Videos

Regular Board Meeting 11-19-24

Added Nov 20, 2024 •

Copy this URL:
Embed code:	<iframe class="edlio-embed-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="360" src="//www.ccusd.org/apps/embed/?v=380021" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Change dimensions

Show Transcript

good evening we are calling our special board meeting to order isn't me oh it's me it's me um our special board meeting for Tuesday November 19th we're calling our special board meeting for Tuesday November 9th to order at 6:16 p.m. and we are going into closed session first so at this time we will be taking any comments from the public on items on the closed session agenda so raise your hand this time if you have comments on our closed session agenda items we have all trustees present for the record okay great at this time I'll take a motion to recess to closed second okay all those in favor say I will see you shortly just okay so we have reached he was yeah okay we have returned from closed session um thank you for your patience it took a little bit longer than we anticipated today so we're going to begin our um open session at this time we have for trustees present and we have no Public Announcement of action taken by the board in closed sessions so we will at this time move to our public hearing which is item 4.1 that's me I'm going to I'm going to take the lead um so the exe administrative content is um a script which I will read at this time in preparation for the 2024 2025 negotiation process the following information regarding the initial collective bargaining proposal for the above mentioned must be presented at the November 19th 202 or board meeting in Open Session preferably in in my opening comments the public hearing for the Culver City Unified School District initial collective bargaining proposal to the Culver City Federation of teachers for the 2024 2025 school year now open at 7:05 p.m. and I will read further script the initial collective bargaining proposal from the Cover City Unified School District 2024 2025 school year has been presented to ccft a copy of the initial proposal from CCSD to ccft is attached and that is attached on board docs comments during this public hearing should be limited to the CCSD 2425 bargaining proposal if anyone wishes to comment on other issues they would do that during regular public recognition and it is our goal to hear from all of you who wish to be heard okay are their hands there are no no 1 in person and I'm not seeing any hands on Zoom okay anyone on Zoom wish to comment on the district sunshine there are no comments thank you the board of education has heard your comments and concerns and we thank you very much for your input the public hearing is now closed 706 p.m. we'll move to adoption of the agenda motion moved to approve any discussion all those in favor say I I I excellent and so now we can hear from members of the audience for items on the agenda those include our superintendent action item which is 8.1 our Personnel single Personnel action item 9.1 There's No 1 in in person and I see no hands raised I still see no hands raised okay great all right so we will close our public comment wreck public recognition section I moved to our superintendent's action items section thank you Dr Ken good evening everybody uh so this is an action item that we uh talked about our last board meeting when I gave you the first read of our Global adoption and update of our board policy as mentioned uh previously we have spent time uh since July updating and and providing the most recent additions to board policies through our partners with the California School Board Association so it's it's a it's a hefty lift again I think I want to thank all of our executive assistants and the superintendent uh and their work and getting this revised and then board thank you for your review I know that these documents were um huge so I just I want to thank you I do think this is an important um time for us though that will provide much updated and modernized um board agenda items um and so with that I ask you to uh consider Global adoption of this work and as we discussed uh last meeting um if there are items that you are feeling still um need to be worked on on our end just not for the global adoption um if you are a comfortable sharing which those items are and that would probably ask if we just pull that from the global adoption so we can again globally adopt the vast majority of the policies and then maybe continue working on some of the ones that you're feeling need additional report okay so are you saying that the ones that we have discussed with you thus far are not pulled currently they are not I see okay so colleagues um I imagine folks do have ones that they wanted to pull so okay there we go do you want me okay yeah go ahead um so I think for me I have reviewed some policies that I I want us to approve today today but the to keep flagged to bring back as soon as possible and that's how the what I'm proposing for mine I don't know if other board members want something different but I have around 4 or 5 that I would like to propose to review and um and and mostly because things have changed since we have reviewed them and they need to be updated and strengthening write them okay you want to tell us oh sure well I if another board member wants something different I think that that's important right that's I mean because I raised some questions just about some minor wording in the in the 900s I'm absolutely okay at proving that as part of the the global adoption tonight but I would like to flag those to get back to some point in the next couple of months but I don't want to disrupt the big option for that yeah yeah so I would love to hear what the ones you are uh suggesting to bring back at a or to agendas at a future meeting um and whether or not that affects you know our our comments in general or or whatnot um yeah so please share please share yeah yeah absolutely um Okay so the first 1 I have is 51 45 uh 5145 is um our and BP 5145.13 and this is uh to strengthen immigration status and citizenship I think some of the language there is vague such as would collect information but what kind of information will we be collecting for the children who made need um support if parents are uh by the way this is a student protections relating to immigration and citizenship status and so if students need protections can we be more specific on the forms identify the forms that we need to have on file for protection protection of our students uh because right now the policy just States we will do every effort to have like somebody named uh however how are we going to do that um the r does not specify we're going to update that it's going to be introduced an affidavit is going to be introduced to the parent uh handbook at the beginning of the school year uh and I think it's really important given our situation in this country that we are very specific and that we review our parent um handbook uh to ensure that all the documents that are needed to protect the students are there at the beginning of the school year and even now sorry this 5135 or 45 45.13 is that welcome um no uh I also uh you don't have to give like all of your rationale yeah okay I want to take it all yes okay so I won't give rationale for the next ones 6142 7 physical education and activity and then 6174 English learner we can always follow up with you yeah thank you for that okay did you have some um I don't sorry um I I'm not uh recommending to pull or to bring back anything in particular I do want to um request to amend there was a number of 1,000 um um Pages 4950 5256 uh actually from 49 to 58 from Pages 49 to 58 that have um extraneous notes highlights and the things that were supposed to be removed by csba and they just got in there there's also um in 50005131 BP and 9240 BB that have like weird text like strikeouts and things like that that like I think csba without we um there's nothing wrong with the actual uh content that csba can go in and uh clean up before it's actually updated if you all are okay with amending it uh um in that way so that the content remain means the same it's just that the notes get removed and all the text becomes black instead of whatever weird color that they are right now um uh previously uh we heard from the first uh quote unquote read uh we heard from superintendent that they were unable csba or gamete was unable to uh do some kind of global request for to remove the pronouns um because they're just not necess necessary and I I would be okay if we because we didn't get an answer from them on like what the what what a clarification from gamut about what was the hold up with the pronouns and so if we could just um nudge them again and see if maybe we didn't provide them with all the um ones that we needed to do a quick find and replace um I would be uh I would ask for us to amend that Global request otherwise I am okay with everything being adopted with those just um they're formatting amendments really not they're not for um for the content so thank you so much okay thank you and then just for the record the ones that I brought up last time were 9100 and 9120 1 um just clarifying um that the intent of the board is that the vice president become the president at the reorganization um do you know actually uh superintendent Lucas we had to follow up and I don't know if there's been time in the week whether it is necessary to have an election for the president or if we can Define it as we choose and just elect the vice president with the understanding that that person becomes president yeah I'm sorry Mr I don't know that information yet I'll make sure I get it this week okay I mean and it's just 1 of those things that that we should clarify it eventually um I think and we are going to be doing an organization or reorganization in a month um so it would be good to know that in advance um but I'm fine with approving everything tonight so uh just to clarify you would like these to come back in a future date to uh to review the language like like she was proposing correct but you're okay with yep it's standing as it is today yeah I I think I would just like to add additional Clarity but I think it is clear um and I think it's it's fine okay um the ones I want to flag I'm fine with the bulk approval it is a little different than I thought tonight would be I thought it would be that we would pull and have a separate approval process for other board policies but I'm okay with this method um our oh uh BP 1330 is 1 of them um BP is 3510 and 3511 .1 and then both um 5117 BP and our um Dr Kent that last 1 again 5117 both the bpn are yeah and um just to give a little bit of context on that last 1 we just approved it as this current body in January of 2023 it's it's a value this body I think really feels strongly about and the versions in this bulk adoption um are are uh appreciably different and and reflect different values number 1 so that's really important but also um the language in terms of where the like meat and potatoes are as different in terms of BP and our there's a real different there's a very Market difference there what number was that 517 so um to be honest I'd love if that came back to us soon but we can will Dr k i i I'm comfortable with just pulling that from this from what I feel the most strongly about in terms of the and then uh what will ensure happens is the most recent board policy the 1 you just mentioned is the 1 that's reflected yeah yeah so I'm I'm so it's kind of like pulling from consent kind of a little bit and that 1 I guys that's the that's yeah okay yeah so okay I'm gonna um ask that when we motion tonight that we do it with that at least that as an exception well I'm let me can I also suggest because I did look so when did we change that because I pulled up everything oh it must have been before we were on because I thought I pulled up of everything that we did in the past 2 years and I didn't have 517 on here where I missed it it was January of 23 okay so you guys so maybe maybe I missed it but um I would be okay I mean I um I mean pose a possible solution to you is that we uh adopt everything with with my Amendment and with the exception of 5117 which will be replaced by the most current 1 and that way it's all together yeah I think that's what we were saying I think that's what we were saying okay no because I heard from him that he just pull it in general and not adopt and not keep the the current 1 I'm sorry no I miss I miss I miss interpreted that yeah no I am saying yeah okay and remind me your amendment was around the pronouns know it wasn't just that it was for formatting right yeah those things yes okay um Okay so and other notes may I ask uh board member can't the other ones you listed are those more minor or any of those I mean welcome to um but I don't I'm not asking you to I just do any of them rise to the level of this 1 where you think it's just that's a good question so 1330 is the 1 around our relationships with our ptas and boosters using our our facilities so it's also important it also would have some values attached to it and the um what I don't know what I wasn't able to go back and do was compared our most recent adoption to the gamut suggestion all I was able to compare was our most recent adoption to our website and those 2 did not match and I just wanted to I did not end up doing that in advance of today because I thought we were pulling these so um 13:30 it's not clear to me that it needs to be an exception tonight the other 2 are Mott policies 35 10 and 3511.1 those are both related to Green purchasing and green Facility Green operations um and there I I do know the a little more detail on those which is that 1 of them the gamut is more um in my opinion a better quality document and in another 1 and I've sent this email to miss Rajiv and Dr Lucas so so I can ask um Dr Lucas to share it with the board and and then in the other 1 hours is superior stronger stronger is the word I should use so um also those don't feel as urgent okay but important but so important so just to get clarity on that you would for those unlike 5117 which now I brought it up in numerical order so I see I see it now that we yeah it is there um so unlike those you're saying for move forward with it as it as it is or you think it's okay okay and then we would work we would bring them back your your recommendation is to bring them back but for um 50 I I see now that 51 17 arbp were both uh we did work on it last year um but when I compared them side by side um I didn't see too much I I thought that we they had updated there is for hours is what I I read and it doesn't look like that's to me okay yeah it it's it says that there are um we cannot resend their permit as of 10th grade and actually our 2023 adoption was different yeah yeah that's a big deal so thank you you mentioned in the 35s um 1 where the gamut 1 may actually be superior to ours and 1 where you felt it was inferior to ours may I suggest we pull the 1 that you think is in here and not approve it because I don't want to step down and then have to step up again yeah so it is replace it with ours pull and replace well we don't need to replace with our yes we do but ours is already in effect no right oh well we just wouldn't stop uh ours wouldn't be in effect because we're globally adopting this new thing we're specifically calling out this is not to overwrite yeah yes so the gamut update is stronger than ours for 3510 the district's version is stronger than the gamut template for 3511.1 so 3510 we keep keep keep as is okay yeah so we could pull 3511 1 to um maintain the CCSD version so really if I were to make a motion it would be to for 35 3511.1 BP and 5117 BP and are to be replaced by our current version globally adopt everything else with the exception of the formatting um that I I called out and the um superintendent also heard the rest of these recommendations to come back for us um at a future date um from from my colleagues would that be a sufficient motion I just have 2 modifications I'm sorry so 3511.1 is both the BP and are so that's 1 application the second modification is I don't think that we should formally state to be replaced with um we're just going to do a global adoption with the exception of 2 BPS and ARS we will number them that implies that we keep our current adoption is and so I'd prefer not to have the language of replacement in the motion I agree I'm just worried that because we're globally adopting a whole new book that other things that may have dropped off like because they're no longer needed it means that like there's an expectation that we are um we're keeping those if that makes any sense that does make sense and that's why I so we can State the language yeah um you know the global adoption 2 except they are numbered as follows and in the case of those we will defer to the CCSC adopted version yes most recent yes okay that's fine yeah other editions modifications great so before we do the motion I do think it's um important to State again for the public record why we're doing this um and so please add to the comments that all sharing which are that um 2-fold come to the surface for me which are that um you know Miss Loretta was immediately shocked at how non-arable are policies were upon her election rightly so and um it's very unfriendly to the public and our job is to be accountable to the public so that's a really important um asset that we will now have um and I'm I'm proud to have participated in the in this change and then the the second thing that so many of our policies were so um offensively out of date and to know fault of anyone because we all get um completely underwater and we we get in crisis mode and and so um it's nice to have new eyes every every election to come in and say guys this is pretty obnoxious so um I'm really grateful for for both of those changes going forward is there anything I'm neglecting to mention if I I just want to Echo those I mean first of all updating policies that are quite old and and not necessarily in complete sync with modern Ed code um it'll make it searchable the other 1 is I I also think it will make updating it in the future more easy and more automatic um because now that it'll be through gamut 1 of the things gamut does is say you know sends alerts just like you get on your phone system update type of a thing hey there's some new Ed code and you need to integrate and most of the time it's completely bureaucratic and and just a procedural thing every once in a while it's a little juicier and we'll have to discuss it um but what I hope this does is initiates a regular cycle of you know both minor and major updates to to our our policies um for me I just want to again start by saying thank you so much to all our staff for doing this very difficult task of reviewing our board policies who that have been neglected and um and unfortunately fortunately I I think it's important for us to and I hope that our new staff would consider having a more regular system so when that gamut ding goes on right that time the the alarm goes on that we have a systematic way that the board consistently is reviewing um the updates and so I I'm I'm hoping that this allows for us to create a system where the body is uh reviewing on a regular basis uh what what what law is been updated and and I think that as a body and as our staff I think it's important for you all to like bring this to the body on a regular basis create that system that calendar that we can see and we can review and we can approve and and also it's an educational opportunity for our community who is very actively engaged to learn what is the law stating now and uh I I I really am looking forward to seeing that more systematic way of of of having board policy be reviewed on a regular basis uh I think it's really important and again I I think the board for for engaging in in this in this conversation right that's not a a very uh exciting conversation but it's a very important conversation and it guides our every action of our district right and and and guides art our staff our teachers our students it it guides our our moral values and our safety guards that we need to put in place for children and for and teachers too so thank you okay anything else in the interest of time I'm going to plus a thousand to all of those comments and move to globally adopt with a formatting and requests as discussed with the current versions of the following items 3511.1 BP 3511.1 R 5117 BP and 5117 are keep those current versions and and adopt the the remaining as presented here tonight with a formatting um changes as amended and possibly with the uh global um change of the pronouns if possible if not then it will go through as it is right now a second excellent so I imagine we've completed our discussion so all those in favor say I I I yeah Well Done big deal guys thank you everybody policy please closed wait wait we still want agenda item yeah yeah we're not out yet but it is it is to be celebrated that that was a Herculean lift so thank you everyone um I'm I'm sorry but I have 1 once what is the date to which they said that uh a projected website um launch date for for gamut because I I see the 1 without I mean our but what you got yeah I I'm not sure that um Rebecca have you had any feedback from gamut on that I mean because I think it's going to be relatively quick because it's already in the system so I think it's just kind of like these last little change and then making it live so I would imagine weeks thank you okay okay so at this time we'll move to our Personnel action items starting with 9.1 good evening this action item um is the or the Culver City Unified School District sunshine to um Culver City Federation of teachers this year we do have a full reopener for the school year we look forward to getting started with negotiations with ccft as quickly as possible so I recommend approval thank you may I have a motion please move to approve second great discussion colleagues excellent all of those in favor please say I I I I and I'll take a motion to adjourn please I'll move second sorry all those in favor say I I I thank you everyone thank you everybody for coming out on on Tuesday and happy holidays everybody yeah Thanksgiving Thanksgiving

Also listed in Board of Education Videos Archive 2022-2024

Videos

Regular Board Meeting 11-19-24

More videos in