Pajaro Valley Unified School District 08/05/2026

the um board of trustees, Paraho Valley Unified School District to order at 5:31. Uh we will be adjourning to closed session and we'll return back here at 6 unless there is any public comment on closed session items. I do not see any hands. So, we are >> real quick. One point of clarification. We're not allowing anybody to put up posters, right? Or anything. Can we just clarify that now? >> Thank you for bringing that up and I wish I had reached out to Bill Beecher ahead of time and given it advice. So, we've been wrestling with what to do about people who have signs and things to project and posters and we as in the superintendent and legal and I um and what we've come down to is nothing on the walls. And I know I have issues with this too, but um the easels are okay, but we got to make sure they're someplace so people aren't going to get hurt and we're not projecting anything that anybody provides, only things that the district has provided. >> Point of order. >> I acknowledge your point of order. I know it's confusing. >> Yes. >> Um we I think this is a point to be talked out at a later and it's one a oneway comp. You are absolutely right. Thank you for that. So we're not going to have the discussion, but that's where we're landing is the easels are okay. They got to be out of the way. I don't know that I'm going to dictate where they ought to be. Um but nothing that's projected and nothing that's hanging on the walls. Okay. So we are adjouring. Good evening. Welcome. I would like to call this meeting of the par of the parades. Here I go. Board of trustees to order. Welcome and thank you for being here tonight. I want to begin by acknowledging that this meeting will be livereamed and recorded. Whether you are here in person or watching online, we are glad that you are here with us. Uh the purpose of this meeting is to conduct the business of the board of trustees of the parro um valley unified school district. Uh official business on behalf of our district and the students we serve. While we deeply value community participation, this is a working session of the board. Our focus tonight is on the items before us and on the outcomes that matter most to our students. We have a workshop scheduled at the end of the regular part of the meeting. We'll have a brief period of time where we reset the room. Um, we really want to finish tonight by 10:30 because everybody who works for the district who's in this room needs to be someplace by about 7:30 tomorrow morning and we want to make sure that you are alert and ready to get our schools ready for business. Uh, so they're opening. Okay. Um, one of our core values is ensuring that the voices of our community and of each board member are heard, respected, and given meaningful space in this room. Everything we do tonight is grounded in that commitment. Our protocols are not barriers. They are the what am I hearing? Um, they are structures that ensure every voice has a fair and appropriate opportunity to be heard. Each item on the agenda will be called. Staff or a board member will present the item. Then it's time for public comments. We will call names in groups of 10. When you hear your name, please make your way to the podium. Time limits will apply and may be limited per speaker and total time for the item. Board members will each have up to three minutes to respond or ask questions. Board members have been asked to submit questions in advance so that answers can be prepared and shared as part of the presentations. Speaking on non-aggenda items on 6.1, if somebody has something they want to bring to the board that is school district business but is not on the agenda, that is the appropriate time to do that. We also have a relatively new item called 6.2, which is speaking on an agenda item. So, if there's an item on the agenda that you wish to speak to, but you don't want to wait until it comes up on the agenda, you can speak during that time, but you can't speak during that time. And um when it comes up on the regular agenda, 6.2, is it 6.2? >> Thank you. 3.1 and 3.2. Okay. Um how to submit? Is it If you wish to speak, you need to fill out a card and that card needs to be turned in prior to the item starting. Uh cards can be turned into Miss at the end of the table. You need to put a name. You don't have to put your name, but when we call you, it has to be something so you know it's your turn. Uh we do um encourage students to fill out the peach colored cards which we give priority to. Uh please stay on topic and complete your comments within the time allowed. You may state your name at the beginning of your statement for the record. Uh we ask um that speakers who share the same point of view designate a spokesperson so that not each person needs to come up. It's not a requirement, it's a request. Um you can let's see with the board consent. With board consent, we may reduce the amount of time per speaker. In order for the board to conduct its business, we ask that all attendees refrain from shouting out or holding side conversations during the meeting. We generally want to hear from each of you and we could not hear the person who's at the podium when others are speaking at the same time. During some recent meetings, folks who did not agree with the speaker made comments. We all need we all need to allow speakers their opportunity whether we agree with them or not. The board's focus is on student outcomes. We know that is important to you as well. And we appreciate your presence and your passion. I ask that we each set examples for our students and share ideas and opinions and refrain from name calling and bullying. If there are disruptions, I will issue a warning. If dis um disruptions continue um I may recess the meeting um and ask those who are causing the disruption to be removed from the room. Thank you for listening to all of that long- winded stuff and let's get to work for students. >> Yes. Yeah. I'm not sure what that is because I've I'm looking at this which is So on the um >> print out in the back of the room, it's not the same as what's posted. >> Yeah. So I think we'll just go with what's online at 6 point. It's public comment 6.1 to correct the correction earlier. >> Yeah. What's online has it right? Okay. So we're going with what's online because that's what was posted. So the numbering is going to be a little bit off from what you have. So, when you turn in a card, if you make sure you write the um item title, that will help us a lot. Okay. Um it's time for the pledge of allegiance. Trusty Navaro, would you lead us, please? >> Do we have a flag? Yes. 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. We did that. We did that. That leads us to governing board comments, reports on standing committees. Trusty Medina, do you have some comments you'd like to share? >> Yeah. Um, let me pull this up. So, uh, good evening everybody and, um, welcome back. back. I know some people are still fluttering in from summer vacation. Um it's really good to see the post online of, you know, the professional development and all that good stuff. So, um you know, I I want to welcome back uh to a new school year for our students, our families, our teachers, and our classified staff. Um and I do also want to mention some things that hit my inbox. So, an educator uh with 18 years of service in the district wrote to this board asking simply to be released to start the year strong supporting students. Um our teachers uh federation has formally demanded action on leadership at Paharo Middle School. Um a school in my area and I take their no confidence letter extremely seriously. A teacher wrote asking us to invest in bilingual authorization so educators can serve our students in their home language instead of losing their positions over credentials. they are actively completing. A teacher at Apttos High described watching classroom belongings hauled away with portables this summer with no plan for their return. A parent and licensed clinician has asked for over a year about a safe walking route to Paharo Valley High School and I think we've all wanted that. Um, and I'm glad the city is starting to make some progress with that. A community member asked why a facilities inspection contract was renewed and got silence from most of this DAS. um question that I also had and many families wrote about renaming a Cesar Chavez Middle School including heartfelt letters from our Asian-American Pacific Islander Islander community honoring the legacies of um Jeff Tagami and Masashimoto. So our community keeps asking whether the district's spending is matching its stated priorities. And if you look at tonight's consent agenda, carries hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside consultant contracts. Some with no cost listed, no scope attached or payment schedule untethered from delivery. Um while we start this fiscal year without a chief business officer and while our labor partners are still in negotiation. So that is why I have submitted a proposal for a resolution to enact a hiring freeze so this board can pause, look at where our dollars are actually going and put students, classrooms, and the workers who serve them first. I ask my colleagues to bring that resolution forward for public discussion. Um, and if you're interested, please let me know. Thank you. >> Thank you. Right, Trusty Navaro. Thank you, President Shirley. I just wanted to say um welcome back. Can't believe the summer flew by so long. Today, uh was Mirin's day at Aptos High School, and so my soon to be senior went to go pick up his schedule, and this is going to be a a tough first for me, uh having a a senior that's going off after this year. Um, but I want to welcome all of the students and families and staff and teachers back for a new school year to the teachers and staff that have been preparing their classrooms uh participating in professional development and giving up part of their summer to get skills for our students. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm glad we were able to figure out a way to pay you for that extra time. Um, this year brings some real changes for our district. we still are facing a a structural deficit. I'm I'm hopeful that most of the pain has passed and that there won't be any layoffs or significant layoffs again going forward. I'm excited to see how our cell phone policy uh plays out. I still have some concerns about its implementation and how it's actually going to be working in the classroom. So, it's something that I staying on top of and if there's any issues, I would appreciate if people would reach out to me. Um, I also am looking forward to seeing the homework policy initiated uh and having more time for our kids to spend with their families on their extracurricular activities, sports, music, uh, and art. Thank you. >> Thank you. And Trustee Flynn. >> Hi everybody. Thank you for coming tonight. Um, thank you cabinet members for being here tonight. It's good to see you. Um I am sorry that I missed last meeting. It's come into um into question if I plan to attend meetings. Yes, I do. The um question for me is though, where is Trustee Dodge? And nobody seems to be after him about that and we had some very important me um decisions that we needed to make tonight. Um and um we were almost unable to make them because um he wasn't here and he doesn't show up to um close session. And I say that because I'm on my way out in November and um he is up for reelection. So if you want somebody who's here for students, I need a team member to help make decisions. Um, and I've said nothing um, till this point. And the only reason why I am now is because it's frustrating when community is asking where I am, but they're not asking where he is. So, it seems a little unbalanced. Um, so that's all I have to say um, this time around. Um, but it is really good to see you all. It's always um anxietyridden coming here, but once I get in the seat and I see your faces, um it helps me remember why I'm here and who I'm here for. Um and I'm excited for some of the content tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'll defer my comments. And that leads us to superintendent comments. Dr. Heather Contreres. Sylvester, I think that's the wrong one. There we go. Okay, we could go to the next slide. Wanted to share some exciting data. We have some preliminary data. Um, this is preliminary. Usually, it is pretty on target. Uh, this is our CASP data. This is the California dashboard data. That is our account accountability measure for the state of California. What we have on here is what I call our leaderboard. These are schools that had outstanding uh results and we have the results for our main measurements which are English language arts and mathematics. So as you could see for our high schools we have aptas high school that had doubledigit growth. And so on this particular assessment when we see doubledigit growth that is significant growth on this assessment. So Apas High did significant growth with 11.6% growth in ELA. Paharo Valley High School also had significant growth at 11%. We're really proud of that result. Um particularly because when I came here in May of 2024, one of the things we heard uh at all of the board meetings for several months was that Pajaro Valley High School felt that they really didn't have all of the things that other high schools had. And so we have put a significant investment into Paharo Valley High School, ensuring that they had um classes that were similar to both Watsonville High School and Apas High School. We started an early college there, which is the opportunity for students to earn their high school degree, their high school diploma and an AA degree simultaneously while attending the school on campus. We're in our second year of doing that. We started more AP classes there. We built the back blackbox theater so they didn't have to be performing in the wrestling room. So, we've done a lot of different strategies and we're looking at how that is paying off. So, we're excited to see that. Um, Caesar Chavez Middle School, 5% growth in ELA. Uh, that 5% growth is also significant. Usually, we see the state of California growing by about 2% 2 and a.5%. So, when we supersede what the state of California is doing, that is also significant. So, Caesar Chavez 5.4% growth. Lake View Middle School 5% and then we have our elementary schools with Starlight, Hyde, Calabasas and Mcquiti having significant growth as well in ELA. For mathematics overall in the district we had.9% not great but it's still growth and our high schools again Paharo Valley High School with 5% growth and Apas High School with 4.5% growth. So still outperforming historically what the state of California has done. Caesar Chavez Middle School 5.7% growth and Lake View Middle School 5.3% growth. I want to draw your attention to the fact that those four schools had growth not just in ELA but also in math. So when we see that happening in more than one area, what it demonstrates is there is a a significant push on instructional practices that are changing in the classroom and that are helping students uh to meet student achievement goals. We're really impressed with the what teachers are doing there and what leadership is doing over there. So nice work to our teachers. Um in our elementary schools, we again see Hyde uh with 5.7% growth. Freedom Elementary, Starlight, Calabasas, and McQuitti. All with math growth. The thing that we make notice of is all of these schools that have shown growth. We have made strategic efforts at each of these schools. This growth didn't happen by accident. The growth happened because we invested in these schools in in ways um to get those results. And so when we know what we did to get the results, we can keep doing more of the same and continue on that cycle of improvement. Additionally, we know how we can replicate those same actions so that we can see that happen at our other schools. So we're really excited by this. We really want to celebrate our teachers who did this work. uh we want to celebrate our students who also um focused and uh engaged in the work. We had some really interesting comments by students especially in the area of math with our new implementation of the swen mathematics program. Our students came back from winter break this year saying I'm so glad to be back. I miss doing math. We don't usually hear that from students. So we were really uh excited about that. Um, so we will have a bigger data report in October when the um, scores come out officially on the CASP data, but until then, we we're really using this to highlight um, coming back into the new year, looking for more success for our students, and we're excited about that. Additionally, this week I met with PVFT leadership to see how we could collaborate collaborate more positively and I was disheartened when PVFT informed me that they believe in an adversarial and antagonistic relationship. However, however, I'm hopeful that in the future we could find ways to form a stronger relationship for the sake of students, possibly through continued strategies like our labor management institute. That brings us to 4.1, approval of agenda. Are there any public uh comments on approval of agenda? Okay. Um, can I have a motion to approve the agenda? Um, on the >> Thanks. >> I make a motion. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> That looks like 4 03. Um, action report on closed session. I think you have a readout for us, Trusty Flynn. an announcement of um new hires. Lisa Sandival, human resources director of classified. Are you here? >> Okay. Okay. I'll skip I'll skip to two. I'll skip to two. Did she leave leave or Okay. I'll skip to two. Um, announcement to Chris Thomas. Are you here? Okay. Okay. I will um read on. Assistant principal APASS High. PVSUSD is excited to welcome Chris Thomas to ABTAS High as an assistant principal. Chris is an educational leader with more than a decade of experience spanning teaching, special education, instructional leadership, and school administration. He most recently served as assistant principal at John J. Montgomery Elementary School where he oversaw school operations, campus safety, staff evaluations, state testing, and student support systems while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Throughout his career, he had held leadership roles as a summer school principal, PBIS coordinator, department chair, and instructional leadership team member with extensive experience supporting inclusive practices, special education compliance, professional learning, and data-driven instruction. He holds a master's degree in education from California State University, Monterey Bay, an admin an administrative services credential through the Santa Clara County Office of Education's LEAP program, and teaching credentials in special education and English, reflecting a strong commitment to student achievement, collaborative leadership, and equitable educational opportunities. We are excited to have his well-rounded educator join the leadership team at Apttos at Apttos High. Go Mariners. And then Monica Vasquez, I don't think she's here, site coordinator, child development. We are pleased to announce the promotion of Monica Vasquez to the site coordination position. Monica brings 19 years of experience in early childhood education, including nine years with Head Start and the past eight years serving PS PVSUSD as both a teacher and site supervisor. After arriving in the United States in 2001, Monica earned her GED and went on to pursue her passion for education at Cababrio College, where she graduated in uh 2014 with an associates of art in child early childhood education degree. Her educational journey began as a volunteer in her children's kind kindergarten classroom at PBUSD, where she discovered her passion for supporting young learners and their families. As a parent, all of Monica's children attended PBUSD schools, and she cherishes the opportunity she had to volunteer, participate in field trips, and actively um be involved in their educational experiences. Throughout her career, Monica has demonstrated a strong commitment to fostering positive learning environments and building meaningful relationships with children, families, and staff. Her dedication, leadership, and firsthand understanding of the importance of family engagement have made her a valued member of our team. Please join us in congratulating Monica on her well-deserved position and wishing her continued success in her new site coordination role. Congratulations, Claudia Gabby Solano, program coordinator, child development. We are excited to announce the promotion of Claudia Gabby Solano to a program coordinator position. Gabby brings more than 30 years of experience in early childhood education and leadership having served with the YW.CA YMCA Cabrio College Children's Center Head Start and for the past nine years with PVSUSD. She joined PVSUSD as a site coordinator at Buenav Vista's Children's Center where she served as the liaison between PVSUSD and Migrant Head Start and most recently has led the team at Watsonville Children's Center and site coordinator as site coordinator. A proud product of PVSUSD, Claudia attended Calabasas Elementary, EA Hall Middle School and Watsville High School. And her daughter also graduated from PVSUSD schools as the validictorian of Pacific Coast charter. Nice. Gabby earned both of her associate of arts and liberal arts and associates of science in early childhood education from Cababrio College before completing her bachelor's of arts in sociology with a conc concentration in family studies at San Jose State University. Go Spartans. Throughout her career, she has built strong community partnerships and developed meaningful relationships with children and families throughout Watsonville. Her deep commitment to supporting families and promoting children's school readiness has made a learning a lasting impact on our program. Please join us in congratulating Gabby on her well-deserved promotion and wishing her continued success in her new program coordination role. Congratulations, Kevin. Lisa, Lisa, hi. I'm so glad you're here. Um, welcome. PVSUSD is excited to have you, Lisa Sandoval, join the HR team as the new director of classified. Lisa brings more than two decades of progressively responsible experience with Po Valley Unified School District, including service as a teacher, child development teacher, and coordinator, and since 2021, director of early childhood education, child development. Throughout her career, she has led instructional programs, supervised and evaluated staff, managed budgets, ensured compliance with state and federal reg regulations, supported student enrollment growth, and partnered with families, community organizations, and government agencies to strengthen educational services. She holds a master's of arts in educational leadership from San Jose State University GOP Spartans and administrative services credential and a multiple subject teaching credential and has extensive experience with district systems including Synergy, Escape, Centrak, is it cube and Google providing a strong foundation in educational leadership, personnel man management and operational oversight. We are excited to have this experienced educator join the leadership team in HR. That's all, folks. All right. Thank you, Trusty Flynn. That moves us on to 6.1. Public comment on non-aggenda items. How many cards do we have? All right. Would you like to call them up? Is it Bill Demar? Delmare. Delmare. Bill. Okay. Okay. Carolyn West, Kelly Krenshaw, Chris Webb, um Jennifer Goodart, and Brandon Denise. >> Tonight, I want to speak about uh the impass that we're having with negotiations. And it really comes down that the union does not want to admit that their total compensation and I have a chart over here. Our teachers are being compensated at about the average of the engineers in California because benefits are much bigger for our teachers than it is for the engineers. And so in three years, because of the benefit growth, our compensation for our teachers will match the highest paid engineers in the state. The engineers work 248 days a year. Our teachers work 180. So >> excuse me, excuse me. Thank you. So if if you wanted to look at how to improve the bargaining, you would set the compensation at some percentage of our revenue. That caps it off. Then the district knows how to plan. Benefit should be a lower percentage of that. Right now in three years, benefits will be 91% of wages. That's huge. Now, if you set benefits less, then you're going to squeeze wages. And I would let teachers choose between higher benefits or higher wages and do that tradeoff. That's not allowed. Co-pay $10 or $20. There are studies that show that that will reduce the amount of visits to the doctor's office by a third. That lowers the premium source. that lowers our benefit cost. Health savings accounts for our new teachers coming in. This is what's recommended by people in the industry. We should be looking at that. Working spouses of our personnel. They should use their employer plan augmented by PVSUSD. Right now, PVSUSD pays for the spouses uh of our employees full plan. that significantly would lower premiums if we were to >> Thank you. That's your time. >> Thank you. >> Um hi, it's Caroline again. Um hello trustees, um Dr. Contras, everyone over there. Um I wasn't prepared for this. Um, I usually prepare a little bit better, but uh, I've already hit the ground running starting the school year and we're already only 3 days in. Um, I am missing a health assistant for two of my schools already. Um, she's not starting till next week. Uh, so I have to do everything by myself in preparation to get ready for the school year to start. Um, the kids just showing up is is not the only part of health services because I when I mentioned this, they're like, "Oh, the kids start on on the 12th. That's great." Well, not really. There's immunizations and healthcare plans and supplies and all that. So, I'm doing that on my own. Um, I have another concern that there's no planned backup now that we have the health assistance sharing schools as far as who is going to provide first aid, who is going to provide medication and treatments and things like that. Um, we've asked around at our different schools and everybody's kind of like kind of backing up the office managers, a lot of people, I'm too busy, I can't do it, I don't. So, we need to know who it is that we're supposed to be training because we can't be everywhere and now our health assistants are two different places. So, we're really frustrated about that. Um, uh, I have not met my new supervisor. Um, I don't know that any of the self sofa staff have. Uh traditionally we meet before school starts um so that we can do introductions, talk about any type of uh district changes, any type of state ed code changes, any nursing concerns, anything like that. We haven't we haven't had that. We have not met. Our meeting is scheduled for September 11th and that's like so far away. Um, also the health assistance there, they we've been talking about having trainings for the IAS and the BTS, but there's been no discussion of the health assistance and that's usually done before school starts also. Uh, so a lot of concerns, a lot of concerns. I've sent out a lot of emails. I'm not getting a lot of responses, but I I wanted to make sure that people were aware that we're kind of floundering in health services. >> Thank you. Hello. Good evening, board superintendent. Um, I hate to use any of my two precious moments, too, but I have to address this ridiculous propaganda. No, we do not make more than engineers. Teachers make 23 to 27 less than other college educated professionals with similar levels. I have a source, the Economic Policy Institute. Even factoring in benefits, the compensation gap remains, including unpaid hours. I've already worked three full days to set up a classroom because there are noou days. I don't know what kind of classroom you think can be set up in seven and a half hours when I walk in and every bit of my classrooms packed in a corner. Seven and a half hours is what is being paid for teachers to prepare for a school year. So, my unpaid hours are not included even with benefits, which is what I'm here to talk about. Um, I'm a proud 30y year starting 31-year PVSUSD teacher. I'm also um a proud Modesto native and um Modesto City School graduate, Grace Davis High School. And so much comparison has been made between Watsonville and Modesto. and the growth uh reading growth of Modesto is featured by our district as a reason to add more district admin from Modesto while simultaneously decimating our site supports. Therefore, I feel really compelled to come here and speak on what's been left out of the picture. And that's the difference of the and I'm coming like not hostile not adversar like let please try to understand um that what's been left out is the difference in pay and cost of living between Modesto and art district in Modesto I would be paid for 72 hour uh units beyond my degree I would be making $30,000 more in a place that costs a third less you come from Modesto you may not understand the dire higher straits. We are here in here financially and Modesto my friends have home. Oh, really? >> Thank you. >> Well, um I we should have we don't want to strike, but we have to we we can't. It'll break us. >> I need to I need to insist on quiet in the room. If you agree with this two minutes goes fast. Thank you. >> We will recess. We will ask people to move leave the room or we'll clear the room if that's what we need to do. But I can't I can't hear what the speaker says. >> Hi, I'm Miss Goodart. I teach at Bradley. I'm starting my 23rd year. I love my job. I wanted to ask you board members and Dr. Contur if you could look into these things for me. I read the story in the lookout today about Prop 28 and at Bradley we're experiencing that we have a position that's been approved but it's being held up for some reason. It won't be allowed to be flown. We had plans to build a theater space and hire a theater um teacher and the portable we plan to do that in was removed. Uh we have less arts instruction this coming year than we've had. So I'm not understanding what's happening and why we're not able to spend our Prop 28 money. The other thing I want to talk about is um with So if you could look into that and provide some clarity um that would be great. The other thing is we cut all these student facing positions. I wrote to you Dr. Conter about it last year. You assured me there was a plan. Um, I said, "I know there are other sites in the county that don't have AC's, but they have other supports, and you assured me there was a plan, but I've seen no sign of a plan. I just see highle administrators being hired, and I'm sorry, I never public speak except in front of 5-year-olds." Um, and I'm fine with 5-year-olds. Um, so there's no sign of a plan, and I'm really worried about campus safety. We're out there on Coralita Road and we have a lot of elopers historically kids who run away and they've gotten last year we had students who got out on Coralus Road. I mean that's scary and I'm I'm really worried about safety. So if you could provide some transparency about what the plan is for providing studentfacing support in light of all the positions we've lost. Thank you. Uh good evening. Um last semester uh Dr. Navaro, you had mentioned um reflecting on the the health and welfare benefits committee, you you'd like that to be more open so people could see. And I just want to say I agree with you and I think if the bo if the public knew about like the the negotiations um I think that this board and the administration would feel the shame that they should feel um with us in the position we are starting the school year like this. I don't want to be thinking about these. I wouldn't be thinking about setting up my class. Instead, I'm thinking about how am I going to do work to rule? And I'm thinking about too partly because I had one a student who I didn't even have last year, but he still was at Watsonville High and saw me around and all that. And he emailed me in this summer and was like thanking me for different clubs and stuff. And um I was reflecting on the last day of school where I didn't really plan anything special, but like uh one kid in particular stood out to me because he was he was a kid who uh he was gonna fail like first semester. he finally pulled it together and then um he wound up being like one of my best students. Um and then but like I remember for when I was observed the principal or the AP was surprised at his performance and was like pleased and everything but that on the last day that student said um oh you know web you you make kids want to come to school. I feel like that's important because I think of how callously and quickly we cast people away and then we're adding at the top and it's just it just strikes me as like just so backwards. I I I feel like the welcome back cabinet by the way. I thought that was interesting this summer that we had like kind of a a personification of it, right? you had like the teachers still showing up every time and then um these people who make way more and get these they're you know largely outsiders get they're getting cushy contracts and all the it's just really um if there was any doubt in the community of like who's out to serve the students and who's out to serve this district office. I feel like this administration has made that very plain. Um also I'm down to collaborate. I've been down I I wish you would have made the meeting for the grievance. Um, I think it's improper to not have to. I would do tell me. Why do we need to pay outside organizations to collaborate? >> Thank you. >> All right. So, this one's going to be um fun as I just took some notes. So, I want to start off by standing behind what I told Dr. contrarist that I absolutely believe that unions are here to be structurally antagonistic and be militant member organizing memberdriven organizations that hold their employer accountable. And it's unfortunate that you give me so many reasons to hold you accountable because you're not good at your job. Just this week, we have people who were issued a layoff notice early out of respect for them was what we were told. who then had that layoff notice rescended is way back in May told, "Hey, you're still going to have a job." Guess what? They don't have health insurance right now because the district messed up. So now when they go to the doctor, they don't have health insurance and that's coming out of their pocket, which yes, you guys will end up reimbursing because we're militant, antagonistic, and holding you accountable. That's what we do. So, I also want to address the misinformation that you guys are allowing a member of the community to put at the front of the room, which makes it appear to be district sanctioned. Would you let me bring a poster to the front of the room that says Dr. Conurus consultants, not collaboration? That's true to me. So, I should be able to put that there, right? If you let Bill put it there, you better let me put it there. So, clean that up, please. >> Please. >> Also, Bill doesn't know where his numbers come from. We work 184 days, not 180. Ain't nobody making 130,000 when our starting salary is 58520. We are not civil engineers. We do more important work than civil engineers. Civil engineers don't stay up on weekends grading papers. Civil engineers don't write IEPs. You're not going to ask them to leave the room for clapping. That is bogus. Do I get my time back because, you know, you were interrupting me? No. Just let them clap. Sorry, Jesus. Civil engineers don't stay up grading papers. They don't make phone calls. They don't contact families. They don't shape the future. That's what we do. We shape the future and pay us like it. >> Trusty Charlie, >> Trusty Medina. >> Um, is it true that some teachers do not have health insurance currently? Can the superintendent answer that? >> That's not on the agenda right now. >> It's a point of clarification. >> It's not on the agenda. >> It's a point of clarification. >> It's a point It is a point of clarification. I understand that you have certain rules that you follow, but according to the Brown Act and according to the rules that you approved, we can make those comments. So, I would like a quick response. >> Yep. >> It's not back and forth. >> It's not. That's why I'm asking for clarification. Okay, >> trusty teller, you're like half a year into this. Come on. >> Quickly. >> I asked my question. >> We have a big agenda quickly. >> Kit, can you talk to that? That >> is it true that some teachers >> K is going to respond? >> Yes, I'm happy to respond. Uh, in total, uh, we have rescended, I think, north of two dozen layoffs prior to June 30th on the certificated side of the house. We also uh rescended at this point about a dozen classified positions from layoffs, not all of them prior to the June 30th date. Of the reference that uh Mr. Denise made, we were aware of two errors that occurred. Four employees were yes, there was a mistake in processing and those employees should have been onboarded correctly without interruption to their service. I personally have reached out to them and had conversations with them. We've assured them that everything will be reinstated. Yes, Mr. Denise is correct. we will reimburse them for any out of pocket expenses and to clear the record we're aware of those too. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. So that's the end of 6.1. We're moving on to 6.2. Public comment on agenda items for those who want to speak now rather than when the item comes up. How many cards do we have? Okay, we have five cards. So that'll be two minutes per speaker. >> Delmare bill. Okay. Um, Elaine Parker, Elaine Loretta, Chris Webb, and Mr. Hubard, if you could please state which agenda item you are referring to um when you um when you announce yourself. It's 11 11.1. >> Hi, good evening everybody. Dr. Contrarus and President Turley, board members and audience. I'm Elaine Parker. I'm the somewhat new athletic director at Watsonville High School and um loving my job, which is totally awesome. Normally we're advocating for students, but today I'm here to speak about our longtime fabulous coach Roland Hedgepath, who has over 55 years coaching. It's amazing to think about that. That is so long. Um, and when we think of him, when we hear his name, the goat has to come to mind. Even though we're cats at Watsonville, he definitely is the the goat and he's much to be admired. He's a consumate professional. He's dedicated. He's kind. He's knowledgeable. And he is still coaching soccer in our community. And many of you have known him in the capacity longer than I have. Um he was my son's coach on the football team as the holder. So, he's not just in the soccer world. Um, I also knew him in when I was principal because we collaborated on a fundraiser and he was the poinsetta guy because he works tirelessly to get his teams to travel and play and compete in new stadiums and against students of different walks and cultures and in different countries even. Um he is super community oriented and family oriented and humble and we are backing um the motion to name Geyser Field at Hedgepath Stadium in honor of our coach um who most recently led our team to the NorCal Championship and state runner up. Um, and so again, I am new to this sporting world, but a longtime fan, and I, um, represent our students and staff in wanting to give this honor to our coach. Thank you. >> Good evening, board president Turley, board members, and Dr. Contrarus. I'm Elaine Leeretta. This is 211.1. I'm also the Watsonville High School Booster Club president and an alum of Watsonville High. Our organization is proud to propose dedicating our newly reconstructed stadium to an extraordinary coach and teacher, Roland Hedgepath. To honor the history of Watsonville High, we proposed Geyser Field at Hedgepath Stadium. Whenever Whenever I'm on Geyser Field, I observe athletes kissing their fingers and touching the monument to Coach Geyser. He's not been forgotten, nor those teams of legend. I'm also a student of history. History does not stay stagnant. It grows as time grows. Dedicating the stadium and field to honor two exemplary coaches is appropriate. Geyser's legacy remains a vital part of Wildcat spirit, but his grows. Dedicating the stadium to coach Hedgepath alongside the field dedicated to Geyser 70 years ago beautifully honors two exemplary leaders. Coach Geyser's legacy will not be diminished. It will be joined by another legend. Coach Hedgepath accepted this proposed honor on the condition that Coach Geyser's name remain and the Po Valley community be recognized for its critical role in the program's success. For 56 years, Coach Hedgepath has led with rare skill. As a former Watson High School principal, I observed closely his commitment to building teams that grow and work together. Coach Hedespath has managed the program with minimal conflict, high character expectations, and the utmost respect from teachers, players, coaches, and families. That is quite exceptional in athletics and even more so for elite teams. 722 overall wins, 126 losses, 116 ties. The math puts it pretty close to a thousand games, and I could be missing some. You'll hear the presentation late this evening proposing the dedication. Pay attention to the details. They make the case easy. Thank you. >> Thank you, Yay, Mr. Hub. >> Is that Mr. Hubard? Oh my god. >> Is he still around? Let >> Let me start off by saying I've known Roland and Purcell Hedgepath almost as long as I've known Pete and Ela Lagoretta, which is a long, long time. And I'm I'm very lucky for that. Um, you know, what we're doing, what you guys are doing, naming a stadium after a coach who's still coaching is just huge. It really is huge, but it's so welld deserved because Roland has done he's done so much for the community and the school and and all of us. And it's not just, you know, I I love all the victories. I I was the AD for 15 years and I traveled to Santa Cruz and Aptos and San Lorenzo and then down to Monterey and Selenus and I've seen an awful lot of big wins for Roland and some and some excruciating losses. Uh he's handled them all well. Um but still to name to name a stadium after a guy like that is just great and I and I think welld deserved. Um but if you if you talk to Roland and I have talked to him over the years many many times, he focuses on a couple things. number one youth soccer getting the kids out there on the field and you can go by Wville High School off of Blackburn and see him playing all the time and that's his influence. Uh and he's he's really proud of all of his students athletes who have gone through and they've gone to UC Davis or Santa Clara or San Jose State or Cal State Monterey Bay and and they've graduated and gone on to do great things. Many of them have come back. He that's that's what really is important to Roland. The the these kids getting an education that they probably wouldn't have gotten if they hadn't been playing soccer for Roland Hitchbath. He's really looked out after him. So, um it's an honor to be here and uh I'd like to thank Mr. Dodge for keeping us all on track. I I've read many many emails. Um so, it's it's just great. Thanks very much. >> Thank you. Uh yeah, for 8.6 um I think we should vote no on this. And actually, you know, one thing that I've struggled with is like when we bring in different consultants and the like, like Preston, for example, SSA, he said some things that have been things I said like months ago. And I don't understand why we got to um spend money to like get an outside person to to listen to them. If it would help you, I will take perdm pay and I would rather you just pay me, we'll meet and I'll tell you about Model Renaissance and let's do that instead of 8.6. 8.7 um I'm also inclined to to not do it. There might be some changes coming and it might end up being a waste of money. 8.9 I think we should just staff better. I think that what I feel like this is a band-aid to try and overcome that we're not staffing special ed appropriately. Um I think 812. My question is did this go through curriculum council? I have gone to some curriculum council meetings this last year and I didn't see this type of substance go through and I would have liked to. I would have that's I think the proper role of that committee. Um also for 8:15 I think we should not vote for that one either. And on that one I would say we should just collaborate more like we should just be meeting like the superintendent and the union president should meet weekly. That was a thing for the longest time. I don't know why we got to spend money on um you know effective schools solutions and calamy and all that. Why do we have to spend so much? Why do we need these other positions like like Mark and this like I don't understand why there were other people here that have done this job and that wasn't necessary. Also, I know one of the trustees this school past school year had said like well it's harder to find it's oh man to find a new superintendent. You know what's harder in a new superintendent? Rebuilding programs. Let me tell you, as somebody who's there for Model Renaissance, it's been very hard. Even when like we have the same goal, but because of like some pride thing where we can't learn from somebody who maybe doesn't have a doctorate or something, like we're we're stalled and then we're just stuck spinning our wheels. Is that the last one? All right. Thank you. That moves us on to employee organizations. First up is Parro Valley Federation of Teachers. >> That's five minutes, right? >> Mr. Denise, do you have your timer? >> I'm setting mine. >> And we are starting our time. All right. Good evening. Thank you to the board and superintendent for granting the PVFT time to address you tonight. Special thanks to Ian and Emily and all the PVFT members who showed up during the summer to represent while I was away on AFT and CFT business. PVFT members across the district are preparing for another school year in the only way we know how, which is to put our best foot forward and fight for our students, no matter the obstacles. Um, our members are excited, engaged, and ready to meet our next group of students and empower them to unlock their potential. It is an honor to be president of this organization. Um, I look forward to rising up and meeting the challenges of this moment alongside each and every one of you. The district administration is so focused on their image, but they fail to recognize that their image is a reflection of how they treat the their community and employees. Um, I do want to highlight a lot of the areas where we have been able to work together because despite what Dr. Contrus says, we actually can collaborate. Um, we've agreed to a signing bonus for new special education hires and enabled them to earn their credential on the district's dime. We have members getting paid to attend literacy, AVID, and AP trainings. We also have the work that members are doing outside of their workday to earn their letters certification getting paid. The PVFT is not your enemy, and we are here to work with you to ensure that today's dollars are going to today's students. Together, we can create the conditions for our students to thrive while enabling our members to afford to live in the community that we love so much. Unfortunately, a lot of this collaboration gets overshadowed when the district's leadership has mismanaged staffing, student access to quality mental health supports, safety, and our negotiations. The only discernable and articulable point that's coming from the district's side of the table is they have to place a cap on our benefits, which is a pay cut. The district is fighting for a pay cut while they're outsourcing jobs. We are fighting for our students. We are fighting for lower class sizes, instructional aid support for our kinder classes, lower specialed case loads, and a case management prep, increased salaries, and maintaining the benefits that allow us to put down roots in this beautiful community. The decisions of this board and district have hurt our students and staff. I just mentioned recently we learned that people who received a layoff notice only for it to be rescended are without healthcare. Um, I've become aware of more just since the two this morning. So, this is going to be something where if we don't really do our diligence, we're going to be trying to play whack-a-ole and find these people who go to the doctor to have a baby and are told, "Sorry, you don't have health care." It's great that they're going to be reimbursed, but what if they have to put that on their credit card and then they gain interest? Or what if they can't pay their rent? like y'all screwed up and now these people are suffering when you could have just never voted layoffs in the first place because you've had to call everybody to offer them positions back. Like you've created a boom and bust cycle through your own mismanagement of this district. We're facing a mental health crisis and I've uh heard board members and district administrators feed me some total BS line that sounds something like, "Well, we have students committing suicide with our current counseling staffing." And there's not necessarily a correlation or evidence that shows if we take counseling supports away that we'll see more suicides. So, suicides are happening already. We can just take counselors away. That is something that people from this board and district office have basically said to me. This type of attitude will never be good enough for the PVFT. So, we will keep fighting. We're having a rally on August 10th at Green Valley and Main Street at 7 in the morning. So, show up early. We have our school sites collectively working to set boundaries to support our students learning conditions. We will keep organizing if this superintendent and school board pushes us to a strike. We don't want to, but you bet we will be ready. On August 17th, our site rep meeting will be open to the general membership where we're going to be voting on our endorsements for school board. We move that up early so that we can back candidates and get them elected. Justice has never belonged to those who waited quietly for someone else to act. It has always belonged to ordinary people who found the courage to stand together. I have confidence that the PVF team members in this district are those people. Let us move forward with integrity, with compassion, and with an unwavering commitment to putting our students first. Let us choose collaboration whenever possible, and conviction whenever necessary. Thank you. >> Next up is CSEA, California School Employees Association. Do we have anybody representing CSEA? Nope. Do we have anybody representing Communication Workers of America, CWA, the Substitutes? No. Okay. Moving on to consent item eight. Are there any public speakers to consent agenda? There are no public speakers. I got a lot to say about this. and it >> Yes. And it doesn't matter what the order uh Brandon Denise Brandon Denise Oh yeah. I signed up for like >> you can speak to each of them in your two minutes. >> No, I can go >> in consent. It's one It's one time >> I will stand up there and make you shut down. >> I'll do that. >> Trusty Turley. >> Trusty Medina. >> Parliamentary inquiry. Um uh for the consent agenda it if they want to speak to something it is two minutes correct >> it's two minutes for consent agenda >> collectively >> can you verify that really quick or with the superintendent so we could have an accurate account for that >> give me two minutes per item that's how this is going to go >> okay we're going to pause for about two minutes while I have conference. >> We are back in session. I stand corrected. We will hear two minutes per card. And how many cards do we have? >> I read the rules. Okay, we have eight cards. And would you like to call the names of the eight cards? >> Do I have to call your name? >> Yes, you do. >> Okay. Brandon, Denise, Brandon, Denise, Brandon, Denise, Brandon, Denise, Chris Webb, Brandon, Denise. Just mix it up. I have to Okay. Okay, I've started a two-minute timer. I am speaking to item 8.7. There is a reason why I put in so many speaker cards, and I'm hoping that the board is listening and is willing to defer some of these items and ask the following questions. So, 8.7 is a $77,000 proposal with a consultant group called Future Management Systems for Coaching and Leadership Development. This is coming from a discretionary block grant and I believe general fund. So discretionary block grants are discretionary. You can choose where to spend them. You don't have to choose to spend a discretionary block grant funding on $77,000 worth of coaching. So here's some questions that I have when I see things like this. Did this go to a bid? How did the district learn of future management systems? Are there any connections or crossover with our current district leadership? What is the explicit source of the discretionary block grant? And does the term discretionary not mean that we couldn't exercise the discretion to use this money to support staffing and studentf facing positions? Couldn't we use discretionary block grant funding to pay for a $250 palace stipend for all of our teachers to be able to purchase supplies? So instead, you're going to pay Contras, who's on her phone right now, she's going to get three coaching sessions during cabinet where they're going to have a super coach fly in and help them facilitate their cabinet meeting for a cool cost of $77,000. Discretionary, it could go to students and staff instead of going to Contraras. So please find out who are these people? How did we get to know them? Is she lining her friends's pockets with more money? Time. Now I am speaking to 8.9 $36,000. Who is Don Berlin? What is the source of the funds? We have four assistant directors of SULPA. We just hired an executive director of Selpa and a director of SULPA. So we've hired more Selpa administrators. Why do we need Don Berlin to come hold their hand? Who is Don Berlin? Is she friends with Dr. Contrarus? Does she know Mark? Like, who are these people? Where are they coming from? What is the source of the $36,000 going to Don Berlin? That was item 8.9. Now, let's try this again. Cancel. Restart. 8.11. This one I just wanted to ask. This is a lawsuit. So, we're engaging in a contract with a law firm. Is there anything the district can share about this lawsuit that you can actually share public record? I'm genuinely asking. If not, I understand the legal process, but how much money do we anticipate spending? This looks like more of an open-ended item. Um, I think that's 8.14 or 8.11 8.14. Couldn't read my own handwriting there. Um, so I'd like to know anything about that lawsuit that you can tell us. Understanding if you can. New time 8.15 $40,000 of discretionary funds for Violet strategies and strategic communications and advisory services. Who the hell are they? How why are we spending $40,000 of discretionary funds to help our public information officer who he works hard? He gets a lot of misinformation out there. He's a good guy. I like him. He works hard. He doesn't need a $40,000 consultant. But I do think part of me is like, damn, when we had the power outage at Aptos High last year, who remembers that? And who remembers parents going to drop their kids off and finding out that, okay, well, we have school today, but there's no power. You're going to be in the dark. Okay, well, we don't have power, so now you don't have school today, so turn around and take your kids home. Like, you have bundled communication, so I can understand why you'd like a little support, but just use your people. We don't 40,000. The name alone, Violet Strategies and Strategic Communications and Advisory Services, $40,000 discretionary block grant fund could go to our palace money. Okay, time again. 8.22. Damn, my handwriting. 8.22. Again, I actually have questions about this one that I'd like you to pull and ask because I can kind of see some validity here. This is $42,000 from the general fund for e-ate consulting. So I would like to know how much revenue does the district anticipate and will that be offset will that offset the cost of this contract? So if we're spending $42,000 for -ate consulting and we think it's going to bring us 60 100 200,000 like hell yeah. If it's going to offset the cost let's go ahead. But if we're just throwing money around and we don't know it's going to come back, these are general fund dollars. $42,000. Bill's numbers are way wrong. I could tell you $42,000. You could get a couple ECE teachers with that for sure. Um time again, 8.27 field trip policy. I've missed the last couple board meetings. So, I don't know if this one came forward as a first read and then it gets approved on or if this is the type of board policy that needs to go through that process. If not, I get it. If so, let's pull it so we can do a first read and move on. Um, I also want to know what was the process in developing the field trip policy. Were teachers consulted? Were members consulted, students, the community? or did we just kind of pull this one because it's a standard boiler plate. Does it need a first read? Like let's ask those questions. Um and then I have one more >> 8.28 Leading Literacy Consulting LLC $157,000. And I don't see a funding source attached to this. I looked I know how to read these agendas. Are these Title One dollars? Are they restricted dollars? Are they discretionary block grant dollars? Like where is the $157,000 for leading consulting, leading literacy consulting? So if you add all of these contracts up, you're at least just looking at the ones that are discretionary and general fund, $195,000 worth of contracts just set to be rubber stamped. And if you include that 8.28 28 $352,000 worth of contracts set to be approved tonight. When we are cutting student mental health supports, when we're laying off counselors, when we're laying off mental health clinicians, when we're taking our $250 palace stipend, there are certain board members who talk a lot about fiscal responsibility. It is not fiscally responsible to give Contrarus a blank check, to hand her friends money, or to do things like consultants who are going to tell you how to run a meeting. Didn't you guys actually appoint Mark specifically because she was all about him and she knew how great he was, but he needs a coach or someone to hold his hand? Like, make it make sense. I do appreciate you giving me the time because that's the way it should have happened. And I didn't even take two minutes per item. So, thank you. >> So, it's Chris Webb, then Brandon, right? Brandon's coming back. >> Oh, is that it? Okay. >> No, it was >> Go ahead, Chris. >> Okay. It was 828. I It reminded me of one thing. Um >> Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. I'll give it to you. All right. >> Chris, >> no, it was the wrong one was put in here. Oh, got it. Got it. Got it. >> So, that was public comment on consent agenda. Um, >> trust, >> are are just a second. Are there any um items which board members wish to defer? >> Oh, can I make the motion on that? >> Yes. >> Um, I would like defer items um 8.6, 6 8.7 8.9 8.14 8.15 8.22 8.27 and 8.28. >> I heard a motion to approve consent agenda moving the following items to deferred consent. 8.6 8.7 8.9 8.14 8.15 8.22 22, 8.27, and 8.28. Is there a second to that motion? Motion fails. What? Second? >> Yes. Second. >> Okay. So, there is a motion and a second to approve consent with the items that I just listed. Moved to deferred. All those in favor signify by saying I. I see one. That was an I. Okay, I see two. All those opposed signify by saying I. That's three to two. Motion does not carry. Um, okay. Anybody else want to try a motion? >> You want to make a motion? >> Looks like we're going to be at a deal breaker all night. >> Well, let's let's try a little bit and see what we can get. I'd like to make a motion to pass the consent agenda items as is. >> I hear a motion to pass the consent agendum as is. Is there a second? >> I'll second. I hear a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. That is three. Those opposed signify by saying I. That's two. >> We are three too. >> So this is where bargaining comes in. This is absolutely where bargaining comes in. Okay, make a new motion >> here. I'll I'll I'll actually do us one better cuz I know you all don't want to be here late. How about we just do this? >> Let's move I moved to completely remove and vote no in totality 8.6 8.7 8.9 8.14 8.15 8.22 8.27 8.28 as the motion. So you all don't have to stay late. We don't have to answer questions. We could just vote no across those eight items. >> Okay. I hear a motion to approve the agenda removing the 1 2 3 4 5 six seven eight items. Is there a second to that motion? Uh I do not hear a second to that motion. Fails for lack of a second. Is there an alternate motion? Anybody want to give it a try? >> Some of y'all are up for re-election. This looks really bad. >> Anybody want Okay, I'm going to try an alternate then, huh? How are we going to do this? Um, okay. I move to approve the agenda as written. Pulling for discussion under deferred. This is going to take me a minute. Sorry. Is low. That's important. Okay, I'm I'm in the middle of a Do you have a suggestion? Okay, >> put it on the mic. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> So 8.28 funding is from um title one >> 28. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve as written moving the one that doesn't have the funding source which I think was 8.28. I don't know why. >> Please don't call. >> Is it 28? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Right. Um >> Yeah. >> Yes. And the list is right there. >> Is not listed. Okay. I really don't want to do this, but I guess we're going to do it because we got to get some stuff approved and moved on. So, I'm going to make a motion to approve consent removing not Coco. >> If if there's questions that I can assist with Joy for you, >> I think maybe we have to wait until would have to pull the item so we could have a discussion on that. >> You can't make up rules up here. Okay. >> I'm just losing process. >> I don't think you were recognized. Dr. Contas, thank you. >> I'm losing the meeting. Okay. >> I don't be recognized to speak. No, I don't. >> Please, please, please. Okay. I'm going to make a motion to approve the agenda removing 86 87 89 814 815 822 827 828 moving it to deferred. Any second? >> I'll second. >> Thank >> It's the same. >> It was the same thing I said. >> All those in favor, and this isn't pulling. This is moving into deferred. All those in favor signify by saying I. One, two, three, four, five. Okay, motion passes. 5 02. All right, everything's approved except 86. Now we're moving into item nine which is deferred. So 8.6 um approve amen amendment to upwell services agreement HA high elementary school. Um is there a specific question on this item? >> Yeah I have a question on this. This is 8.6 correct. Okay. Um, so the purchase order report and you know 8.1 has five separate 50,000 purchase orders to Upwell in 3-week window and in addition to tonight's 50,000 agreement. What is the district's total committed spend with upwell upwell across sites for 27 and why has that total never been presented to this board as a single number? I also have one question I'd like to add to that. Is this a request from that site to use their school dollars? So, Upwell is uh coaching for parent engagement and these the reason why it's not coming in totality is because the school sites are using their site funding to pay for this as a strategy that their school site with their school in conjunction with their school site council has deemed as a strategy to use to help increase parent engagement. So they're bringing this forward with their school site title one dollars or their community school dollars or a com combination of both. And this is a site strategy that they've engaged in because the dollar amount is at that dollar amount it comes through to the school board. And because it comes in separate contracts because they're site contracts, that's why it's coming in batches like that because they're making the decisions with their school site council or else turning them into us at different times. So, we have worked with them before, correct? >> Yes. This has been ongoing work with Upwell for several years now. >> And have we gotten a report on this consultant, their deliverables, how they've engaged with the community? Because I don't think I've seen one. >> Um, Mr. Berman, can you answer that question? >> Yeah, I'll um It's Upwell. We haven't contracted with. It was formerly um I I'll get you the name. It was a different one, but it's the same people. And it's the same people, and they have they've done a really great job. They're the ones that come and help support the family the parent family conference. Um I I don't have uh numbers for you, but I can I can with the sites. >> Yeah. And the reason why I ask is because in exhibit A, it lists 10 virtual sessions and 11 on-site engagements for 50,000. So roughly 2,400 per engagement per day with no reduction. So if sessions do not occur, how do do do we retain that money or do they still get paid out? I believe if they don't happen then he he would only invoice for the ones that he does. >> Is that okay? Is that explicitly written in the contract? And I'm asking because I know the answer. >> I'm not sure. >> It's no. Okay. Um exhibit A includes developing a plan for the 2728 school year. So So why does a one-year agreement prescript its own renewal before any evaluation of this year's work? I believe that's that's to support the development of the SPA this the school plan um with full family engagement. So it's not just a copy and paste document that it's that fully takes into consideration all the shareholders. >> Okay. And then who at the district administrators um administers this contract dayto-day and how will the district verify each of the 11 site engagements actually occurred before releasing payment? Um I believe it'll be a combination uh now with changes between myself and school leadership and with finance. >> Okay. And uh so you don't have any documentation from any of the schools stating like hey we really enjoyed this service um or is there evaluation attached to this >> there? There is um I I I can get you more information about it, but the reason why we still work with them is because we started um working with this particular consultant uh in 2020 and principles themselves and their teams have worked um and and uh proliferated the work at different schools because of the benefits that they've gotten with their with their work with them. Um so I believe this is the 15th school um in some form that has worked with this individual consultant because of the results that they're getting with their family engagement. >> Got it. Okay. So my concern is not whether Upwell does good work even though I haven't seen what work they've done. Um my concern is that this board has never seen the whole UPW relationship in one place and the Title One dollars deserve that transparency. So um that's why I will be voting no. >> I I do want to make one note is that be if title one dollars if it are being used for this it does go into every single school's single plan for student achievement. Uh any dollar spent in the single plan for student achievement does have to be evaluated against data and shown that the data is moving because of the strategy that the um school is engaged in. And if the data isn't moving in the way they believe the strategy they're engaged in um is it is intended to impact that data then the school site council along with a principal is supposed to let go of that strategy. Single plans for student achievement come before the board every year annually. That plan the money expended and the um data it impacts is all included in that plan. So that has actually come before the board annually and that would include if the title expenditures are for upwell um that would be you would be seeing that. >> So just to clarify you have produced evaluations for this consultant >> if it is in the title plan. >> No contraas let's not do this. Yes or no? >> Let her answer the question. If if Upwell is in their title plan, it would have been evaluated as part of their single plan for student achievement if they are using title dollars. >> And was that presented to the board? >> It would have been the single plans for student achievement are all presented to the board. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other comments on this item? Anybody want to make a motion to approve this item? >> Oh, I'm sorry, Trusty Dodge. I just like to make a motion with 8.6, but as Trusty Medina says, we need to keep better receipts and results. >> Okay, I hear a motion to approve with guidance that we would like to make sure somebody's checking receipts and results. Is there a second to that motion >> agreeing with Trustee Dodge, I make second motion. >> Thank you. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> One, two, three, four. All those voting no. That is 41 02. Motion passes and that moves us on to 8.7 and that is approved proposal for future management system with Lyall Kurtman. Did was there a specific question? I think you originally wanted to bring that out. Yeah, just we're being asked to pay $77,500 for an executive coaching for the superintendent and her cabinet. And there is no contract. There is a two-page letter, no start date, no end date, no termination clause, no way to hold anyone accountable and payment set up as a four flat quarterly installment of $19,375 whether or not this session happens. That's in the contract. This is the second year of this arrangement and the board has never received a single report on what the year produced. Our teachers are in negotiations. Our classified workers are um are working as hard as they can with little resources and we have no chief business officer. And the item in front of us is more coaching for the people at the top recommended by the office that receives it. So I I cannot explain that to my constituents and parents in the area. You know, it as I'm being prepared, as I'm preparing for courses at Cababrio College, I could teach somebody about film any day. Any day. I could sit them in a room and teach them about film. But if they're not out in the ground and in the field and collecting that information and getting that hands-on experience, they're not going to progress forward. And that's exactly what you're doing with these people. You're telling them, "We're going to get somebody for you. That way when it doesn't work, we could blame the consultant, right? It's a defer. It's a deferment. And honestly, if the cabinet level can't take the time in order to actually learn like our teachers do when new systems come, I don't see why we should be throwing money at them when they haven't demonstrated anything to us with these evaluations or these contracts. So, um, I'm going to vote no. And also, let's not forget the superintendent made us pay her 15K for not attending her executive trainings, and now she's asking us to pay almost triple that for her and her cabinet. That's wild. Thank you. >> Any other comments on this item? Is there a motion to approve this item? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead, Trusty Flynn. I'm just curious um are there other consultants that were looked at? Um why this one? Um what's the lens that was looked at looked through when looking for this consultant? Um just from doing the little research that I have, I'm just concerned that um there might be a a narrow view. Um, and I want to make sure that whoever is um helping to coach and manage has um an understanding of our community. >> Yeah. So, >> and maybe reflects to them. This is an organizational coach. Uh, he actually works very closely with Michael Fen. That's a name that most educators know. He's written a number of books. This consultant has actually written a book called Coherent. Um, it's all about systems management and how you help to organize systems, which is something that our district has been in need in as you know. So, it's a good fit for our district. Um, this is we actually have read the book. Um, this is a really a standard rate for professional development and I firmly believe that everyone needs professional learning and professional development at every level. this contract, although I I'm not sure why it seems to read cabinet. Uh, everyone from cabinet to coordinators, directors, supervisors at the district level to our principles is working with Mr. Kurtman. Uh, we have all been looking at leadership, different leadership qualities and we have we all have coaching sessions on different leadership sessions with him. We did this last year and we're we hope to continue the work um and build on it for this year and it's been very very popular um with everyone who has worked with him. In fact, different departments and sites are wanting to expand the work with him with their own um dollars that they have. We are expected um as a district, especially because we're in district assistance for our low performance uh to spend money on professional learning for from everyone throughout the system. The dollars that this is being used for are dollars that you would not be able to spend for ongoing expenditures like salaries. It comes out of discretionary spending or what we have also been calling our unrestricted funds. So or I sorry our restricted funds. So this is this is money meant for professional development. We have to spend it somewhere and um just like you know AJ Crayville and effective school boards has said if you don't have the expertise inside of your system you go out and find it. Um I I really can't say enough about um about Mr. Pman's work and what he continues to do to help build our leadership. And I I think every cabinet member would probably say the same for um how he's supporting them as well as the others who are looking to use their own department and school money to continue the work. >> I agree that um professional development is important. I just would like to um I want to go back to like yours comparing across. we always have to do comparative studies of like did you look at what other um companies or things would pay for this similar type of work so that we know that we're not paying someone some way out of the ballpark and so this is comparative to uh different people we would work with like Doug Reeves uh creative leadership solutions solution tree things people of that nature Michael Fen if we brought him in >> the thing I was going to say is just that I would like to see um some consultants that are really reflective of the community that they're working with. >> Do any other trustees have comments or questions on this item? >> I actually have a a follow-up question really quick. So the payment bug selected is four flat quarterly automated clearing house installments of 19,375 regardless of services delivered and the pay when services are provided option was left unselected. So I I'm just curious who made that um election and what protects the district if sessions do not occur because it's not clearly stated in the contract. >> So I didn't process the contract that came from Herardo's office. Um, and we've never missed any sessions at all with Lyall Kurtman. And I can't foresee how we would miss anything with him. These are professionally scheduled days. We schedule them out ahead of time. They're on the calendars. I I just don't understand what how we would miss that. It's not like, oh, we feel like meeting with him today or or let's just cancel that. They're all scheduled out ahead and in advance. Your office seems to do that quite a lot. So, um I would >> that's your time is already up. We had already moved on to Trusty Flynn. >> Okay. Uh Dodge Junior or Navaro. Anybody want to make a motion? You know, I just wanted to reiterate that, you know, one of the things that as a board we've been trying to focus on is bringing our district up to speed, bringing our district forward where clearly our students are needing some needing some more support. Our students are underperforming where they should be. Um, a lot of districts have made the comeback from COVID and our district has not. And so I am happy to involve be involved in professional development at all levels. Like I like the fact that our teachers have been doing professional development all week. We have a lot of new cabinet members. This seems I I did my research on this company. They're look like they they're pretty mainstream standard like the vanilla choice of all of this and have been working with 700 different districts across the United States. So I I will make a motion to approve. >> Is there a second to the motion to approve this item? I'll make the second. All those in fi favor signify by saying I. Okay. All those opposed. Motion fails. 2302. Would anybody like to make an alternate motion? I'm not opposed to professional development at all. Um, I just >> Excuse me. It's her turn. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I just am curious of um other options that could um exist. There's a lot more professional development on the rest. >> You haven't been recognized. It's not your turn to speak. >> And you don't know the rules. So, where are we going? >> It's not your turn right now. >> Exactly. >> Um, when is the first one of these trainings anticipated? >> We've been working with Mr. Kurtman ongoing since I started here. Um, and I believe we have some ongoing ones because he works both one-on-one with people in the district, many people in the district. And then we also have small group and larger group trainings. We have lots of trainings that he provides. Um, so I we may even have someone may be meeting with him next week for I I'm certain they probably are. So it is probably this is really unfortunate. Um, you know, I I feel like when we select someone, we are professionals in our field. We're experts at what we do and we know what we need and we're working hard to get better at what we do. And I think our data shows that we are making gains and so I feel like it's really unfortunate not to have this approved tonight. And it's unfortunate we haven't made a contract with PBFT. I think that should also be expressed. >> You're not recognized. It is unfortunate but >> okay. It appears that there will be no approval tonight of 8.9 that I'm sorry 8.7. That moves us on to 8.9. Approve agreement with Dawn Berlin, an independent contractor for professional services. Was there a specific question that you had, Mr. Medina? Trusty Medina. >> Thank you. It's Trusty Medina. Um the contract on the agenda for this items do not describe the same deal. The contract is in our packet cap this work at 100 hours at $150 an hour, which is $15,000. The agenda asks us to approve up to $35,000. Both cannot be true. The contract was also fully signed by the district staff on July 14th, 3 weeks before this board was asked to approve. And the copy in our packet is missing text. Um, our our students with extensive support needs deserve strong programs and they also um deserve a district that can produce a clean contract that says what we are buying, for how much, what outcomes. Um, so I'll be voting no and asking staff to bring this back um correctly if they want it to get approved. >> Are there other trustees with comments on this item? >> Um, could you ask the question? >> I just wanted to make sure. Um, so my understanding for this item is that since we're having a large transition over in our special ed department that these two folks, Don and Leslie, are the um the through line because they've been working with the program the entire time. Can you elaborate on that? >> Yes, that's correct. uh Lesie Kodon and Don Berlin uh when we had no uh special education administrators at the district level really helped to carry us through last year along with Heather Gorman. Heather Gorman has now retired and we have a completely new and stellar I might add um staff at the special education district level. However, Lesie and Dawn together have a lot of history of what happened over the last year and we were making some very significant uh improvements and changes and so we thought it would be best and in conjunction with our new staff. They also agreed that it would be best in the interim to have some support with Leslie and Don especially because there are so many legal um legalities within special education that we don't want to make sure we don't miss anything. Thank you. Um, would you anticipate that this would be the last year of this contract? >> Yes. Thank you. I feel strongly that each one of us, I believe, has said we're concerned about our special ed and you're bringing us something to continue some good work that has just started. Um, and it seems to me if we want to prioritize special ed as something important to us, we want to continue supporting this work. Oh, Denn, did you have a comment? on this. No. Okay. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve 8.9? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> That looks like four to me. All those opposed one. Uh so that the motion carries 4102. That moves us on to 8.14 which is approve Davis Bangston and Young APLC agreement. Davis Bangston and Young will pro Oh, I don't need to read all of that. You all have that in front of you. Um, does anyone have any board member have any comments on any of these items? Trusty Flynn, >> it seems as if this is a necessary thing. So, I will um as soon as everybody talks, make a motion to approve. Thank you. Any other trustee comments? Trusty Medina. Um, I wanted to pull this more to get more information because I know, um, if you read the agenda last time, we already approved Lozano Smith and another law firm. So, I'm curious why we're getting another one. And, you know, the superintendent has also tried um, hiring another law firm to kind of come after me. So, I want to know if this is the same contract that she is utilizing with public funding to come after a sitting board member or if this is completely separate from that. And I'd love to hear from the superintendent. >> I don't know what you're talking about in terms of hiring someone to come after you. >> Really? >> I do not. >> Facebook later today, y'all. >> Excuse me. And as for this, I don't think this is something we're going to discuss right now. We're asking the board for approval for uh this particular attorney to work with this particular case. >> And for what reason? Like c can you just explain a little bit more about the it's right here. So you could you could read it if you want. >> Yeah, you can ask me later about this. >> We can read what's on the agenda, but people have already said that. Um, but as far as what the case is, I don't think we can talk about that in open. >> It's what's Yeah, read what's there and that's what we're asking for. >> I believe it's written in in um a way that anybody who read it would be able to understand what's in there. I don't think and I don't think >> you think people could read legal ease like this. >> I don't believe we should ask somebody who is not attorney to interpret legal ease. Um, >> I hope that applies to you. >> Uh, it I keep trying to practice law, but I am continually reminded that I'm not qualified. Would anybody like Okay, we got to stop this conversation. It's unrelated. Um, would anyone like to make a motion to approve 8.14? >> I'll make a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. Uh, that looks like four to me. All those opposed. That was a Yeah, I did see your hand, right, Daniel? Okay. All those opposed. All those abstaining. Uh, not voting, I guess, is the same as abstaining. So, I'm going to call that 412. Motion passes. And that moves us on to 8.15. approved professional services agreement with Violet Strategies for Strategic Communications and Advisory Services. The board is asked to approve a professional services agreement and Violet Strategies to provide supplemental strategic communication and advisory services from August 6th, 2026 through January 31, 2027. Um, do any trustees have any questions or comments on this item? Trusty Glenn, >> I would just like to know a little bit more about this. >> Yes. So, what we're seeing and really started seeing a lot of through the summer is a tremendous increase in public information requests. uh when we had Alysia Himenez here working in um as the community school specialist and one of the things she had done as our public information officer too but then she continued that work when she was in the community school specialist was a huge assistance with all the public information requests. We've seen a tremendous uptick. Alicia has retired and we really need some additional assistance. The person who's responsible for the public information requests is Alejandro Chavez and it's putting a hindrance into the amount of work he's able to do because he's doing a lot of public information requests. And so we'd like to have some assistance so that we can continue with our communications as the board has identified that as an area of need for our district coming out of district office. And so that is what why we're asking to have this contract approved. It is coming from um discretionary funds restricted monies. >> Thank you. Excuse me. >> Do any other trustees have comments on this item? >> Yeah. Um >> Trustee Medina. >> Thank you. Uh Dr. Contus, I hear what you're saying. So are you saying that the current PIO does not have the skills nor the capacity to complete these requests? Is that what I'm hearing? >> He has the skills and he has the capacity absolutely to engage in the public information requests. However, there is a tremendous volume of them. There's timelines as you know associated with getting that work done and it takes up a a lot of time and takes them away from other work that we also need to do. I I know I I had to even put in a request and I'm a board trustee because I can't get information from the superintendent. So, I I'm sorry, but I I think when you're hiring these people, you should know that people are going to be requesting information. That's a given. People do that. So, I don't see why we need to invest $40,000 into this when you have a deputy superintendent that we just approved who should be able to slot in where those gaps are happening. >> So, the public information requests that I'm referring to are actually ones that are coming from big entities that things like Muckro. >> Oh, so you'll respond to those. Got it. >> Excuse me. >> No, we have to respond to all of them. >> I know I'm taking you to quarters. You don't >> Yes. And um in addition to that, there's other things that have to get done that are compliance that is compliance work from other positions that you're also citing. >> And have you worked with this person before? >> No, I have not worked with this person before. >> Those are all the questions I have. >> Any other trustees with comments or questions on this item? >> Would anyone like to make a motion to approve this item? I hear a motion. I'll second the motion. All those in favor signify by saying I. That's looking like three. That's looking like four in favor. Um any opposed? Okay. Four in favor, one against, and two absent. Motion carries. That moves us to let's see that was 15. I lost my page. There it is. That moves us to 822. 21 21 22 okay uh 8.22 22 approve agreement with David Sandere for R or for e- rate consulting services for fiscal year 2026 2027. Do any trustees have any questions or comments on this item? Trustee Medina. >> Um how much revenue do we anticipate that this person is going to bring back? And are we going to break even because we're paying them this fee or do you expect that to be a little bit more um that you're hoping to receive back? >> Misty, do you want to answer that for us? >> Sure. Uh so the -ate um consultant oversees $3.4 million in funding that we receive over a 5-year period. So he negotiates and and manages that. We with once it's approved, it covers 90% of the $3.4 4 million in funding. So, we pay 10% of whatever we're funded. And then in this last school year, he actually uh went through the AT&T billing because that's another area that he oversees. And he found that AT&T over build PVUSD over a two-year period, $187,000. And so that was fully credited back to us in May. And so he kind of paid for himself uh in the first in that year. He has been the consultant for the last five years that I'm aware of. and uh he's fully been uh managing the rate uh with the help of the infrastructure team. >> Thank you. >> Up with a follow-up question. What happened? You said $187,000. Where did that money go when it was returned? >> So, it's actually not a check back to us. It's a credit. So, we will not pay the AT&T bill until we catch up with that. So, we have $187,000 credit on the AT&T bill. >> Okay. And was this regarding the cell tower? >> Had nothing >> nothing to do with the cell tower. Okay. >> - funds uh 90% of your uh the AT&T um bills and so he found that they were over billing over the last four years. >> Okay, cool. >> Thank you, Missy. >> Any other trustees have a question or comment? >> Do they also um look at PG&E and other utilities? >> Unfortunately, no. Uh this is strictly for uh category one and two for through -ate funding. So it has to do with communication and infrastructure. >> Got it. Thank you. Uh would anyone like to make a motion to approve this item? >> I'll make a motion to approve and a second. I hear a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. That look like four to me. All opposed. >> All abstaining. Okay. Motion carries. 412. Uh, that moves us on to 827. Approve school sponsored field trip policy 6153. Do any trustees have any comments or questions on this item? >> I said 27. 27. I think I saw a hand over here before you. Thank you. Okay. Uh Trusty Naro, >> I think there's a question about whether this was a readout already and I just wanted to reiterate that this was actually at a former meeting. Brandon, I think you were not there, but we did already have a readout of this. >> Thank you. >> That that was my question. So, this was put put on report and discussion before it came to consent. Okay. I'll need to look back at that. A question that I have is more of why did it get brought to us now? Um because I've heard some things. So I just want to know if somebody could explain that why this is being brought now to be updated. >> There are actual actually se several reasons why it was being brought up, but the main one was and as we've been going through our board policies, we have several different policies that are have not been updated. Not sever have a lot of policies that need updating. um and that end up being out of compliance for different reasons. Field trip was one of them. So, this one needed to be updated. We also wanted to do some work on our field trips. Um mainly because our field trips were causing some problems with transportation because we weren't having a lot of availability. One for field trips, one home to school transportation was at odds with that. And then uh charter buses was kind of coming into play. And that also had to do with contract issues um with with our transportation department. So there's a whole lot of things that were um playing into the field trip policy that led us to say maybe we need to look at the field trip policy, start with the policy there and um and then start working on how we're going to carry out that policy. So where we are in the process is we brought this forward to you on May 8th as a first read. We're bringing it back for approval. Um, now there were a couple things that from board feedback I believe that we did some a little bit of updating too in this policy. Um, and we do have a we did have a field trip committee. We still have an active field trip committee because board policy is one thing. That's like the overarching laws and legalities. The administrative regulation, as I've explained before, is how we carry out the policy. And that's more our internal mechanisms um like things like um h what what is the permission slip going to look like? Um how are we going to have people request the field trip? How might our field trips align to standardsbased field trips? How many field trips should each grade level get? Those kinds of things. And so there is a committee of um teachers and I think some students are chiming into that because we always include especially our upper grade students um and even parents asking parents about this um in our field trip committee. >> Okay, cool. Yeah. >> So we're still working on parts of it. It's not all the way done yet. >> Okay. >> On the administrative regulation piece >> I'm going to speak. Got anything else? Good. All right. Um, the reason why I'm asking and I want assurances because it sounds like Po Middle School triggered this, um, because of their Washington DC field trip. And I would like, okay, I I get you're saying no, but the perception out there is very differently. So, um, and and the reason why I'm bringing this up is that field trip to Washington DC has been around way before you even came here, which is what, like a year and six months. Um, so I want to make sure that you are supporting them opposed to cancelling that trip. Um, and I want those assurances right now that that's going to happen. >> Yes. So field trips like trips to Washington DC are not school-based field trips. Those are trips that the students from our schools may attend, but we work with outside organizations on those. People from the school may work with outside organizations on those. So, are they still going to be able to go on the trip? >> So, I don't know what's happening with that part of the field trip. I don't think there's any barriers to them going on the field trip. Um, >> you just listed a barrier. >> What? >> You said there an outside organization needs to go on them on this trip. >> No, they they do part I believe that they've always partnered with an outside organization. Okay. I don't I don't think that PMS has always done that. I'm a little I'm a little aware what some of those things are, but usually it's outside of even the school year. They're not go They go in the summer. >> Yeah, they go because they're fundraising the year and then in the summertime they go off kind of like Upwardbound and all those other programs. Mark has >> Yeah, Trusty Medina, actually the the language under the non-district sponsored student trip is actually beneficial because I would say putting the parameters on what a staff member should and shouldn't do in the promotion, you can get yourself in hot water on an outside entity that is non-district sponsored actively promoting that. So it lays that parameters down that I think it follows the education code that is very very beneficial to have. >> Cool. I just want same treatment for Pearl Middle School because I know other schools go out of state, go to other events, especially sports teams and I just want there to be consistent standard because who doesn't want to go to Washington DC? Well, probably not now, but you know, because of what's going on. Um, you know, we have a little mini version of Trump over here as well. But, you know, I want to make sure that that is still being a standard because I remember going on the Ivy League trip. Um, and that was an amazing experience. Made me realize I'm not going to any of these schools. Um, because I just couldn't see myself there. And maybe some of these students want to go into politics or or these things. And I would hate for them to be derailed because you all aren't putting in an effort in order to get them to where they need to be so they could attend this trip. Did you have a comment? I have a comment. Yes. I I just want to make sure that there is a distinction between these outofstate trips um not being sponsored by PBUSD. They they are not they're a completely separate thing. So I appreciate the call out that um Mark that you made but um so the barrier wouldn't be from PVSUSD is my understanding because PVSUSD is allowing this third party entity to come in and basically a teacher will decide with that third party whether or not they're going to participate and um kind of lead that process there. The students are fundraising so that they can pay the third party entity to go and I recognize that because there is payment needed and fundraising that needs to be done, how they work that out and how it's distributed is completely separate from um PBUSD. I only know this because I I dealt with this at Aptos Junior High um when they do their Washington trip and they do it during spring break so that it it's not involved in school days. Um and then I have uh my own student did a trip through the same company um out of the country. So if you have any other questions I'm happy to any other trustee comments. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve? >> I'll make a motion >> and a second. Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor signify by saying I. One, two. That looks like four in favor opposed and abstaining. Okay, motion carries. Four 01 two. And that moves us on to our final consent agenda item 8.28. Approve leading literacy consulting agreement for implementation of comprehensive literacy plan TK through 12. Do any trustees have comments or questions on this item? >> Uh Trusty Medina. >> Yeah. Um, has the district paid uh, Leading Literacy Consulting any money in fiscal year 2526? Um, and if so, how much was that? I'm trying to gauge the total we've already spent on um, this organization. And I'm only asking because a few people at my site um, have issues in terms of working with some of these consultants. um they haven't had a great experience and I've asked if there's an evaluation. I haven't received one. So I I guess it's a two-part question. One, with our consultants, is there a a framed evaluation process so we could see how staff and teachers are working with the consultants that we're approving? Because if it's not a good match, it's not a good match. Um and we need to determine that. And from what I'm hearing from my teachers in my area is this was a really bad experience for them. So, um, and that's why I'm pulling this because there are concerns. They've said numerous emails have been sent. Um, they have not got a response. Um, and I understand that Miss Newton's from Modesto, right? She comes out of Modesto. You sure? >> She lives in Tennessee. >> Tennessee. Okay. Uh, so, so nobody on your cabinet or yourself worked with Miss Newton before? >> I I have worked with her before. >> You've worked with her before? Thought so. Okay. Um, and there was no bid for this, correct? >> Um, so with consultants like that, you don't go to bid, but you go to look at comparisons to make sure that you're not um having someone way far off of what like work would have been. So as for um consultant work and looking at uh if it's effective we look at data. So is the data is what we would like to see improve improving. So in terms of this work um we have we started with six and now we have 12 schools that are literacy grant schools because this our schools are underperforming in reading. And so we actually receive grant dollars to engage in professional development for teachers and principles so that we can raise the student achievement um at those schools. And we're expected to spend those dollars on professional learning. Um and you a lot of times that is to bring experts in to help build the capacity at the sites. >> Got it. So I guess my question is two sites that for 25 26 you asked about 25 26 those are both literacy sites we brought that in as a small pilot um to work with Miss Newton to see like you know let's do these we called them our change project schools um we're going to work intensively here with the coaches at the site along with the teachers but it was mainly um really focusing working with the coaches and the principal to build leadership capacity and coaching capacity. We also brought in a phonics um program and so there was also the 95% phonics program and there were um developers who came in from that phonics program who also worked with the site teaching them the phonics program. Um, so you may have also I I know a couple of the emails that you sent um seemed to me that they were maybe talking about the consultants from the phonics program. Um, I don't know when you said there were emails that were sent that were unanswered. I haven't received emails regarding >> no correct >> either of the consultants. Okay. And if I did, I I responded I to emails. I may not have included you in my response, but I respond to people's emails. Um, our data at those sites, uh, we look at several different progress monitoring measures and the data at those sites has improved. >> Okay. >> Um, so that's that's what we're going on. And, um, so we have brought that consultant back. She's continued to work with our uh, coaches. They developed the professional learning for our K3 teachers that was incredibly successful from our survey data at the end of the um professional learning that one of them just ended today and we like the data I just showed we're seeing growth um for our students. >> Okay. And and I I just want to feel this. So teachers complaint reported at Hall and Radcliffe which are Radcliffe is our little child Denny. um and questions about the support curriculums fit for predominantly English learner student body. So that's what's concerning to me um about this. So >> So this is not a curriculum that this person works with. This person does not come with a curriculum. This person supports strategies and is not tied. She supports any kind of curriculum that anyone works with and is tied to implementation of the curriculum that that district works with. >> So, it's all about looking at strategies and the implementation of strategies. >> Cool. I I I get the strategy piece, but if they're producing an environment where teachers are very uncomfortable, right, they don't feel like they're being listened to, right? especially in areas with high um Spanish speakers and and and other indigenous languages. I'm just worried that we're not hearing these voices and I don't have an evaluation. Was there an evaluation done of Miss Newton that can be produced to us so that way we could bring this back and have more of a discussion? Because that concerns me when I'm hearing about Hall and Radcliffe um not feeling like this consultant is doing their due diligence and listening to them. So was there any evaluations done on Miss Newman? >> Like I said, we look at what impact we have on the data and we do have um survey data on how was this professional learning for you? >> Okay. Can you provide that to us before we make a decision on this because this is just one person who's contacting me and I mean several people who are contacting me. I don't know how many more are out there, right, that may feel the same way. So, I I think that's something that we need to address and I'm asking the board if we could just vote no on this and bring it back with those evaluations so we could see how this consultant is working within our district because this makes me very concerned. >> I would also like to note because I know this is important to you and you did just bring it up that Mrs. Newton is also a Spanish speaker. >> Cool. >> Trusty Flynn. I think what I'm hearing is that even though there they might be a Spanish speaker, they there may not be a cultural competency that is um being displayed and maybe what um uh Trusty Medina's constituency are are referring to. So I recognize the importance of this. Um my question is is there any evaluation that is attached to this to help um her um grow in if there is a cultural competency um discrepancy? Um, and is there a I guess a give me a second a way to attach an evaluation and perform a a performance evaluation to um to this contract. I I'm I'm just kind of speaking if the board would would like that in the future. Um I would never want to put that out there publicly because we don't do >> right publicly. Um, and we do have data I can share. Um, I do want to point out that trustee Medina just said for himself that he received one email. Um, so this is reflective of a >> I took it back. I said many emails. >> Okay. I I that's not the that is not >> if you want to get into diction, we could do that. Finish. >> That's not what we've been hearing. um the board has approved, you know, or has been working on the goals and guard rails and one of those is third grade reading. And one of the other things that agreements that we've made is that when we look at the tools that we need to be successful that we have the expertise to know that and that we are working closely with our teachers and our administrators to provide resources. Today we had a very very successful um professional three end of three days of professional learning and I I debriefed with the coaches who are our teachers who helped to provide that and Miss Newton was there and the coaches all stated this and I wish they were here uh that they could not have provided this level of professional learning to our teachers without the help of Miss Newton. Additionally, in terms of cultural competency, Miss Newton was the principal at dual language schools where the whole entire school was just Spanish speaking >> my deskto >> and no actually in Riverb >> and let's let's let her finish please. >> And so I would think that she has you know cultural competency. Um >> I mean I don't know I don't I don't >> Yeah. I I just, you know, want to say I think we're really aware of those um types of things and are trying to select um people who do work >> well >> well with others. Yeah. >> Well, and and here in with our population, we know we have high eels. We know the strategies we need to engage in need to be strategies that help English learners. That is a a large percentage of the conversations that we have when we're choosing the strategies that we need to use to get the results that our students need. And I know that you're you're seeing um those strategies take root because our data is moving. Um and Miss Newton has been part of that. She she helped us last year and that's why we're looking to expand that for this year. and I have her 12 of our coaches credit her with helping to develop them. And in the end, what we want to have is her not here. The idea is that you move them out, that you don't need them anymore because we've developed our capacity and our expertise here. So, I think I would just like to know that there is some sort of evaluation from >> Oh, yeah, there is. I mean, there is. We It You just hadn't asked for it beforehand. Um, and then additionally, I do want to note that this uh fund is all funded as part of the literacy that we need, the literacy grants that we get because we're expected to spend that money in that way. Thank you. >> A followup, >> Trusty Medina. >> So, what I'm hearing is as long as the data is great, we don't care how our teachers are being treated, right? As long as it's showing us that this is doing good, that's all that matters. And I think that is totally wrong. completely wrong. If we are not creating an environment where teachers feel safe that they could teach, then I don't know why we're doing that. Also, I see an email that we were both CCD on. You didn't respond to. You probably did, but can you, if you did, can you tell us about the classroom incident where this consultant was in the classroom and demeaned one of the teachers as she was actually teaching in class? Did you respond to that email? >> I am not sure what email you're referring to. I don't have it in front of me. you have it in front of you. So, I don't want to say something that's inaccurate. >> So, >> and I don't know of that incident and I wasn't there for that incident. >> But you've read every email look into that. I like I said, I don't have it in front of me. You have it in front of you. >> I do and that's why you were being dishonest in what you were saying. >> I'd like to move on. Do any other trustees have comments on this? I would like to make a motion to table this indefinitely until we get an evaluation. >> Is there a second to the motion to table this item until additional information is uh provided to the board? Is there a second >> guys don't care about how teachers >> not hearing a second? It fails for lack of. Is there an alternate motion? I have a question clarifying question. Is there a way for the people that she's working with to be able to have a space to speak about their experience and have it addressed because it's not she's not a direct employee. So if there's a um a situation where someone's not feeling psychologically safe to be able to be coached or to learn, then that's not Yeah. Um we we don't force the force the coaching model on anyone. That is a voluntary process. We hope that everyone would want to engage in that. And so if someone finds that you know like that I didn't like that that wasn't a good experience for me then then one of the options is just you just don't have to do that. How does that that incident I guess or get it get addressed? Like does doer have any any does that um individual have any recourse? Do they have a manager or somebody that they can go to to help mediate the situation rather than have that um person who's engaging in the coaching, not the coach, but the person who's engaging in the coaching who wants to receive the coaching. they don't have to, you know, bow out just because of this incident. That's not fair because then they're not being able to get, you know, more education and um better better skills and upskilled. So, how >> in that case, Trusty Flynn, we would hope to see that the person would talk to the principal and then the principal would help with mediating that conversation if that was the desire of the person to do that. and our that is one of the things we're actually working with with our principles is helping to have those types of conversations. Not everyone wants to do that though. Um but we would hope that that would be something that would happen. >> Thank you. >> And I don't think that that information was shared with Miss Newton. >> Okay. >> So we can definitely start. >> You should have shared it because it was in your inbox. I think it just brings up a a a larger conversation because we do have consultants and outside um thirdparty entities in engaging with our with your employees and so want to make make sure that there is a line of communication for them to be able to um you know because they're not going to go through the normal HR pro process if they're feeling like there's some sort of um incivility or um you know offense that's taken place. So I just want to make sure that there's something in the in the contract or something you know where the the employee the PBSD employee has a way to advocate for themselves. Good points. Thank you. Would anyone like to make a motion on this item? >> I I just have a comment. Trusty Dodge, >> you know, Dr. Contes, I I I keep hearing the same thing uh over and over again that we keep putting the feelings of these consultants over the people. And you know whether it's an evaluation or some sort of you know feedback you know with our teachers or parents working with these consultants we need some sort of feedback from these consultants. I I I know what you're trying to do. You know, get these consultants, but you're trying to tell these people who don't live here, who are only here for a short time, you trying to coach, lecture these teachers what to do, and they leave. But our our teachers live here. You know, they're my constituents, they're my friends, and you know, we need some sort of feedback. How was your, you know, feelings with these consultants? Um I I think it you know I don't always agree with Trusty Medina but he does have some points where we're not asking for any type of response feedback and you know just just give us something you know you know this is where I was at at Radcliffe and this is who I met with these are the teachers um and then get feedback from the teachers I I worked with this consultant this day because otherwise we're just >> thank you very you know and So I >> yeah we we do do at the end of our PDS QR codes to get that and at the smaller ends our principles are always checking on on smaller ones where it wouldn't be you know a three person give me let's do a QR code the principles are always checking in with how you know how is that for you I I think some sort of you know direct communication with the teachers because of course they're going to tell the principal everything was great because my job depends on it you know and so I think some sort of whether it's confidential or just just something. But, you know, doing these contracts and all these consultants are great. It's it rubs constituents in my area the wrong way, too. So, >> Okay. >> Well, thank you. >> It's important to me that our English um learning students do well. It's important to our district that our English language learners do well. It's important to our communities, to the students, parents, and especially to those students. And I feel with the coaching that's happening and with some of the new the other new trainings and professional development that we brought in, we are seeing the dial move with our students and that's critically important. I understand the comments about we need to make sure we're getting some feedback that we're getting our money's worth out of this and teachers are feeling like what they're getting is useful to them in um in interacting with their students and helping their students. So, I make a motion that we approve this contract with the stipulation that someone be identified who will interview or accept comment from um our coaches who are receiving this coaching um and that that information in in aggregate be fed back to us so we have an understanding what's happening. Is there a second to that motion? No second. I'll second your motion. But I also just had a quick comment on that. So, one of the goals and guardrails that we have been working on and I know that we're missing a couple of board members was we reading, math, career and college readiness, critical thinking, middle media literacy. These are the four gu uh goals that we're working on. And so one of the asks was that we give the resources to the district and the superintendent in order to meet the goals that we have set. Um I I believe an accountability at every level. Um and I think that our students should be able to also give feedback on their lessons as well. So I I I do think that there should be a confidential way to give feedback for these professional developments to determine if it's professionally relevant and if the teachers feel like they got anything out of it. And I hear what you're saying about data. We also want data. But if you don't get teacher buyin, I don't think we're going to move the needle. So I agree that I think that we need to have some sort of monitoring aspect. And I know you want a lot of information, but maybe we can find a central repository so that we're not getting inundated just with a lot of data that we can be able to peruse it at our own will. >> Trusty Flynn, I um I don't know how to make a a substitute motion. Yes. Um because I do Okay. kind of >> cuz cuz I I do want this to pass. I feel like it's important, but I feel like um what you've proposed is a little bit vague. I want something a little bit more um solid and um so I'm I'm kind of thinking that I would I would like to um move table this and move it to the ne next meeting but um with some um clear um actions around uh um processes for engagement and interaction between PVSUSD um uh employees and and the contracted person. Um and then I would like there to also be um some sort of feedback anonymous feedback evaluation that um we can we can see. I recognize that second part might not happen right away till later, but the first part of having um some sort of protocol around um communication and like evaluation. Yeah. um to in order to renew a contract or if something comes out midcontract how to um sorry I'm losing my words but is that are you can I >> I don't know how can I just solidify that >> trustee Turley um let me just finish let's just finish this thought um can I sum it up in that your motion is to table this item until our August 26th meeting. >> Yeah. >> In the interim, you would like a protocol or plan for how feedback, anonymous feedback will be gathered from um our teacher teachers who are coaching within this program. Is that >> Yes. as well as um I just I just want it to be I I want there to be an avenue for um those who are working with a consultant to be able to advocate for themselves if they feel like they're having a communication gap or um some sort of tension or you know anything anything like that. Trustee Durley, can I ask for a point of clarification? Trustee Laur. Um, so my point of clarification is for the superintendent. Is this going to delay any work that's already set in motion? And that's the first part of my question. And the second part of my question is is there a way that we can approve this and so that we are not delaying the work that we're doing but at the next meeting you bringing back a way that we >> going forward to be able to have our teachers and cabinet members and whoever is getting coaching be able to have a private way to give feedback in regards to coaching. Yes, this will delay work that we had anticipated because we have some um professional learning that we were hoping to do for our uh reading intervention teachers with the help of um Miss Newton. So, this would delay that work. Um, and we can definitely come and bring back a tool um for the August 26th meeting that hopefully would meet your um needs. >> Uh, can I mention something? Uh, >> trust. >> Yes, Miss D. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, also I think one thing that we need to learn as a board is we need to hold items hostage until we get that deliverable from the superintendent. >> Exactly. For example, like the SRO contract that was vaguely mentioned, we're probably not going to see that for another year cuz we didn't stipulate a date and we weren't specific on that. So, unless if she really wants it, she'll come back with that contract with those evaluations and then we could approve it. If we just loosely approve it, she's probably not going to come back to us because history has already told us that she hasn't. So, that's all I wanted to mention. So, Trustee Medina, I appreciate your your comments, but my worry is that given the frequency of these meetings that I don't want to actually delay work and education for our teachers, and I I you know, this 5-year plan of moving the needle for our reading scores. You know that I have much higher aspirations and I don't want to delay this work any further. I understand the accountability measures and I believe that the direction of the board asking and putting in writing to bring back stipulations for how this is going to be going forward to me should be sufficient. I I think another thing to add, did, and maybe I'm wrong, like we don't have a CBO to ask, but didn't we pay them out for this month already, the Newton person, or am I misreading that from the um >> um from Yeah, from the warrant report. >> Uh the work that I'm talking about is going forward. >> No, no, no, no. Have we paid them already? >> Miss Newton has been paid for work that she's been doing. >> Okay. for this specific contract. Has she been paid even though we haven't approved it? >> No, because she's been doing ongoing work for us. She's been working for us. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Got it. Okay. All right. I I mean >> Okay. >> Okay. There is a motion on the table. >> I'll approve Joyy's motion. Second. >> That's a second. Okay. There's a motion in a second to approve tableabling this item until August 26th with some stipulations that I think we got and I don't need to repeat it right now. >> You need to put it on the record. Yes, you do. You got to state it. >> Okay. um that the superintendent will come back in at the a August 26th meeting with a plan or protocol for how we will gather anonymous feedback from the teacher staff who are coaches at our sites who are interacting with this consultant. Um and that information well that plan will come to us in in August 26th and assuming we approve the plan then at a future time that feedback will come back to us. Did I capture that? >> Yes. And and can I also add an amendment that should not be paid until that comes back. >> We can only do amendment on an amendment. We have to finish this one before we move on. >> But I think we got that. So motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. One, two, three, four. In favor and any opposed. >> Can I seek clarification? Are we voting to table this until August 26th? >> Yeah, I don't want to do that. So, no, I I don't want to table. I want to I want to pro >> Well, it did it pass already because I have an amendment. >> Okay. It's I I don't believe if if it didn't pass that we would be in any different position than we otherwise would be. So at least this gets it firmly on August 26th with a >> um direction of what the board is looking for. My preference would have been as I think I've stated to approve it now but I don't believe there are votes for that. >> Did you vote for it? >> I did. Okay. Okay, motion carries 4102. All right, we are done with deferred. Now we're moving to action items. 10.1 approve the appointment of certified sped teachers on provisional internship permits. Report will be offered by Kit Bragg, assistant superintendent. You're up. >> Thank you and good evening. We ask the board's approval for 10.1, the approval of appointed certificates fed teachers on provisional internship permits. On the second page, you'll find that Miss Ariana Zambrano has been accepted to the extensive needs support program at California State University, Monterey. She needs more time to meet the requirements of the program to be eligible to be recommended for the intern credential with the CTC. She will be a great addition to the MSD team, and we hope for your approval. Secondarily, Miss Nancy Rubio, who is a former RCHS student who is returning back to the area and attending CSU Monterey. She needs time to meet the requirements of the program to be eligible to be recommended for the intern credential with the CTC. Miss Rubio will be a great addition to the RHS team and inspire a new generation of students to become teachers in special education. And may I also add and thank the board for theus that you approved in previous meetings encouraging our special education teachers to come to the district. We seek your approval tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you. Are there public comments on this item? This is 10.1. >> Mr. Tenise >> D Kit, you are tall, man. Picking up the microphone after you. I'm just like, okay, so I'm starting my time. You can already start. That's fine. I'm not speaking in opposition to this at all. um these folks who come to us on PIPS and provisional waiverss are sort of exist in this world of purgatory where like a firstear teacher would get a coach through the new teacher project to help them clear their credential. But since these people don't yet have a credential, they don't get that same level of new teacher project coaching support. So they can often kind of be cast to the side. There have been times in this district where they do get new teachers project support if we have it on their case load. So I'd like you guys to ask kit will they be getting any support through a new teacher project mentor? And if not in the past we had a voluntary coaching where a member can get paid to coach one of their peers and be a mentor. I'll be bringing thatou back um tomorrow as early as I can to see if we can get that agreed to. Um, I also would like you to ask the question, can these people legally write IEPs? Because we've kind of gone in circles of this in the past where it's like they'll be asked to write IEPs if they don't push back, but then when they push back, they're told, well, you don't have a credential, so you can't write the IEP, but you can contribute to the goals. So, I think it's important to identify, can these people write IEPs legally, and if not, what supports will be in place to write those IEPs? And then also our definition of case load in our contract and we have case load caps is case load is defined as the number of students for whom an employee provides a service to. We've had a dispute over case load where the district contends it's only the students whose IEPs you case manage. So they could be seeing and providing services to more than what's on their case load, which resulted in a grievance a couple years ago where we met in the middle and we got our special ed employees a case management prep period. The district has taken that case management prep period away. So if we want to support our special ed teachers, we need to give them the time and support to do their jobs so that they put down roots. >> You're going to set your time. You got to follow your own time. That was late. >> Are there any other comment cards on this item? >> Are there any board comments on this item? >> I think you heard the questions right from Brandon. >> Yeah. >> Okay, cool. You go ahead and respond to those. >> Brandon, if you want to repeat, >> I can talk to a couple of time questions. >> Yeah. Um, these are Yeah, these are these are board questions. Okay. Will they get support through a mentor and will that person be paid? >> So to add some context to that, we work with the county office of education. >> They provide new teacher support. Yes, Brandon is accurate in the fact that typically that support only goes to uh fully credentialed candidates that are coming into our system. However, in the past, we've been able to work with the county depending on our case loads to still be able to provide that support even if they're on provisional intern credentials. Mr. Saxton has a meeting with the county next week to review case loads, to review onboarding, see where we are in that process. So, I don't have a definitive answer for tonight specific to the county and the type of support that they provide. However, I would point to the fact that you did hear tonight. We've had incredible growth in our special education department. we have many more additional administrators um not only able to provide direct support but also ensuring program specialists are best positioned who are part of the bargain who are part of PVFT to be providing direct support in the classroom for all of special education and the absence of administration in previous years that's been more challenging because we've not had the administrative support to make sure program specialists could stay in that space secondarily I think you asked about case management case management can be done and provided uh by anybody on an intern credential. And so for the record um they are absolutely qualified under these credentials to provide case management support uh excuse me case management period. >> Okay. And that includes writing the IEP. >> It does. >> Okay. >> And then lastly, there was a couple comments that I feel are in the space of negotiation. So I'm not going to speak to those. >> Okay. >> Any other board comments on this item? Okay. Is there a motion to approve 10.1? I see a motion from trustee. >> I'd like to make a motion to support agenda item 10.1. >> Thank you. And is there a second? >> I'll second. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. One, two, three, four, and five. Five 02. Motion carries. >> Thank you for your support. >> That moves us on to 10.2. Approval of best value lease leaseback construction services agreement with Swton construction for the Parro Valley High School performing arts center project. Report is offered by Sergio Amre, director of facilities and construction. >> Good evening, President Carurley, Superintendent Dar Contras, and members of the board and cabinet. Under California Educational Code section 17406, the district must use a comprehensive best value selection process for the lease lease back contractor. On May 11, 2026 and May 18, 2026, the district publicly advertised the request for qualifications and seal fee proposals for the lease list construction services for the PH Valley High School Performing Arts Center. a mandatory pre-proposal conference, a job walk held on on June 1st, 2026 at 10 a.m. A total of 12 contractors generate general contractors attended to the mandatory jobwalk. Seal proposals were received by the district on July 14, 2026 at 2 p.m. Four general contractors submitted statements of qualifications and CO proposals in responses to the solicitation. The district evaluation committee review each submission for responsiveness, qualifications, relevant project experience, technical expertise, financial capacity, safety records, past performance, and compliance with the requirements of the request for qualifications. Following the evaluation process, all four firms were determined to be qualified to perform the work. The CO fee proposals were then open and evaluated in accordance with the district lease spec procurement process. Based on the qualifications review, the evaluation of the fee proposals, district staff determined that Swingington provided the best over overall value to the district. It is recommended that the board of trustees approves the award of the lease pack construction services agreement to Swingerton for the Porro Valley High School Performing Arts Center project in the amount of 3,191,60. The agreement includes pre-construction services consist of constructability review cost estimates and value engineering project schedules, logistic planning according with design team and development of the guarantee maximum price which is called GMP for the board consideration at a future meeting. Stop further recommends that the board authorizes the superintendent to execute the leis leisbeck agreement and all related documents necessary to implement the project subject to legal review and approval and to take all actions necessary to carry out the intent of approval. Recommended action tonight. It is recommended that the board of trustees approves the award of the leis lease by construction services agreement to swingerton construction for the pakari high school performing arts center. Are there any public comments on this item? This is 10.2. Are there any board comments on this item? Trusty Dodge. >> Well, first of all, I would just like to thank the voters who supported Measure M. Uh even though I do not represent PV High School, uh >> you're going to vote on it. >> I I I just I just want to, you know, there were there was a lot of there was a lot of people who didn't want to support this measure. um they were concerned because previous projects took a long time and pe the people of the Pahor Valley were hesitant to support this and uh I received a lot of feedback from people who didn't want to support this and they said Pavey I will only support this at Pave High School is a priority and so I I I just like to thank the business owners the taxpayers all across you know Pahar Valley Unified School District you know, Monterey County, Santa Cruz County, and I'm not sure, San Bernino County. Um, thank you for the trustees who, you know, supported this at the very beginning. Uh, a lot of you had a lot to do with this this measure being passed and this performing arts center. You know, thank you, Sergio, for making this happen. Uh, just one question that I have was, do we have any union work being planned? Do we have, you know, any local union operators who want to be part of this or were they invited? >> Perfect. So, I'll let um if you want me, I could uh bring the contractor so she could give the good news. >> I think that'd be great. >> You are also tall. Hi, Emily Satuda, project executive with Swton. Um, so yes, we are a union self-perform general contractor. So all of the trades that we self-perform of course they will be you know competitively bid out. Um we are signatory to carpenters, laborers, door frames hardware, mil work. Um and in our solicitation process we can also you know um advertise out for uh union contractors. We've worked with um county building trades councils in PLA agreements. So we're very familiar with that process. uh as well as local contractors. So we uh have a presence both in Santa Clara and um Selenus. So at um you know working with local trades, it's important that we engage the community, provide those opportunities. Um our our team that is going to staff this project is located in um our chief estimator as actually from Watsonville to Watsonville High, which is great. Um and then our pre-construction manager is in Monterey. So that is very important to us that we're engaging those those local trades as well. >> Yes. Local jobs stay local with local dollars. So thank you. >> Any other trust? Trustee Medina. >> Yeah. So so um you I have more questions. Thank you. Sorry. So um so that would in Selenus that would be the Monterey Bay Central Labor Union, correct? Um okay. Carpenters Union, all those great people. Cool. All right. I was endorsed by them. So, I want to make sure that, you know, they're getting their flowers. Um, also, and just that we're, you know, a lot of our parents have to go outside who work in construction. By the time they get back home, it's just so late, you know, and this provides them the opportunity to stay local if they can, which I really appreciate. Um, so what was I going to say? So, I just wanted to get those two things down. And then also, maybe this is more for the labor unions than anything, but is there any opportunities for students who actually want to go into construction where there could be some sort of internship that they could participate in in building this because I think that would be cool if they're helping to also Yeah. CTE or anything to that extent. I'm just curious. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Absolutely. Um, so a couple things. First and foremost, student safety is our priority. So in the the course of construction, we always maintain separation of field activities with students. That being said, we can work with the trustees, superintendent, everyone Sergio's team um to provide kind of learning as a teaching tool um we a story I do like to tell is one of our very prominent um superintendents currently was a high school student when we were doing a project at her school. Um so we can provide those opportunities for students to um supervise right not not part of daily course of instruction. Um those opportunities we absolutely provide some learning opportunities um internships if if need be. >> Sweet. Yeah. I just I want them to get their hands dirty because it feels good building something and if they could you know contribute in that way I think that would be great. So um I would like to move to approve. Um, we do have other Well, we could take a second and then finish deliberation, but we do have a comment from Trustee Laurel. >> Um, I just want to say that this this part of the measure M funding is actually one of the my favorite things to come out of it. And I know that PV High has felt neglected for a really long time. And I hope that this shows the investment and the priority that we're putting on that institution. um the fact that they're going to have a performing arts center where the community can gather, this potentially could generate revenue for our district going forward for other entities that want to use it. Um and I'd like to see them get a pool. So my question is when do you put the first brick in the ground? When is it starting? >> So that's a good question. I think right now when we bring um the contractor on board we have to go through the uh schematic design ND design um um the design of the project from there is we both get um engineer estimates. So the contractor gets it engineer estimates the um contractor gets one and the district gets one and then from there we generate the guarantee maximum price >> where we hold the contractor to that amount. Is there any um opportunities for if you get it done this many months sooner we give you a bonus? >> So I think we are going to hold them to that schedule of the 20 uh 2028 um in summer. So they do have a hard timeline. So that's why we picked um Swingerton just to give them a little bit of uh background is in 2025 Swingerton completed Compton High and at the same time completed Estansia High School in Baltimore on Alis Lebacks and then from there in 2024 they actual completed um Melas High School where we actually went on Friday to look at the perform and it was amazing. >> I can't wait. Trusty Flynn. >> Um, over the course of the last few hours, just today, I've learned so much about project management. I've talked to so many people, um, constituency, um, professionals, city council members. So, I just want to, um, say thank you to all of them. um if you're listening for all your feedback in regarding to what a lease lease back program um is versus a PLA um and then really making sure that uh we are using local labor and um you know following um those kind of protocols. I'm looking for the the messages that I I got. Um, but I'm I'm glad to know that a lot of your, you know, what is it? 60 to 80% of your labor will come from um from local um work workers. Um, oh yeah, 60% of the skilled journey persons. Um I the question that I wanted to ask you is when I first came on there was the the stadium um bleachers at Watsonville High which impeded um which made it inaccessible to athletes for track and some other sports. So, I'm curious if there is um written in any sort ofou ahead of time to make sure that that that doesn't happen or that it's clearly stated ahead of time because it was a surprise to those students um back then. And I understand that maybe school site council made the decision but probably may not have um involved everybody um all the stakeholders. So, I just want to make sure that um just where the construction is happening um if that's going to block off. I know that there's a back entrance to the the stadium um and the track. So, I'm just curious if that's been um taken into consideration. >> So, that is part of um with our next steps. We have to come in with the schedule on when they come in with deliveries, when they have the procurements of construction, where is the staging and from there is we'll create everything and we'll go and take it to the principal, make sure that doesn't um conflict with activities of the school and we'll make sure that we work around all of that. >> I just really want to prioritize I know that safety is the first priority. So all of those things making sure they're not happening um near or around students. Um, but I want to make sure that the students access to their facilities is prioritized so that they're not missing out on um opportunities that they would like to um especially practices especially for seniors who are getting, you know, it's it's might be their last year doing a particular sport, whether it be um lacrosse or um track and field or um soccer, things like that. >> Yeah. And the good thing is we're not going anything close to the field. Everything's going to stay up in in the the front of uh PB High School. There's a center of um um area. I think it's about like 2 acres where there could actually stage and everything without um involving any other school. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. I think that second >> a first and a second, but I have a little bit of a comment. I really appreciate your utilization of women in non-traditional roles. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. One, two, three, four, and five. Uh mo motion carries 5002. >> One really quick point, Sedill. Um I know there's only one way to get in and out of the school. So are you going to come back to us with a plan like kind of how that's going to be coordinated? Okay, cool. cuz I just thought about that right now. I'm like, whoa, if they're doing construction during the day, how are teachers going to park? How how's that going to work out? So, that will come back to us. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. That moves us on to 10.3. Approved name recommendation from Caesar Chavez Middle School renaming committee. Report is offered by Alejandro Chavez. Good evening uh board of education board of trustees and cabinet members as well as the audience here with us. Um, initially the um, middle school renaming committee was going to be headed by our CBO, but he had so much on his plate with the SSA and just a number of things that I took on this uh, particular item uh, to make sure that we were able to move this forward in a timely manner because we were receiving uh, some questions from the community and we were getting um, some questions from throughout and so we wanted to move this forward. Um what I will say in regards to the Thank you. Uh we can move on to the next one and the next one. Okay. So the purpose of the renaming committee was to present recommendations regarding the district's middle school renaming after a comprehensive process of soliciting, reviewing, evaluating and delivering uh names. And so just uh to uh inform the public as well as the board is that the process that we that was uh followed was grounded in board policy 7310 and administrative regulation 7310. uh we followed and reviewed the deliberation process uh through a committee that was formed and uh I I will share with you what the the process was. So we had a composition uh of a committee that was structured that included two parents, two students, three staff members uh including the site administrator as the chair and two community members. the recruitment and the lottery uh that occurred uh occurred from the formation of of the formation of the committee which was on April 15th of 2026. The district launched a comprehensive recruitment campaign on April 23rd and that remained open until May 8th of 2026. Uh we followed that up with a and conducted a random lottery of the folks that did apply for this position for these positions in the committee and that occurred at on May 11th at CCMS. we had um this uh formation of this committee as I said the the recruitment process of how they were done we did from April 23rd through May 8th uh that's when that that process occurred we had our first meeting on May 18th uh and began the uh and what we did is we did an orientation we established our norms and we began a roadmap setting uh we started on May 19th a public name uh solicitation window and that closed on June 2nd. Uh we held a total of four meetings and during that process we received uh the different names. During that time period on the community outreach and the name solicitation we had a total of 30,000 plus website views, social media announcements and multiple district-wide parent square broadcasts that were sent out to parents. Uh during that time we also had sight specific messages including in our Friday messages as well as with parent groups as well as with our ASB meeting that happened there on campus with the students themselves. We had a total of five uh name proposals that came forward and that was Central Coast Middle School, Jeff Tagami Middle School, Alberto M Roas Middle School, Wat Watsonville Middle School and Mas Hashimoto Middle School. Uh the committee during those four meetings looked at community connection, the reflection of local history, Baharo Valley identity. They looked at alignment with academic missions, inspirational value for students. They also looked at fiscal practical feasibility. Uh, and so in looking at all those considerations and the submissions that were brought forth, the committee consolidated the legacies of Jeff Tagami and Mas Hashimoto into one single joint proposal recognizing their shared impact on local education. The final recommendations that came forward from this committee were Central Coast Middle School, but they did not want to just have one recommendation for the board. So, they decided they wanted to do two. Uh, and the second uh recommendation they had was a combination of the two names, which was the Tagami Hashimoto Middle School. In the vote uh for these two, they had a unanimous vote of 90 on Central Coast Middle School. that included the parents, the community members, and the students. And on the Tagami Hashimoto Middle School, there was an 801 abstension in that. Um, and so in conclusion um of this presentation, those were the choices that they moved forward and they wanted this to be brought forth to the board of education, the board of trustees to make the final uh decision on this. >> Thank you. Are there any public comment cards on this item? All right. Are there any board comments on this item? Yes. I keep looking that direction. I'm going to start this way. No. Okay. Oh, I don't know who had theirs up first. Trusty Trusty Flynn. >> Um, we had this um as a discussion item a few months ago and we discussed it so much that I thought we had voted on it. Um, and I thought we had come to a clear clear decision and I didn't realize that I um that we hadn't voted on it and I kept getting um people asking me what are you doing and I was like wait a second I thought but so um the most recent um constituent comment that I received was and I don't remember talking about it was how was the family involved olved and um you know were they made aware of this because I don't know which family it was but one of them does not want to be okay yeah does not want to be so I I think that that needs to be re honored um but it it's interesting because I remember during public comment um one of the things not public comment I'm sorry during our our discussion with us looking at school closures, we didn't want to put a name on somebody and have a lot of um pomp and circumstance and then have the school close. That would be super disrespectful. So, um yeah, I I am happy to make a motion, but I know you have um some comments, so I will move on from there. Trustee Medina. >> All right. So, I want to thank the renaming committee and I want to speak directly to the letter uh this board received today from Jeff Tagami's uh widows and sons and to the families who wrote honoring um Mas Hashimoto. Um at its heart, this moment is about visibility. I think that's why we have the name Tagashi Hashimoto because there is a lack of visibility for this community. So, I see why they were pushing for that name recognition because if you look at Watsonville, there's clearly one dominant culture that you could see on all of our murals and all of our walls. And I think this is the AAPI community reaching out and saying like, "Hey, we were here too and we were part of that history." So, um I I want to recognize that. And you know, at its heart, this moment is about visibility. We live in a proudly Latino community and we can see ourselves here in our murals, our music, our celebrations, our fields. But the Po Valley was also built by Asian-American and Pacific Islander families who farmed this land, faced exclusion and incarceration, and came back anyway to teach, to write, and to lead. The Tagami family's letter asked us a question tonight, which I think is really important. Who is Jeff Tagami? And what value is a poet? And here is my answer. Jeff Tagami was a Watsonville native son who carried the apple orchards, the caneries, the lumberyard, and the small wishes of children living near the Paharo River into American literature. One of 50 poets and a national PBS documentary filmed here in our valley. And Mass Hashimoto taught generations of Watsonville students the history lived, including the incarceration of Japanese Americans, so that would never be forgotten or repeated. And unfortunately, we're seeing that happen today with our community. Can our students see that history on their campus today? And I don't believe that they are. And I believe that we owe it to this community in order to represent um them. I have also become aware that the Hashimoto family's own wishes could not favor placing the name of the school and honoring someone starts with honoring their family wishes. The Tagami's family letter also cautious um cautions us that a committee's first recommendation, Central Coast Middle School. Um I Oh, wait, wait. The Tagami's letter to also cautions us that a plaque on a wall is not a legacy and I agree with that. Um so tonight I will support the committee's recommendation for the Central Coast Middle School and I would like to add an additional um stipulation that we direct staff to work in partnership with the Tagami family, the Hashimoto family um and the Hashimoto family, the school community and the families who wrote to us to create a permanent sustainable public artwork and curriculum connection at the school that tells the story of the AAPI community in the Pajaro Valley, what they contributed, the challenges they faced, and the resilient leaders who emerged despite adversity, including Jeff Tagami and Mas Hashimoto. Um, but a visual story every student to walk past, learns from, and carries. So, visibility is what our community asked for, and I really want us to deliver on that. So that would be my amendment to move forward with uh Central Coast Middle School, form a committee with these families and let's get a mural going so people could understand the great work that um you know these two men did for our district. So that would be my recommendation. >> Clarifying question. So would you envision this on that campus or somewhere in the community? Is that sight specific? I think since it was for this campus, um, and it is the Central Coast Middle School, so I think it would fit naturally within the campus, it could show the history of the Central Coast, which started with the Chinese, right, who were coming in and building the railroad, and then it evolved over time. And I think it's important to see that. So, if we're going to name this school Central Coast, let's show the history of the Central Coast by highlighting these prominent communities. >> Thank you. Are there other trustees? Uh, Trusty Dodge Jr., This is just new information. Can it be confirmed? Um, Marcio Hashimoto said any of this. >> So, I can tell you however many years ago when Po Valley High School was being built, Mas Hashimoto advocated for calling it Freedom High School and he made statements that he did not think building should be named after people. So I was really surprised when I saw that there was a recommendation to name something after him when I had with my own ears heard him say he did not think that was an appropriate thing. Um so my I also had the question was um was Mrs. Hashimoto consulted? >> I do you have a response? So the the the name came from a community member and that community member also was part of the renaming committee. Um during the process they decided to move forward with that name even we had gotten some information uh during that process that there was some uh feedback that they may not want to move forward that the family may not want to move forward with the Hashimoto name. However, um the committee was very um adamant that they wanted to move forward with combining those two names because they were very um they really felt that there needed to be something named after two uh um Asian-American uh island Pacific or uh Pacific um members of our community that were educators both poet at Cababrio College that taught at Cababrio College as well as Mas Hashimoto who had taught for so long at Watson Bahigh But I didn't hear anybody say that Marsha had said she wasn't in support, but she hadn't been asked specifically that. >> So, the community member came back, but we didn't get anything in writing. We didn't get anything like that, but we that's the information that we got back. >> Thank you, Justine. >> So, I just so we don't get completely off here. Um, for the most part, I think the committee overwhelmingly supported Central Coast Middle School, and I think the reason for that is because the mural wouldn't have to change, but the rebranding wouldn't have to happen. It It's the much cheaper option. I responded to a lot of the emails. I was actually surprised at the outpouring. Um, and I responded to all of the individual emails. I think there's other ways that we can honor these members of our community. um whether it is a mural, you're right, there's there's a lot of um murals dedicated to the Latino community, but not the other communities that were here and that toil in our in our fields. So, I I support um going forth with another way to honor these individuals. But just so we can be clear, I think that the Central Coast Middle School CCMS keeping the name and the acronym the same is the community's desire going forward and the financially sound one. >> Thank you, Trusty Flynn. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, I had Did you already >> I think I had already said, >> is there currently a motion on the floor? >> Okay, thank you. Um, I agree with um making sure that um these men are remembered and especially learning about even just Watsonville um and history. It would be um a great addition to the field's framework in the ethnic studies. So that's where I feel like this should this should go. Um, so I like Trustee Medina's idea, but I'm fearful that that school may not exist after two years. I'm not saying that that's happening. I'm just saying it's a possibility. So, um, I I would suggest that it be a committee that evaluates appropriate locations and not tie it just to that site. >> Yeah. All right. Okay. Um, would anybody like to make a motion on >> I'll make a motion to approve. I'm sorry. There's still another comment. I'm sorry I missed. >> I'm sorry. >> No, I was going to make a motion. >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. Yeah, >> I heard it start over there first. So, >> I'll make a motion to approve the renaming to to um the Central Coast Middle School. And is there a second? >> Can Can we amend that to include the search to >> You can amend that motion if that's what you would like to do. >> Okay. Yeah. Can I I I like everything. I just want to amend that we form a committee to see um how we could build or where we could create a mural for the AAPI community. >> Okay. Um I I heard an amended motion. Is there a second to that? >> I'll second that amendment. >> Okay. There is a first and a second on the motion to approve Central Coast. >> Uh I just have >> Okay, let me finish stating the motion and then we can still have deliberation of the motion. Um, so the motion is to approve, naming it Central Coast Middle School, and to create a committee um to identify a location on district property for a mural that represents the community. >> I just would like to move location to locations to make it plural. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, Trusty Dodge. >> Um, there was some new information that might might not be true, but I already committed to the name to my many of my constituents. Uh, to the Mas Hashimoto Jeff Tagami Middle School. The names we place in our school should tell this the story of our community, inspire every student who walks through those doors. I can think of no one better names than Mas Hashimoto and Jeff Tagami. Masashimoto embodied service, resilience, and the pursuit of education. He was a Watsville High School Wildcat, a scholar of a United States veteran, a Watsville High School teacher, and an activist who dedicated his life to preserving our local history. Mas's story is also one of the darkest chapters in our nation's history. during World War II simply because he was Japanese Americans. Mas and his family along with hundreds of other Japanese American families from Watsville were forced from this very community. They lost their homes, their farms, and their businesses. They were first taken to the the slain fairgrounds before be being sent to Boston incarceration camp in Arizona. Yet even after experiencing that injustice, Ma chose to serve the very country had taken that taken away his freedom. He enlisted in the United States Army to prove that he was just as American as anyone else. After the war, he returned home, became an educator, taught generations of students at Watsaw High School and devoted his life to ensuring future generations would never forget the lessons of this history. Alongside him, Jeff Tugami, also a proud Watsville High School Wildcat, dedicated his life to preserving another important chapter of Watsville history. There was poetry in writing. He had taught us about the anti-filipino riots that scarred our community and a tragic murder in Fine Tber who was killed just outside Watsville simply because he was Filipino. Jeff Tagami's work reminds us that these stories are not meant to divide us. They're meant to educate us challenges and ensure that the hatred and discrimination are never repeated. Together, Moss and Jeff Toami represent strength, resilience, diversity, and compassion that define Watsonville. Their lives remind us that education is more about than academics. It is about understanding our history, learning from it, and building a better future. I support naming this school after Moss and Jeff because they were both proud Watoma High School Wildcats. I am also a proud Watoma High School Wildcat. As fellow Wildcats, I believe it is my responsibility to help ensure their legacies endure for generations to come. Every student who walk through the doors of this school will see their names and ask, "Who are Mus and Jeff Tungami?" That question will open the door to learning about courage, resilience, service, culture, and the rich community of our community. I I see there's a motion on the floor, but I respectfully ask my fellow trustees support naming this school to the Masashimoto Jeff Tagami Middle School. It is a name that honors our past reflects the values of our community, ensures that the legacy of three Wal High School Wildcats, Maashimoto, Jeff Tami, and every student they spire will live on generations to come. Thank you. And that would that being said, I will not be supporting the motion that's on the floor. >> Okay. Did you want to amend the motion that motion that's on the floor? >> We have a motion on the floor. >> Okay. We have a first and a second on a motion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. One, two, three, four. Those opposed. Um motion carries. 4102. >> And And can I make a a quick comment? Um I was where you were at. um until I got that letter um and you know somebody who's really close to the Hashimoto's contacted um me and said like hey this is what the family's thinking cuz I wanted that name in gold letters on that school believe me um but you know I tried to find a middle ground and I think visibility with a mural is going to really do um some justice for the history that we don't always see around so >> I understand which is the first time I heard it and >> yeah Yeah. Yeah. >> Um I'd also like to make a comment even though we're beyond where we should be commenting on this, but you did so I will. Um I don't know if you're aware, but there is a small monument on the Watsville High School property next to a cherry tree. Okay, I appreciate stumbling on that. Okay, that finishes all of the action items. Now we are on 11.1 update Watsonville High School field facility naming hedgepath board policy 7310A. The report is provided by um Assistant Superintendent Michael Berman. Um and I would like to remind the public we're not voting on this item. This is a first read. It'll come back August 26th. Good evening, uh, President Turley, members of the board, and Dr. Contrarus. Uh, as you know, it's a busy time of the year at our schools and for our principles who are hustling to, uh, get their sites ready for day one. And because of that, principal Gregorio is not able to join us tonight. Therefore, it is my pleasure to bring forward this item for report and discussion. Um, but even though he's not here with us tonight, he did prepare a presentation um, and a show for us to enjoy. We'll take uh, notes later. Good evening board president Turley, board of trustees and superintendent confrs. On behalf of the students, staff, alumni, and community of Watsville High School, I am proud to present a proposal that connects two eras of Walkath athletics. Following a comprehensive process, the Watson High School community unanimously recommends formally adding a name of Coach Hedgepath to our football field and it would be Geyser Field at Hedgepath Stadium, connecting the two names, adding Coach Hedgepath to Geyser Field. The proposal comes to you with complete consensus across every level of our school governance and community leadership. Over the course of nearly two years, our our committee process thoroughly vetted and endorsed the this designation. On September 8th, 2024, it was formally recommended by our Watson High School booster club. On November 7th, 20, 2024, it was approved by our school site council in ELAC. On November 12th, 2024, it was vetted by our school administration here, Watsonville High. On November 15, 2024, it was discussed and supported by Watson High School staff. On December 7th, 2024, is unanimously endor endorsed by Watson High School cabinet. And lastly, on April 29th, 2026, it was finalized with public support at a Watsonville High School community town hall meeting here at Watsville High. Every group has reached the same conclusion. This name honors a living legend and coach Hedgepath while preserving the legacy of our former athletic director EMTT Geyser. There's history behind this recommendation that is a full circle Watsonville story. In 1959, as a senior, coach Roland Hedgepath asked then athletic director EMTT Geyser if students could start a soccer team. The answer was no. Coach Hedgeh and his peers played anyways, forming an unsanctioned team. After the local news covered their fifth game, the vice principal called Coach Hedgepath into his office as a student and shut down the program. 12 years later in 1971, Watson High School needed a soccer coach. They had started a program. That same vice principal called Coach Hedgepath, who was then teaching at Minty White Elementary, and asked, "Remember when I told you to stop playing soccer? I'm calling you now to see if you'd like to be our soccer coach." That phone call turned into a 54 coaching year career, including se 37 years at the varsity level of coaching for soccer, 28 years of coaching high school football, alongside 36 years as a dedicated PBUSD educator. Coach Hesp's resume stands among the greatest in California history. He has over 722 wins, 20 126 losses, and 116 ties. 37 league titles, tw 13 CCS titles, the number one ranking in 2001 in United States for soccer, California open division runner up in 2022 and in 2025 uh NorCal champion and state runnerup. He took his teams to Hawaii six times, Florida twice, Europe twice, leveraging his relationships in the community. So tournament host so tournament host cover host cover covered the costs ensuring no student had had to fund raise more than $100 each to be able to travel to these tournaments. Yet coaches primary focus has always been life after high school. Over 70% of his student athletes have gone on to graduate from college. He holds strict academic standards uh standards, parts closely with classroom teachers and has built a co coaching tree composed mostly of former players who have returned to Watsville to mentor the next generation of students. In true coach Hedgeh fashion, he agreed to accept this honor only on the condition that is recognized by the entire community joining him with it, especially the local coaches who prepare Watom High School athletes. Combining these two names creates a complete historical circle here at Watson High School. Coach EMTT Geyser who established the early foundation here at Watson High now connected and and coach Hespic being added to the name of the football field/s soccer field here at Watson High. We respectfully ask the board of trustees to approve this addition to Geyser Field to be named now Geyser Field at Hedgepath Stadium. Thank you for your time in your leadership. you can continue your commitment to Watimal High School and remember once a Wildcat always a Wildcat. Thank you. >> Does that count? Um, and I I just want to add that I was at the stadium um when they got when the team got their uh last home win of the season and I was so touched, coach um by the way that your players embraced you and that the way that the families and the stands showed you love. Um and and I just want to tie it all in in that you've always been here for students. You're all about the students. um and and you've earned their love and respect because you're there for him. So, um I just want to give you my gratitude um and and with that pass it on to you all. Thank you. Uh, Trusty Charlie, >> Trusty Medina. >> Um, I would like to motion to suspend the rules. So, we could have the coach come up and say any uh comments if he would like. >> So, suspending the rules requires a twothirds vote. If at least four of us, twothirds are present. If at least four of us make that motion, I believe we can suspend that. I didn't know it was that. I thought it was just as long as you get a second. >> I will. >> Oh, there's Yeah, all of us got to get it. Huh? >> I will second. >> Okay, cool. >> Okay, there's a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> That looks like five. That would be 100% of those who are present. >> Be 100. >> Okay. Thank you, Bordon, for everything in in uh this community. Um I wasn't really prepared to say anything, but uh I'm honored, but in more than that, I'm honored for all these past players I've had over the years. They they've always been respectful to me. You know, all the players come to me before practice and say, "How are you, coach?" And after practice, they come and say, "I'll see you next time. I'll see you next practice." And not that I needed it, but I really feel that they needed it, you know, to show appreciation for something that they do get. Um, you know, over the years I always, like he said, I always uh, you know, education is first. I made I had three or four priorities. Education first. I know your family first. Whatever happens there, you need to take care of your education second, maybe soccer, and girlfriends last. No, didn't always work, but that's what. But anyway, I I really appreciate this honor, but as I say, I'm only accepting it on the behalf of the community, my ex- players, my ex-coaches, and uh thank you very much. That's all. Do any board members have comments on this? Trusty Flynn, >> I don't want to be labor this, so I will just go right ahead and make the motion to approve. >> It's reporting discussion. We should have moved it to action. Like, >> can we move it to action? >> The um the process really is that we hear things like this and then we hold to the next meeting for the final approval. It's one of those things that's just so easy, you know. I um I am a proud um longtime Corus resident. I grew up on a messy road. Um I've worked with your wife on um because I was um home and school club president at Bradley. So I did um I've done many events at the Padres's Hall. So I know that the the work that she does there and that you do there with Padres's and um so I I have never had a chance to meet you personally maybe in passing but just having that connection to Watsonville. I just found out that I get to call myself a Wildcat even though I just went to summer school there. Um um and then I'm a mariner too because I went to summer school there and um Mr. Hubard was my m my my my math teacher both times. Um so I I feel really deeply rooted and connected to this community. Um my my mother is a founder of um of St. Francis High School. Um my aunt um helped to found um Central California Alliance for Health. Um something that serves um a lot of our community members. And part of what you do is um is so impressive. It gives people um a a throughine and and seeing where they can um they have somebody who believes in them and um and knows what they're capable of. And that's what I feel like we're doing with the with the board. So, um I'm honored to be here on this day, um to be able to not only just because I will be voting yes when it comes forward, but then to be able to go to the stand and say I was there and I helped bring this um to to path to pass. But really, it just years and years of of what you've done for this this community really speaks to who we are and we talk about vision and values and I think you embody it. So, thank you. >> Any other trustees comments? Dodge Jr. >> Well, coach, good to see you again. Um, you know, I I just wanted to publicly say that I didn't know much about soccer. Um, I was a freshman in 1996 and I graduated in 2000. And I went to high school with Roy Contas, Lisa's Baltazar, um, Alejandro, all those guys. And so that's when I first met you and I didn't know how how much it would impact generations generations of students. Um, just this last year, you know, I was able to attend the games with you and and to see I guess I guess magic you do with these students, you know, these kids, you know, to to take, you know, students from Mativille and and beat the best, you know, to beat the best, to beat the private schools, to beat, you know, San Jose and and, you know, go all the way to Sacramento across the United States. That that that's magic, you know. Um we don't always have the best equipment, the best gear, the best transportation, but you make you you you make us believe that we could beat anybody anywhere. So, I just wanted to acknowledge you here at this board meeting. And uh I think you still got one more season left. Thank you. Thanks, coach. I'll see. >> Okay, I'll make mine quick. Um, I went to UCLA, so John Wooden was huge when we were over there. And one of the quotes that always stuck to me is, um, failing to prepare is preparing to fail. and he was one of those once-in-a-lifetime generational coaches that really came in and had an impact on the community that he was bringing in, especially young black men who were really not allowed into these spaces at one point, but he motivated them and created that work for them to really achieve, you know, some really great wins. So I feel like you are your own person, but you're the John Wooden of Watsonville in what you have done in establishing, you know, not only these skills in sports, but how to say how are you doing today, how to show up on time, right? And and those are useful life skills. And that's why I really appreciate um them wanting to honor you because, you know, we don't teachers don't always hear it. Um, but later on in life, you always going to have that one student who said, "It was because of that person that I did well." And I think a lot of students could say that for you, coach. So, um, I just want to say thank you for your time. I hope he has three more seasons if you can. All right. Um, and, um, when one of your students get into the FIFA World Cup, let me know. I'll be right there with you. Okay. All right. Thanks. >> Unless there's a replacement for FIFA, by then. Um, any other comments? Okay. >> Well, I wish I knew you better, coach. I I tend to be the only one that doesn't have a personal relationship with you. But I will tell you that I know that the most valuable people in my life, and the people who have changed my life are the ones that asked me to be better. So, thank you for doing that for our students. I wasn't going to comment just because everybody said such eloquent things, but I have a connection to Roland and my father Owen um were friends. They taught together and they went on one crazy backpack trip where Roland brought a couple of um his students who I guess he thought could benefit from this um from that kind of experience. They were backpacking out of of um Seoia. Um, one of the students had an extra tent and my father who had had worked there as a teenager was certain he could just sleep out as he always had and it poured down rain and he sure was glad that your student brought an extra tent. Um, but that's just Roland doing great things for young people and in lots of avenues that we're unaware of. But thank you very much for your service to this community. Okay, that moves us to 11.2, which is recess to reset the room. >> Well, that's Yeah. So, that's the question we have. I sort of had the ex the two of you don't plan on participating. Is that correct? Okay. Not a judgment. I'm just asking so I know what to say next. Yeah. No, I'm not participating. >> Okay. Okay. Um, we can it it won't be an official meeting. It'll just be three board members who are working on something. If we send a Zoom link to our coach, he will um uh zoom in so that he can help us through the next couple of things. >> Yeah, if we flip agenda setting, I could stay for that. Um, but We have to do the policy first. >> Okay. Um, >> can you figure out how to get a link to him so he and Ashley could join? >> Yeah. I could save money by going. >> Yeah. That's >> that's the that's the discussion. Well, you know, it's 9:35. We kind of said we were wanting to to end by 10:30. That's 50 minutes by the time we set the room, maybe less than that. So, of the the three of us who would be here, even though it's not a technical board meeting, we can still work through it. We can still um have our our coaches come through. What do what is what are the wishes of trustees Flynn and trustee no >> maybe we could Yes. I I feel like we need to have more input and people here. Um yeah, because I don't I don't want to make a policy or like I know it's report and discussion, but I don't I don't I don't want to spend time putting something into something when we have other people to be able to give input and have it be completely changed. Um, that's this just my my thoughts and opinions, but everybody has one of those. >> And I think I heard you say you were quite >> I would just like to say my thoughts and opinions on this is that this is actually the most important thing that this board should be doing. >> I don't disagree with that. >> And I'm disappointed in the members of this board that do not want to participate in this process because it is absolutely >> Let's not start shaming people. No, I'm this is the most important thing that we are doing as a board is trying to come up with these goals and guardrails and we are way behind schedule because we don't have the people to get the work done. So I would really encourage both of you to please stay and participate in the most important work that we're doing as a board. I have made it very clear that I'm going to wait for the next board to come in so we could adopt these goals and guard rails and I would prefer to work with that board um in getting this done because you all are working off of some form of baseline. You guys are going to be gone in a few months. Um so I um would prefer to do that work with the board. And also this this didn't start off um as a very comfortable or open space which is why I dismiss myself from it um because of the environment that was being created there. So I I'm not going to put myself into that position again. Um that is why I'm going to wait for new people to come in. >> So Trusty Turley, just a point of clarification, these goals and guardrails regardless of the elections will be the goals and guardrails going forward. Correct. a new board can change direction. Hopefully, they would go through a a thoughtful process. >> Hopefully, they believe that improving our reading and math scores are probably the most important thing >> and saving money and not paying high price consultants. So, we could we could we could go all around about this. >> Let's get back in the question at hand. >> Yes, trust. So, I knew that we would have a couple of our trustees leaving at um 11.5. I I knew that, but um 11.3 and 11.4 I I thought that we would have because I I don't think that the argument is that it's not important. Um the which one is it? Sorry. The the policy the policy leadership Yeah. >> And then the board agenda setting. Um I don't think anybody's arguing that that's not important. >> Yeah. Um so it's a 10-minute report, a 10-minute discussion. We can't go anywhere with it. You 10 minutes. Um >> we can't go we can't go anywhere with it. So I'm I'm wondering >> um one one interruption to that. So, it's more likely 30 minutes in in Greg's leadership in this, not 10 minutes. So, let's just be um upfront and realistic about the time. >> That's why I used air quotes. Okay. So, I I feel like we have to do the policy leadership first to be able to support the next agenda item, which is 11.4. So, I would it would be great if both of you could stay and give your input for that. Um, I understand the 11.5 was already a a no. So, um, I've always made it clear, you know, I don't agree with any of this stuff. You know, I I know I'm one of the only who hired a superintendent and when I made my vote for the superintendent is because I believed in what your vision is. And in going over this over and over again, I just feel it's it's disrespectful towards you, you know, because whether you're the superintendent, you know, this year or next year, this, you know, and if this board decides to hire a different superintendent, you know, we have we have to believe in that vision, you know, whether I agree with it or not. But, you know, when I I put my vote through, it's because I believed in your vision. and and then putting these guard rails to me it's sabotaging me and so that's why I totally disagree with this and and if we have someone else then I might disagree with their vision but that's what the will of the board is and so >> I respectfully disagree I it is not about the vision of the superintendent she may have a vision but the vision must come from the community not from the superintendent and we are >> they do not set the vision They absolutely do not set the vision because a superintendent and a board comes and goes. The community is what stays and the community is supposed to be directing the board and then the board directs the superintendent and that's how it goes. So she absolutely as our employee needs goals and guard rails and then she is responsible for making sure that those those action items and those goals are met. But we spent a lot of time reaching out to community and I'm not going to just let that go to the wayside. And I I totally disagree with the fact that any employee needs goals and guard rails. rules are helpful because it gives it actually takes some pressure off of off of her because then she gets to point back to I'm doing what you asked me to do and then the community can then hold us accountable. >> Exactly my point and that's what elections are for. And and if I could just add, um, you all have the power to actually check and put guard rails by your vote. You haven't done that. You've let the superintendent get away with so many things, right? You keep voting for what she puts in front of us. You We are the guardrail and we have not been enforcing that. So I I'm not going to sit through with people who can't even execute their own right of what their constituents are saying cuz you're saying it's about community and listening to community. They come here and tell you how to vote but you vote against them. So how is that listening to them? So, and I don't want to get into an argument about this, but again, the board majority has made it clear that you are going to approve anything that the superintendent puts in front of us without any guardrails when we are the OG guardrails that get elected by the people to put a check on the superintendent. And I hope we do get a new superintendent when the new board comes in. At least that's what I'm hearing from a lot of them that we may need some big changes coming in. So, that's why I don't want to move forward with this because I want the new board to come in with fresh ideas. all elected. Nobody's appointed. So, they have some sort of stake in this because right now, two of you are unappointed. One of you has been elected. Um, and you're driving this whole policy. We need people who have been on the ground, talked to people, got their endorsements, have the vote in, and were elected to be on this board in order to dictate the guard roles that we want to see from the superintendent. But you haven't shown that as the board majority. So that's why I don't feel this is um going to be beneficial. I agree that she should have guardrails, but you all have left her off the rail. >> That's what we're trying to do is get these guard rails. And if the constituency did not want me and if they did not want trustee Navaro, they could have voted us out within a certain amount of time. So we are here. >> You were appointed and we were That's what I'm saying. we were appointed and they had a certain amount of time to revoke that that appointment >> and that process is extremely >> it's so offputting that you can't do it. So you just have to sit with what you got. So, >> so that being said, I just want to finish because I went out into the community, into the constituency that I had to collect the their their voice. I focused on area two and I I got that and I'm not going to just let that go to the wayside. They gave their time. They gave >> run for reelection. Um, I would like to point out >> taking what they have now and using it. >> So, I think you're both talking about 11.5. We're still on 113 on 114, but it looks like Daniel George is one. >> Yeah. So, I'm also, as I stated that I'm going to be heading out, so you guys don't have quorum. >> Okay. All right. So, that gets it back to the three of us. And I think I heard from both of you that if it's only three of us, you feel like we need to wait until we can have um trustees Krasco and trustee Flores. So there are at least five of us participating. Is that is that the consensus? >> I think that the team that started this work should be the one that continues it. Okay. So, I'm hoping that we put these three items back on the agenda for August 26th and that we don't have a ton of other stuff that has to be on that will keep us from being done. >> 29th 29th. Um, on the 19th of what? Oh, we may already know that we don't have a quorum on September 16th. And oh, you know what? We no longer have a quorum. So, I'm going to officially close the meeting at 9:46. Thank you.