Welcome. Welcome to the August 13, first one of the full year. Mister, we have the. Another roll call. Student director, Student director, Smith. Director Latta? Present. Directed. Here. President Bohun. Here. Warm, President. Thank you. And Judge, will we have an interpreter today? Yes. Moving on to interpretive announcement. We'll start with Arabic. We'll lower all tenuous hands. Please only raise your hand if you need Arabic interpretation. Tarek, we can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Arabic, please.
Great. Thank you, mister Turek. Changing attendees, if any hands are raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hand raised, we will now start with Arabic interpretation. Next, we'll go to Cantonese. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Cantonese interpretation. Mister Yuan, if you can come off mute and make an to return an announcement for Cantonese, please. Seeing no hands raised, we will now start with Cantonese interpretation. Next, we'll go to Spanish. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Spanish interpretation. Miss Walker Marquez, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Spanish,
please. Spanish interpretation announcement is done. Great. Thank you, miss Walker Marquez. Same attendees, if you need hands raised for Spanish interpretation. There you have no hands raised. We will not start with any interpretation, but we will check again later during the meeting. I turn it to you, mister Richter. Madam president, let's note that the record is correct. It's William and Thompson, present at approximately 04:07. Tonight in closed session, we will discuss item b one twenty five dash b four, conference with over negotiators. Legal matters, two twenty five dash seventeen fifty one,
conference with legal counsel, item b three, twenty five-nineteen 77, conference with legal counsel and physical litigation. Under public employment, we will discuss item B4, 20 four-nineteen 67, public employment, We will reconvene at 05:30. Is there any public comment on the, closed session items? There are no public comments or closed session items, madam. Thank you. We will now reconvene. I mean, I'm sorry. We will convene back in closed session, and we'll reconvene at 05:30. I'd like to welcome everyone to the first school board meeting of the new school year,
August 13. Mr. Raikstra, can we have a roll call to establish quorum, please? Yes, madam president. On the roll call to establish quorum, Student director Simmons? Present. Student director Smith? Here. Director Latta? Present. Director William? Present, sir. Director Hutchinson? Director Berry? Present. Director Thompson? Present. Vice president, bachelor? And Here. Alright. President Brohard. Here. Warren, present. Thank you. And, mister Sajak, can we have an interpretation check, please? Yes, president Brewer. Moving to interpretation announcement.
For tonight's meeting, we have three languages for live interpretation. They are Arabic, Spanish, and Cantonese. For in person, we have lab laptops in the back of the room for Zoom interpretation. There's also closed caption feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption icon on your Zoom taskbar. We'll start with Arabic. I'll I'll lower all attendees' hands. Please only raise your hand if you need Arabic interpretation. Tarek, if you can unmute yourself and make the total attention announcement for Arabic,
please. Seeing no hands raised, we will not start every interpretation. We will next go to Cantonese. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Cantonese interpretation. And if any public attendee need a interpretation laptop, please see tech support in the back of the room. Mister Yuan, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Cantonese, please. Check attendees. This evening, hands are raised for Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands raised, we'll now start with Cantonese interpretation. Next, we'll go to Spanish. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Spanish interpretation,
interpretation. And if any public attendee need interpretation, let's have a c tech support in the back of the room. Mister Copenhagen, if you can come up mute and make the interpretation announcement for Spanish, please. Thank you. Thank you, mister Seija. Great. Thank you, mister mister Copenhagen, checking attendees, seeing no hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands raised in person or Zoom, we will not start with any, language interpretation. And that concludes the interpretation announcement. And I turn to you, mister Rick Strong. Madam President, we have successfully concluded, making availability an announcement about the availability of the representation of the 2019.
Thank you, Mr. Roeser. And I appreciate that. Before we start, I'd really like to welcome everyone to our first, school board meeting of the year, school year. Welcome to our new teachers, welcome to our returning teachers, our new students, and our returning students. I'd like to also welcome new school board members, and I know that, our new director will introduce herself or not. But again, I'm looking forward to a great year. I think we've been visiting some school sites. We've all been to them, and it was exciting to see all the kids on their first day of school. We have a lot of work ahead of us this year,
and, we're all prepared to do that. So, again, welcome to those new school years. I wanna remind everybody that there are speakers' cards. There are public, comments, but at each I don't know if I'll I'll meet up when those are available, but there are public speaker cards on the table to our our, my left. And there are, again, online. I hope you've had a chance to make their own comments online as well. So tonight, it was I mean, tonight's closed session, so on Item B1, number 20 five-eighteen 64, conference of labor negotiations, The Board gave direction on this matter.
Motion by Director Latta, seconded by President Crowell. On legal matters, item B2 20 five-seventeen 51, Conference with Legal Counsel, Existing Litigation. The Board approved the settlement in this matter, motion by Director Latta and seconded by Director Thompson. There were six votes in favor: Williams, Barry, Thompson, Vice President, Bachelor and myself. Director Hutchinson will happen. On item B3, number 20 five-nineteen 77, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation.
The Board approved the settlement in this matter. Motion by Director Latta, seconded by Director Thompson. Voting in favor, Directors Latta, Williams, Barry, Thompson, Vice President Bachelor, and myself, Director Hutchinson will pass it. On the public employment matter on item B4, number 20 four-nineteen 67, Superintendent of Schools, the Board gave direction in this matter. Motion by President Brothard, seconded by Director Thompson. Yes. Directors Latta, Williams, Berry, Thompson, Vice President Bachelor, and myself. No vice president I'm sorry,
no, We will now move to, any modifications to the agenda. Yes. From the, general consent report, I'd like to pull l one nineteen. And from the facilities consent report, I'd like to pull and I can, there's gonna be three groupings of them. I can do that when we come to them. But I'd like to pull m one, m three, m five, m 16, m 17, and m 18. So that would be M1? M1, M3, M5, M16, M18. And L is 117 I'm sorry, 119.
119 for L. 19. Madam president, the staff has asked to withdraw, two items, for tonight's consent agenda. The first item is l dot dash one one four Twenty five eighteen fifty one. This is a no cost services agreement and data sharing agreement. This is cool. I don't know by the users that is that's wrong. And then l DotDash117, which is 251963, is the award of the RFDS services agreement for the new security.
One or more of these items will appear on future jobs. Thank you. Sure. Under l, consent items, l one one seven, l one one four, and l one one nine. Under m for consent items facility, m 1, m 3, m 5, m 16, m 17, and m 18. Directors William. Madam president, elected for l 20 3. So I'll read off l again. L 23, l 114, l 117, and L119.
There's been a request to change the order of some of these items. So I would like to move the student report to following the pupil discipline, the PSAC verbal report following the student report. So that's n for student report, o for PSAC. And then the t, superintendent's report following PSAC. And we'll go with l, consent items general, m, consent items facility, and j, public comments on non agenda items. The rest of the agenda will fall in order.
E, labor partners, r, unfinished business, s, new business. U, the president's report. V, board report. And w, new legislation. So on item k, pupil discipline reports, we did not have any, people discipline issues in, addressing the court session. So with that, we'll move to the student, report. Good evening. Good evening, students, parents, community, district staff, and leadership board members. We wanna give a special warm welcome to our new interim superintendent, Niece Sadler. Before I would like to thank you.
Before I would like to officially get started, I wanna introduce myself formally. My name is Mariana Smith, and I'm a senior at Oakland Tech. Last year, I noticed that there was lots of discourse amongst the board and how people were affected by the decisions that you all made. So this year, it is my goal to amplify student voices from all parts of Oakland. We deserve an equal opportunity for our voices to be heard, for our concerns to be met, and for us to be able to pursue our learning experience uninterrupted. So with that, let's have a great year. Good evening, everybody.
My name is Maximus Simmons. I am coming back from my second term now of being on the board. I am now a senior at Oakland High School. With being on the board, I am also a part of Mary Lee's transition team and the chair of her youth advisory council. And I'm gonna be sharing some information later. That's why I said that. Now during our first board report back from summer break, we will go over a summary of our summer events and updates, student leading student leadership events, and our all city council student union.
So starting with our summer updates, All City Council Student Union has welcomed three new members onto our ACC team. We have Iman, who is a senior at Net West High School, and she will be our culture and climate director. We have Louis Allen. He's our ACC historian, and he is also a twelfth grader at Oakland Tech. And last but not least, we have our secretary, Nala Rashid, and she is an eleventh grader at Skyline High School. Now, during this summer, I had an opportunity to have a one on one check-in with our very own
director, Laura. She had so much insight about the board's inner workings, some personal contacts that would be helpful to our youth work at ACC, and she expressed her full support behind us in the school year to come. Now on June 29, me and Max both attended the Principal's Leadership Institute where we gave clear goals, guidance, and words of encouragement to our staff members to set off the new year. So okay. Okay. Sorry. The slides were in mixed up order. So with upcoming events so now we're gonna go on to some upcoming events.
ACC will be hosting its annual overnight fall retreat that is open to all OUSD high schoolers. During this retreat, we kinda go over priorities, what ACC priority should be for the year, what we should focus on, what do high school students feel like we should kinda prioritize this year to give back to our students. Every meeting, we give space to our student delegates to connect with people from different schools. At the retreat, they will be able to share their personal OUSD experiences, discuss key solutions to issues that come at their site at their site,
and build long lasting connections. If you have a student, I really think you should have them sign up and come to this event. It's a really nice event. We have good food sometimes. It's it's good food. But the community that we build and the leaders that we kind of form at these retreats I was kinda formed at this retreat. It's just a really good space to connect with people who are like minded as you. So if you have a student, please have them come out and have them be a part of it. And now Help With Teach Out Help With Teach Out is a youth led event
hosted by Mayor Lee's Youth Advisory Council, which I was talking about that I'm the chair of. We have one of our members in the in the audience, Luan. But during this, we kind of aim to build not kind of. We aim to build a tangible relationship between the district and the city of Oakland. If you were present at our last board meeting, I I mentioned how I am a bridge between the mayor's office and the Board of Education. So I wanna be able to build that relationship between the district, and that's what this event is doing. It's hosted by the city of Oakland,
and it's cosponsored by OUSD. The supplies is community funded. So please, you can scan the QR code to donate some teacher supplies. Right here, you could share out the flyer, outreach the flyer. It's all community funded. It's some of it is coming from cosponsors. But and if you have any teachers, tell them to look at their emails. RSVP form is gonna be coming out. So yeah. That that helped the teacher out. And that's it. Thank you. I didn't think that was Sorry.
I was just in QR code, and I figured it out. Are there any, public comments? Yes, madam president. We have two speakers for public comment. How much time would you like to allot for public comment? Two minutes. Two minutes? Those two speakers are Asada Ocampala and Janelle Harris. Thank you, and welcome back, everybody. Thank you, young board members. I appreciate you, and welcome. Welcome back, young man. It was always a pleasure to listen to your reports, and I see that you are doing great things. Hope to see you in leadership in the future.
I just wanted to say welcome back. Oh, welcome particularly to new representative. I hope your voice will be strong and consistent. I want to let y'all know every time I was at city hall, I saw this young man. He wasn't just there. He was actively participating at city hall. And I wanna encourage you to stay on board on issues that will impact the, the students at your in your schools. One of those things that's gonna be mandated by the state next, school year is having to do with the cell phones and how we have to
create a policy. Get involved in that policy, as far as how you would like to see it and, make the demand that you be inclusive of how that policy is developed. And I can't think of anything else, but there are many opportunities where decisions are gonna be made that impact students and parents. And and encourage parents to be more involved. Your parents and when you have these meetings, have them be involved too because this is not any one person group dynamic. It's an inclusive dynamic,
and we need to have parents. And if you can think of ways to have parent involvement, develop, at a higher, participation rate in this district, I encourage that too. I also want you to look at the, student achievement plans. And I'm not satisfied with those plans. And I hope that the students will have an opportunity. And many of those plans, had a scope of how they were presented, who they were presented to. And I didn't find one plan where the students got to see the plan. I see the parents got to see it. I see the teachers got to see it.
I see the administrators got to see it. But y'all didn't see it. Okay? So make sure you include it in everything. Look at those plans. Yeah. I I'll I'll keep it short. I just wanna appreciate, for your work. Director Smith, it was great to get to know you, and I appreciate you taking the time to get in as well. I'm looking forward to working with you more. And director Simmons, thank you for all of your advocacy on behalf of the district, Pacific East, and, also, you have a great year and and hope, to, have lots of teachers come out and have lots of surprises here. Sure. I just wanted to say welcome,
and happy new school year. I'm excited to work with both of you again. I think in the public comment, that was something that I wanted to share to you. I just wanted you all to know that I am so excited to work with you on real policy that helps keep the district focused on you all, focused on improving outcomes for you all, and focused on, some of the things that's going to make sure that we're not just keeping up for getting getting better. So line is open, but I'm excited to
move. Yeah. I just wanted to, also say that. So many of the things that I my colleagues have also mentioned, but I just, also wanna appreciate the initiative of already having an event coming up that we could sign up for, that we can volunteer for, we can donate for, and just keep us posted on how how those events are coming throughout the year. I also really appreciate all the student engagement you all do for letting us know ahead of time, as to when we're when you all are engaging with school sites and so that we can make sure that we're including those in our calendar. Because I was, unfortunately, not able to make it last year, but I want that to be a regular practice for myself and for colleagues as
well. And I know missus Sotto brought up something that, you know, a lot of members of our community are worried about, and I also wanna bring up an issue, that I've been hearing a lot about. And so that is the integration enforcement that we're unfortunately seeing in Los Angeles and throughout the country. And I wanna remind folks that here in Allen County, we have a rapid response hotline, and that phone number is (510) 241-4011. And they're open Monday through Friday, 6AM to 6PM. It is extremely important that everyone has that number saved,
that folks know what to do when they see iSEC will be happening in our community because we have seen instances over the last couple weeks. And it is really, really crucial that everybody is, supporting each other and keeping our community safe. And so I'm gonna say this in Spanish as well. So again, those things are really important. I know that we have protocols within our school district to keep our students in that state, and school leaders have those protocols. So if families have any questions, they should be reaching out to their principals and their teachers, to have any of those answers.
But, again, I think this is unfortunately gonna be an issue that we're gonna be facing throughout the year, and so we need to make sure that we are keeping each other safe and having those information. To keep it short, I wanna echo the, what my other colleagues have said. I'm looking forward to a great year, and I'm looking forward to contributing to the help the feature out. So I really appreciate you doing it. I think your comments at the, Principles Institute, I think they're really both inclusive and also really weighing out from both teachers and and administrators what students need to achieve in this way.
So appreciate your work, and until 2627 or 2526 right now. We'll be in college. Alright. Welcome back. You know, I think when I see you, I'm, as a So what I'm really thinking in my mind, I know the folks in, Emeryville, folks in Berkeley, folks in San Leandro, folks in Hayward, have have we had opportunity for student directors to come together and see what's going on in the world there. You know? It's really a unique kind of position, and I would love to try to be part of that and connect you with
quotes so you can do that work and find out what's happening around the thing. So I would just keep me on that one. Second one, I really think when you talk about amplifying students, definitely wanna be a part of that and wanna talk to you more about, you know, an award for our young folks, you know, who are doing the work. We all go around all the schools and see the type of work they're doing. We definitely should be messing them up. Possibly, we can have an opportunity for them to come to the board meeting. We give them a certificate, you know, and just say thank you for that work. Keep it up. So I'd like to definitely work with you,
director Smith. And and lastly, stellar work. There there's a show called the Stellar Gospel Music Awards. If you don't know that, you need to check that out. And also, you know, we're all part of this organization called the California School Board Association, and what they do is they train directors on various different topics. They have a section for students who play with the student board training section. So I sent some information out last year just really trying to make sure y'all have an idea of what's happening. A lot of times when you're sitting here and you see a lot of different
movement happening, and it just it doesn't look right. Sometimes just having some background training to see what's going on is very helpful. So I definitely want you to, you know, tap in, and I'd love to support on that because I think one of the things I've learned is on my second year I got twenty two seconds left. One thing that I've learned on my second, term is that the previous term, we didn't have regular orientation or really board training for the director. It was really up to you on your own to get training,
but I just really feel like having some training gives you a perspective that often we don't get. And so I just wanna put that out there in the conversation. We'll make Deuces. Have a great year, and, you know, we'll we'll connect soon. We found Thank you, thank you for the student report. And next up is. Do you believe I have a verbal report Good evening. Thank you. Welcome, everyone, to a new school year and a special, hello to the student board members. My name is Michelle Lance Hocher, and I am the proud parent of a tenth grader at Oakland High School,
and I will be speaking tonight on behalf of the parent student advisory committee. A brief report tonight as our first meeting of the school year with all members will be held on Wednesday, August 20 at 05:30PM. There is a link to our meeting on o u s d dot o r g forward slash calendar. In your packet, you'll also see a flyer that lists all the meetings that we have scheduled for this month of August. The agenda items for next Wednesday's meeting,
district advisory committees will discuss the monthly routines of meetings and activities. We will also be going over committee updates. PSAC, we will be sharing who we are, our recommendations, goals, and our process for this 2526 school year. Also, connecting with the role of the school board liaison to PSAC. We'll begin introducing the PSAC elections. Our members are elected by electoral district and also reigniting our connection to the various
school committees, how to stay informed and engage with us. The key documents you'll find in your packet tonight, the fall and spring calendar of all our committee meetings, a monthly routine of what those meetings and activities will look like. We also share the superintendent responses to our June 2025 recommendation for the local control and accountability plan. There is also an introduction to the various advisory committee of OUSD.
Please use the QR code and the URL link to connect you with the folder that contains the key documents for each of our advisory committees. The folder can also be found at 0use.0rg/lcap lcat. We are holding a goal setting meeting this Saturday, August 16, from 9AM to 3PM to set our goals for this school year. Elections for parent members of the parent and student advisory committee will be held on
Wednesday, September 17. Parent members of school site councils and site English language learner subcommittees are the ones who can elect representatives or peace rep. And for that reason, school committees must be fully established by that date, September 17. Please help us make sure that schools prioritize the establishment of these school committees and that they send parent representatives to the elections. Thank you. Hello, board.
I'm JD Woloshen. I am one of the co chairs of the, CAC, the, community advisory committee for special education. And, this year, we invite you to our first meeting of the school year, which is next Monday, Monday, August eighteenth at 6PM. And there is a Zoom link, at the OUSD calendar. And our meetings are open to all in the district, staff, parents, students. It's a place to, learn, ask questions, and even influence our work,
that we do in the district. And our first for our the agenda for our first meeting, we are going to have special education updates and highlights, which include common start of the year questions and answers, how we are doing with staffing, which there are things to celebrate, our key investments in teaching and learning and celebrating student literacy outcomes and the work ahead. And we'll also have some CAs and member updates, like who we are and what we do, what our goals are for the upcoming school year, and how to communicate and collaborate with us.
We will also be having some listening sessions by grade level and special education program. So that's a place where, parents, staff come ask questions and share their experiences. So, we are also taking part in the Saturday meeting, goal setting meeting, this Saturday. And so these might change slightly in three days. But for now, our, areas of focus are as follows: school stability for disabled students, there's a policy we want to call it a guarantee that all students with IEPs
can attend their school for their entire grade span, like continuing, general education students do. More than 5% decrease in the suspension of disabled black students in middle school. These suspensions have only decreased by that much since 2020. Full access to social, emotional, and academic supports for disabled students, and our current areas of focus in that matter is after school, visual, performing arts, athletics, and work based learning. Equitable access to measure age funding and work and career based learning for students in their young adult program, and follow-up on the CAC legislative priorities adopted by the board in 2023.
And these focus on charter schools being accountable for serving all disabled students and on increased funding for supporting disabled students. Sufficient special education staffing for disabled students with IEPs, and this work is being undertaken in partnership with the talent division. We would like to offer our full report to the school board about progress in each of these initiatives and to the informal dialogue with all of you about how to better promote them. And we also engage in a comprehensive review of the LCAP and the local plan for special education.
My part of the brief is just to introduce myself since there are some new faces or, you know, people might be hearing that don't know. My name is Cynthia Molina, and I have the honor of supporting the work of four district advisory committees, the parent and student advisory committee, the community advisory committee for special education, the district English language learners committee, and the foster youth advisory committee. And that, connects to the overall engagement in our district's plan, which we call our local control and accountability plan. So those documents, those routines,
those structures, if you have questions or want to help, please contact me. Thank you. Board comments. Yes. Thank you as always for your report. One question I had was about the formation of the school committee that you asked for our support. Please let me know how to do that. Is that an email to the principal, a flyer on a website, or something like that, and I'm happy to support there. And then this full report to the board about the progress, I think, is an enormous gift to us. So I wanna thank you in advance for that.
I will be taking advantage of that. But if there are things that you can do that you would like to see so that you know we're reading instead of responding to that, I'd also like to come along. Yeah. I just, wanna appreciate, Michelle and JD for coming out and Cynthia for your work. I know that, this has been, you know, as your volunteers, and so I just appreciate you continuing to work on behalf of, your students and all of our students. And, you know, seeing the list of you know, as the CAC liaison, I think I feel a personal responsibility, as the board member and also as a person,
committed to disabled, students to carry forward, and be in partnership with your priorities. So, I mean, I'll be at the meeting on Monday, and, also, I think, you know, we'll invite other community members who are interested to contact to come to CAC and to contact JD, Cynthia, and also myself, if you're interested in advocating for, any of the priority listings. Right? Thank you very much, Odie and Michelle. I I really feel like my role is to help you get these continued priorities and recommendations implemented to the fullest.
So I'd like to continue to support you. I know I'm in and out, but I'm very committed to actually moving this work. I've been committed from day one. So I will continue to work closely, with the superintendent. I think we have a very good opportunity to build relationships more inclusive and really have some real conversations, and make sure CSAC comes to the table in these conversations. So I will definitely put that out there as something that, I'll be aiming for. So I want you to know that you do have advocacy in me, and I will continue to support you all the way through.
Thank you very much. Director. I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming out and supporting us. We definitely need more people like you in our community. I would love to take this information back to our all student council student union and talk about how we can be more inclusive to students be more inclusive to students with IEP. So thank you. I just wanna say thank you. I did have a question. I was looking at the SPSA and noticed that a lot of them, show both sales and they combine the committees together, and I know that's been a struggle.
So I I know as we start a new year kind of, going off with director Berry was saying, if we could have a list of where those schools the schools that have SELT and the schools that don't. So, and, again, maybe for a future thing, that was a little concerning to me that they were all kind of once together now. Anyway. That's the priority of the EO committee, which hasn't met yet. The thing to know is that school site councils there's this option, and I'm gonna do the air quote thing. There's an option for school site councils to take on the responsibilities of the English
learner committee, but that is not an option that the principal takes. That is not an option that the school site council members who are not English learner parents take. You have to convene the parents of English learners, and they have to vote if that's indeed what they want. So and if you're convening your school site council in September and not dealing with EO committee until October, that is not happening. So, so just noting that you have to convene and they, the English learner families,
and they that's their choice. Thank you for that clarification. If there are no further comments, we will move on to the superintendent's report. Good evening, everyone. I am pleased and honored to have my first, school board meeting, and I, first of all, wanna acknowledge our student directors. They have been phenomenal. I am so impressed. So it's it's very exciting to see here next to you. I also want to acknowledge, their, adult ally. That's Adriana Villegas for her support. I had a chance to to walk into the meeting that they had.
I think it was last week, where they were working diligently planning for the school. We just had a parent report, a student report. This is what it's all about, Our relationship with students and families. This is what we do. And I love the fact that we started out our meeting with the kids. So this evening, what I'd like to do is to go over some of our work, since the summer and just highlight, our work so far. Many of those highlights began with, our summer activities where we had two Oakland Unified students who were national champions,
Robert Whitlock and Rucker Johnson, who was the rising. And I actually know Rutherford Johnson who was an elementary student when I was principal at Montclair. So it's really great to see him progress at this level. So it's really exciting. So it's really exciting. Those are wins when students have goals and they're able to develop themselves and progress. This is this is the work. This is supporting, their goals and their whole thinking. So I wanna always highlight, Randy, as well as the work that we're doing together. We also had a phenomenal Oakland Fire Arts Summer Student program,
which I was able to go, to the first session. It means a lot to me because I personally put those two programs together. There used to be an arts program at the beginning and an arts program in Oakland Unified School District. And when I worked at the city for mayor Ellie Harris, I actually put those those programs together. And that's that's the history of Oakland Fine Arts Summer School. And to actually participate in that program and to see to see, see it happening and see the diversity of students who were engaged and excited and
and learning and and who who share and joy is something that we haven't seen or participated, but there is also a front of the book. I suggest everybody do so. So I just wanted to talk about some of those highlights. We had over 7,000, almost 8,000 meetings in the state of Oklahoma, There were almost 200 field trips. We are still beginning to even process the data around the attendance and and, the feedback from all of that participation. But it's really exciting because this summer is also a part of our learning.
It was an opportunity for our outdoor classrooms as well as indoor classrooms. And, also, we wanna look at how that impacts and informs our ongoing work. So that's something that I'm gonna be looking at very closely, and I certainly wanna rely on our students to give their feedback in terms of those outcomes. Also, I'd like to, acknowledge all of our staff who work double time, work the school year, and then work the summer, and then plan prior to the summer, and then open school, but there's just so much involved.
But that's what it's about. Early childhood to rural adult continuing that cycle of learning. Again, same thing. Similar things happen to us at every level. Middle school, early childhood, high school, and adults, continuing that cycle of learning. I also wanted to, emphasize that we had many opportunities where students can learn through internship. Our own master was an basically an intern, leader, what I call servant leader, working in the community, working with the mayor's transition team, but calling to with the,
you know, venturing who you would. And that's something that's so important. One of my goals in supporting our all city council is to make that connection with the city's Houston because they can pull together with all residents of of Oakland, and we have many opportunities to to learn and listen to them. I know all of you, the community out there listening, our audience, and our board members today are super impressed. These are our dreams. They are awesome. And there are many, many more like us.
So that's the thing that I love, and that's the thing that I want, you know, my role as superintendent. My most exciting day was Monday, the first day of school. I love talking about it. I've visited along with, city council members, board members, community members. It was a moment. President Blueheart and I, we started out as, United Nations early childhood, and we had what I call we call them the little, three year old. We have three and four year old in our early childhood centers. And we had
we had a three year old so excited about that first day of school. You know, school hadn't started. It wasn't quite 08:00. But she was pulling on the door to get in there. We both observed that. That was something I will never forget. It was one of the most exciting moments in my career, is to see that excitement and joy about learning. That's what we want to perpetuate throughout our goal, throughout multiple, throughout elementary, throughout high school and adult and beyond. And again, another exciting moment.
All the staff was dressed in Met West, black black and gold. They had gold pom poms. When the students arrived on the black carpet, they had music, they were cheering, they had breakfast, they were like, I thought I ran down that that path. It was so exciting and motivating. The joy of starting new, starting school, that's what that's what it's all about. And then we left there and went to Las Felicia. And we had a chance to go into the first grade class. Fourth grade. And 2% of it as well.
But, anyway, it learning learning was absolutely happening first day. Talking about routine, talking about timing, talking about, the protocol for learning. This is the work. And I wanna acknowledge all of our staff that has helped make that happen. Clean classrooms, the floor, the building, the painting, the roofing that was done, all of that, making sure things were in place, We had Linda Hans Foundation getting, book bags. So all of our students, every single student received a a book bag.
It was awesome. Just the energy, the acknowledgment, the excitement, the joy. The the school was under construction because they were adding to making improvements for the school, absolutely in the same place. It was so exciting because I've spent a lot of time, working being in all of the schools. I mean, I've had exposure to what the schools were and where they're going. The mural, music environment, so it just can be but most of all, the heart that I saw, exhibited by all of that. I made a point of going into not only just the classroom, but also seeing our clerical staff,
saying hello to them, acknowledging them. That was really important. Sometimes it just had to wait for me because I made that a priority to let everybody know that they are everybody's important in this process. I also wanna acknowledge that Martin Luther King, I made a point also of going into a special ed classroom. Because we have a special kinship around special ed, and I knew that I have to move through. So it might be overpowering for the students. But I wanted to make a point of saying our special ed classrooms are equally important as well as our regular graders.
And so that's something that I did at Martin Luther. Then from where there, we went to. We went to District 1, and we went to then we went to Montero Middle School. Oh my gosh. The director, assistant, was there. I had a chance to meet with students, which is really exciting for me. We talked about issues, and I was able to ask them some questions that I have. I you know, I'm very concerned about social media and how it's impacting outcomes, different kinds of issues that have come out personally.
And it was a great opportunity in a short amount of time for me to listen to their vision, their concern, and their thoughts. And I look forward to spending more time doing the same thing. So we have a different model. We did go into classrooms, but that was powerful to have an opportunity to listen to the speech. So that was very exciting to not be there. And then we left there. Down in the car. And then went over to Madison Park Academy Primary where, I met, director, doctor Thompson, was there. And, it was very exciting to also see,
just how beautiful the family is. We had a brand new playground, brand new garden. Steph and I used your Curry. I developed a whole new play area. There was a soccer area, a basketball area. You guys know I love basketball. So that was like, oh my god. We have all these different I can't wait to to play on this in these areas. We had a a new principal there who, had was not new to the district and worked as a system and worked in the community or worked their way up to be sensible. Again, we had another, carpet. We had a purple carpet for the students to come in and be acknowledged and
and the parents. Okay? Instead of the red carpet, we have all these different carpets. But it was awesome. There was intentionality about celebrating the mid year, celebrating outcomes, celebrating, the desire for she to be their best. And we saw our vice president back later. We saw our city council member at large, Brown, who, was there as well with us, and we had never had the foundation. It was just incredible. The staff, we were there in the afternoon when the staff was meeting, and they all had the shirts on.
In fact, what's model then? It's a pretty cool shirt. But, again, you look how it was focused business. But, we were at Freeman High School. And most of you who know me know that I've been around a long time. To get on that site and see how it looks now It was magical. And that's what I want for all of our schools, and we are getting it. And I wanna thank our facilities staff. I wanna thank everybody, the vision, the work that people have put in to raising money and funds to provide these opportunities for us to we had a chance to see,
different moment. So that's, you know, just phenomenal. But most of all, I engaged with speech. I saw the joy. I saw the excitement. I saw, their desire industry, all staff, and make it happen. I want to see everybody. I care so much. Born and raised in Oakland. My whole career has been here, and it's about doing and the work being present in the community and making a difference. Tonight, there's so much I could talk about. But most of all, I wanted to say laser focus on that relationship between people and community and everybody
who's working to make that happen. And I'm telling you, we've got the best staff ever in doing that work, making that commitment, doubling that to address needs, and also being open to the desire to get better at what we do. Listening to students, listening to parents, listening to staff, thinking about how can we get better to make a difference for everybody. And that's gonna require this community to work together. I'm gonna ask, our executive director of enrollment at the to talk about how critical it is
for us to have students. So if you I want you to hear specifically about our enrollment and where we are and how critical it is for our students to come to school every day and take advantage of what I was talking about, take advantage of the work of our teachers, take advantage of our goals that we have set for every single day. Career, could you share an update for us? For sure. Thank you, doctor Saba. And I'm on the green board. Just have a quick update that you see as part of your, as part of the superintendent's report.
I won't go line by line or give you every single number, but I think a headline, as we reach the very, very early stages of our enrollment, period or cycle at the start of the school year that things are good. And we are seeing some really, really early positive news on the enrollment front. We are currently exceeding projections in kind of all of our grade spans, elementary, middle, high school, and our self contained programs. We're exceeding those projections not only against kind of the projected enrollment,
but if you look at, what's in the superintendents report, we're also exceeding them against last year's total enrollment. Right? So if those trends were to continue, we wouldn't necessarily decline at the district, right, in our total enrollment. So, you know, lots of caveats, lots of asterisk. It's very, very early, in the enrollment cycle. Our schools, yesterday completed the first, of five official counts with the day two count. And so that's where they're reconciling what's in the student information system,
Aeries, against who's here. Right? Who said they were gonna be here and we didn't? And who is, has moved versus who's chronically absent? So students schools can really get on this process of verifying enrollment. And if students aren't there, they need to be inactivated so that we can make space off wait list because there are, in some case, in many, many cases, very significant wait list across many, many schools. Right? But these are these are pretty positive trends that we're seeing, in our enrollment, and we're seeing situations where some schools that are not used to saying we're full,
our full. Schools that are, that are are were expected to see full are, you know, meeting those those targets. And so this is, this is good. This is exciting. We had a very calm and orderly experience at at the Lakeview office that, continues to be a product of both some strategic work of continuous and ongoing outreach throughout the spring as well as the communities, and staff and all stakeholders' continual familiarity with our enrollment system so that it's it's become,
and as well as our work in listening to feedback of, like, fix that. Okay. Fix that. Okay. So that folks are having an easier time navigating it so that people aren't showing up, in the hundreds and hundreds to get a school on the first day. They're in school on the first day. Right? Which is what we want. We don't want people's, you know, first day to be at our office. We want it to be in the booth. And so that had been you know, we even, like, shut down some of our, you know, extra policies or, you know, kind of our arrangements today at, like, 09:00. We didn't need to do that because there wasn't a crowd.
Those people were. So, yeah, I'm happy to answer more questions, about that or, you know, of course, let the the superintendent, finish her report. But, again, caveats that that we've got we've got a long way to go. We wanna win, at the fourth quarter, not the first quarter, but there's some definite, positive early returns. Also, I don't think we should take these numbers and say that we're gonna wake up tomorrow and be a district of 55,000 students. But I think also sorry, that's Williams. But neither should we wake up tomorrow and feel like we're about to be a district with 20,000 students. Right? So there's some, there's there's some strong over the turns.
Again, a product of, families choosing open, choosing open teachers, choosing open schools, and the and the great work that's happening. Thank you very much, Dylan. I appreciate your report, and please let your staff know they have done a phenomenal job getting the word out, engaging families, meeting deadlines, working, tirelessly to make a difference to get everybody in school online. High. Thank you very much. And I just wanted to just continue, very briefly with, my work. I want everybody to know that I attended the New Teacher Institute and welcomed in
our brand new teachers to let them know how critical they are to, work. I wanted them to feel welcome and absolutely know that we are focused on success and that they were absolutely chosen to do this work. And the commitment, again, I talk about being a servant leader a lot. It is all about that relationship with our students. And I wanted them to know from me that I'm wanted them to be as committed as I am to the students and families that we serve. And I'm really excited about this because the teachers that have joined our staff.
The same thing with our leadership institute. I spent significant time talking with our leaders about their role, as cheerleaders around this work and around expectations and around their focus. And it's something that's very critical. They set the tone. They open the door. They make a major, major impact, in terms of the work. So at every juncture where we have staff, I did the same thing. I attended all of our administrative assist assistance meetings, and attendance workers meetings.
Every week, I go to new employee orientation to present to them and welcome them because I want every single person in this district to know how critical they are to this work and that I'm somebody that is not just on paper a name. I'm somebody who's there to support their practice. Everybody is important. I want to end our meeting, I mean my report, just, very briefly. It is really highlighted in our, my document. You've heard a little bit about water quality.
That's something that we have been addressing in detail as a staff, to make sure that our schools are safe. We have a fantastic, protocol and from both our testing procedures is outlined in detail, and I really wanna make sure you know that your superintendent has been working with our staff to make sure that we have clean water at every site. So this is not, a new crisis. This is something about monitoring what's going on at our site.
This is something that is, a a regular process for us. And when we found that we needed to make a major change, we have done it, and we've done it immediately. And I really wanna personally thank our staff who have prioritized the safety of our community. So please, I encourage our community alive, our audience, to review this in absolute detail in my report that highlights our work here. And believe me, I've been around a long time, and I've seen major,
major strides, in providing this environment for our staff, our students. Thank you. I wanna thank everybody for this opportunity to present this evening. I'm excited about my work. You can count on my commitment. I appreciate everybody who has supported supported me in my new role, and I wanna thank, all of our staff who are have opened school in such a stellar and fine way. Thank you very much. Thank you, superintendent. Are there public comments on this one? Yes,
madam president. We have five speakers. That's two minutes. Alright. Those names are Kim Davis, Nada Olafala, Janelle Harris, Nathan Landry, and Jonah Lounds. Thank you, superintendent, for your report. I'm really glad to see the enthusiasm from you. It's very refreshing. I wanna talk about the enrollment that you just heard. It was brought to my attention by a parent that they were saying that McClimans is full, and there's a wait list. We have about 268 to 270 students.
And, we were actually looking at a school, with my district director, and a parent told us that the people at the enrollment office told her that McCliman's had a wait list. And I am a fourth year parent of a McClimans student, and they did that to me four years ago. They told me that McClimans had a wait list. One of the community members went down to the school district to figure out what was happening, and it was a lot of hearsay. No, yes, no.
This is what the process is. This is what we do. But we really didn't get a solid answer. So I would ask that you, just look into having the staff stop telling people that McClimans is full because we are open and welcome to all. Thank you. Okay. Nextiva. I'm the person that went down to the enrollment office. I was told that every student who tries to register for OUSD is put on a waiting list. I asked to see the policy that says that.
I was told go to go online to find it. I insisted I see something in the office. They gave me a document. The document did not state that. I read it when I got home. It stated how the prioritization system works, How you get on a waiting list. If you're a priority in a top school, you're not available to get into that school. So they misinformed me. This is not the first time. Every year we come to you and tell you that that enrollment office is telling parents that McClimans is full or you need to get on a waiting list.
You are sabotaging McClimans through this enrollment office. As it relates to new teachers, I hope that new teachers have been told that you have a right to come to a school board meeting and identify anything that is important to be exposed as it relates to your school. The teacher at Fremont who came here and exposed that there was racial tension at Fremont, next thing we hear, he's fired. Teachers, just like these students, have a right to speak to anything without being harassed or retaliated on.
As it relates to water quality, it is understood if you wanna eliminate lead and water, you have to change the pipes. When you use a filtering system, it only reduces the lead in the water that you're exposed to. It does not eliminate the water. So don't present to parents or to students or anyone by having these flow water systems that the lead system, problem is being dealt with. It is not being dealt with until you eliminate all of the lead,
and that can't happen until pipes are changed. Good evening, board and student directors and doctor Sadler. And I wanna second, I love the enthusiasm. It's it's, really nice. I also wanted to, say how great it is to see that not only are we currently above what our projections were, but we're above last year, which, of course, can change. But, you know, it's a step in the right direction. I think we need to be hyper focused on ensuring those kids stay,
and they stay and they're they're showing up at school every day. So I hope we will see not too long, what we're, you know, some reporting about what we're doing about attendance to support students and families to get to school on time. I also wanted to say, while I appreciated hearing all the wonderful things about the first day of school. I think that that, you know, would have been good to hear a little bit more about what's happening with water quality given that we've been reading in the newspaper that there are still some issues. And finally, I am a little bit concerned with the,
the slide about the enrollment stabilization and the, announced or the statement that it's home to the first Pro USD's first Montessori program at at Brookfield, which is true and is great, but also feels dismissive of the, design process that the parents have been promised, which includes making a decision as to whether or not they will, in fact, be Montessori program in the future. So just wanting us to make sure that we're communicating with families so that they
understand what's going on as well. Thank you. Hi, folks. My name is Jonah. I'm a special educator at Emerson Elementary. I'm from Oakland. I'm a product of OUSD schools, as well as a member of the Get the Let Out Coalition here in Oakland. And I come to you tonight to speak specifically about my site, Emerson, but I think it speaks broadly to the situation right now, as it relates to the ongoing lead crisis. So after the summer round of testing one year ago, Emerson only had four water sources tested above the action threshold of five parts per
billion. So because of that, there was a degree of complacency at our site, not unlike the complacency that seems to radiate from a lot of the public facing statements and the communication with families from the district. Now the the reality at Emerson was that our outlets just were not comprehensively tested last summer, and our facilities were in far worse shape than those incomplete tests indicated. The latest round of testing from this most recent summer has revealed that we have elevated levels of lead in our kitchen sinks,
our staff lunchroom, our resource room, our portables, really all over the place. So 19 water up outlets up from just four last year, are testing at levels above the action threshold of five parts per 10 of these are in the double digits. Several are also testing at or above 50 parts per billion, including all the outlets in our kindergarten rooms. To make matters worse, I arrived at professional development last week as the only one in the room who had a sense of the severity of our crisis at Emerson. Folks had read the the district wide memo regarding water quality,
but we kind of assumed that the district would have alerted us if we were dealing with a worsening situation on our campus. But no communication of that sort had been received by our staff in the weeks leading up to this school year. Add to that that the results, there's not really a lot of effort being put into helping folks interpret those results, results which can also vary from test to test. And transparency just goes beyond sharing links to raw data. I think you guys know that. True transparency requires that critical extra step of actual instruction.
And I think it's kind of a sad irony that we're missing that instructional element in our communication with people, not only our our communities, our families, but also our staff. That's all. Thanks for the time. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Nate Landry. I'm a parent of a seventh grader at Edna Brewer. Jonah spoke to this a little bit, but I just wanna make one thing very clear, which is that the most recent round of lead testing results shows that there are still today dangerous levels of lead contamination at schools throughout OUSD in the fixtures as
well as in the pipes. These tests do appear to be conducted using a sequential testing method that we get the lead out of OUSD coalitions spent all of last year urging the board and district leadership to take up. But it looks like this method is not being implemented correctly per EPA guidelines or being implemented so that results accurately reflect the hazards faced by students and staff seeking access to clean and safe drinking water throughout the day. Moreover, as was just mentioned, those test results are dense and they are not easily accessible or interpretable. OUSD must do more to explain precisely what testing methods they are using to help
impact school communities access and make sense of these test results. It seems, you know, a lot of the time, the reflexive mood from mood from board members and others is to expect or demand that the community come to them, come to this or that meeting. This has it precisely backwards. The district must go to the community, must explain the information that is going out, and must do whatever it can to begin rebuilding trust that has been comprehensively broken over the last seven years. The recent two part Oakland side reporting on OUSD's leadership OUSD leadership's response to the crisis since 2018 lays bare the level of incompetence,
indifference, and failure that has marked this entire process. And while we're hopeful that there is now something like the appropriate amount of urgency being given to the situation, it remains an ongoing crisis and district leadership must not shy away from that fact in favor of claiming easy victories by touting testing that is being done incorrectly and nearly a decade too late or passing toothless and purely symbolic policies like the clean water policy. When this emergency erupted anew last year, we learned and the reporting confirms that this policy wasn't and still isn't worth the paper it was written on.
Thank you. Thank you. Are there any more comments? There are no further speakers for this item. Yes. Thank you. I the enrollment numbers, are I'm cautiously optimistic, and I know the schools in my district have, been reporting really good enrollment numbers. I would respectfully request, Killian, that we we change the last, column on what you presented because we have one column that goes, Delta Ares versus Projected, and then the next one is delta projected versus $0.24.0.25
dollars a day. And I think at least for me reading it, it would be easier to read it if it was Ares versus projected followed by Ares versus last year, Census Day. Just so it's easier to track, so we don't have to do that extra math in our head, and and I got confused the first time I read it. I I was, Superintendent Sadler. I was a little disappointed in the schools that I toured yesterday, when it comes to their water quality. I know the two schools I was at yesterday, both principals did not have a clear understanding of the status of the fixtures at
their school. And, with the amount of testing that's gone on and how things have changed, I think, I think like Jonah was mentioning, and and I'm sorry if I if I'm misquoting you the wrong way, There was just really a lack of understanding from the school side. And, hopefully, there's a way to get our site administrators better informed about everything because there's a go to person that everyone's going to ask. And just lastly, in general, we have a we have, a lot of ongoing problems in the district. And, as people who watched at the end of last school year saw,
there's there's just a lot of things that have been going on. I think one of the things I asked of the superintendent is to make sure there's more items that are being put on the agenda so we can address them. They're like, well, I personally don't have a lot of faith in this board's leadership to make sure that we have things agendized. I look at how few items are on tonight's agenda when I would have preferred to see a water quality item agendized as a business item. There should have been something about the budget because if this board doesn't start taking
action over the next month, there's no way we get through this year or pass a balance budget for next year. And even stuff like enrollment or the superintendent search, you know, I hear a lot of lip service to engagement and bringing in the community, but this is the place for the board to do that. And I would respectfully request that the board president is not gonna make sure we can go on the agenda that our superintendent does. And so, I think all of the items in your report were really important. I would have liked to see some of those things turned into a real business item so we can really engage them with the community.
Thank you and welcome. Thank you very much, president Bogart. Also, superintendent, I remain with the court. Thank you very much, k, for a very comprehensive report. But I would like to ask one thing. And, moving forward, if we can somehow have schools represent, and I think that you have helped with our virtual articulation. Yeah. Welcome, superintendent Sadler. And also just I would echo that, the, you know, the schools that I visited, and the schools that my kids go to, I saw a significant amount of folks that are,
buildings and grounds and facilities being good to get schools really holding sick and span. And I think it was especially, I think, helpful to hear from the Corralto community, about work that they had been trying to get done for several years and actually was accomplished before the school year. And, having seen those rooms before and after, I think also was really, impressive. So I think just in I would just highlight the appreciation to all of our school staff, but also I think building some ground so I know that a significant amount of
overtime this summer so that's good to have. And and staff have a minimum facility. I also just appreciation to the, the Chilean and also the whole enrollment team around the the work that they've done to, I think I to get, you know, students smoothly more smoothly in school this year than other years. I think I would also like to hear a follow-up from, from, miss Harris and Nicole Labal as concerns about kind of what happened, with the, the family for the climate and kind of I I know that there's been work to,
create a culture of yes as the enrollment department. So, so I think I would be, at some point, to give some some updates that we could get back to to the the client community. And then, yeah, I think I would just echo the retro question then, and also, maybe concerns around how are we, I think just I do appreciate, again, all the work that has gone with, the testing of our water quality, but I do I think I've heard this with tech. I've heard this with Emerson. And being still really unfair about what pictures are safe. I think I saw that I see signage going up,
so I just wanna say that I do know that signs are going up and the the green stickers are going up, but it does still feel a little unclear, like, they're even, like, a couple days before school. One of the fountains at Emerson was unlabeled and unbagged, and it was, like, was it tested? Is it safe? So I I just, I know that we're doing work to get that water quality link out so that it's cool to see them and report pictures that are unlabeled, but I I just would like some, additional communication I just wanted to say welcome to Infiniti Sadler.
I'm very excited to work with you. I'm very happy at how excited you are. I'm very interested in how excited you are and how you kinda want to come in and do some stuff and make some moves. I kinda just wanna say welcome, and I'm happy to work with you. I really I've talked to you, and I enjoy talking to you. So I'm gonna enjoy working with you. Yeah. I agree with what director said. I definitely am looking forward to working with you. I really appreciate you. I really do love your passion.
Like, I do remind you of myself. I'm very passionate about this work, so I know that we're gonna get along very well. So thank you for being here. Excellent. Same here. Let me join that wagon. I think it's just refreshing. You know, we've had difficulties throughout the year and, you know, starting the new year, the energy that you bring, to this work. I I truly believe that, it is contagious, and I think that, you know, we we move in positive spaces and we uplift and and amplify those positive, engagements with our young folks.
And so I I I love it. I saw a video of you speaking at the principal business too, I just wanna congratulate you because you brought that same energy, you know, to all the administrators and just really sharing your story and just, you know, sharing your ability to connect and and use your story as a way of, like, really, making folks feel comfortable and then actually, encouraging them to be their best selves, to get out there and be the best they can with our young folks.
And I think that is very refreshing. It's really healing. It's very restorative, you know, and, you know, it it gives us something to believe in when there's so much other negative vibrations floating around. You really are focused on what is positive, what is good, what our young folks need, which is love, attention, support, and then our colleagues working together. So I just wanna thank you for that. I'm ex I I just it feels right.
So thank you. My second is I definitely wanna invite you to McLean. I wanna get you in early. Most definitely for a visit as well. I was there this morning, and every young student, young adult that came in carried your same energy. They were really excited to be there, and I was happy to be there as well. So as soon as you spoke to, you know, what you saw and how you felt, it took me right back to this morning of seeing young folks and their parents dropping them off and just really giving them loving messages of just,
you know, have fun, be good, look cute, do your thing. Like, it was just such a positive thing. And so, I get touched when I I I I hear that and I feel that vibration from you. So I definitely wanna put out there, please, let's see if we can work out a business behind it because I got sixty seconds left. And I will jump off then. Thank you. I just wanted to say welcome. I really enjoyed the report. I particularly appreciated before today what we decided to comment on,
the summer highlights, the enrollment, the water quality. Those are things that we should be talking about. But I today, I'm appreciating your energy on vibrations and the frequency. I think if we can show up with your enthusiasm this school year and view some of what I heard director's comment and Hutchinson say, like, pride words, agenda, our priorities, I think we're gonna have a really productive year. I do think that every agenda should have water quality updates. It's clearly top of mind for families and important for them to know,
that we're working urgently on their safety. And I think you were in the earlier because the ice activity that's going on, I think it's important for us to comment how we're urgently addressing that continuously throughout the school year. We're, still it's unclear how we're going to address the big challenge of our budget and the money that we have to come up with for next year. The fact that we have no wiggle room for this year for the budget, the superintendent searches are things that are really important. So I I appreciate that some of those things are in your report and things
that I look forward to sort of, like, seeing those on our agendas moving forward and with your energy and enthusiasm. I think it'll be fun to tackle this challenge. Thank you. Yeah. I just echo the good vibes that you have, towards this work and just the, level of communication that we've had so far has been really, helpful to me. Again, navigating some of the issues that have already come up around, different, things, but also just having that openness of, like, I can text, I can call, have a conversation, hard issues, I think,
is always really important. I will say I had a great time of break. I know we got there when students were doing the after school programs, but to hear the different types of after school programs, like, there's cooking, there's gardening, there's I felt that that was a whole, you know, whole space. And then, yeah, the the dedicated educators, I saw many folks returning to Frick, and that is something that I really wanna see. I wanna continue to see at every single one of our school sites, but that's, I think, one of the calls to action for us. Like, how do we make that possible? How do we make that happen so that our students have those,
adults that they can connect with year after year. Another, a request that I would have of you is I wanna keep the engagement going. So I know back to school nights are happening. If there's a way to centralize that information and share it with the school, board directors, I think that would be great. If I, did, go to back to school night and folks were like, I've never had a school board director come. And I think that that again, we need to break some of that and have more engagement at our school sites. And then I will be remiss if I don't shut up the Skyline community.
They did a wonderful engagement, right before the school year ended. We also did, like, a bit of facilities, dreaming with them, so that was really helpful. But they have also asked for, more regular communications with me, and I would love to bring you in for a conversation for that, full meeting with those, PTSA leaders. On the water quality, again, it is, an issue that we're continuing to tackle. We have it as endized for the facilities meeting, which is on the twenty first. It will be a constant agenda item as we continue these meetings as well as the facilities meeting so we can address those concerns that we have.
So our facilities meeting is on the twenty first at 6PM. I will will be excited to work diligently to make sure that we are tackling those issues, and I do believe that the superintendent search is a big part of our work this year as well as the budget. And I am hoping that budget and finance meet, because they have not met for over a few months. And so I hope that that committee is able to have conversations to bring back to us, and then we're able to also have more conversations with our community as well as our director. I just wanna appreciate your enthusiasm and watching you with the students.
I think it really, sometimes I feel in the door, people get detached from that. And I think you're from the very, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, down the whole kids because it's getting their main pay and stuff. I think this is why we do this. And, I feel, again, as a as a as a self sustaining educators, I I really appreciate this within I just like to make one more now because I keep forgetting this. But, for students that come to school for the next two weeks consecutively, there will be free tickets to a roots soccer game for August 30.
Those will be accessed again by students who come to school for two weeks since I've got a site. So you should have received that information. Your school site will be logging that information, and folks will be able to access those free tickets. So please take advantage of that kind of program. Moving on to consent items, Daryl's consent items, l, item l. Is there any I know we're pulling item l 23, l 14, l 17 I'm sorry. L one fourteen, l 117, and l one one nine. So minus those items,
is there a motion to Second. And is there a public comment? Yes, madam president. We have two. Deslada Olobala and Janelle Harris. Okay. Two nine, please. Thank you. I want to speak on item l 20, the personnel report talent human resources department. For the past four years, McClimans has been experiencing nepotism the whole time. Friends, family, everybody gets a job at McClimans. Doesn't matter if you have integrity or if you are harming the kids,
the parents. It doesn't matter. And I my son is a senior, and I've had enough. Also, it has come to my attention through Parent Square that our high school network superintendent, Vanessa Su Fuente, has a new job title. And, that came about in July, and I don't remember there being a board meeting in July. I was also I saw on Parent Square that, another woman had taken her place. There was no announcement. The board didn't approve it. How Come it didn't come across the board.
I didn't see it on the agenda. And I do know that our policy says that all administrator positions have to go through the board. So why isn't that happening? And this is just another backdoor deal that has been going on for the past four years under the old leadership, which means Johnson Trammell. And I have had it. We have a lot of internal issues going on with our staff at McClimans. We have teachers under credential programs for six years,
seven years, when it's only supposed to be two and a half, that are teaching a through g requirement classes and don't got a credential. Like, enough is enough. Cousins, partners, business partners, everybody has a job, and I'm tired of it. And I want accountability, and I want something to be done. Thank you. My apologies, madam president. There was a third speaker. That's Kim Davis. Just a point of clarification. I know a number of things were bold. Could you say those one more time from the l? It's hard to the sound out there is not good.
Okay. 1 oh, I'll go. I'm sorry. 23. Oh, you want that for me? Thank you. 114, 117, and 119. Okay. Do you need the m's again, please? No. This is just for the l's. And so are we supposed to talk about the things that are bold, not bold, or bold? There'll be public comment on the things that we're bold. Okay. I have, just a couple things then to say about this. One is, regarding l thirteen and fourteen, which relate to the central kitchen.
I'm not necessarily although I am a little intrigued as to what chef's choice that we're we keep buying year over year, why we're extending contracts for that, what does that mean, and will there ever come a point when we can train when we get trained and then can train internally. And l 14, which is about is, $440,000 to buy pre prepared meals and sandwich products. I, you know, I I have asked for this for several years,
and I'm gonna continue asking. We need to have a better understanding of what we why we built that central kitchen, what they're doing, are students happy with the food that's coming out of it, and why do we keep buying things from other, entities? Pre prepared foods, obviously, produce and things we need. And then the other one is l 18 really quickly, JHH Education Consulting. My concern about this this organization is that the leader of this is also the
leader of the board of the San Francisco Parents Action that was again that was behind the recall of, three board members San Francisco school board members of color and also very anti union during the pandemic getting back to school. So I and these are you think? Well, one is safe soil surfacing at, Mancina. And that's not being done at my Climates. Safe soil resurfacing. L five. Background checks for a 120 vendors. But you have a policy that you don't require background checks for parents
if they're under the, guidance of a teacher. The state law says every person that volunteers is supposed to have a background check. You're not doing it. L 20. Look at the disparity here. We have 27 teachers that are being hired as large number as, English emergent students. You have 13 speech teachers being rehired at structured English emergent students. And that's great. You're not doing anything to support African American students. One, l 20 I'm sorry.
L 96 McFlyman's plan. Student achievement plan. All of the plans. You're using data from students, 2324 data, for the plan for 2526. That's not gonna work using that kind of data to set up a plan. At McClymonds, it is stated that eighty percent of our students are reading more than three years below grade level with the I Ready assessment. But the goal is to have sixty five percent of the students reach grade levels
or grow by two years by June 2025. That's absurd. All of the other schools, the student achievement plans have no indication of where the students have been related to the eye readiness test. My clients did do it. Thank you. Regularly. Mad madam president, I forgot to, also had an addition to pull l a t. Definitely would like to, ask the board to move that through the teacher learning community, So, l 18 and l 23, the two that I asked before.
Thank you. I I did use the mic I'm sorry. I said I'm pulling l 18 and l 23 with a request to move it through, teaching and learning. Thank you. Is there any objection to any board member? Okay. Do we need agenda at that for the next meeting? Yes. We're gonna move that to teacher and learning and then have a discussion then. But I I we'll move it to our next meeting. Which will be September. Sure. Okay. Sure. Okay. And then bring it back to the board after that? Sure. Okay. May I may I present them which items are the l 18 and l 23.
It will be moved to the next teaching and learning committee and then back to the list of votes. And, mister Ray Strachan, we have a roll call on the, consent items l minus l 18, l 23, l one one four, l one one seven, and l one one nine. Batman, brother. Give me one moment, please. Madam president, I'm sorry. Just a point of clarification. And I just wanted to note for the full board, as you move forward with the items that were postponed, I'm just noticing that one is a ratification, and the board, the board policy is that the contract can start the orders will start,
and, we're to bring it to board within ninety days. So I'm just noting that by moving the item, you will be without outside of the ninety day window. So I just don't want you to be alarmed when it comes before then it's already the services have always been put. So Thank you. I think what we then have is a procedural problem because we don't have I'm having a person We're not appropriate to have a full set of discussions because we're going to move it to Kitchen 1. Okay. We're gonna move it to Kitchen 1. Yes. On the, general consent report,
minus item, notice, which will be l twenty three and eighteen and, one one four and one one seven have been withdrawn. Other than that, all our consent items are on the floor. Oh, one one nine. Yes. I'm done. But we're you we're keeping up the director Hudson from the alright. Student director summons? I'm saying. I'm saying. You said Greg Smith? I'm saying. You said Greg O'Lara? Yes. Greg Williams? Yes. Yes, sir. I got a. I'm saying. The motion to doctor.
And what's on the agenda is item l 23. Oh, it's not I'm sorry. L one one four. L one one four. I believe This one is pulled by the wall. This is with the wrong. Yeah. Okay. It's not up for consideration. Same thing as, for item L117. And director Hutchinson, you are, item I'm president and the name. So go ahead. Okay. If it's okay, though, I'm gonna take director Hutchinson's first with the item L119. I I can't discuss it until there's a moment. Is there a motion to approve item L l l 119?
And I second. Thank you. I just wanted to pull this item to make sure, it is highlighted for a couple of reasons. Like I started to do, last year or earlier earlier in the spring last school year, I don't really have a high enough degree of faith in the people creating the agenda, that these items in the Consent Report have been vetted or appropriate. And as we can see, even from this meeting, the amount of last minute changes. I just don't have any confidence and I won't vote for anything that I don't have confidence in. And it's, it's really a sad state.
But I wanted to really highlight this one because I appreciate, board staff catching this so we can go back and correct it. But as we move into the, the next consent report m for the facilities, some of the items from there are addressed here. So I just really wanna make it clear that when we voted for an emergency resolution in June as a board for the demolition of properties over the summer, it was a very explicit amendment written in that said that did not apply to Second Avenue or the Ethel Moore Building.
And now, when we see it later on today, it's a real problem when the language has become the stated demolition of Second Avenue and Ethel Moore when that's not what we voted on. And so we need to be very explicit in the language. There is a reason why those two buildings weren't included in the demolition. I'm really disappointed that those other buildings were demolished and, people sure didn't fight for those resources in West Oakland. They let them get torn down. And so here we are. Director Hirschman, that's on item m.
It's moving hold because I know you also No, no. I'm addressing I'm addressing L119, which is the correction of the numbering of those items. And those items fall within that. And so, you know, I knew it was gonna happen one time tonight when I started talking. It's really frustrating that I'm the only one who seems to be interrupted in their time and I haven't even been speaking tonight. I've said enough for now. Thank And is there public comment on this item, all one one nine? And and I'm a director. Do you want to speak to this? Yes. The correction of this item, one one nine,
is a correction by me on a on a mistake, that I made in terms of duplicating the assigning a set of, resolution numbers to dispute with two different, departments. It was a mistake on my part. We caught it at the end of the year, and this is the measure in which we are taking to render it. The other thing in terms of other items on agenda on the agenda tonight, and we put in place, that will ensure that, there's not a reoccurrence of the quotations of the numbers.
I also which I will not elaborate on, but, again, the board wants to know I'll be glad to send an email. The second part of this is that there were some facilities items that were submitted, and the board, in in these items, the previous emergency resolution number ending in, I believe it is, for the emergency resolution, it is, the number that ended in 2425Hyphen0132, which was one of them. That reference is was made by the facilities department based on the previously grown up
number. So in tonight's agenda, when you see the reference to 2425Hyphen0132.1, that is a reference to the new number, and the items that are in there says that these actions are being taken before through the emergency resolution. So in order for the emergency resolution correct number to be stated, it ends in point 1. So that's the reason that you see that tonight. And I have the responsibility for having,
duplicated the numbers in which I'm reading, and I'm asking the board to adopt the correction, and we will update the record. And, historically, in the letter start, it will show the initial transaction and the correct transaction. And, therefore, the record for the actual address will be accurate. Thank you for that explanation, sir. Is there public comment on the phone? 119. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Yes. On the roll call. Student director. Yes. Director Williams. Yes. Director Hockinson. Yes. Director Lotta.
Yes. Director Barrow. Yes. Director Thompson. Yes. Vice President of International? Yes. Representative Grohart? Yes. Motion is adopted. Thank you. And on the item now, item l one one four, there's no cost of service agreement and data sharing agreement, school ops AI, research assessment and data department. Do we have a motion to approve that? This is before on the public comment. This is all about one of the opportunities to speak to one of those. I don't One one seven. Okay. Any public comment on one one four?
I have no member signed up for this item dispute. And item l one one seven, which was also withdrawn. Oh, you had one on one one four? And I I didn't know there was a separate sign up, for the sold items, and I didn't hear the sold items because you guys need to talk louder into your microphone. Just so you know. Because it's hard to hear back here. So, this 114, first of all, I think the name is very strange. School ops makes me very nervous. But the other piece of it is AI. And it's a no cost data sharing agreement.
We have no as far as I know, no AI policy, no discussion of how we're gonna do this. It's a brand new company. They just formed in March 2025. And I just feel like we need to re we need to have a policy, a discussion, and we need to think before we're giving, AI control over student data. Thanks. Thank you. Did you wanna speak to 114 too? 117. I know. Crazy. Next item on the agenda is item one one seven, which is also this time. Are there public are there public comments on that?
One one seven is extra layer of protection, unarmed, non law enforcement, on-site security, personnel. Now this is important. They will be monitoring the perimeter, extra layer of safety of passages on safe passages to school. These again are people who are unarmed, nonlaw enforcement individuals. You know what that means? They observe and report. They have no enforcement power. When we're dealing with things like ICE and we're dealing with people coming in with
all these, serial killings and so forth, we have to have the ability to protect children. You cannot protect children with unarmed, nonlaw enforcement. Where do we get, if necessary, law enforcement intervening at our schools? We have a new security safety officer. This is not safety. You got the same thing at City Hall. When I'm in a meeting and they tell me, you you're talking too much, security walks up. I tell them you can't tell me nothing. You have to get the police to get me out of here. I am very concerned about anything that goes on where we have not enforcement capacities.
You're always talking about ICE. What's gonna happen with these people when ICE comes to the school doors? They can't do nothing. So, again, this is serious and I do not expect that you're gonna come up with something, but you cannot have this kind of situation to protect staff and protect children. Alright. Any board comments? Anyways, now we're on to m. This is a big expense. So we have moved. We have adjusted our board agenda. So if I may speak yeah. We've adjusted our board agenda. So m is going next,
and we have a couple of items pulled under m, so we'll be doing those individually. So any, board comments or or board, members wanna move forward with m? Any motion to move m forward? I move to adopt m, the general, the obligation bond. Thank you. One second. Thank you. Any, public comment on these agents on m? Yes. Vice president, we have Nana Olavala and Janelle Harris. We'll be two minutes each. And point of clarification, it is M minus m one, m three, m five,
m 16, m 17, and M18. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Okay. So my comment was on M1. That was cool, but I could still make some of the comments. Correct? Go ahead. Yes. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. So my comment is on M1, the agreement for inspector of record services for construction at Maclimus Turpin Field. I just wanna make sure because this says as of August 14, which is tomorrow, that work is going to be started on our field, And I don't see any indication of that happening.
It says they have until the oversight has until 08/13/2026 to fulfill this contract. But when are they going to start on the bill? All summer long, I didn't see anybody there doing any work other than the kitchen, and the kitchen is not even all the way up. So I'm just wondering how this is going to work. August 14 is tomorrow. So does that mean work will start tomorrow? Or because we're not getting updated. We have a person that's supposed to be a family liaison for this project,
and he doesn't communicate with parents. That has been the case for a long time. There's surveys that need to be put out that he doesn't talk to the parents. He doesn't stand out and give anything. He doesn't talk to the parents. So I would like some transparency on this project, and I wanna know what's happening. I'm there every single day, so I see. So I wanna know what's going on. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. We called for m one, m 14, m 16, and m 17 when they're being addressed by,
board member Hutchinson. I just wanna speak to m six, the demolition of the Blunch project. Blunch was identified as having problems related to, the maintenance of the building, and the students had to be moved out to correct those issues. They were moved out. The issues were never addressed. And facilities allowed the building to deteriorate to the state it is in now. And a lot of safety issues happened. The property was taken over by the homeless community.
We had a fire on the property. You are you are demolishing a school site because of the neglect of the facilities department to take care of that property. M eight, soil samples at Fremont. Every school that needs to have soil samples or to deal with any hazardous air quality, water quality, that needs to happen. So I'm supportive about that. But what you're doing at McClimans is ridiculous in terms of you are since 2017,
you've been aware of soil hazardous materials at McCliman. You've been aware since 2017 of the lead in the water, and you are proceeding to ignore it and act as if you have to find out what's going on at the climates related to the soil. You already know. So our field was supposed to be fixed. We will be playing on that field, unsafe field with no scoreboard, no, sound system that work. And you think that's gonna be okay?
Thank you. And I'll address it later. Thank you for your patience. Allowing me to go over my time. Thank you. Board colleagues, any, questions on m consent items minus m one, m three, m five, m 15, m 17, and d. Director Hutchinson. Yes. Thank you. You know, in in general, I'm I'm troubled about a lot of things in the District. And one of the things these days is, there's not much institutional memory left around. And, I really see us, we've already backslid back into the battle days.
And if you want to look at, some of the infamous Grand Jury Reports, they always cited on, facilities and our bond management. And, I'm just really disappointed in a lot of things and I think Superintendent Sadler, we really need to tighten this up. I'm going to speak about some of them, specifically that are on here, but in general, we now are very far behind on all of our projects. We are from having a plan for lead remediation to field replacement to Machliments to all of our projects.
There's been a lot of games played in different places, a lot of delays, and this has a real cost, not just a monetary cost, but a cost to our community. And I think the tone of tonight where making the community wait for their comments to the very end, reinforces a lot of the same ideas. Some of us have been fighting around some of these very projects and advocating for, we heard, 2017 because that was the year after Measure J was passed. We've had reprioritizations of our bonds. We've had these plans. And it just seems like over and over,
whether it's individual school board directors or some kind of individual staff members, because of their own agendas, things have just been thrown off off the tracks. And so it's just not acceptable. Once the Board has approved major projects for the Measure Y bond facilities that we're still waiting to even have ground broken on. It's not okay when we know these things exist, when we've seen them in the agenda at school board meetings year after year, that it's still not being addressed. I had a lot of faith in a lot of people that these things were
going to get done. Almost everything in this report I was expecting should have been completed at least six months ago. And so now I'm no longer going to stay quiet on anything. I'm really frustrated about the direction this Board has taken us. And people need to realize the quickest way to get in trouble, and trouble can mean a lot of things, is to play games with our money or play games with our facilities. There are laws involved and I don't think a lot of them have been following me. So I'm gonna keep saying what I need to say. Thankfully my district is well taken care
Well taken care of. And I'm gonna make sure that we stay taken care of, but it's unacceptable that we're in this situation again. Thank you. Other board director? My only comment is because we've heard a few things in public comment, I'm just curious in general when we're gonna respond to I know we can't have a back and forth, but, we are gonna get in support, we're gonna get an update on the project that we have through MeasureY. That's part of, I think, the committee meeting on the twenty first.
So we will have that as an option there. And then, of course, we will be on the agenda for these, full board meetings as well. Any other, voter address, Greg Williams? Yeah. Thank you, vice president, Ashna. Just really wanna say, yes, there is work that needs to be done, but we we won't forget that that measure y was actually approved in, 2020, November 2020. It is now '25. And so it's been four years prior to this year that we've had an been worked on.
It's easy to blame this board right now for stuff that happened four years ago. And I think we need to just get it straight that there's been four years in the making to actually get to this particular point. And also with some of the projects, I do wanna think there there there's a lot of projects going on all throughout the city, and, it's it's a management needs to manage those properties. But I can speak for district three and tell you the work that's been going on in at Prescott,
at Martin Luther King, at West Oakland Middle School, and at McClymit. We have been doing a lot of stuff, and you should come down and visit to see what's going on. It's easy to talk about it, but I ask you to show up, and then we will walk you around and show you what work has been going on with measure why. Don't get it confused that nothing is going on because stuff has been going on year after year after year. We have over 70 schools, and we've had a number of schools listed in the project and a lot of those schools have been getting taken care of.
We had an emergency, the lit the lid in the water is an emergency and we had to pivot. We had to pivot. So let's actually call it what it is, but we still have projects that we're working on that are close to being completed. And if you come to district three, I will tour you around and show you what has been done. We do have more work to be done. We definitely do admit that. No one's perfect in this situation. And you talking about managing hundreds of projects and hundreds of people and trying to
get it done. There are challenges there, but I believe that we're moving in the right direction, and we have the right people doing the job. They hear you, and I'm sure we're gonna make some adjustments to address that. So if you have any questions, please check me out, and I can help you out for district three. Thank you. School board directors student school board directors, any other comments on m consent items? No. I'm looking. Alright. Mister Rakesh, I'll just go ahead and take a vote on m general consent minus m one, m three,
m five, m 15, m seventeen, and eighteen. On the roll call for the at the for the motion and stated, director Simmons, abstain. Director Smith? Abstain. Alright. Correct Thompson? Yeah. Director Berry? Yes. Director Hutchinson? I'm sorry. Director Williams? Yes. Director Lara? Yes. Vice president Davenport? Yes. Yes. Motion for doctor. Alright. We will move on to m one. Director Hutchinson, I believe you pulled this item. I would suggest for the items that I pulled, I had an, m three grouping. So I would suggest you take m three and m five together.
M 16 is a stand alone. And at least for me, I have the same, concerns with m one, m 17, and m 18. So anybody affected using those other motions in that order? Okay. So the m one, m 17. Oh, any motion to move forward? I make a motion to adopt m one, m 17, and m 18. And I second that. Thank you. Go ahead, mister. Go ahead, mister. Thank you. Like we just heard from the public comment, I'm I'm really concerned about these field replacement projects.
I was under the understanding that these were going to be done over the summer. And this is the field replacement at Oakland High, Macliman High and the Cesar Chavez campus. Now, I don't understand why it's coming back now in August and it hasn't been done. But if we're talking about replacing our high school football field, this is football season. If we're talking about having quality spaces for our students, we don't wait until they're back in school to do the work. And I'm just really frustrated that here we are at the start of the year
and these projects are back here again where I was under the understanding that they were gonna be done over the summer. Now I know we can't replace McClimans High and Oakland High's football field during football season. Football season runs through the end of the calendar year. So are we not waiting until the spring? Or are we gonna do it when school is in session, in January? Or is this gonna be wait all the way until next year? These are the kinds of things that not only drive me crazy as a school board director, not only get us in trouble where they've been cited by the grand jury in
the past, but this is how it is impossible to gain the trust of the community. And it is very frustrating when all I hear from my colleagues is a lot of excuses for why things haven't happened. So if we can talk about the last four years, I'm very familiar with what's happened the last four years. And I know what I did a year ago is I worked on co authoring with Director Lerma a reprioritization of Measure Y to address some of these very things. Unfortunately, we haven't had fidelity to what's happened in the past. And so,
at a certain point as a as a community, as a school district, we're gonna learn how to hold ourselves and each other accountable or this is gonna keep going on endlessly. Lastly, all of these projects for every month it takes to get something started and done, the cost rises. For some for one of these fields, there have been a lot of long standing questions about what's really happening under that field. And so this all adds on on top of each other. And I'm just gonna have to say it again.
I am very also worried that, you know, it has been months since we have had, a head person in our Facilities Department, and I'm not very confident hearing that somebody new has been selected, and it wasn't done in a very public way. So to me, all of these things are connected, and we have to remember we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Preston Thomas, our chief systems and services officer, has been here to provide, guidance on the item. Yes. Thank you. There's a lot of complexity that I just wanna make now.
And I wanted and I and I really appreciate the grouping of items, m one, seventeen, 18, because they're all kind of through this year. If you recall back in October, we were trying to bring forward a spending plan, but there are several board actions that delayed that spending plan moving forward. And I agree with you, director Hutchinson. We would have been on the timeline if the spending plan had been approved in that time period of October to do the field in in the summertime. That didn't happen. We had a reprioritization around talking about 10/25. There was also a reprioritization around lead that delayed the spending plan for February.
Every field of that an athletic field needs to go to the department, the division of state architects to get reviewed. And so there's a delay that gets paused by the time that that goes into the field. We intentionally and I just want to be really clear on all these items. We did not want to move one forward and not the others. So we brought all three fields together, and I'm gonna name them. It's La Escuelita or not excuse me. Not La Escuelita. I mean, in La Escuelita. La Escuelita. It was the Cesar Chavez complex, but that field has not been repaired in twenty years.
The open high field that needed to be replaced and the McLean's Field that needed to be replaced. We did recommend adding additional funding to the project at McLean's. So it is there. Funding has been allocated for it. And so that is moving forward. When we met with the school communities and said, would you forego this knowing the time frame on it? Would you want us to replace your field or wait till the summer? Unequivocally open high center to place our field now. Right? And they are doing adjustments, and they're planning around their practices to move it later in in the field.
The Cesar Chavez complex is a little bit different. It's an elementary school that's used a lot by our after school programming for sports. So those are those fields, and they all move forward at the same time. The approval of these items, particularly items seventeen and eighteen, will launch the replacement of the fields at, Oakland High and will replace the field at the Cesar Chavez Complex. With respect from the climates, I agree with everything that's been said. It was not the field was not included in the original plan for the school, and we fixed that.
We added it back in, and we allocated over $3,000,000 for that. However, there's complexity there. And I do wanna say over the summer, there has been testing at the field, not just to identify what is in the soil underneath the field, but also what are the concentrations and what's the remediation that needs to happen. That's complex, and we are moving forward to get those reports. Also, there are three projects. We're investing over $93,000,000 into the finance campus, and those have to get reviewed by the division of State Arts. There are three different increments.
Increment one is the increment for the modernization of the building. There's increment two, which is building a brand new stadium. And the third project is the field replacement. Those have to be coordinated, and that will take a little bit of time. M one is specifically the inspector of record that is required when the field breaks down. So you do have to have an inspector of record there because it's a BSA project. And so this is available now, like, as of after this board meeting. And then there's a window of time when we hope to complete that field.
But the timing for that field specifically will be determined based on the results that come from the soil testing and based on some of the work that we need to do with the division of of state architects. So those are the items that are before you tonight. The two are were brought collectively with the climates around I think at the end of the year, we were purchasing the turf for each of these fields that passed in June, and these are the construction contracts that go along. And I'm happy to answer any other additional questions that I have. Over to Holly, student director. Thank you,
Preston, for bringing that clarity. I think when there aren't any questions upfront, individuals can email you and have you actually respond to them. If there are any concerns when they read the, board agenda and there are questions, it's easy to go ahead and email you and ask you, can you please give us an explanation of why this is. Well, I appreciate you coming forward and speaking to it, and thank you for the work work in District 3. Any other voice memos? Great. We will, I'm sure, have a continued conversation with you as well.
Alright. Mister Rakesh, can you take a roll call to, a Madam president, vice president. You already did your public comment on one, m one. That's that's Okay. Sorry. Mister Rakesh, I'll open Yeah. Madam vice president, given that you are combining, m one m.-117andeighteen, just wanna ensure that the public has an opportunity to comment on all three of those items before the roll call. Alright. Missus Sada, you're up. Anybody else who'd like to make a public comment on this item can be can
stand. But this is what you gave out at your meeting on June Let me get the date right. I hate when people lie. This is June. I wanna get the date. June. We had a meeting on 06/18/2025. Presentation of twenty twenty five summer facilities project. You identified that the project related to MacFayments High School would include, turf field replacement during the summer. That was given to us in June that the replacement this is what the facility sent out. He's lying. So all of a sudden now,
you have m one where inspector Rutgers, which already did inspections from August 2025 I'm sorry. They wanna do it from August 2025 to 08/13/2026. What does that mean? They wanna verify and observe what has been suspected. It's already been observed and validated. When Cole had to solve the remediation issue, we didn't go through all of that. You fixed it. The problem is they wanna fix the turf without remediating the hazardous solve.
And we don't want it done that way. We want it to be corrected, the hazardous remediation and replacing the saw. Now you're gonna have those children playing on that dang you know what you know what they did? They got a hole. They came and patched it. They have a they have a hillary. You said in June 2025 that the summer program for my clients would include replacing the turf. So all of this stuff about we got problems, you didn't say that in June. You scheduled to be replaced.
Thank you. Anybody else? Okay. Thank you. I just wanna remind this board that it's not only the last four years. Like, black children have been neglected in this district for a very long time. We have been identified by the state, for the children that read at the lowest grade level. And I'm constantly being told that we are not a priority. McClimans is a historical black high school for one hundred years. We ended up at McClimans because when we came to Oakland,
that's the only place we could go. So that was our high school. And great people have come out of McClimans. We are the rose that grows from concrete. And I'm gonna continue to say it. We deserve black excellence. Everyone is welcome at McClimans. We don't have the issues that Fremont got with the isms. We don't got those issues. We are one family, one family. New, every color, every but we are a Black high school and I wanna keep it that way. We have many, many Black male teachers there,
which is unheard of. So I wanna just reiterate, this ain't just four years. We were passed over when we were granted funding to rebuild our school years ago, almost ten years ago. The George Floyd Resolution, where is it at? It's sitting on somebody's shelf that has never been implemented. So I don't wanna hear how we are not neglected. Black children are not favored in this district. And enough is enough. We are gonna continue to come here and I ain't going nowhere.
My son is graduating and guess what? I got a grandson coming to my clients. So four more years of miss Harris will be here. Thank you. Any other public comments on item m one, m sixteen, and eighteen? Seventeen. Any other comments? That's what I was asking for from the public. On m one, m 17, and m 18. We're taking all of those together, missusata. Yeah. Yes. M 17 and M 18? Yeah. Okay. So M 17 is, turf replacement for Cesar Chavez and it's gonna take ninety days.
And it's gonna be, finished by November 2025. And there's no issues. It's happening. M 18, Oakland High School, turf replacement. I think it was supposed to go on during the summer. It didn't happen. And now it's August 14 to November, twelfth, ninety days. How many days is it gonna take to get my climbing's football turf replaced? Why is it being held up? The money is there. The money is not there for the remediation of the toxic soul that has to
be dealt with. And remember, this was never on the original modernization plan to deal with that football field. The remodeling of McClimans High School never was put on the original plan to replace that ridiculous field to fix the scoreboard. You know what they were gonna fix? The bleachers in the bathroom. That's on the modernization plan. Something is wrong. We're gonna be playing football, and everybody that goes on that field is gonna be at risk. Not because of the soil necessary.
The field is inadequate. Children are gonna get hurt. Right. I'm sorry. Have schools of education on that field. It's not just football. Our children participate in their physical education classes on that field, the outdoor activity. Alright. Mister Rakeshark, can you take roll call for this item? Yes. On the item Z11718 as stated. Director Barrett. Yes. K. Director Hutchinson? Abstain. Director Williams? Yes. Director Lavin? Yes. Director Thompson? Yes. Vice president Joe Castro?
Yes. President Pearl Hart? Yes. Those items were adopted. Thank you. Now the next group, I believe, is m three and m five. Is that correct, President? Do we have a motion to move those items forward? Approve. Approve. Hold on. Hang on. I know that we approve items m three and m five. Yes. Thank you. I just want to, clarify, you know, all through all through the memo for both of these items, it refers to the Paul Robeson 1025 Second Avenue Demolition Project and then cites the emergency resolution that we approved last year.
That emergency resolution explicitly said we were not looking at the demolition of those buildings. I don't know why the project is framed that way. This can't be all of a sudden a backdoor way to authorize demolition. And it's really problematic that the name of it has now changed to that because the board explicitly amended that that resolution was amended to not include the demolition of those two bills. So we need to get things tighter, and I just needed to bring this up now. So nobody thinks that there's been an authorization for the demolition of those two buildings.
And again, we need to tighten these things up by a lot, because it's just not it's just not okay. Thank you. Do we have any public comments on this item? So it's m three and m five. I'm gonna get off and talk to m 16. I know you're gonna tell me I don't have no business doing it, but I usually follow your guidelines. Let's say that's the next one. M 16 is next? Next m 16 is next. Okay. Great. Board colleagues, not seeing any public comments at this time. Board colleagues, any additional comments, questions? No. I I also recall the conversation,
the the vote that we took last year at the end of the semester. And so there is an opportunity to clarify why it's titled that way. That'd be great. Yeah. No. And we'll talk about that item a little bit later as well. Is it it just is in the naming of it. The essentially, what we're doing is the environmental reports on both of the buildings, and it's not just it's not maintained demolition of the buildings. It's just to get the information that has not Madam president, and then before we have a recommendation that in this motion, where there's a reference to, Paul Robeson's demolition project,
that the word demolition destruct, and we call it the Paul Robeson project. And that Paul Robeson project, is, defined as, the board of crews who occupy. This should not include the permission. Do we need a vote on that, or is that general consensus? I would I would ask the makers in the second in the motion to accept that. If a if a board member my board member, as friendly. It's friendly. Alright. Yeah. N I and re friendly. Thank you. Alrighty. Any other board comments? Alrighty. Let's go ahead and take a roll call. There'll be I know I'll probably comment on the three and five.
Yeah. Alright. On the roll call. So about the m. Dash. Three and five. Director Hudson. I'm saying. William? Yes, sir. Director Lara? Yes. K. Moving on to the last m item, which is m 15. Is there a motion to adopt? I move to adopt m 16. I second. Thank you. Again, we shouldn't be in this situation. I'm I'm trying to ignore some of the other comments that I heard. You know? But in my one of the one of the first promises I made coming onto
the board, and I was really upset to hear some news that he's not doing well right now, was the coach Tapscott who I'd worked with for years. And, I worked really hard to make sure that McClimans was once again on the list and at the top of the list for MeasureWell. And it didn't start off that way. And, there were other directors who did things and put other projects ahead of it. And at the first opportunity, McClymonds, a full rebuild was put on the list so that we have three schools scheduled for a full rebuild now at a measure wide,
which is McClymonds, Garfield, and Roosevelt Middle School, as it should have been. Because this was promised to McClimans back when the engagement work was being done in 2012 to construct Measure J, which was approved in 2016. This is about the most disheartening thing on this agenda, M16. Because what this says is we are extending by two years the timeline that we're looking at from a climate. This resolution means we're two years behind where we should be, that we have to vote on this extension.
We haven't done other things in the meantime. Two years behind. And I'm really disappointed what's happened to our education facilities in West Oakland over the last four years. When I came onto the board, West Oakland had the least amount of educational resources. And since then, we've seen the loss of Foster. We've seen the loss of Cole. We've now seen the utter loss of Bunch, which was not neglected by staff or the district. It was the school board.
It was us. We let all of that happen. Each of these things took a vote from the school board. So to sit here today, and we are extending by two years the architectural services that we need from a climate. I thought we were gonna have a shovel in the ground in the '24. I don't understand why there weren't any shovels in the ground this year. This is scandalous to me that the board has to say, Oh, no. We need two more years to do this. And I just want to point out, it's a good thing I pulled these things from the consent report,
which is why I won't vote for a consent report because not another colleague on the board even raised these issues. Very disappointing, very disheartening, and we have to be able to do that. Public comment on this agenda item says m 16. This item that you are gonna be voting on is, is unchanged construction and unchanged costs. But the engineering services, additional six hundred and ninety nine calendar days. The original work was started in June 2022 and was completed in July 2025.
Now you wanna extend it to 2027. And what did they do? They did geo geochemical and geohazardous consulting services. They studied and issued a report on the conditions at McClimans having to do with hazardous materials. They've already completed the report. They've already done the study. What are they gonna be doing from now until June 27? Y'all you gave them an additional amount of money in November to complete this work.
There's $40,000 left from all of that money. And I guess you're gonna give them that to do this. Just giving them a chance to earn the other $40,000 That's what you're doing. But we already got a report from them on the hazardous geohazardous materials. What are we adding that's gonna take six hundred and ninety nine calendar days to complete? So we don't do anything until then related to dealing with the hazardous waste materials at McClimans High School. Are you serious? Staff brings you this crap,
Mr. Williams? Is that acceptable? Going back to something we already have explored and evaluate the subsurface conditions at Mechonis, and they have developed site specific geotechnical conclusions. That's what's in the contract. Did anybody read it? So I'm just gonna reiterate what mister Prada said. There are many parents and my clients that are involved in this process. They don't come to board meetings because they have lost confidence in this board. I'm very saddened and disappointed that it takes this long to get anything.
Nobody has any faith at my clients. The staff do not have any faith that anything is going to get done. I mean, what is it gonna take? I don't understand. It's like coal houses no children, and I am a bond measure taxpayer. I don't wanna fund nothing that doesn't house children, and you're not supposed to fund it either. But you did. So this is where I'm saying it's like you got administrators, you're keep continuously hiring administrators
that and without board approval, you are uplifting people who hide and sneak stuff at the school sites. They do not follow processes or protocols. They don't even know them or policies for that matter. You are putting this district at risk for a lawsuit. You are putting this district at risk. There are so many backdoor deals is that you can't keep up with them. And I don't understand why you continuously punish the kids at McClimans. Like, all we have done is been born this way.
So why? For colleagues, any, comments on m 16? Director Berry? Just wanted to give, Preston, your hearing list, an opportunity to respond because I am also I was just thinking about the additional two years. How is it possible that it won't cost more? What are the implications? And when we do see other work moving forward, I guess, now I am also perplexed. And so I just would love to use some of the time to take your Yeah. I'm happy to follow-up. A couple of things about this item.
In the process of where my client sits at the project, everything has to be a fully public division of. It is sitting in DSA right now. And once it comes out, it will go. So and that's when the construction begins. And so in terms of that process, there's no dispute over the fact that the finance project has been delayed and been promised to do this. We're at a time right now where we are going to go into construction with that project when it comes out on the BSI. Right? And so we are working with DSA. It has been it was submitted in February,
and they are going through to approve all the structural calculations that are in that project. The extension of this is and realize this is no cost. We want these services available to address any issues during construction. And so that is what this is. There was original, assessment that you've heard of, but also we will be breaking ground. And as we've heard, there are unforeseen things that happen in school sites, and this would make it so that you have it available. One of the other things that I would note that is an improvement in our process, when we had situations that where we would have unforeseen conditions around soils or other,
soil quality issues, the board would have to make eliminations from other projects to address that. Right now on the spending fund, we've been able to put aside about $1,500,000. So if there is something that gets determined that is an additional cost with any project, we have a fund that we can go to and address that. And so this is a a a check for you all to have some services there over the life of that project, and it's a critical piece. If you're gonna be doing additional soil testing at the field, if you're gonna be doing additional soil testing as required with the stadium project,
we wanna have that plus that service available during the life of the project. And, yes, there is it will be done. Once we begin the process of breaking ground, which should happen in this fall based on when things come out of the division of state architects, and this this service will be required for the. Does that clarify your question? Thank you. My follow-up comment is that I think we should we hear some common themes board meeting after board meeting, and it it might be worth superintendent thinking about how we can proactively provide information
and update on certain issues to the community. I don't know if the superintendent's support is appropriate for that, but maybe there's some other venue or mechanism that we can not require folks to, like, you know, have to come and petition for things. Other comments from other board directors? Do you wanna add something? You might I I just I do have a development pager for the performance project that I don't know if it's gone out to the school site and the school community. But definitely happy to get that for you all because it does explain where we are on the phase of the project and what's shared with the school site.
I think our back to school nights are happening. Making sure to get some back to school night on the climate. Alright. Any other gordali? Okay. Mister Rickstrapp, will you, take full calls for the adoption of this item and the security? Director William? Yes. Greg Gallotta? Yes. This is where directors are asking for. I'm saying. Greg Berry? Yes. And the conclusion of this item, I will hand the agenda back to director or president. Madam president will recommend, an interpretation. We'll check. We have an interpretation for, mister. Yes, sir. Breauxhall. Moving to interpretation announcement.
We'll start with Spanish. Again, please only raise your hand if you need Spanish interpretation. Miss Walker Marquez, if you can come off mute and make the interpretation announcement for Spanish, please. Yes. Of course. Great. Thank you, miss Malcolm Marquez. Ching attendees, receiving hands raised for Spanish interpretation. I presume, any attendees? Seeing no hands, we'll now start with Spanish interpretation. Next, we'll go to Cantonese. Again, please don't raise your hand if you need Cantonese presentation. Mister Nguyen, if you can come up with me to make the total 10,000 for Cantonese go to Arabic.
Again, please don't raise your hand if you need Arabic interpretation. Mister Turek, you can come off mute and make an interpretation announcement for Arabic, please. Great. Thank you, mister Turek. Check attendees. Any interpretation is needed for our elders? Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at the moment. I'll turn to you, mister Turek. Adam present, the second announcement and the third announcement of of interpretation is available. So thank you for bringing Thank you. Oh, we're now moving on to item j, which is public comments on non agenda items.
And how may I be able to do that this month? One moment, madam president. We have 9PM. Thank you, two minutes. First and last speaker are Kim Davis, visit the employee Walton, Rosada Olafala. Oh, okay. Are there any other speakers besides the student who is here now? We'll have student speakers first. Okay. We had a great quest, to move for tonight only. Thank you. As a Oakland High School student, I want to quickly note that I'm here from six, and I'm deeply saddened that public comment will push back three hours on a school
night. This is particularly absurd since it's the first week of school. Good evening on the city board and members, junior small staff members, superintendent. I'm excited to be standing up here all day. My name is Luan Nguyen. I'm a senior at Oakland High School, and I'm one of the many leaders at Down with Nashville. I would first like to extend an invitation for our our, raise the bar awards taking place on August 28 at 6AM at 6PM. Sorry. Sorry. September 18, at 6PM at Inspire Golden State.
This is a great opportunity for you as being members of the board to celebrate the excellence of our local district and charter. We would all love for you to attend as your attendance continues to inspire the the OUSD district to to continue serving the students at local level. In addition, this summer, we've hosted our institute fellowship hosted by FEMI's National, where students and parents from charter school and district schools come together and learn about the inequality of inequity in education and how we can advocate for higher education outcomes.
We've also reached out to a few of you. And for those who we haven't reached out to before, we hope to set up a meeting in the future. This school year, I hope members on this members on this board focus on bettering student outcomes for all of our students. I also did want to add that we we need we need to continue having proper wall quality water check and having and proper signage. No student deserves to drink or use water with unsafe levels of life. Thank you for your time. Okay.
Next speaker. Thank you. I'm asking the name of the school I couldn't hear. So, good night. My name is, Bianca. I am the mom of a student in Aspire Academy, and also I have a daughter in third grade. And, I I I want to invite you, to come and see our school. This school, has been, really good for my children. They have progressed academically. They have gotten the support, individual individual support from the staff, and they have always included included us as parents.
We already sent an email to you, inviting you to different events that we are going to be having at the school, and we would like you to, meet our events and our and our staff in in the school as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. May I have translation, please? Yes. Hello. My name is Cecilia Cabrera. I have three children in LodeStar, and I what I what I have seen is that the improvement in their in their, development. We have a 107 students that are in the in the inclusion and motor mild
to moderate and moderate to severe program, and we have seen, progress of two percent in all of those students. My child has an IP. He had many obsessions, and he had many difficulties learning. But a doctor at the school saw him, and they were able to, determine what supports that he needed, and he has been, he has, diagnosed now, diagnosed of autism, and he is receiving a lot of supports. He's in a short class, he's learning a lot,
he's progressing a lot, thanks to all the support that we are, getting at the school. So I want to invite you to come and see the school and to see yourself all the all the improvements that, students are having at the school. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And can we have a transcription, please? Yes. Hello. My name is Norma Garcia. Hello, district staff and, board of directors. I have two children in load start, one in in tenth grade and the other one in seventh grade, and I have been one of the founding parents since that school was created.
And, thank you, director Hutchinson. We met you, when you came and visit visited, but I invite everybody else to come and visit and be able to see all the unique vision and the create the support that creates equity and a very happy, healthy, and, stable community. They promote love and trust, and they have very strong principles. The families are always at the center of their, educational philosophy, and they support children from TK to twelfth grade.
They always pay attention to the needs of each student. And I have been there for almost nine years, and I have been able to see all the opportunities that families have received, all the diverse, cultural diversity, and they have been, fostering their dreams and all the different educational opportunities for students. Thank you so much for letting me speak, and I invite you to visit our school to see it, to see it for yourselves. Thank you very much. Next speaker,
please. Good evening. Kim Davis. I first wanted to to speak, to the fact that it's 09:00 and and this is just now coming up. And and there were parents here and it's unfortunate that they had to wait. And so that's part of why I'm glad that you're making changes to the, to the agenda. And, to make it more student and hopefully parent, friendly. But one thing that I would, two things actually that I would well, actually three things. One, I would have a hard stop for, for closed sessions. If you can't get your work done in your in your hard stop time,
then you're gonna have to, do it at the end of the meeting. The second is I would suggest that you have a time certain for public comment on non agenda items, so that, you know, folks don't necessarily have to come at 05:30. If they know that they will be speaking at seven, then, you know, people can adjust accordingly. And the last thing is I think we need to move the consent agenda later in the agenda, as well because that seems to take up a lot of time. The other thing I wanted to talk about was McClymonds, about facilities,
about the fact that the Hills schools are doing great. And remind us that part of the reason why Mclymonds is now getting this money is because they didn't get the money in measure B, I believe it was, and then again in measure j. But Chabot got a new building and almost doubled the size of their school. Montclair got a new building, almost doubled more than doubled the size of their school, even though they don't have enough kids in the community. Because the the idea was we're going to invest in these super schools up the
hill rather than investing in, schools in East And West Oakland. And, you know, I'll tell you the people at Prescott still have not gotten over the fact that they have a secondhand Chabot air conditioning system. They didn't get their own. Chabot got the air conditioning system they were promised. And, Prescott got the new one. So okay. Okay. Good night, board. It is very unfortunate. I will echo what, Kim said as well as what most of the other people have said. I I find it very disrespectful that you are changing the agenda and putting public
comment behind all of these consent reports, which is what you just did today, and you see what time a Oakland High student say because he valued to make sure he spoke to y'all. He was so excited to come and talk to the diocese for the first time, an Oakland High student. And this is how you treat our parents and our students, and we were very quiet in the back. And and I will tell you, president Brohart, that you can look at who signed up for a public comment when you guys come out of closed session. So you can get it. Man, do we have students here? Let let me prioritize that. You know, just common sense to me in a sense.
But, I'm here to welcome you guys to the new school year. We're back. I'm happy that we're back to see some of you guys' faces, smiling. And there's work to do. Needless to say, we've had this board meeting, and there's a lot of things that have come up. And we still wanna center student outcomes. Let's make sure that we work really hard in making sure that, Grecker Berry's policy gets passed through the teaching and learning committee and gets onto this floor so we can vote on it, so we can talk about student outcomes more, so that we can make sure we're addressing the promises we make to the students and not just graduate them into a failure of life.
That's what a lot of them feel when they leave OUSD. Like, one student that got accepted to Stanford and was the highest of her class at one of the district schools, and was told she has to take remedial classes now. And she has no idea how that how that happened. That's a problem. So we do wanna invite you guys to our awards ceremony where we're celebrating several district schools that are meeting their targets as well as growing for black and brown students specifically. This is an opportunity for you to see your your actual district schools thrive in an environment that is really designed to celebrate who's doing the right things and how
we can come together as one Oakland and do the right things for all of our students. So I'm gonna leave these with you all. You have a great night, and I appreciate your time. My name wasn't called, but, I think my card is up there, Jack Nelson. I'm Jack Nelson. You got it? I'm Jack Nelson. I went to Grass Valley with, Dina Sadler. And, although I'm behind her, my sister and Bailey. I went to King Junior High, and I went to Skyline High. And I'm gonna talk about Skyline just for a second. But I'll leave we we wanna get a sign up there,
and we'd like to rename the athletic complex after Tony Fardella and John Beaman. I think Mike Hutchinson could tell you a little bit about those two because I think they were there about the same time as you guys. Okay. He's gone. Having a facility named after a guy that's still alive would be pretty nice too. I'll support any, person that you wanna name did after. Preston Thomas brought that up earlier, that could happen. But you'd be hard pressed to to beat these two. They're they're really good. So I'm hopeful that,
over the next months, I was told in May it would take six months and if it takes all of that, we can get the last game November 14, I believe, three months versus Skyline and Skyline, and we could honor, posthumously, mister Bardella and mister Boone. If not, I will support it, and, I have the funding for it. So thank you. Okay. I wanna touch on two things. I wanna touch on, the school plan for student achievement, the SPSA. This is my second year in a row coming to report on this.
And the dates that are on the agenda, which is February 11, our administrator gave these dates, and she did not, meet with the parents. February 11, there was a she said there was an SSC meeting. It was actually on February 4. February 18, she said there was a coffee with the principal. It was canceled because I was the only parent there. February 26 was the attendance team. I have no knowledge of what they do, who they are, and I've been there for four years. February, March 11, they said there was a FSC meeting with a renewed goal.
Miss Davis made all of the goals by herself. No parent involvement. And I was one of the only parents that attended the SSC meeting. March 1 was a Saturday, and she put down that there was a community school manager meeting on a Saturday. No, sir. April 15, we were dictated, what was on the SPSA at the SSC meeting. All these meetings are recorded, and I encourage you to go back and look at these meetings because I tell no lies. These this plan was made by somebody that had a lot of authority.
And she made it by herself without any input from the parents. She is not parent friendly. She doesn't know how to talk to parents or people, and she gets along with no one. So, another thing is that I wanted to talk about the blatant disrespect from the school leaders and the staff, from the administrators on down. Parents aren't respected at all. The HR manager doesn't know how to do proper investigations. I am an investigator by trade, and I know that. I have six outstanding level one complaints that have been outstanding for almost two years.
I checked in today and everybody is looking at me like I'm crazy. The Ombudsman doesn't do proper Ombudsman work. He passes on to staff who do not know how to do proper investigations. The attorney that you just hired doesn't know the law and she is the Ombudsman's boss and she does not know how to do investigations. She doesn't return phone calls and she doesn't hold Mr. Gabriel Venezuela accountable. No one is held accountable in this district and I'm done. One of the things that happened when I went to the enrollment office with this
particular parent, It was said that the reason why she was put on a waiting list is because she failed to produce a birth certificate. That made me think. We are a district where we have thousands of students who are newcomers that don't have birth certificates. You cannot require some students to have birth certificates, and then you have some students who are not capable of doing it, and you say you can't have a birth certificate or you're not required to have one. So that has to be fixed. Reparations for black students has not happened. It hasn't been happening.
You need to have something done with this dual language program at, at this brick school. If a student or a parent wants to voluntarily participate in dual enrollment classes or dual languages, let them do it, but don't mandate it. It has been so fair that black students at brick have been mandated to learn some of their academic subject matters in Spanish. McClimans, that unauthorized pool party that went on at McClimans needs to be dealt with and the leadership needs to be replaced.
We need to have at McClimans the fact that the kitchen was not ready at the beginning of the school and follow-up on when it's gonna be ready. I already talked about the football field. Also, we need to have at McCliman's the enrollment issue dealt with appropriately. We were told that the principal just now that the principal of McClimans said not to send any more students to McClimans. We're not gonna protect McClimans. I love McClimans, but every school has to do the right thing, including McClimans. We have no evo no evacuation procedure for Skyline High School.
That is in a high risk fire zone. We have no evacuation for those students. We have a issue of bussing students. Some students a lot of students, particularly at Skyline and other schools, get bused to their school. And we pay for it, but you never have it on the budget for approval. Volunteers, lastly. Volunteers in this school district have to have a background check. Change the policy to include that. Miss superintendent, please. Thank you. Are there any other public speakers at the house? Madam president, all minutes have been called.
Okay. Thank you. Next on the agenda is, are comments from, our labor partners. Are there any, label partners online? Currently, I do not see any hand raised online for a Labor Party member. We'll then move on to item r, which is unfinished business. And the first one is R125Dash1314A, declaring continuing emergencies and authorizing district staff to enter into contracts or emergency construction services for the repair of dangerous conditions at various sites via demolition of structures.
Mister Thomas, do you have a so do we have a motion to adopt it to approve this one? R one. Yeah. I move the approval of R one. Thank you. Is there a second? Second, thank you, is moved by director Thompson and second moved by director Latta. Yeah. This is just an ongoing item that I think previously when there was a fire at Lockwood that there was an ongoing emergency declaration that it was made. We currently are we have demolished completely the Hillside Campus that had been really seriously damaged, and we were we were worried about a campus developing there.
Currently, the Ralph Blunt Campus has been, is in the phase of the demolition and some of the maintenance that's going on with that site, probably over 60% down. And then there's some ongoing work of ten twenty five that is ongoing around the ceiling up and destroying of the buildings there. Ethelmore, as of today, has been completely sealed. Fire fire escape removed so that people can't get in with one of the access points that they're getting. So there's still some ongoing work at all of these sites, and so the the resolution before you is to continue that work,
with other emergency or resolve. So, we're anticipating that when we move forward within the next four meetings, but, it really depends on doing the information. Thank you. And is there a public comment on the side of this account? Yes, madam president. There are two. Emergency repair of dangerous conditions at various sites. What is going on at my climate? Is it emergency? What's going on at McClymonds is a dangerous site. Soil contamination, lead contamination, air quality at McClymonds is dangerous. And we repeatedly come to you and say,
do something about these issues. So you're dealing with this issue of various sites, but you're not dealing with the issue at McClymonds. It is not considered an emergency. It's not considered that the safety of children related to soil contamination, lead contamination, air quality is not being dealt with. And you're gonna hear that every need until you sufficiently do something about it. Okay. So I wanna bring up the fact that, again, I'm a four year parent at McCleiman, and we have many, many, many unsafe issues going on.
We have homeless encampments all around the school. Our block our school is four block radius, and it's never safe. Never ever. We have gunshot, shootings all over the place. People running, ramping. Black we had someone running our school, right before the school ended last year from gunshots. And it was a person that didn't go to our school, but they who ran in the building. We had parents stabbing, a student with scissors over a fight. There were about 10 fights that happened at McCliman that staff,
I have video of staff just standing watching the fight. It's a lot. It's a lot. So, you know, we just illegal dumping every day. Last year, me and miss Susada would go around the building. And even though we have good janitors, you know, they can't keep up with the dumping. They can't. And we would pick up the garbage until we were threatened. Human waste, feces, homelessness, RVs, the traffic lights don't work. And I even called our city council person because that's a issue, And I need her to do something or the school district.
We have a policy about homeless encampment, and nobody enforces it. Thank you. Are there any board comments on this agenda item? And, I was standing out near the Upper Floor Building, and I was wondering I was concerned about, a gate that was not locked and then also a broken part of the vent. So, of course, I didn't I didn't try to stop this person, but there was a person who was walking out. So I I, on purpose, walked near it, but you kept walking past and just, And so I'm just wondering,
is that presenting a problem for you, because that gate is unlocked and the fence is kind of the wire fence on the far side, it's it's kind of, broken. There's a it's an open path. It it is an ongoing problem. And if you'll notice tonight as we leave, one of the things that we've been doing is moving security into the area. So that is an area that we will be sealing. And so we we are actively working with both police, fire department, the macro division around the encampments that are within that property.
So we are absolutely working for it. It is something that will be sealed. We had to make sure that we completed that memorial, which was done today. Progress on it. And one of the things that's also when you do an emergency resolution like this around the public contract vote in specific, I would say that almost all of the bids came in significantly under, the projected budget at the top. So at this point, we spent less than a million dollars of the money that was allocated. Yes. Thank you. I I just wanna state some things just so I'm I'm very clear where where
I stand. The fact that, Bunch is in the process of being demolished represents a failure. A failure by the school board and a failure by the district. Because five years ago, that building was being used to provide educational services. It's one of our traditional schools that's been here longer than I've been here. And in just a few years, because of bad decisions by the board and just general neglect, now it's been demolished. The fact that we can't secure our facilities represents a complete failure. The fact that there's a discussion about it's easier to demolish our resources rather than
take care of them is a complete failure. And the fact that this is being done under the guise of an emergency is unacceptable. This isn't an emergency. It didn't just happen. These sites year after year have been forced into this position. And so now to come back when the first emergency was passed last school year, and we're still doing this under an emergency measure, instead of doing it the right way and putting it in order of our other needs, is a complete failure. And, you know, it's really disappointing. The school board I remember growing up with and how Oakland used to work was
at least the elected representatives for certain districts. That's why the city went to a districting system instead of everyone being at large, is so that every community could have real representation. It's really sad that that doesn't happen. And again, it is heartbreaking that bunch no longer exists. And there's no reason for it other than neglect because people don't really care. But this isn't an emergency. This isn't an emergency and so it's offensive that this is how we're doing things. And it's a breakdown in process all across the board here in ODSU.
Thank you. I just wanted to name that one of the things that I appreciate about this is the partnership with the city instead of executing the plan. And I really want to see a concrete vision for how our relationship with this how we'll take advantage of this our relationship with this city to do other things, like some of the issues that we've heard in the public comment stuff, homeless encampments, the illegal dumping. I feel like at the very least, because I hear about it a lot and just decide,
at the very least, we need to somehow enhance services that make sure that our schools are are protected. It does matter what the environment looks like around our school buildings, and so it it is really challenging today to make sure, that we don't have illegal dumping and and blight and encampment around our schools, and we need to somehow prioritize that. So I appreciate the city partnership and this emergency resolution that I hear, and I I would love to see more of that and how we implement other
strategies for yeah. I couldn't agree more. I think we really do need to partner with the city as much as possible in the county since the county now has a pool of funds from OVW, to support any sort of work that we wanna do, to help community. I will also say this was, very much a part of our conversation with, council member Brown at Frick, and trying to figure out how we can move the Ed Partnerships Committee to unlock and support and, you know, figure out how we can work better together. And also, I just wanna uplift,
mayor Lee's, cleanup day at a couple of our school sites. I know CCCA looks beautiful, afterwards. But I do agree that we need to make sure that that is not just like a one off event, that it is more of a concerted effort that we work on together, and figure out what are the conversations that need to happen between whom so we can really be, acting in the best, for our community. I just wanted, board members and community, I just wanted to indicate that, our visit on the first day of school was very intentional to include the city
council as part of our all visitations and our mayor is actually going well beside me. So I want you to know that I have been in touch with her. We almost every every other day around different issues. One of the things that I prioritize that she is supportive is that our passage that kids have to walk to get to school. We have got to prioritize that and everything. And so we are working on that reference by president's bachelor that we started this summer,
before I even came on board at. As you know, the crossing guards at our school sites are an investment of the city, and this is something that we wanna keep talking about our needs. Very complex. Both of our budgets are challenged, but we also will be on the same page around prioritizing on what's happening in school. So I just want you to know that it is a priority of mine. Somebody's kinda new onboard, but it's I'm not new to the issue. And, we see them, and this is why we wanted to have that. Very critical and,
it's something that is very Alright. Thank you. Just wanna thank, director Barry and for that continued support and partnering with the, city to move forward. You know, one of the things I think we tend to forget, we live in and now so much that we forget about what occurred in the past. The past was we had deferred maintenance, and this district cut to zero for three years. We have the the Bunch portables are over 50 years old. Just could not actually put kids in the portables at 50 years old.
It just was not safe. And so when we have, like, the pandemic and there's been multiple years of no usage of the particular property and you come back and see that there was, the portables were just in no conditions for our kids, we there was a decision to move them to where they could actually, learn and thrive. So I I think that, as much as we want the solutions to happen overnight, I think the district this year,
I think us as a district are moving forward to really address the concerns that are going on. I think we have been really cognizant to put more money in deferred maintenance so that schools in the future won't have the same problems we have today. It is something that is So I just just wanna say that there's a lot of conversation, and I think we should continue that conversation. We should continue it at Machlimate, continue it at Bunch, continue it through District 3.
But there is a history that we have overlooked, and I just wanna really say that let's dive deeper into it and see how past decisions affect where we are today. And that we as a board should be more conscious to moving it forward and actually supporting the work that needs to be done. We're getting that work done this year, and we'll be getting it done over the next two years. Thank you. I just wanna I wanna add. I I do wanna thank, president Thomas for moving, I could see, like, the emergency part of this forward as someone who has the,
ten twenty five in my district, that I know that the students who come from at Dewey, the students who come from my former school, La Salita, our students who are littlest, students who come from those who attend a United Nations, and our high school students who attend MetWest see that every single day. There have been our students have been harmed not only by seeing it, but they've been harmed by people who are there. And I again, we have brought forward many motions over the years.
As I said, my my grandson was a baby when that was, flooded, and he's now in high school. So, we have now many we have generations of students who have gone past that building every single day to attend every school from, you know, from TK sorry. My head my tongue. From from our preschoolers to our twelfth graders. So I think it's again, these are we do have sites that are emergency. So I appreciate the work of the facilities department and the facility
going on well. Are there any other board comments? Go ahead, Ms. Cole. Yes. The Board has an ordinance related to encampments at near school sites. The ordinance requires that any homeless encampment has to be a certain distance from the school. And I don't think that's being enforced at McClymonds or I don't know at all the schools. But that ordinance requires that. Thank you. I agree. And that's a problem also with one of my board members.
Director Hutchinson, do you want a Yes, please. Especially since, most of this first round was people just speaking off topic and off the issue that we're even on. And but if somebody wants to bring up remembering the history, it's really important that actually you are here to experience that history. And so because of a chemical leak that happened at Bunch is why the students were forced first forced out of there. The same kind of chemical leak that we had at McClymonds High that year. And then there was a bad decision to co locate Bunch with other students,
pack them in another school that was already half a school because of giving Lafayette away to KIPP Charter School. And then because there was no effort by any school board director to maintain the bunch campus so students could return, over the three years, it was destroyed. So let's not talk about past decisions. The decisions that led to Bunch being in this situation were all made by the seven directors of here. And so this idea, let's ask this city the city is suing us still. The city is suing us.
What are we talking about? The city won't even give us our soda tax This is our job. In This is our job. In the district, the buck stops at the superintendent and the school board. Period. You didn't hear me mention a staff member's name. I'm not throwing up this is my responsibility. That's why I'm so upset. The Facilities Committee obviously hasn't handled these issues. Here they are being kicked back again. And we got everyone saying, Thank you for calling this an emergency. If that's an emergency, then we have emergencies at just about every site in OUSD. Because OPD doesn't respond to the calls from our schools.
OPD doesn't do anything to protect our schools and safety around it. It's not OUSD's job to handle encampments or any of these issues outside of our school sites. But the fact that we can't keep our sites secure, that people run around like Chicken Little. This is Oakland, California. These things aren't new. There was a time during the crack years when every single one of our campuses was an open campus. Like, this is wild to me. And I refuse as the only native on the school board. I just can't listen to this garbage anymore. And so I'm waiting for the community to rise up and blame your elected officials
for the state of the district that you live in. That's how our system works. That's how our democracy works. And if they ain't serving you, then it's your job to make sure they're no longer here. That's where we're at now. OUSD is in crisis, and I think everyone can see why. Thank you. I'm gonna move this on. Are there, mister Will mister Vakstra, can we take a roll call and vote, please? Yes. And remember, this is one of those motions that require a four fifth vote, which in simple language means five vote to pass.
The student directors are absent. And director Latta? Yes. Director William? Yes. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Berry? Yes. Director Thompson? Yes. Vice president Daschler? Yes. President Prohan? Yes. Motion's adopted. Okay. Four films. Thank you. We'll now move on to, new business. And the first new business is s one term waivers. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve s one. Second. Public comment. Madam president, missus Lara Olobala and Janelle Harris. Okay. Janelle. This is the item where we are approving people who are not certified to be
allowed to teach in our classrooms. Was that the this item? This is, application for variable term waivers, CBEST, BCLED, and program, California Commission on Teachers. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. What percentage of our students are in classrooms with people not certified in your subject matter? How can you have at McClymonds 80% of the students reading three or more grade levels below their grade? And then you're gonna have uncertified teachers in their classroom. That is a setup for failure. And that's what we have at McLean's.
Janelle, you wanna speak to? So I wanna just elaborate on what miss Zapata is talking about. We are we have one PE teacher that just got credentialed in the last four years. And he is a point six FTE for 268 kids. We are graduating students with A through G requirements with teachers who do not have credentials. We have teachers at McClimans who have been there for years and years and years under this credentialing program.
And nobody oversees when their time is up. How can we have that? I understand that we have shortages, but how is this how is this? We have a male PE teacher teaching female and male point six FTE. That's not even a full time PE teacher. And we have you're supposed to this district's supposed to send notifications to parents when their kids are being taught by by by teachers under these programs.
And oftentimes, HR does a terrible job in sending out those letters. And I have mine over all the years. And I have six teachers on there that are still at McLean. And I'm a four year parent. I believe that program is only two and a half years or something like that. But they are still there. And I'd like an explanation on how that is happening right under your nose. Thank you. Are there any reports on all? Public comments? All public comments regarding call is monitored.
Are there any board tunnel? Can we take a vote, please? On the roll call to approve s dot dash one, student directors are absent. Director Barry? Yes. Director Hutchinson? Abstain. Director Williams? Yes. Director Lara? Yes. Director Thompson? Yes. Vice president Bauschler? Yes. Vice president Prohan? Yes. Motion is adopted. The next item is s three sorry. S two, interim credentials. Is this application application for provisional internship permit, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing,
named employees for school year twenty twenty five, twenty six. Do I have a motion to approve it? I motion to approve f two. Second. And other public comments on this? Yes, madam president. Sara Olafala and Janelle Harris. Thank you. Two minutes. Are we looking at the diversity of staff members that we have at schools? We have a an an enrollment of close to 10% of our student enrollment being white, and the majority of our teachers are white.
You have been looking at diversity as it relates to, having more, Hispanic and Latino students, and justifiably, that's a ever growing population. We don't what I'm hearing is that when we are letting teachers go, disproportionately high number of African American teachers have been released from this district. How many individuals on this list by race create a balance? How many children are gonna be looking at people in the classroom that look like them? How many children are gonna have an opportunity to see diversity just as as much
as seeing someone that looks like them? We don't look at, at any time, disproportionality of staffing, and that's important. We have in this country a very low rate of African American men who are teachers. We are very fortunate at McClimans to have a high number of African American males. But you don't look at this ever. It's never presented. So I ask that at some point, someone looks at the data that says diversity
proportionately and fairly and equitably is represented at all schools. You have some schools where it's predominantly one race. You have some schools where you don't have teachers credentialed, but you have other schools where everybody's you got some schools where everybody is certified. So as you guys are aware, we have a through g requirements in Oakland Unified School District. So on here, we have one teacher, Miriam Reyes, who is grade social science teacher.
What does that mean? Social science, which one? Again, we at in the beginning of this meeting, I told you that the enrollment office was telling people there's a waiting list for my clients. Well, I have an explanation now. So we do not have enough teachers. We don't have enough teachers to teach the kids. So are you telling me that the Oakland Unified School District is telling people that they have to divert them to other schools because we can now only accommodate 260 people? Is that what the that's what you're saying?
Because that is not what I was told. When we have so many students, the district is supposed to provide us funding for another teacher. And that is not happening, mister Williams, because, mister, I'm sorry, Killian said that he told you that. That he told you that. So I I will ask respectfully that you look into how come we're not getting funding for more teachers if we have more students coming to Macliman. Thank you. Are there any board comments? Mister Raikes director Berry?
I just wanted to name that I had a number of questions came up for me, and it happens every time this is on the agenda. And so part of me wants there to be context that we receive whenever this is before the board. So when I tallied and saw that there were 40 of these placements in elementary, it makes me curious about whether that is normal. Is that does that happen every year at this time of year? Should we be concerned? What is the process? For for or or how are we doing with teacher recruitment and retention?
And and what is the relationship between what we're seeing today and this ongoing strategy to make sure that we have credentialed teachers. And so some of that context as we continue to see this on the agenda, I think is helpful to me. Make sure, that in the future that we give you the context that you're talking about, recruitment and retention is a priority. As I said, I have been at the orientations for all of our new staff. The process is a little more complex for individuals because they come from different programs,
there are lots of different requirements and our teachers are often in very different places. And so, I think it makes sense because this is the primary thing that we do is teach that every board member is really clear about what the process is and what this documentation really speaks to. So, I will work with our talent department to make sure the board is really clear, what the process is and what the status is and how far we've come in terms of filling these openings that we have in Indonesia.
I think something else along those lines that I'd like to see us discuss maybe in teaching and learning is retention. And I feel like, we do every year have a large number of teachers in credentialing programs, and I admire them for going into those credentialing programs and teaching because it's, I mean, it's a lot. But I guess I am concerned with the letters of non reelect that happen at the end of the year. And something I would like us to explore is really looking at, how are we evaluating new teachers?
And I think we're often evaluating them against a veteran teacher. And I think there really needs to be benchmarks for our first year teachers. There need to be you know, we hired these people thinking that they had what it took to teach and I think in that evaluation process, do we support them through those, particularly the first three years? Because I think anyone who's taught knows that those first three years are rough. You're kinda just getting through it. And I think that if we set solid benchmarks,
we helped teachers meet those benchmarks. I know our new teacher support does a lot. It really is a very good program. But I think how do we support our teachers at the site so that we don't have this turnover of teachers who are investing in a credential program and working for the district and then given a letter of non reelect. So, I do think that's an important piece for our our new teachers and retention. Mister Reykstra, can we take a roll call on the vote, please? Yes. On the motion to adopt S dot dash two,
student directors are absent. Director Thompson? Yes. Director Berry? K. Director Hutchinson? Abstain. Director William? Absa. Okay. Director Latta? Yes. Vice president Bachelor? Yes. And President Broghert? Yes. Motion is adopted. Next item on the agenda is S3, which is an amendment to the Board Bylaw 09/2022, Agenda Meeting Materials. This is put forward by myself and Vice President Bachelor. Is there a motion to adopt? Oh, first read. Sorry. I just wanted to I I think just as an introduction to this agenda,
I think where this came from is kind of what happened tonight, is we want to be able to, one, have our students and our parents, our community from PSAC, be able to to be able to present first since they also they are at going to school. They are also have quite often, have childcare issues, and and need to get home to their families. So I think we wanted to be able to additionally, we wanted to be able to move, PSAC to the second month, second meeting of the month. Again, because what often happens is kind of what happened tonight is that the meeting hasn't happened yet,
so they don't have time to post their, materials. And then yeah. I think so we want to be able to have our community voices first and then, our consent items. So, it is just a first read, and, we will bring it up next week that our next meeting on twenty seventh. Director Hutchinson. Thank you. You know, so just so we're clear, it's only the first meeting of the year where this meeting happens before the PSAC. Every other month of the year, it's a regular meeting schedule. So let's just put that out there first.
Second thing is we can see tonight by the reaction of the community having to wait until nine to give public comment on non agenda items that this isn't working. The last time we made bylaw changes to change the agenda order was a multi month process that three School Board Directors along with staff and Doctor. Frank advising were all involved in. And we made those changes for two reasons. One, so the community could have a chance to engage and participate. And two, because the business of the Board,
including the consent report, needs to be handled in a meeting. And so that's why those things were moved up to the start of the meeting. Unfortunately, Board leadership just wants to do this on their own for whatever their reasons are. It's really disrespectful to the other members of the Board. It's not how things have ever been done before. We can see it's not working. And it's extremely insulting to the community, especially when you add in that we have special meetings being called all the time. There's a special meeting that's being called on Tuesday next week. Nobody even knows. They think they're going to discuss hiring a new superintendent in that special meeting and
that that's the way to engage people. And so this is supposed to be a work meeting and it's our business. This is the school board's outward facing meeting so we can engage with our community. And unless we're gonna have community participation and voting on our business items first, nothing else makes sense. And again, it's really disrespectful for the Board President and Vice President just to do this on their own, not consult the Board, think they know better when there's no proof of concept that anyone can see.
So what we need to be addressing is we're bankrupt as a district. What we need to be addressing is the Board never voted last year on recommendations under the three Rs, so we have no restructuring plans going on. What we should be discussing is the transition plan that we had for the superintendent was disregarded. I can go down the list. We heard today about facilities not being taken care of. There's questions about how we're even staffing. And yes, we are we have a disproportionately low amount of, Black staff members,
particularly Black male teachers, but it's even worse for Latinos now in the district as well. And when this isn't a focus, when we've had somebody who's not a person of color as Board President now two years in a row, it's starting to feel a little bit different up in here. So I'm not keeping my mouth shut about any of this stuff, but when somebody brings up like historical memory, and I know they weren't even here to remember it, this is why we get into trouble. Changing the order won't do a darn thing other than upset more people in the community who weren't very happy with the way this meeting was run again tonight.
Thank you. I don't normally respond. I do feel I need to say that I have lived in Oakland for almost forty five years. That would date me. But, I have been around, I've worked in the District for almost forty years. So I wasn't born here, but, anyway. Yes. Go ahead, director Barrack. So I think that tonight was a good test run of the recommendations and, like, what's on the table for us to consider. I know we didn't test it out, but in theory. I like the ideas that we heard in public comment today,
so I hope that we can, like, explore that between now and when we see this again. The time certain for, public comment on non agenda items, moving gen consent. I think those are all things that we should explore between now and I would be happy to support the change in the bylaws with the integration of some of the feedback we we heard tonight. No. I agree. I think, the other thing the the public comments will come earlier. It was just a particular thing tonight that was a request. So, no, the public comments were different. And I encourage everyone to read the bylaws,
the bylaw amendment changes, and, we will discuss them on August 9. I'm sorry, but it's a business item, so we should take public comment. Okay. Are there public comments on this? Yes, madam president. It's, Kim Davis, Estado Olobaba and Janelle Harris. Thank you. With all due respect, President, I just wanna say I respect the fact that you put PSAC first. But I want you to know that I am a mother of a student of a special ed that's involved in special ed as well. And I used to be the president chair of the CAC.
But what I've seen over the last three and a half years is that you don't value the input that PSAC gives you. This district currently is way out of compliance for special education. Way out of compliance. And if you respected PSAC, we wouldn't be there. So, when you say people wanna go home to their families, I do you think I wanna be here with y'all? No, I don't. I wanna be home too, but I have to be here because I need you to hear me. I really need you to be able to absorb the things that are going on.
Like, I left my son at McClimans because he's able to identify with people who look like him, and he feels like he can be himself there. Yeah. We got a lot of trouble and a lot of problems, but roses grow from concrete. But we get no support. We get no support. And so I have to be here. So, you know, all is well. PSAC could be here too. So I'm just saying. Thank you. Thank you, miss Harris. Ms. Hobaugh. I think these are all good recommendations. I appreciate them. I think the recommendation that,
could you explain pupil consent? I don't know of an item on the agenda that this says move adoption of the pupil consent to an earlier time. What is the pupil consent? That's a pupil discipline report. Oh, I see. Okay. Thank you. I have I have a challenge that you can't fix because in order to fix it, it would extend the meeting. And what I mean by that, I look at all 119 consent, items. And there are a lot of them I wanna say something, but I because of two minutes being allowed,
I can't get to everything. And that's can't be fixed because I think the two minutes you have to abide by that in order to have a timely meeting. But that is a challenge to try to deal with that. I think there has to be one standing report that needs to be on the agenda every meeting, and that's a fiscal financial report of where we are in dealing with our budget. And you can amend your budget at any time.
You approved a budget, it can be amended at any time. But mister, Hutchinson's recommendation that that report, we have to do that. And so, besides that, I just wanna reference, the training of our new teachers, classroom management. I hope that's being high on the list because that's one of the biggest challenges for new teachers. Thank you. Thank you. Next on the agenda is the president's report. Again, like I said earlier, the first days of school, I think, have been really, successful. It's been good going to the different sites.
I do want to start off by, again, talking about the August 19, special meeting to discuss the request for proposals for the superintendent search firm. The purpose of this meeting is to get community input on the request on the firm that we would be looking at. This is not necessarily the qualifications we would be looking for in a superintendent. There will be future meetings on that. As Board President, I see three priorities for this year: financial stability, a strong facilities plan and the search for a permanent superintendent.
These also will help us firmly get on the path to student outcomes and student success. In the months ahead, when we select a superintendent search firm and we want to hear from everyone, students, staff, families, labor partners and community members, There are many ways to share your ideas. There will be many community events, small meetings, large meetings, town halls, online. There will be many ways for people's voices to be heard. On the budget front, we've been working closely with Doctor. Sadler, Lisa Grant Dawson and District leadership to keep our finances stable and centered on student
needs. Exiting receivership is a huge milestone and we'll honor this by building a thoughtful, balanced budget. We will be holding community engagements to hear thoughts from students, staff, labor partners, families and community about budget development in the next few months. Before January, we should be hearing from our Facilities Department and Committee on the Facilities Asset Management Report. I think this is really clear. I want to thank, President Thomas, the Facilities staff and our Board Facilities Committee members, Bachelor, Barry and Thompson for their hard work on this and on community engagement on this
plan. Although we have many changes ahead challenges ahead, sorry, we're ready and together we'll be able to get them done. Here's to a strong and successful school year for all of us. Are there board comments, board reports? Director Hutchinson? I actually had a comment, but I can roll it into my report. So I just want us to make sure that we note that the master's facilities plan was actually due in the spring of this year because it's due every five years. So now, you're saying we're gonna receive it a year late. And we've already built our budget for this year. The approved budget that has only $300,000
above our reserve. And so, I know also President Brochart that, Director Berry and I, directly asked you in closed session today to make sure that something was agenda agendaized at the next regular Board meeting to make sure we have a public conversation about the qualities that we're looking for, in a search firm and a superintendent. It should not be a closed session conversation. And unfortunately, the answer you gave us is you'll let us know. We would also like for there to be agendized, a standing item on water quality and a budget update.
And I know at the next, Board meeting on the twenty seventh that CBO Grant Dawson is planning to bring the forty five day revision to the budget where she should also be making demands of the Board because we're not gonna make it through this year unless we cut spending from the approved budget. So for my report, I've had a pretty good week so far as I am focusing on District 4 instead of hitting my head against the wall over here some of the time. We really appreciated, Doctor. Sadler, coming to Montero on Monday with Doctor. Williams, the Principal. Montero is on the rise. It is an amazing place to be. Strong increases in enrollment for three years running,
has unique class offerings, everything from Woodshop to Spanish II to Accelerated Math classes, has a, black leadership in place, and at one of our most diverse schools, at Monterra Middle School, black students are still the statistical majority as well. So it's an amazing place and, my family has thrived there. Yesterday, I had a chance to visit Montclair Elementary with, our new principal, Ms. Webster. Really exciting. She is an Oakland native who has been an administrator around the Bay Area and
is now coming back home. And, I really liked her energy in meeting her and I think it's just what Montclair Elementary needs to kind of jump start the culture there again. So I was really excited, and their enrollment is up there as well. And then also yesterday I visited, Hillcrest K-eight. Same thing, Ms. Hatch, the principal, is now entering into her second year there and Hillcrest has now had time to get over the hump of when the middle school was threatened to be closed. And so, actually they're a little upset at Killian for placing too many students in sixth grade
in the middle school, but but it is nice. It is bursting at the seams and I'm really excited, to continue working with the PTA at Hillcrest who really wants to, leverage the resources that they have to bring some facility upgrades to the school and hopefully we can pilot a new model that can be used across the District. Tomorrow I am meeting with and visiting, the principal at Edna Brewer, my alma mater, and then I will be at Laurel Elementary in the afternoon. And on Friday, I'm excited to be at Joaquin Miller Elementary,
most likely at 02:00 as Kaboom! And Eat, Learn, Play complete their next playground, which this time is being done at at Joaquin Miller. I have a plan to meet with all of my principals at all of my schools by the end of next week and I also plan on attending all of my school's back to school nights. It's great being on the campuses. It's great running into all the people that I've known for my whole life, my experience in visiting the school. And, you know, and hopefully more and more people from District four, as we start engaging deeply there,
will start again reengaging with the School Board here because we're in trouble. And, you know, again, I'm not gonna bang my head against the wall here, but I'm gonna do what I do with my community who elected me and we're gonna make sure not only our district is okay, but if we have to, we'll show the rest of the city how to do it. Thank you. Any other Director Thompson? Yes. I'll make this really short. I just want to personally welcome, Ms. Shalonda Tillman. She is the new principal that was spoken of by our team, superintendent. She's our new principal at,
Madison Park Primary. And, like our superintendent said, she has taught ten years at at, Madison. So I specifically asked her if she had taught down the hall because I remember years ago going to her classroom. And so she said, well, Ashley, I've taught every wing of this school, even the portable. So she's done the whole thing and so I'm really excited that she's there. She has a lot of energy and I think it's it's what's needed because she understands from the teacher perspective, because we had a chance to talk about that,
what teachers need in order to be successful in their classroom. So she hasn't lost that teacher understanding. So thank you very much. Yeah, I will also keep this very short. Also, welcome back to all of the students and families. We have, also a particular welcome to our new principal at Emerson, Principal Castillo, as well as the new principal of the Young Adult Program, Jay Call, who's been a, a teacher in that program for a while and has now taken over the principalship there. And looking forward to, yeah, having a great year. I a couple other quick updates is that,
I am looking forward to our special meeting on the nineteenth to get started on our superintendent search and, making, more having more transparency for the public around what that process will look like in the timeline. Next Thursday, will also be the next meeting of the, ad hoc task force to reduce outsourcing. And we'll be meeting in person at the Marcus A Foster Building, when that will be staff, students, and I'll be the board representative for that. So looking forward to, that meeting. And then we'll be preparing a presentation before first interim in October for the board.
And then last but not least, I have my coffee office hours this Saturday, at 11AM, and, I'll be at Mother Tongue, cafe at 40 First And Broadway. Thanks. Hey. Hey. Thank you, president. Real hard. Yes. Yeah. Just, I just I just I've been thinking about, the superintendent's report today and just, how positive it was and what the positive vibrations were to that as the start of the school year. Yes. We're only on the third day of the school year. It feels like we're in June.
You know? It feels like we're in June and the whole world is falling apart. But I I move with optimism, and I will look for best intentions in folks. And we will continue to build on some of the wins that we are we have this past year. You know, my mother say you can always find what you look for. So if you wanna find something negative, you if you think it, you can find it. But if you wanna look for something positive, you can find it as well. And I just wanna say I'm really proud of District 3 because, there are some challenges in my climates,
but I really look forward to, addressing some of those concerns this year. We finally have an opportunity to do so and partner with the superintendent that's willing to double her, love and investment. So I see there's progress there. So, yes, bring the heat. Bring the heat every time. Just know that we still love you, and we're gonna continue to move forward. We're gonna love you more than you ever been loved before. So bring it. But, truly, really, I wanna thank Prescott. We have rebuild,
repaint. We have more technology. We have an increased amount of students attending Prescott. We have an increased amount of students attending MLK. Thank you, Roma Grove, for holding a strong program. We have a new, garden and playground that's coming out in place. West Oakland Middle School, increase in West Oakland Middle School. We have a whole new, we have a whole new, windows that have been added to our school, and the new paint looks beautiful. You should come visit. Thank you, miss Umai, for holding it down there.
Thank you, miss, miss Slaughter, for holding down Prescott. Just really blessed, to go to these schools and see all of the good work that is going on in spite of the gray cloud that tends to hover around the board all the time. There's some great work going on. Lift up miss, Aberhoff from, Hoover. Very strong program. The kids are are learning. They're enjoying themselves. Nine seconds left. Shout out to, Bunch. Miss Anna Vasquez is doing a fantastic job at Bunch.
I just really wanna shout you out. Beautifying the campus. Westlake, doctor Lucinda Taylor, thank you for coming back. Your stability, we are growing. We have now arts, choir, drama, band, peer, RJ, tech media. There's just so many great things that are happening. I get it. McClimus got some challenges. I get it. And I wanna work with you, miss Assata. We gonna do this together. I promise that. I put it on, you know, for sure. So we're gonna continue to lift up. But I was at my Climates today,
this morning, and I greet it. Love your enthusiasm. It's great. But I'm gonna ask you to put a period on it. Or exclamation mark because you got a lot of exclamation mark. Yes. What a really shout out to football team. We got big plans. We're about to take over the district again. And now I wanna hear how it's gonna happen in District 5. Alright. Well, I'll give him that because he's been putting up with me coughing all night. I had a rough week because of my cough. I didn't get to experience any of the first day of school,
guys. And I regret it so deeply, but I did that for y'all. Public health first. So I do plan, as soon as I am better, to be back at my schools. I am excited to welcome two new principals, one at life and one at Fruitvale, Cody Marshall and Kateri Dodds Simpson, who I know from my formal life in education in the mayor's office. And I am hoping that more people show up to my office hours, which I will continue to offer on the third Saturday of every month. I had the opportunity to test drive a few other office hours models this summer.
So thank you all to all the community members who showed up for my office hours this summer. All the feedback that you all gave me on the prioritizing student outcomes policy. All the feedback you gave me about environment and how it's really important that our students have an opportunity to go to school in beautiful spaces. I really appreciated all of that and hope that I see more of you at the office hours that I will host this year. I am thinking about, given what I learned this summer, adding in additional office hours every month and doing that at one of the sites
we used this summer, which was the Cesar Chavez Library. So if you have thought on that, please reach out to me. And then the last thing that I wanted to say is, I'm hoping, just this is probably the third time I've said it tonight, that we agendize some of the big concerns or priorities, rather, that we heard tonight for the superintendent search, the water quality, and the budget. Because I think if we get those things right, we're in a much better position, not just for the district, but to receive a new superintendent on the other side of it. Thank you.
Thank you, director Berry. Thank you. Yeah, I wanna talk a little bit about, first I wanna give a shout out to MLA students. They were not only, yeah, so not only did they support us in understanding why we need to do climate resilience work in the district, but because of their work, they were featured not only in The Guardian, but also World Science World. And so I really appreciate Youth Versus Apocalypse for supporting those students and their advocacy and encouraging them to continue on that work in high school. And now, there are a lot of things going on in District 6 on Saturday,
so I'm going to tell you all about them. So, Roots Community Health Clinic is having an empowerment day at Parker Adult Education on Saturday from twelve to four. I've gone to these. They're amazing. I stay all day long. I'm not gonna do that this time because I have a couple other events. But, the playground is open, kids can play, there is food, there is free stuff, there is healthcare screenings, they give away free t shirts. It's really, really a wonderful use of that space. So please come out to District 6, on Saturday. And if that doesn't entice you,
the Black Cultural Zone is also having a concert and community dinner, from three to six at the Black Cultural Zone, which is right near, the Eastmont Mall in my district. And if you are a community member that is in need of, immigration support services, they, Mujeres Unidas de Activas, Women United and Active, are having a community forum at Cherryland Elementary School in Hayward. They will have immigration attorneys available. They will also have, folks available to create a family plan, especially if you have a family that is mixed documentation status.
And it is a totally free event. Again, it's happening on Saturday from ten to two at Cherryland Elementary School in Hayward. So I'm just gonna say that in Spanish just to make sure. So, in, Cherryland, Elementary School. The ACT Committee, which is, again, the committee that was formed to support our immigrant residents in the county. ACLIP, which is the Rapid Response Hotline, is also gonna be, presenting as to what they're doing, and a couple of other organizations. And they're also gonna be talking about, putting together resources to defend folks that are in deportation proceedings.
So please, join us if that's something that you're interested in. And one last thing, per my board president, a friendly reminder that we need applicants for yes, it is on Zoom as well. It's the Board of Supervisors meeting at 03:00. Yes. You can watch it on thank you, Ms. Assata. You can watch it on Zoom or be there in person. And it's at the Board of Supervisors office downtown. And friendly reminder, we need applicants for vacancies in the different measures and committees. So Measure G has one vacancy. G1 has two vacancies. CBOC, which is the BJOY Committee,
has four vacancies. That's a really important committee. And the Audit Committee has two vacancies. You can submit, an application to participate in those committees, by going to the boards and commissions, drop down menu in the OUSD website. Thank you, everybody. We have one more agenda item, which is W. And I realized I cut off. Sorry. And this is just, sorry. It is our season to renew charters. So we have a new, that, this is item W1 20 five-seventeen 40,
Education for Change Latitude, High School petition and charter renewal grades nine through 12. They have submitted their, their, charter, documentation for to the board of education, and their charter renewal and that is attached. This is not a discussion item. No public comment. Their hearing will be their first presentation will be at the August 2017. Yes, Ms. Assata. Due to the circumstances of the dying emergency related to, the situation with our immigrant community, can it be required that any charter schools seeking renewal present how they intend to
protect students related to ICE? I I know we are speaking to it, but I'm I'm just asking, could that be put on the required presentation that they go how they gonna deal with that? I will check on that. I'm not sure, but thank you. That's a a great question. Thank you. And with that, we are adjourned.