I'd like to welcome everyone to this special meeting, 03/18/2025, of this Oakland Unified School Board District. Tonight, we will be taking online speakers. Be registered online. We'll take those cards, and we also will have online we have cards available, to our left. I want to remind everyone of the protocols for tonight. Since it is a special meeting, we won't open with, with thirty minutes of public comment at the beginning. We will go into the items that we, did not, vote on, and address in last meeting. Remember, everyone will have time to speak.
For board members, up to three minute speaking limit, no mingling with the audience, address comments to other board members, focus on agenda items, don't repeat what's already been said, no interruptions, and enforce norms and model desired behavior. Mister Secha, can we take roll call to establish a claim? Yes. On the roll call to establish a claim for today's meeting, today's special meeting for 03/18/2025, Student director Simmons, student director Vasquez, and director Lauter. Present. Director Williams? Present, sir. Director Hutchinson? Present. Director Berry?
Present. And director Thompson? Present. Vice president Bachelor? Here. And president Breaux Hart? Here. Cuon, present. Thank you. Mister, Hollis, can we do a translation check, please? Yes, madam president. For tonight's meeting, we have two two languages available for live interpretation. They are Arabic and Spanish. We also have a translation closed caption feature available on Zoom. You can use by clicking the closed caption icon on your Zoom taskbar. With that, we will start with live interpretation. I will lower all hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language that's being announced,
which first will be Arabic. And if you are in the attendees and need a translation laptop, please raise your hand during the announcement so that we can identify you and get you a translation laptop. So I will ask miss Saleh. She could come up from mute and give the interpretation announcement for Arabic. Of course. Computer. Everything is done. Thank you, miss Soleil. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Arabic interpretation on Zoom. No hands raised in the room for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Arabic interpretation at this time.
Moving forward to Spanish, I will lower all hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need translation that is being announced, which is Spanish. And also same for those in the room. Please raise your hand if you need a translation laptop, during the Spanish announcements. I will ask miss Walker Marquez if she could come up mute and give the Spanish interpretation, for tonight. Yes. Of course. Spanish announcement is done. Thank you. Thank you, miss Walker Marquez. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Spanish interpretation.
Checking the room to see if anybody has their hands raised in need of a Spanish or in need of a translation laptop. K. Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at this time. That concludes the interpretation announcement. At this time, we will make another announcement later on this meeting, and I pass it back to you, madam president. Thank you. Are there any amendments I mean, amendments to the budget? Adjustments to the budget. Oh, my God. Slow down. Are there any adjustments to the agenda? I would like to move, a change in the order. I'd like to move c three to number one,
c four to number two, c five to number three. C one to number four, and c two to number five. The first one would be c three. The second item would be c four. The third item would be c five. The fourth item would be c one, and the fifth item would be c two. On c three, item 20 five-four 92, Board of Education directing alternative budget adjustments fiscal year twenty twenty five-twenty twenty seven, introduced by myself and vice president Valerie Bachelor.
This was, introduced on February 26. It went to budget and finance on this on March 6, and it was recommended favorably to the Board of Education. Are there any public comments? We have ten minutes. Yes. For public speakers, we have Gabriel Kahn and Kim Davis. Two. Two minutes each. And, President Brujah, we do have another, additional speaker, Karim Elias? Good afternoon. I oh, sorry. Just a second. Are there any speakers online? Yes. We have well, actually, he's in person now, which is Gabriel Khan. Okay.
So there are three speakers total? That is correct. Okay. Two minutes each, please. I just I I will just say that I'm looking forward to seeing our vote on this, and I yield my time. Thank you. Kim Davis. I just wanna express my appreciation. Am I doing that? Express my appreciation for, for you all coming back with this. I know the other meeting, was very crowded, and this is an urgent matter that, you know, I'm sure it takes a lot of courage for you all to to be pushing for. But I appreciate it because for too long,
we have had, a certain way of doing things, and we're not getting to where we we need to get to make sure that we are supporting students in classrooms. And I feel like this takes us that extra step, and I appreciate that it's not enough. And I know you know that, and there's it's gonna be a multiyear process. But, it is, the right thing to do to right size our central office to ensure that we are getting services to kids. And, so thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. This won't be long. I'm just,
stand my name is Corinne Elias, and I am urging you to vote yes on these budget resolutions. We need to come up with better solutions for our students. If we do not properly fund our schools, then these students, we're really depriving them of the futures that they deserve. So please, please vote yes. Put in a card for the Okay. The number is still the same. It's just different order. You put a card in for C2? Okay. We have it now. They don't have it? You don't have it? One on C3. 1 on C2. I just like to see before we get to the Did you put Yeah.
Oh. That we pulling? Yeah. Okay. Oh, we're on C3. It's you're speaking on a different one. Yeah. I just thought that the order was gonna be Fine. Go ahead. Good evening. My name is Ellie Poling. I'm a library tech at Madison Park Primary and an SEIU rep. SEIU urges you to pass the Climate Action and Sustainability Policy, which is now four years overdue. Okay. I'm going to ask you to hold on to that one. We'll be coming to that one later. I'm speaking on all four, if that's okay. Okay. SEIU urges you to pass the Climate Action and Sustainability Policy,
which is now four years overdue, based on the time line set in the CEAR resolution adopted in October 2020. This policy reflects years of community engagement and work by the Sustainability Task Force and should be the guide for OUSD's action. In regard to C2, the sole source purchasing resolution for Flow Water and Elkay, We need clean, safe drinking water at our schools. We understand the purchase of these filters as a Band Aid fix until re piping can commence once grant funds are accessed and available. SEIU also encourages you to vote in favor of the alternative budget adjustment resolution.
While we understand that many of our members will likely look for other job opportunities following the layoff notices they received, the board should still make an effort to restore our members' jobs if funds become available. Lastly, while we recognize it is not the perfect solution to our district's outsourcing problem, we support the Control Over Outsourcing task force. SEIU, in collaboration with other labor partners, intends to put real safeguards in place to prevent outsourcing of district jobs. We hope you vote in favor of all of these items. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any board comments?
Yeah. I just wanted to say, thank you to those of you who sent emails over the last few days. I've gotten a ton of communication, and, I think that's really important. I have some concerns with the budget balancing the resolution. But, I believe wholeheartedly in the spirit of it. And so I just wanted to make it clear to folks for the record, since this is an opportunity to engage the public, that, yes, I think we need to unlock financial resources that we can, particularly by reining in spending on services and contracts in our central office.
And I also believe in the process that the next resolution sort of sets up as a solution and a way of exploring how to do that. I think that there are opportunities for us to improve the resolution as written. There's opportunities for us to yield even more money for some of these items. Some of the suggestions that I raised was considering whether we would use a proportion of the total budget as to write that into the resolution versus capping at a specific dollar amount. And it's ideas like that that surfaced in this process that I think are worth
considering. And as a school board member, I think that that's my responsibility is to make sure we have those conversations, and I think that there's still an opportunity for us to do that. I understand the urgency, and I think we have the time to not just push this through, these good ideas, but to also push them through in a way that allows us to not just address the immediate concerns of today, which to me, it is restoring CSMs and TSAs and STIP subs, but also to make sure that we do that in a way that addresses the
big elephant in the room for all of us, which is not having to have this conversation year after year after year. And I think this resolution could be stronger in that way. I'm hoping that because I have time to talk today and because I think we do have an open line of communication as a board that there's an opportunity for us to work out some of those kinks in the implementation, but I just wanted to be clear for everyone here that there's a rationale be behind the way that I'm showing up today and the way that I'll I'll vote and the way that I will continue to make sure that if students are first,
that means we do due diligence, and I think more of that could have been done in this instance. Thank you. Director Thompson? Yes. I have several questions, especially looking at the, now therefore be it resolved. I want to make certain that I understand exactly what's being expressed there, not that I'm trying to nitpick or trying to look at how the the English language is used. But I'm just wondering, the total amount that's presently spent and and number one. And then also, I wanna know if the total amount,
is that for all three years or is it, or is it $125,000,000 per year? And then number two, the same thing is applicable. I'm just curious about how much money we're spending right now on confidential employees. Also, I'm just wondering again if the $20,000,000 is for each year or if it's a total of both years. And then number three, the same as above for the for the first two that I mentioned, but then I want to know, does this conflict with any policy that we have already established at the board level
in the in the state relative to the adoption of text. And both of us are teachers, and so we understand that. So the state mandates certain amount or certain things to do within certain years. And so I'm wondering if we pass this, if we're going to conflict anything that the state has mandated that we do as a district. So I just wanna be clear on your last part, with the state mandates around curriculum because that is our board policy, how often we adopt,
curriculum. Normally, the state suggests a timeline for adopting curriculum. And so I'm just wanting to make certain that we don't have a conflict between what we have established at the board level and then what the state is suggesting. Right. We don't have a conflict, but we have a shorter shorter time. I just found that out tonight when we did the curriculum director. That's fine. Your first question around the one that would be for each year. Yeah. And the same, I believe, for the, confidential employees. I I think that perhaps this might be written a little clearer.
Number one, the district is directed to cap the total expenditure on services and contracts at $125,000,000 each year. I I think that would that would make it plain that because the way it's written, the district is directed to cap the total expenditure on services and contracts at $125,000,000 comma with the priority placed on legally mandated services, comma, necessary services directly impacting school sites and outside legal contracts for the school years '24,
'20 '5, '20 '5, '20 '6, and 2627. So I'm just wondering if that's all three years or just one year because one could take it as one or the other. Would you like to offer that as a friendly amendment to it? It is. Thank you. Yes, yes, or per year. I'd need to sorry, I wrote this down in the wrong order. We need a motion to adopt this and then I just asked one a point of clarification. You had mentioned also the same question for confidential employees. I'm wondering if we're going to do one at a time.
We need to do the motion first. So moved. Second. Oh, I was just saying if if it's friendly and the confidential is friendly to you, you could do the both as in one motion for the each for also the confidential years, if that's what you were. Yeah. That's friendly. Yes. That's I'd make That's friendly, so you don't have to do anything. Great. Okay. Alright. Can I jump in with more just for the record? If we're I'm gonna ask Make sure that Okay. We can take a second round after it. The the director Williams? Alright. Director Berry.
I didn't see your hand, director Hutchinson. Thank you. It's really disappointing that, we're here tonight, and this is what's happening. You know, all of the board has been advised that, this resolution didn't pass legal vetting, has no financial analysis even though the memo for this resolution says before board action, one will be done. Everyone knows that this violates the board bylaws, and so it won't be listed as passed no matter what the vote is here tonight. And the fact that everyone was advised of this a number of times,
and we're still here anyway, at a special meeting, This is the first time this there's been any discussion of this item. Even though it was first scheduled to be introduced a month ago, there's been no work done on it. It's five bullet points that aren't even actionable and, again, haven't passed any sort of vetting at all. It's also shown what a fallacy the trustee and the county are, because this is exactly the kind of resolution that the trustee is supposed to warn the board about ahead of time.
And if it passes, step in. The reason this district first got in trouble in 02/2003 was making financial decisions without doing an analysis first. We've gone beyond that point to now we're actually wordsmithing it right now in the first discussion, planning to vote at a special meeting with barely anyone in attendance. And the most disingenuous part of this all is everyone's been warned that the board by law applies. General counsel said so at the budget and finance committee meeting. So people know that this won't be listed as passed no matter what,
just like what happened last fall with the resolution for Second Avenue. And the board bylaws are there to actually protect us from these sorts of things. You know, I've been coming to school board meetings for a long time. This is this is really a a new one for me, but it's going to be a serious problem if I'm serving on a board that doesn't think they need to follow their own rules and the rules that have been established, the rules that the voters put in place, and, actually, the rules that we took a oath to uphold.
So unless there's a unanimous vote, this won't be listed as passed. And if they didn't tell you that ahead of time, they should have because everyone knows that's the case. Thank you. Thank you. Director Baer? Just things to consider moving forward. So on the services and contracts and the $125,000,000 because it's not explicitly named in the item, you know, the difference between restricted and unrestricted. And so if there's, like, a specific number that you're hoping to cap from which of those, and whether that matters at all since what that money can be used for is
different for both of those sources. And then for the maybe I wanna wait to say this for the task force resolution, but I'm hoping that that work drives some of the work related to how we'll implement the first item. Perhaps one of the deliverables is a decision making framework that guides that. The final thing I wanna say is that there it is probably true that there could be a task force for every major budget budget item. Right? Obviously, we don't have the time or the resources to do do that, but I still think that level of rigor of work is probably necessary for us to get some of the money that we need,
again, not just to restore positions, but to make sure that this isn't a conversation we have to have annually. Can we call the question? On the roll call to adopt twenty five-four ninety two, student directors are absent. Director Latta? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Berry? No. Director Thompson? No. Vice president Baskler? Yes. President Bruhart? Yes. Due to board policy 09/2001, we require we're acquiring a unanimous vote of all board members present. That require not being met.
The motion is not agreed to. Can I have, can I get a a clarification from general counsel? Because that was not my I had a conversation with her yesterday about this. Is Is she on Zoom? Yeah. She is. Hi, director Lara. Is there a question? Yeah. So when we, can you, clarify? I think the the question that I had posed to you on Tuesday was that in the board policy nine three two two dot one, The there's a specific sentence that says the superintendent shall not unduly delay the provision of the required fiscal impact analysis with the goal of providing a fiscal impact analysis at the recs for
the next regular board meeting. So I guess my question is this, resolution has been, was was submitted over two months ago and has not only was it scheduled for the last regular board meeting, but we've had a special meeting. So I'm wondering what the delay is on the fiscal impact analysis. Well, of course, I'm not, the fiscal person, but I can say that the based on the wording of the conditions of the bylaws, there is no direct way to bypass the fiscal analysis requirement without a unanimous consent. However, the bylaw explicitly provides that the fiscal impact analysis would not be required if the
expenditures are explicitly a hundred, below a hundred thousand dollars. So there has been the second interim and other work underway. So the fiscal and that fiscal impact analysis has not been provided. And so, being that that is your bylaw, the only alternative would be, for there to be an explicit statement related to the expenditure amount. So, for example, we could add an amendment to the current resolution that says any expenditures related to the implementation of this would fall would must fall under a hundred thousand dollars,
and then that would be in compliance with nine three two two dot one? Yes. Okay. Thank you. In order to reconsider this motion, would, do we need an someone who voted no on the item to make a motion to reconsider it? Yes. So I'm not sure. Director Hutchinson, director Thompson, or director Berry, would you be willing to make a motion to reconsider the item with said amendment to fall within the fiscal impact analysis? It's to fall under the under the under the stipulated number of a hundred thousand dollars of expenditures. And I do wanna just add that the I don't think the chief the chief
business officer is present to provide information, such that you could implement this this resolution under a hundred k, but that would be the method by which a unanimous vote wouldn't be required. Yeah. I think that I think the reason why I would recommend that we do that to add that amendment is that, I think when we're talking about reducing expenditures by tens of millions of dollars and we're you know, and and, you know, I think,
again, there's a I appreciate that staff time is necessary. Staff. Oh, I think in the spirit of trying to minimize our expenditures, And, again, I think I would just say I think that understanding that staff is, you know, kind of going to be implementing this, I think it's very reasonable to start with saying that we spend less than a hundred thousand dollars on this amendment or on this resolution, and I think that would be, you know, kind of a, an important next step to move us forward. And then if any,
you know, kind of if there is a anticipation that more than a hundred thousand dollars of staff time is necessary, then you can come back to the board. I think, again, in the board in the in board policy ninety three twenty two dot one, it does say the superintendent, when presenting the district's proposed annual interim budget, would include a summary of changes from that budget. So by you know, kind of, again, it would come back to us if it's greater than a hundred thousand dollars at third interim. If we're re that's I mean, again, like the you know, kind of it says, additionally, the superintendent,
when presenting the district's proposed annual or interim budget, shall include a summary of any changes from the prior budget that are greater than a hundred thousand dollars and whether such a change would require the reallocation of funds previously used for other purposes, which, again, I I, you know, I think I I I hear the concern. And so I think I would offer that, that we reconsider this item and make that amendment. I think this is this this conversation, which I appreciate it playing out, is exactly why I think we have an opportunity to do more than just push
this through. These are good ideas. This should be on the table, and this is an opportunity for us to do it the right way. I I I don't know if it's possible to open it up for public comment, but but also just to hear from my colleagues. Like, in terms of the urgency, do we have to do this right at this moment, or do we have time? Like, I am telling you that I'm more inclined to be supportive and collaborative if we do a greater due diligence. And so can we take that time, or is it more important to get it through today?
I think the question of time comes up as we look at our our, as we look at the second interim, as we look at the time coming near the end of the year, for our budget, adoption. I agree with you that I think further discussion is important, but I also feel it's important to get this passed tonight. I feel like there's been a lot of, there are a lot of ways that that I I think that, as we've asked questions, as we've thought of different ideas of ways just to cut our budget, I think we've really done some deep dives into,
I think you said we're deep dive, into what we're getting out of what we spend. So I know in in teaching and learning, we've been looking at what what our goals are, what our, outcomes expected outcomes. I think it was a very different discussion tonight around the curriculum adoption with that. But I feel like this is as we're beginning to look at, again, these cuts every year, are there places in the budget that we could actually be making, either more cuts or distributing that money in different ways?
I think, for those of us who've been on the board, we've had March 15 letters every year. I think that's very unsettling to our employees. And as someone who also received one myself, it is a very unsettling experience to get one. I think that, a lot of the ways we look at making cuts often involve employees. I think that, again and and being respond I think I appreciate your comments, director Barry, because I think as being, you know, responsible board members, it's important to know how we are spending this money and where it's go and
to make contributions in that discussion. I mean, again, I understand that the, chief business officer is has more financial expertise than I have. But I think it's the questions. It's involving the community in those questions. It's it's us doing our work to really direct how that those expenditures are made. So I do feel an urgency in it. And, again, I I know that it is coming late, you know, but I think, again, if it's the the will of the board to not support that, if it's,
you know, there's other people who who, you know, stay that, you know, whatever the whatever the county decides to do, I think it's important for us as a board to say, look. We are really digging into this budget, and I appreciate your expertise in it. I I I respect, director Latta's expertise. And I think as we're a new board with new expertise that we can make more demands on how those expenditures go and set, I think, ways as a board to measure the success of those because I think, like you said,
director Thompson, his teachers, we know that we're not really pulling out data to support those expenditures or those, employee cuts. So that's why I see the urgency. Oh, sorry. Go. It's in. Sorry. I mean, we're entirely out of order here with this conversation anyway. I just really wanna point out that, everyone was warned that this is exactly what was going to happen tonight when this resolution came forward. And you can't just say, well, let's just say it won't cost more than a hundred thousand, and all of a sudden that changes things.
The resolution mentions how hundreds of millions of dollars are going to be spent. And on the memo, it says a fiscal analysis will be done before board action. That's a requirement. How do you do anything related to the budget and budget adjustments with no analysis and impact done? And it wasn't introduced two months ago. That is not when this resolution was introduced. It was introduced on March 26. No. I speak very clearly. It was supposed to be introduced on March 12,
but the president withdrew it from introduction, and it was introduced on March 26. I'm sorry. February 26. We know what we mean. It wasn't two months ago. I'll put it that way. So, no matter what anyone does now or tries to amend into the resolution, the ruling on the board law bylaw applying is still going to stand. And this shows such bad governance that people had an opportunity over the last I'll go for two months to actually create a resolution based on advice from legal and
financial that would have been passable. I've had colleagues who have been on the budget and finance committee with me for five months where we went over this over and over, Plenty of times to weigh in and ask your questions. That's actually what that committee does. And here we are in an out of order meeting discussing something that was already voted on because people don't like the rules even though you were told about it ahead of time. So we can keep going around in circles and having an out of order meeting. It actually proves the point even more so that this is not how we're supposed to do business.
I'm shocked the trustee is not even in attendance at this meeting, not even on Zoom. But this is wild that people think they can just figure out a way to circumvent the rules, and it just doesn't work that way. Thank you. Can you report the vote of the motion again, please? The vote to director Latta, director Williams, the vice president Bachelor, and president Breuhart and Board Yeh, Director Hutchinson, director Berry, director Thompson, voting no. Thank you. Director Lawton and director Berry. I think the, you know, I I appreciate your,
you know, your feedback and your criticism, director Hutchinson, about, you know, the ways in which this could appear like, you know, not following the rules or not, or feeling like it's bad governance. And for from my perspective, these the alternative budget solutions is important because we're you know, there's there's come there's been conversations for years around school closures and central office redesign and the way that we're gonna move our district forward. And for me, you know, and I've only been on the board for two months,
but I have felt a bit like our budget you know, we you know, kind of the previous board certified the budget negative. And for me, that is a crisis. Like, we have to turn over every stone. We have to find every place we can to save money in our budget. And I voted on the March 15 notices, and I felt very, very conflicted about that, but understood that, again, we're trying to keep our district out of state receivership.
We're trying to get out of receivership. And I have felt that this proposal, which seems quite reasonable, while I understand that, you know, that there is a there's been feedback that that's, you know, that there are people on senior leadership and in staff who don't want this to happen that ultimately when I think about governance, it is about this is a thing that is a priority, about addressing some of the places in our budget that are going up the fastest, and it's and we aren't doing anything to address it in the out years.
And so for me, I, I think that it is important to pass it because for me, the longer we continue to drag this out, a thing that I do believe is going to pass, the the longer it's gonna take us to get to the three r's, the longer it's gonna take, because we're gonna, you know, we're gonna spend another week talking about this. Maybe we're gonna spend another two weeks, and we're we are running out of time. So I would just ask that we, if it you know, make a motion to reconsider, director Hutchinson, director Thompson, or director Berry. We can add the amendment as general counsel suggested.
We can get an update on third interim so that we can, you know, kind of clarify that, you know, the expenditures. And, and, yeah, we can move on to the bigger question of how we're gonna serve all of our students in our district better. Thank you. Thank you, Jay. Yeah. I I I just wanna clarify. I don't appreciate the false binary that is either we support things as is or it's not a priority. It is a priority for me, and that is why I am moving the way that I'm moving right now. I don't think it's dragging it out to say wait. Push Till a time certain so that we can have conversations we haven't had.
Some of the conversations we're having right now, we're having for the first time, and I think this is a good opportunity for us. Director Hutchinson, I don't think you're not wrong. You know, perhaps things could have had have gone better up until this date. Maybe there were missed opportunities, but I am admittedly still getting my bearings. Catch me in July. Okay? And this will be a different story, but we're here now. And I'm I'm prepared to lean in, and all I'm asking for is an opportunity for us to work work this out a little bit more. And I don't know that, you know perhaps there's a fear that that doesn't meaningfully change anything,
but that's the invitation that is on the table for me right now. Oh, sorry. Final point. Regardless, this resolution is just a strategy, and perhaps there isn't enough trust and precedent for this to, give us a lot of faith that it will work out. But we can offer a directive to staff today. Find the cut make cuts to central office, make cuts to contracts and spending, allow us to wear run-in parallel, you know, the the task force. All of these things could be happening at the same time.
It's not one or the other. K. Vice president Batchelor, and then I see Lisa Grant Dawson has her hand up. Thank you. Director Berry, I really appreciate the last comment that you made. For the last two years, I have been doing that. I have been asking staff to do exactly what you're talking about. So look at our confidential employees and see what we can cut, to see what we're doing at odds at contracting, to see what we're doing in these expenditures, and time after time, and director director Williams can also say for four years, nothing. No cuts, no changes.
And so what this resolution really is, is a directive to staff. Like, we have been having these conversations. We have been trying to push, and there's not folks that have been listening or that have been acting upon what we're asking. And so this is the way that we direct staff. There is no magical way of us just having conversations with folks that we direct staff. I've tried that. Believe you me, I have tried to have one on one conversations, to get input, to get information from folks, and it is very, very difficult to do so unless there is a vote of a majority to direct
staff to do something. I would much rather work on the nuance and figure out the different pieces and how we can make sure that we are not spending out we're not outpacing what we get in our spending. And I have in in the the one year that I was on the budget and finance committee, I was really figuring it out, and it was and it was exciting. But I feel like right now, that's a siloed committee. Those conversations do not leave that committee from what I have seen, and there go you know, as we're trying to have conversations,
holistic conversations amongst the seven of us as to what we're looking at in the budget, it is then siloed into that committee. Right? I thought staff were really clear. We need to look at policy thirty one fifty. I was like, that makes sense. That sounds like the work of budget and finance. Come to find out, no conversations outside of the initial conversation as to the policy of thirty one fifty has happened. Thinking about special education, we need to, like, really unpack what that spending looks like. We need to make sure what's going on and seeing how we can cut savings or figure out savings. Again, thinking that's a great conversation for teaching and learning and budget and finance to have.
Come to find out, neither committee has had those conversations. So to me, it's like, I'm I am at the point of I am sick of trying to just have conversations individually to tackle some of these issues. I really need us as a board to really say to staff, this is the direction that we have for you. It may be sloppy. It may not be exactly what what you're looking for, but then come back to us with some additional recommendations or changes or shifts. But having these one off conversations, having staff tell us year after year after year, this is a policy change you need to make.
This is an area that you need to look at. And quite honestly, have leadership say absolutely nothing about those things and just continue to move forward in exactly the same way. You know, there's a saying of, if you try to do things time and time again and there's you you're expecting a different outcome, that's a version of insanity. And I think our students deserve way better than us doing those things time and time again. Okay. Miss Grand Dawson. Good evening. I wanted to just share a few things, but I'll just keep it really short and say that, there are a lot of things that are being shared this evening, that, are not
accurate, but I can be accepting of the position that individuals are in without, demeaning or diminishing any individual. There's been consistency that this is a collective effort, and the continued, you know, finger pointing and or, when we when we wanna talk about things and when we don't wanna talk about things, it's not getting us there. For those that do the work, for those that, you know, you direct, if that is the word of choice that's used, we did not have conversations about these resolutions. So earlier when the conversation about whether or not,
the fiscal analysis, a board member who brings forth a resolution should and has, prior to this moment, met with the applicable staff who are, you know, either connected or directly related to operationalizing that. I said it before. That did not happen. And if it didn't happen for the reasons that were, described before, assertions or allegations of trust and or where we were or are about policies, thirty one fifty has come up multiple times. Free this board being on as well as other policies. It's written into last year's attachment b and cited very specifically about the restructured plan.
So there is written evidence of the intentionality, but we don't set the agendas, and we don't set all of the priorities. We do recommend and we do suggest. So, you know, with that being said, that opportunity to whether it's the task force, I did have an opportunity today, to talk about the, alternative budget solutions resolution, have not had the opportunity to understand the task force component and and how to recommend and or, understand how to operationalize it. That would have been necessary regardless for a fiscal analysis.
So, you know, that being said, if the board passed these, resolutions, then as long as, and it sounds like because I came on, a little later that, you know, something has occurred and one or or both did not pass. I would just say that, the opportunity to approach this differently has always been there, and I just don't think that we're gonna get there within now and June 30 because the work doesn't live with you to do that. There are other people with and behind me that have to execute this, and we don't have modifications to a deadline,
especially when we've been making significant strides to help the district to exit receivership, submit all of our reports timely, and have a budget development process with a schedule. So, you know, with that being said, I just wanted to to to share that, there can definitely be more conversations, but everything that has not been said is is accurate, and there isn't a staff doesn't want this to happen. It's not the what. It's the way. And, yes, we do sit in a position to be able to make those recommendations, but that's not the same as we don't want it to happen.
That's a little too simplistic to cast what we're recommending to you and what we're sharing with you on behalf of the district and wanting the best for the district. So thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thank you. Anybody want to reconsider this motion? That Can I make a clarification? So if nobody makes a motion to reconsider and, then the motion doesn't pass and it would have to be reintroduced? Yes. Okay. So, yeah. Director Berry? I motion to move this item to a time certain. Director Hutchinson is shaking his head.
I'm inclined to believe he knows what he's talking about. No. You can you can do that. Oh, I would suggest moving it to March 20. Someone else is speaking. Thank you. Meeting. I'm sorry, director Barry. I couldn't hear what you were saying. I would like to make a motion to move this item to a time certain, 03/26/2025. Second? Sorry? Just, point of, clarification. Can general counsel come off or maybe it's okay. Okay. Would you mind, General Counsel Lindsey and, just confirm that that motion will be effective to bring the motion back on March 26?
A point of clarification just before the ruling. The president can bring it back on the next agenda if she wants to regardless of whatever vote happens here. We're going through circles, and this is out of order when if that's what the president wants. Just like how she scheduled this meeting and put it on there, she has that authority at any point. Alright. Then we will reschedule it for March 26. Can I just, just one other question for general counsel, that would you mind just con confirm confirming that, please? Thank you. The president does have the ability to reschedule this item for March 26.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Alright. Next item, number sorry. Looking at my old one. Sorry. K. The next item is C425Dash0493, recommending establishment of an ad hoc control excuse me. Ad hoc control over outsourcing task force, introduced by myself and director Rachel Latta. I make a motion to move it forward. I'll I'm Second. K. K. We now have public ten minutes for public speaking. Do we have any, speakers? I think the side comments need to stop so we can move along with our
meeting. Thank you. Yes. For C4, we have Kim Davis, Sheila Richardson and Gabriel Khan. Alright. Two minutes each. Good evening, board. I heard, miss Grant Dawson, pardon me, it might be doctor Grant Dawson, talk about, the inability to operationalize these by July 31. And I just want to challenge that idea that if, we make principals make hard decisions to fire teachers within a single month or thirty days between budget cycles, then we should be able to ask our finance department to analyze contracts on a
four month timeline. If they don't do that, they're negligent they're negligent and they need to be brought to board to decide to for us to figure out what is taking them so long to do that because they can tell us whatever they want. It's our job to assess whether or not they tell us is due diligence or whether or not it's stalling. And I'm led to believe that the what I'm seeing from the budget office is stalling. In a previous life, I had a career consulting for the biggest philanthropies in the nation, Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Packard Foundation. And when I tell you that this work is not that hard, it is not that hard.
I could do what we are asking doctor Grand Dawson and her team to do, which is to look at the budget, identify in order what the contracts are, what they serve, and where we can cut from, and make a proposal for how to do that. We missed a couple of questions earlier from director Thompson that I would have loved answers to, which is, have you gotten numbers from the finance department related to how much money is spent on external contracts in a single year so that we know what the distance between that and $125,000,000 is? I don't think we got an answer for director Thompson in that moment,
and I don't think it's because y'all don't have an answer. I believe it's because you're not getting the answers you need from our budget department. That is a problem for the work we need to do. It is negligent, and it is not serving our kids. And I say this again that I'm not up here because my job is on the line. I'm up here because these kids are asking me why we have a budget crisis, and I cannot tell them why we have a budget crisis when I know that we're paying $950 for Internet at just my site to get the same bandwidth that I get at home. These questions need to be brought to the board, and you should have the bravery to ask them.
Thank you. Thank you. Kim Davis again. I like rules. I'm a rule person. I'm a an attorney. I like parliamentary procedure, and I think that rules are very important. I also know that rules are used to impede and, impede progress and throw roadblocks and pull people off track. So as to the, the last item, the fiscal, impact analysis, what you guys were talking about were budget cuts. You were in or budget adjustments, to use the term that staff has been using.
In December, you passed attachment c, which was a series of budget adjustments, no different than what you did tonight or tried to do tonight. And there is no fiscal impact analysis on here, and the reason why is because they are budget deductions. You are not spending more money unexpectedly. With the this task force that you're about to do, Unlike task force that we've had in the past, I would hope that you all would not be hiring a consultant to run this. You would not be hiring publicity people or whoever else to help you with this.
This is this is going to be driven by community and staff. There's no cost to that. There is incidental cost perhaps for printing and food and things. You can absolutely say it will not exceed a hundred thousand dollars. You do not need a fiscal analysis for at that point, and that's what you should be doing today. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Good evening. My name is Sheila Richardson. I'm up here representing AFSCME. We are in agreement with this task force. We feel that it is very necessary in regards to,
the control over outsourcing. I think we could save a lot of money in making sure that we are more responsible in the spending of the outsourcing and contracting out. Yeah. Joe Bates asked me. I just wanna say that, we contract a lot of the paraeducator jobs out. And without good reason, we have paras that can do the work. We stand in support of this because we definitely need to get a handle on the number of contractors that we have. And just know that it's taking our bargaining unit work away from us,
and we don't stand for that. So we definitely need it, and I wanna commend, Brohard and Lada for coming forth with this resolution. Ask Me stands in full support. Thank you. Yeah. That's that's, that group of public speakers, those are the names that has been called. Board comments? I'd actually like to make a, amendment to my to the resolution at the end. I think I don't know if general counsel wants to type it up, but it's to, add another clause to now therefore be it further resolved that expenditures pursuant to this
resolution shall in no event exceed a hundred thousand dollars. Therefore, no fiscal impact analysis will be necessary prior to passage. Friendly amendment, and I accept it. Board come. So Oh, I see. And, yeah, you guys made the re I forgot I forgot who made the motion. A friendly amendment. Director Williams, do you believe it's a friendly amendment? Yes. It is. Alright. Board comments? Yes. I have one. And I'm it's it's really a question, not a comment. And, I I'm wondering what is the function of this ad hoc committee, semicolon. That is the job of the superintendent.
So I'm wondering if there well, I rated as such, that there was a question about what the superintendent's job should be and what she should do. So, we're talking about establishing an ad hoc committee. Are we, well, I'll just go and put it out there. Are we questioning the ability of the superintendent to be effective? I I think what we're doing is That's what I that's my thought. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No body can look at these contracts and make recommendations so that as we come back,
looking at our our consent items, we've also got community, labor, and and staff input on these. And I think one of the things that, for me as a board member, I feel like a lot of these contracts do come before us that I mean, there's 50 of them on the next, you know, agenda. So I think that for a group of people who will be affected by these contracts to to analyze them, I think is, you know, brings that, a community voice into the the how we're also spending our money. So as we come around to next, budget development,
people have an idea about where we are spending our money. I also wanna address something that, Jo Bates mentioned, which is outsourcing. And I think, again, outsourcing in, she mentioned the paras. There's also been outsourcing of reading tutors. There have been outsourcing of jobs that are in our bargaining unit. And I think it's really important for us as a district to take a stand against that outsourcing. That, again, I think by working by having both staff on this ad hoc committee and community and labor on it, that I think we can work together to,
to prevent outsourcing as those so that's really what I'm looking at it as. Again, I think, you know, it's to me, it's neither here nor there about the superintendent, but it's about how do we build that transparency and ability to to discuss particularly the issues around outsourcing. I appreciate your helping to elucidate that for me. But, I think there is an underlying assumption that, maybe things aren't working the way they should work. I mean, if we can say it parenthetically that it should work,
you know, at the superintendent's level. And then again, I'm looking at the big idea of governance, and I think one of the best ways to have an effective governance team is making sure that we all work together. And so for lack of well, I'll I'll just go on and say it. Have you had a chance to talk to the superintendent about this and so that she knows exactly what's what's going on and okay. I mean, we have had that discussion about outsourcing in particular and that,
again, how do we stop that flow of outsourcing? So this, I think, is the intention of of this ad hoc committee is to be able to, again, work together to come up with some other ways to hire within the district within employees that are in the district. I'll just make, a couple of comments. One, I think, I would just appreciate everyone who, emailed me, and, called me and pulled me over at drop off and pick up. You know, I think I I definitely hear all of your feedback, and I will say basically only have gotten support,
and appreciation for this. I think I think to your point, director Thompson, about, is the assumption around like, is there, like, a adversarial rest to this? And I would just say that, you know, I spoke I had a conversation with the superintendent about this task force, and, and several conversations with general counsel and and all of our labor partners and and and folks and parents across the district. And I think the thing that, that I would just bring the the task force back to is that we're a community school district. Right? That's one of our, kind of guiding principles around kind of how we think about our school district and
how we serve students best. And the idea of the task force was that, that, you know, for example, in the alternative, budget solutions, there's a cap on on that spending. And I I I do think that's a good idea. But there's a question of how that gets implemented in a way that appreciates the expertise of the people who, for example, there's, you know, UAOS, the the the the principals and community schools managers who often are the ones who are making those decisions, you know, the PSAC and CAC, parents whose, you know,
who are their budget experts in the district, whose students gets, you know, kind of get services from a lot of times those contractors. I think that was the idea behind creating the task force in that way was to, again, I think bring the community into the decision of we, you know, this is a this this this area of our budget has ballooned. But how do we address that in a way that really appreciates the expertise that every stakeholder brings, to inform that in a way that, you know, really is based on community input.
And and, again, what are the what are the ways that we're progress monitoring that? You know, do we have guardrails around how we you know, what contracts we should implement? Do we need to address our board policy? I think it's all of those things. And so, I think it's yeah. I think I with respect to all of the staff that will, you know, kind of have feedback and the community, I think it's the idea is to, you know, I think believe that we can be collaborative in the community is is sort of my thought process. So but, I'll leave it there. Thank you. Doctor. Berry? Just one quick thought because I've given director a lot of especially in earful,
so I know that you have all my feedback already. My desire is sort of echoing what I'm hearing from director Thompson is that this is implemented in a way that is driven by a spirit of collaboration. Like, even though there has been some friction in communication and transparency that, you know, this can be an opportunity for us to course correct. I think that I invite everyone. I've heard a few narratives thrown around the room tonight that I actually don't believe serve us despite what we may actually believe. There's a whole entire disaster in the highest office of power right now,
and we just do not have energy. I don't think we can afford the energy to be divided. I think systems of oppression are really brilliant at dividing us, and we don't have time for that right now. So I just wanna put that out there. And I think this task force could be a move in the right direction if implemented with, like, the spirit of collaboration and transparency, both with staff and with community that we need in order for this to be effective. Doctor Williams. Yeah. Thank you very much for that. You know,
I I I really wanna applaud the board for the intentions to really come with an alternative, viewpoint of how our budget is has been presented. I've had many conversations on this board here in regards to, the uncomfortable feeling that, these cuts were gonna be injurious to our students and to our staff. And the response that I got is, why don't you propose something? And finally got a proposal up and proposed it early on. And it just seems like,
district staff has been sitting on it for quite a while. The general counsel knows what this proposal was. And the general counsel job is supposed to help the board members actually implement their particular ideas, not actually stop them whatsoever. So, you know, the chief business officer knows the intent seen the proposal ahead of time. Superintendent has seen the proposal ahead of time. And so, our district staff actually knows what the intent is.
We there's an attempt to say, let's look at our expenses that have been out of control over the last four years up to a hundred million dollars. And you just can't blame it all on COVID. It actually shows there's no plan to actually rein them in until you have a board leadership that says, wait a minute. We wanna rein that in. We wanna actually bring that to the table to discuss how we're going to reduce that. And all we've been getting back is pushback.
After pushback, we get a little lecture in regards to, you know, folks' feelings getting hurt. But actually, what it really is about is the intentions of actually addressing some real serious budget issues, and we're only getting pushed back. I think we need to continue to move forward, move the conversation forward. If it is something where we I'll I'll jump off. If it's something that we all want to work together, then fine. Let's work together on that. You know, let's actually have the the superintendent bring a physical a fiscal impact plan for reductions,
not actually increase expenditures, but we're reducing those expenditures and have the CBO actually do that as well. It shouldn't take till June to get that done. We can actually get that done by next board meeting. So I really hope that there is not a gulf or a division between the board and the district staff. It just the way I understand is y'all work for us. And if we're asking you to do this, then you should actually look for solutions to get it done.
Thank you. I'm gonna move us back a minute because I do wanna address your I think, your points are right on the ad hoc committee. And I think that this ad hoc committee does give us a chance to have these discussions with, many of our constituents and many of our stakeholders. And I think that, to me, is a positive thing. I know those will be hard discussions, but I think they'll be important, and they'll be important with the people who need to be at that table. But, I do appreciate your comments and your outlook and, the things you're bringing to this. But I I hope in that spirit of being able to resolve some of these
long term issues around, you know, particularly for me around outsourcing, that we'll be able to sit down and examine, and that there's a willingness on on all our parts to do that. Can I call the question, mister Zeta? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't see your hand. Go ahead, doctor Richards. Thank you. I I don't even know how to, internalize some of the comments that I've heard. All of the information, especially all of the budget information, is public information. It's required because it's public dollars that the information is public. You can go on the OUSD website and find the dashboards on outside contracts.
And so when I hear, people say that nobody will give them the information, it it really blows my mind because a simple Google search will get you there. And we don't direct staff. They don't work for us. This is the opposite of democratizing it. This is taking what is a public process led by democratically elected representatives and prescribing who's gonna be on the committee. That's the opposite. That's eliminating the community from the conversation. Guardrails is an interesting concept to bring up.
You know, the general counsel is already on the record from the last budget and finance committee meeting stating that the board bylaw applies to this. And no matter how cynical of an amendment you try to create to say, oh, it's not a hundred thousand dollars, That ruling's already been determined, and we know it's going to apply to this just like it did to the last one. This one's actually even more troubling to me though because on February 6, everyone on the board received advice from general counsel advising us that this item should be withdrawn because of the the language contained within it.
And people have just ignored this. And the reason why these resolutions aren't ready to go is because the school board directors who introduced them haven't done any work to make them passable. None at all. They look exactly the same as when they were first introduced. And I've never seen anything introduced at one meeting and brought for a vote on the next meeting. And it's interesting how these two resolutions leapfrogged a lot of other things that had been introduced that people claimed were a priority in an emergency. And those no there's no emergency involved in these items at all.
And so we know the rulings in effect just like for the last item. We know the board bylaws going to apply. Everyone was warned ahead of time. Everyone was even advised on how they could change the language to make these workable. And instead, my colleagues on the board decided to do what they want anyway. So thankfully, we do have guardrails. And in this case, our board bylaws are going to serve us fine as being that. Very disappointing. And here we are already at 07:30 just going around in circles with an out of order conversation. Thank you. I wanna clarify a conversation with general counsel that is not on closed session.
We did have a discussion about, union participation. And since this is just a recommendation, I mean, you can correct me if I'm wrong, general counsel. I see that you're on there. That since this body is a recommending body and not a decision making body that, I believe we discussed that the people who are on it, the groups that were on it Can we get a point of order? This was as my understanding was this was confidential legal advice that was given to us as a board, and you're divulging what was contained in This is a conversation I had. So Excuse me. I'm gonna finish.
I am not relating to the memo at all. So I understand we we talked we clarified that that it was not a decision making body. Is that correct, general counsel? Yeah. There were there were several suggestions, and there was, a flag for legal exposure, and I'm not going to provide advice while you're on the dais. That would be a violation of attorney client privilege. But, there were some suggestions that were not accepted, and so that there was a conversation around ad hoc committee versus Brown Act of
Committee. I think that made its way into the resolution, but there were some other items that did not. And so, there were, definitely discussions, and I just wanted to clarify that having the committee in the spirit of collaboration could be a positive thing. And there's also, some risk associated with it, and I've shared that with the board. Thank you. Board comments. Can we call go ahead. So I would also say, that this resolution, I think, as most folks have talked about it, it's bringing democracy into our
system. But not only that, it is really drawing on the expertise of the folks that do this work every day in our school sites and making sure that they are the ones that are providing us with the best information and not just a small grouping of folks, that are providing us with said information. There are also, from my understanding, a number of contracts that are either extremely difficult to find on the dashboard or not existent on the dashboard. And so as much as we've tried to put as much information out there to our community to show every single dollar and how much we're spending it,
we still are falling short. And so, part of this is to really think through every single contract, whether or not it is something that we wanna enter into. And then another piece to this as well is, really supporting our senior leadership team and other folks in the district to better understand how each contractor is being used. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with both legal counsel as well as our talent division asking specific questions around some contracts or some issues saying, actually, that was that was made before they even told me about it,
or I have no idea how they hired that person. And it's really alarming that those two departments that I feel are vital to any organization either are cut out of the conversation or not included at the initiation of that conversation. So this to me is only gonna strengthen our, district in understanding kind of where we're seeing, growth and then, also again provide our community with information as to all of the different ways in which we are supporting our students and other ways that we could be supporting our
students with this with this, funding that we get. So, that's why I am going to be supportive of this resolution. Last round, and we'll start with Director Berry. Just to clarify that leadership does intend to address the recommendations from general counsel in some way. Like, we're not going to the there is a commitment to not put the district at risk. That's that is how I understand. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Okay. Any other board comments going down the line? Director Hutchinson? Yeah. I'm wanna make it clear. It hasn't happened yet.
And they were advised about this ahead of time, and those changes haven't occurred is what the general counsel said. So a commitment to a future change in the possible future rings hollow when they haven't done it yet. Well, the reason why I mentioned is that because some of the recommendations without alluding to them specifically are things that would not manifest until some findings or action would be recommended. And so as so long as that action is not taken, I I just I just want it. We have not received any other advice since what we received on February 6 surrounding
this resolution. And until we receive something else for the general counsel, that recommendation and advice definitely stands. And I want it on the record clearly that at the budget and finance committee, as the chair, I withdrew these items items based on that advice. Then two directors on that committee voted to put them back on the agenda and pass them forward to this board as a recommendation. And in the past, items like this have never moved this quickly through. And when you move things this quickly, it is impossible for staff to vet anything.
And people have been told the statements that we heard tonight, I know for a fact directors have been told leading up to this meeting. Are there any other questions? Could you accept a friendly amendment to that the task force before action would present a plan to the board about its initial sort of steps because I think there's a concern. I'm hearing the concern. I for me, I think as long as there is written expressed commitment, just a commitment generally,
that the concerns that we did receive because they're not formally addressed in the language of the resolution would be addressed in the activities of the task force. It's really hard to talk about this without specific without being specific. So what would your friendly amendment be? Just to present a a plan for the board to discuss. Be so there's a for instance, when you convene a body like this, you convene for the first time, you talk about your values, you talk about the objectives, and then you develop a work plan.
That work plan could be presented and shared with the board That creates some amount of transparency between, like, what the intent of the activity is and therefore what you might, you know, discover in that process of implementing said work plan. Yeah. I'm I'm fine with the work plan. Yeah. Oh, I've that's a friendly amendment. Like, to meet, but I'm late to meet. The work plan will be presented to the board prior to the first or after the first meeting. Prior to implementation. Okay. So prior to implementation, a work plan would be okay.
I guess I have a question about that. There's nothing that this committee is implementing. So this committee is putting forth, like, is gonna suss out contracts, is going to then provide a recommendation. So are you thinking in the initial, like, we're gonna have a work plan to talk about what areas we're gonna be looking at? It it would basically be if you're a teacher, your scope and sequence for, like, the work. And before implementing said scope and sequence, the board would have an opportunity to engage with it. So that would it sounds like it would be after, like, the first meeting.
There would be a work plan that is presented to the board. Okay. So it's not implementation, but it's more It's the implementation of the work plan before implementation of the work plan. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. Yes. It's a friendly amendment. Madam president? Yes. Direct, general counsel. May I, make an attempt to share to see if I've incorporated, both Rachel, director Latta's and director Berry's amendments? You can do that. I was trying to write one, so I would appreciate your words there. Bullet four is, an attempt at, director Berry's amendment.
So please take a look at that, director Berry. Is that Can you make that just a little bit larger? Yes. I don't mind asking. So yeah. You're good now? Is that better? Thank you. The second, the amendment listed below is director Lara. Are you all able to see that? Yes. Thanks. Yes. That's that is good. It looks good to me. Thank you. I consider both of those friendly amendments, and this is director Bachelor. Director Williams, do you consider them friendly amendments? Yes. Alright. Can we call the question? On the motion to adopt 25 dash zero four nine three with the two amendments
as friendly, student directors are absent. Director Thompson? Abstain. Director Berry? Yes. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Latta? Yes. Director bat vice vice president Bachelor? Yes. And president Breohart? Yes. The motion is adopted. I think before we go on to the next item, I just wanna appreciate my board colleagues. And I think this is the kind of conversation that as we move forward with other issues that we're gonna be discussing, that I think the, additions, the thoughtfulness, the,
just the conversation, I think, will really, help us in the future as we address other issues. So, just wanna say thank you. The next item is item c five, which is app 25Dash0439, applications for provisional internship permit, California commission on teacher credentialing, named employees for school year twenty twenty four twenty five. Do we have a motion to adopt? I would like to motion the adoption of the application for provisional inter internship permits, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing named employees for school year 02/2024 and 02/2025.
Is there a second? Second. Is there any public comment? No public comment here. Any board comment? K. And can we call the question, please? On the motion to adopt 25 dash zero four three nine as stated, student directors are absent. Director Thompson? Yes. Director Latta? Yes. Director Berry? Yes. Director Hutchinson? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Vice president Bachelor? Yes. And president Bullard? Yes. The motion is adopted. Thank you. Do we need a translation check, mister Hollis? Yes, madam president.
For tonight for tonight's meeting, we still have two languages available, which are Arabic and Spanish. I will lower all attendees' hands. Please only raise your hand if you need the languages being announced at this time, which is Arabic. I will ask miss Soleil if she can come off mute and give the interpretation announcement for Arabic. Arabic is done. Thank you, miss Saleh. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Arabic interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Spanish, I will lower all attendees' hands.
Please only raise your hand if you need the languages being announced, which at this time is Spanish. And I'll ask miss Walker Marquez if she could come off mute and give the translation announcement for Spanish. Of course. That is that that's a Spanish announcement. Thank you. Thank you, miss Walker Marquez. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at this time. That concludes the second interpretation announcement, and I pass it back to you, madam president. Alright. Thank you. Next on the agenda is item c one twenty five zero one zero two,
board policy, BPNTBT, facilities, climate action, and sustainability, phase two of climate emergency action resolution, facilities planning and management. I think we had the presentation last time. So I think, do I have a motion to, adopt this? A motion to adopt board policy, climate action and sustainability phase two of climate emergency action resolution. I'll second it. Are there any public comments on this? Yes. We have Ellie Poli. I think she spoke on all four of you. Okay. Then that complete public comment. Okay. Are there any are there any board comments?
Director Hutchinson. Yes. Thank you. I just want to apologize to the speaker who presented at the last meeting. I thought it was really rude how they were at the podium and the meeting just ended suddenly because we got to our statutory deadline. And then even tonight, they had to wait through these other items. So I just want to apologize to the for the folks who put in a lot of work to help create this policy, and, I thought it was a little disrespectful how they've been treated. Thank you. Are there any other board comments? Yeah. I I also wanna apologize to the folks who prepared to speak,
and deliver a presentation, not just to the board, but to the public. And I encourage folks to see those materials, and, hopefully, it's not the last opportunity for us to engage in that. Director Lotta? Hi. I see, Hannah on Zoom, and I will also, apologize. I'm sorry. I didn't have your email. So I sent, an apology email about my, you know, attempts to extend the meeting. I do wanna appreciate the work that you've done and, have spoken to quite a number of students, including students at Tech who are very excited and enthusiastic about this. So, just appreciate the work of your team, all the folks who've been involved in this,
and, and the facilities committee. I also appreciate the work, and I thought the YouTube videos of the students were really good. I watched them all from beginning to end. So, I appreciate your work. Can we call the question, mister Sanchez? Yes. On the motion to adopt as stated, students are absent. Director Thompson? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson? Yes. Director Berry? Yes. Director Lawton? Yes. Vice president Bachelor? Yes. President Brujahart? Yes. The motion is adopted. And for the final,
excuse me, agenda item for tonight, c two twenty five zero three seven eight, sole source sole source purchasing resolution, flow water and LK water filters, facility planning and management. This was recommended favorably by the facilities, committee. Are there any is there a motion to adopt this? So moved. I second. And are there any public comments? No public comment. K. Are there any board comments? K. Can we call the question? On a roll to on a motion to adopt twenty five dash zero three seven eight,
students are absent. Director Hutchinson? Yes. Director Lawton? Yes. Director Thompson? Yes. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Berry? Yes. Vice vice president Bachelor? Yes. And president Breaux Hart? Yes. The motion is adopted. And with that, the meeting is adjourned.