we move on to second interim budget report.

11.1 REPORT: 2022-2023 Second Interim Budget Report

[10293] Nicole Pierce-Davis: All right. We have our chief business official, Maria dela Cruz.

[10298] Marie dela Cruz: Thank you. Jody? Ready? Okay. Yeah, thank you. I'm pleased to share with you our second interim budget report for this evening. The last time we presented a budget report was that first interim. So this second interim covers the period from July 1st through January 31st. And our first interim was through October 31st. It has to be submitted to the Alameda County office by March 17th, which is tomorrow. And a reminder, this is a snapshot in time of our district's revenues and expenditure forecasts. for the current year, as well as projections for two subsequent years. And again, it does include revisions since our first interim report. As part of the report, the board has to certify whether the report is positive, qualified, or negative. By certifying positive, it means that we are able to meet our obligations for this current year as well as the two subsequent years. If we file qualified, it means that we may not be able to make our obligations this year. or in the two subsequent years. And when you file negative, it means the district will not be able to make its obligations for the remainder of the current year or the subsequent year. Starting off with our general fund revenues, our total revenues are $91.7 million at this time. And of this 91.7, 70% is unrestricted, and 30% is restricted. You can see that most of our funding comes from LCFF, which is 68% of our revenues. 20% comes from other state revenues, 5% from federal sources, and then 7% from other local revenues. Our funding really depends a lot on our ADA. We are funded based on ADA and not enrollment. Our current enrollment is 4,951. It's been declining for the last 10 years. And our ADA to enrollment ratio is about 92.6%. This is also known as our attendance yield. If you look at the chart, it does give you a couple of years of history. and a couple of years of projections for the next two subsequent years. It includes unduplicated pupil count, which determines our supplemental and concentration funds. So since first interim, the actual ADA that we had projected was $4,727. But as of P1, second interim, our ADA is down to $4,585, which is $142 less. Our funded ADA is only two less. We were funded based on 5,327. And our enrollment went down to 22 students. And our unduplicated pupil percentage, which determines our concentration funds, went up about 0.7%. It went from 54% to 55.14. So we're slightly above that percentage where we are getting concentration funds. And I want to say that this is mostly due from our efforts in our more than a meal campaign where our staff made every effort to make those phone calls so that our families completed the lunch forms or our alternative app forms. And again, our attendance yield we had projected to be at 95%, but our P1 were actually at 92.6%, which is down about two and a half percentage. So from there, our LCFF, our Local Control Funding Formula, there are several components and factors involved in this formula, but it is the main source of our funding. We get 61.9, almost 62 million, which is 96% of our unrestricted funds. And it includes a base grant. We get a certain amount per grade span and per grade span adjustment, and it includes supplemental based on our foster youth, English learners, and socioeconomically disadvantaged students. And we also get what's known as add-ons, which includes home to school transportation funding and transitional kindergarten funding. Our funded ADA is based on the ADA relief calculation, which allows our district to get funded based on the higher of either our current year ADA, our prior year ADA, or a three-year average. And for us, it's a difference between the 4,720, which was our prior year ADA, and the 5,327, which is a three-year average. And with that, there was also some relief where the state allowed us to use our attendance shield from 21-22 or 19-20, whichever was highest. So in 19-20, our attendance yield was 97%. And last year, it was only 91%. So we were able to take advantage of that 97%. So major changes since first interim in terms of our revenues came from a decrease in our base. and increase in our supplemental concentration funds because of our increase in UPP for a net of about $97,000. And we had an increase in donations of about $33,000. And on the restricted side, we did have a decrease in our SELPA allocation of about $30,000. And we added our special ed early intervention preschool grant, which was about $136,000. And we've also received a K-12 strong workforce grant for 260 and additional local revenues, which includes some grants and property taxes of 414,000. For our general fund expenditures, the total expenditures are 96 million. 55% of that is unrestricted. 45% is restricted. And our salaries and benefits totals about 58%. And the other big piece of our expenditures comes from services and operating expenditures, which is 29%. This includes all of our utilities, water, electricity, our insurance, legal services, and contracted services. So some of the major changes between first and second interim include, again, expenditures for our K-12 strong workforce and our ELOP program salaries and benefits, an increase in legal expenses. We added a budget for our Wi-Fi project and also our Chromebook purchases. The general fund contributes. To our restricted funds, including the special ed program, as well as what's known as our routine restricted maintenance program, we're required to contribute 3% of our total expenditures to the routine restricted maintenance account. That's that RRMA for school building maintenance. And for the special ed, funding is not not adequate we contribute 9.9 million from general fund to our special education program. We did have a netting decrease though in our contributions since first interim. So what that does to our fund balance on the unrestricted side We have a decrease of $747,000 in our fund balance. It isn't a true deficit because it represents a carryover from our LCAP that was transferred from our fund balance to the expenditure budgets. But since first interim, it's an increase of about $110,000 to our fund balance. So just to summarize, if you look at our beginning fund balance at second interim, we had $16,782,000. We had some audit adjustments of $512,000. And then if you deduct the decrease in the fund balance of $747,000, we have an ending fund balance of $15.5 million. And of that $15.5 million, $181,000 is non-spendable. And we have committed funds of $11 million. And our reserve for economic uncertainties is about $4.3 million. So that represents our total ending fund balance of $15.5 million. And adding our fund 17 reserves of $2.3 million, we have a total reserves of $6.6 million now at second interim, which is 7% of our total expenditures. and is above the 3% minimum that's required. So then when we're looking at our multi-year projections, we have built-in assumptions for COLA, our enrollment projections, our ADA, actual ADA, and our funded ADA. So it includes 8.13% in cost of living adjustment and 3.5% for 24-25. You can see our enrollment is projected to decline for the next couple of years. The ADA, based on 92% attendance yield, ADA to enrollment ratio, is also projected to go down from 4,550 to 4,505. But our funded ADA, you can see also, will be decreasing. Funded ADA, based on the ADA relief so as you can see in that third year out there is a significant decline in ADA because the That That third I mean the the relief is only for the one year so as you go through the next couple of years that if you're a ADA goes down, enrollment goes down, that funded ADA also goes down. So it's about 300 less ADA in the next couple of years. But we do have a balanced budget for the next two years. And our reserves are still above the 3% minimum required at 8% and 9%. And then we do have other funds. including our adult education fund, our child development fund, our cafeteria fund, and our special reserve for economic uncertainties. The building fund, which is our bond fund, we have less than $2,000 left to spend. Our capital facilities fund, which is our developer fees income, we do have about $8.1 million in our ending fund balance. And the Special Reserve Fund 40, which is our Russian fund, we have $8.3 million in our ending fund balance. And then the bond interest and self-insurance fund. So all together, our other funds combined is about $36.5 million. So as a final summary, we have a projected balanced budget in our current year and our two subsequent years. Our reserves are above the 3% minimum required at 7% and 8%, 9% respectively. And we do recommend an approval of a positive certification on the second interim report. And with that, I'd be happy to entertain any questions or comments from the board.

[11115] Nancy Thomas: Member Nguyen.

[11116] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you Ms.dela Cruz and staff for putting together the second interim report. You guys always do a tremendous job and I know that takes a team effort for this. The one thing that really stands out to me is the how our special education is being funded and every single year there's never an There's never an end to the site where they're going to, you know, increase the funding for special education. It's always the district. I know that every district has this issue. They're using general fund reserve, I mean, general fund revenue to offset special education. Is there any way that we can advocate for more state funding or federal funding for special education?

[11171] Marie dela Cruz: I'm sure there's a way, but like you said, unfortunately, all of the school districts are experiencing the same thing, where we're just not getting adequately funded by the federal or the state government. Although the state is slowly adding COLA every year to that funding, but it's still not enough. Thank you.

[11199] Nancy Thomas: Member Hill.

[11201] Aiden Hill: Thank you, Ms. Delacruz. Two questions. I forget the terminology you were using, but it's like attendance ratio and where the state was allowing us to use a prior, you know, essentially date or ratio, it was like the 2019 year, which we've been using, that therefore reduces the impact of ADA. And I'm just curious. So for question one is, do we have any sense of whether the state is going to extend this new calculation? So that was question one. And then question two was in the general fund slide that you were showing. There was an audit adjustment of something like, I don't know, $400,000 or $500,000. I'm just curious what that is. So those are my two questions.

[11251] Marie dela Cruz: Yeah. So for the ADA relief, ADA to enrollment ratio that we were able to take advantage of was for 19-20 versus 21-22. That was added after the previous ADA kind of mitigation that we received where we were able to use the 1920 ADA for a couple of years. So it is possible because they they were able to provide us some relief this next couple of years because they also added the three-year average, because that was not an option before. So we can only hope that they continue to recognize that a lot of school districts are still trying to recover from the ADA that we've lost in the last couple of years. And then the audit. Oh, the audit, yes. So I think I shared this at our first interim report. They made us adjust our ending balance due to the market value of our cash, if you remember. There was a difference between fair market value and the cash value. So it was significant enough to where they made us make that adjustment.

[11334] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. I had a couple comments or questions. You know, your funded ADA goes down by $300 in each of the next two years. And if you take a brown figure of $10,000 for students, isn't that $6 million that we're going to be losing over the next three years? Or this year and the next two years?

[11358] Marie dela Cruz: It's about, yeah, $3 million each year.

[11360] Nancy Thomas: Yeah, $6 million. That's a huge percentage of our total income. So that's very concerning. Another thing that's concerning is that our services and other operating expenses seem high compared to past years. And it would be nice to have you tell us approximately how much has it grown as a percentage of our expenditures and why.

[11391] Marie dela Cruz: Yeah, I'd be happy to do that research.

[11395] Nancy Thomas: If the rest of the board is OK with it, I think Those are the two things that really stick out for me. Thank you. Any other comments? No. Thank you. That's a lot of work. Yeah. We really appreciate it.

[11411] Marie dela Cruz: Thank you. So if anybody would like to make a motion.

[11417] Nancy Thomas: Oh, yes. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. I was getting there. Thank you. I would entertain a motion to approve the positive certification of our second interim

[11429] Diego Torres: I'll motion for that.

[11430] Nancy Thomas: OK. I'll second. Mr. Torres, motions. Ms. Jones, seconds. Oh, member Torres, what's your vote? Yes. Student member votes yes. Please vote.

[11449] Phuong Nguyen: It's always good to have a positive certification.

[11457] Jodi Croce: I'll vote you're in. Five ayes.

[11462] Marie dela Cruz: Thank you.

[11464] Nancy Thomas: OK, next we move on to home to school transportation plan.

11.2 Home-To-School Transportation Plan

[11468] Nicole Pierce-Davis: I believe Ms.dela Cruz is going to report on this as well.

[11475] Marie dela Cruz: Thank you. So as part of the state budget this year, there's an opportunity for our district to get reimbursed for some additional transportation expenses. And I'm just going to, oh, there it is. OK, thank you. going to go through this short presentation. So that as a little bit of a background, the 22-23 state budget included this opportunity for all school districts to receive reimbursement funds for home to school transportation. And it's based on the higher of our current transportation allocation under LCFF, or 60% of what we reported as our transportation costs last year. And this doesn't include transportation for field trips. Just want to make that clear. It's only for our home to school transportation. But in order to receive these funds, there are some requirements. The school district is required to submit a transportation plan. And it has to be approved by the board by April 1, 2023, which is next month. And part of the requirement is that the plan includes some consultation with staff, administrators, parents, students, local transportation agencies, and the Air Quality Management District. And our district has met these requirements by meeting through our site council and parent organization meetings. We also partner with AC Transit, and we had a consultation meeting with AC Transit that was organized by the Alameda County Office of Education. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District developed a website for all school districts in order to meet this requirement. Our current allocation for home to school transportation is about $311,000 and last year we spent almost $641,000. and our transportation for students with disabilities. And 60% of that is $384,000. So the difference between $384,000 and $311,000 is about $73,000. So that's the opportunity that we could get reimbursed for with the new state budget. Our current home to school transportation services includes contracted services for students with disabilities. We also have reimbursements for parents that choose to provide the transportation for their student. And AC transit bus passes are provided to students that qualify through our McKinney-Vento program and our foster youth services, and also through an online application for students grades 6 through 12 at no cost to students. And unfortunately, due to budget constraints, we still are not able to provide any additional home to school transportation services. This funding is strictly for reimbursement. And we do recommend approval of this plan. If we do not approve a plan, then we get a finding through our audit, as well as, of course, we have to return the money, because the state will be allocating the money to us.

[11683] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Looks like we have no choice. I would entertain any questions or comments, if not, a motion.

[11692] Jodi Croce: I move to approve.

[11693] Kat Jones: Oh, sorry. Does this include, does this cover like Zoom? Yes, it's Zoom. Thank you. Yes. Maybe I missed that.

[11705] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, that's part of our contracted service.

[11708] Nancy Thomas: Do we have a second? I'll second. OK. Member Nguyen has moved. Member Jones has seconded to approve the transportation plan. Member Torres. Yes. Please vote.

[11734] Jodi Croce: Five ayes.

[11735] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Thank you. Next, we move on to 11.4 since we covered 11.3 earlier. 11.4 is Newark Management Association MOU advanced degree stipends.

11.4 Newark Management Association (NEWMA) MOU Advanced Degree Stipends

[11749] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Ms. Taylor-Cruz, you're up again.

[11755] Marie dela Cruz: So this item is to approve an MOU between NEWMA and the school district. What we are recommending is that we align the advanced degree stipends with NTA. And it's mostly for the doctorate's degree, which currently is at $1,200. And we are recommending that degree to be at $2,000. And we have currently six employees that have a doctorate. So the fiscal impact's about $4,800.

[11788] Nancy Thomas: Questions or comments from the board? I do have a question. Do we ever look at what other districts do in this area? I know I'm in favor of this. No problem about that. But I'm just curious if this is in line with what other districts provide.

[11817] Marie dela Cruz: I believe it's in line. And in some districts, they may offer more.

[11824] Nancy Thomas: OK. I would entertain a motion.

[11828] Jodi Croce: I move to approve.

[11830] Nancy Thomas: Member Nguyen moves to approve.

[11832] Diego Torres: I second that.

[11833] Nancy Thomas: Member Torres seconds. Mr. Torres, how do you vote? Oh, it's personnel? Yeah. OK. OK. Good catch.

[11853] Phuong Nguyen: Maybe he can second. He just can't. He just can't vote.

[11856] Nancy Thomas: OK.

[11857] Jodi Croce: Please vote. So, I'm sorry, just to confirm, motion made by Member Nguyen, seconded by Member Torres. Is that correct? Right. Thank you. I'll open the vote.

[11872] Marie dela Cruz: Catherine, do you want to go? It's okay. I can do it. Keep doing it.

[11885] Jodi Croce: Thank you. Four ayes. Excuse me, four ayes.

11.5 CONTRACT: Architect Services for Kennedy Fence Project

[11898] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Next, we move on to 11.5, Architectural Services for Kennedy Fence Project.

[11908] Nicole Pierce-Davis: All right. For this item again, we have Ms. Taylor-Cruz.

[11912] Marie dela Cruz: On a roll here. OK. Thank you. The purpose of this item is to approve a contract with our LCA architects for our Kennedy Fence Project. The Kennedy Fence Project is part of a standard that we've been trying to complete for all of our schools. Most of our elementary schools, actually all of them except for Kennedy, have security fencing. We have the one at Coyote Hill that's in progress. It's almost complete. And I think the only other one that doesn't have a complete fence around the campus is McGregor. So we've had community engagement meetings with stakeholders at Kennedy a couple of times, one with staff, one with parents on January 17th, January 27th, and January 31st. The purpose to have the architect is for them to provide some preliminary drawings, some preliminary designs based on the feedback that we get from all the stakeholders. work with the community to come up with a design and a plan and the specifications so that we can go out to bid. We received a couple of proposals. The one that we're recommending is for $57,000. It provides a complete scope of services for this project. And the funding source will be from developer fees, which we Currently with this will we have an ending fund balance projected at 8 million Our beginning balance for the developer fees 125 was 16 million and for the last five years our average revenues that we've received is about 3 million a year and With expenditures that we have already in the budget of 11 million That's where we end up with 8 million left in our ending fund balance for fund 25 So with that, board comments, questions?

[12047] Nancy Thomas: Member Nguyen.

[12048] Phuong Nguyen: I just have a quick question. I was looking over the preliminary budget. I know that you're asking for $57,000 for architect fees and plans, but there was one other itemized item for architectural fees and other additional services for $5,000. Why isn't that $5,000 included in the recommended ask for tonight?

[12070] Marie dela Cruz: believe that's for any ADA compliance that might come up.

[12075] SPEAKER_22: Okay.

[12076] Marie dela Cruz: But I can have Miss Denny explain that more in detail if you'd like.

[12080] Phuong Nguyen: So I mean I'm just I'm assuming that if there is any ADA compliant you'll be coming back to ask us for the additional whereas I was thinking why wasn't it just rolled in there.

[12090] Marie dela Cruz: Okay yeah we we could do that that probably would make it Probably more I mean much better so that we don't have to come back.

[12101] Phuong Nguyen: Yeah. Yeah, so if I were to make the motion I would I would Make a change that we add the additional 5,000 bringing it to $62,000 Okay for now Is there any other comments or questions?

[12122] Nancy Thomas: Yeah before I make the motion. I Have a question Two questions, actually. One is that, is the $57,000 the lowest bid? And if not, why did you choose it over the other one?

[12136] Marie dela Cruz: Yeah. It was not lower than the other one, but they provided a more complete scope of work, including site visits, where the other architects didn't include as much for site visits. And that was important to us, plus the bid and construction administration.

[12155] Nancy Thomas: And the other is probably more of a comment than a question. And that is that other sites had fencing that was not driven by community input or staff input at school. And they, I think, were less costly and maybe more beautiful. And you have to wonder, you know. Was this a fair process across all of our sites if the input from the sites has caused the prices or the cost of fencing at these later schools to far exceed or exceed those at the earlier schools? So it's just a comment. So would you like to make a motion? Sure.

[12211] Phuong Nguyen: I think, too, President Thomas's point is that I just want us to also be cognizant that some of the schools had prior fencing that was done several years back. And there's been price increases in construction and everything and inflation, significant inflation over the last couple of years. So just for us to keep that in mind. I don't necessarily know. I mean, I don't want to say that staff has been unfair. and to the community in the process. I think it's just about safety for our students and staff. So I think that's probably more the line.

[12250] Nancy Thomas: Yeah. Although what came to my mind was chain link fences versus some of the ornamental fences. That's a difference that comes to my mind. Yeah.

[12264] Marie dela Cruz: There's also DSA requirements. Those have been changing over the years as well.

[12271] Phuong Nguyen: Okay, so with that, I'd like to make a motion to approve and add the additional $5,000 for the additional architectural fees and other additional services that was already itemized to bring the budget up to $62,000. Did I do my math right? Thank you.

[12300] Jodi Croce: So let me, I'm sorry, let me make sure I get this correct. So you are looking to approve the contract with LCA Architects for the Kennedy Fence Project and the preliminary cost estimate with the additional fees for ADA compliance. Is that right?

[12318] Marie dela Cruz: Just additional fees of $5,000. Of $5,000. So $57,000 plus $5,000. OK. Yeah, so it's a line item 1A and 1B combined.

[12322] Kat Jones: Yeah.

[12328] Nancy Thomas: So we have a motion. Do we have a second? And then you can make your comment.

[12333] Kat Jones: I will second.

[12333] Nancy Thomas: OK. Member Nguyen made the motion. Member Jones seconded to add that amount to the dollar amount. Member Hill has a comment.

[12347] Aiden Hill: Yeah. I understand what Member Nguyen is trying to do. But I'm not sure that we can do it in this agenda item because this is a contract. And so are we saying that we're going to increase the amount of the contract for this particular vendor by $5,000? Or are we just saying that we want to lump it into one budget category?

[12369] Phuong Nguyen: No, I'm just increasing the budget because it's not

[12380] Marie dela Cruz: If you look at the contract, there is language in there for additional services. So rather than having to come back as a change order if and when that's needed, we're setting aside a contingency for $5,000 is my understanding for those additional services.

[12402] Nancy Thomas: Will they understand that it's a contingency and that they don't need to spend it?

[12406] Marie dela Cruz: Yes, that is in the contract. It does say anything that's not specifically described will be considered and will only be billed at the owner's authorization.

[12420] Nancy Thomas: So we're kind of giving you the ability to approve it.

[12424] Marie dela Cruz: Yes. OK.

[12426] Nancy Thomas: Or not.

[12427] Marie dela Cruz: Or not.

[12428] Nancy Thomas: Yes. OK. Member Torres, how do you vote?

[12432] Diego Torres: Yes.

[12436] Nancy Thomas: OK. Please vote.

[12452] Jodi Croce: Final vote, five ayes.

[12460] Nancy Thomas: Next, we move on to 11.6, Administrative Regulation 1312.1, complaints concerning district employees.

11.6 POLICY UPDATE: Administrative Regulation 1312.1 - Complaints Concerning District Employees

[12470] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Thanks. For this policy update, we have our Executive Director of Human Resources, Catheerine Ingham-Watters.

[12478] SPEAKER_32: So for your, hopefully, approval tonight, we'd like to update just the regulation of policy 1312.1. The current version we have is from 1995. The policy was updated in 2019, but for whatever reason, the administrative regulation wasn't brought forward in 2019. And so the 2019 version, the last updated version from CSBA, we're looking for approval on this policy update No personalization at the district level. It's strictly CSBA recommended language and cleanup of language.

[12524] Nancy Thomas: Are there any questions or comments? My only comment is, and I made it before so you know I'm going to say it, and that is that it's always, in the past, we had markups so we knew what had changed. in something that was approved in 1995, and it's now been updated. There's probably a lot of changes, so a red line version would be pretty messy. But I do think a red line version, or maybe something I had kicked out before as an opportunity, which would be to have a board subcommittee that could sit down and go over these before they come to the board. That's just my thought. Anyway. I would entertain a motion.

[12572] Phuong Nguyen: Move to approve.

[12574] Nancy Thomas: Member Nguyen moves. I'll second that. Member Jones seconds to approve the AR 1312.1 recommended CSBA version. Member Torres?

[12593] SPEAKER_39: Yes.

[12594] Nancy Thomas: Please vote.

[12602] Kat Jones: May I say something? Yes. The 1995 version that we had, was that also just the straight CSBA, or was that?

[12615] SPEAKER_32: From what I can tell, it actually looks more personalized. In the 1995 version, it talks about the complaint will be on a form called the Tell Us About It form. And so I don't think that's CSBA language. I think that's district, because our general complaint forms do have that title or older versions do. And so part of the reason of getting this move through after we've had lots of discussions about how to address board policy is because we're trying to do a revamp of our complaint policy and procedures to better serve our family and communities. And so this was a big one for me to clean it up and you know, personalize it as we can see fit, but really stick to the CSBA language.

[12664] Kat Jones: It was more of a clarifying question than anything else.

[12668] Jodi Croce: Thank you. There were five ayes.

[12674] Nancy Thomas: Now, on to the consent agenda. Would anyone like to pull 12.1? If not, I would entertain a motion.

12. CONSENT AGENDA: PERSONNEL ITEMS (Approved on Consent)

12.1 Personnel Report (Approved on Consent)

[12687] Phuong Nguyen: I move to approve. All right, and 12.1, personnel report.

[12691] Nancy Thomas: I'll second. Member Nguyen moves to approve. Member Jones seconds approving the personnel report. Member Torres does not vote on this, so please vote. OK, next we move on to the consent agenda. Four ayes. Thank you. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Consent agenda and non-personnel items. And we have four items. The warrant report, the resolution for the NUSD board member vacancy, minutes of the December 15th regular meeting, and minutes of the December 21st special meeting. Would any board member like to pull an item? Member Hill.

[12747] Aiden Hill: I'd like to pull 13.2, the warrant report, please.

13. CONSENT AGENDA: NON-PERSONNEL ITEMS (Approved on Consent)

13.3 RESOLUTION 2022.23.26 NUSD Board Member Vacancy (Approved on Consent)

13.4 MINUTES: Minutes of the December 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education (Approved on Consent)

13.5 MINUTES: Minutes of the December 21, 2022 Special Meeting of the Board of Education (Approved on Consent)

[12751] Nancy Thomas: OK. 13.2 is pulled. I would entertain a motion to approve 13.3 through 13.5. I'll move to approve 13.3 to 13.5. Minus 13.2. No, she said 13.3 to 13.5.

[12774] Phuong Nguyen: We're good. I second.

[12783] Nancy Thomas: Do I have a second? Yeah, you have it. I second. Member Wynn seconds it. Member Torres, how do you vote? Yes. OK. Please vote. Five ayes. Thank you. Now, Member Hill.

13.2 REPORT: Warrant Report for February 2023

[12805] Aiden Hill: Thank you, President Thomas. So in the current warrant report, we have a $4,000 warrant for Mr. Jeffrey Vu. And as the board knows from prior comments that I've made, I believe that this is an improper contract, and it's in violation of Government Code 53060, as well as other state, county, and local ordinances. I understand that the district is in the process of severing the relationship with this vendor, and that's a welcome step. But nevertheless, I cannot vote to approve payment to a vendor where I don't believe that we should have been contracting with them in the first place. And so therefore, I'm going to be abstaining on a vote for this particular agenda item. Thank you.

[12859] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Any other comments by board members? No. If not, member Torres, oh wait, I would recommend a motion and a second for 13.2.

[12870] Phuong Nguyen: I move to approve 13.2.

[12872] Kat Jones: I'll second.

[12875] Nancy Thomas: Member Nguyen moves, member Jones seconds approving warrant report for February 2023. Member Torres, how do you vote?

[12884] Diego Torres: Yes.

[12885] Nancy Thomas: Please vote. Thank you.

[12898] Jodi Croce: So four ayes, one abstain.

[12901] Nancy Thomas: Sorry. I don't need to wait for you to do that. So we're going to be hopefully moving on in a reasonable hour. So next we go on to Board of Education Committee Reports, Announcements, Requests, Debrief, and Discussion. Do you want me to separate those out or just have you each cover your responsible areas and questions at one time? I'm open to anything.

14. BOARD OF EDUCATION: COMMITTEE REPORTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, REQUESTS, DEBRIEF AND DISCUSSION

14.1 Board of Education Committee Reports, Announcements, Requests, Debrief and Discussion

[12929] Kat Jones: The latter's fine.

[12930] Nancy Thomas: OK. So member Torres?

[12936] Diego Torres: Are we doing announcements first? Or just anything?

[12939] Nancy Thomas: You can put that in there.

[12941] Diego Torres: Okay, well first I would like to recognize all the hard work that the school has been doing for our hats assembly. It's been a lot of stress and a lot of tirelessly hours. I know right now they just finished their dress rehearsal and their practice run through, so I'm actually really excited for the performance tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to that. It's been what I've been looking for all week. Another thing I would like to highlight is just the wonderful staff that we have on campus. I feel like they are undersupported sometimes, but they always never show it. They always put their biggest smiles on their face. And I love seeing all of them so happy to be there. And I hope that they can stay here because I know I wasn't here earlier today. I was kind of busy. And I didn't get to hear the NTA members speak in person, but I did listen to them on the YouTube channel. And one of my teachers, Ms. New, who I had this year, I really hope that we pay attention to her a lot because she is a really important member of the NUSD community. I had her sophomore year, and she's the only teacher that actually got me a four on the AP test, and it's out of five. And I have her this year, and I only took that class for the AP credit, but now I'm actually really interested in that topic, and I love it a lot. I love going to that class, and it's because of the hard work of her. And so I really hope that she stays in the district and that she doesn't look for somewhere else, because as she said, that she could be getting paid a lot more at the neighboring districts. So that's all I'd like to say.

[13026] Nancy Thomas: Thank you.

[13030] Phuong Nguyen: Thank you, President Thomas. In regards to committee reports, I I don't have any to report, except we are going to be delaying the NUSD liaison committee with the city of Newark until pending our superintendent appointment. And I believe you spoke with the mayor regarding that, correct, President Thomas? And then as far as announcements, again, March has been a really super busy month. I just wanted to also acknowledge Ms. Abbey Keirns again for the wonderful job that she did with the reclassification celebration. It's funny because the earlier students that I had highlighted, they had commented last night that it was wonderful to be a part of. They weren't a part of it last year. and to see how organized it was. And it was funny because they didn't realize, you know, they picked up on being able to just run with it and playing the music and doing the lighting piece of it. But they also recognized how hard Ms. Kearns was working with all the other staff members to be able to put that together. And I also wanted to really appreciate our assistant, well, Mandy Pimms, she did an amazing job getting all the food and then also making sure set up and take down of the event. So it was really well run. And then all of our Pumaturas volunteers last night organizing all the parents to, you know, getting them there. And then having food for them and then getting them into the seats and then the presentation and the ceremony in the ward. So it was really well done and I just really wanted to appreciate everyone that was involved in that. And lastly, the junior high. Volleyball team, girls volleyball team made it to the championship game last week, but unfortunately they did lose in the championship game to IVC, a Union City, a Union City middle school. But I just wanted to say to the coaches and to the students that they worked really hard, both the JV team and the varsity team. So the teams were composed of sixth through eighth graders. And they did a great job and had a wonderful season. And there was quite a crowd cheering them on throughout the season. So congratulations to them. And that is it.

[13203] Nancy Thomas: Amber Jones.

[13205] Kat Jones: I did attend the SELPA meeting yesterday. And the only thing that I would report beyond what Assistant Superintendent, sorry, Acting Superintendent Pierce talked about with the events is that they are developed, CDE is developing a new pathway so that all students will receive a diploma and they're working on the curriculum for that, the coursework and what the requirements will be, but they will, the students will be receiving an actual diploma as other students regular general ed students will be receiving. So that was really great to hear that they're going to be rewarded for all of their hard work in that traditional way. And they have some great events coming up that were mentioned earlier. And I guess that that's really it. But it was it was good to go. And the other thing I wanted to Actually the other one I'm going to wait on. I'll wait on the other one. But last night I did go to the reclassification at the high school and that was it was fabulous. The kids were excited. The entertainment was great. Staff worked really hard and it was very evident because it was a it was a really terrific evening.

[13301] Nancy Thomas: Member Hill.

[13303] Aiden Hill: Thank you President Thomas. So quick update regarding the audit committee. So we had a meeting last week. We covered two key agenda items. One is we're updating the audit charter. We've already made some small changes. There's a draft out. to the existing members for them to look over. We're going to have another meeting next week to hopefully finalize that and then bring a recommended updated charter to the board for review and ratification at the next regular board meeting. So that's one process that we've been going through. And then the other process is it's kind of a best practice to look at your relationship with your external auditor and evaluate whether it makes sense to put the contract out to bid. It really does make sense to put the contract out to bid. The question is the frequency, and just because you put it out to bid, it doesn't mean that you're going to change your auditor, but at least it makes everybody sharpen their pencils and make sure that you're getting the best bang for the buck. And so we're working within our committee along with Ms. Dela Cruz in evaluating that, and then we will take that up as well next week. I believe that day, I think it's Wednesday that we're meeting. Yeah. So that's an update from the Audit Committee perspective. And then just another just quick announcement. So happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody. And wishing everybody or wishing all of us a great March Madness kickoff. And hopefully your brackets won't be busted. And a personal shout out. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for my alma mater, Michigan State. So go green, go white.

[13417] Nancy Thomas: Okay, well, I attended an ROP meeting, and we gave an 8% increase to ROP staff retroactive to July. That was a nice thing to be able to do. I, too, enjoyed the reclassification ceremony last night, and the music and the dancing were just fantastic. The drummers, the taiko drummers are willing and happy to go to assemblies, so we should be letting our superintendent, I mean our principals know that they can ask them to come and perform. This week, Ms. Jones and I are going to spend two days in Santa Cruz at the Masters in Governance training, yeah, so we look forward to that. And then just a reminder about what I asked for earlier, you know, what's happened with our services and operating expenses over time, that could be a board report, or it could be an agenda item. And special ed, how does our special ed percentages compare to other districts? Maybe a special ed presentation at some point, because we usually do get one. I don't know how long it's been since we've had one, but there's at least two new board members, and we'll soon have another one. So to schedule some kind of a special ed presentation in the spring would be nice.

[13502] Phuong Nguyen: President Thomas, I just wanted to remind Mind you that after you make the first request, we have to get a board majority to approve so that staff can go ahead with the request.

[13517] Nancy Thomas: Do you approve either a board report or a written report to us on services and operating expenses over time?

[13530] SPEAKER_43: Yeah.

[13531] Kat Jones: OK. I believe that would be helpful.

[13535] Nancy Thomas: OK, and the special ed presentation earlier in the screen?

[13541] Phuong Nguyen: Yes. For study session?

[13545] Nancy Thomas: I don't think a study session. I think a staff report. Oh, OK.

[13549] Nicole Pierce-Davis: And just to clarify, when you say special education, as it relates to budget, as it relates to services provided, overview of program?

[13556] Nancy Thomas: I think the overview of the program, yeah. I mean, we'd like to, especially since there's three of us that are new on the board, and hearing about The good thing special ed does, and not only how much it costs. OK, thank you.

[13571] Diego Torres: Can I also make another announcement? I would also like to thank the leadership associates, the ones who've been running the superintendent search, and Ms. Croce. I'm going to, sorry, I feel like I butchered that. I haven't been calling you Jodi, but my mom would kill me if I did that. So Ms. Croce. Thank you for all the hard work. I've seen the emails, and they came to the school to speak with students. That was really nice to see. I also met with the guy. I have no idea. I forgot what his name was, but. Andrews. Yeah, Mr. Andrews. And he even had the same glasses as me, so that was kind of cool. He kind of copied me there. And I'd also like to say, I think, like, I know someone that actually wants to go for that job, the principal, Dr. Rich. He has informed me that he would like to go for that job, and so I hope he gets a fair process. Because I know he's done a lot of hard work at our school. There's been less fights, I feel like, this year. And the attendance contest was a really good incentive to get students to class. So I know he's been working really hard. Oh, yeah, and the detention stuff. It's really strict at school. Everyone's really scared about that. And I feel like he's been working really hard this year. And he's always there. And I feel like you guys should see him, too, with his outfits. Very really out there, but he has school spirit and he tries and his shoes are really nice And so I hope he gets a fair process with this interview. So Yeah, it is all about the shoes. Everyone knows that so I hope he does well in the search And I hope and I know he would make a really good superintendent.

[13656] Aiden Hill: So that's it Yeah, and then just a quick question so also next when Wednesday I believe that's not Wednesday Thursday next Thursday Member Nguyen and I are going to be getting together to receive the applications for the board vacancy. And I just had a clarifying question since I haven't been through the mechanics of this. So it's my understanding that basically we have to verify three things. Number one, that they're over 18. Number two, that they're a registered voter and that they live in Newark. And then what are the sources that we use to determine that?

[13700] Phuong Nguyen: I know that we just basically, I guess we can ask them for a copy of their driver's license. But in the past, we just make, I mean, we verified their address for sure. But if they're a registered voter or not, I don't think that was one of the criteria.

[13721] Aiden Hill: Because I think you have to do it.

[13724] Phuong Nguyen: I don't remember.

[13726] Aiden Hill: So do we have to go, maybe you could help us ask the, Alameda County office, you know, the, the, um, so the registrar's office.

[13735] Phuong Nguyen: There is a list posted. Uh, I don't know if it lists, uh, the actual names of registered voters, but there is definitely a count through, through the county office where we can look to see, um, it might be in our bylaws too.

[13753] Nicole Pierce-Davis: Yeah. We can do some research on that. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

[13761] Nancy Thomas: And finally, acting superintendent.

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

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

[13765] Nicole Pierce-Davis: All right, I'll make it brief. Thank you so much. I do want to just say thank you to all the board members who did attend the reclassification event. A special thank you to Member Nguyen who took photos for the event. For those of you who don't know, phenomenal photographer over here. And we take advantage of that maybe a little too frequently, but we appreciate you for it. And then just in terms of final words, I know that today we had some pretty tough and really challenging topics to discuss today. And yet I'm really proud of us as a team because we really balanced quite a, we found a nice balance of assessment, instruction, parent engagement, budget. We balanced voices of teachers, students at the podium, and principals. And I just feel like we should really, this is the direction we should be going. So thank you so much to the entire team.

16. ADJOURNMENT

16.2 Adjournment

[13820] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Thank you. And we'll entertain a motion for adjournment.

[13825] Diego Torres: I'll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. But I'll also just say thank you, Ms. Pierce, for all the hard work you did. I know we had a power outage this week. And that was a pretty crazy time. It was very scary in the dark. Some people were screaming, going crazy. But it was nice to see the updates and the updates from you. So thank you.

[13842] Aiden Hill: So President Thomas, could I just ask one question? So number one, are you sure that you don't want me to make a motion to extend the meeting until 12 midnight? Oh, no.

[13852] Diego Torres: I will say no to that.

[13854] Phuong Nguyen: You got vetoed by our student board member. And I really want to appreciate our student board member, Diego Torres.

[13862] Nancy Thomas: OK. Member Torres made the motion. Who would second it? I'm happy to second it. Oh, Member Jones is seconding it. Please vote.

[13871] Diego Torres: And I'm happy to say yes.

[13874] Nancy Thomas: Oh, yes. Oh, jeez. I was doing so well, wasn't I? And then I blew it at the end.

[13883] Kat Jones: Is your vote yes?

[13898] Jodi Croce: Yes.

[13902] SPEAKER_26: Oh, I got you.

[13906] Jodi Croce: I swooped in on it. Five ayes.

[13912] Kat Jones: And the time is 946.

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2. CLOSED SESSION (Closed Session)

2.1 Recess to Closed Session (Closed Session)

2.2 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE/DISMISSAL/RELEASE (Gov. Code, § 54957, subd. (b)(1)) (Closed Session)

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

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

2.5 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION (Gov. Code, § 54956.9, subd. (d)(1)) (Closed Session)

13.1 PLACEHOLDER - One Consented Vote (Not Found)

16.1 PLACEHOLDER - Extend Meeting (Not Found)

[564] 1. CALL TO ORDER

[574] 1.2 Roll Call

[601] 1.3 Public Comment on Closed Session Items

[1360] 3. REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS

[1360] 3.1 Report of Closed Session Actions

[1360] 4. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION

[1360] 4.1 Pledge of Allegiance

[4343] 5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

[4343] 5.1 Approval of the Agenda

[4371] 6. EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS

[4371] 6.1 Employee Organizations

[4489] 7. PUBLIC COMMENT

[4489] 7.1 Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items

[5588] 8. SUPERINTENDENT REPORT

[5588] 8.1 Acting Superintendent Report

[5597] 7.2 Public Comment on Agenda Items

[6218] 11.3 Universal Communication Platform

[8385] 9. STAFF REPORT

[8411] 9.1 Curriculum and Assessment Update

[9721] 9.2 2023 Summer School Overview

[10104] 10. OLD BUSINESS

[10104] 10.1 POLICY UPDATE: Board Bylaw 9300.11 Methods of Operation

[10288] 11. NEW BUSINESS

[10293] 11.1 REPORT: 2022-2023 Second Interim Budget Report

[11468] 11.2 Home-To-School Transportation Plan

[11749] 11.4 Newark Management Association (NEWMA) MOU Advanced Degree Stipends

[11898] 11.5 CONTRACT: Architect Services for Kennedy Fence Project

[12470] 11.6 POLICY UPDATE: Administrative Regulation 1312.1 - Complaints Concerning District Employees

[12687] 12. CONSENT AGENDA: PERSONNEL ITEMS (Approved on Consent)

[12687] 12.1 Personnel Report (Approved on Consent)

[12751] 13. CONSENT AGENDA: NON-PERSONNEL ITEMS (Approved on Consent)

[12751] 13.3 RESOLUTION 2022.23.26 NUSD Board Member Vacancy (Approved on Consent)

[12751] 13.4 MINUTES: Minutes of the December 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education (Approved on Consent)

[12751] 13.5 MINUTES: Minutes of the December 21, 2022 Special Meeting of the Board of Education (Approved on Consent)

[12805] 13.2 REPORT: Warrant Report for February 2023

[12929] 14. BOARD OF EDUCATION: COMMITTEE REPORTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, REQUESTS, DEBRIEF AND DISCUSSION

[12929] 14.1 Board of Education Committee Reports, Announcements, Requests, Debrief and Discussion

[13765] 15. SUPERINTENDENT'S CONCLUDING COMMENTS, UPDATES FOR THE BOARD AND FUTURE AGENDA REQUESTS

[13765] 15.1 Acting Superintendent's Concluding Comments, Updates, and Future Agenda Items

[13820] 16. ADJOURNMENT

[13820] 16.2 Adjournment

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[99999] 2. CLOSED SESSION (Closed Session)

[99999] 2.1 Recess to Closed Session (Closed Session)

[99999] 2.2 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE/DISMISSAL/RELEASE (Gov. Code, § 54957, subd. (b)(1)) (Closed Session)

[99999] 2.3 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Gov. Code, § 54957.6, subd. (a): Employee Organizations - NTA and CSEA (Closed Session)

[99999] 2.4 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Gov. Code, § 54957.6, subd. (a)): Employee Group - NEWMA, Unrepresented Supervisors, and Contracted Management (Closed Session)

[99999] 2.5 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION (Gov. Code, § 54956.9, subd. (d)(1)) (Closed Session)

[99999] 13.1 PLACEHOLDER - One Consented Vote (Not Found)

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1. CALL TO ORDER

Meeting Practices and Information

Type 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 Nancy Thomas Vice President/Clerk Aiden Hill Member Phuong Nguyen Member Katherine Jones Member Vacant

STUDENT BOARD MEMBER:

Member Diego Torres

Public Comment on Closed Session 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. 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.

2. CLOSED SESSION

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.

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, 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, Discussion, 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 � EXISTING LITIGATION (Gov. Code, � 54956.9, subd. (d)(1))

Type Action, Information, Procedural PURPOSE:

To discuss the following case(s): Bretz vs Newark Unified School District Keenan Claim #569505.

3. 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.

4. RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION

Pledge of Allegiance

Type Procedural PURPOSE:

The Governance Team will recite the Pledge of Allegiance

5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Approval of the Agenda

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is 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 The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the agenda for this meeting.

Motion by Aiden Hill, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

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

2. CSEA

3. NEWMA

7. PUBLIC COMMENT

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

Public Comment on Agenda Items

Type 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

Acting Superintendent Report

Type Information

PURPOSE:

The acting 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 Acting Superintendent

9. STAFF REPORT

Curriculum and Assessment Update

Type Discussion, Information PURPOSE:

To provide a staff report to the NUSD Board of Education related to two curriculum and assessment items: 1) i-Ready mid-year growth data which includes a comparison between fall and winter reports and respective academic progress and 2) To share an update with the NUSD Board of Education and community about staff results from a district-wide survey regarding the district's ELA K-8 curriculum and subsequent next steps.

BACKGROUND:

One of NUSD's three professional development priorities for the 2022-23 school year includes "assessment for learning." Elementary schools use i-Ready assessments as a progress monitoring tool in both ELA and Mathematics. Staff engaged in a recent professional development with principals and site Instructional Learning Teams on March 3rd which focused site teams on the analysis of data from February mid-year assessments in order to inform an instructional plan for trimester III. The first part of the presentation serves as a summary of this work. The second part of the presentation will provide an update to the Board of Education with respect to district-wide staff results from a survey with respect to the efficacy of the current English Language Arts Curriculum, K-8, and detail next steps.

File Attachments Staff Report Curriculum & Assessment Update 3.16.23.pdf (2,604 KB)

2023 Summer School Overview

Type Discussion, Information PURPOSE:

To provide information to the Board of Trustees about the 2023 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 2023 Summer Programs - Board Presentation.pdf (1,484 KB)

10. OLD BUSINESS

POLICY UPDATE: Board Bylaw 9300.11 Methods of Operation

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the updated Board Bylaw Action 9300.11 Methods of Operation. PURPOSE:

This is the SECOND reading of the attached bylaw. At the March 3, 2023 Board meeting, the Board members reviewed and recommended revisions to reflect district practice.

BACKGROUND:

The NUSD board bylaw has not been revised since 2017. The language has been replaced to match the Board's revisions to the order of business at each regular meeting.

File Attachments Existing NUSD Bylaw 9300.11_ ^Methods Of Operation 03-16-2023.pdf (91 KB) Recommended Bylaw 9300.11_ Methods Of Operation 03-16-2023.pdf (89 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the updated Board Bylaw 9300.11 Methods of Operation with the change to swap 9 and 10.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

11. NEW BUSINESS

REPORT: 2022-2023 Second Interim Budget Report

Type Action

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education certify the 2022-2023 Second Interim Action Budget Report with a Positive certification. PURPOSE:

The purpose of the Interim Report is to advise administrators, the Board of Trustees, the public, and other interested agencies of the District's current financial condition at periodic intervals during the fiscal year.

BACKGROUND:

The Second Interim Budget Report compares the General Fund and other funds' anticipated revenues and expenditures with the current operating budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year, along with actual receipts and expenditures as of January 31, 2023. At each interim reporting period, the District must certify whether the District will be able to meet its financial obligations for the current and subsequent two years.

The current year budget is used as the base year and multi-year projections are made based on a number of factors and assumptions for the coming two years. The primary drivers of the budget are the State's fiscal health and District student enrollment and attendance.

The multi-year projection indicates the District can issue a POSITIVE certification as the District will be able to meet its obligations for the current fiscal year and two subsequent fiscal years.

File Attachments 2022-23 2nd Interim Full Report_rev.pdf (3,266 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education certify the 2022-2023 Second Interim Budget Report with a Positive certification.

Motion by Diego Torres, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

Home-To-School Transportation Plan

Type Action

Preferred Date Mar 16, 2023

Absolute Date Mar 16, 2023

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $73,445.00

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

To approve the Home-to-School Transportation Plan by April 1, 2023 as required by Ed Code 39800.1 and AB 181.

BACKGROUND:

The 2022-23 State Budget included funds that school districts can receive to offset costs associated with providing student home-to-school transportation services (reference Ed Code 41850.1). This funding is not for additional transportation services but rather a reimbursement for costs already incurred. In order to receive the funds, the District is required to approve a Transportation Plan by April 1, 2023.

If the district does not approve a Transportation Plan, it will result in an audit finding and funds will have to be returned to the State.

The district has an opportunity to be reimbursed for $73,445 in transportation costs through this funding source.

The fiscal impact for this item may result in a decrease to the Special Education contribution from General Fund.

File Attachments NUSD Transportation Plan 2022-23FY.pdf (301 KB) Transportation Plan Presentation for Board 3_16_23.pdf (833 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the Transportation Plan as presented.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

Universal Communication Platform

Type Action, Discussion

Preferred Date Mar 16, 2023

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $32,500.00

Budgeted Yes

Budget Source LCAP

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve Parent Square as a universal Action communications platform for the District. PURPOSE:

To approve the selection of Parent Square as a universal communications platform across all school sites in Newark Unified School District; this includes district office communications.

BACKGROUND:

During the 2022-2023 LCAP engagement process conducted in spring of 2022, a significant number of Newark families indicated that they wanted a universal communications platform for district and site-based communication. As a result of this trend, LCAP funds were allocated to choose a universal communications platform during the 2022-2023 academic year. These funds were approved with the LCAP in June of 2022.

Currently, sites use a variety of communication platforms to achieve school-centered and district-centered communication, including but not limited to the following: School Messenger, Class Dojo, Peachjar, and Bloomz. When considering which communication platform to use, two elementary sites, Birch Grove Intermediate and Coyote Hills Elementary, requested the opportunity to pilot Parent Square as an additional option. After a two month pilot period, principals came together to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each currently utilized program. Considerations included translation functions, teacher and principal uses, data support, and more. Unanimously, NUSD principals requested a transition to Parent Square for the 2023-2024 academic school year. In order to be ready for this transition, staff request an early purchase of parent square for expanded piloting, training, and logistical purposes. There are two quotes attached. The first quote includes the cost of the premium license for $33,500, which includes the ability to send and receive secure documents and to create community groups. The second quote shows the cost of the regular license at a cost of $25,000.

File Attachments NUSD Premium Parent Square.pdf (160 KB) Comparison_PS (1).pdf (465 KB) NUSD Parent Square (regular).pdf (310 KB) Staff Report_ Universal Communication Platform.pdf (3,520 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the premium Parent Square as a universal communications platform for the District.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

Newark Management Association (NEWMA) MOU Advanced Degree Stipends

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $4,800.00

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the MOU between Newark Unified Action School District and Newark Management Association (NEWMA) for Advanced Degrees. PURPOSE:

To approve the MOU between Newark Unified School District and Newark Management Association (NEWMA) for Advanced Degrees.

BACKGROUND:

The advanced degree stipends for NEWMA are currently $1,000 for a Masters degree and $1,200 for a Doctorate degree. The Doctorate stipend is lower by $800 compared to NTA's stipend of $2,000. The MOU being presented between NEWMA and NUSD updates the stipend amounts to align with NTA.

On June 19, 2018, the Board ratified the Tentative Agreement with NTA which included the following: 13.4.1 Effective July 1, 2018, unit members may receive stipends for up to two Master's degrees, one Doctorate degree, and one National Board Certification. The amounts of the stipends effective July 1, 2018 are as follows:

M.A., M.S., M.Ed, M.B.A.- $1,000 (limit 2) Ph.D., Ed.D., PsyD., D.B.A. - $2,000 (limit 1) NBCT- $1,000 (limit 1)

File Attachments MOU with NEWMA_Degree Stipends.pdf (59 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the MOU between Newark Unified School District and Newark Management Association (NEWMA) for Advanced Degrees.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Diego Torres.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang, Diego Torres

CONTRACT: Architect Services for Kennedy Fence Project

Type Action

Fiscal Impact Yes

Dollar Amount $57,000.00

Budget Source Fund 25 Capital Facilities Fund

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the contract with LCA Architects Action for the Kennedy Fence Project and the preliminary cost estimate as presented. PURPOSE:

To approve the contract with LCA Architects and the preliminary project cost estimate for the Kennedy Fence Project.

BACKGROUND:

Kennedy Elementary School is the only elementary school in the District which does not have fencing to enclose the campus for safety and security. Parents and staff have voiced their concerns and are requesting fencing to keep students and staff safe.

The District has begun community engagement meetings with stakeholders including a Staff Meeting on January 17, Coffee with the Principal on January 27 and PTA on January 31, 2023. The architect will take this feedback and come up with design options which will be presented to the stakeholder groups and be brought back to the Board of Trustees for their review. An architect is required for the project as plans and specifications are required to be reviewed by the Division of the State Architect (DSA).

A Request for Proposal was issued for architectural services for the project. We received two (2) proposals. LCA Architects provided a complete proposal and staff requests approval of their contract in the amount of $57,000 which is within the project budget.

The preliminary total estimated cost for the project, which includes architect fees, DSA fees, construction cost, bidding cost, inspection fees, and contingencies, is $453,375.

The project will be funded by the Capital Facilities Fund (Fund 25, also known as Developer Fees) which currently has an ending fund balance of $8,086,963. The average annual income from developer fees for the last 5 years is $3,000,000.

Description Amount Fund 25 Beginning Fund Balance 16,412,830 Plus: Revenues 3,000,000 Less: Expenditures 11,325,867 Fund 25 Ending Fund Balance 8,086,963

File Attachments LCA Architects Proposal_Kennedy Fence.pdf (252 KB) Preliminary Budget - Kennedy Fence Project 2023 03 16.pdf (57 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the contract with LCA Architects for the Kennedy Fence Project and the preliminary cost estimate with additional fees of $5000.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

POLICY UPDATE: Administrative Regulation 1312.1 - Complaints Concerning District Employees

Type Action, Procedural

Preferred Date Mar 16, 2023

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board approve the updated Administrative Regulation 1312.1 Action - Complaints Concerning District Employees.

PURPOSE:

The purpose is for the Board of Education to review the recommended changes and approve the updated administrative regulation.

BACKGROUND:

This is the FIRST reading of the attached regulation. The language is sanctioned by the California School Board Association. California School Board Association notations can be seen in the documents for the benefit of the Board. These notations will be removed from the final, Board approved policies. The administration has reviewed the recommended updates for accuracy and made revisions to reflect district practice. If any revisions are recommended by the Board, the regulation will be brought back to the Board of Education for a second reading.

CSBA recommended changes to the Policy and Administrative Regulation in May of 2019. The recommended changes to the Policy were approved by the Board of Education on October 17, 2019. The Administrative Regulation was not taken to the Board of Education at the same time, therefore, the Administrative Regulation has not been updated since the adoption in 1995. The Administrative Regulation has been reorganized and updated per CSBA recommendations to require that complaints be made in writing and to add steps regarding the investigation of the complaint and the notification of the complainant and employee regarding the final decision. Per CSBA recommendation, material was removed from the existing NUSD Administrative Regulation regarding reports against employees for child abuse or neglect, as well as material regarding appeals to the board, because it is in the Board Policy.

File Attachments Existing NUSD AR 1312.1 Complaints Concerning District Employees 03.16.2023.pdf (102 KB) Recommended CSBA AR 1312.1 Complaints Concerning District Employees 03.16.2023.pdf (267 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board approve the updated Administrative Regulation 1312.1 - Complaints Concerning District Employees.

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

12. CONSENT AGENDA: PERSONNEL ITEMS

Personnel Report

Type Action

Absolute Date Mar 16, 2023

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 03-16-2023.pdf (157 KB)

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

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang, Diego Torres

13. 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: 13.2.

Motion by Nancy Thomas, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

REPORT: Warrant Report for February 2023

Type Action

Fiscal Impact No

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education ratify the Warrant Report as presented. Action Purpose: The purpose of this item is to present warrants, for the total amount of $2,701,463.06, made from District funds for February 2023.

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 February 2023.pdf (365 KB)

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

Motion by Phuong Nguyen, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Abstain: Aiden Hill
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

RESOLUTION 2022.23.26 NUSD Board Member Vacancy

Type Action, Discussion, Information

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education adopt Resolution 2022.23.26 NUSD Board Action Member Vacancy. PURPOSE:

The purpose is for the Board to review and adopt Resolution 2022.23.26 - NUSD Board Member Vacancy

BACKGROUND:

Member Bowen Zhang submitted his resignation to ACOE, effective March 1, 2023. The Education Code provides that the Board can decide whether the vacancy is filled by a special election or through an appointment made by the Board. On March 2, 2023, the Board decided to proceed with the appointment process. As requested, this resolution is being brought forward regarding the Board decision to proceed with the appointment process.

File Attachments Resolution 2022.23.26 NUSD Board Member Vacancy.pdf (116 KB)

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education adopt Resolution 2022.23.26 NUSD Board Member Vacancy.

Motion by Nancy Thomas, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas

MINUTES: Minutes of the December 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education

Type Action, Minutes

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approves the minutes of the December Action 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education.

Minutes View Minutes for Dec 15, 2022 - Regular Meeting of the Board of Education PURPOSE:

For the board to review and approve the minutes of the December 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education.

BACKGROUND:

The attached minutes are reflective of the December 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education. The meeting may be viewed on the NUSD YouTube Channel HERE.

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approves the minutes of the December 15, 2022, Regular Meeting of the Board of Education.

Motion by Nancy Thomas, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas

MINUTES: Minutes of the December 21, 2022 Special Meeting of the Board of Education

Type Action, Minutes

Preferred Date Mar 16, 2023

Recommended The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the minutes of the December 21, Action 2022, Special Meeting of the Board of Education.

Minutes View Minutes for Dec 21, 2022 - Special Meeting of the Board of Education

PURPOSE:

For the board to review and approve minutes of the December 21, 2022, Special Meeting of the Board of Education.

BACKGROUND:

The attached minutes are reflective of the December 21, 2022, Special Meeting of the Board of Education. The meeting may be viewed on the NUSD YouTube Channel HERE.

Motion & Voting The recommendation is that the Board of Education approve the minutes of the December 21, 2022, Special Meeting of the Board of Education.

Motion by Nancy Thomas, second by Phuong Nguyen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas

14. BOARD OF EDUCATION: COMMITTEE REPORTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, REQUESTS, DEBRIEF AND DISCUSSION

Board of Education Committee Reports, Announcements, Requests, Debrief and Discussion

                       AND DISCUSSION

Type Action, Discussion, Information

PURPOSE:

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

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

REQUESTS: 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.

DEBRIEF AND DISCUSSION: The Trustees may debrief and discuss items.

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 2022-23

Board Adopted on 12/15/2022 Representative Alternate

Mission Valley Regional Occupational Center/Program (ROC/P) 1. Nancy Thomas 1. Executive Board

Regional Policy Board of Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) 1. Katherine Jones 1. Phuong Nguyen The following derives directly Newark Teacher Induction Advisory Council (Formally EBIC) 1. Aiden Hill 1. Phuong Nguyen from the Board approved"Governance Team Handbook"

Audit Committee 1. Aiden Hill2. Katherine Jones1. Phuong NguyenAuthority is Collective, NotIndividual: The only authority to direct Bond/Parcel Tax Committee 1. Phuong Nguyen2. Katherine Jones1. Aiden Hillaction rests with the Board asa whole when seated at aregular or special board meeting. Outside of this 1. Phuong Nguyen meeting, there is no authority. City of Newark � NUSD Liaison Committee 2. Nancy Thomas 1. Katherine Jones 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.

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

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

                       AGENDA REQUESTS

Type Information

PURPOSE:

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

16. 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.

Adjournment

Type Action

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.

Motion by Diego Torres, second by Katherine Jones.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yea: Phuong Nguyen, Aiden Hill, Diego Torres, Katherine Jones, Nancy Thomas
Not Present at Vote: Bowen Zhang

No minutes available.