Welcome to tonight's April, ninth board meeting. Mister Stachak, can we have roll call, please? Yes. On the first roll call to establish call for today's meeting, student director Simmons, student director Vasquez, director Lara? Present. Director Williams, Director Hutchinson? Director Berry? Present. Director Thompson? Vice vice president Bachelor? Here. President Bruhart? Here. Cole, present. Thank you. Mister Hollis, can we have a translation check, please? Moving to interpretation announcement. We'll start with Arabic. I will lower all tenuous hands.
Please only raise your hand if you need Arabic interpretation. Miss Abdi, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement announcement for Arabic, please. Okay. Arabic is done. Great. Thank you. Checking attendees to see if any hands are raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands raised, we will now start with Arabic interpretation. Next, we will we will go to Spanish. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Spanish interpretation. Mister Copenhagen, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Spanish, please. Yes. Thank you. Great. Thank you, mister Copenhagen. Checking attendees to see if any hands are raised for Spanish interpretation.
Seeing no hands raised, we will not start with Spanish interpretation. That concludes the retention announcement, and we'll check again later, in the meeting. President Brevard, I turn it back to you. Thank you. Tonight in closed session, we will deal with labor matters d 01/1926, conference with labor negotiators. Under legal matters, d two twenty five dash zero nine two one, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. D three twenty five dash zero nine two two, conference with legal counsel anticipated legal,
anticipated litigation. D four twenty five dash zero nine two three, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, d five, twenty five dash zero nine four eight, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, d six, twenty four dash one seven one two, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D seven twenty five dash zero nine three nine, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. Under public employee matters, d eight twenty five dash zero nine four three,
public employment discipline dismissal release. Under pupil matters, d nine twenty five dash zero eight seven one expulsion, and then we will reconvene to public session at 06:00PM. We now have time for, public comment, ten minutes. And how many speakers do we have? We have 10 speakers. How much time would you like to allot for public comment? One minute. There's 10 speakers? Yeah. One minute. I'll just call all 10 speakers. Let's get them out. So we have Sheila Haines,
Mario Capitelli, Assata Olobala, Kimmy King, Pamela Faran, Jorge Lerma, Dee Morris, Cynthia Adams, doctor Ali Walhurst, and Brenda Harbonforte. If the speakers can't approach the microphone. Thank you. Good evening, board members and the community. My name is doctor Morris, and I serve proudly as the educational chair for the Oakland branch of the NAACP. I'm here this evening specifically to urge the board as you go into closed session
to exercise wisdom, fiscal responsibility, and integrity by honoring the current contract of superintendent doctor Kayla Johnson Trammell. In a moment of time when both the city of Oakland and the school district continue to face a historical budget deficit, it is not only fiscally irresponsible, but morally unjust to consider terminating the contract of a leader who has served this district with dedication, vision, and deep roots in this community.
The cost of buying out a superintendent's contract, launching a national search, onboarding a new leadership, installing momentum comes at a tangible and magical cost, one that the district students cannot afford. Thank you. Hello. My name is Pamela Farren. I am the first vice president of the NAACP Oakland branch. I'm also a District 6 resident and a mom with children in OUSD schools. We met with the superintendent at our branch meeting, and she gave us a great presentation that was very well received by the public
and by our members. She offered us hope, and she's offered this community hope that we actually can have a thriving schools and school system. As a parent, I've been dismayed and just very disappointed in the instability in OUSD. I've had two two teachers leave. A principal is gonna leave, and now they're telling us that we could possibly you lose our superintendent that is of the community, and this needs to stop. We need to keep her. We need to honor her contract and stop with the games and focus on our
students. Good afternoon, members of the board. My name is Brenda Harbin Forte. I'm a retired judge and general counsel for the NAACP. I am a District 7 resident. I'm a graduate of McClimans High School. My son, my siblings, my nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and now our great grandson have been or are OUSD students. The NAACP is troubled by reports of what may be attempts to remove the superintendent. We are monitoring the situation to ensure that the process is fair,
transparent, legal, and more importantly, made in the best interest of the students of the Oakland Unified School District and this entire community. Contracts are important. Contracts should be honored. Words are given. Promises made in contracts. And I am going to affirm that the NAACP urges the board to honor the contracts and to not do anything precipitous, not do anything that is not justified. So we urge you. I thank you, but please do not terminate the or end the contract early,
our superintendent. Thank you. Hello. I am doctor Ali Whitehurst. I am a retired educator from Oakland Unified School District, and I serve as the political action chair for the Oakland branch of the NAACP. I am here because of what I have heard and what my colleagues have spoken of, and I too support the work that doctor Johnson Tramiel has done. However, for me, it is bigger than doctor Tramiel. The district cannot afford this kind of financial fiasco.
You are, we are, just several months away from coming out of receivership. I lived through receivership in OUSG. Doctor Johnson Smith, whatever, she will be okay. But I call on the spirit of mister Oscar Wright tonight. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's not even about doctor Trammell Johnson Trammell. It's about our children. And so whatever your plans are, keep that in mind.
Thank you. Good evening. My name is Cynthia Adams. I'm the president of the Oakland branch WACP, and I stand here along with the education chair, doctor Delia Moyes, political action, the parent, and judge, Brenda, judge, Harvey DuPote. I am here, because of one thing. We know what's going on. We know exactly what's going on, and I want you to hear me clearly. We're not gonna be used as a black token. We're not gonna be used again. And I'm talking to you, Evans Williams. I'm talking directly to you. You know me, and I know you.
Leave her here. Leave her here until she finished what she's supposed to finish. Remember, we're not black tokens. You don't use us to get our votes. And once you get our votes, then you're gonna get rid of somebody. That day is over with. It's over with. You can see your smiling. You can see your little, mean face or whatever, but I'm telling you now, it's not gonna happen. Stop it. You gotta think about the children. You gotta think about that. Do you realize what Oscar Wright is doing now? He's turning over in his grave because it's not about you.
It's not about me. It's not about none of you all up there. It's all about the children and the parents. Take your heart and think about what you're doing, what you're getting ready to do, and how you're getting ready to do it. You're gonna destroy lives. Think about that. Look what Donald Trump is doing. Look what Elon Musk is doing. Do you wanna become one of them, or do you wanna just keep using us for a black token? Thank you. Good afternoon, Oakland School Board. My name is Kimmy Keane. I'm from Families in Action for Quality Education. But I'm really here to speak as a former teacher,
principal and administrator here in Oakland Unified. I think of how much stability mattered. I experienced the ups and downs of ever changing administrations under nine superintendents in fourteen years I served here in Oakland. Our schools, our hardworking educators, our staff, and our leadership, and most of all, our students and families, they need stability. The eight year tenure of superintendent Johnson Trammell has been a gift to Oakland Unified. She has retained so many leaders, enabling them to build strong programs like early literacy and linked learning,
which are really beginning to produce results for our students. She's earned the respect and more importantly, the trust of those in OUSD. And as a principal and a teacher, I wanted to know the superintendent was committed and had my back. Let us honor her legacy by moving deliberately through the transition over the next two years. The board has the opportunity to break trust and build trust through this process. And finally, we have so much to lose by moving too fast. The African proverb says, if you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.
I sure hope that we go far together. Thank you. Good afternoon, my brothers and sisters and residents. I'm standing here as a representative of the brown community with the black community. This is people like to put invest a lot in this black and brown conflict, nonsense, but we're here united. I hope that we're not looking at a catastrophic interruption of service. We have a superintendent with a bona fide contract grounded in reality and data.
She is on a mission, has a vision. Let her finish her job. Thank you. Regarding d eight, I need I need to hear from you clearly the purpose and intent behind any actions regarding the superintendent. People cannot be in a a position of presumption of what you're trying to do. I need to clearly you need to clearly state the credibility and of facts that you have determined to take any actions regarding the superintendent. On item d four, I continue to say, you are expelling students without having pop proper public hearings.
You're providing no opportunity for those children to properly continue their education while they are being expelled, and they come back into the district unable to continue properly with their education. Regarding d three anticipation little of litigation, at the last meeting, I told you, you are engaging in a process where every person who is supposed to volunteer in this district is supposed to go through a background check. You are not allowing that to happen. You're saying if a background check is not required because they are under the supervision
of a teacher. We have all kind of sick people harming children, and you're allowing people to come into this district to volunteer without background checks. We're gonna get some litigation behind that. Hello, board. Mario Capitelli, resident, parent, voter, citizen. I've had the privilege of broadcasting meetings for the school board and committee since 02/2007. More than anyone in the room today presently, I've watched the way that you work. I've watched the way that your predecessors work. I've watched the way that multiple superintendents, state administrators, and others have worked as well.
In the past year, let's say, I've watched the frustration grow and the tension build between the board and the leadership. I've watched hard questions not get answered, and I empathize I empathize with both sides. I see you, the board, asking for alternatives, for information, for details, for nuance, for deeper understanding, and I see your frustration in not seeing a complete picture. I see the staff's exasperation at times as their expertise and advice for which they were hired is questioned and ignored. And I have seen the lack of trust grow between all of you.
I am here to say we must do better for our students because students come first. So tonight, please hold all of our students in the front of your minds as you do what you need to do. And if I may, I have one last thought. This is not a direct democracy. Our rights as citizens is to vote for you and to vote you out. Our expectations as citizens is for you to for you to do the best job that you can. If you block out all the voices and opinions and do what you truly believe is right, then it's our great honor to vote based on what you do.
That is the imperfection of our democracy, and it is the best that we can do. So tonight, please don't think about those who supported you or those who didn't support you. In the end, you are there. You get to make the decision. You need to do what's right. And then that's it. The consequences will come. I mean, madam president. Just wanted to call on Sheila Haines if if she is on Zoom to please raise your hand. Sheila Haynes, if you're on Zoom, please raise your hand. Madam president, all names have been called. Thank you. We will now convene to closed session,
and we will return at 6PM. Mr. Setya, can we have a roll call please to establish corn? On the second roll call to establish corn for today's meeting, Student Director Simmons? Present. Student Director Vasquez? Present. Director Latta? Director Latta? Present. Director Williams? Yeah. Director Williams? Present. Director Hutchinson? Doctor Berry? Present. And director Thompson? No. Vice president Bachelor? President Burghard? Here. Koln, present. And, mister Stacek, can we have a translation check, please? Moving to interpretation announcements. For tonight's meeting,
we have two languages for live interpretation. They are Arabic and Spanish. For in person, we have laptops in the back of the room for interpretation. There's also translation closed captioning feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed captioning icon on your Zoom taskbar. We'll start with Arabic. I will lower all ten minutes' hands. Please only raise your hand if you need Arabic interpretation. Miss Le, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Arabic, please. Great. Thank you, mister Lay. Check-in ten days to see if any hands are raised for Arabic interpretation.
I do see one hand that is raised, so we will start with Arabic interpretation. Next, we'll go to Spanish. Again, I will lower all tennis hands. Please only raise your hand if you need Spanish interpretation. Mr. Delatorre, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Spanish, please. Yes, of course. Thank you. Spanish is done. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Mr. Del Toro. Checking attendees to see if any hands are raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands raised, we will now start with Spanish interpretation. We will activate Arabic, and that concludes interpretation announcement,
and we'll check again later in the meeting. I turn it back to you, president Burghardt. Thank you, mister Secha. Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize the importance of respectful decorum, communication, and engagement at our board and committee meetings. The work of the board is serious business and impacts the everyday experiences of our students, staff, family, and broader community. It is critical that all of us, both up here on the dais and in the audience, model the respectful interactions that we would like to see our students have in their classrooms, on the play yard, and in athletic competitions. As we begin tonight's meeting, I urge everyone present and planning to attend to review and abide by the Board
of Education protocols and meeting rules of engagement listed on pages eight and nine of tonight's agenda. K. K. At tonight meet at tonight's meeting, there are several allotted times where you may make public comments provided you preregister to speak online before the meeting started or if you fill out a comment card, which you can find on the table by the entrance, and you can submit those cards at any time. There's public comment allotted at all non agenda items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the district, adoption of the Pupil Discipline Consent Report,
adoption of the General Consent Report, adoption of the Consent Report Facilities, student board members' report, new business items, there are four, and superintendent's report. Please be aware that in compliance with the Brown Act, board members may not respond to comments regarding issues that are not on our posted agenda for tonight. I ask all speakers to keep their comments to the scope of the item. If a speaker speaks to a different item, the chair will need to ask that the speaker either speak to the specific item or hold their comments until the appropriate agenda item. K. Report out of closed session,
04/09/2025, Labor Matters. On d one number 24 dash one nine two six, conference with Labor negotiators, there was no vote. On legal matters, on item d two, number twenty five zero nine two one, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter with a vote of five to zero. The, directors Hutchinson and Thompson absent. On item d three, under twenty five zero nine two two, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. The board approved the settlement in this matter.
Motion by, vice pen vice president Bachelor, second by president Brohard, a vote of five to zero with directors Hutchinson and Thompson absent. On item d four, number 25 dash zero nine two three, conference with legal counsel existing litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter, motion by vice president Bachelor, seconded by president Breaux Hart with a vote of four to zero. Absent, director Hutchinson and Thompson, and director, Latta was recused. On item number d five, number 25 dash 0948,
conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter with a motion by vice president Bachelor, seconded by director Latta, vote five to zero with directors Hutchinson and Thompson absent. On item d eight, number 24 dash one seven one two, conference with legal counsel existing count litigation, motion by vice vice president Bachelor, second by director Berry, vote five, it was approved five to zero, and absent directors Hutchinson and Thompson. On item D7 20 five-nine
39, conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter with a motion by, vice president Bachelor, seconded by, president Breohart, vote four to zero, absent. Director Hutchinson and Thompson, and recreat director Latta recused herself. On the public employee matter on item d eight, number twenty five zero nine four three, public employment discipline dismissal release, the board took no final action. On pupil matters, on items d nine, the board heard this matter and will vote on the matter in public in section
k on the agenda, and that is the end of our 04/09/2025 closed session report. Are there any modifications to the agenda? I'd like to ask for the student board reports and the PSAC report to be moved after item k. And are there any items from the consent, items being pulled? K. President Brujar, I do wanna make a correction to LDotDash29, file ID number 25Dash0 so 000669. The correct amount is $474,744
which the dollar value is under the notice amount. So we're okay to vote that item, which is under general consent report. Thank you. We will now take, item J, public comments on all non agenda items within the subject matter. There's thirty minutes allotted to this time. And do we have, can I get the number of speakers in person and the number of speakers on Zoom? Currently, we have 20 persons signed up to speak. How much time we like to allot for public comments? How much yeah. How much time would you like to allot for public comment, madam chair? Madam president? If it's okay,
I'd like to extend the time to forty minutes so that we could give, two minutes for each speaker. K? Alright. So he'd speak, I'll have two minutes. Hold on one second, please. I'd call out the names for public speakers. We call out the first five speakers. They are Oliver Brennan, Sheila Haynes, Assata Olobala, Vivica Yekoi Walton, and Brenda Harbinforte. If your name has been called, you can step up to the mic. It doesn't matter. If you like, president, madam president, I can call out all the names so they or just wait. If your name Alright.
I'm sorry. Good afternoon, members of the board. Okay. Good afternoon. I'm so on my desk. It's not on? Yeah. Okay. Alright. I am Brenda Harvin Forteo, retired judge and the general counsel of the n double a for the n double a c p. I write I'm here tonight to speak in general on a matter that's not on your agenda, which is basically the concern that we have about whether or not our superintendent will remain superintendent. I'm a graduate of McClements High School. Go warriors. My son,
my siblings, my nieces and nephews, grandchildren, and now great grandson have been or are or are currently OUSD students. On behalf of the NAACP, I want to express my concern and our concern because we're troubled by the reports of what may be attempts to remove our superintendent. We are monitoring the situation. We want to ensure that the process is fair, transparent, legal, and made in the best interest of all of the students here in the Oakland Unified School District.
We are troubled by some of the things that we are hearing about what may be going on and what may have happened. There is a contract, and we expect the board to honor that contract. There are certainly various provisions about how she can be removed and when and whether cause or not cause, but we're very concerned at some of the things that we are hearing that's been reported in the press. So we urge you to honor that contract. We urge you to act in the best interest of students and not in whatever
personal in interest you may have or political agendas you may have. This is very, very troubling. We are coming out of receivership, for example. We deserve better. Oakland deserves better. Our students deserve better. This is a crisis. This is an emergency, and I need for you all to act as though this is a crisis and it is an emergency, and that you act in the best interest of our students. We will not expect any less, and we ask you to do the right thing. Thank you. Good evening.
My name is doctor Morris, and I am the education chair for the NAACP Oakland branch. I stand tonight for three reasons. The first reason is that I want to remind the board of your responsibility. Your role as board members are to govern, not micromanage or destabilize. Our students do not need more turnover. They need consistency. They need real leadership that reflects their lived experiences, understands their community, and puts their needs first. We call on you,
the board, who were voted into these positions to not be politically convenient, but do what is right, just, and fiscally sound. We ask that you stand with our children. You stand with the superintendent, and you stand by your communities that you serve. And above all, we ask that you stand by our Oaklanders. The second reason why I stand is because during our break, while we were waiting for you to end closed session, I had an opportunity to watch some very disturbing videos that I understand have been
presented to you. So my question to you, not that I'm looking for an answer, is when have you taken out opportunity to go to the communities in your districts? You need to go to your community schools and see what's going on, and then make decisions based on what you see, and take action on what you see, and not sit here and be politically driven by your own feelings and emotions. As the educational chair for the NAACP Oakland branch, we're watching you.
We're gonna be present. We're gonna make our presence known, whether it's here, whether it's in the media, whether it's talking to you one on one. I want you to be aware that we're we're watching you every move you make. Thank you. I'm back again. As we were sitting here waiting for you all to come back from closed session, a parent came to me, and I want you guys to listen to this very clearly. The voters vote you in. You didn't vote yourself in. Even though you wanna use us with black tokens, though you vote yourself. We you didn't get voted to they vote you in.
And I'm gonna give this to, board member Williams, McClamas High School. You know what's going on in McClamas, period. That video that is circling around, you need to go see what's going on. If you base it focused on my climates and what's going on at my climates, you wouldn't have time to sit around with these other little women trying to get rid of somebody. Focus on the students. The parents, the community put you in office. They put you in a I know you. I know you, and you know me.
Focus on my climates. Forget about what all they're new. They're new and they don't know nothing. They're new. They don't know anything about they probably their community. They don't probably know anything, but you got to focus on the climbers. You got to do that. Do what they put you in office to do. How they voted you in office to run the climbers community with their parents and students. That video is harbor. I don't know if you've seen it. Seen it. I don't know how how anyone can sit in here on this board and look
at that video. That's a harbor video. Harbor video. Wake up. Smell the coffee. Do what you need to do to that district three. Focus on district three. I will be calling you. I will be coming to my clients to see what's going on because evidently, something is not right over there, and you're not focusing over there because they got you focusing over here. Thank you. Somebody should've did something about that. Good evening. Kim Shipp, community member. Worked in the district for many years. Raised three kids in this district successfully.
Nineteen '90 '7. Carolyn Gretchen. Carl Kwan, George Musgrove, Dennis Draconis, doctor Ward, state receivership, Kim Statham, Vince Matthews, Tony Smith, Gary Yee, Kyla. Eleven superintendents in twenty nine years. That says a lot, and Kyla is the longest standing one in fifty years. I don't know what game or what person that called you guys up about DEI or something. Why is it that when black people successfully do something,
whether it's negotiating a contract or doing the work, it's a problem. We're tired of white privilege. We really are. Many of you young girls just got here. We weren't even born when most of these superintendents were in operation. And we hear from the union about we don't have no resources. Oh, so what y'all gonna do? Take whatever is left over from the, contract and divide it up and buy colored pencils? What? Figure it out. But this is not appropriate. I don't I don't like to call people racist, but why people come back and say,
oh, we're sorry. We gave you too big of a contract. That would be just like some people saying Steph Curry. You know what? Mooney is only making $2,500,000, and you making 50,000,000. We're gonna have to renegotiate that. No. It is not appropriate. So this board needs to do what they was elected to do and do it correctly and fairly. Forget about your own personal grievances. Do what you supposed to do and honor her contract.
Thank you. Greetings to, the board members, the directors, specifically mister Williams. My my name is Ronald Muhammad. I am a alumnus from, McClimus High School, graduated, scholarship out from there. My family been here since '45. All McClimus graduates. I wanted to speak about our superintendent, Kyla. And I don't wanna speak from a deficit standpoint. I wanna speak from an asset standpoint. I heard a lot about her contract in terms of it supposedly being an exorbitant amount. But if you put that on a scale versus what comes through this district versus
what she gets, it's not exorbitant at all. I personally know. I'm born and raised here. Every square inch of this place, I know Oakland. I specifically know Oakland. If she leaves, a lot of your private public partnerships are going to go out the the door with her because they're to o u OUSD through Kyla. I have relatives who have strong private public partnerships with you guys. And I can tell you for surety that they will leave with her.
It's not a threat. It's relationships. That's how we do it in Oakland. And they look for trusted personnel that they can work with. And they've been trying what I've heard from Kyla, what gives me the confidence is that she wanted to find someone who she could hand off those relationships for OUSD to. So I'm asking you to have some patience. Don't cut your face or your nose. You can survive without your nose. You can't survive without your face. So just think about it. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to have lawsuits and all of that
stuff flying if it's about money. So thank you very much. We appreciate you. Good evening, board and staff, parent of two OUSD elementary students. My name is Oliver Brennan. I live in District 1, where we just elected director Latta. What is going on with this board? Since the start of the year, you have been canceling board budget study sessions, agendizing resolutions to suspend committees and pulling the resolution ten minutes before it hits the floor, inviting the county to facilitate budget and three hour process work you should be doing
yourselves, coming up with a five bullet point alternative budget wish list with no dollar amounts on savings versus the CBO's detailed 30 point dollar assigned adjustment plan, which took six months of work. Spending an hour and a half debating and amending alternative budget resolutions on the fly with the CBO dialing in from an ER with our kids to correct you. When you now should be engaging in detail with the community on the process to be voted on in two months.
And whatever happened behind closed doors tonight and the last meeting regarding the superintendent, should it result in our leaving at the end of this year, That is a crisis. That will result in hundreds of students leaving the district, and I know some of them myself. How many successors are lined up to succeed our superintendent if needed this July? How difficult is it is it to find a superintendent of a large urban school board? How many are qualified and capable? How many would do the job knowing a three year contract signed last May could
be broken within a year? How many other senior staff would leave because of this as we are trying to regain local control of this district? This is madness, and it needs to stop. Thank you. Madam president, if I may, there is a student who signed up to speak. Ashley, first name Ashley, last name starts with a t. Hello. This is my first one of these. Hi. My name is Ashley. Good evening, student board directors. I'm a junior at Oakland Tech, and I'm here tonight not out of obligation but because I deeply care about my
education, my peers, and the future of our district. I came here tonight with a question that I hope each of you will take very seriously. Who are you here to truly serve? As students, we live the consequences of your decisions every single day. We walk into schools shaped by policies we had no voice in, endure conditions we don't choose, and are expected to thrive regardless. And yet, besides the student directors, I'm the only teenager in this room. Not because I'm the only student who cares, but because no meaningful work is being done to inform us, let let alone involve us in the decisions being made about us. That is not just disappointing.
That is unjust. When decisions are made without transparent transparency, without outreach, and without equity, students are not just excluded, they are silenced. When representation is claimed without action, it becomes performative. I urge the board to remember that legality is not the same as justice. Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be. Students deserve more than lip service. We deserve leaders who act in good faith, who communicate with honesty, and who make decisions that are not only legally sound, but morally right. So again, I ask each of you, who are you here to really serve,
and do your actions reflect that answer? Thank you. So while you were in closed session, I went over the superintendent's contract. So if you wanna get rid of the superintendent, you got two ways to do it with cause or without cause. If you do it without cause, you have to pay her nine months of her salary plus benefits. You ain't got the money to do that. So you have to do cause. So if you do cause, you have to do find her convicted of a crime, find her willfully malfeasance or gross neglect or moral turpitude.
So that's how you go about getting rid of the superintendent, those two ways. Now y'all are saying she wants to transition out. If that was the case, she would be sitting here. You have attacked her, insulted her, made it feel like she's doing things inappropriate, whatever. But you haven't spoken to anything publicly, and the people are coming up here guessing about what you're trying to do. Have the courage to say what you wanna do. At least do that. At least do that with the time I have left. What you did at Bunch School, where you define that Bunch had a maintenance issue and moved those students to West
Oakland as you, mister Williams, and allowed that school to deteriorate to blighted property and do absolutely nothing, and now you're talking about demolishing it. What you did at Ruggsdale, when I personally came to you and told you what problems were going on at Ruggsdale, and then two weeks later, there was a shooting and a a construction worker was killed because you didn't do anything. When I come here and tell you about Skyline, there is no evacuation plan. You didn't do anything, and you haven't done anything if some major tragedy happens at that school. At McClimans,
we have to come here and fight every time. Mister Williams. At Frick Elementary School, you merged a school with predominantly black children and told them they had to learn to speak Spanish. How you gonna talk about the superintendent? You're not doing your damn job. Madam president, if I may, there are two speakers online that were called, Sheila Haines and Vivica Yikoi Watin. I'll call on Sheila Haines first. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Hi. We've been waiting for two months now for the board leadership to respond to our emails about Nut Cutting Musidic.
And although we were informed that the plan was illegal, it has yet to be confirmed by board leadership. I was actually signed up to speak at last month's meeting and was never called. And due to the lack of response in my email, I mean, I really feel it as a personal attack against my son, who was already harmed by the district's actions of closing schools. And with our resolution that calls for music and the daily reinforcement of joy that our kids need, the district owes it to our students to provide that service. They took for them to must for them to best thrive.
And like I said, due to the lack of response, we don't even feel like our children who are most vulnerable matter. I would really feel better if the vice president could state public tonight that she doesn't wanna further harm our children by cutting music. And lastly, I wanna state that I support miss Kyla. My experience with her was when she worked with my son's last in person to school. She worked with the principal. She worked with the board to avoid his school from being shut down. And I feel like she kinda did that to help him to not avoid more trauma.
So I wish I could see these type of actions from leadership as well, show you the show us that they care by simply making a statement tonight that you don't wanna harm our children, And so actually e maybe respond to the email that I've been waiting for for a couple months. Show us that you really care, that you actually care. Thank you. Next speaker is Vivica Yekoi Walton. Allow them to speak. Can you hear me? Yes. Good evening, board, and members of the public and the community. My name is Vivica Ekoi Walton. I'm standing here today or not really,
but I'm here today, not as a community and not just as a community member, a family and parent organizer, a parent of a fifth grader, but also as someone who is deeply invested in the well-being and future of our students in Oakland. I'm here because I'm outraged and heartbroken by the apparent effort to remove our superintendent without any legitimate, legal, or transparent cause. This is not how we do things, and this is not how we serve students, teachers, or our community. Removing a superintendent like Kyla without clear legal grounds isn't just poor governance,
it's reckless. It tears at the foundation of trust that holds this district together slightly, and she is a piece of it. It disrupts the progress trying to be made, and it sends a dangerous message that politics, personal agendas, and backroom decisions matter more than facts, fairness, or our children's education. We're Washington. We are the people that voted each one of you all in, and we expect better. She has led with integrity, vision, and commitment to our students, especially in early literacy. I commend her for what she's doing. They're real concerns,
and they deserve to be addressed publicly if there are real concerns. They do deserve to be addressed publicly with evidence through proper legal and ethical channels, not whispered behind closed doors or masked by vague claims. I urge you, no matter of fact, I really implore you all to do what's right, not what's easy, not what's politically convenient. Make your decisions based on facts, law, and what is truly best for our students and staff. Anything less is a disservice to the people you are elected to represent. Thank you. Madam president, I'll call the rest of the names who have not spoken.
Cynthia Adams, Janelle Harris, Ron Mohammed did speak. Lisa Rigby, JD Woloshen, Deidra Robinson. I'll stop there. Good evening, board and community members. I'm doctor Sandy Carpenter Stevenson. I'm the president of the Oakland East Bay Alliance of Black School Educators. I'm on the n NAACP education committee. I've worked in this district for over thirty years. I'm in District 6. I just wanna say that I was disturbed to see the amount of information that
is coming out. It was on TV this afternoon before I left home about our superintendent. Reddit, I think that you have not thought about, and I hope you have read the contract of the superintendent because it seem as if you have not done that. We need to continue to have leadership stability since there is no search already. To vote her out is not a good deal. We also need to continue to focus on our student needs.
I have worked in this district, and I worked for a number of years, and then I have substituted. And things just not, right the way you, the board is doing. I also want to say that she is being hired for a new contract is July '44 to 06/30/2027. I hope you have thought about the cost and counted up the cost that it will take. You're gonna have to pay her out,
then you're gonna have to if you hire another superintendent, you're gonna have to pay the superintendent. You need to have a search team, and we don't know when that team will find somebody because because they are going to look at what has happened and what is happening today. You, as I said, you have to pay the, superintendent. You have to pay out a a contract, and we are just about to come out of receivership. You're gonna be further in debt, and believe me, you will be in debt. I don't believe you have thought this through.
And if you have, you are not really considering the cost that it is going to do for this district. So, please, I'll ask the board to really consider looking at all the options before you make a decision. You know, I'm really disturbed what I'm hearing about the superintendent. You just voted to extend her contract, and now you're having these little secret meetings and behind the scene. I don't understand it. There are issues out there that we need to address. You let them come over in the middle of the night and take a boiler
from a Climates High School, and we have no warm water And look like nobody really cares about it. He came in the middle of the night. 17 classrooms have no warm water. 10 classrooms have some water, but limited. 17 restrooms has no warm water. Five custodial stations. And then you got Preston walking around here after nine months of knowledge about lead in the water, and he's still here? Why haven't you fired him yet? That's right.
What about those kids down the road five and fifteen years from now? He hid that from the public. 40 schools. I've been fighting for Mac since 2016 about this lead issue. Are we gonna remodel McClymonds High School and it gets delayed two years? You haven't delayed any project for two years except my climate. Over a billion dollars, measure j, measure y, to remodel the school. And those kids deserve a nice looking school. So I don't understand why you're spending your efforts on doing something like this when
we have critical issues, and you should be ashamed of yourself. Hi. Good evening. My name is Lisa, and I'm a parent of a kindergartner at Glenview Elementary. Thank you for your time and the chance to speak here. I'm echoing some of the concerns you've already heard. The public deserves transparency transparency about why terminating our superintendent's contract early is even being considered, particularly as she already gave notice and things are in motion to take a thoughtful search for her successor after next school year. So my questions that I know you cannot answer directly right now is what specifically
does the board want to see differently in this role if they expect to replace her? And, since you extended doctor Johnson Trammell's contract in August, I want to remind the board members not only that that was your plan not that long ago was that she was so great we wanted more time with her. You might have one hire and fire as board members, the superintendent. So do we as the public. We get to hire and fire our elected officials. Lack of transparency and non engagement with parents and other community stakeholders is cause for
removal. I'm unclear why expediting the replacement of our top leader would benefit the staff or students, and I'm deeply concerned we will end up in a worse financial crisis and end up scrambling to hire less qualified people to fill the vacancies sure to follow. I'd also like to know how the board would deal with a leadership upheaval while the federal government attacks our funding, as well as our children's ability to be safe in schools, particularly students from mixed status families, and those of us who have trans and non binary kids who the administration actively
seeks to completely erase from society. I am aware several schools, including six elementary schools, are undergoing the search process for new principals. Do you anticipate an interim superintendent would have the institutional knowledge to make the best hires for these crucial positions? I have more questions, but I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. My name is Marina Spiegle. I am a parent also of a kindergartner at OUSD. I don't have a prepared speech as clever and thoughtful as everybody else,
but I too want to voice my concerns about the lack of transparency, about this decision making around, our superintendent. We I'm a member of a parent group of parents of children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse, and we have just started making inroads and connections with the superintendent with our district representatives. And it's this yet another change would deeply destroy that trust that we've just started to build. Our my daughter's school is changing aftercare,
changing the principal, now changing a superintendent to this level of turnover considering that, the federal government is attacking our children left and right, is deeply concerning. And I hope that you can help us maintain some sense of stability, or at least shed light on your decision making process. Thank you. Hi. My name is JD Woloshen. I am a parent of two sixth graders and the legal guardian of a OUSD graduate from here at Metwest. And, I read the Oakland side article today, and I am completely unfazed by this news.
I feel like the superintendent, is the employee of the school board. I trust my school board members, to know what they're doing, and I don't trust somebody who is giving information they want the press to know and not giving all the full information. We don't actually know what this vote was about. We don't know if there was a vote to vote out the superintendent. Okay. Well, then I would I would like to know the details, but I feel like this is,
you know, the superintendent works for the board. And if the board is unhappy, if the superintendent is not doing things that the board wants the superintendent to do and is directing the staff in another direction, then the superintendent should go. I don't know if that's happening. I don't know what this is about. But I feel like this is a nonissue, and I feel like the contract says that she's gonna be doing special projects for the next two years anyway. Like, she's not gonna have direct superintendent responsibilities. That was going to be going to other people. So, I mean, yeah,
I think this is somebody trying to stir things up because they can't win a vote. Good evening, board members and audience. My name is George Arterberry. I've been teaching for eight years at Castlemont High. I'm not somebody who talks about it. I'm not somebody who hears about it. I'm there in the trenches. Never met any of you. Never really wanted to. Never been to a meeting before. My politics are in the classroom. But I'm here tonight because I want you to hear what I have to say. I grew up in LA. My father went to, Morehouse with King. King used to be my father used to pick up King at the airport in
LA, bring him to the house for dinner. So I grew up around that kind of community activism and responsibility. Why am I here today? Because I'm in the trenches. My politics are in the classroom. But I've always wondered, how does this board function? What I've seen in twenty five years I've been twenty five years in Oakland. I've only been teaching eight years. Didn't have to teach. Didn't have to work. Why am I there? Because those kids need me. And you know who else needs me? Y'all do. I'm older than everybody on that panel.
I've seen more. I practice medicine, worked on Wall Street, started a company in Silicon Valley, sold it. Now I'm teaching in Deep East Oakland. Why? Because I want those kids to be able to be advocates for themselves because I don't know if you'll look out for them. You guys are the board. So let me tell you this. Can you afford to be on the wrong side of history? Our nation's in turmoil. Can Oakland be the same? Can we be that divided? Can we be at cross purposes over what DEI and all this other stuff is?
Because we only got brown and black children, mostly brown and black children, and they need you. So I'm a end it by saying this. All these shady deals I hear about, I don't see more shady deals. I've been in the room with with with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and they got more integrity than I've seen the district. Thank you. Good evening, board. My name is Kompala Tees Rancifer. I'm the president of the Oakland Education Association. Kinda disturbed by the misinformation that's been going on this evening. Superintendent Johnson Trammell has been talking about her transition all year.
She is not being pushed out. This has been in the works for the entire school year. Her contract allows her to work on special projects while still be being paid a superintendent salary, largest superintendent salary in the entire county. She intends to do special projects. She's not getting pushed out. She was already planning to leave. Oakland Educators really wanna see if there is a process to have a new superintendent, that there's one that engages,
educators, all the labor partners, parents, family, and community, because there are certain things that have been happening in this school district that we wanna see improved. And we're gonna talk and hear from some of our members that have had experiences in this district, and we wanna see things that are improved because we need to start thinking about how, around, student engagement. Madam president? Please be patient. We have a first time speaker. If I may, just, before that to call off the rest of the names who have not been called. They are Sharon Thomas, Chris Jackson,
Myesha Jones, Tamisha McLean, Sandy Stevenson, and Tiffany Hampton Amant. K. Before we start, are we okay with extending the time for public comments? Anybody? Okay. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. My name is Deidra Robinson. I'm a veteran black educator and elementary teacher in O U S on OUSD. I want a new superintendent that will ensure that black teachers are no longer disproportionately disciplined and or receiving nonreelections,
thus terminated from the school district. It's important to know that black educators are important for all students. Students see who hold power in our schools, and it's not black educators. My experience as a second career teacher who is highly qualified, professional, clear, class certificate, master's in education, I say this because I've seen many black educators targeted and let go. This is shameful. Let's be proactive and ensure that we put black teachers front and center.
And when the time comes, support the school board in vetting a new superintendent. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Chris Jackson. I'm the second vice president of OEA, but more importantly, I'm a proud special education teacher at Fremont High School. What I wanna see in our next superintendent is the creation of a district that really does root and hold down black and brown students. Just now at Fremont, for the past two days, we've had racial incidents where they're writing the n word in the bathrooms.
But instead of bringing folks together, instead of addressing that, instead of addressing that harm on our campus, the first time it happened, teachers and staff weren't even told about it. It had to happen a second time. That's Right back there. That's unacceptable. I want a superintendent that's gonna say, not on my watch. That's gonna come to the school site and stop that from happening. That's gonna stop having school sites where you can say the n word with impunity. I mean, impunity. Where students feel they don't feel valued.
I want a superintendent that's going to hold down all of us. That's going to make this a sanctuary city, a sanctuary district for all of us. And that's what I'm looking for. That's what we're rooted in. That's our values. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I'm gonna remind the audience that this person at the podium we're respecting the voices at the podium. My name is Sharon Thomas, and I came only to speak on hoping that our board, if we do keep the superintendent, we all work as one to make something happen in the school district.
I was in the third grade in 1963, OUSD student. I allowed my daughters, one forty one thirty six, to come into OUSD, and I say allow because I've been disappointed. It's a lot of times when I'm on board meetings, listening on Zoom. The board members don't even act like they know what each other thinks, feels, or knows about whatever topic is being talked about. It's so much division. It hurts. Even the budget, when you show tell us about a budget, it makes no sense that you say,
we have rainy day funds, and we're in the middle of a storm, and we're holding on to money. Money and I didn't mean to get up and talk about all this, but I'm disappointed in this board. I'm sorry. It's very sad for me. But I really wanted to say, we want you to put some money into what we we were told we could get. The George Floyd resolution. We had committees set up to spend money we don't even have. Money's not been given to us to use to invest in police free schools and investing in restorative practices and other student supports.
Even the African American male achievement comes to mind. At the end of the year or before the year is over, they run out of money. How come we can't keep funding? Our black kids need as much support as any other colored students, and they're not getting it. They're suffering. We need them to have as many opportunities to be successful in reading, math, writing, life skills. So please, board, come together as one and stop being such a disappointment. I I feel like crying right now. Hi. My name is Maisha Jones. As a black educator,
we want the superintendent for me, it's personal. As a to commit to a district, sorry, that plans to reduce the disciplinary actions, like sorry. I'm about to no. It's not him. That target black students that contribute to the school to prison pipeline. And as a parent of a black a young a TK student and watching how in at any moment at what happens to my son is happening all across the district. And when I say I take it, I see it personal because we I had to call a group to support me
to ensure that my son, my five year old son, was not suspended from TK. Thank you. And there was several of us educators that had to come that day to ensure that little Frederick did not get suspended from school, and that happened this school year. So in short, what we're trying to say is that when we go through this superintendent search, we want real commitments to to things like the George Floyd resolution. We want real commitments to the reparations, policy. These are things that were designed to try to undermine and,
and address some of the systemic harm that has happened to black educators that also happened to black educators that also happened to black students, how our students are treated or how the adults are treated in this district. And we really hope that as you start to, look into a new superintendent, that you're looking at one that is committed to this work. Thank you. We also have, signatures from our members all across the district here that we will leave, for you all to review. Thank you. I know there are other public speakers who have signed up to speak,
but we're going to end the the public comments right now. I'm I'm sorry. I'll let you go ahead, Janelle. Thank you. Go? Okay. So as outlined in California educational code section five one one zero one, parents and guardians have the right to a meaningful involved to be meaningfully involved in their children's education. This includes the right to access school facilities, volunteer, and engage in programs and activities that support academic achievement and well-being. The removal of our f r FRC,
our family resource center, I was told by our principal that there is no room for our family resource center, which took me by surprise because I wrote a proposal for it, and it was approved. And they have made every attempt to keep me out of there and stop helping our families. I am support of getting rid of the office of equity to save money because there is no equity, not for McClimans, not for black students. We have a family liaison that is supposedly, allegedly,
supposed to be coming to our school weekly or twice a week. I don't know. But she don't ever come. And if she does, she does no family engagement. So I took it upon myself to volunteer as a parent to open this resource center with the help of the community, with our own funds, and our own furniture, and our own decorations and every all of it. So now I'm being told there is no room because of the rebuild. So I come to this board humbly and ask for a portable for next year
when they do the expansion or building so we can have a family resource center. Every teacher, every student, every parent that has come in that room says it's peaceful and harmonious, and it's a space where they can think and get help on issues that they have with their children and their families. So the f thank you. Thank you. And that concludes our, public comment. Sorry. We just have one more. Just one more. Okay. Thank you.
Good evening, everyone. My name is Tiffany Hanson Ammons. I come to you as a parent with a student a eighth grade student at Westlake Middle School. And I just wanted to express my concern regarding our newest negative spotlight on our district regarding our superintendent that appears to be inciting unnecessary chaos during a time where our district is already under attempted scrutiny by the state and federal government regarding our school funding and the safety of our families. You were voted in to make this board better than previous years, but as as is already April with new members,
you're pushing us back further with the next steps being possibly a conservatorship, which no one wants, but it's our ugly truth. I ask you to please stand as a board united as you were voted, and please make the necessary decisions needed to make our schools safer, our families safe, and for our district to not have this negative spotlight to make us appear that we are back and running as we should be as education now is under scrutiny with the federal government with prioritization. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our public comment. Next on the agenda is,
K, which is the adoption of the people discipline report. Do I have a motion to adopt? So moved. Second. Okay. And can we just call the question, please? We need, public speakers. Are there any public speakers on this item? Yes, madam president. It's, Assata Ologbala, Janelle Harris, and Ben Tabscott. Okay. Thank you. Coach. Okay. They're passing. Thank you. Can you call the vote, please? Yes. On the motion to adopt the people discipline consent report, Students are recused. Director Latta? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson?
Director Berry? Director Thompson, vice president Bachelor? Yes. President Brujahard? Yes. The people with different consent report is adopted. K. Before we start our next agenda item, I do wanna explain, doctor Moore is stepping in for superintendent doctor, Johnson Trammell, who was in a, speaking at a conference this week. K. Student report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, community, board, and students. Today in our report, we'll be going over student voice, student leadership, and student events. For student voice, our historian is a part of the naming committee for the new central administrative center
at Cole. A couple ideas are in the air, but nothing has been confirmed. Their next meeting is today. So by next, I by next board meeting, I believe we should have a name, maybe, hopefully. Moving on to our student leadership. Our, this regards our health and wellness team. So our, so Sophie, she's our director for the health and wellness team. She, she wants to give you all updates on what the team is doing and also the work that she has been doing as well. So so far,
they've been holding monthly student health advisory committee meetings, and this is a space where students can get educated on different topics. This includes, like, areas of growth, mental health, cyber billing, safety, and so forth. And also, expanding on their peer wellness programs for all high schools and building curriculums. For student events, one of our most important events of the year is coming up on April 18, register by April 11. This event is for mainly is for purely high school students in OUSD.
It is our youth action summit. So during our youth action summit, what do we do? We elect our new governing board, and we also go over what we're gonna be prioritize what all city council will be prioritizing for next school year. So what does that mean? We're gonna be prioritizing what we want to change and the main focus on what we should on what we should improve for our students in the district. So that will be April 11. And also, if you also have any youth that you might want to
I apologize. It's it's a lot a lot a lot is going on right now. But if you have any youth that is really interested in getting into a leadership position, this is a very good this is a very good opportunity and a very good outlet. It's one of the ways that I got started in leadership. So if you wanna if you have a kid that is really into social justice, a high schooler, then I really recommend them coming to this event. Also, you could tell them that you do get paid a stipend from all city council if you if you get elected. So, I would also like to highlight we do want more representations in different high schools.
So like Maclimus, we really want more students to be a part of, All City Council as well as the Academy, Dallas High School. We want all those smaller schools and also schools that don't usually get represented as much to join and to share, their inputs and just to join us. It is an amazing way to be a part of change and also just expressing your voice and also be a part of the board as well, like us. Please register by April 11, and join us on April 18 for the Youth Action Summit.
Thank you. That concludes our report. But before I end off, I do I would like to say a little bit extra. I would just kinda like to state that what's going on right now is very troubling. I also just from a student standpoint, I just want our board to look at it from the students' perspective right quick. There's a lot going on in the district. There's all we face a lot of bad stigma from where we're from.
Being from the ghetto as as some may call it. People assume everything is broken down. Everybody comes from broken homes. The way we do stuff is shady. The way we the way we carry ourselves isn't professional, and we're proving them right. That's all we're doing. We're just we're proving them right day in and day out. And as a kid, it's so hard not to get in your head about everything that's going on. Your district is in crumbles.
People tell you your education is already bad. The people who are supposed to be representing you aren't. And it's just it's so disheartening, especially when during public comment when we can't even give our community the decency to look up from our phones or to look up from our laptops. It's two minutes. We learn in grade school to look up at the teacher when you're talking to them. Paying attention. We learned
to be quiet, get off your phones. So when we can't even respect the people who were represented, and we can't listen to an idea for two minutes for thirty minutes an extended period of time without looking at a screen. It's just it's disheartening and it's so disrespectful to the people that we're supposed to be representing, and we're supposed to be giving all our time to improve their quality of life. And it's just it's so stressful. I just want you guys to know that.
It's so stressful, and it makes your head hurt and your heart hurt. That concludes our report. Thank you. Also just want to add on. I am a high school senior, and it's very worrisome that and honestly, it kinda hurts me that I am a senior because I don't wanna leave Oakland in shambles. So I really hope that and honestly, this is really a wish that when that I just see improvement before I leave. It really sucks that
that this is how we're gonna end off the school year and just leaving families, students with so many worries. And also, just a lot of questions, and we can't just get and we can't get answers to them. So just listen to your community. It's definitely something that I really recommend. Also for just getting told as well to drop our phones. Just seeing you guys not being able to do that, I it's kind of it's a little disappointing. But please listen to our community and
yeah, just listen to us. It it doesn't hurt, really. It's just two minutes of your time. So yeah. We have ten minutes for public comment. Are there any comments on this section? We have two public commenters. That's Asada Olobala and Janelle Harris. First, I wanna say thank you for having the courage that grown people don't have. That's one. You're absolutely right. And it's not just the board. It's all of us. You know, we are leading by example. Unfortunately, you have to see what we are fighting for. And as a parent of,
of five black young men, one who was a student in OUSD, I'm gonna come here and fight every day. This board does not represent me. I have been coming here since you got here before you got here, and I'm a continue to come after you graduate if it ain't right. But these are the things that we have to do as grown people to get any kind of services for our children, and this should not have to be. This is not equity, baby. But we've been dealing with this for a thousand years,
and we're gonna continue to deal with this until people understand equity and what it looks like. There is no equity here. So I'm saying that on the record, there is no equity here. So until people start to look in the mirror of what it looks like and at themselves and how the decisions they make for other people's children when their kids ain't even in this district, then we will start to see change. Okay. I got another assignment for y'all,
and this is what I want you to consider, as a, pursuit for your your best interest. There's things that are being allocated by OUSD and also by the city for young people. So for example, the summer, employment program was on the agenda yesterday at the, community and economic development. So they have a grant that they're gonna employ, young people during the summer. They're gonna train them, and they also are gonna give them financial literacy training. Okay? My position is the people that's doing the job of doing this,
they don't have any kind of training themselves. So any kind of program that's supposed to help you have a monitoring system to say this actually went the way it was supposed to go. Tonight, they're gonna be approving pathway money for the summer internships. Make sure all the students who are engaged in that, it was done properly. So this is what I want you to do. Things pick some things that are supposed to be allocated for your interest, for your growth. And monitor them and evaluate whether it's not and report back whether it was done
the right way. Would you consider that, please? And thank you for all you do. Thank you. Are there any board comments? Oh. All names have been called. All in call. Right? Are there any board comments? I just wanted to say I missed most of the presentation, so I apologize I stepped out to use the restroom. But I do plan to come to the Youth Action Summit, and I just wanted to say thank you again for modeling, once again, even though you should not have to, what it, like, looks like to deliver feedback respectfully in the spirit of love and collaboration and for
calling us in again. And I appreciate y'all so much, and it's it is an honor to be on the dais with y'all. Sorry about that. Are there any other board comments? K. I have Williams. Alright. Thank you, director Michelle, and thank you, director Max. I appreciate it. Thank you for the notice on the, youth action summit. I've added in the calendar, so, I'm looking at to participate, to be there, and have these conversations to hear what young folks are saying. One of my particular, proposals has always been to ask board members to host a board meeting at one
of the youth events so you can actually, like, talk to board members about what's going on. You know, if it's in a cap if it's in a, gymnasium at a school or a cafeteria, we've done it once over at Frick, but, I mean, there's opportunities for us to actually not always be here. We can actually go to a school site. You know? And so I'd hope that we can get those conversation on. Or if you have, like, a, you know, event like this, you know, I think there's opportunities to have conversations with each board members and invite them on
down. What you're really trying to do is give young folks an opportunity to express their concerns, their sights. I mean, you bring it you bring it to the board, but, you know, it'd be even powerful if you actually, you know, have us all there to be able to talk to the students. So I wanna put that on out there, and I keep trying to see where there's possibilities to work together. So I'm still open to do whatever, you know, ideas that come to your mind. Wanna continue to lift up I was telling Max earlier, wanna really do a student stellar award,
make sure we highlight and lift up young folks and the work that they're doing in the community. Technology, internships, whatever it is, we need to try to find ways to lift that on up. So, I mean, I'm always down and I'm always committed. You know? And if you want, I'll come to your side again. But I hear what you're saying with electronics. You know? Folks have to monitor themselves as well. Sometimes you see folks taking notes. You know? So there's there's another combination, but I love to talk to you more about, you know, how we proceed at the board. And, you know, we should talk about it.
We should talk about it before we get to the, dias. You know? When you come in early, you should come to the close. I don't know if they can come to close session. They can't. Oh, I'm always inviting, like you know? So let's do something. I look forward to doing that, man. Thank you. Are there any other board comments? Thank you again for your report. Look forward to going to the summit. Again. Thank you. Yeah. I just wanted to report out that, I'm really excited to engage some students, at Skyline around the budget process, and I have a meeting set up with them on the twenty fifth, because they did a student survey on campus to talk about,
like, what are some of the impacts of any of the budget decisions we've made. So I really appreciate students reaching out to me and and trying to have those conversations. I also wanna appreciate, miss Jong, from the, Urban Promise Academy for inviting me to her campus to to not only talk to students about the important work we're doing around housing through ACE, but also provide, know your rights trainings, with the, climate that we have currently, in our country. And so I really appreciated, you know, working with those students and making sure that they understood what their rights were. And they are now joining us, for lobby day in Sacramento.
And so we're also gonna be, again, engaging them in advocacy and figuring out ways. I know that they're already pros, because they go to the county board meetings and they go to other places. But I am really excited to continue to develop students in our district to make sure that they're advocates, for the things that they need, whether it be here as a school district or at the county or state level, because I think that that's really important. And one thing that they've also consistently brought up is the bill that you all have been, advocating against, which is the, law enforcement in our campuses. And so that will be part of our lobby day as well.
So I would love to have, you know, further conversations with you all as to what we could do as a board, to continue to support students and have student voice be a part of our school board meetings. Director Simmons? Just to tell you about an update for a b 68, the bill actually got wiped off the floor because Trump appointed the assembly member who proposed the bill. Trump appointed him the attorney general of Los Angeles. So all of his bills got wiped off the floor, which is, you know, a good and bad thing.
Yes. We can celebrate part of that and wonder about the other party. Thank you again for your report. We're gonna move on now to the PSAC report, and I've given each committee five minutes. Thanks. I'm answering. Okay. Good evening, board. So we are, again, I'm Tiffany Hampton Amund. I represent District 3 with the PSAC as a lead delegate, and we are here to present our LCAP Parrot Student Advisory Committee board. And we are going to start with our Dells report. Good evening, board. My name is Melissa Ramirez Medina,
interim representative for District 4 for the district English language learners subcommittee. This is our membership. So I just wanted to share a few highlights from our March 27 meeting. We wanna extend a huge thank you, to a couple of staff members, Julie Kessler, from the ELMA office, Julie Macklemont from expanded learning, and Liana Nelson Smith from special education for sharing, really valuable information about summer programs, at our meeting. So we really appreciated, all the information they were able to share. We also learned about the requirements for teachers and aids to teach English learners,
also known as the EL authorization, and we found out what progress we're having in administering the English language proficiency assessment to the students, also known as the ELPAC. ELPAC testing begins on February 1 and can happen until the end of the school year, yet the recommendation is that schools finish by spring break. So, this slide shows our testing progress for the ELPAC as of March 26. We've got about, so we have some comparisons, from this school year compared to, 2023 to '24. And right now,
we have about, 10% of students who have not started the ELPAC, this year yet. Oh, and, if you go to this slide, or if you access this slideshow, at the bottom, you can see that there's a link to the testing tracker. Strongly, strongly encourage that you click on that link, and check the progress on that track on that tracker. There's a lot of really, great information, and you can check on the schools in your district. Our March meeting also included a new segment for representatives from school committees to share
news and updates about their work to support English language learners. Below is the form that they're using to write their updates, and it has ideas for topics to discuss. That link is tinyurl.com/2h8bvcyy. Special thank you to Liana Hernandez from Roosevelt Middle and Manzanita Community School and to Juana Pena from International Community School for being the first representatives to share updates from their schools. The conversation that followed from their updates focused on how some parents don't know that
their students are classified as English language learners, that they need to take the ELPAC, and what must happen so that their students are reclassified as fluent and proficient in English. These parent leaders shared what they're doing at their schools to make sure that families know these things. So we hope that you will join us at our next public meeting on Thursday, April 24, and you can find the link and meeting details at 0ust.org/calendar. And I'll go ahead and hand it over, to the community advisory committee. Hello. I am JD Woloshen,
cochair for the, community advisory committee for special education, and that is who we are. And we have highlights from our March 10 meeting. And at that meeting, we discussed the level of access that OUSD disabled students are having to athletics and visual and performing arts, to ongoing, to ongoing to work to ongoing work to improve access in these areas. Three basic information about 2025 special education extended school year and other summer programs.
We would like to, give thanks to Lamont Robinson junior and Frankie Navarro from the Oakland Athletic League for for being in conversation with families and staff at our meeting, and to Phil Radeen from visual and performing arts who was not able to attend, but, says that we will send the questions. But we actually have sent those questions to him, and he has, responded to some of them already. And we're going to get his feedback to the questions that we had for him at that meeting. So disability access and accessibility require careful planning and coordination as well as a high
level of engagement with students and families. And we cannot overstate the incredible value of having these dialogues with staff who administer these programs. When these, hardworking individuals come to our meetings, they get valuable input. Their participation shows that they want to know how to best do their job, and our families and community will continue to partner with staff so that we can continue to improve access and access accessibility for all disabled students in OUSD because there is still a long way to go. And coming soon at our April 14 public meeting,
we're gonna be talking about special education contracts in OUSD. We know that's a big topic in the district, the contracts, with outside vendors. And so we're going to learn about what services our specific contracts providing this year and at what costs and who those providers are, what services they provide to our special education students, and then what contracts are planned for the school year of 2526. Everybody is welcome to that, so you can, join us. The meeting details are at 0usd.org/calendar.
And we have a community movie night coming up. That's next week, April fifteenth at the Grand Lake Theater. You can register to get tickets. As of yesterday, there were still some left, and the registration link is there in this slide. So I will be reporting on the Falls Youth Advisory Committee on behalf of Patty Fergens who cannot be who cannot stay, due to our position in our agenda. She has three fosters under three she wanted to bring to see or present,
but, unfortunately, they had bedtime. The slide that's being shown is the current committee members of the Foster Youth Advisory Committee. And the members of the Foster Youth Advisory Committee are working on project changes policy changes that we will propose to school board, directors this month. The goal of these policy changes is to decrease and prevent false youth suspensions by ensuring that pre suspension interventions take place and by ensuring communication and collaboration with foster youth's adult team. The policy changes will also detail certain post suspension actions.
The link to the draft of the policies that are being discussed in their March 25 meeting are attached to the tinyURL.com/3crvr8us. And they ask that you please join their next meeting on April at 05:30. And now I will be jumping into our PSAC report. You can go to the next slide. So this is our current membership for the parent and student advisory committee.
All, seven districts are being represented. And then we are going to go into our 03/20/2025 PSAC survey for principals about recent budget changes. So PSAC's message to principals was to engage in a dialogue with principals about the budget changes for the twenty twenty five-twenty six school year that shifted some positions of services from school site budgeting to central budgeting. We asked that they filled out this one question ranking survey and that we would shape our March meeting to best reflect their responses.
The survey took little as to one to two minutes to complete. So to link to the full report of our March 2025 PSAC survey to principals is attached to this slide, the tiny URL. And our next, next slides are gonna be regarding the participation of those schools. So this pie chart represents the schools responding by electoral district, with District 5 representing the most at 22% and Districts 1 And 2 at 18%. This slide represents the school with parents with principals who participated in the survey, as we see that District B 1 represented with 55.5%
of their schools, while District 5 represented 50% with their schools. This slide represents the school by grade span, and, of course, elementary schools outranked everything by 20 schools, middle school at two, and high school at six. So the percentage of all possible schools that responded were 28 out of the 77 schools, which came to 36.4%, with elementary schools representing 40.8% of that overall total. So next, we're gonna be talking about the budget changes with the most questions or concerns,
and this represents just the, principal's, concerns with the questions that they were posed. So next are the current topics that they wanted to discuss, which were the purchases and contracts, STIPs, which are current hiring and pull centrally hiring and pulling STIP substitutes, centrally hiring teachers on special assignments or TSAs, except as required by labor agreements, MOUs, and statute, centralizing the purchase of materials and supplies, reducing supplemental dollars assigned to schools and redirecting the bulk of those dollars to specific
uses, and title four central title four centrally allocating title $4 to support o s OSUD's MTSS, which is multi tiered system of support and cost process, cost being coordination of service of teams. So the next, slide shows just another pie chart of the highest ranking questions and concerns, which supplemental came in at 31% while steps came in at 27%. These grids oh, okay. That's okay. These grids just show the overall,
percentages of all the questions that were posed to the principals. So following the slides, we first shared a few examples of comments and questions from principals about the changes that were not the focus of our breakout group discussions on March 19. Yes. So centralizes of purchases and contracts. Again, centrally hire teachers on special assignments. Centralizing the purchase of materials and supplies. Centralizing centrally allocated Title IV dollars to support OSD MTSS strategy and cost process. The next slides are going to speak on the highlights from our breakout meetings regarding
our SIP substitutes. So as we discussed in our breakout groups, some of the commonly, some of the comments were regarding the advance the advantages of using STIP subs, as well as their improper use at some schools, the low substitute fill rate at certain schools and for special education absences, the future approach of centrally pooled stiffs, and the need for paraeducator substitutes. We also discussed the needs to prioritize providing substitutes for IEP meetings, the current use of SIPP substitutes to provide academic interventions,
and what other positions could be used to do so. Some of the highlights from our breakout meeting regarding changes to the use of supplemental dollars. We discussed when larger schools get the same allocation as staff at smaller schools, when the percentage of high needs students at the school is used to assign staffing. We also spoke about certain schools that saw both large a large decrease in position and a large decrease in dollars, as well as the value of this survey and the need for more principals to participate. We ask you that you join us at our next public meeting,
which will take place on Wednesday, April 16 at 05:30. And at that meeting, we'll be discussing how did our local control and accountability plan change as a result of the budget reductions and changes that were adopted this winter, and how well was our LCAP implemented for the 2425 school year. Zoom link and other meeting information can be found at 0usd.org/calendar. Meeting presentations and recordings are also located @0usd.orgforwardslashlcap.
Thank you. Are there any board comments? Thank you again for, sorry. I didn't even ask. Thank you again for a good presentation. I am having a conversation with principals in my district, and so I I wanna connect before in advance of that so I can perhaps introduce or continue the conversation that you started. Yeah. I also just want to thank you for the data. I really liked the charts. I liked the comments. I know you showed the slide tonight, but I would really encourage people to go back and look at the comments.
I think particularly the ones where people there's one where some of the principals are talking about how it's not a huge amount of money, but, you know, so I I think they were different comments were very insightful, but I really liked the pie charts. I think that those were really, revealed a lot of information. I did. Yeah. I looked at the link too. You know what? You know what? I I clicked on that. I went down the rabbit hole. I spent you know? So, anyway, I appreciate the the, really in-depth work at on the LCAP, work. Any other comments? Thanks. Yeah. I just wanna appreciate, all of the I mean, thank you all for staying. I know it's on some often late in the meeting,
but, appreciate, the massive amounts of volunteer work that you all do as parents in addition to taking care of your families and your jobs doing this work. The one thing that I just wanted to maybe flag was that I tried to click on the Dell's, the testing update, and it makes you log in to Tableau. So I don't know if it's a protected is it a it may oh, it's not. Okay. I thought so. Yeah. So just, but anyways, that's the one thing, but thank you. And are there any other comments, director Williams? Thank you very much for that. I I just wanna add that if you're asking for principal's participation and service,
please CC me as well. You know, I can support that work, you know, as we are reaching out to the principals. Like to be a part of those conversations as well. Thank you. Thank you again, and thank you for being patient for a long agenda. Mister Sejak, can we have a, translation check, please? Yes. Moving on to the translation announcement, we'll go to Spanish. Please only raise your hand if you need Spanish interpretation. Mister Copenhagen, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Spanish, please. Yes. Thank you, mister Secha.
Great. Thank you, mister Copenhagen. Checking attendees to see if any hands are raised for our Spanish interpretation. I do see two hands, so we'll start Spanish interpretation. Next, we'll go to Arabic. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Arabic interpretation. Miss Abdi, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Arabic, please. Arabic is done. Great. Thank you, miss Abdi. So I do, see one hand that is raised, so we will start Arabic and Spanish, and we will check again later, in the meeting. I turn it back to president Brujar. Alright. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is item l,
which is the adoption of the general consent report. And I believe there are no items pulled. So do we have a motion to adopt the general consent report? Make a motion to adopt the general consensus report. Thank you. And is there a second? I second. K. We have 10 for public comment. Are there any public comments on this item? Yes, madam president. Those speakers are Asada Olopala, Janelle Harris, Ben Tapscott, and Ashley Handy. K. And we can give two minutes each. So the special education services, I just you know,
I know that we're struggling in this district to catch up. But I think first, we have to identify and own the fact that services are not being given. There are students who have gone through k through ninth that I know of that have not received any services. And the way these reports are being written by psychologists who are not culturally competent demonizes the child. And I've read them, you know, a lot of times over and over, and it's the same thing.
They are not a product of their environment, and I wanna make it clear that special education needs to be first because there are kids who are being graduated that can't read, and a lot of them go to McClimans. So it's like, please help us get that department together or start cutting heads off. Thank you. I'm concerned about l two. L two is an item for which there is no identification of the money, exact amount of money being spent.
They identified the funding source, the general purpose fund. When you go to the contract, this item that covers 2425 all the way through twenty twenty eight, twenty nine. And each year, there's a specific amount of money being spent, a total of $986 $639.30. Why is this not in the item, the amount of money is being spent? The next item is l four,
which is a demolition at Melrose. The funding source is f general fund zero one. I've never seen that before. The item that is identified as l 12. Now this is important for me. You consistently, allocate money that has to do with social, emotional, and counseling services. Who is it for at Castlemont? Refugees and immigrants. You also allow at at under this arrangement for newcomer students for their parents to get assistance. Small groups, two times a week. Okay.
That's fine. When you gonna do something like that for black kids? You consistently support your newcomer refugee children. You don't support black children. The next item is l 32, maintaining support of health records. This has to do with our issue around maintaining health records and immunization. If you have children coming here from countries that they don't have health records, What are you doing under those circumstances? And we have an epidemic of measles going around, and two children have died from it.
Thank you. Are there any other speakers to mister Hollis? Good evening, board. My name is Ashley Handy, and I come before you not just as a concerned parent, but as a community leader who serves over 300 youth every year through a football organization. I'm here to speak truthfully and on the behalf of the children, especially those at McClymonds High School. We have a principal who is not leading, an after school director employed by the district who's posting online using the n word and taking talking down on our children.
That is completely unacceptable. Right now, there are 68 students with IEPs who's not receiving legally mandated services. That's a violation. As a parent that is currently suing the district and in mediation with you guys, you guys are willing to pay almost three years of private education for my son before you fix the real issue at hand. Relieving the superintendent of her duties is the least of my concerns because the truth is you put her there in that position.
So let's shift the conversation. Let's talk about what the district is going to do for McClymonds, a school that's been overlooked for far too long. Our children deserve better, and I will keep showing up to these meetings until it's done. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other, public comments? All names have been called. Okay. Thank you. Are there any board comments? Director Hutchinson? Thank you. So I didn't wanna speak when I first came down here after closed session. But now especially hearing the comments on this item, I think it's really important to say a couple of things.
You know, it's the superintendent and her staff that put together the consent report along with keeping the district functioning. And just so there's not any confusion out there from anyone, the board just voted today to force the superintendent out at the end of the year and to try to immediately start a search for a new superintendent. This is a violation of the superintendent's contract, and it'll force us to have to pay her out. And we will have no way forward as a community and as a district. May I remind you that's a violation of the Braun Act? Thank you for reminding me. Yes. I will. And so this is a real crisis.
And as the only one on the board who's actually an Oakland native and a proud graduate of OUSD, we're under attack. The superintendent has been under attack. Yes. We are under attack. And it's interesting how people come and complain and complain about what happens at McCliman's High, but the director responsible has been nonresponsive. We have a real issue, and that same person is also a part of the effort to drive the superintendent out. And I'm very clear about who likes us and who doesn't, and I'm real clear on the treatment I receive and what it means. But when I see it happen to my sister, Kyla,
I'm always on a speak. And I appreciate those in the community who have reached out and who will be helping. We can't afford to lose this fight just like we can't afford to lose our superintendent, and we can't afford to lose Lisa Grant Dawson, and we can't afford to use lose many of our other staff and students who will be going out the door because of these actions. This shows that the school board doesn't know what they're doing, and they don't really care. That would they would take this kind of destructive action in mid April. Again, this is a violation of Brown Act. If people wanted to, they could have made this move in January,
and there would have been time to find somebody else, but they didn't. And the reason why I have to say this now is because on top of everything else, they're liars and they're cowards. And the fact that there wasn't an announcement made when we came down after closed session shows how they feel about us as a community. So when I walk out of here tonight, I guarantee you, you'll see me on TV. You'll see me in the media, and I'm gonna do everything I can like I always have. I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure they don't move out our superintendent because we're here. We were here long before them,
and I know I'm a be here after them. And I won't let anyone come and try to destroy my district. I don't care where you're coming from. So now as I said upstairs, it's on. Again, I wanna remind people that this is a Brown Act violation. And as board members, we are obligated we are legally mandated to not discuss issues that were discussed in public session in private session closed session. Sorry. And this is to protect those people to protect people's privacy, but it's against the law. Which is against the law.
The vote is dead. We were out of order in closed session, which was against the law. So if we wanna play this game, that's fine. This needs to be a public discussion, and we'll let the public decide how they wanna get down. Item l. Yes. On the roll call to adopt the general consent report Madam president, this is Edgar. I'd like to offer one clarification on an agenda item that was referenced by missus Olabao. That is a a item LDotDash2250519. The details on the cost of this item is in the resolved clauses of the
resolution. The total cost of the item over a five year period is $986,639.30. Again, the cost details are in the resolution, which is the board's motion. Thank you, mister Reykster. On the roll call to adopt the general consent report, students are absent. Director Lara? Yes. Director Williams? Yes. Director Hutchinson? Director Berry? Yes. Director Thompson? Vice President Bachelor? Yes. And President Breaux Hart? Yes. The general consent report is adopted.
Thank you, mister Sacheo. I'm going to turn the gavel over to vice president Bachelor. Thank you. We're now on item m, which is the gen adoption of the general consent report, general obligation bond measure b, j, and y. Is there a motion to bring this item forth? So moved. Second. Thank you. Mister Seichow, are there public speakers for this item? Yes. There are public speakers on this item. Vice president Bachelor, they are Sara Olegbala, Janela Harris, Ben Tapscott, and Ashley Handy. Wonderful.
Those speakers would like to come up and speak on the bond. Miss Janelle Harris, you're up if you'd like to speak in the mic. You have one minute. I don't know, but I wanna talk about what just happened. I feel that it's a slap in the face and totally disrespectful for a director to talk to the public and tell us that we're complaining when our kids are suffering. He should be removed, and you have the power to do that. I'm sick of the outburst, and I'm sick of the tantrums when he don't have the votes to go his
way. And that's what it is. It's all about your own agenda. And I don't care about the superintendent or if you fire her or she's leaving. I don't care. What I care about is serving the kids that my tax dollars and my thumb measure money goes to. That's what I care about. And my kids can't get none. No help. I don't care if you're the only Oakland Native. I don't care. You ain't got no kids in this district.
You went here a hundred years ago. Let's talk about now. Thank you. Miss Assata and coach Tabscott are next. We're on m, which is the adoption of the general consent report, obligation bonds, measure b, j, and y. I think I have to consistently say this. If you look at the items are under m, which is measure j, b, and y. You see allocation of money, Fremont High School modernization program. There's no limit to Fremont High School getting money. I don't understand how this works,
that every time you turn around, Fremont is getting money twice on the agenda here for whatever. Maxwell Park, you are constantly getting under this m, people coming and getting additional money for whatever projects you're working on. But when we talk about McClimans and you gotta remember, McClimans was approached at the project advisory committee meeting, the first meeting, and we were told that there wasn't gonna be enough money to complete the project of modernizing the school,
but they were gonna help us raise money so we could do it. That's how we started off, and then we found out nobody's doing this. You're not gonna disrespect my clients. You're not gonna treat us differently. And no matter how you like it or dislike it, we're gonna come every meeting and talk about treating the climates fairly, having us have the same opportunities that you're giving other schools. So forget about it if you think it's gonna stop. It will not stop. Thank you. I don't see coach Tapscott in the room. I wonder if he's online.
And Tapscott is not online. Okay. Last speaker was Ashley Handy. Ashley, come on up. Okay. So I I wanna say that we're not at war. Like, we're not at war with each other. We're here to work together. For some reason, I feel like we all arguing and leaving the kids out. Like, we have never no one has said anything about the children and what we gonna do for the children. We play musical chairs with these positions, put in people, certain places, and then we wake up and say, oh, that person don't work.
But there's no coaching session. There's there's nothing like that. It's just in the in the heat of the night. It's like we're making these changes, but we're not thinking about the kids. And I can only speak to my clients because my child goes there. So if someone is offended about me always coming up here to talk about my climate, then that's just something that they're gonna have to bite because that's all I can speak to. I can speak for all of the high school, elementary, brown, black kids. I can do that as well,
but my concern is my son and his surroundings. Yeah. I'm sorry. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Any board comments on items m, which are the bond, adopt the adoption of the general consent report, measure b j y. K. Go ahead. Okay. I would just like to add there was, I did get some emails, from a full from a couple of folks at Skyline, around, the, Measure Y dollars, being taken away, from the Skyline campus. And I did make an emotion, an amendment, to that discussion.
When we were discussing it, I made an amendment to make sure that we were able to, reallocate, I believe, the measure y, 3,000,000 measure j, dollars 3,000,000 back to Skyline and Elmhurst to make those projects still whole with $10,000,000 and so I will make sure that the Skyline community understands that and that we move forward in that way. But that was just a clarification I wanted to make from the last board meeting. Alright. So next, we have, oh, sorry. My last point We take a roll call on this. I apologize. Mister Saitow, can you take roll call to
have a vote? Yes. On the motion to adopt the general consent report, general obligation bonds, measures b j and y, students are absent. Director Lauter? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson? Director Berry? Yes. Director Thompson? Vice president batch vice vice president bachelor? Yes. President Brujar. Did your consent report in general obligation bonds, are adopted. Great. Thank you. And as we move forward in our agenda, I'd just like to make sure that all speakers stick to the item that is before us on the agenda,
and not, attack any other speakers or, members of the board, as we move forward. So we do have item p, which is, comments by collective bargaining units. I did see a few bargaining units here earlier. I don't see them in person anymore. But is anyone here to speak about UAOS, SCIU, OEA, Teamsters, or, building trades or anyone online? Currently, don't see any hands raised online for, collective bargaining unit speakers. K. Board comments on collective bargaining unit speakers?
Okay. Okay. No board comment. My bad. Sorry, everybody. So we now we have, q, which is public hearings. We do not have any public hearings, this evening. R, which is unfinished business. We don't have any items under r. We don't have any speakers under either of those items. And so we'll be moving to item s, which is new business. We have a couple of items here. So, would anybody like to make a motion, to move s one, which is OUSC's position pending state legislative bills. Hold him out. Doctor. Moore, you have some remarks?
Actually, we have to make a motion first. I apologize. I motion. Second. Great. Doctor. Moore. Thank you, vice president Bachelor. First and foremost, just wanna, acknowledge that we have two, of our, lobbyists from school services online, Leilani Aguinado and Megan Baer. Just wanted to reiterate the process that the board has gone through, to date around, their legislative platform. And then tonight, the board will be, making a decision around, a list of 13 bills, and positions around those. And so, our legislative lobbyist with school services presented to the board in January,
and just provided, just some context in terms of, what some legislative wins were from the last year, and then also providing, some guidance around, what the upcoming year looks like in terms of process, and also in terms of vetting future legislation. And so tonight, is the first of two, batches of, position, bills that the board will, take into account. There's 13 of them. And, once the board makes a decision here, the, school services, will begin to send us, position bills that the district and the board will sign off on,
in terms of legislative advocacy, and then those bills will be provided in terms of a reference copy and future board memos. I do wanna note that there are a number of bills that, have been noted by school services that do align with our legislative platform, but are not a part of this first phase of bills. The reason for that is staff is, doing some additional analysis, both in terms of fiscal and operational, so that the board can fully understand what the implications of, making a position on some of those bills are. I just named two, that you'll, see in the second,
batch of bills, with a full staff analysis. The first one is, $80.65, which is around, leaves, and I know that that's been an area of interest by some board members. Another one is, SB seven eleven, which is around, school nutrition, for, families during the summer. And so we're just, looking into, again, fiscal and operational, implications so that the board has a full understanding, of what that might mean before making a decision. So I'll open it up for any, board questions or, discussion. And then again, we have, Leilani and Megan, online to answer any questions as well.
President Broberg. Yeah. I had a couple of questions on these. I did thank you. There was a really thorough, summary of them. I was, cons I I had a question about why we would, so many of these were support at this point because I was also checking some other, sources, CTA and some others, and they had watches on them. And I wanted to know kind of what your thinking was in in supporting these. Not that I'm opposed to them. I just want to know what your thinking was. Particular, I was looking at the ones that had to do with the well, anyway, I yeah. I think the substitute teachers was one.
I'm trying to think here. And there were some on oh, I know. The other thing was, were we gonna have also ones on the housing? I didn't see Aragon's bill, but maybe I missed it. Is that the next batch? No. It did send there. It's in there. The one from Wix is in there too. Oh, okay. Okay. I did read this. I just didn't highlight. I should have highlighted it. There we go. Okay. All right. Thank you. So Director Breaux, to answer your question about some of the positions that are on the document with recommended positions. These positions were arrived at after consultation as well with district staff.
And so these positions were all determined and are recommended based on implementation considerations and impacts, to the district. So the ones that have a recommend support position, it's because the the it's the belief that those would be beneficial to Oakland Unified, And some of these also are aligned with positions that the district has taken in the past. So for example, on the first page AB three eighty two by Assemblyman Berman, which would establish a speed limit of 20 miles per hour. The district,
took a support position on a similar or an identical bill last year, and so the recommended position today is on alignment with, positions that the district may have taken in the past as well. Thank you. The one I would like to add, maybe not to this batch, but in the future, and maybe to watch is AB eleven fifty seven. It's a bill that specifically deals or, is trying to focus on housing and housing affordability by lowering the max that, landlords can pay and can increase rent, from 10% to 5%. As we're moving you know,
as we live in Oakland, as we are going through a housing crisis, I think this is really important for these kinds of bills are important for us to support to make sure that our students are stable, to make sure that our families are stable, and they're not getting priced out of our district. And so, again, that's I'm not trying to make any amendments tonight, but I would like to see us kind of watch that bill. And then as it moves forward, if we are able to, at a subsequent board meeting to discuss it a little bit more and then be able to support it, I think it would be really helpful for our students and families,
who are dealing with, high cost of housing here in the Bay Area. Seeing no other board comments, on this, we do have a motion and a second. Can we take a roll call for a vote? Public comment on this item. I apologize, missus Sada. Public comment on this item. Is there anybody signed up? Yes. We have Janelle Harris, Assata Olugbala, and Ben Tapscott. One minute. Thank you. So in reading the, superintendent report, I think this is one of the concerns that I have is that we don't know what the plan is for the enrollment,
the stabilization. Enrollment stabilization. What is the plan? Like, here it says, promote success of OUSD link learning methodology. What is that? Like, what are you doing to stabilize the enrollment? Because was promised that they would be in this program or whatever it is, but we don't know what it consists of. So, mister Williams, I will ask if you can look into that, please, to find out what actually this district is doing to help stabilize the enrollment or
get you know, help us get more kids in our school. Are they still sidetracking the students to not come to McClimans to, you know, just find out what's happening. Thank you. I just wanna remind the speakers that the topic is on the, pending legislative What happened to the superintendent's report? Oh, didn't you you didn't report out on that? So what are we talking about? We're on s on the OUSD s, one OUSD position pending legislative bills. Oh, okay. I'm sorry, miss Harris. I told her the wrong thing.
No. That's okay. We let her I'm not gonna cut you off. Okay. So I I'm I'm quite concerned because I looked at the legislative, bills that are being recommended that You supporting, and there's no identification of you being in a position to support SB five ten. SB five ten is pupil instruction treatment of African Americans. SB five ten will be discussed April 23 at 09:00 at 1021 Old Street in Room 210. It requires instructions that provide a foundation for understanding the treatment and perspective of African
Americans regarding their education. Why y'all not supporting that? Why you're not supporting SB five ten? It is not on the agenda. So when I come here and say over and over again, where is the support for African American students? You got a director a director of newcomers. You got a newcomer, curriculum. You got a newcomer program that deals with wellness initiatives of newcomers. You got a summer program for newcomers. You got all of this for newcomers. You have absolutely nothing for African American students.
Thank you, missus Fowler. That's s b five ten. At any point, somebody can say, yeah. I'm gonna raise my hand and say, I'm a definitely support that. Are there any other, public speakers? Madam president, all nays have been called. Alright. Thank you. And can we take a roll call, please, on s one? Yes. On the roll call, I stated SDotDash125Dash0146A. Stillness are absent. Director Thompson's absent. Director Berry? Yes. Director Hutchinson, absent. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Latta?
Yes. Vice president Bachelor? Yes. President Brujahire? Yes. The motion is adopted. Thank you. Next item on the list is, s two declaring its intent to grant an easement to Pacific Gas and Electric to allow access for installation and maintenance of electric vehicles, charging stations, divisions of facilities, and planning and management. We have ten minutes for public comment. Are there any public speakers? Oh, I'm sorry. We need a motion. So moved. Second. Thank you. Sorry. Are there any public speakers, mister Hollis? Yes, madam president. There are three.
Asada Olugbala, Janelle Harris, Ben Tapscott. And just to okay. And just a reminder, this is on this item only. Thanks. I I'm not fully understanding how this works. You wanna have on the school site the ability to put up electrical charge stations with the access of the is it what main what company is it? I forget. What com PG and E for their employees to come and plug up and recharge. How is that implemented with the safety component of the school?
Is that in the parking garage, parking area of the school? Does anybody have the logistics of how this works? So we maintain safety protocol at that school. That's my concern. My only concern is if we have an issue of safety being violated in some potential capacity. I don't know. I don't know. But has that been discussed is my concern. Is Preston Thomas on the online? I believe he's, exited for the evening. I could speak to this item. So we we actually currently have an easement with PG and E,
and, thanks to the Currys, there's been some developments at the school site, and we're now moving the charging station to another location. So this this is a change to the easement. And there there are no safety issues with it. Thank you. Miss Harris. Thank you. So just a few, some clarity on the item. Are we talking about one charging station or charging stations? And two, is it free, or does it cost money? I think an assessment of how many what is the impact? How many employees have electric cars that we need to be investing in charge stations?
Like, really? Like, we need books. We need computers. We need other stuff than charge stations. General counsel, can you answer that question as well? Yeah. I I'll just start with there's no physical impact, so we're we're not being charged for for the charging stations, and it provides a community benefit. And are there any other comments? Madam president, all nays have been called. Okay. Thank you. Are there any board comments? Can you call a roll call, please? Yes. On the roll call to adopt s dot dash two, students who are absent.
Director Latta? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson's absent. Director Berry? Yes. Director Thompson's absent also. Vice president, bachelor? Yes. And president Breaux Hart? Yes. The motion is adopted. K. Thank you. Item item sorry. Item s three, declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the school year of twenty twenty five, twenty six, Talent, Human and Resources. Is there a motion to approve this? I motion. I second. And, again, we have ten minutes for public comment. Are there any public speakers on item s three?
Yes, madam president. They are Asada Olugbala, Janelle Harris, Ben Tapscott, and Ashley Handy. Speaker has one minute. Thank you. So I wanna talk about, the importance of having credentialed teachers. McClymonds has quite a few teachers that are not credentialed, and we don't have any curriculum. Like, teachers can't produce the curriculum. They can't tell us how they're grading our kids, and they're graduating kids, and they're not credentialed. I find that very concerning. We have calculus. We have engineering.
We have classes that are necessary for these young people to move on to college readiness. And they are not college ready because you don't have teachers who are credentialed. Like, I don't understand it. How do you give someone a diploma and don't have a teacher that is credentialed to teach? Like, that makes no sense to me. Next speaker, please. So I I think the arrangement is when you have the teachers that come who are not qualified, that they agree to become qualified
through some process of of going to take courses or whatever. So whose responsibility is that to make that happen as well as that there's a timeline when it's supposed to happen. And it's my understanding that people have not, completed within the timeline, but they're still teaching. So can we do some follow-up to make sure that if people are supposed to become accredited to teach and they don't meet the standards of completing their qualifications to be certified within the
time line that we don't keep them under employment. Thank you. Are there any other public speakers? Oh, miss Handy, I think okay. Thank you. Yep. Madam president, all names have been called. Alright. Thank you. Are there any board comments? Director Berry? Yes. I and Dexter, I don't know if you can speak to this, but not necessarily looking for an answer now. But I was left wondering how this declaration compares to prior years. And I did try to find it. But for lack of being able to dig all that out, just curious, like, whether there is any cause for concern.
And then related to that, would love to hear what the long term workforce strategy is for addressing this. I Think that might be a question for teaching and learning. Well, that's that's a good question. With no further comments, can we take a roll call on the vote, please? Yes. On a motion to adopt as stated, students are absent. Director Latta? Yes. Director Williams? Yes. Hutchinson? Director Hutchinson? Director Berry? Yes. And director Tom Sabsent? Vice president Bachelor? Yes. President Bruhhardt? Yes.
The motion is adopted. Next on the agenda is item t, the superintendent's report, which is given tonight by doctor Warren. Pick one? Yes. S dot dash four. You're right. Thank you, mister Raikstra. I read the wrong one. S four. Sorry about that. Application for provisional internship per internship permit, California commission on teacher credentialing, named employee for school year twenty twenty four twenty five. Is there a motion to adopt this? So moved. Seconded. And we have public comment. And is there any, public speakers? Yes, madam president. Those speakers are Asada Olugbala and Janelle Harris.
Thank you. I just have a question. I would really like the question that miss Assata just asked about the credentialing and who's responsible for oh, and if that's our principles, how is the accountability being upheld? Because there's layers to this. And from where I'm standing, three years in, the people that are supposed to be accountable are not being held accountable, Tara Guard, miss Lindsay. They are not being held accountable. I still have seven outstanding level one complaints that your ombudsman has not responded to.
Thank you. Are there any other public speakers? All names have been called, madam president. Alright. Thank you. Are there any board comments? K. Can we call the roll call on the vote, please? Yes. On a motion to adopt SDOTDash425Dash0748. Student Directors are absent. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Berry? Yes. Director Latta? Yes. Doctor Hutchinson is absent, and doctor Thompson is absent. Vice president Bachelor? Yes. President Bruhhardt? Yes. The motion is adopted. Thank you. Alright. It is now time for the superintendent's report,
given by doctor Moore. Thank you, president Breaux Hart. Good evening, board, staff, community. Thank you, for being here tonight. I'm filling in for superintendent Johnson Trammell, who's currently representing OUSD at a prescheduled convening, where she's sharing, some really great, highlights around our early literacy work in partnership with our community partners, with a global audience. As always, a full superintendent report, is available in the agenda, and I encourage you to explore those details. I'll focus on two key areas, highlights from across our district and an update on our 2526 enrollment cycle.
In terms of district highlights, more than 300 students and staff recently participated in the spring twenty twenty five skilled trades fair, at the Cypress Mandela Training Center, which is one of our long standing partners. Students have the opportunity to explore 28 hands on trade stations and engage with 10 employment information stations, including experiences operating with heavy machinery. These fairs are essential to helping our students visualize their future career goals and connect with lucrative and high demand, industries. We're grateful to Cypress Mandela and our industry partners for continuing to invest in the
success of our students, in alignment with our, mission and vision to make sure that all of our students are college, career, and community ready. Students in our seventh and eighth grade, classes at Hillcrest, recently welcomed, director Hutchinson for a dialogue on water quality and lead mitigation. The students have been studying the issue as part of their science curricula, and presented campus maps and asked direct and thoughtful questions about the district's response to lead and water. This is just one of many powerful examples of how we can combine classroom learning, with civic engagement and advocacy.
The w the Bay Area's, new WNBA team, the Golden State Valkyries visited Claremont Middle School, to meet with our league champion girls basketball team. Our players participated in a panel discussion, shared their personal journeys to the WNBA, and emphasized the importance of discipline, education, and love for the game. Our students recorded podcast, received signed t shirts, and played games outside with the WNBA athletes. We thank the Golden State Valkyries for investing in our students and celebrating their success. The Valkyries have had just a really great impact already,
in terms of visiting our students and our schools. This is, one of multiple site visits that they've already done in Oakland, even before their inaugural season has begun. And then lastly, you heard from our students in the student director report, that our new administrative building has opened, at the old Cole site. And after several years without an administrative office, the the office is open at 1011 Union Street. This new facility provides a dedicated and secure and collaborative space for central office staff, supporting our return to work hybrid model,
and enhancing our services to students, schools, and families, and is an overall exciting step in how we support our community. We have a lot of our satellite offices that are still open and encourage the public, to continue to use our website to determine, where they need to go depending on the service that they're interested in. In terms of enrollment update, the enrollment process for the 2526 school year has begun in December, and we're steadily moving forward. Just some highlights. Families had until February 9 to submit their on time applications. On time offers were released last month on March 5,
and the deadline to submit those or to accept those offers was March 26. Second round late offers were released last week on April 2 with additional offers continuing every two weeks. Families submitted intent to return forms on March 19, confirming their plans for next year. I'd like to share just some enrollment trends and early wins. Through the first one hundred and ten days of the enrollment window, we've received 442 more applications than last year and a 75 more than the year before that. And so that's considering even the context of lower birth rates and smaller cohort sizes
in kinder, fifth, and eighth grade. And this early growth is a strong indication that our enrollment stabilization strategies are working and showing progress. We've also continued our creative and personal outreach, to make sure that we're engaging, and using student centered strategies to connect with our families. So all of our families accepting offers at focal schools, receive a school branded refrigerator magnet to celebrate their decision and build early connection to their new school community. And then our Grow With Us podcast recently featured a new episode spotlighting both Life
Academy and also OUSD's link learning approach, further amplifying our message of innovation and excellence across our schools. Together, these updates, reflect our collective efforts to create a district where our students are connected, where they're inspired, and where they're prepared, whether that's through hand on career exploration at Cypress Mandela and our many work based partnerships, championship level teamwork, or welcoming our families into our school through intentional outreach. So thank you for your continued partnership and dedication to our young people. That concludes tonight's report,
and I'll give it back to you, president Breaux Hart. Thank you. Thank you. We have ten minutes for public comment. Yes, madam president. We have three speakers. That's Susada Olobala, Janelle Harris, and Ashley Handy. One minute each. Thank you for the report. I'm interested in knowing numbers. Like, I heard you say 400 and some odd numbers, but how are they are they junior high? Are they high school? Like, I would really be interested in that. And what are the efforts for for McClimans High School? Like,
if there's any updates on that, can you tell us, like, how can we help? I mean, if you're doing door to door, that would be something I'll be interested in. Calling phone tree, like, whatever. You know, you have people that are willing to help, but we need McClimans. We need it. It's a safe space for black children, and I can't reiterate that, especially in the world that we're living in today. We need our space. Thank you. It is my position that enrollment stabilization, stabilization extremely is extremely difficult when you are a school choice district
Because it always turns out that everybody wants to go to certain schools because those schools are being identified as the best the best schools to be at. So we have these schools that are not necessarily not good schools, but they are not identified through whatever process. So when we have our neighborhood schools, you're almost assured you're gonna have a balance of enrollment. So what you have now with your school choice method is 20 schools that have 300 or less students. And particularly in West Oakland,
Prescott has just over a hundred. West Oakland, just over a hundred. McClimans, I think two eighty, two 60. We fluctuate. And that's not gonna work. So we have 20 schools that are not stable, and you and it's only because of the method you have that's not a balanced way for everybody, to be able to be in those schools. And let me tell you something. These existing the lack of neighborhood schools, if we have an emergency and you got all these kids sprayed out all over the place and try to get them back home,
It's gonna be something else to deal with. Thank you. Are there any other public speakers? All names have been called, madam president. Alright. Thank you. Are there any board comments? So I just, want to, you know, appreciate district staff on the success of the, you know, enrollment season this year. I will just also say that specifically around the I I think that there is coming on April 23 a deeper report from the enrollment office that will have specific grade level and information,
and we can follow-up with the enrollment department to get the specific information about McClimans and what specifically is happening. I'll just say later in the agenda, there's an introduction of a resolution to continue the work of the enrollment stabilization. My kids, as I know I mentioned a lot, go to Prescott and WAMS. And so, like, we're we're we're over one fifty at Prescott. Almost at I know. And this is so and and this is why I put that's why I care about this legislation. And, and we're I think the last time, I think we're we're, like, over one we're,
like, almost at 200 at WAMS. So it's actually gotten quite a bit bigger. In fact, the sixth grade class is almost 80 students at WAMS. So I I think I'll just say that for me as a parent, and having received the yard signs, and having gotten the magnets, I think that's really helpful. I also think that there is some work that and maybe we can have a, like, a more specific report about McClimans because one of the things that's in the enrollment stabilization is helping schools with one is the enrollment team actually went to every single school
in the district. So they actually walked I don't know when they did it for for Mac, but they went to every single school to demystify to kind of, I think, break some of the stereotypes that we have heard get perpetuated in the enrollment office around what's a good school and maybe what's a bad school, and to help the enrollment team actually tell the story of the school a little bit better. And so I just think that this is one of those, in a in a city or not I mean, maybe not even a city, but just in a state where almost every single district is declining.
Our enrollment right now is, higher than it was, three years ago. And since this, enrollment stabilization started has actually evened off. We haven't been declining. So I just I think that combined with the increased ADA, this year means, I think, something like $30,000,000 more dollars to the district. So it means a lot. But I think, you know, we can get back to you about specifics on what's happening for Mac and and how you can help. Because I know that, parent engagement is a big piece of it. So appreciate you. I no. I and I I
I believe you. And so I'm like I'm saying, I'm I think we can get back to you with what specifics and yeah. Director Williams. Yeah. Thank you. I'm really glad that you brought up enrollment for the last four years. I've been talking with the superintendent about looking at this policy and really making some adjustments. I think I've talked to you too, Dexter, about that school choice, looking at the policy, showing asking actually what to review if it's actually working or not. That was my actual request to do a a review to see so we can
make modifications if necessary. That has not been a priority. So I'm really glad to see that, actually, there's more interest going. And two, I've been sitting with a board of individuals in the previous four years that actually didn't prioritize it. I think now we have a board that's actually willing and brave and courageous enough to take some action to actually look at these items. So I look forward to these conversations, moving forward. Yes. I have been asking about enrollment time and time again. Yes. Now we have a board that's gonna do something about it.
Thank you very much. Anybody can ask time and time again. How do you effectively bring about change? Anybody can ask over and over again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What I what I've done effectively what I've done? Oh, you don't wanna know? You you okay. I I I will try if you give me some time. I will invite you I will invite you to the next enrollment meeting. Yes. Director Berry, do you have any comments? I just wanted to celebrate the almost 450 number above last year. I think that's fantastic. Question is how do we close the deal?
I loved the parent engagement. And I've been texting people and connecting families with one another, so it made me think, is there a tech enabled version of that? Is there is someone organizing parents at existing schools to help them, you know, close the deal so that we can sort of get all of those students in our school district next year. Director, vice president, Bachelor? Oh, okay. Alright. Thank you. I also wanted to, shout out the CTE work. I know that they're having their open house coming up, and, it's really a pretty cool thing to see what our students are doing,
at the Mandela trades our Mandela training center. Just one last question. I'm so sorry. The the, chief of staff, Moore, are we gonna have an open house to invite community to the, headquarters to let folks know in the community that they're actually able to do a visit? Thank you. Yeah. I appreciate the question. I think you've shared it before. I think the response I provided you was, there's currently, as I think the student director shared, that they're going through the naming process. And then once the naming process has been complete,
we are looking forward to actually having a formal opening of the building. So at the conclusion of that, we'll certainly be sharing more details with the board and with the public. I'll also say that, throughout the construction of the site, the immediate, community has been, made aware of the, the progress to date, and certainly the opening, that staff started moving in, at the March. You're welcome. Alright. Next, we have the president's report. And I did have a statement on the Brown Act, but I think we all had that statement earlier today. I know we're going to close in honor of,
Trish Gorman, who was the Gore I'm sorry. Who was the former president of OEA, but I also wanna call out the the accomplishments that Trish made during her tenure in the union. I know for many of us, myself included, I came into OEA because of Trish in a lot of ways. We served together on the executive committee, and she really was a force in building the union that that teachers have today. She was definitely a strong trade unionist. I think people have talked about her, not only just her love of the OEA,
but her really love of the profession. And I think she also served as a mentor to many, elementary teachers, myself included as well. So, I just wanted to honor the, memory of Trish Gorham. Are there any other board reports? Thank you. So I am now, on the Community Policing Advisory Board. Thank you, director Williams, for shepherding me into that role. I was at my first meeting on April 2. It was a lively group in discussion, and they reminded me of the homework that you left behind.
So I will be communicate I've communicated with our facilities, department, to look into, Facilitron and how our neighborhood councils could use, our community spaces in order to have their meetings. Again, I think it goes hand in hand with the community safety work that we're trying to do as a district to make sure that our, neighborhood community organizations, can also use our spaces to have conversations that are needed. So we're gonna talk a little bit more about that at the next meeting. My screen went blank, of course. And then, I also just wanted to share that I had the privilege of,
speaking at the, hands off, rally on April 5. That happened. Those were thousands of rallies all over the country, really calling on the current administration to take their hands off of our public education dollars, our health care dollars, and, some of the other, impacts that are gonna be happening with, the legislation and their actions. And so I was, really proud to stand there. I will stand with educators, parents, and, community members, to talk about the the challenges around education funding, with the current administration. And one thing that was highlighted to me is that the cuts in Medicare are
also gonna be deeply impacting our school district, because of the Medicaid dollars that we get to support all of those, special education students that need kind of the extra supports. And so just really highlighting how all of those cuts are deeply impacting our communities. And lastly, I just wanna share once again that, we, through ACE, we have a housing day of action in Sacramento, which we have some OUSC students, staff, and families attending. I'm very excited to, again, support our students in continuing their advocacy, support those families and making sure that they are,
advocating for the things that are important to our community. And I'm really excited to have some staff also join us, so they can talk about their experiences, not only with their students, but their experiences with their colleagues, being able to, find quality affordable housing in the Bay Area. That's it. Thank you. Yeah. I just wanted to say that this afternoon, I had an opportunity to be in Sacramento to speak on a panel that was promoting the alignment of college savings accounts, Cal Kids programs, which is another, you know, early savings account,
and other programs available to our students and families. And it reminded me, especially because there's these threats to the money that we do have, that there is sort of, like, all of these underutilized programs and services available to families. And I wanna encourage us somehow to find a way to balance what's most urgently in front of us and some of these other things so that our families don't miss out. Right? My son is 18, and we you know, six months into his life, we got a little letter in the mail saying that he had $500 available to
him in his college savings account. Not my money, but the state's money. All of our families should know that they have that. And, I feel like we we can do a better job of balancing, our priorities in that regard. Thank you. Director Williams? Thank you. I just really wanna focus on Westlake Middle School. They have a food pantry that's gonna be jumping off tomorrow, April 10. I think that, they've really been doing a lot of work with families and communities over in the area, giving away bags of food. So, if you're over in the neighborhood, please come on out to Westlake Food Pantry around 02:00.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Director Lotta? I just wanna, take a moment to one, just and it it came out in, on Parent Square and in the news, but, Peralta Elementary is a district one school that just received the California distinguished school award. So I just wanna, shout them out for that, work. I also, wanted to make sure that if you are a student at Oakland Tech or also, you know, anywhere in the district that, there's been information shared about affinity graduations, so and and locations for AAPI grad, black grad, and, Latino, Latinx student grad.
So that's available on Instagram. I think the other thing I'll just share is that the, task force on, control over outsourcing did meet, right before spring break started and had, all of the different, constituencies represented. I just wanna appreciate, director Vasquez and Lina Nguyen from Skyline who were both in attendance and, we'll have, a work plan rep coming to the board. And then I I guess I wasn't really planning on saying anything, but I just think that since there's been a lot of conversation around,
in the media about, what's happening with the superintendent, I just wanna state publicly that for me, I have a value around, having as much transparency as possible. And I just would, let the public know that I remember the process that, was a community led process that, resulted in the community being engaged with, and sort of feeling celebratory about picking, superintendent Johnson Trammell. And I, you know, I am looking forward to, having more
community engagement when it is, appropriate. Thank you. Alright. And with that, the meeting is what? Oh, is there new? I didn't have that on my thing. There's two. Oh my goodness. Sorry about that. I'm getting this out of here fast. I hope I printed them out. Well, that's fine. I have to print them out. Sorry about that. I thought we're gonna get out earlier. Alright. We have two items that are being introduced. We have w one, which is Aspire Triumph Technology Academy Charter School, grades t k five, a petition and request for charter material material revision and a change of facility location.
And since these are just first reads right. No public comment. And number and w two, which is the need to continue funding the enrollment stabilization plan, resolution number 2425Dash0022, board of education. And this is also a first read. So we will discuss those. Technically, madam president, it is it is an introduction, not a first read. Yes. Thank you, mister Raikstra. K. And with that, we're adjourned.