Board of Education - Regular Meeting

Bang bang because I can. Um, I call this uh regular board meeting to order. Can I have a roll call? Boyd here. Khan is absent tonight. Rusty Hopwood here. Vice President Inklas here. President Mahoney here. Superintendent Stone

here. Thank you. Um the board will uh adjourn to close session before we go where we will discuss uh conference with legal counsel about anticipated litigation uh public employee evaluation of the superintendent conference with labor negotiator and conference with superintendent and security personnel. Um before we go into close session, do we have any public comment? Uh seeing none on Zoom, seeing none on the room, um we will adjourn to close session.

reconvening from uh close session. Um in close session um the board took action to approve a termination agreement with an employee. Um we are going to go back into close session um at the end of uh open session. Um so reconvening to open session. Um can we have a roll call, please? Guess I should do that first. Um, student trustee Chuck here. Student Trusty Shepard here. Trusty Boyd here. Trusty Hopwood here. Vice President Inklas here. President Mahoney here. Superintendent Stone

here. Thank you. And now for those of you who would like to join in um saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy for all.

Thank you. And now I'd like to um have the reading of our foundational commitments. Uh the vision, mission, and core values. Student trustees vision. Each and every student is empowered to realize their fullest potential ready to lead, contribute, and thrive in an everchanging world through the support of a diverse, engaged, and committed community. Mission Alba Unified School District provides an excellent public education that empowers every student to achieve their fullest potential. We honor the unique ways students learn and are committed to creating inclusive, supportive, and collaborative learning environments. By valuing individual strengths, celebrating differences, and fostering critical thinking, we ensure that every student is prepared to contribute um to a just and joyful world and thrive as productive members of society.

Our values, we believe in equity and excellence. Every student deserves access to highquality, rigorous, and inclusive learning experiences that honor their potential and ensure they are prepared to thrive. Believe in student centered learning. Students flourish when they experience agency, belonging in a wellness, and safe, supportive environments designed to meet their individual needs. We believe in collaborative leadership. Shared leadership in transparent, accountable systems are crucial for building trust, driving improvement, and fostering a culture of learning. We believe in honoring individual strengths. Each student brings unique gifts, identities, and ways of learning. Recognizing and valuing these differences is foundational to meaningful education. We believe in the power of community partnership. When educators, students, families, and community partners work together, we create schools where everyone belongs and every student is empowered to lead, contribute, and thrive.

Board norms and code of conduct. Number one, focus on what's best for students. Ensure a respectful environment. Number two, value diverse perspectives. Act with dignity and professionalism. Number three, maintain distinction between board and staff roles. Number four, commit to a continuous learning and professional development. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. Um, can I have a motion to approve the meeting agenda? Move to approve the agenda. I second. All in favor? I.

Great. Thank you. Now we'll move on to uh recognitions, our proclamation on on women's history month. Proclamation number 2025-26-04 recognizing March 2026 as Women's History Month. As women of every race, class, and ethnic background have risen to the challenge challenges of our time with skill, knowledge, strength, resolve, and resilience. Often filling critical gaps both inside and outside the home to ensure that those around them have what they need to thrive. And

um whereas the Albi School District is comprised overwhelmingly of women who also constitute the majority of district volunteers. And whereas we rec recognize the essential role that administrators, teachers, and staff play in the daily lives in development of our students. And

whereas our principles, classroom teachers, uh, pair educators, counselors, librarians, district office staff, school office personnel, mental health professionals, food service staff, campus supervisors, nurses and health assistants and facilities and custodial staff, and so many others have continu um continually risen to meet the evolving needs of our students and families, particularly in the years following the CO9 pandemic, working tirelessly to ensure students are safe, support, and cared for academically, socially, and emotionally. And

whereas despite their contributions, the work of women both in and out of the home continues to be undervalued as women are still paid less than men for comparable work and face persistent barriers to advancement. And whereas women across generations have sustained a long legacy of collaboration, advocacy, and leadership in pursuit of equity, and justice within schools and communities, strengthening the collective well-being of all. And

whereas the 2026 National Women's History theme designated by the National Women's History Alliance is quote leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future and quote recognizing the leadership of women, especially those of marginalized communities who are who are advancing lasting solutions to environmental, economic, educational, and social justice changes and building resilient systems that sustain both people and the planet for generations to come. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Omen Unified School District Board of Education proclaims the month of March 2026 as women's earthy month and encourages all district administrators, teachers, staff, students, and community members to observe this occasion through reflection, learning, and celebration of the vital contributions of women. And

we have further resolved that we dedicate this month in appreciation of the women who work and volunteer throughout our district. and we express our sincere gratitude for their endearing commitment and leadership.

Thank you. Um we're now move to uh general comment for items that are not on the agenda. Please note that under the Brown Act um we are not allowed to respond to anything that is said during public comment. I'll start with in the room. Any comments? Seeing none, I'll move to Zoom. Uh seeing none, uh we'll move on to our uh reports and starting with our student board members. We don't have a report.

Okay. Um I'd now like to invite our labor partners for any reports they may have. Um hardly anything tonight. I was feel like I was just here um [laughter] like five minutes ago. Um but we were very happy to head into break um having ratified our contract and um we all enjoyed a week off which was a wonderful break for everybody and we're all just really thinking about our members, our temporary members especially that are in this place of un the unknown about their positions next year. So, we're offering them a lot of support. But that's it for tonight.

Thank you. Any other labor uh reports? I'll uh turn it over to Superintendent for your report.

Good evening, trustees. Uh President Mahoney. Thank you. Um, so I too want to um echo what our um our labor uh partner from uh Albany Teachers Association um mentioned. I'm really excited that we were able to ratify um the successor contract between Albany Unified School District and the Albany Teachers Association the Friday before break. Um and tonight you'll you'll see that presented to you. Um this ratified agreement um reflects months of thoughtful dialogue and sustained engagement. Um it includes a 2% salary increase um more preparation time for specials and other um teachers and it also updates class sizes so that um it really actually translate to us at this moment being able to provide additional counseling support for middle school students. Um together these elements represent a balanced and responsible agreement that honors our educators, protects our district's long-term fiscal stability, and centers our students needs. I just want to note that collective bargaining is super complex and at times very difficult and very emotional work and it asks us to hold multiple responsibilities at once. uh fiscal stewardship, long-term stability, fairness to employees, and um an unwavering commitment to students. And it also requires a lot of patience, clarity, and willingness to stay in the conversation even when there's tension. I want to express my deep appreciation to the labor partners for their engagement throughout the process. It's not about winners and losers. And I feel very honored that they were willing to work through deep complexity with us um in service of something that's larger than any one group of of people. I also

want to name something directly. We know that our staff deserves more. They deserve competitive compensation, strong benefits and working conditions that reflect the complexity and importance of the work that they do every single day. They do very hard work. And the limitation we face is not a lack of appreciation. It's a structural reality of how public schools are funded in California. I appreciated at our last board meeting, President Mahoney mentioned um this framing around abundance rather than scarcity and I think it really matters. I want to quote one of my favorite um authors, Margaret Wheatley, who says that in li in a living system, money is not the only form of abundance. So I want us to keep in mind that while we are looking at dollars and cents and and money is very scarce, we also have a tremendous amount of abundance in this community. And our the people in this community really make up that that abundance. And I think an abundance mindset challenge us challenges us to move beyond fear-based thinking um towards being more collective and looking at possibility. It invites us not only to think about how we divide limited resources, but how do we work together to expand opportunities and to advocate for more resources, for stronger funding, and to build systems where the negotiations don't feel like a zero- sum game where we are exercising this feudal experience of, as I've said many times, we have a dollar. How are we dividing that dollar? I wish we had two. I wish we had a hundred. How about a million? We need more money. Um, and so I really want us to think about that as we move forward. Um, I don't want our bargaining to be this constrained in the future. I want

us to work together if we can to advocate for state level funding that's stronger and more equitable for our kids because that's what it's really actually about. They deserve that. If we can grow the pie, then we'll have more for everybody. The strength in anyone organization is the quality of the relationships and the principles that we choose to lead with. Whether we are focused on this idea of abundance or scarcity actually matters. And so as we move forward and as we think about how we're going to continue to partner and improve, I really want to encourage that we work together. And I'm very committed to this to building trust and shared purpose. Um so that we can together think about this sense of possibility, what's possible, and how can we get together and start to advocate together for more funding. As superintendent, I always hold a dual commitment. First and always, I center our kids, our students, their safety, their learning, their belonging, and their long-term success. And every decision we make has to move us closer to providing equitable, rigorous, and inclusive education for every child. And at the same time, I am deeply committed to ensuring that our staff feel valued and supported and respected in the demanding work. And students thrive, we know this, when the adults around them are supported and able to do their best work. I'm going to quote one of my other favorite authors and um and educators, Dr. Betatina Love writes, and this this is going to probably make me cry, so I'm going to try not to. Justice is what love looks like in public. In our district, that means building systems that are fair, transparent, and sustainable. And it means honoring the

labor of our staff while safeguarding the organization's long-term health so that we can serve our students um not only for today but for generations to come. So I just want to say again the ratification of this tentative agreement reflects really strong effort and I believe what justice is which is what love looks like in public. It's not just enough yet though. Um and I don't take that lightly. Um I'm genuinely grateful for the work um that it required on all sides and I know that we're not at the finish line yet. Um it's a step forward toward a longer journey and I think it's one that's built it built in um grounding around trust um keeping students at the center and continuing to work together so that we have a future where our public schools are resourced and supported in a way that reflects the true value of our students. Thank you. here. Here. Thank you for that. Um, I'll make the awkward transition to board committee reports. Uh, Trusty Boyd, do you have a board committee report?

Uh, yes, I do. I just um will talk briefly about um attending the special education advisory committee meeting um where we did a budget town hall um and uh that was a really wonderful discussion. We talked about professional development that's being provided. Um how money comes into the district and what we spend it on. Um we looked at data and saw areas in which our students are performing even better than they have in the past and celebrated that. at the same time looking at um areas where our students are still um challenged and needing uh more support and uh recognizing our commitment to supporting our students um the best that we can going forward and continuing to improve that. Uh we also looked at our facilities and talked about um priorities for um areas where we want to improve. Um so it was a really uh great discussion. and appreciated the committee members who attended and our uh administrators and our superintendent for leading that discussion and um was happy to to be there.

Thank you, Trusty Hwood. Well, I'm on the same committee as Melissa, so I'm not going to repeat what she said, but I did enjoy the opportunity to attend that um special education budget town hall meeting and um talk about ways that we could prioritize resources for our underserved students. And I think the next meeting is the 12th of March. So looking forward to that. And then I have this week on Thursday is the next instructional leadership. Thank you, Mr. President.

Yes, I attended my first facilities council meeting which was very interesting. Um the planning um was last night and we reviewed options per site that the um the consulting firm put together um that was focused on or that was supported by our facility goals and our guiding principles. The team is going to take those plans out to various um schools and school sites and community groups to get additional feedback. Um there's also a website and I saw that it recently came out on to um out to everybody but it is a really great website. It includes um current conditions for each site, writing principles, some of the presentations and an opportunity to give feedback. So I encourage you guys all to take a look and attend any of the the community meetings to give feedback or look on the website. Thank you.

Thank you. I was at the same meeting. So I too will not repeat uh what the vice president said, but I would I will repeat this one piece which is uh having an opportunity to engage in what the future of this district looks like from a facilities perspective is a real opportunity. It doesn't come along that often. Um and while there's a bunch of people that are deeply involved in it, it's going to show up at various school sites, PTA meetings, and the like. And so see that opportunity if you can. And if you can't attend those, definitely check out the website and give your feedback that way as well. like um facilities expenditures are big permanent strategic decisions um and we want to make sure we're doing them in such a way that's the best benefit to the community. Okay, so now I'll move on to board member reports. Back to you, Trusty Boyd.

Um hello. Uh so I will uh just share we had our Black History Month uh annual celebration before the break. Uh want to appreciate the folks in this room who attended that including our superintendent. Um want to really appreciate our teachers, staff, our students uh who performed. Uh it's always just an a really wonderful event. Um appreciate all the community members who came out and supported our students and ate yummy food and had um an opportunity to to have a bit of community together. Um it's really wonderful event that I look forward to every year. Um, also in my still pretty new Cornell role, I will be attending my first community time tomorrow morning at 8:30 and uh, coffee with Cat on Friday morning at 8:30. So, uh, any folks who want to go swing by that, um, please do. I'm looking forward to it. Um, and then for our second and final board meeting during Black History Month today, I will be reading I Too by Langston Hughes. I too sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes. But I laugh and eat well and grow strong. Tomorrow I'll be at the table when company comes. Nobody will dare say to me, "Eat in the kitchen." Then besides, they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed. I too am America.

Love. Lovely as usual. Um, and congratulations [clears throat] Trusty Hopwood. You have the uh the ability to go next.

It did occur to me actually with Trusty Khan not being here that I I follow Trusty Boyd. Um, but that was a beautiful poem and I also attended Black History Month celebration um at least half of it and it was really well attended and underscored the need for larger performing arts space in our district because I stood at the back which was fine but enjoyed it. I loved Trusty Boyd's singing the black national anthem, too. So, it was a treat. Um, and what else for me? So, Marin Morning and um, Coffee with the Principal is next Wednesday, the 4th of March at 8:30, and that evening will be the PTA meeting, which I'm looking forward to. Um, I had the opportunity to meet with Director Reed at the Aubony Children's Center a couple of weeks ago to learn a bit more about the community there. Um, and they don't have any events coming up until April. Uh, but yeah, that's a really Vice President.

Yes. So, I attended my first uh site council meeting um ever um but and my first one at AMS. I've actually never been to one. So, I was very impressed. Um they reviewed the preliminary site budget and approved it and and reviewed all of their goals and progress to date. So, it was impressive how knowledgeable everybody in the room was. Um so, that was great. On March 5th, the AMS PTA is having a parent ed night. um that will talk about how to prepare eighth graders going into high school. So, if you do have an eighth grader, um that is a great will be a great event to attend. Um and on March 13th, it is the night of magic, formerly Harry Potter night um put on by the AMS library um librarian, Miss Perez, and it'll be an evening of treats and activities. Thank you.

That was always one of my favorite events with my kiddos. Um, I'm just going to I wanted to return to a conversation or an item I brought up at the last board meeting, which is about the change in starting time of the school board um, open meeting time because I don't think I was particularly clear or transparent about it, and I wanted to make sure that I was. We've got a student board member who has encountered an educational conflict that will not allow them to attend at 6 p.m. They've tried to move the conflict, but to no avail. I'm moving the meeting time to 7 p.m. while it's an inconvenience to some. It allows us to get the student input and engagement that I think is important for this board. I apologize I was not more clear about this at the prior meeting and we're going to try this going forward until the conflict no longer exists. I appreciate everyone's patience and understanding for to all involved. Okay. Now, we're going to move on to a couple of public hearings. Starting with a public hearing to sunshine. Negotiation proposals from Service Employees International Union to Albany Unified School District.

Good evening. Uh this the sunshine process is just um each of the parties notifying the other party what we can expect to see discussed when we're bargaining at the bargaining table. Um and then we put it on a public hearing so that anyone from the public can have an opportunity to comment on on either um proposals. So this proposal is from SEIU. SEIU is our bargaining unit that represents custodial staff, maintenance staff, and food service workers. And uh they've opened all articles of the contract. Um, I guess we do questions. Oh, did I just open up? Just open.

Okay. So, now I'm going to open up the um the public hearing. Anybody would like to comment? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. Great. Uh moving on to our next item which is on conduct a public hearing on sunshine negotiation proposal from Albany Unified School District to the service employees international union. So this is the district's sunshine proposal and we too are opening all of the articles just so that we can do some work if there's any work to be done around cleanup language.

Okay. I'm going to open the hearing for any comment. Seeing none, I'm going to close the meeting.

Uh, thank you. Now, we're moving on to review and action on the first is ratification of the tenative agreement between the Albany Teachers Association, the Albany Unified School District. You you haven't moved, so continue. Right. So, you know, I I don't think I could have done a better job than what Superintendent Stone has already said about the agreement. Um, and so I'll just I'd like to keep that for the record.

Um, do we have any questions from the board? Guess not. Probably on that. Um, so I'll open up for public comment on the item. None in the room. See none on Zoom. Do I have a motion? I move um to approve the ratification of the tentative agreement between Albony Teachers Association and Albany Unified School District. I second. Uh any comments from anyone? Okay. Uh all in favor? I

I should start. No resolution. No, that's not a resolution. I Yes. Excellent. All right. Okay. And now we're on to a resolution number 25 2025 26-10 to determine the tiebreaking criteria for classified employees.

Correct. So a few meetings ago we brought a similar resolution that applied to certificated employees. This will apply to classified employees and um as far as the tiebreaking criteria that we've determined here, it would be that should there be a tie were if we were uh doing layoffs and if two people had the same seniority date that we would then uh the deciding factor would be by lottery and that lottery would occur. It says public in the resolution, but it would be at the district office with myself and um the union president questions. Uh any public comment?

You've got two minutes.

Hi. Yes. Um John Pauling um president of of the classified um union members um about that um same seniority date and things like that that is very confus confusing to myself as well as um our members and I don't understand if you if you were hired on in pay in January and then later on you move it to everybody has the same hiring date just so that you can get a raise all at the same time to make it easier on the on accounting that isn't fair to the people that got hired say in August and then you move it to move their date or what have you and um it gets very confusing and then when it comes time the layoffs. Then he says, "Oh, well, you guys were hired on the same date, so I think I like this person a little bit more, so I'm going let this person go." And that's not fair or anything. That's how I interpret it. Now, other people may interpret it different, but I just would like some more clarification. And I don't know, I haven't been here that long, but I don't know when that occurred, but a lot of uh my members don't like it. So, we need to get that cleared up. That's all I have on that.

Okay. Thank you. Um uh I'd like to can I can I direct uh

um so uh I'm aware of some of the confusion that Mr. Pauline is describing with um some of the CSEA members. There's there multiple dates. There's your higher date where you could have been a substitute. You're a substitute parah or a substitute clerical. That's when you first started working with the district. You were not in the union at that time. But then there is when you became hired into a position that's represented by CSEA and in that classification let's say you are a clerk you have a seniority date in that classification. Um but let's say later an opportunity to become a secretary becomes available. When you start as a secretary, that becomes your seniority date in that classification. But your seniority date doesn't go back to when you first became a clerk or when you were first a substitute. So seniority is tied to when you are in a classification that is represented by the bargaining unit. What I think the confusion that has come up has been that there's also something called in our payroll system an anniversary date. An anniversary date just tells the system when to move you up on the salary schedule. The two are they're different. So seniority is tied to the t your first day in a certain specific classification, right?

And so what we're talking about here is two or more people starting in a single classification on the same day. Okay, I've got another comment from Zoom. Uh, let me get that going. Um, allowed to talk. Go ahead.

Hello. Yep. You're on. You've got two minutes. Yep. You've got two minutes. All right. I can't hear you. You there? Can you hear me now? Yep, we can hear you. Go ahead.

Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I'm Everything was fine until I got unmuted. So um yeah you know so I also had a question about the the the random the lottery system you know uh you know experiences are different specialized skills are different performance are different training or certification contribution to the school community you know two people may share a higher date but have very different value to the district lottery doesn't account for that or wouldn't or would it I mean that that would be something that I would raised uh as a concern when you are implementing this and you know and another you know it can it can be fair but someone who has worked harder or taken on more responsibility may lose their job simply because their name was drawn last. workers may feel district is avoiding thoughtful decision making. I mean there's a lot of things when you do a lottery system. I know it's always going to be hard to do that, but if you create it where uh the police are not feeling disposable, unappreciated, anxious about the future layoff and distrustful of leadership, then you know that's just not going to work for when you're hiring and we're trying to recruit uh as parents from a parent standpoint. you know those teachers that you know that I see in the evening participating with us the p the teachers who are uh say example are volunteering to be staff member or a group at the at the school who are not paid you know and their lottery comes up you know you're you're you're not creating a system that

sees that too so I know that in paper and hiring paper and everything I know you have to make decisions But I think that implementing these things it it is important to take consideration and I would encourage you to examine this correct before you hit the gel. Great. Thank you so much for the comment. You're welcome.

Do we have a motion? You have a qu question. We can Do you have a Sorry. Do you have a question? I do have a question. Thank you so much, Vice President. Go ahead. [laughter] Two questions actually. Um, is this concept of the lottery standard across school districts for classified? Yes. And it only happens when they're hired on the exact same date. Correct. Um my second question is um how if somebody's been in the district for eight years, right? They start as a clerk like you example, they get promoted to a secretary.

Somebody else starts as a secretary. Um but they've only been in the district for two years. Their start date as a secretary was first. Does that first person lose that that eight years of seniority if they're both now? Is that is that what you're saying? There's a layoff between secretaries. They don't have eight years of seniority. They only have one year of seniority in your example as a secretary. Correct.

They have eight years of experience in the district. Correct. and their one year of seniority with the secretary as a secretary would um it would they would be the least senior then over the person who has two years. Yes. Yes. Is that's also standard because that doesn't take into account the eight years of commitment to the district. It's a California education code. Thank you. the questions. C boy, do you look like you're about to ask a question?

Yeah, I'm I'm I'm puzzling. So, in the situation where we need to lay off one secretary and there are two people who have the same seniority date as secretaries, but one of them's been doing a much better job. Does that not go into account or is it like yeah you're you're not in the pool of people who could potentially be laid off because there was a sort of a you know um an assessment of of like how you were doing as a part of it.

So when we are conducting a layoff um the impacted personnel would be considered permanent employees. That means that they were hired into a position that they were evalu evaluated twice during their probationary period and permanent status was recommended. If after that point uh there were performance issues then those need to be addressed via a different route. don't use the layoff system to address performance issues which goes back to again why the lottery because these are permanent folks who passed their probationary period

um I can see why Mr. Ping's members are confused by this process. That's one thing to say, but also um have we had to employ this tiebreaking um situation? Have we been in that situation many times? No, the first time. Right. Thank you. Trusty Shepard. Mhm.

So if two secretaries had the same hiring date, but before one of them was a clerk, why isn't there seniority prior to becoming a secretary in count? Is that part of ED code? Because seniority is tied to when you started in a classification. And if your classification changes, your seniority date changes. That's just the law. Other questions?

I just want to reiterate that this is for classified and not teaching staff because I did hear one um comment that was um thinking that this might be teaching. Teaching is a completely different process. Thank you. Other questions? Okay. Do I have a motion? Um yeah, I'll move uh to approve the resolution to determine tiebreaking criteria for classified employees.

I'll second the motion. Um this is a resolution, so we have to do a roll call. Student trustees are recused from this, correct? Excuse me. Just Yeah, I think just a trust. What? Just trustees? No. Trusty Boyd. Yes. Trusty Hopwood. Yes. Vice President. Yes. President Mahoney. Yes. Okay. The motion passes. Now we move on to resolution 2025-2611, reduction of classified services.

Thank you. Um, so we're bringing this resolution forward to reduce Can we scroll down a little bit, please? Uh, these specific classifications for the amount of FTE that's listed there. Uh, the specifically the library technician positions are soft-funded. That means one of them is is funded through school care uh and the other is uh funded through a one-time grant. And so we call that soft funding which is not guaranteed for the next year. And so we're bringing that um classification until we know more about funding or what our needs are for next year. Uh and then with the par educator position, we had to add additional FTE as our because of our TK classes kept growing. And so we are reducing just to bring our adult ratios in the TK classes back in alignment with just how many sections of TK we are actually offering for next year as of now. Um and then uh the communication specialist is part of a restructure Any questions about what's just been presented? Okay, now go to public comment. Not seeing any in the room. Not seeing not seeing any on Zoom. Um, do we have a motion?

I move to approve resolution number 2025-2611, reduction of classified services. Second. Any questions or conversation about the motion? Seeing none, it's a resolution. So, we need to do a roll call. We should do the student board members. I shouldn't have said I probably screwed up earlier. Student trustee took Yes. Student trusty Shepard. Yes. Trusty Boyd. Yes. Trusty Hopwood. Yes. President Inklas. Yes. President Mahoney. Yes.

Okay. Now we'll move on to review and approve revised board policy administrative administrative regulation 5141.27 food allergies/ special dietary needs. Welcome.

Thank you. Good evening. President Mahoney, trustees, Superintendent Stone, staff and community. I am bringing our allergy plan, which is a board policy and AR um to the board for um a review and action. So for a vote of approval. Um we had reviewed it. I'm going to go through a process, but just to give context for why I'm here tonight, we had reviewed it at a board at the last board policy committee meeting and all of the other policies had come to the board on consent, but because this has been a topic that's had a lot of discussion and interest, um there was a decision made to bring this as a separate item for transparency and um discussion. So that's why this one was pulled out as a separate item. And I now have exciting um toggle and see if this works. Yes. All right. Here we go. Um, so I'm going to walk you through the process that we've gone through. I'm going to highlight what is different now than was before. Um, and then an opportunity for any questions and discussion. So um the process is that we on June 18th, 2024 um the current board policy and AR that we have in place was um was updated and approved as part of the mass global adoption that we did working with CSBA to get all of our board policies that were over a decade out of compliance back into compliance. So it brought into just current ed code. So that's the one that's in place right now. Our superintendent in the fall in response to there was rising concerns from parents of students with life-threatening food allergies that kept popping up in meetings and discussions and reachouts asked for us to work on putting a policy in place that would protect our students safety when on our campuses. So I worked with our district nurse, a parent of a child

with a life-threatening food allergy, a teacher, and we reviewed um the fair and f the kind of best practices that are out there related to allergies. We looked at what some other districts had and we put together a proposal which we brought to site leaders in August to um start a roll out. Um and then on August 12th, 2025, it was brought to the board and there were a lot of concerns about the limitations that had been placed on community events and really highlighting the value in our community of having food related um events that build community. So from there um I pulled together a group of um invited all of our PTA presidents and if they couldn't be there they sent a repres representative all of our affinity group leaders and opened it up to any other parents or caregivers that were interested um in participating and and we did have three parents there who had um students with life-threatening food allergies who elected to come. So that was a nice um bit of representation at a smaller meeting where we could have some really good discourse between those different um different um community members. Um and then from there also talked with our site leaders. Um they had been in touch with staff and students and so received some feedback through them of what the concerns were that were were surfacing and what things were not of concern. Um there was individuals in a number of communications. I had invited individuals to reach out and also just follow up from board meetings. So I had some individual conversations with parents, teachers and staff and students and then brought the policy back as an update on November 18th, 2025 with no action being asked to be taken, but just where we were in the process and um the where what things we had pulled back on and what things we were still holding on. um knowing that we were still in in

process. Since then um the policy was brought to the board policy committee once um at the end of 2025 um and there was some great engagement from board members. Um I want to thank Trusty Hopwood for putting a lot of time and energy into like really pouring through that and a lot of back and forth. Then brought it back on um on February 5th to our board policy committee. It was approved there. Um and again like I had said the discussion was then let's bring it to a public board meeting so that there can be an opportunity for any further um discussion since it's been such an important um topic that people have engaged with. So that's the process. That's what we're here for. Um I do want to just take just a brief moment to just sort of ground us on where this is coming from and why this why this work was so important. Um, food allergies are growing health concern in schools. Um, and you know, I go to these student services meetings at Alama County Office of Education with representatives from all over Alama County. And this is something that is coming up across the board as a discussion and people like, "What are you doing? What are you doing? How are we going to manage this?" So, just um, [snorts] you know, for context, exposure of peanuts or tree nuts can cause life-threatening allergic reactions, anaphilaxis. Obviously, not just those, but those are coming up as one of the main ones. I'll give a statistic here in a moment. Um, and schools have a responsibility to reduce risk for students where we can and protect their safety. So, here's just some quick facts. About 8% of US children have at least one um life-threatening food allergy, about two per classroom. Peanuts and tree nuts are among the most common causes of severe allergic reactions in children. More than 40% of children with food allergies have experienced a severe reaction and 15 to 25% of allergic reactions in children occur at school. About 20 to

25% of firsttime severe allergic anaphylactic reactions in children occur in a school setting, meaning that they often didn't know that the child had a life-threatening allergy until they had that reaction at school. And that avoidance of allergens is currently the only effect of prevention, right? not reduction of risk but prevention. Um and so the in terms of the nut-free um policy and why we had moved to that is to reduce accidental exposure to allergens to protect students with life-threatening allergies knowing that's one of the main um the main cause main allergens that causes really severe life-threatening anaphilaxis. Um, also just to to say the in terms of lowering anxiety for students and families and staff, um, I will just say like especially for our elementary parents, but I will say just for all parents who have a kid with a life-threatening allergy in my meetings with them, what I really get is a lot of legitimate anxiety. like you're sending your kid off to school and what if they are in a situation and they eat something that and they go into aniflactic shock and you know something really bad happens, right? And so that that's a lot to hold and you're sending I think in general we take that seriously of like parents entrusting their kids in our care and we want to keep them safe in all of the different ways and this is one of those ways and also just promoted promoting inclusion and shared responsibility that there's a lot no matter what we do there's a lot that's individually put on the students and families of kids who have life-threatening allergies that they have to hold themselves and like everything we try to look at a shared responsibility for how do we include all of our families and this is just one of those um pieces that we can consider. Um I will say just in transparency and representation just that the feedback received during this process runs a wide gamut and often times needs are in you

know um competition with each other. I don't I don't I'd like to choose a different word than that but are at odds with each other. Um I I know at the last um in November when I had presented at the board meeting, I'd shared like we had a couple of um parents of students who have eating disorders who are talking about how important nuts are to them, you know? So like that's something that is also life-threatening and important and valid, right? And um and yet like there's this. So I just wanted to say that there are a range of different feelings and opinions about it. Um, it is our job to keep students safe to the best of our ability and we have had students at all levels of our schools go into anaphylactic shock. So, I know that's not something that the public might hear about, but that's something that does has happened. And I know we feel especially protective of our younger students because um they have less agency in in being able to speak up and manage and advocate and all of those things. I will say we've had kids go into aniflactic shock at the middle and high school as well. And a lot of times there's pieces around the desire to fit in, impulsivity. Not all teenagers just because they're teenagers can manage that part easily. Many can, you know, um but it's it's something just to hold. Um also I will just say Albany High School does have an open campus for lunch. So there is the option to sit in Memorial Park, eat eat as many nuts as you want to eat. Um trying to just keep the campuses protected. Um, also a recognition that celebrations um, are really an important piece of food and community building and so we adjusted the guidelines to make sure that those were still happening. Um, I didn't put this on there but should have that there was a lot of feedback from high school students about the importance of um, bake sales and that that was a really important part of club culture. So also wrapping that into kind of community events sort of outside of the um, general classroom experience and making sure those could still happen. Um, so what is different than the existing

policy for the updated policy? One big piece was just codifying a lot of what's already been happening, but wanting to make sure it's happening clearly, intentionally through changes of leadership and all of that. Um, and I'll just give an example like making sure we have a fair plan, which is the kind of this clear one-pager bright plan that goes with teachers subfolders and everything for kids with life-threatening food allergies. we've been using those for years, but it's this is stating that um and so sharing how we share out with, you know, that making sure that all staff are aware of who those students are who have life-threatening food allergies. Um the other thing that's different than before is our campuses being peanut and tree nutree. Um and then also codifying, this was mostly done before, but not 100% across the board. Um that classrooms should be free of any known allergens of those particular students. So, if you know you have a child in your classroom who has a life-threatening egg allergy, then any food related classroom events you choose to have should not include eggs. And that should be communicated if you're allowing parents to send things in. Um, and then for community events and for high school bake sales, what we're asking, we're saying other than nuts, do whatever you want to do. Um, and and we're asking I can put this on the screen that um a card be used just that lists ingredients. And we know it's not failp proof, it's not perfect, but it's I think an attempt to like be clear to communicate um as best we can. Um and um actually just today got a big batch of these and distributed them to each principal. So that's exciting. They have them now and then they'll be just running copies moving forward. Um, and I thought one thing that was really neat when we had the meeting with the PTA parents and affinity group leaders that they suggested like maybe there could be a spot where it's not just about the allergies, but also is the dish vegan, is it vegetarian, is it kosher, is you know, that sort of thing. So, we created a spot for that. I really appreciated that feedback. So, you know, the idea

would be that bake sales and community potlucks still occur and that people can still bring in the foods from their cultures, but we just ask um people to fill this out so that it's easier for families with life-threatening food allergies to navigate that process. So, that concludes my presentation. Would love it if anyone has questions, comments, discussion, questions from the board. Trusty Shepard. Um, just to be really clear for bake sales on campus after school hours, do they have to be nut-free? Yeah, we're asking for our campuses to be nut-free at all times, even for outside groups who are coming in to use our facilities. Other question

because of the risk of contact exposure. Yeah. Other other board questions. Uh, Trusty Shock and the Nutfrey policy. [clears throat] Does that not apply to school run or like students run activities that are outside of campus? It just that's a great question. So, can maybe can you say more about like give an example of what you mean? Like for example, um, leadership students often host uh what's it called? Fundraisers for and usually that's a bake sales or some kind of food item. Um it's usually held in like for example like Solano or like some other other location that's like outside of the school.

Yeah. The nutree we're just managing I would say two things. We're managing it on our campus so just no nuts on the campus and then I would say that if it's like um you know the basketball team is is having a a schoolhosted celebration party where we're sharing foods then we would ask that be not free. But as far as like bake sales off campus and all of that sort of thing no we're not managing that. Yeah, Mr. Shepard, another question because diversity week is coming up. So, there's like a potluck and it's during school, but it's during lunch and it's in like the cement area between the school and the park. Does that also have to be nutree?

Yeah. So, I think I was actually principal McN was talking about that today and he said that he was communicating to be nut free and pass out the pot lock cards for people that other questions from the board. I'll go to public comment in the room. Uh we have one comment on Zoom. Uh you're you're up. Can you hear me? Yep, we can hear you.

Okay. Thank you. So, first I want to thank uh uh both uh Superintendent Sarah and uh and Deb Bro for uh engaging with me and via email. So I have been one of the strongest proponent of pushing back on this policy. One I have I have given them the the national and state authority CDC, American Academy of Pediatric, California Department of Education. They all emphasize layer individualized strategies, not a blanket band. Again, the individual health uh these strategies include individual health plans, staffing training, cleaning, handashing routines, emergency readiness. So I I I am part of the Finas Latinas Albany, but I go up to PTSA, PTA. I've gone to other uh parent groups and I have not heard a single time where any of the parents have known of any uh invitation to come and talk about this. So I understand what has been said today, but it it to me is very surprising because all I hear is more and more people having this concern of like why the district ban. We have many students in AASD. I would like to know the evidence base that we are basing this is. I I I was giving a few facts uh in in a in an attachment but I want to know what the AUSD district uh is. How many students had had that problem? You know, uh it can we provide them a more safe area? How does that area uh looks like would look like? Because one of the thing is at the end of the day, this is a this isn't a debate about whether we protect children with severe allergies. We all agree on that. The real question is whether the district can justify choosing the most restrictive option without evidence, without transparency, and without including the families who

will be most affected in the largest sentence. We've had time since last year to now and there hasn't been a very big uh public uh hearing about this and I would love to see that more than great and we just strict I I see the time. I I appreciate your passion. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. No problem. No problem. Okay. Uh Trusty Hwood.

I just want to say how much I appreciate process. I think it's been completely transparent. I've we have I'm a former policy committee member. We have talked about this um at length at meetings which were open to members of the public to come and voice concerns. Um I think this is um an awful lot of collaboration, community outreach, and I think this is just a great um solution to keeping kids as safe as we can and to making sure that children with these allergies are included in all aspects of school life. So I really appreciate Thank you. Thank you,

Chissy Boyd. And I just wanted to say thank you for um the scope of your presentation. I um appreciated having the full the full history of the the process and also the full discussion of um where different views are coming from and the different you know ages of students who are impacted and you know I just thought that it was very complete and thorough answered some questions I had originally had when I was a new member of the policy committee and so thank you for covering everything in such a a wide ranging way. Thank you. the feedback from the board policy is helpful for steering that appreciate it.

Mr. Jak, sorry. Um I'm curious about the methods by which um the kind of what's it to call the discussions were advertised um kind of addressing the public comment from earlier. Um the meetings can be public but it doesn't mean that people are aware of it. So I'm just kind of curious about like how it was advertised and how the word got around essentially for the meetings.

Yeah, thank you for the question. Um so primarily that when we held that the initial community meeting um it was I emailed specifically all of the PTA leaders and group leaders on a on one thread and then um posted it um on the through the district Friday communication and then asked each school to send it out as part of their communications um and asked um middle and high school to send it out to via student communications. Um and then also just sort of asked for less formal engagement like I principal said he was checking in with leadership students um as was um principal Mapes in order to to just let me know and the the what I was getting the feedback I was getting back was that bake sales were really important. Please do not remove people's ability to like we don't want to just bring in package food. We want to be able to actually bake things and that's a really important part of the culture of club life. So that was why we pivoted that feedback specifically. came through principal agni from students was why we pulled back on the because initially the policy was like we're just going to do package stuff for bake sales we don't want to you know but we heard from students that that was really important to not take away um which is why that is other than the that part is back in place yeah

one one comment I wanted to make is I so one of the things I appreciate about the policy is uh back when my kids were uh were littles so to speak and they were in kindergarten what have parents had to come and advocate at open at back to school night and basically say, "Hey everybody, my kids's got an allergy. Make sure you don't do anything to put my kid at risk." Right? And I think it's uh from a school district perspective, I think we have the responsibility to create a safe space. I don't think we should put that burden on parents to have to go and advocate to make the space this school space safe. And so, thank you.

I think this is a really hard subject. like I get it like where do you draw the line? But uh that's at least the orientation that I've kind of taken away and sort of I'm trying to have as I kind of think about this space. Thank you. And I just add one piece of just like a previous practice across districts also and our district as well. I know it was true when my kids were in elementary was there was a separate table for kids who had nut allergies. If you have a nut allergy, you go sit over there, which is not how we do things nowadays and we don't want that for kids. We want everyone to feel safe with their peers. So, any other comments or questions from the board?

I I also want to address again public comment. I think that um there might be a misunderstanding. We're not talking about just a handful of kids ac across a couple of different classrooms. We're talking I think statistically we have at least one in every classroom if not more. So, I think average two Yeah. average of two. So, I think when we're thinking about keeping our students safe and not feeling excluded and having a a sense of care and belonging, this is one of the things we can do. Uh, any other board comments? Do I have a motion?

Yeah, I move to approve the revised board policy/administrative regulation 5141.27. 27 food allergies special dietary needs. A second. All in favor? I against. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you.

Uh now we're moving on to Oh. Appoint a board member to evaluate youth voting feasibility and considerations on behalf of Albony Unified School District. Uh I'm presenting this one. [laughter] Uh so uh here's a little deck I put together. Okay. Um next slide. Okay. Uh so I'm a big fan of executive summary. So back in 2024, Albany voters passed measure V supported uh youth voting in municipal and schoolboard elections for 16 and 17 year olds. It should be noted that um despite what I thought up until a couple uh about a month and a half ago, passage of measure V does not automatically implement youth voting. So, there's legal and procedural and cost considerations that we're going to have to address before we implement youth voting in Albany. Um and we need to designate someone from a responsibility perspective to research a lot of these outstanding questions. Uh and then probably eventually bring forward recommendations before the board uh so we can take formal action. Next slide. Uh, a little youth voting history for those of you who are historians. Uh, and also gives a little bit of context too on like how this has played out in other um, municipal municipalities. Um, and it looks like something I cut here, but in 2020, Oakland passed measure QQQ, which allowed 16 and 17 year olds to vote in schoolboard elections. Um, and I think 2022, um, Berkeley passed it as well for for, um, school board elections as well. And then uh in 2024 um in March um this uh school board adopted the resolution 2023-24-15 to extend rights to 16 and 17 year olds in local elections. It should be noted that in this past in 2024 November in November of 2024 uh the Alama County register of voters ran the first elections where 16 and 17 year olds were allowed to vote in

Berkeley and Oakland schoolboard elections. Um, it should be noted that it seems like they had good turnout and everything uh seemed to run uh according to plan. Next slide. Uh, for those of you who don't remember, this is the actual language of Measure V. Um, it passed by nearly 2 to1. So about a little over 64% of voters in Albany voted that um 16 and 17y old voters should be allowed um to vote in um both city council and schoolboard elections. Um, and you'll notice that, um, there's some language here around being cost-effective and feasible. Um, and that's part of what the the work that I think needs to be done. Next slide. Um, so I'll tell you what I think we know and then what I think we still need to figure out. So what I think we know. Um, so as I said earlier, measure V, passing measure V did not automatically allow for youth voting. I silly silly thought that in this upcoming election um there would be a lot of campaigning at the high school but we've got to do some work before that actually is going to happen. Uh the Alama register voters can run school board elections for youth voters. My language here is precise like they've run elections for school board. They have not run elections for municipalities. So city council will be a new thing for them is my understanding. Um, it's also my understanding that youth voting does not need to be extended to both municipal elections and schoolboard elections at the same time. In other words, we could have youth voting for schoolboard elections, which based on what the Alama register voters has already been able to do is probably going to be more straightforward than municipal elections, which is probably going to be a new thing for them. And then, assuming we decide to move forward, we're going to need to pass a resolution or something to in to authorize the inclusion of youth voters uh in whatever upcoming election there is. Well, there's a bunch of stuff though that um I think we don't know at this point. So, the cost of youth voting is going to be

higher than a typical election. And uh the cost is based on registered voters and we need to be uh we need to identify that and I think it's important for us as a school board to have that information before we make that decision. Also note, like I hadn't thought about this, we actually pay for schoolboard elections u and voting costs are based on registered voters. Um, I will say, um, I sent a note to the Alama County supervisors who essentially manage the, uh, register of voters, uh, to ask them to try and, um, establish both a cost and and a and do it in a timely manner so that um, we in particular could have some ability to actually understand what the facts were before we make a decision. Um, I also don't really fully understand to be transparent like if we decide to move forward without the city council, I don't like I I do not know enough about municipal municipality school district relationships and figure out what next steps need to happen. So, we're going to need to dedicate some time to figure that out. Uh, next slide. Okay. So, we need a point person to engage with stakeholders, register voters, city administrators, and get these questions answered. So, for us, I think to make an intelligent decision. um uh be transparent. I started by saying, "Hey, superintendent Stone, who would be great in the district office to do this?" And she said, "We don't have anybody in the district office that has the bandwidth to do this." Which totally get like I mean, this was I don't think any of us had this on the radar at the beginning of the year. Uh so I'm recommending that we appoint a board member to act on behalf of the district. Um, and then we should have a conversation about who that is now because I want it to be transparent to people who are actually working on this. Um, I think that's the last slide, right? Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, sorry. Once we point the point person, this is what the person have to ask a bunch of

questions and bring back to the board for discussion and action. So, there's currently a member of between the register of voters in Oakland Unified and Berkeley Unified. So, we're going to need somebody to look at that and see if it actually meets our needs. We need to figure out what the costs are. We need to understand what the next steps that need to be completed completed based on the relationship of the district and the city. And then if appropriate, we're going to have to draft the resolution. That is the last step. So I would open it up for I guess questions and I'll go to public comment and then we can do motion whatever other questions because I I ran through it quickly and I've spent more time on this probably than than many for better force. It's not a question, it's a comment.

Yeah, it's a very good presentation. So, thank you. [laughter] I will take all the sucking up I can get. I have some questions, but I'm wondering if the student does have questions beforehand. Seeing no trusty Shepard makes a late makes a late push for the buzzer. Go ahead. I'm I'm sorry if you said this, but I'm a little confused about what exactly to allow the board to make a decision like the exact decision.

Yeah, sure. So, um we need to make a decision whether or not we um allow youth voting. So, voters voted for it, but it's there in that in that measure there's caveats around feasibility and costs and what have you. So, um we as a board then need to say, "Okay, great. we're comfortable going forward with it as is or with this cost or whatever it may be. Um, and so what I'm what I'm trying to articulate here is that there's a bunch of information I think we need to know before we can make an intelligent decision. Um, if it costs us $10 for registered voter or it cost us $120 for registered voter, there going to be really different financial impacts to the district and we'd have to have a conversation about quite frankly like youth voting or student services which is not really a conversation I would look forward to having. So we need to figure that piece out so that we can then say vote to say yes we think we should move forward in school school elections. That makes sense.

Trusty Hwood. So my understanding is it took eight years for Berkeley and Oakland following the res their um election that actually the voters decided they wanted youth voting. It took eight years to actually have youth voting. Right. So we are only a little bit in. We're not we'd like we like to better our our competition. But yeah. Yeah. So I have I have some questions. So, one is we have a we have an election this November. And how soon does this process like when do we need to have the information to give the green light if we were to do youth voting in order for it to be on the ballot? You know, those those

Yeah, I don't I don't think we have the drop dead deadline. I mean, I think we need to start working on it now. And my guess is going to be by the middle of the summer. It's probably going to be mid to late summer is probably going to be be we would have to make a decision at the latest. Okay. And then one other question. Just a guess. Just a list of questions. Yeah. Go for Another one is uh initation you mentioned stakeholders. Yeah. So what were you thinking when you when you wrote that?

Yeah. I mean I think so I want to I don't have a great sense of exactly where the city council is sitting on some of this stuff. For instance, I think we want I assume that the the student population would be interested in this and obviously we know where voters sit on it. So those are some of the groups that would have to be involved for sure. I'm when I say happy to I mean I'm okay reluctantly happy to I could take it on um because I feel like I have a bit of understanding because I work with the student leaders 24. Um I think the two key components of the ballot language are the cost and the feasibility. Sure.

So rather than even really engaging stakeholders I think the cost piece. Oh, I I I think yeah, I didn't mean to imply an order of uh order of action, but I think I think like if that was

Yeah, I think for sure cost is going to be super important. Also, quite frankly, we need to understand exactly what it would take to actually do this at some point because at some point that cost will come down. Even if the cost is not feasible and we don't want to move forward and decide not to go forward in 2026, um at some point that cost is going to come down just because more and more communities are doing it. And I think also because in conversations I had with city council um last couple of years uh the expectation was that city council so mun municipal elections and schoolboard elections would both allow 16 17 year old voters and so therefore that would technically have school districts um financial burden.

I I I might I'm not sure I would share that assumption. Okay. So I think that was definitely the I'm sure that that may have been the assumption at the time. I I do think that if it's as you just mentioned there's a we were sort of told a certain dollar amount initially and I think sound realistic.

Yeah. I think I think um and the reason I don't think it would necessarily be a shared cost is because it sounds like um we the registered voters has done it for schoolboard elections. they've not done it for a municipality and um that cost of setting up that initial municipality sort of uh vehicle is there's going to be a startup cost of that. So my guess is that's going to my guess again based on hunches and just talking to people is going to be that that's actually going to cost more than a schoolboard election because we should be able to ride a little bit on the coattails of Oakland and Berkeley from a functionality perspective. I know we want to have public comment before we make a decision. So, I'll talk for a bit.

Any other board questions? I'll go to public comment. Seeing none in the room. Oh, I've got a on Zoom. Go ahead.

I just want to say thank you um for taking this on. I think it's a great um something is great to bring back uh to the front because um yeah and I and I shared your um your uh you're the one for inquiring on how this is going to cost you know per voter cost and one of the things is and I wanted to kind of share with you maybe the county registar can support the youth voting and they can probably help out the cost uh to see because they And uh Alby's voting is run by Alama County. Is that is is that [clears throat] that's correct? Right.

Yes. The register of voters is run by Alama County. Okay. So I was just saying uh you know getting the cost projection from Alama County and whether uh they can re help review whether the those costs were are feasible and and also to your point ensuring that the county register could implement those changes in the time that would allow for the youth voters to u vote this this election. So that's all I wanted to say. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Um yeah, so just just to reiterate like yeah the register of voters is run by Alam County. The Alama County supervisors um is has taken on that they are going to come up with a cost in a timely manner so that we can make the the jurisdictions can make a decision. It's not just about Albany just to be clear. Um but I don't they don't did not give a timeline for that um resolution as far as I understand. Um so I guess the question on the table is and it sounds like uh wasn't necessary expected but Trusty Hopwood has said that she would take it on. Um does anyone else have any thoughts, concerns or desires to take that on? I'm happy to help too by the way but if you want to take if you want to be a point person I'm happy to happy to offload. I just want to appreciate Trusty Hopwood because as I sat here and thought about it, I thought Hopwood is probably going to help us out on this one and it is because she has presented herself historically again and again as someone who uh performs great services for our district. So, thank you very much.

Very kind. Thank you. Uh I guess uh I I'll move that uh the board allows uh appoints Trusty Haba to be our point person on youth voting. I'll second. All in favor? I uh motion passes and uh we can we can trade notes.

Um okay, we've got the consent calendar. It's my understanding we've got at least one item that needs updating on the consent calendar. So we can have a guess we have to prove it as is. Are we pulling the item or we um making an adjustment to it? I think we're we're um sharing the amended copy of item Oh, shoot. Uh

B, you have it in there. And um one, there was a typo on the date. So, we just wanted to correct the date that the personnel report is being approved today and not on February 10th. Uh and then under [clears throat] um certificated personnel under the uh category of non-reelect, we are striking one of the items um for a teacher classification 08 FTE. It was placed on there. It was not we did not intend to place it on the report.

Um okay. So, do we uh do we have a motion to uh approve the consent calendar with the amended item B? I think is I think that's what we're asking. Is that correct? Move to Oh, trusty Chak. Do do you want to pull an Do you want to pull an item or do you want to Okay. As I just had a question about Well, two questions um kind of out of curiosity. Um, for item D, um, what happens to items that go out of service? I'm just curious about that one first. What does the district do with them essentially?

What do you do with the old laptops? Oh, the old laptops, uh, there's a e-waste process. So, they're given back, I think, to the vendor who we originally bought them from for them to dispose of. I assume they recycle them. Recycle knowing the vendor that we buy them from. And then um for item E, I was just curious about if there's more information about what kind of servers they are because it just says to support reliable district operations and that's kind of vague.

Um I as luck would have it, we have our director of technology here who can speak to that. Um we have servers for authentication um to log into the network into devices. Um servers that handle IP addressing um DNS lookup to search the internet or go on the internet. Uh what else do we have? We have the server that manages the clock bell intercom. Um the access control key card system um a provisioning server that automatically provisions all the user accounts um and some other servers as well.

So are all those being updated or is just like which one is specifically being upgraded? Um it's a virtualized environment. So we have a couple of physical servers and all those servers run virtually on the physical servers. So the physical servers are being upgraded. Yeah.

Uh do uh did anyone else want to pull anything from the the consent calendar? Do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar with the amended item B? I move to approve the consent calendar with amended amended item B. Second. All in favor?

Opposed? Passes. Great. Um, okay. D items. Any future topics? Hearing none. Okay. Um, as stated at the beginning, we're going to recess to close session. Um, we already took public comment on closed session, so we don't need to do it again. Um, but we will reconvene later. So with that I return to close session.

uh closed session where we took no additional action. Um so I'm going to move to adjourn this meeting at 9:17 p.m. I move to ajourn. Second in favor. Yes. I thank you.