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everyone get started good afternoon everyone thank you for coming today it's May 23rd thank you baby how about now can you hear me now okay let's see good evening everyone Tuesday May 23rd 6:11 and I really appreciate all of you coming today let's let's start with our agenda witches we have five I'm board members and attendance and we have our student board members in attendance we have a very long addenda item today and so most likely we will have a continuation of today's me tomorrow afternoon so we wanted to make that public notice to everyone it will be a continuation meeting so he has a special criteria so please note that the our plan if we do not finish today and so let's go into 3.13 point to flag salute if we can have some student volunteers to help us with our flag salute that would be awesome and you can just stand up and come to the podium and help us absolutely please yes please the Pledge of Allegiance allegiance to the flag of the United States of America for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice thank you everyone hey the order for today's board meeting will be can't load I do get better as a door that would be our order and I like to ask board member Kent if you're ready to do the Lana godsman okay we acknowledge our presents on the traditional ancestral and unseated territory of the kitchen tongs of peoples who are the original caretakers of plant thank you moving to 3.4 public announcements of action taken and close out there were no actions taken and close and now I would like to do 5.1 which is adoption of the agenda can I get a motion for 5.1 dopson of the agenda I'll move to adopt the agenda can take a nap actually discussion does Canter Loretta wants to do I have no discussion items I would like to bring the student board report up within the is far up as possible my suggestion would be for if we can bring a student board member report up into right after would you take a suggestion a six-pack 3 Amplified boys know I mean I guess I think it needs to think it needs to come in for 71 don't like if that makes any sense after 7 one after 7 with yeah and reports will move that Gabby can let them see to you too presentation up between 7/6 and 7 so after all the public comments and things before the the board comments 9h see you too so would you make a suggestion after what I'm wondering what the peach just because we've got some message from outside agencies and things like that and getting them up before we do our business that required staff in the board we have two of those at least so I'm I just feel I'm sure about how to proceed on behalf of one and not the other we also have guessed from New Earth and we have we have community members here presenting as for their committees and so forth I'm feedback other than to favor I withdraw the suggestion okay so one suggestion to move student representative after 7.1 can I get the amendment to the motion yes I moved to approve the agenda with the amendment of moving the student board member report to between 7.1 and 7.2 all those in favor say aye okay and now to speaking to all our Awards recognition thank you so much for coming out today we are going to ask everyone to please wait till the presentation or the description of the ward is done to applaud our students this way we can really hear what you know what is being said for the student so we're going to move to 6.1 which is May 2023 citizenship citizenship Awards and is cabinet ready okay so if you were a student here receiving a Citizenship Award let's get ready to stand up and be ready to come up to receive your award thank you at this time we are delighted to recognize students you have a exemplified character traits and been Stellar citizens at their schools so we will begin now share my screen so everybody can see what I am sure our first Citizenship Award my name is zoom okay goes to a student from El Marino language school and this goes to eloisa Campos Aloo am I saying that correctly are they giving the audience as most of her friends call her is a kind and responsible member of her classroom Community she demonstrates a great enthusiasm for Learning and collaboration buy frequently engaging with her peers the classroom and in discussions and activities eloisa has demonstrated balance between teamwork and Leadership skills as a wave pod member this year her respectable demeanor is appreciated by both students and it's also like eloisa exemplifies citizenship skills that make her an admirable member of our classroom school and Community congratulations eloisa are you here okay we'll go to the pool go to the next one and if you're on Zoom we will make sure you get your certificate our next recipient is Lena Towing is Lena here Lena please come forward if you are well I I will go ahead and read Elena's recognition Lena's call scales and responsible demeanor set her apart as she effortlessly manages her tasks and responsibilities with unwavering dedication her respectful nature shines through her interactions with peers teachers and the community at large earning her the admiration and respect of everyone around her be on her academic achievements Lena's natural leadership abilities have made a lasting impact within our school currently serving as an active member of the student council she continuously exhibit exemplary leadership qualities guiding her peers toward success and fostering a collaborative environment congratulations Lena please welcome from El Rincon Dillon Tatum Dillon are you here I still hope so if not come on down Dylan is Dylan Tatum is a good citizen for many reasons but one that stands out the most is how much he is grown The Scholar over the years at El Rincon Dylan has persevered and learn to be successful in the classroom and around school he uses his kind and caring manner to serve as role model to others play Dylan and a few fifth-graders gave up recess to help kindergarten students during PE Dylan is a leader in this role and someone who truly cares about those around him we are proud of Dylan and wish him very best in his future endeavors Endeavors congratulations next we have McKayla Rogan are you here Kayla for Michaela Rogan is a good citizen a thoughtful student and a friend to all she is always smiling and is quick to show concern when someone is upset her empathy and kindness puts everyone at ease and is appreciated this year McKayla has learned the price of ear in the classroom even when task she is ready for middle school and we know she will continue to be a friend to all McKayla exemplifies what it means to be an El Rincon rocket and we are so very proud of her congratulations. are Nexus that yet from Farragut Elementary is Rose via here Rose are you here come on over here Rose shows up to school with a positive attitude she supports the school by participating in the student council outside of the classroom Rose participate Scouts piano acting and she take Spanish lessons roses a young citizen who is changing the world because she is an advocate against pollution and deforestation roses positive at 2 depreciation of civic responsibility does not go unnoticed congratulations Rose also from Farragut please invite wins Chastain Winston are you here Winston is an exceptional student who exemplifies maturity and a positive attitude he has been a shining example of Farragut pause expectations all year Winston knows that there's a time and place for everything he always does his best to listen when it's time to pay attention he is focus when it's time for independent work and listens and thoughtfully shares his opinion when it's time to collaborate with his peers went to his interested in learning and immediately apply what do you have learned to his work whenever can Winston also takes pride in keeping the classroom in school clean he put things back where they belong and we'll put things away for others who have forgotten including trashy find on the ground he does this quietly without complaining and without any need for recognition or praise Winston chastang is well deserving of this award congratulations when next from La by Anna elementary school it is my pleasure to recognize Ivy Delarosa are you here driving Ivy Delarosa is is constantly and consistently a positive role model for her peers in the classroom she is a hard worker who demonstrates motivation to do but also to help her peers succeed she enjoys all aspects of school and her communities she is the first of all interior to help out a friend the teacher or anyone in the IV is a quiet leader who always good choices and acknowledges mistakes she approaches any learning with a growth mindset Ivy is always willing to do the work to make improvements for herself and others Ivy will regularly self assess and wants to the best student in person she can be IV can often be found helping younger students and others around campus she is a go-to person for her peers and always has a can do attitude she often thinks of things on a mortgage full scale and makes and enjoys making a positive impact on the world around her she participates in classroom discussions and poses thought-provoking questions that expand classroom learning into real-world situations ivy never stopped caring about the world around you congratulations ivy our next recipient is are on Joshua radin I want to hear mine up are Hondas an exemplary student who Travis tries to do his best inside and outside of the classroom each and every day our hun Works diligently to complete assignments and is always the first to volunteer to help out whether that means raising his hand to answer a assisting peers with her work or helping with classroom task he is happy to help our hand loves his culture and enjoy sharing information with his peers the day before eat a freighter the celebration of the end of Madan Mohan stood up in front of the class and explain how and why he had his family celebrate Ramadan and the significance of either fear is a joy to have in progress and we are proud to recognize him with this award congratulations are high the next award from Lynnwood see how Elementary School Ali Ki Rohit Rohit okinaki Ali Ki come on up aliki demonstrates model citizenship quality by always putting others before herself she immeasurably helps others without being asked she is kind and pathetic any true leader for quote for The Helping Hands she volunteers to help younger academically and emotionally and is inclusive in various activities she leaves with her peers but it began coordinators choir Etc it is an honor to nominate Elite congratulations text from Linwood see how it is my pleasure to recognize Molly right or Molly are you here Molly Rider has been a true friend to many students at Linwood at Lynn how by initiating and cultivating many friendships she notices those who may not have some to sit with talk with or play with and be friends then she is also willing to help out if needed and is willing to give up some of her recess what is most special is that she takes the time to actually get to know lower Peters it is with great pleasure that we give this recognition to Molly Rider congratulations our next does Culver City Middle School and we'd like to recognize Franklin Franklin Westbrook Franklin are you here Franklin West is an exceptional Culver City Middle School Panther not only does he maintain High grades and all of his classes his teachers described him as inquisitive hard-working detail-oriented with phenomenal scales for furthermore as a California Junior scholarship Federation member he demonstrate service to school and Community by helping his teachers volunteering at Farragut science night various performances Frost and at his church Franklin deserves this recognition because he makes a positive impact on Culver City Middle School each and every day by being respectful and polite congratulations Franklin our next award also from our Middle School is Tavon Lewis Tavon are you here Tavon Louis is what he called a global citizen teban provides his teachers and site administrators estate of the school report every few weeks in his he completes an incident report and let staff know where things are going okay how students are feeling at school and where things can improve we appreciate even being aware thinking of others always doing his part to make Culver City Middle School a better place congratulations next from Culver City High School to recognize Fernanda Vives Contreras Fernandez our student representative to the Board of Education students and teachers described her as a true leader a dedicated member of the community and an overall joy to be around Fernanda has worked really hard at making sure the voices of her peers are we have been so lucky to have for none that at cchs and we will miss her congratulations for the men. our next recipient also from Culver City High School is Alyssa Daggett side is rasp vice president and a student board member she is a great communicator listener and overall team player her peers and teachers say she is a natural leader a good friend and a true gem have been so lucky to have Alyssa at Culver City High School we will miss her congratulations Alyssa congratulations to all of our Citizenship Award winners we ask that you screwed in cuz this is your family's time to be the paparazzi so they're going to come forward and take your pictures so wonderful smile really big for all the camera I wouldn't be bar, the Great Smiles all I want to download a few more pictures keep smiling status one more round of applause that they that was awesome next we have spelling bee Award winners we are so proud of our first second third place winners and of all the students who competed and represented their schools are third-place winner from Farragut Elementary School who already has her check certificate and rib when is Camille Sassoon from Farragut Elementary come forward our second place winner is Euless welcomed Camille is William Boardman from Lynnwood see how we're so proud of you oh no that's so sad and our first place winner is Jesse Hale are from Lynwood eHow please hold up them from free so we can where are you where are you fabulous we're happy to have you on Zoom if you can all scoot in so families may take a photo we are so proud of all of you can you hold up those trophies all the time Come to Papa Razzi alright congratulations it's all good evening to evening family students I am so in love with the back on dr. Jennifer Smith assistant superintendent for diversity equity and inclusion and I feel so privileged to be able to present these and not a gorilla Ward's for outstanding Culver City students this round of awards is focused on high school students were moving forward will include all grade levels so a little background the amplify student voice award spotlights members of our community that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to amplifying and uplifting invoices around issues of social justice and inclusion this honor shines a light on the use of leadership scholarship and Service as a change agent to create a tangible impact in the ccusd community promoter Equity Justice and inclusion this set of awards were determined by the office of d i and the superintendent but as I said moving forward nominations can be submitted by board members District inside admin teachers staff students and community members I would like now to invite my assistant Antoinette's to an NA Monica O'Connor and Wendy Hamill to assist with these words towards if you come up front I'm so come on app right there internet you take Direction this area the area of commitment tonight that we want to okay with the left right left okay that we want to highlight and honor this evening or around Justice Equity diversity and are Jedi mental health advocacy Culver talks student board members of Truth Green New Deal and language Justice the let's start with R Jedi's this is an honor distinguish by let's see if it works distinguished by students remarkable efforts to establish an equitable anti-bias and inclusive Community please come up here and Muhammad and her allies the time they Nina Kumar Solomon eye foreign object and newer nausea please come up to the front kick okay yes yes yes where should I have I have pictures to okay all right all right okay Carol Mohammad matin de Nina Kumar saunemin I Faron Asia and North Russia give them a round of applause so let's stay up here let me just say something so I'm just so nervous I'll get over it so Kira reached out a few months ago and her allies because she I did already Club ready means raise awareness education advocacy and provide resources she wanted to provide students with a space for religious and cultural appreciation within the high school advocating for and emphasizing and safety of students of all backgrounds supporting students expression and limiting cultural misappropriation and anti-Semitism do education please give these Jedi okay yes I am coming so I'm a member of LA County Jedi Community Practice advisory committee along with t Equity leaders from the LA County Office of Ed UCLA and two other districts we held meetings to focus on various things this last few months we've been looking at student voice please welcome Gianna Fernanda and Mateo to the front talk about that so these Jedi leaders willing to assume space with about 25 adults from around the county to share their perspectives and clearly articulate what they feel are the needs a whip it called just regular students the ones not in leadership the ones not in clubs and those that don't have a platform and how we bring their voices to the surface and really hear them we heard you congratulation Jedi's alright so bring it back up okay absolutely alright our next group of a wart he's is our mental health Advocate please come up mr. Tire Hinds Michelle Zoo Ariana Mas hypem Wong and Emmy Sakamoto these student leaders several months ago you may remember came and discussed their own personal Journeys mental health and then they brought a solution a proposal for mental health literacy curriculum they worked along with Dei and student and Family Support Services and high school counselors to craft a resolution for the board tonight to establish meant to the mental health standards that they're proposing become a graduation requirement we need to prioritize the mental health of all of our students give these leaders around reply there are pictures of I'll catch up I'll catch you you know what let me take a pause and thank Miss Peregrine for yearbook photos when we didn't have anything in his battery nature mother nature we have our kids up okay all right now so several months ago I went to this thing called a comer talk like it ok Google called invited me and I thought it okay if students are taught and I think I need to be there these students have dissipating in in a dynamic talk-show format discussing significant and compelling social topics I'm going to share some of those with you around community and wellness event cchs body please bring up Chuka Diana Chavez Alyssa Daggett Samir Davis Orlando Fernandez Gianni Giovanni Monica Lee Tiana musarra yahaira Yuva, Pollos Anthony Prieto Kennedy Smith Malia Washington and Milo woo other coming up to some of their topics Alyssa deceased appetizing mental health Kennedy Youth and gun-control Anthony Prieto the importance of close relationships and family Myla the science behind Tourette syndrome Diana Chavez belonging Monica Lee assisting the environment as well as humans chooka gang apparel he's a successful entrepreneur Samir Davis Malia Washington challenging judgment and differences and then we have the support team behind us seamless FEMA's we've got Gianna we've got who went missing together I think you gotta tell me it was railly Kiana Tyra okay give them all around implies that was animated all right so this is at happened tonight multiple times that I think they'll be getting up multiple times the student board members this recognition go to these students who share their voice in the public Arena using their platform representing their fellow students to ensure that student perspective is part of the decision-making process please come up Andrew jacobstein you Malai Alyssa Daggett and Fernando vinas Contreras all right I'll look at these beautiful beautiful pic take a pause imma cry okay you true so you truth all right so you've truth is a survey that we administered back in December thank you families staff and students who took the survey the goal of the YouTube survey was to really capture student voice we were able to disaggregate buy all of our student groups including our 9 bit binary are lgbtq it gave us a wealth of day we've invited some students to come in and help us unpack that data and we're looking for a presentation in the near future let's have Joaquin Bell & Ross Bianca Egan Halen Nina Kumar ke so late Wednesday Marco lily-mae Jada Amy Sakamoto Kennedy Smith Milo woo and Gianna macieira come on up if you're not what you get multiple honors and if they all right so you know and Antoinette thank you for trying to just to navigate all this week we missed cool things but will get better the green New Deal this award goes to students who have advocated for sustainable and environmental Consciousness for ccusd this award goes to the five Ava Franz Alyssa con Tatiana Murphy Nava Weisman and Claudia Egan all right let's this is our last category but will get it will get better families will get will get it will be smooth this last category was something that we really thought long and hard about and we thought about around the around language and we held it language Justice this honor recognizes students who have worked to ensure that their voices are there Community are heard and understood and understand the power social justice through language please welcome Benicio Maura that erini Isabella Cruise gaona and Chuka who's already up come on I just wanted to make note that Benicio and Isabella form to Spanish AP club called who have been active in the volunteering in the community Chuka is fluent in evil a Nigerian language from his tribe Roots he spends his time continuing to find ways to get back to his community and Easter Niger what is experiencing some food and social welfare welfare insecurities I just have to say with all do with all my heart and everything I have I I just I just went to congratulate you students on your voice amplifying your voice for good supporting your peers and proving your community and being a Culver City Unified School District student give them a round of applause Expedia if I could take a minute to to congratulate all of our winners tonight it if I may just send a word into your future what you've done over the years here it to speak for those tube could not do so for them self to stand up for those who could not do so for them self and someday to represent all those you come across in your future who would not be able to do so for them self say true to your heart and congratulation thank you I would say this is the paparazzi paparazzi mobile come on up and take photos of this amazing group of young people come on up celebration prank where are you kayak yeah she's our Nails Kenosha show me a picture of Friday morning we got your room. You might get a chair I got to leave yeah take it there flagellation Utopia hello everyone I'm going to ask you those who received words to please go into the lobby and continue taking your pictures and staying your congratulations in the lobby also please close the door to the to the to the chambers of Fire the AC has been requested to be improved we understand it's warm in here we apologize but it will take a few minutes for it to cool down and now we're going to here 6.4 which is Culver City High School girls track team so if you're here with the girls track team please stand up and receive your words it is my pleasure to recognize the 2023 CIF division two Champions and I would like to bring forward head coach lesane. Dimas am I saying that correct listen to Demons thank you Jamal right and to the team please come forward Joelle Topanga can you can you okay thank you when are the 200 and 400 meter race winner of the 4 by 104 x 400 relay morganatic 11th Place 2nd in the calendar than 400 meter race winner of the four x 104 by 400 relay congratulations Celina Powell 9th grade placed third in the 400-meter race and won 4 by 400 relay not here and sauna Ballard and by saying that but not thank you how much are by 100 relay team congratulations a mod meanwhile I am I saying that correctly and burn her address for Honda 4 by 400 relay congratulations synonym for a photo I think I'm the paparazzi let me get my this is a good one congratulate method of my pleasure items 6.5 Culver City High School products team we are delighted to recognize these students and coach and assistant coach so if we could please have the cchs robotics team head coach David dr. David Stout and assistant coach Craig Singer count forward we want to congratulate them on a 60 year robotics team participated in the first robotics competition Los Angeles regionals and 2023 and advanced to the first robotics competition in San Diego regionals in March of 2023 and advanced to the 2023 first robotics World Championship competition in Houston Texas in between students and mentors attended 97 workshops bringing back the knowledge and expertise for the future of the team and competed in 10 matches against 619 other teams from around the globe thank you to the team supporters of there are many including ccef congratulations to coach assistant coach and the robotics team please come forward robotics team Zachary Rosenberg Adam can control James Cole Laura hartin pain carbo Swahili and my setup correctly thank you please correct me so well Jones Thai Saunders Cameron rice Reese Reese thank you Johnson Maximilian lemon Camilla caddy Thomas Brands Sean Griffin and Kim eldrick fan and Erica Cassano yes. Prince I said please come forward and then we would like to take a big group picture so parent volunteers if you are here in the audience the door family the Rosenberg family in the Johnson family please come from okay this is the paparazzi moments you just close it thank you 123 smile Vikkstar123 smile congratulations next it is my pleasure item 6.6 to recognize the Culver City High School speech and debate team Culver City High School would like to on behalf of the Board of Education we would like to recognize head coach Dan Carter and the members of this year's high school speech and debate team for their accomplishments students on the speech and debate are Adam a concealed Ariana Moss Ariana con if you're here please come forward Venice pogi Audrey Rothenberg Michelle Val Ruby Gantz Charles Lane Owen Lewis and me Sakamoto very edgy and students who qualify to the state championships in 2023 Ariana moss and programmed oratorical interpretation Michelle Zhao an oratorical interpretation and Emmy Sakamoto in original oratory impresses alternate alternate to state championships in 2023 ate a bacon feel and Ariana Moss in parliamentary debates Audrey Rothenberg student Congress very edgy and student Congress and qualified to National Championships in 2023 and me Sakamoto in original oratory I can't hear that I'm qualified to state championships in 2022 is a to make him feel it original advocacy and Ariana moss and dramatic interpretation and Michelle Zhao in oratorical interpretation and Emmy Sakamoto in original advocacy please come forward to take a picture of the speech and debate team students graduation I'm so sorry we have now the opportunity to celebrate thank you in a sec or 6.7 Culver City High School girls varsity softball team I'm just taking manager think about all of these characters and tell her to write doctor's note this is pretty impressive okay so congratulations to our girls varsity softball team that advanced the second round in the CIF congratulations to the team and their coaches head coach Brandi peacock 50 Cove Hollow strawberry an assistant coach Kylie Naco into the players Gabriela Molina Cheyenne Taylor 99 Ranch branwen Witten I'm not going to say it right and Nia Francis spell children Sochi Romero Madeline Martinez Lopez Lena on free Kayla Guerrero Millie kranzburg has Mia Ortega Ashland Ito Hayden Martin Adriana Martinez Miami McRae Betsy najera Olivia Arriaga congratulations okay this is the paparazzi moment in okay when you have your certificate turn around and on the count of five will take picture 134 if you can't see the camera the camera can't see you for 5 congratulation a couple more pictures they stay there we are so proud of all of you congratulations congratulations. How do I get it let's have another round of applause for all of our student winners fantastic so next it's only fitting that we move on to the adults who make the mission possible who create those wonderful opportunities for our students so every year we have the opportunity to acknowledge three outstanding employees employee teacher of the year classified of the year and Max which our administrators and certificated support staff of the year so first I would like to begin by congratulating and acknowledging Fallon Purdue Fowler come on up felon from Culver City High School is a dynamic and Innovative and Dedrick that educate dedicated educator sorry dedicated educator highly regarded by colleagues and community members as a champion for students not only you do an amazing job collaborating with her code teachers and apartment but she also manages the special education department with IEPs 50 fours and other things to make sure students are being served she is she is the advisor for the BS you the black student union and works closely with BS you and the black parent affinity group so that's safe spaces are created for celebration of culture and sharing of resources students and staff loved her because she genuinely cares for her students and their success and make sure they have the tools and resources they need to reach their success she also makes it a point to really get to know students as a whole person and in turn they love and respect her she. Not only does the hard work but she does not shy away from The Challenge and takes initiative to bring diversity and culture to the school through her hard work congratulations on being selected as this year's teacher of the year Fallon do I live by would like to congratulate Carlos Plasencia Carlos employee of the year Carlos is one of our most dedicated maintenance workers and he has been with ccusd 2005 he is well-known throughout the district as someone who was willing to drop everything and help out he takes pride in his work is hardworking and dedicated Carlos would go out of his way to meet the needs of the district and consistently goes above and beyond to get any job done he always shows up with a smile on his face and a positive attitude he tries tries to make the district a better place for students and staff and it shows an everything he does he goes out of his way to make a difference congratulations on being selected as this year's classified employee of the year Carlos next also from Culver City High School I would like to congratulate and acknowledge Salter Max certificated support stop Tom Salter is the athletic director at Culver High School his support for the student-athletes and coaches goes above and beyond what is expected he spends days nights and weekends making sure every gay men event run smoothly and that the athletes get to and from event safely. Make sure the sports teams have what they need to be successful and takes time to attend a majority of those sporting events his Magnuson dedication is what stands out along with his hard work and dedication to help the athletes have a great experience he has given much of his life for his job because of his passion for helping students play congratulations on being selected as this year's Max certificated support staff employee of the year times and again congratulations to all of you job well done congratulations our next recognition is for our retirees are retirees who have given their life's career to making a difference for our students are so pleased that they are retiring but we're sad for us so we want to acknowledge each and every one of them I know we have a few here but I will go ahead and read their names first if you are here please come forward Renee E Davis Bailey Robert Rodriguez Robert Quinn lashon Raeford Cynthia Louise Bailey Minetta fittante Lori Smith yanira Montes Kristen L Fairfield Richard A Garcia Thomas H Kim Doreen Donahue Ruth Morris Anna Cruz air bear Claudia Benitez Deborah Deb arencibia Deborah Deb came to ccusd with eight years of experience and has a teacher at La bayona since September of 1996 she has many fond memories working with her amazing students and their families for the last 27 years her last 18 years spent teaching first grade where she worked with a very supportive team to raise our future leaders that have also participated in the fellowship with Coast Cuts in and made many lifelong friends during the two your experience her own children attended lab Iona and she was so grateful to be able to be a part of their education education performing Sports and Friends groups now that she is retiring she focus on her health and get back to the many craft she loves to do best wishes dub and is Barton bizarre I guess I didn't get the memo Barton has been a special education instructional assistant with the district since 2008 one of his Fondest Memories was making a film with Miss Gallegos third grade class in 2010 from a story they had written Barton will miss many of the people he worked with in ccusd and appreciate the kindness they showed him over the years when he is not working on the Sunday Times crossword puzzle or writing his novel about growing up in San Dimas he provides the security at Sofi stadium and the Hollywood Bowl Barton love working in the district with such diversity and was hot happy to be a part of creating a better world best wishes Barton and and dimitrov congratulations Ann each of our recipients will be receiving a special ball I didn't bring 30 of them tonight are these balls will be giving out at the site so we'll be visiting the site both tomorrow Wednesday and also next week and will be delivering the Bulls to all of our retirees again congratulations and thank for making a difference we apologize for the temperature for all of us to rain jacket and sweater please we're working on the AC okay at 7.1 which is public recognition and at this time would like to request those who would like to provide those who would like to provide public comment on items not on the agenda or those who would like to provide comments on items on the agenda please submit your cards to our executive assistant Williams and this way we can start getting a head count on how much how many people would like to provide public comment and at this time we did 7.6 up to up on the agenda so we'd like to invite our student board members to provide their reports at this time and I also know that you might need to leave the meeting and if there's any item on the agenda that you would like to comment you can go ahead and comment during your reports all right so let's get started with Middle School good evening everyone I'm you mean why this ecms President and as we are nearing the end of the school year all of our fun events are coming our way for 6th graders Dave & Buster's tickets will be sold until this Thursday on a trip will be on June 7th 7th graders will be heading to Knott's Berry Farm on June 2nd and 8th graders will have their picnic on June 7th as well the 8th grade Awards will be held on June 6th where students who invited who receives special it's from certain teachers these awards are for recognizing the students hard work now I'll be passing it on to Andrew eighth grade promotion on June 8th which is a Thursday students were able to choose in between two times slots 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. the ceremony will be roughly an hour long and students were provided with six tickets this is the final event of the school year and it's a final thing is so amazing 8th grade Panthers thank you for your time hi so for my report I room I don't really have months like this week's has been really calm nothing much AP testing is done sister and say can I relaxing except for seniors who are going to be taking their finals next week so she can ceremony was a success thank you for the book base cabinets and everyone who participated and came to support us a really really appreciate it but you can't have came and went to get a speech for us as well and for everyone else and thank you really hello okay so recently we just had prom this weekend it was a great success and it was so much fun so shout out to junior class Council for planning it and thank you to all the chaperone upcoming we have Powder Puff this Thursday kickoff is at 5:35 or the tailgate will start up for the club's I will be there are mix mix an interracial Club Jack needs Culture Club ready Culture Club journalism Club sophomore class Council club and Robotics also we had our last heater breakfast this morning and it was a huge success ASP is also hosting as didn't procedure basketball game during Center Plus next Wednesday May 31st I also went to the lot next graduation and I would like to say it was absolutely phenomenal and I'm so proud of everyone who graduated also this is officially for Nana and I last board meeting so I just like to thank everyone for this opportunity I have learned and grown so much so that these meeting of course there have been some hard times and long nights but in the end it was so worth it so thank you tie lovely board for being so welcoming and inclusive and a surprising as I am to say that I'm definitely going to miss these meetings now I do have a couple of comments on the agenda and general I have a couple comments on 14.1 the sexual harassment concert the song a bit of the wording so they have a they have on their they have that sexual harassment is unwelcome contact on the basis of determined by a reasonable person to be severe persuasive definitely offensives that it effectively denies I shouldn't equal access to the district education program or activities personally I believe this wording is extremely exaggerated it feels like something has to be extremely severe in order for a perpetrator to be of course there are levels of severity severity when it comes to sexual assault but sexual assault is sexual assault. The level of severity shouldn't be the determining point also states that the prohibition against falsely making false statements are not too many false information during the complaint is specifically stated in it so I feel like this is explanatory and doesn't need to be stated on top of that a whole part of investigate the allegation is determining whether or not it's true my personal opinion this was just a to satisfy the movement that men get falsely accused of  or sexual assault all the time when really it's a very small amount of the population in other cases of fighting or is never stated that you shouldn't have to make up sorry it just implied so when you specifically stated in here you're implying that false accusations happen a lot which is truly invalidating it's hard enough for sexual assault victims to speak up without them already being accused of Faking it thank you will that be the end of the student board report thank you so much I I do want provide an opportunity for our board to say some words of appreciation towards our student board members and this will be your last meeting would this be an appropriate time to do yep I think you should say something and then we can we can you can go to them of course so usually we say something about our departing board members and so can't do you have any any words I think that we are exchange something right now okay these aren't this news to me so I'm going to hand it over to Cabinet I think they're have something okay small forward and it's not every night in terms of a board meeting we got an opportunity to celebrate the the unique addition to the conversation that we have at the board meeting night meeting at 2 meeting so that I have the privilege to recognize our student board members it is a unique privilege to voiced the students perception in the way that would make sense to those of us who are responsible for everything from 7 in the morning and 7 in the evening and sometimes even longer and for that I congratulate the conversation is brought to the board attention the conversation brought to my attention to cabinets attention and for the dedication of our young leaders of the future if not already leaders of today and for that thank you so much and I'm going to ask my staff to come up and assist us with our recognition of us student board members I have the image of recognizing Alyssa Daggett and I have the privilege of recognizing Fernanda Villegas not have the Privileges first recognizing Andrew come on up Andrew thank you so much as well our other Middle School outstanding start miss you mean why a colleagues now I'd like to see if anybody would like to do you say anything before we move to the next agenda item wish I was sure I will I didn't prepare anything but I am always ready to express my gratitude to our student Representatives it's been it's been a process that's iterated for many years and I feel proud that we now have a preferential vote from our student Representatives even though we could we have some girls to do in that area as well and we continue learn so much from you every time that we hear from you and I I always appreciate the authenticity and weak it's not just the learning that we do for the things that we hear from you that we hadn't considered ourselves but it's also the reminders it's perpetually necessary we really aren't doing our best if we aren't hearing from our students so thank you for continuing to be here and and we're committed to doing better for the incoming cohorts and we will continue to innovate and grow in our process and support you better each year thank you so much and congratulations I am so proud of the four of you and you are eyes and ears on the ground but also your heart you were the reason why we are here and you were representing your your your fellow students and I'm just stoked loud and and I am so looking forward to what your future is to be and congratulate you on your on your graduation and I hope you stay in touch. Thank you so much for all your service a board member get it oh yes mr. Jacob seen his life thank you so much a great to see you here I'm not a zoom participants it's it's really nice to see you here in purse and I appreciate you both sticking it out Zoom meetings are not the easiest thing but you're you're there and your present you're representing your school's I appreciate that and I look forward to seeing what you do next year in 9th grade thank you for being here late thank you for sticking it out and for always representing your constituents here at your school and as other people said bringing the boys to the students who don't necessarily have a voice I very much appreciate that you're not afraid to speak truth to power and and disagree with adult I appreciate it you do it courteously you do it constructively but if you disagree you just I mean you do that and so thank you very much for that and not quite sure what you doing next year I love to hear about it sometime but good luck with that I know you'll both be fantastic so thank you all asador congratulations I love you I will echo my colleagues out over my time on the body I think some of the most constructive hard deep and real conversation that we've as a body and as a group as a community has been because of the truth-telling the advocacy the table shaking that has been done by the four of you over the last six months I've been here so I just Martin, do you want so much for your willingness to go there for your willingness to make sure that we are held accountable to the students were on the ground each and every day and I'm just so immensely grateful for the boys that you won't relent to this body over over the I really look forward to seeing where you are going next I like to just say thank you for being my colleague thank you for the two showed up to our listening sessions those are the places where we get to have smaller conversations and they really helped us understand what he Ben's in the day-to-day lives of our students the board moral imperative is to help support provide the most rigor and the most support to our students and I really believe that you as part of our board make our job easier because we understand better what's happening in the site and I look forward to improving and creasing the student board reports and an end also inviting the future board members to attend board VA trainings that are meant for student I know this year I sent those out and I hope to be doing that in the future it's been an honor every single the student body provides such instrumental information to help us provide educated decisions when we vote I guess I'm really really grateful for everything you provide the information your life experience and also being our colleagues and and and that's really I'm just honored to be your and I look forward to learning what's happening in the for those who are going to the high school with happening in the high school with you all please remember to come back and let us know how it how is that how is everything going and then for those who are going on to college or career please do let us know how we can support you or help you with that and let us know where you go thank you every and I'd like for us to give one more last Applause to our student Boardman we are now going to move to 7.2 members of the audience items not an agenda so hopefully everybody who is wants to provide public, have submitted their cards to are to Miss Williams and those who are on Zoom who would like to provide public comment on items not on the agenda please raise your hand so that we can see what the numbers are looking like and then I see someone has their hand raised can is there something that you can come up and ask to Miss Williams please Miss Williams is executive assistant thank you okay do we have all the cards in Miss Loretto yes we do there was somebody that was the worst maybe a few people that were in person and now we're online so I'm just moving them around so, but overall we should have about 25 people right now wishing to speak and I just want to stay to the zoo map currently we're only taking public comment on items not on the agenda so if you are item is on the agenda there is another time for you to speak in that is at 7 do you are in the right place and raising your hand if you are speaking on items not on the agenda thank you very much so right now we have 26 folks in the room and on Zoom combined a board members to Bonanza Steve one board member saying two minutes anybody offer any other time it was okay okay we have two board members and two do we have a dark two or one and a half okay let's go 2 minutes and I'd like to ask if we're going to call for those who are in person will call for names at a time if you can please stand up behind the podium sign up so that we can move this process forward and let's get started with the first in person and then for those who are online we see and I request that we've now closed comment for item is not on the agenda yes I see Janine and my golly Bourget the last two and I'm closing public comment at those last two and in the room the first four speakers will be Marion Sarah David milky Jose Meza and petrified golo buccola sorry so if you could be ready by the podium please thank you very much yes and just give me a moment here to set up you should be able to see the timer in front of the maybe in a minute and you see it now I can see it as short as I am I can see it thank you my name is Mary and Sarah and I am a proud a centaur class of 1974 I am the co-founder of the cover closet and I am a 44-year ccusd veteran employee after nearly five decades in my role as CPE technician I can honestly say that at the end of each work day I feel that I have contributed and I have accomplished much at ccusd our history and our future are deeply connected to organized labor Ace has played an important role in The District's effort to provide koala education to all in these challenging times we remain committed to working together for our students and the communities that rely on us in this challenging hiring time I asked at the board consider some important facts provide a competitive wage competitive benefits and create a culture an environment that all employees feel positive so that they can grow and that they can actually thrive we in labor had thought about almost are a chant Amato and what it is is labor power ccusd and at the heart of CC usd's culture should be the belief that your employees are the foundation ftce USD success again labor power ccusd thank you hi David David melchionne a teacher at Culver City High School I want to Echo what my sister Mary and shared labor does power ccusd I wanted to congratulate the student board members and student Representatives Fernandez my student I'm very proud of her particularly and the others as well who I don't know as well. Thank you for settling with the teachers I'm frustrated that you haven't settled with are classified brothers and sisters I don't really understand what the holdup is when I became an activist years ago there was a phrase and I know you know this one thank globe act locally and for example if we're concerned about people in America not having a living wage okay we're concerned about that is there something you can do locally to help that the answer of course is yes you can settle with your classified Union you know what I was talking to Debbie ham and she said one of the holdup is they agreed to a reclassification proposal for half of the employees gave a verbal promise do the second half of employees and that's not happening in a labor-management partnership you can't do that you can't give a agree to a benefit for one group of employees and not give it to another group in fact mr. Guerrero you know this this is a this is a union-busting tactic to have some employees have a benefit that other employees don't and so that really I know. I'm good okay good good show me the simple answer here is cuz settle with your classified Union that's easy and you know what interesting enough I think with the district same to the classified as it's a cost issue and we said many times a district our size doesn't need assistant superintendents when I started here they were all directors and then I need to make a correction I had pointed out that we had gone 0 assistant superintendents 24 and that's actually incorrect I checked and there are in fact five assistant superintendent a small District like ours please let's not spend the money up here let's spend the money on our employees particularly those who are lowest paid employees thank you good evening I do am part of the classified team here across the Unified School District and I also want to let go mr. milk he's bringing the thing which I really take the heart of thinking globally and acting locally I represent a class of I'm a member of the classified team here at Cooper City high school parked in instructional assistant in special education and my my issues also is that why why is it taking so long to give us decent a decent pay raise decent benefits and include everybody in this reclassification doing 50% and just that I mean how is that thinking globally how is that going to how's that going to help our morale to help our to give our best so that students can give their best in the future especially especially the most vulnerable students we're not asking for that when asking for extra benefits if we can go attend lavish conferences or just create another position ourselves we just want the same pay and I also asked Mr milky said why do we need so many assistant superintendents like give the money for extra extra help for special education students. Students really need it right we've been short for a couple years now we've been our workload has doubled and tripled and that's not fair to the students because it feels like we're constantly rushing from one student to another and that's not fair because we can't devote one hundred percent of our at 10 to them agencies have been contracted to where the district is paying triple the amount to these people and some of the I'm not against people earning a living what am I guess is these employees showing up and being completely empty by the service special education students that's completely unfair especially for that cost I mean triple triple triple for what we do I don't think so please please give us our benefits and adequate pay rates thank you or maybe Laura Loredo my name is Johanna Shane and myself Pedro Lisa asked to speak back to back and I'm going to be we turn in our cards together it wasn't my it wasn't anything but you are back to back so I'm going to speak first but the three of us are going to speak in sequence can you do it as two units of 2 I think you're alright I'm speaking of acting locally on February 14th Culver City families for excellence and accountability presented a resolution to the school board I'm asking to address the under-representation of black and Latino students in honors and AP classes at our diverse High School however we have I got no response from this request which was signed by over 40 parents and students are high school continues with a one-size-fits-all English class for all 9th and 10th graders and contrast looking at the Abc Unified District which is where are future High School principal Adrian Thomas Works Cerritos Tracy Whitney High School fees are similarly diverse high schools that offer the option of both college prep and honors English 9 and 10 this allows students to access the live instruction that they need to pursue their academic interests and achieve their Highest Potential I'm happy that in Culver are acting principal and superintendent has stated publicly that there are no plans to remove additional honors class but I remain concerned that this could happen in the future and I support our hardworking teachers and District employees and I hope and School Employees and I hope that support for their salaries and benefits will continue because the district has not provided the plan to evaluate the impact of this change our parent group sought to fill the Gap by creating an administrative bilingual survey that's what you see in front of you we received 83 responses from parents and students and on slide to buy you can see in terms of the 59 responses the demographics of responses were similar to our overall School body 86% of parents said that they preferred a choice and the majority of parents felt that the class was not rigorous and that their students would not be prepared for AP English in 11th and 12th grade there for this objective data contradict counted contradicts an offer. Statement at eliminating this option for honors English has Pana high level of rigor hi Pedro Figueroa at the last High School PTA meeting you said that you want to hear from students can College Prep English I like to focus on what some of those of those Tunes have had to say out of a group of 20 students with recent and relevant experience haven't taken English honours in the previous year now enrolled in college prep English over half of these students that the College Prep English classes are not rigorous many of these students are not experiencing differentiated differentiated instruction and Anna many are saying that the pace is too slow the elimination of English honors classes has been and continues to be described by many as benefiting all students always emphasizing the all it's been well understood for some time that students benefit when they're challenged you now have direct evidence from 9th and 10th grade students the College Prep English is not challenging to all students please read their comments recognize our voices meld each of you the the the presentation as well as take the complete survey results for our 8th and 9th graders that time is of the essence you are some of the questions that you should have been asking to Valley College Prep English that you can and should be able to answer now how has the elimination of English impacted AP AP and Roman can embedded honors groups with true in Pastor appreciation be implemented what new data would would make cchs and ccusd reevaluate their decision to eliminate honors these are questions you can answer now you don't have to wait until the end of the year you do anytime thank you thank you the next speakers will be Lisa silver John bakunin Heidi Everly and Penny Sue volume I am Lisa Silver's I actually don't have anything else to add I was going to speak if they weren't able to get to the comments but I just want to say I am support what Pedro and thank you for listening hello I'm John McKiernan I've been teaching at the high school since 90 I do not know I'm here tonight to speak in support of the classified employees I'm understanding clearly that I'm promises were made to reclassify half of it half of the group this year and promises are promises and you know there's a lot of things that can be done to break trust and breaking trust is demoralizing and and once trust is broken employees don't put their best the best foot forward once once the trust is broken staff development isn't as effective because employees are all in my wife told me tonight that she thought that for many years that was I thought I was wildly but I believed in the school district and that I that I always with the Fantastic the fan that and expressing that she just doesn't doesn't hear that in me anymore I'll tell you as well starting out with a 2% offer for teachers that breaks trust to you can't just wait to let time go by and see what we can offer you 8% and and and and and you'll be happy cuz honestly the 2% produce such a kick that it just breaks trust and and then a lot a lot a lot of there's a lot that's out the door my name is Heidi Everly it to Culver City High School LA County HUD low income level for a family of three is $90,850 I have a master's degree 18 years experience and a national board-certified teacher one of the few in this district and I only just recently started making that amount I cannot afford to live in the community where I work and send my child to school if I got pregnant and had a baby my family would fall below HUD low income level at 10 years of service all but the highest salary class of teachers makes less than that and an entry-level teachers in the very low income level it's worse at the classified level we're almost every position is below the low-income the in the vast majority or somewhere between extremely low and federal poverty levels how can you say there's not enough money to pay your staff a living wage or the reclassify your workers and yet throw away 1.2 million dollars on New Earth I'll speak more on that later but for now I'll leave you with a list of the vital Frontline workers that could be funded instead and still be below that 1.2 million-dollar price tag 15 teachers with master's degree in 10 years experience 1 first-year teachers 11 highest paid teachers 15 * stores or board certified behavior analyst or school-based Mental Health Counselors 23 College and Career Specialists who can connect our students to what's next 24 custodians who can keep our campus is clean and safe 28 instructional specialist who can work with struggling students 21 maintenance workers who can repair our crumbling facilities 32 noon dirty supervisors who can stop muscles before they become fights 26 school safety officers who can respond immediately to threat to safety 39 target language support providers who can help our students become confidently bilingual 23 office of Child Development teacher you can help our youngest students start off on the right foot any of these positions would support more than the nine students newer fleas on a weekly basis it's time to rebalance your priorities it's time to get classified workers and teachers of living B today members of the board on Independence the volume and even though the administrator sitting here tonight don't know me several of you on the dynasty room I'm tired sweetie a staff person and I represented days for 14 years and worked with this District those years I never thought I'd be in another c c c u s d board meeting but I have several ties still left in this District I spent the last two afternoons going through this ccusd budget first and second entrance just like I did for 14 years and I'm just going to give you two or three highlights I found a given my specifics to the ice bargaining team the second interim showed me that the it says that the new color was applied to the budget but I couldn't find it anywhere it's still had the old numbers it declared that the revenues had decreased and in fact every category had increased from the budget so the numbers were different at the bargaining table the union tells me they've been at for specific budget numbers relative to their bargaining unit like for instance what's the cost of 1% for our bargaining in it the number they were given was exorbitant and could only have been for the entire district and in fact it's about $99,000 for their units and 114 if you include restricted IAS instructional assistants for special ad another thing that I found from audit findings was that you're spending about 2.9 Million dollars for 25 subcontracted companies that should be work done by unit employees for District employees that's a huge amount of money that should be for your employees what you tell me you can't hire I can tell you from experience that that hiring practices should have been changed all Aces asking for your Europe difference of 1.5% that's about $150,000 and I think you can find that mop the floor call the next speakers I will remind folks on Zoom that we closed a public comment for non agendize items quite a while ago and so we are not taking any new names connect speakers in the room are summer McBride Allison hurts Lauren Jack now thank you so a few weeks ago in response to the community calling on the board to support the Union's request for fair compensation dr.ken tweeted and I quote the board is not privy to what goes on at the table it is an entirely confidential process it's important for the community I'm saying it's important for the community to know that that is an entire lie the board is pretty to what goes on at the table and if you look at every closed session agenda item 2.1 is always quote conference and labor negotiator conference with labor negotiator which list the agency designated negotiators and all the unions by title it is for this reason that we come to the board meetings to make public comments petitioning the board for fair compensation because dr. Kent knows as well as I that the board not only received updates about negotiations but also more importantly provides guidance to the district doesn't knees on how to proceed instead of attempting to Sean responsibility I'm asking all board members to honor your commitment to ensuring all employees are paid a living wage classified employees are being denied a reclassification of half of our unit which would raise the salary range of some of CC Westies lowest-paid employees half of our members reclassified last year but you're now telling us you can't afford to care for the rest of our members and that we would need to accept less compensation than what is being offered to ccft if this would be done if we want to understand why it is so hard to fill positions are retained we need only look as far as our compensation and the bias treatment of classified employees often treated more like servants than respected colleagues if your statement of values is found and see see why these budget please know that staff and teachers are watching value outside contractors and vendors more than employees please give directions to the superintendent and cabinet to scrutinize the budget eliminate wasteful spending and give Ace what we're asking our members deserve it and so much more tonight I am speaking because I want to ask the board to consider what supports are needed in our schools Wednesday next year's budget and continuing negotiations with Ace our district took a big step in 2020 with accepting the inclusion model for all our schools but a comprehensive implementation plan took a back seat with the arrival of covid-19 I also do as we move forward to making plans for next year you consider a few things I feel are necessary to ensure a successful school year for all stakeholders we need to make sure that all of our Educators have the tools and support that is needed in the classrooms the district has to stage 4 trade-in available when needed to provide an extra Tire Service during the school day they have to be ready at the beginning of the school year since Disney can't always be anticipated before the first day of school as IEPs and 504 plans or issue throughout the calendar school year also with the growing numbers of teekay students there needs to be a solid focus on hiring a professional support our mtss framework and specialist since younger children entering TK often have not had the chance to be evaluated. their needs met also has our class sizes continue to increase from 3rd to 4th grade at Minnehaha Elementary sites we need to provide extra support to our teachers going from a classroom is 24 with two or three students with IEPs to a class B A 32 with five or four students with IEPs is daunting for any teacher also are sped teachers need a balanced ratio of caseloads especially as we start to reach Upper Elementary grades they need to have enough time with each student to prep them for the transition amid also we need more counselors the ratio students to counselors is way too high especially at the high school please take this into consideration thank you good evening everyone my name is Lauren jagnow and proudly here representing a son before I begin I just want to congratulate all the staff and students have been honored tonight and I have to give a special shout-out to Andrew Jacobs team cuz I've known you since kindergarten and you're amazing okay so we all know the difference between proactive action and reactive action and it is unfortunately painfully clear to all staff that this is a reactive District as you've heard some classified staff were able get closer to a living wage because many of their positions were understaffed and we saw this is a critical need to fill those positions and now we are fighting to bring the rest of our members closer to a living wage but because not currently critically understaffed we're being told you can't afford to pay these people are living wage we're being told that that money would be better spent millions of dollars in fact on outside contracts rather than District employees who are to our students so I suggested you become proactive give classified staff the pay we deserve for the hard work we all do and do it before you force even more employees out of our district because underpaid for that hard work on the night when are classified employee of the year is being honored I'd like to remind you of your stated commitment to a living wage for all of the district's employees now is the time be proactive and literally put your money where your mouth is thank you we're now moving to zoom comments first I will read the first four names and they are Sandra's towards Rachel Snyder real Smith and Melissa's iPhone I'm going to read that again because there was an echo somebody wasn't needed Sandra Smith I mean strong Saundra Schwartz excuse me Rachel Snyder nail Smith and Melissa's iPhone please first of all I want to congratulate everyone who got a divorce all of the accomplishments of our young people we have lived in Culver City the board of the friends of the Sandy Segal youth Health Center I want to stay Mental Health Awareness Month which is managed by the Venice Family Clinic provides Mental Health Services as well as for over 30 years something generous donations from people like you and billeting means more students can be. is still time to donate to Paula's fundraiser and even after that on our website then these people use Health Center. Org happy birthday Paula Amezola thank you Rachel Snider I am a 29 year social studies teacher at Culver City High School as well as a Culver City resident as a teacher I am depending on our classified staff essentially they are being financially held hostage by poor fiscal decisions made at the district level are classified as we should not be asked to give up a potential for cost-of-living increase at the expense of ensuring it all classified positions are finally reclassified disrespect toward our classified staff is heartbreaking have you ever wondered why difficult for us to fill Minecraft the walking distance from our site is it the district cost-cutting measures such as no longer covering expensive cross-country conferences for district administrators and board members discontinuing over $1 contract with resources on District housing that isn't wanted it's time to show your employees respect which Speaking of respect of the board's actions at the meeting two weeks ago regarding the position of director of state and federal Samsung assessment and accountability board members to make an issue of a position especially needed to just be rubber-stamped with insulting not just for the amazing woman who has won it for the past several years personal Vendetta is a political aspirations of the meeting today and essentially all of a sudden with this one position the board has chosen to micromanage the hiring process the Ruckus you made it the last meet inappropriate your your staff around below and it isn't like those negative feelings Binny's near me my name is my house myths I'm cramming sophomore at Culver City High School and a member of the species has concert and marching bad as long as the atpase because she has issues with the band my captain has how many ensembles including dance Orchestra Orchestra Jazz Ensemble and chamber music Ensemble piano concerto Kung Fu artist out of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in. trans activist Marsha Pettyjohn will you put all of you can join us to hear the results of our hard work and our classes throughout the semester we are proud of what we have accomplished and it would be wonderful if our teachers administrative board members and community and help us celebrate during my final music for 8:15 which is this Saturday is all of our programs in a night operations executive Stephen voices information for the concert and can be found at 8 ETA. Org play the musical Granite City High I mean many friends and I've learned a lot for my music director dr. Tony Spano at the heights Emily boys even more opportunities to perform and read in the next two years. Thank you for your support and for allowing me to make this announcement tonight congratulations to all those who received Awards tonight thank you Joanna and Pedro for presenting the honor survey this is very concerning to quote a recent social media post by School Board member Kelly Kent a c c u s d continues to portion at least interrogated for targeting funds to our most at promise you all saw into groups historically marginalized I remind folks is how we support Excellence graduate thriving students hierarchy and Bloom's taxonomy in my 2021 graduate was lying in bed every day and couldn't get out of bed because she was so depressed because your vote close the school where are you in my freshman clean play volleyball in the ccusd gym because you thought your mandates were appropriate know you and the school district made wrong decisions during the pandemic that are lice altering forever for my children had any have they been in another District a private school still attending a plain Sports the outcome may have been excellent answer Ivy Tran ultimately made his decision so he could get on CNN and be the first district to make certain mandates that in time have ruined many opportunities all the while remaining illegal never came from any of you you can tell you to not support not provide to support an excellent or graduate thriving students this is proving in tonight's El Cap research finding it's proven and how you've treated staff and teachers as well you know you're not the only one the school board but you continuously post misinformation on social media the rest of the public needs to know about it when will any of you listen and take our voices seriously also why did the school board can you work without my approval I've never contact I made the family Tory statements about them so that your parents who speak up or bring up brown at perhaps the California Board of Education thank you the next speakers are Seth rosenzweig Diana Serrano Lee and Tim so first I want to thank all our students for their services and they deserve the recognition and awards so we should be more aware of this are they finding two products the green New Deal and we could never again and Gaston mylar balloons which never buy it by the bridge so we need to do better I want to offer congratulations to the publicity AYSO boys under-10. led by coach Dan Barrett wear this past me going to team finish first place in our bracket and strawberry teams that represented areas from Orange County Fire graduates Culver City Boys under-10 All-Star to you and whoever Mother's Day we can finish this and also finished first in their bracket and Strawberry Cup the actress in all-star teams represents students in second raid at all of our elementary schools and in addition the All-Star team has been honored with the opportunity to represent Culver City in the National games will take place at the end of July where there will be from all over the United States this is a very prestigious honor as a tournament until the only every other year and only 32 teams from around the United States gets to participate in this opportunity I'm so proud and honored to coach these boys who on a side note I do have to call out Kelly time for yet another tweet retweet targeting the Jewish community and Israeli Community cab why do we need to keep calling you out on these Retreats how are you going to race into meetings and rather than Retreat without comments and bring some dialogue rather than device unities please work on together thank you good evening everyone my name is B I know you said I know I am going to go counters on a temporary contract I am the count ReliOn elementary school I just want to request to follow up on our contract because it is hiring season and I had to be quiet two offers already I would like to know the district is officially offering at a concert for the 2023 to 2024 school year or weekends accepting offers according to the letter I received in March my contract expires in June 9th I have been told by multiple stakeholders that the district is trying to extend her contract but I have not received an official notification yet I love Ayana our staffs families in our community thank you good evening can any of you fellows board members justify that by excluding half of the classified employees from being reclassified since not receiving a raise and circle and finding out that house the classified employees are not require certified I felt disgusted and insulted for them it is extremely hurtful and deeply concerning where is the respect did the tribe as the captain of the boat how would you feel if you are the only one who did not get erase is it because your job is on the line and therefore you're willing to do whatever doctor can't spend this summer YouTube for example Mueller and Brookwood you can do better I'm here you say that all the time to me those are empty promises you mister try to do better the one stand up for yourself and give them what they deserve and Brookwood should not be top priorities right now you have skirted let you have heard many times that your teachers stop morale is low tension to that first start putting smiles on their faces and then back their trust thank you the next speakers are as loyal and I'm sorry please please correct Sara Lynn Sara Sara Peru I'm sorry I guess my name is Waylon what are you. I'm in El Marino parent of a first grader and a fourth grader I also want to stress the need for counselors at the elementary school level as mentioned by another public comment American School Counselors Association recommends the ratio of 1 to 250 students are currently have 90 one-time fidgeted counselor for all of our elementary school that is clearly not sufficient summary you know how is over 770 students and we were lucky enough to have a part-time counselor do to are scrambling their school by sons to have enough play part-time counselor with a full-time counselor El Marino has been blessed this year to have the support of two councillors but this will not likely be true next year as we will not have this support for students admin staff is trying to find a way to make that happen again to have another part-time hours and what is the actual need to please support our students and classes and staff to address that social emotional needs of our school and already know it would be great to have two full-time budgeted counselors at 7 that wouldn't probably meet since the ratio of about 500 students and but that should also be a consideration for the other schools at our elementary and not just the high school level and although I commend things that are going back going on at the high school level let's please consider the elementary level as well thank you Carolyn okay okay hello board members my name is Carolyn live is sir I'll recently I send an email to all board members it reads as follows I would like to point out the public requirements Garden public meeting adopt governing the procedures to be followed permit the public to address the board regarding items on the agenda as they are considered that's right the board is legally require a permit address the board members regarding the items on the agenda as they are considered in addition this morning I received a cease-and-desist letter via email attorney for New Earth how did lures get my personal email I've never responded with new Earth I believe this letter is an attempt to intimidate me and show Kristy stopping terminated and I will continue to fight for what is right on the president of the political action committee SNCC would see our mission is to educate the public about a property temperature will not work if you want to know more about it go to our website safety cusd.org donations are welcome to USD. Org that's our political action committee as we exposed what is wrong what symptoms for thank you Sara Bareilles yes thank you for the time turn up to elementary students meetings are they have lasted anywhere from 4 to 7 hours each time an effective without next steps being made clear the same issues have been brought up meeting after meeting however there have been no resolution questions have remained unanswered for summer issues that can be resolved easily or not we all know there are problems that seem simple but require extensive discussions in order to reach a resolution however actually simple and possible solutions can be generous Justin Bieber apples email should receive a response School even at the elementary level is it mental health needs to be addressed there for their needs to be enough full-time counselors on sight to fulfill the student time ratio all employees should receive a competitive salary such a small disc superintendent of Dia honestly you should have seen such big changes now I am a research scientist so I look at data and conclusions and these meetings for the past year collectively would be indicated a failed experiment without any clear result I do understand there has been new additions to the district and school board and there is a learning curve the respectful way things really need to pick up I will on I'm saying what makes a good school district is the faculty staff and Community I hope you all work together at a better pace for ccusd thank you the last four speakers are Lindsay Carlson Melissa Sanders Janine and magali Borgia did you want me to go ahead yes please thank you appearance and I can fit you in I'm not able to be there anymore yet tonight but I am wearing red for Ed again just before the professionals to do a great job educating and caring for my child and all of our children from Council for New York making defamatory statements about the organization allegation and every single one of them was false and she was one of them and possibly after 9 people I received a response back to my email from you shortly before this meeting and began and knowledge that I was back correct they lied when they accused me of engage in fact I couldn't even identify a single allegedly defamatory incredibly instead of apologizing attorney actually got angry with me for suggesting that the he might be subject to litigation if they did not cease and desist from making false statements about me I've never actually corresponding with numerous but somehow they my personal email address the public servants who hire them to provide services artistic children using public funds I expect that you'll condemn them for engaging in these threats and intimidation tactics directed the members of the community especially parents of the children who they were hired to serve as ground on his own to terminate a relationship with a serve provider Melissa Sanders what I would like to say is that effective immediately that I would like since there is no measure K oversight Committee in any kind of valid forms of 2020 since no one was reappointed that better case funding so you may not use Medicaid funding for anything from here forward since it is a legally required I know it's hard for you guys to understand concept legally required to have an oversight committee to make sure funds are being used properly and you have not had the legally required to be since 2021 so it is by far and away you guys need to stop using the measure to fund a yes Kelly and Paul at everyone yes when you don't reappoint members and its required is no longer valid Miss Sanders Miss Sanders this is item for items not cuz I have other things to say got a cease-and-desist letter and the intimidation is not going to work either on me the letter was very weird very strange not on letterhead or letter had I have no idea who this lawyer but she does not do a very good job but considering how bad your lawyers are is it's for the district that doesn't shock me either not at all as well very very true you lied about the whole board not knowing anything your BS best practices that you like to turn around is only convenient when it is for your agenda and I'm really sick of it really sick of it you're getting Semitic retweets unacceptable. . I don't understand how this for this district and this leadership to continue in this manner I agree with Sarah produce this board and the way you behave is it failure good evening my name is your name is all I've been a school counselor here and see see you at Sea since 2012 I want to stand inside Verity with our classified Union are Ace members are among our lowest paid staff and it is not lost on me that they are very often employees of color these other workers who are so essential that they works during the pandemic will everyone else was home essential van but extendable now what are we doing classified staff work hand-in-hand with certificated staff to provide quality education to all our students love our custodial staff are noon AIDS and our food services person are instructional aides have had the impossible job of rolling out a special education inclusion model with limited support for either certificated or classified staff and yes you should be the way the instructional aide deescalate every single day I showed up for me this year when no one else did special shout out to employee of the year Carlos when I need help it's not the district office that helps me it's the nurse tax and the admin assistants add stop for the heartbeat of our schools they catch and diffuse the frustration of parents and problem-solve proactively protecting the time of certificated staff so they can best serve his be the way the kindergarten students glow when they see mr. Maids are ready to help officiate a soccer game or how Miss Flores acts as a de-facto counselor at CC and ask because she is so integral to the functioning of that program certificated well not with classified what message find out who we value most these employees are my trusted colleagues and more importantly they are my friends and Embers deserve a living wage increase salary range for 100% of the employee thank you my name is madhavi Borgia and I've worked at cths is the counselor since 2016 and I have seen the needs of students grow exponentially never have I had. students not only with mental health issues but also students that experience loss and xiety and low life challenges that most adults do not experience thanks for two temporary counseling positions we have had the opportunity need to build a rapport with our students and more than ever before I was reminded of the importance of having time and giving time to students as a student came to me the other day for schedule change interaction does not work why are closed door but I had time so I close the door or small conversation of class has turned into a larger conversation and after some time since I had not had the time to close my this is one of many examples of support and relationship-building that will not take place if our two temporary positions do not become permanent ones fallacious takes so much time to build and the only reason cchs councillors have been able to build these relationships more frequently than ever before is because our races have decreased temporarily we do not want to revert back to the days when all our time was heating up by 50 Fords IEPs presentation scheduling excetera leaving close to nothing for relationship-building please prioritize funds on lowering ratios not temporarily so it's to put a Band-Aid on a bullet hole but permanently so that we can see trucha and so that we can not just speak about Equity but we can be equity that concludes public comment on items not on the agenda I know there was a hand or two that popped up after work after we're a close public comment thank you everyone I know we have completed 7.2 we will move on to 7.3 CC use the employee groups I'm sorry if they'd like to respond to anything you're absolutely right can we hear if cabinet or staff or superintendent would like to provide remarks answer any questions thank you present at Missoula and I appreciate the opportunity to to see if I can provide some different perspective first verse about the conversation from the last I think April 25th when I was away I wish I'd had the opportunity to come up here and address that so tonight it's somewhat of a unique situation I wish I could take some of the item off of the list there seems to be some implying that the the letter regarding new Earth did you do with that the district does not have anything to do with supporting or I'm providing any kind of information and and that is on the record I need to stay there and if anything that we can assist in in in clarify the situation Seuss please contact my office I am also recognizing the painful process of trying to provide living wages for some of the most difficult in some of the most difficult place to live allow me to go back in time when I was when I was attending College I was an instruction to eat about intersection Aid working three and a half hours a day and I still remember my salary was $325 a month the job that I had actually pay for all of my books and everything else taking buses and Swan to go to burned and an engineering degree I work in an elementary school in Alhambra and I was instruction 8 in by the new classes and in order to David my my income the assistant principal at the time asked if I could just spend another hour every day to be a noon Duty 8 so I did both and it somewhere along the way I was also the traffic monitor for if I would earlier than I had the chance to earn about half an hour 45 minutes of income monitoring parents dropping children off and on that conversation led to not all beans let me to begin thinking maybe Beyond engineering I could do something in public education and you know I am so I'm not trying to say that I don't understand what it's like to be part of that of that structure whereby it doesn't seems like we could ever earn enough to be in Alhambra or to be in a comfortable place to have a living wage I would honor the work that we do so perhaps we have a lot of overlaps that could point to some future if it's I think we managed to wrap up the part of negotiation 8% that we agree without without teacher Union leadership on the table offering the same a percent to our union membership of a classified Union be the question came in is that last year we did have because of operational needs we did separate several classifications of a job we need it desperately because the time with just two pressure to the pressure to have the services come in to meet the needs of all students we sat down without Union leadership and and figure out the way that we could we could attract more employees come in and I am reviewing all of the documentation that the time and including the the signature paper that we had without Ace Union president and our HR assistant soup we did say that the need is operational we just couldn't find people so we have to bump those units I don't remember statements as in in the future the rest will be reclassified but here's what I'm saying that is in line with what the board had instructed me to find ways to make a living wage a condition for all of our employees including find ways to generate additional income looking for Grants looking for a way to collaborate with other unit please and programs so that we can buy and resources to bring up the salary of the most vulnerable population of the workers in our community in our district in our schools there is a place to move forward with that I'm willing to done without union leader not necessary part of the leader of the team but I'm willing to sit down with our leader to see there is a place where Hap's a negotiation item for the next opening of the end of the contract we will look the way to honor the board commitment to provide a a living wage for all the stuff I'd like us to begin to celebrate the fact is we have an 8% waiting to be accepted by race leadership the same we had offered to re ccft colleagues so maybe that's where we could go and then all the other issues is necessary that we can bring it to the negotiation table in the new context of next year this conversation right now seem to be heated in a way that unproductive and forgive me there is not this how did ending of this of this Reef ossification issue we've had goals to elevate everyone salary and allow us to seek the right place for that conversation to move forward allow me to also double back on on the statement was share to it is indeed true the board of education do receive update doing procession on what's going on with with the with the negotiation but there's a distinction when unit when when I'm coming to share with the board is this Q&A the board ask question what does that mean do we have enough resources in zones but we do not receive any guidance because in order to give us guidance a vote will have to be taking place no single board member could tell a superintendent in that closed session you must do this board acts as a group as a committee and unless the board took action then say three out of five full album three out of five four or five of five out of five direct me but you know that at the end of every procession will put it out that we took no action and that is legally the answers you have the right to know where things are going but to provide direction to the superintendent and cabinet to go take a close action closed session action and that's do not take Vice so we provide a boil as much detailed information as we can but action the direction does not coming to US unless the board took a close action vote and that by the way the board would have to reveal that at the end of the closed session I'm going to also address the the need for a dish opening an additional resources to counseling as much of a as much as we age the evidence of how great the needs are the district had invested in bringing in additional counselors on soft funding at the beginning we've also receive instruction or the guidance from the Board of Education to move to make those position permanent and we are on our way there let me say that again commitment is to protect and preserve and increase the number of counseling services including crisis counseling services so that someday that particular crucial service can be in-house can be broadly now I'm under the I'm already heading to address that and then not just invade to recuperate some of the services from Outsourcing to in-house we also will be looking at security instructional support from for special that program that is also being outsourced to a certain degree some of custodial staff is also being outsourced out custodial Services being elsewhere stop all of that would be part of an ongoing effort to bring in-house the services to all students I've had mentioned this with my colleague Delong of about ccft leadership and he and I looking at after the negotiation is coming to an end we would like to sit down and and drop an mou to detail out the recuperation the repatriation of this is so that in the long run we will not be trapped into forming out and I'll source is no services are students it is always a better and hopefully in that context we will recoup at the dump in house expertise as well as manage our resources better at this point we know we're not there yet but we're willing to work and to move into that reaction I'm going to say that the the context about work sometime happened in stages if I were to go back to the National level of the the extra funds all of the cord fundings that is coming out to support schools when we were struggling coming back into open and in instruction the large part of that funding went straight into protective measures massive amount of funding across the whole country the next step up his tutoring trying to on way to close the achievement of the deed the academic Gap so that soon showing the third part came in in Crisis Intervention weekly therapeutic check-in check-out and that is a massive Revelation for the whole country because we would not necessarily have that structure in place prior to the closure of school the needs of Crisis interventions in crisis maintaining and an account is still evident today and is still growing its the district is committed to support our students need to serve them either by in-house means or by Outsourcing temporarily but the needs of all students dictate what we do without resources and I'm willing to have more conversation without leaders are parents of teachers of students to maximize the outfit we have and to optimize the resources that we have under control and I'll give you the 4 to 4 thank you thank you so much okay now I would like to invite our labor Partners 7.3 is ccusd employee groups and we always start with Miss hammy and we will continue then with mr. long thank you for the evening president on Missoula members of the board are District administration I'm not sure what goal was of Master Transformer but it doesn't address what we have on the table is for the reclassification for 50% of my members we are not going to wait until 2425 to bring this into negotiations mr. Tran I'm sorry we have looked at the way this board and this Administration has chosen to send District funds everyone in the community is looking at the decisions that you're making and thinking that you are not spending our money wisely we started talking about reclassifications for all of arm over a year ago we made it clear in negotiations that Our intention was it every single one of our members would receive a 3 salary range but the fact that we decided to do half last year we have this year was because we were indeed having trouble filling certain vacancies but in this half. Mental health counselors we've got all the counselors in our family centers on our elementary school sites we've got behave so are you going to tell me that the next half is not as important as the first half that would be a ridiculous statement for anybody to make and we are not going to wait another year to get what we should have gotten same time we got the first half done last year now there have been plenty of people who have spoken to this and I spoke with two weeks ago at the board meeting and I asked for your commitment that when this came up to you that you would approve it and instead we get an insulting offer Monday at the table where were told that if we want the second half of our reclassifications we're going to have to pay for it so we're going to have to have the cost of the reclassification deducted from the 8% that the teachers would be given so that we can pay for our own class of reclassifications and Take 5 maybe for maybe on on salary you've got to be kidding me that you actually thought that this was something that we would accept and that we would agree to I took one look at it at the table and said there's no way we're agreeing to this you have to make the right decision and people are starting to notice even your administrators in the district are starting to notice I'm going to read a copy of an email that I was cc'd on today by one of your directors I understand that you have hit a speed bump with Ace negotiation I would like to address the subject of reclassification as you know I have for employees I won't miss your voice might be able to figure out who's the director actually is that this impacts they were under upset when the rest of my department was reclassified earlier this year and they were not they felt forgotten overlooked and unappreciated the fairness of this had a negative impact on their morale they have asked me not if but when they will be reclassified as well I don't have anything to say to them other than to contact Debbie hammy who is copied here and talk to her about the negotiation process I'm contacting you to encourage you move forward with the reclassification of the remaining classified employees being discussed in negotiations we talked about the Morales staff all of the staff not just a handful or a department or a location as a girl after I see my staff being disjointed and non enthusiastic I truly believe that if these last people in my department were reclassified because they have key positions in my department they will be lifted up and showing the district sees them and their contribution to the department and the district their attitudes to spread to the rest of the staff and I believe this can only have a positive impact on my staff overall in the coming school year reclassification along with the proposed raised will they wonders for all staff it will also be very helpful for hiring our hourly rate is low when compared to neighbouring districts as you know it has been extremely difficult to find new employees and my department currently has nine vacancies seven of which have been open for two years or more thank you for your time I hope I didn't overstep here but I thought I'd just had to say something and support of my staff and classified employees as a whole and I appreciate female now I'd like the board to take some positive movement and tell mr. Tran that he has to find money to give this reclassification to the last 50% of my unit and I because they deserve it and I'm going to tell you another thing I'm sure that the District administration would not sit for being told half of you are going to get a raise and the other half won't you're not going to sit still for that and you know it so why are you asking the lowest-paid employees in this school district to accept something like that and be happy with it because all of you will be getting a full 8% raise and you'll all accept it and an 8% raise for looks a lot different than a 80% raise for me if the second half of my employees were reclassified as they should be you're looking at something like $2 an hour a dollar 97 an hour you guys know much more than that it's hard for you to sit there with a straight face I would assume and look at me and tell me that my members who make less than anybody in this District should have to pay for their own reclassification you have wasted money on priorities that have nothing to do with staff have nothing to do with students and that's got to stop the other thing I want to talk about and not regard the reclassification let's talk about the season just noticed it was sent out by Council for New Earth I don't know how that happened and you noticed several members of the community have received that letter I consider it extremely inappropriate for someone that we are contracted with the send out first of the community of course the members are wondering how did New Earth get their personal emails because all of these people in the community received these letters these emails rather says to their personal emails and all of them think that the board who has heard from them repeatedly different issues has gone as far as to share their personal email addresses with newer that I hope that that is not the case but it's still big an answer how did New Earth get a hold of personal emails of members of our community and her missing friend to stand here and say that the district has nothing to do with that that may be true but you should be certain that you have a company that you have contracted with for over two million dollars and that they do something like this and that you don't have the Integrity or the interest in finding out how that happens you have to mount an investigation and figure out how that came to be because that is entirely inappropriate in the next usable thank you a severe evening to everyone so for someone just take a moment to congratulate all our student Award winners tonight or certificated employee of the year who by the way I noticed has to work too time jobs here I didn't notice him saying that he works two part-time jobs as well so that should be a sign to everyone and are two ccft members who won awards misspelling Purdue and mr. Tom Salter both proud members of our Union so at this time I do want to report that we did reach a settlement with ccusd on an 8% increase a 1000 $1,500 and $2,500 increase to our benefits and a very much-needed increase to the stipend for nurses because we're down to two out of four nurses and that is a desperate situation I want to also think you know all the people that kind of helped us with this including CFT president Jeff Freitas RC ft PR director Matthew Hardy CFT field rep set of Martha Figueroa and especially the state senator Lola Smallwood Cuevas who also came out and supported us by the way they are all progressives and if you are a progressive you are going to support unions all of those people did will have an issue still with our counselors that we have four months been trying to sign an agreement on our counselors. 42% offer was insulting I'm about to top that for you counselors who one of their biggest complaints is the amount of extra hours they work at night without pay was one of the biggest issues they brought to us as members of our unit they would fall under our contract with says we work a total of two evenings basically for free back to school night and open house are counselors came to me and said we were willing to actually do two extra days without pay for night time work but the district says they want them to work 10 nights for free 10 nights for free that you tell me who here would work 10 nights at their job for no pay so we're back to the insults again 2% wasn't enough of an insole now you're going to tell her counselors and holding up the entire counselor article on the contract because everything has been agreed to except for that one issue because you want them to work 10 nights for free that's so insulting I can't even believe that again that goes back to Progressive values which people constantly expels but very very rarely show I also want to thank arrow for all the support that you have given us in this battle with the district over that and Mister as a door thank you as well for your support of tweets that you gave to us to calling for farepay I do want to definitely think both of for doing that for our Union but as we do have things settled fairly settled for ccft our fellow Union Ace is also being kicked around how can we say to our lowest paid employees but only half of your going to get a reclassification this year that the district and Debbie told me many times what the difference is we just don't have the budget for it yeah we can't give you all percent of the money toward benefits on the stipend for nurses afford to reclassify all of her other employees and I say why pointed out hear from CT are formally about issues she's found in our budget and I said this last time to see if they did an analysis of the budget and you can't afford it I would also look to outside that you currently have and how much money you're spending on outside contracts since the 2019 stabbing audit how many administrative positions have we added to ccusd I'll say probably 6 would that pay for the reclassification certainly what a fraction of the new Earth contract pay for the classification is certainly what which spending more money more wisely pay for the reclassification it certainly would a wire that we doing this hasn't this District suffered enough bad press even called out in the alley daily news on MSN City Crossroads Culver City News called out specifically by cfp President Jeff Freitas called up by Senator Lola Smallwood Cuevas all directly calling you out you were called out by the American Federation of teachers so what are things going to change that's my question to you do we have this issue with their and what we see that right now is a lot of unions across California are rising up because they're getting tired of this they're getting tired of the way management is treating them we saw striking La unified by both SEIU and utla we saw striking Oakland will be a strike right now with the Writers Guild of America there's going to be a massive rally in Downtown LA this Friday call union strike back which we encourage everyone to attend if they can 12th and Figueroa downtown LA so when is management going to get it unions are tired of this so speaking of Union work I've mentioned several times how ccusd Contracting out Union positions your Contracting out counseling positions you're also counseling out classify counselors and therapists positions as well too so why do we continue to do that to train it mentioned and we are right now issued a demand a bargain to sign an mou that is going to put a limit on this is going to be strictly put limits on this making sure unions were informed ending this practice we understand it X it's necessary and the height of the pandemic it was necessary there were times it's necessary but especially with counseling services we feel that time is no law necessary and if the district refuses to sign that mou we will take every means at our disposal to come back and ccusd from the Public Employee Relations Board to a PR campaign that's nothing like you've seen we are tired of our jobs being contracted out we do not want this to happen anymore we have counselors in several spoke tonight that are on temporary contracts they don't know their future they know that they got a pink slip on March 15th saying that their services will end on June 9th yet we have no guarantee he said that they're going to return I believe a total of 5 and that's just in my unit I'm not even sure about Debbie's five councillors which everyone said here we need we continually hear about students mental health me but we haven't even guaranteed counselors coming back yes we have a 1.5 million dollar contract with a company that is providing counseling services even if that was reduced canceled that would usually pay for our counselors to come back and hire new counselors as well we feel very strongly but the district and the Board needs to do something about this and I myself were very confused by a statement that was just made earlier and that's about what the board knows in contract negotiations 4 years I've been on the Barbie in the present after 3 years and probably been on the bargaining team for about 7 and 4 years and years we were told by the district whatever we had an offer yeah we can't offer that until the board has authorized it for years we were told that so was I faked negotiating tactic we were told on partnership by board members that things had to be brought to the board first for authorization when we talkin years ago about furlough days and positions. and things like that what had to go to the board first and this is from a former board member saying the same thing tonight so I'm not sure what to believe at this point because there are mixed messages that are putting the pudding being put out about that let's talk a second about the new Earth contract $600,000 this year 1.5 million next year and then open year following that so you work as a presentation tonight I had the chance to look at it that's a lot of statistics on there so I am questions for the board that I hope will be asked there is student data on there who surveyed our students how many of our students were surveyed when do these surveys occur what were the questions about our current staff on a survey around I found a defensive by the way to see a stat said only 38% of our staff are then our students felt trusted and speaking to our staff but I think it was 68% felt new Earth was Trust where does that come from cuz I've never seen any other stats that said that before mr. Tran I know specifically in Partnership we had said why don't we have asked you to instead of evaluate them on the news can you set to me well we don't do that we're not going to ask you into this time to evaluate various programs right you said that to me directly and partnership Neuwirth went and surveyed students when they're I'm going to be making a presentation to the board tonight so I like to know why that happened why were being told as a union that it's not appropriate to survey students on the effectiveness of programs so this contract that we currently have again would pay for Easley or counselors that are on temporary contracts and new councillors would be Union member so I asked right that we begin looking at creating positions for Union Counseling Services members of our unit to give our students support at risk counselors at risk attendance counselors behaviorist Mental Health Specialists that are all credentialed by the state of California working with our students or license through the state of California as well and all would be Union so if you also what unions like everyone up there and said that you support unions show me show me how you support unions because you have that opportunity right now to say we are not going to contract out Services because we're pretty I wouldn't but if you start putting up as itions that we're going to start getting counselors because we already have counselors that desperately want to stay we heard one tonight say if she's got two other offers but she wants to stay in Culver City Unified so why are we doing that why aren't we contracted why are we continuing the contract e-services Mr Milk you talked about you know earlier anti-union tactics and things to dividing unions and that's another one Contracting out services that when we brought in New Earth when we originally approved that contract we understood he need may not even had former board member say he know I did vote for it at the time there was a neat we were coming out of the pandemic there a lot of uncertainty the question is do we need to spend another 1.5 million dollars on a program our students need services but we think our services should be provided by our own in-house. which are evaluated by us with your background check by us with your credential through the state of California or license through the state of California because all of our members have to do that so we're saying each and every one of you that's the direction the district needs to go with counseling staff how we start need we need to start looking at other contracts as well too finally I want to talk about the doing wrong program West LA College and why this raises a red flag for me as a union leader although I do support the idea that there are certain courses for example that we cannot offer at the high school for example culinary immensely popular program at the high school that we just don't have the facility to house anymore or auto program I understand like doing rollman programs with some of those I know we haven't lgbtq our program is well for dual enrollment something that we just don't have the capacity at the high school but it is problematic to say that we are going to create dual enrollment pass where students are going to taking courses in math and English and arts and science and history that are currently being taught by our teachers I want to know more information about this because right now I'm not very trusting in this because you all have broken our trust the members of the board the members of the cabinet have broken our trust so maybe this is a good program I don't know it has red flags for me for sure because we don't want all of a sudden our jobs being done at West LA College in I even heard that they would be on our campus and I'm not even sure where they would fit on our campus campus is so impacted right now it's time for the board and the district to get their priorities straight we are hemorrhaging teachers and classified staff Debbie had talked about how one department is so understaffed as it is just this year we have lost a principal at the high school at the middle school for a second time at Farragut at El Marino and we currently don't have an assistant superintendent a business services that's a problem why is this happening to our district that's what we have to ask yourself I've been here for 18 years and was a pretty stable district for the most part we have people that you know stayed here for years and years and years I've been hooked up Robert Quinn 24 25 years we don't have that anymore and why is that and I always say it begin with the board you set the guidance you set the direction that the district is going to take but sometimes your own priorities get in the way of the staff priorities your contracts like new Earth over here these plans to build employee housing that employees haven't asked for my question where are the district priorities thank you thank you so much I would like to invite our representative from labor for max Mr ronchetti good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak I'll make mine brief I just wanted to recognize all the employee order recipients tonight especially Tom Salter who was d'max certificated Award winner also all of the all of the student award recipients and then it's special shout out to Robert Quinn who retired recently and then finally the student board members and representatives and express my appreciation for them giving up so many hours young lives to come here and advocate for positive change and it gives me some hope that there is some Future Leaders in this world thank you okay I'd like to it is 9:15 does a board need a break I was going to request if we can take 76 before 7 for because we do have some students waiting remembers okay at this

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