Hard. There you go. This is the first so we plant the tree has been planted for years. This is the first year. I'd like to welcome everyone to the special meeting of the Board of Education. Okay. Okay. Tonight's agenda, the special what? Oh, sorry. Roll call to establish the corp. Alright. On the roll call to establish the corp, student director Simmons, student director Smith, director Latta? Present. Director Williams? Present, sir. Director Hutchinson? K. Director Berry? Director Thompson? Vice President Bachelor? Here.
President Brothard? Here. Quorum present. And, mister Hollis, can we have an interpretation check, please? Yes, madam president. For tonight's meeting, we have three languages available for live interpretation. They are Cantonese, Arabic, and Spanish. I will start the announcements with Cantonese. I will lower all attendees' hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Cantonese. And I will ask miss Ho if she could come up on mute and give the interpretation announcement for Cantonese. The Cantonese announcement is there, mister Hollis. Thank you, miss Ho.
Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for air Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not have Cantonese interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Arabic, I will lower all attendees' hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hands if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Arabic. And I will ask miss Abdi if she can come up from mute and get the interpretation announcement for Arabic. Arabic announcement is there. Thank you, miss Abdi. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Arabic interpretation at this time.
Moving forward to Spanish, I will lower all attendees' hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Spanish, and And I'll ask mister Copenhagen if you can come off mute and get the interpretation announcement for Spanish. Sure. Thank you, mister Hollis. Thank you, mister Copenhagen. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at this time. That concludes, announcements for interpretation. I'll pass it back to you, madam president. Thank you. Tonight in closed session, we will discuss the following items.
Under labor matters, item d one, twenty five-eighteen 64, Conference with Labor Negotiators. Under Existing Litigation, we will discuss item 20 five-six 13, Conference with Legal Counsel, Existing Litigation 20 five-two 710, Conference with Legal Counsel, Existing Litigation. Under Pupil Matters, we will discuss item D2 20 six-two 97, expulsion of student D3 20 six-three 64, expulsion of student NN,
D4 20 six-three 97, expulsion of student zero, item D5, 20 six-zero three nine eight, expulsion of student PP, D626-zero three nine nine, expulsion of student QQ. We will reconvene to for public session to report out on, closed session matters. And right now, we have, public comment on closed session items. Do we have any public speakers? Yes. President Brewhart, we have Asavo Lobala. Two minutes. So on Tuesday at city council meeting, you have reached a settlement with the city of Oakland to pay $860,000
as part of your responsibility for payment of the election of twenty twenty two, and you agree to pay all costs related to any elections that you will proceed to pursue in the future. It's amazing how the difference between how the city of Oakland, is transparent about their lawsuits, and you often know in writing or when you come from out of closed session, you don't give any information, but the city does. You have an arrangement that that looks like you came to an agreement with the
union. I am very disappointed what I'm reading. 11 to 13% pay raise with agreement to give special raises not raises, but, fees of increasing to, early learning educators, special education educators, counselors, and some other groups. You also agree, to reduce counseling, caseloads. You also agree to have a commitment to work with the, legal organizations that work without immigrants. Here we go again.
You have proceeded to allow the union to put you in a bind. Where is the money coming from? When you come back and make this agreement, where is the money coming from? The money can only come from one source, and that's to reduce and lay off people. You have no money. I don't know how you got to this place of agreeing to give pay raises of this value, how you agree to give special, incentive pay to certain groups, how you agree to reduce counts. You don't have the money, and you don't wanna close schools.
What are you going to do is the question. Thank you. Are there any other public comments? No, President. I can call public speakers. Okay. And with that, we will go into closed session. Welcome back to open session for the Oakland School Board Friday, February 27 special meeting. Mr. Raikstra, can we have a roll call to establish quorum, please? Yes, ma'am. On the roll call to establish quorum, student directors are absent. Director Latta? Present. Director Williams? Present. Director Hutchinson? Director Berry? Present. Okay. Director Thompson,
vice president, bachelor? Not in the room. President Burghard? Present. Quorum present. And Mr. Hollis, can we have an interpretation check, please? No. Okay. Just checking. Okay. I'm going to be herding back at what will be items we discussed in closed session on, adoption of the people discipline oh, we need to vote on that actually. Sorry. On existing litigation, we discussed these matters and gave direction on item 20 five-six 13, CW versus Oakland Unified District. On item 20 five-twenty seven, the board discussed this matter.
Before we do the Pupil Matters vote, Doctor. Sadler, did you want to okay. Do I have a motion to approve the Pupil matters? Motion. Second. Mr. Raichstra, can we have a roll call vote, please? Oh, I'm sorry. Is there any public comment on that? For the record, we have Salo Badu, registered for, I mean, registered to speak, but she is not present. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Raikstra, can we have a roll call vote, please? On the roll call to adopt the pupil discipline consent report, student directors are absent. Director Latta? Present. Director Yes. No. Is this a is this a yes or no?
Or do you adopt? I'm so sorry. Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Alright. Director Hutchinson? Director Barry? Yes. Okay. Director Thompson is absent. Vice president Bachelor? Yes. President Burkhart? Yes. Pupil discipline consent report is adopted. I forgot there was one other item to report out, and that is labor matters. Item D-one 120 five-eighteen 64, conference with labor negotiators, the board discussed this matter. And, Superintendent Sadler, I believe you wanted to. Thank you, President Brohard. I just wanted to say, first of all,
I am pleased that we averted a strike, which was our primary objective in setting the negotiating terms. And I want to thank, all of our staff, the team that worked on this, that we made this settlement at three this morning. And I really wanted to just put on the record that I know that strikes are really costly, not only in dollars but in loss of confidence. And dis and there really are a disruption to student learning and have an impact on family trust. We step back from all of that. That matters.
And it's the first time, in my experience, that we have been able to avert a strike without I mean, to to settle an I'm so tired. To settle, without having a strike is what I want to say. That's a big deal. And I want Board members, whether you agreed or supported or however you voted, it really is significant that we've taken this step. I want you to know that I am excited about working through this, figuring out our next steps.
I've been thinking a lot. I have a long list of things that I really want to implement on behalf of our students and families. And I want to thank all of you for being conscious, board members, giving your opinion and your thoughts, being as dedicated as I am to the goal, and that's to serve students and families. That's my major goal. And we need to have different opinions. We need to do our best work and you do that by giving your thoughts. But one of the things that I think is important is we leave this room. We do this together.
We have done a great service to our community. I have received calls from our mayor. I have spoken to our county superintendent. I've talked to a lot of people. But most of all, I have people parents who've contacted me. That means a lot. And that's just inspired me to even work harder to do even a better job at making this district the best district it can be for all children. So I just want to thank all of you, and particularly, I've I've spent a lot of time with president Bruhlhardt and just having the courage
to step out there and say what you think, ask for what you need, and being thoughtful about it. Even this evening, when we were discussing this, director Berry, Berry, all of the questions, all of the comments are really critical to our work together. So I want us to leave this meeting knowing that this is a special moment for all of us. The work is just beginning and I'm I'm ready to move forward with you and with the community. And that's everything from lobbying the state, lobbying the federal government. Can't wait to do that,
because I think that's really more where we need to. We have our own work to do in our own backyard, but there's bigger work that I wanna support that needs to be done nationally and statewide. So I just wanted to as we walk out of here, we're all tired, but good work. We've done good work together. And even with the ups and downs, the questions, the disappointments, again, I keep saying this, I see the students and families. And so I just wanna thank everybody. I thank you for your courage to speak out on what you think should happen. Let's continue to work together and get it done.
So thank you. Thank you. And on those words, we will adjourn.