Oakland Unified School District Board of Education - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon and welcome to the April 22nd Oakland Board of Education meeting. Um, Mr. Rickstar, can we have a roll call to establish quorum? On the roll call to establish quorum, student director Simmons, Student Director Smith, Director Lada, present. Director Williams, Director Hutchinson, Director Barry, Director Thompson, present. Vice President Bachelor here. President Brohart here. Forum present. Thank you. And Mr. Hollis, can we have a interpretation check, please?

Uh, yes, Madame President. Uh, for tonight's meeting, we have three languages available for live interpretation. They are Cantonese, Arabic, and Spanish. We also have a translation closed caption feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption feature on your Zoom taskbar. With that, we will move on to announcements of live interpretation. We will start with Cantonese. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced, which at this time is Cantonese. And I will ask Miss Ho if she can come off mute and get the interpretation announcement for Cantonese. The Cantonese announcement is done. Thank you, Miss Ho. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Cantonese interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Arabic. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time which is Arabic. And I will ask Mr. TK if you can come off the mute and give the interpretation announcement for Arabic. Thank you. Fore speech.

language interpretation done original audio. Arabic announcement is over. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Turk. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with Arabic interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Spanish, I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced, which at this time is Spanish. And I will ask Mr. Copenhagen if you can come off of mute and give the interpretation announcement for Spanish.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Hollis. Simultane. selection in Spanish. Thank you, Mr.

Thank you, Mr. Copenhagen. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at this time. That concludes the first. Hello. That concludes the first interpretation announcement for this evening. Uh and I pass it back to you, Mr. Rickstro. Madame President, the availability of translation services uh has been announcement of the availability has been completed.

Thank you. Tonight in close session, we will address the following items under labor matters. D125-1864 conference with labor negotiators. D26-0703 conference with legal counsel existing litigation. D3 26730 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. D4 26-80001 conference with legal counsel existing litigation. D5 26-0802 conference with legal counsel existing litigation. D6 26-0925 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation D7 26-926 conference with legal counsel existing litigation D8 26-927 conference with legal counsel existing litigation D9 26 26-0946 conference with legal counsel existing litigation D10 26-0947 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation D11 26-0948 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation D12 26 6-0957 conference with legal counsel

anticipated litigation under public employment item D13 24-1967 public employment superintendent of schools under pupil matters D14 26-0705 expulsion student D TT D1526- 0832 expulsion student UU. We will then re reconvene to public session at 5:30 p.m. Uh Mr. Seich, are there any public comments on close session items? Yes, we have 24 speakers.

Um I'm going to limit everyone to one minute each. We have a lot of speakers. Want to be able to hear from everyone. Um, and if the students would come up first, if you filled out a card and you're a student, would you please come to the dis? Yeah.

Okay. For students, we have Carter Smith, Giani, Austin, Aaron, Novaday, John Jonathan Stewart, Chris Ramos, Maggie Bulard, Tia Johnson, and Sophia Gonzalez. Those are the student speakers.

Thank you. And that would be 1 minute each. And if the adults could help them watch the time clock, that would be great. Hi. Oh, hello. Hi. My name is Carter and I'm here to talk about Miss Donna. Miss Donna should really stay because she is the glue to our school and our community. and without her we would be nothing and fall apart. Miss Donna brought most of the schoolyard equipment. She brought the Jenga tower, the hot potato, and the connect four. I believe Miss Donna should stay. She should not leave because some decisions that y'all decided to make. That is all. Thank you. Hi, good after Hi, good afternoon school district. Miss Donna is a great person. She knows everyone's name by heart. She takes care of us like her own. She takes care of her students like her own kids. She makes us feel happy because she is always someone who is a part of the staff that the students depend on her. This makes us feel very loved and important. And we and when we need help or when we are feeling down, she is always there for us. When we want more supplies, she always uses her own money to buy it for us. She is a very kind person.

Thank you.

If you could students uh say your name before you speak because we record the the names. Thanks. I am Christopher. Miss Donna has to stay with us because she aid me a helper and I help out the kindergartens and she always know knows what what kids need. She doesn't always need send them to the office. The she talks to them to help them. The Thank you. Good job.

Hi, my name is Tia and I go to law school that I'm talking um um about Miss Donna so that she could stay. She's really nice and she helps us in a special way. When I first came to this to this school, Miss Donna was really kind to me and she would and she would make me feel comfortable and she would make me and she would also make me feel special. Thank you.

Greetings and good afternoon school board members.

Do you want to wait? There you go. My name is Tatana Maggie Bogart, a fifth grade school at Lasita Elementary. Miss Donna is an important part of our day and part of our school family. She always makes sure kids are behaving and playing safely. She provides school equipment that we are all able to enjoy with her own money. She played a big part of my little brother's first year of school in kindergarten. He knew that if he was feeling sad or if someone was bullying him, he can look for her. Miss Donna is part of the light that makes our school shine. She supports my friends and I when we want to listen and dance to music during recess. Miss Donna helps kids inside and outside. Everyone can play on the field and that it's fair. Miss Donna plays a big part of everyone's day. Miss Donna must stay. She's also been here for a long time so kids know her and feel comfortable with her. Thank you. Hello, my name is Sophia Gonzalez and we need Miss Donna to stay. Without her, kids wouldn't be as safe. You saying Miss Donna should go is the same thing as you saying you don't want kids to feel safe. Is that really what you want? She always makes sure every kid is safe no matter what. And you want that to change? My name is Jonathan Stewart.

Um, I just want to say Miss Donna's a respectful woman. She always helps us out. She always does whatever when she wants. She even gets us anything, anything we want and anything we need. Okay,

my name is Jerome and I'm here to talk about Miss Donna and why she should stay. I think she should stay because she's helped a lot of students feel better. One kid was sad and he asked to go to Miss Donna and he came back smiling ear to ear. I think she should stay. She spent most of her money buy things for us. So, I really appreciate that and yeah, thank you.

My name is Aaron and Miss Donna's Mustang. She helps us in a lot of ways. She bought us a lot of stuff outside and I don't want her to I want her to stay because she the best. Uh, I forgot my speech.

Uh, can I wait for it? Can I wait for now? I think I think I believe that is all the students. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent job you guys. Keep Miss Donna. Thank you. Uh next public speaker, please. Next speaker we have Tanya Kapner, Michelle Jeder, Kimberly Mayfield, Sabir Lockett, Jeremy McKent. Those are the next five speakers.

Is uh Tanya Kapner online? Yes, she is. Okay, let's go ahead with that one and then we'll do the the in person. Noted.

Hello. I'm with the equal opportunity now by any means necessary teachers caucus and an OEA rep at Sjourer Truth online middle school here to speak uh in defense of Miss Donna Jackson's job at Lasalita and of all the excellent uh teachers and SEIU and ABSME workers and union workers that have been cut. We need to reverse these cuts. This school board has more money than you are admitting and you have a reserve budget. We need to be fighting demanding that Governor Nuomo bring more money down to our schools and standing up together to build this movement against Trump's attacks on public education instead of instead of clamping down on the community and taking away important positions for our students and their futures. Like Miss Donna, the noon supervisor. She is an excellent person that deserves her job and so are all the other hundreds of people that you have cut. This is this is unfair to our students and must be reversed. This community is organizing and we will continue to do so. We demand that you reverse these cuts and layoffs now. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh next public speaker, please.

Good evening. My name is Michelle Jeter and I'm with Ask Me. I want to say that I appreciate you guys letting Miss Adler stay and kind of see this through and finish it out. We recognize the hard work that you're doing 100% and I hope at the end of this we come out strong. Um on the other side of that, we still have some unfinished business in food service still. Um they're giving our information to outside people. They're letting them have access to our computers from Wonderful, a program that the director that you guys hired, well, Preston hired allowed to get access to our our computer systems and and all of our information and our kids information. And that is not okay at all. They're letting people from custodial services work in food services. If we're going to cut the positions, that means they're not needed. So there shouldn't be anyone coming in to work in that in those places. We shouldn't have contractors doing our work. If we cut it, that means it's not needed. Correct? So there shouldn't be any contractors working instead of the people that you cut. So please, please take a look at it once again and take a look at what's going on in the food service department. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Good afternoon, O USD board members. I am Dr. Kimberly Mayfield and I speak to you today as a teacher educator and a education policy advisor for Black Women Organized for Political Action, otherwise known as BOAPA. Um, and we have nine chapters throughout the state and definitely one in Oakland. and I'm asking you to vote to extend Superintendent Denise Satler's contract for two years. In nine short months, she has accomplished more than some superintendent have accomplished in several years, as evidenced by keeping all schools open while navigating a fiscal crisis, ratifying the agreements with OEA and SEIU, and having increased enrollment in the district, which hasn't happened in nearly a decade. Thank you for your time. Keep Dr. Satler so she can continue the work that she started. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, next speaker. Next five speakers are Jose Sanchez, Antonet Blue, Dave David Padilia, Derek Broth, and Benjardine Cooker. Those are next five speakers.

Hello. Uh my name is Jose Sanchez. I'm a proud Oakland firefighter. Uh nearly 30,000 Oakland voters, including city workers, firefighters, nurses, and community members, placed Measure E on the June 2nd ballot. Measure E specifically designed to maintain fire protection services and emergency response times. Uh address homelessness by connecting unhoused folks with services and funding illegal dumping solutions. Uh, this measure ensures that Oakland remains on the road to economic stabilization while lowering taxes for a majority of homeowners. We ask that the Oakland Unified School District support uh Measure E and join a wide coalition of elected officials, workers, and community organizations including Mayor Barbara Lee, Council members Zack Unger, Kevin Jenkins, Rowena Brown, Charlene Wong, and Jani Ramachandran, the Stonewall Democratic Club, the Wellstone Democratic Club, Alama County Democratic Club, Oakland Action Rising, EBASE, Alama Labor Council, SEIU 10 to1, if local 21, and my Union, your Oakland firefighters, local 55. Help us keep fire stations open and Oakland safe. Yes, Anie, please.

Thank you. Uh, next speaker, please.

Good afternoon. My name is Antoanet Blue. I am actually a police communications dispatcher with the Oakland Police Department. So, I actually take the 911 calls that our community members put in every single day. as an Oak PD dispatcher and a parent of children that attend school in Oakland. I actually have a college student, a middle schooler, a high schooler, and a TKER. So, just so that you know, I'm in it. So, when emergencies happen, every second counts. As a 911 dispatcher, obviously I know how critical it is to keep the response times down for medical, fire, and police calls. And I understand as well as everybody else that delays are simply the difference between life and death. This is why I support Yes on E to help prevent 911 emergency response times from increasing by closing fire stations and so on and so forth and ensure that our first responders can get where they're needed and when they're needed. So for the safety of the families in our community, I ask that you vote in support of Measure E. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, I'm David Paya, resident in uh district 6 and a parent um and the husband of a teacher at Montter Middle School. Um I'm just urging you all to vote today in support of the resolution to support uh measure E. Um I think that's how it buil we build partnerships with the city and our other um partners in the area. Um, we want to make sure that we stabilize and keep uh Oakland on the road to economic recovery. Um, and making sure that we fund essential city services. So, as a resident of Oakland, I urge you all to support Yes on E. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, next speaker.

Good afternoon everybody. I'm Bash BTC. uh we need to reverse all the layoffs cuts in every union that is present in OSD. The whole district feels neglected and in poor condition either inside or outside in the buildings or grounds when there is a cut that affects staff mainly but feel but who feels it it's a kids of Oakuckland we need to work together to change that and how we can reverse all what it is already be done every staff in district and every student is a pillar that holds OSD keep going uh I'm going to talk a little about BCTC we are already in a bargaining we have met few times uh There is no movement minimal even with the minimal monetary that we presented. Uh we've proposed the extension for one year with the cost of living assessment ongoing for that year. Uh I would like to see what's going to happen. We present that to labor relations and I'm hopefully that's going to be resolved pretty soon this meeting in this closed session. Uh the safety is another thing that's happening throughout the district. Uh we experienced a lot of issues the staff the students getting attacked. a lot of stuff that we need to work together on it to fix it. All of us together we can make achieve this better. I want to support our interim superintendent Sarin Saler in one way. She doing great stuff even making her permanent contract. We need to she's working with us together transparent building trust to achieve better tomorrow and keep that way. Uh so far in that direction that is where she's going. I given my support in that beside I also support board in this their decision. I want you to ask more questions to the district getting clear and transparent answers back so we can attack this together. So that way there is no departments that feel left out that there is no cuts that there is no student that feels left in the ark. So

we can change this together guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. Shabir Lockett, if you can unmute yourself to speak, Sabir Lockett.

All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. I was coming off an epic meeting, but my name is Sabir Lockett. I am a deputy director at eBay and East Bay Action. Uh good evening board members, uh superintendent, and community. Um Oakland residents have been clear. They want the city uh that works, a city that responds when not with two calls for 911. A city that keeps fire stations open. A city that addresses violence, cleans our streets, and supports our health and uh safety in our neighborhoods. Measure E is about stabilizing those systems. And for OD, that matters. It really, really matters. Our schools do not exist in isolation. Every day students um walk into classrooms carrying what's happening in their neighborhoods. When emergency response is delayed, when violence disruption is in our community, and when basic services are broken down, um they show up still in our schools. It uh affects attendance, learning, and how overall well-being of our young people uh is achieved. We often talk about uh supporting the whole child, but supporting the whole child means investing in the whole community. It means strong partnerships between OD and the city of Oakland. Partnerships that provide youth employment, violence prevention, family support, and public health resources. Measure E helps to ensure the city has the capacity to continue that work. Measure E was placed on the ballot by nearly 30,000 openers. That matters very much. It also includes strong accountability, independent audits, public reporting and oversight along with protecting protections for our seniors and lowincome residents. Supporting this resolution is not about uh politics. It's about alignment. It's about ensuring that our students live in a city that is safe, responsive, and functioning. I urge you to adopt this resolution and stand with open families and young people. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh next speaker. Next speakers are Asalo Labala, Skyler Trent, Erin Simmons, Erin Hog, and Jasmine Fores.

And I want to remind everyone that it's a one minute limit tonight. All right. So, my name is uh Aaron Simmons and um I'm here to advocate for my son, Aaron Simmons. Um I I work at Oakland Tech as a school psychologist. I've been there for six years now and my son is currently in the eighth grade at a Monta Middle School and we applied for him to attend Tech. That's actually the only um Oakland school we would like for him to attend. Uh we do live uh in a different community. Um but um we were placed, you know, he's like currently 377 on a on a weight list. Um I thought I would have the staff priority, but I am a consultant um psychologist at the school. Um but right now my son's doing he's doing really well. You know, he's an honoral student. uh he has friends in this community who he would like to continue to um you know be be in a similar environment as them and so uh if it's anything you guys can do to help him out so they can attend Oakland Tech that would be great. Thank you for hearing.

Next speaker please.

Hello my name is Skylar Tren. I'm the stip at Lasalita. I need people like Miss Donna in my life. She's super supportive to me. I know that you need people like Miss Donna in your school district and our school district. And I know through my talks with Miss Donna and myself that every day we go home and we talk about what we could do to better serve our community and the students. And I hope that you are able to do the same. And um are really thinking about what you can do even if it's not easy to take those next steps to keep people like this that we need. Thank you. Appreciate it. Hi everyone. My name is Adrienne Hogue. I am a resource specialist at La Escalita. Um I'm also uh one of the alt reps at OEA reps at this school. I'm also a member of Eon Bam Caucus and I'm so proud to be here with LA Schoola and with Miss Donna. I I have not met a recess, you know, noon soup like Miss Donna before. Parents have her phone number. they can just text her. She texts them back. Um she works with teachers to um manage students that need breaks. She goes above and beyond. And what are what we are asking you for is a.3 of one of the lowest paid workers in the district. Taking away her hours is not going to balance your budget. It's not. And we have not. Nobody has fought harder than this school. Nobody has fought Donna harder than D than Donna. She deserves this and so and you have the power to make that decision. We're expecting you to make it and we're demanding that you make it. Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

All right. Good afternoon. My name is Jasmine Forez. I'm a fifth grade teacher here at Lascolita. been here for eight years, so I know the impact of Miss Donna well. Um, parents trust OSD to keep their students safe when they come to school. They're trusting us. I know that our school is safer because we have Miss Donna. And we talk about student safety, we're not just talking about their physical safety at recess. We've heard from the students about their mental health and the social emotional impact that Miss Donna has had on our students. Just today alone, I had three students interact with Miss Donna because they they needed a break or because they were escalated and they came back to my class ready to learn. So, it's not just about recess and keeping them safe at recess. It's about their entire experience at school and her impact that also it has on learning. Um, we have 15 young people here standing in front of you. A lot of them pushed through, brave. Let me just say brave and courageous young people that push through their fear of public speaking to defend an adult. As an adult that works with students, I know that means more than your vote. You have the power to show them that their student voice matters and decisions that you make and I hope that you resend the decisions for cuts across the district and keep Miss Donna at our school. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Yes, we're Lala.

There are several California education codes that you are in violation of. Education's Code 48260 states that a student missing more than 30 minutes of instruction without an excuse three times during the school year shall be classified as truent. You cannot take it upon yourself to change truent to chronic absenteeism. The other code code 49073 student data which is uh uh that has the nature of being personal must get consent from the parents in order to share that data. You have three items on the consent agenda dealing with data. I don't know if it has anything to do with personal student data. Uh you also have the issue of uh measure E. Measure E is not a citizens initiative. Unions are not citizens considered citizens initiatives. That's individuals who live in residency in the city. Unions have a variety of res residency. Oakland Police Department is 90% non Oakland resident. Fire department is 35% non residents. They work together, the city and the union because they only will get need 50% of the vote rather than 66%. This is a manipulative move. rather than put it on the ballot from the state, the city and the unions that try to call themselves a citizens initiative, you go right ahead and participate in this underhanded method. Thank you. Do you need some assistance over there,

Basha? Do you need assistance with the student? Okay. All right. Are there any other public speakers? No. All registered speaker has been called. Okay. Thank you. With that, we will go into close session and reconvene at 5:30. Okay. Mr. Rar, can we have a a roll call to establish quorum, please? On the roll call, Student Director Simmons, present. Student Director Smith, here. Director Lauder, present. Director Williams. Director Hutchinson present.

Director Barry present. Director Thompson present. Vice President Bachelor. President Brohart here. Forum present. And Vice President Bachelor's just arrived. And Mr. Hollis, can we have a interpretation check, please?

Uh, yes, Madam President. For tonight's meeting, we have three languages available for live interpretation. They are Cantonese, Arabic, and Spanish. We also have a closed caption feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption feature on your or close caption icon on your Zoom taskbar. With that, we will move on to announcements of live interpretation. We will start with Cantonese. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Cantonese. And if you are in the public and would like a translation laptop, you can see the gentleman to your left underneath the basketball court for a translation laptop. Uh, and I will ask uh Mr. Yuen if you can come off mute and give the interpretation announcement for Cantonese. Kenny's announcement is done. Mr. Harris,

thank you, Mr. Euin. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands on Zoom, uh, no one approaching in the room. We will not have Cantonese interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Arabic. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need a language being announced at this time which is Arabic. And if you are in the public and need a translation laptop, you can see the gentleman to your left underneath the basketball court for a translation laptop. With that, I will ask Miss Abdi if she can come off and mute and give the interpretation announcement for Arabic. Fore construction is Uh, thank you, Miss Abdi. Um, checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands on Zoom. Uh, no one in the in the room. Uh, we will not start with Arabic interpretation at this time. Moving forward to Spanish. I will lower all attendees hands on Zoom. Please only raise your hand if you need the language being announced at this time, which is Spanish. And if you are in the public and need a translation laptop, you can

see the gentleman to your left underneath the basketball court for a translation laptop. With that, I will ask Ms. Walker Marquez if she can come off mute and get the interpretation announcement for Spanish.

Yes, of course. Simultane. interpret Spanish. Spanish Mute audio. Spanish. Fore much gracias. Spanish announcement is done. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Walker Marquez. Checking the attendees on Zoom to see if there's any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands raised on Zoom. Uh no one approaching in the room. Uh we will not have any interpretation at this time. That concludes the second uh announcement for live interpretation and I will pass it back to you Madame President.

Thank you. Tonight in close session, the board on item number D125-1864, conference with labor negotiators. The board did not take up this matter. On item D26-0703, conference with legal counsel existing litigation, the board did not take up this matter. On item D3, 26-0730, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. The board did not take up this matter. On D4, number 26-0801, conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by Vice President Bachelor, seconded by President Brohard. uh a vote of five to zero with two abstensions. On item D5, number 26-0802, conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by Vice President Bachelor, seconded by President Brohard with a vote of five in favor and two abstensions. On item D6, number 26-0925, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by Vice President Bachelor, second by President Brohard with a vote of five in favor and two abstensions. On item D7, number 26-0926, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. The board did not take up

this matter. On item D8, number 26-0927, conference with legal counsel existing litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by Vice President Bachelor, seconded by President Brohard. The vote in favor f of four two abstensions on D9 number 29-0946 conference with legal counsel existing litigation the board did not take up this matter and item D10 number 28-0947 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation the board approved a settlement in this matter motion by President President Brohard seconded by director Lada vote in favor five two abstensions on item D11 number 26-0948 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation the board approved a settlement in this matter motion by President Burhard second by director Lada a vote in favor five with two abstensions on item D12 number 26-09 957 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by President Burhard, second by Director Lada. Vote of five in favor with two abstensions. Under public employment matters on item D13, number 24-1967, superintendent of schools. The board provided direction on this matter. Motion by President Brohard, second by Vice President Bachelor. Um, let me count this up because I don't

have one, two, three, four. There were five in favor and two no. Under pupil matters on items D14 through D15. The board heard these matters and will vote on the matters in public in section I on the agenda. That is the end of the April 22nd, 2026 close session report out.

Uh, President Brohard, point of clarification. Uh, I'd really like a ruling from general counsel uh, Lindsay on D13. I don't think, uh, what was just reported out captures the extent of what was decided and voted on. And I know at least part of the resolution is not privileged. It referenced work that should have been already going on with uh the district and a cessation of that work which is not something that's privileged or should be discussed in close session. So I'd like a ruling on a more explicit explanation of what direction was actually given by board vote surrounding the superintendent within close session. General counsel, can you give a ruling on that?

Sure. President Prohart and uh Director Hutchinson, thank you for the question. So on uh the item D13, direction was provided but no final action was taken uh with regard to the the superintendent search or the public um employment of the superintendent. Those matters have to be final action in open session. Thank you.

So general counsel lens Lindsay is something being stopped. Um I think that would be uh considering a a final action. It's giving explicit direction for something to stop occurring that had been occurring. And so just because somebody says they might pick it up in the future, I think it's really important that we explain this, especially since it involves a contract that was approved in open session. And I know everyone should be very concerned about how our dollars are being spent and if people are following through with the promises that they've made.

Thank you, Director Hudson. President Hudson. Uh, President Bhar, just one more point of clarification. Any action regarding contracts, whether it be an amendment to change dates or whatever that may be, those come in open session. Thank you for your ruling. Are there any modifications to the agenda? I would like to um pull item J2 which is our um classific employees of the year. Uh postpone that until May 13th and I would like to withdraw S2 and S3 until um May 13th. Are there any others? Director Hutchinson.

Yes. Thank you. And I I do want to say under modifications, I'm extremely disappointed that there's no mention of the letter we just got from the county superintendent um addressing the notice of going concern. Every other time we've ever received a letter like that, both the superintendent and the district have sent out public information to the community and the school board president has immediately agendaized that item and it's really disappointing that that didn't happen in this case. Uh, in terms of the consent report, I would like to pull 076, 077, 078, 082, and 083. Thank you.

You mind saying those again? 76, 77, 78, 82, and 83. Thank you. Are there any other modifications to the agenda? Okay. With that, is there a motion to adopt the um pupil consent? So moved. Second. And is there public comment on the on the pupil consent? Yes, we have Sheila Haynes and Asalo Labala. Uh two minutes each.

I'm sorry. People discipline, January the 6, AB 1230, sponsored by B uh Bont went into effect. It's called the uh expulsion rehabilitation plan reform. It requires that a school district must develop a rehabilitation plan for a student who has been expelled and that that plan meets the needs of the students, addresses the students behavior uh that led to the expulsion, reviews educational options that the students can be uh included in it. It also requires a transition process for readmitting the student. It requires the school district at no cost to the student to make available local accommodations to complete the requirement of the plan. I don't know if y'all in compliance with that. I don't know if you're in compliance with this rehabilitation plan, but I know that you are out of compliance with a lot of things. But these expelled students need to get what they need in terms of their education and their behavior. And that's not me saying it. That's the law of California AB 1230. And I hope somebody has the ability to determine if this is happening and make it happen if it's not. President Bhar that conclude public speakers.

Uh can we have a roll call on the vote, please? On the motion to adopt the pupil discipline consent report, uh student directors are accused. Director Lada, yes. Director Williams, yes, sir. Director Hutchinson, abstain. Director Barry, yes. Director Thompson, no. Vice President Bachelor, yes. President Brohart, yes. Motions adopted.

Okay. By our student directors to go first. I know that they're in finals and need to study hard. I guess um is that okay with with the board? So then we'll do um K student report and then we'll do J special orders of the day which is ACC. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much, guys. and thank you so much for your patience. We're very sorry for pushing up our reports. But today on our report, we will be going over some student highlights. Then we're going to go into ACC updates and then we are going to talk about some upcoming events. So, first off, we want to give a large congratulations to OD's very own Shane Ward for winning Oakland's first wrestling state championship with the undefeated season of 42 to zero. Can we just give a little round of applause for that? Come on. Congrats, Shaina. She's a senior and we just hope to hear more about your achievements. This is stuff that we want to see. Following that, we would like to highlight Lena Nigen, who spoke at Oakland's homecoming rally for a twotime Olympic gold medalist, Alyssa Louu. Now, we I'm going to go ahead and share a little piece from Lena's speech. She said, "Alyssa's journey reminds us that challenges can lead to growth, the courage that can open doors, and the greatness can come from anywhere, including Oakland. And for young people in the town, it reminds us that our dreams are real, our voices matter, and our future is ours to build. Thank you, Lena, for that amazing

speech, those amazing words. Again, it doesn't matter if you're a student, it doesn't matter if you're a staff or a teacher, your words, everything that you want to say, it matters. So, please speak up. Moving on to GSA Day. It's a OSD held community event attended by LGBTQ students and allies. And this year we had 150 high school students attend and 175 middle school students attend. And at this event they shared resources available to students. They strengthened their community and helped students learn about the various health programs in Oakland. We want to give a good shout out to the health and wellness team for putting together a very safe, supportive, and fun conference for the OSD students. I really hope you guys enjoyed and that there are more events upcoming. Now, I know it's been a while since we talked about our middle school ethnic studies conference, but we're still going to give you some updates on that. So, every year we have our middle school ethnic studies conference for all middle schoolers. It was March 6th at the Northeastern University. And during these during this conference, students participated in three different workshops. We had 27 RJ circles and we had 60 middle school students facilitate those circles. So again, we just want to give a large thank you to all the middle school students that participated, all the staff that made this happen, our ACC adult ally, Adriana, who put this all together, our governing board, and all the staff that came out and helped and volunteered. Yes, give a round of applause to yourself and your community. Here are some pictures from middle school ethnic studies conference. And lastly, um, we have our fourth high school meeting that took place at Fremont. And this was the last meeting before our youth action summit, which is

actually this Friday. Our youth action summit is this Friday, where students will be able to run for their governing board positions. And at this last meeting before this one, we had um ACC lead a public speaking workshop and we had students work on some smart goals. It was a really good meeting to close out. Good afternoon, community. Um, first, my apologies to you. It was it was my ask that we went first, so I apologize for that. Um, but I had somewhere to be. I'm so sorry. Um, and also I haven't been up here in a while. Um, I had to take a a leave for myself to get things right. So, it's good to be back. Um, but coming up all city council, we have our youth action summit. The youth action summit is a place where we're calling OSD high schoolers to get together to talk about problems that's going on inside of their inside of their school sites. Um, these we lead them through a lot of community builders, a lot of workshops that have to do with leadership. This is a very good space to send your kid, to send your brother, to send your nephew. You also are able to run for all city council. If you don't know what all city council is, all city council is a part is a student is a student union group which me and me and director Smith are a part of. It is a student union group comprised of 11 students that serve as kind of a bridge between this between uh district leadership and students. So we have multiple roles. Be president, vice president, culture and climate director, two student directors, two LCAP directors, um secretary, health and wellness director, historian. Um that's is that it? That's about it. But at the youth action summit, this is where you run to. This is where students come to run for all city council. So, if you

have a student, if you have a daughter, if you have a son, a niece and nephew who would like to who you think would be good for one of these positions or you or who you like to see sit up here, like me and Director Smith, then I suggest that you send them here because this is me and Director Smith's last year up here. So, both of these seats are going to be available to run. Um, and it opens a lot of doors and it opens a lot of opportunities. So I really I really urge you guys to push your kids and push your families to come and find a new leaf, you know, experience something. Now the seal of civic engagement, um the deadline extension for students has been to Thursday, April 23rd. Um but the seal of if you don't know what the seal of civic engagement is, it is a seal for graduating students. It goes on their diploma and it is a seal for civic engagement. It show it shows that the student has been outside, has been working in their community and has been trying to push something and trying to make a difference. um whether their student is a part of a nonprofit organization, maybe they're a part of student youth groups, maybe they're a part of clubs in school, if they're doing something to better their community, if they're doing something that has to do with action, that has to do with getting outside, putting your feet on the ground, if it has to do with making your space a better community, then they can get that seal for civic engagement. Um

is there a there's a GPA requirement 3.0 the the GPA requirement for the seal is a 3.0. So, if you have a graduating student and you believe that they should put this seal on their on their diploma, it looks really good and you can brag about it. Um, the extension has been set to April 23rd events. Oh, I Yeah, I could talk about it. Um so the school district and the school I mean the city and the school board has a education partnership committee. Um it is a committee between the district and the city that has come together so we could talk about issues that's inside our schools and see how the city and the school district can come together to help out. Um we had a meeting on the 13th I believe. Um it was it was okay. I my personal opinion um I think there could be better things that we could talk about at these meetings where more things can get done more calls to action can happen. Um I think that's I think I I would like to hear Mariana's point of view from it as well. But my point of view, I think there could be better conversations that's had um and just better calls to action where we as district leaders and we as public figures can use our outreach and use our pool to get on the ground and actually make things happen and not, you know, listen to a bunch of reports back that we can't really have any calls to action from.

Yes, I definitely agree with Director Simmons. I really do like this committee. I really love being up there and being able to, you know, connect with different district officials and everything, but I also want to urge the board to try to get more engagement going with the committee. Um, I know that our last meeting was like in September, I want to say it was definitely last year and then we met this year obviously in April and I just feel like that's a really large gap. There's so much stuff that goes on in our school and just throughout the year with Oakland and everything. So, I think that we should definitely be meeting more frequently, but yeah, I just think that this this committee could definitely flourish and turn into something good for all of our students and families. Some upcoming events. Um, this is a camping trip, meaningful student engagement, one night camping trip. Um, separate dates for middle and high school grades. It is at the Tilden Regional Park. I've never been to the Tilden Regional Park. Um, but I'm also not really a camper. But if you if you guys are a camper and if you guys have students who would like to go camping, I think it's a very good opportunity. You know, get outside with some other kids. Um, spend some time in the wilderness, you know, get off our phones. I'm a real big advocate for getting off your phone. So, I think this would be I think this would be a great space. I think especially for middle schoolers, I think spaces like these are very influential um and very necessary. So, if you have a middle schooler specifically, I would urge you to um sign them up for things like this or you know, bring it to their attention and let them make make the decision, but make it sound a little good so they kind of want to make that decision. You know what I mean? So, OSD RJ Day, April 29th. This is going on at Ender Brewer Middle School is or this is this is all schools. This is I know

Ender Brewer has their RJ day. I'm pretty sure Ender Brewer it's this is all schools but Ender Brewer is I'm sorry I'm I'm Ender Brewer is my alma mater and I'm very biased and I know R.J. a lot of stuff that comes from R.J. comes out of Ed Brewer and that's including myself. So Edna Brewer definitely leads leads the RJ day. was talking to with their um R.J. facilitator, Mr. Gibson. Um but RJ day for Od. I'm a real big R.J. advocate. Um so, send your send your student to school this day. Send your student to school this day. All across the district, there'll be R.J. circles held in classrooms. What is R.J.? Restorative justice is a practice that we practice inside OD. Um, it is a practice of coming together. It is a practice of community. A lot of our principles within OSD are built off of restorative justice. That's why we need to refund them. Um, but a lot of our practices within OSD are built off of restorative justice. Um, if you've ever seen if you may not have ever seen a restorative justice circle, but it is a c people come, they get in a circle and we talk about our feelings. We talk about how we're doing. You we may ask we may ask dumb questions. We may ask smart questions or we may just ask questions, but we ask questions and we talk and we talk to each other. And it's a space that's non-judgmental. It's a space where people can come, people can connect, people can grow, people can get together. So RJ day is real good. Please send your student to school on R.J. Day. You know, I think this is going to be a real good day of community. I I'm definitely going to go to school on R.J. day. Is there a video here? There's no video.

So, there is a video. So, um, Mayor Barb's Youth Advisory Council, which I chair, has an initiative called help a teacher out where we're putting essential classroom supplies in. There is a video. Don't play it yet. Um, Mayor Barb's Youth Advisory Council. Um, we have an initiative called Help a Teach Out where we've been supplying OSD teacher classrooms with essential classroom supplies all year long. Um, we're on to our sixth school now, which is Rossedale, which is Rosedale Continuation School. Um, whose district we So, um, this month we're donating to Rosedale Community um, continuation school. We hold fun free events every month. Um, we do fund raise, we do community workouts, we do community art workshops, we do community supply drives. Everything that we do is free. Anybody can show up. Anybody can come. We only we suggest donations. um if you have and if you w and if you're willing then you know by all means I'm going to keep asking but if you can't just come have fun with us come come fill into our space come build community with us and that's all we ask um but we do maybe two to three events a month um in 2026 these are all the schools we've donated to in two in 2026 so we donated $2,200 to Prescott to Prescott Elementary for in February we donated $,400 to Oakland International in March and $1,250 to Global Family Elementary in January. All of the schools we pick are underresourced and in low they are in low annual income areas and they are also have majority of their students on free lunch and we also do a look test inside the school to see how the classrooms look. And now you can play the video.

But this is for Prescott Elementary. and we surprised them with supplies and we were able to make a little Yeah. We're going to move on. But I just want to note that this is the second time I had a video and it wasn't played. And now the third time, the third time I have a video, we need to play it. But this is if you guys liked what I just said. Um, if you guys liked what I just said and you would like to donate and you would like to contribute to help a teacher out, um, we're supporting Rosedale Continuation School this month. So, here's a here's a flyer to donate. I don't see any phones coming out, but you can scan this QR code right here to donate if you if you are willing and if you and if you are able. Um, and I believe that that concludes our report. Thank you.

Is there public comment on this item? Yes, we have Sheila Haynes and Osalo Labala. Uh,

two minutes each. Uh, first I'd like to address the partnership meeting. I think that it should be understood that the city sets the agenda. You can't have a partnership where one part of the partnership gets to put on the agenda. You have to change the process so that OSD can have a voice on what goes on the agenda. So you need to address that. You also need to address even when they put something on the agenda like illegal dumping. The report from the city of the generalized way that they handle illegal dumping didn't deal with OSD problem of illegal dumping at the schools. So, what you should have done is brought a list of schools who are impacted heavily by illegal dumping and ask the city to address that. Don't have a meeting with the city when they have an agenda about your schools and you don't participate in what you want them to do. And that's what happened around illegal dumping. The last thing was the um children's initiative on the agenda. I brought up that the process was not followed correctly. Nothing was done. Some voice should have came out and said we got to follow a correct process related to the children's initiative. Lastly, ethnic studies. I keep telling you this. You cannot as young people participate in anything and support anything that allows something to happen at the expense of hurting something that's in place. So in order to have ethnic studies, we

eliminated African-American studies. That is not a fair process to take to give something and take away from somebody something that's crucial to a particular group or should be crucial to everybody should want to know about African-American studies. I encourage you support things that have a moral and ethical code related to it. Don't ignore when something is going on that's wrong. Thank you. Uh, Miss Haynes, I I do not see her hands raised at the moment.

Uh, board directors, Vice President Bachelor,

thank you. Um, as always, really appreciate um y'all's support and uh also the fact that you guys are at Redsdale um supporting our students there as well. Um the flyer that was included there didn't have specifically the Rsdale campus named. So, if there's a document like that that I could share with our um with my community so that we can make sure that we get the resources donated um that would be really great. Um I also want to highlight um a couple of other events that are happening in May to celebrate our students. Um the annual ArabAmerican uh swana honor roll is happening on May 2nd which I'm really excited about attending. Uh honoring our own um which is a a celebration of our staff that have done amazing work is happening on May 6th. I see a former um honore uh in our attendance today. Um the OD STEM fair is also on May 6th uh and that I believe is going to be at the Coliseum if I'm not mistaken. Um then Oak uh is going to have a um Kaboom uh days uh which is May 6th through the 8th where they're going to be revamping the kind of playground area of that campus. Can't wait for that. Um the custodial and grounds 14th annual equity and all students scholarship awards ceremony is going to happen on May 9th. Uh the 25th annual um Oscar Wright uh African-American uh honor role is also going to be happening on May 12th. Um the Oaktown Leaders um youth apprenticeship program is going to be happening on the 12th as well. Um and then uh RUDS I'm sorry Jinder Truth's graduation is on May 29th or 28th and then the CCPA graduation is going to be on the 29th. I can't wait to celebrate all of our students at those events. And if there are others that I missed, please let me know and we will make other announcements for those events as well.

Thank you again for your report. I promise we'll show all three of your videos on your last night. Um I also want to um talk about a ch um a joint Brewer and Oakland High uh family night which is this uh Saturday night at Brewer. And thank you. And next on the agenda, I'm sorry.

I'm waiting to be acknowledged. That is the process we're supposed to use. Director Hutchinson, may you please step to the mic?

I don't need to step to the mic, but parliamentary procedures, at least we we talk about them applying. Uh, thank you. Um, first, uh, Director Simmons, it's good to see you back here again. Um, and I'm available anytime if needed. Just keep that in mind. Um, and I really wanted to check with you all. Um, I'm still a little disappointed that we haven't had more students here over the last couple of months as we have these real serious problems going on in the district, but I wanted to double check because I my recollection was that you two were both a part of the superintendent search committee that the school board formed. Um, so I'm not sure if you were actually a part of the committee, but it's really important for students to know that the board has completely switched their plan when it comes to that. And it's bad enough that there's not a public announcement of what's going on. It's even worse when the students and the student leadership is being explicitly kept out of the conversation. So, please ask around cuz that decision was just made. And that's the decision that I wanted to be announced here, but it still hasn't. And um it's ironic that it comes almost on the one-year anniversary of when Dr. Kyla Johnson Treml was forced out as our superintendent. But you all should be aware. Please find the information and please make sure the students know because um it's really important that we have students included in these decisions around the superintendent and our finances. Um and it's not a good enough excuse that the board's not doing anything. We still need to make sure we're at least trying to loop in students as uh as people are delaying these important decisions that should be made. So, thank you.

Thank you, Director Hutchinson. Uh, next on the agenda, we continue with our student work. And I believe this is item J, special orders of the day. This is um Oakland Youth Vote Coalition, the evaluation report and lessons learned. Hello everyone. Thank you for your time today. Oh, we are here to present our key takeaways and recommendations from the first youth vote held in odd districts in order to prepare for next um for the next year's youth vote in November 2026. We are from the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition which currently consists of the following youth organizations. All City Council Student Union, APAL, Californians for Justice, Oakland Kids First, and Oakland Youth Commission. And we'll start with our own introductions. I'll start. Hello, my name is Diana. I go to Fremont. I'm currently in 11th grade and I'm with Oakland Kids First.

My name is Coy. I'm a junior at Oakland High School and I'm a part of APAL. My name is me. I'm a junior at Oakland High School and I'm a part of Oakland Kids First. My name is Alexis. I'm a Fremont student. I'm a 12th grader and I'm with Oakland Kids First.

Hi everyone. My name is Anara. I'm an 11th grader at Skyline and I'm All City Council's vice president. For an overview of our presentation, we're going to start off with history of use vote. Moving on to introduction to report and we'll also be sharing three key recommendation and takeaways. Lastly, our sorry and we'll also share our personal reflection and lastly our proposal. A brief history of our campaign for youth vote is in 2020 measure QQ passed with 67% of Oakland voters. And from 2020 to 2024, we fought for the implementation of Measure Q. And then from in 2024, we launched our first youth vote for odd districts, allowing youth to finally vote for the first time. And from 2025 to now, we are institutionalizing and improving youth vote. Now, we want to briefly acknowledge the legality of youth vote. Youth vote is legal. In a California appeals court case, Lacy versus San Francisco, the court upheld the city's authority under home rural powers, meaning a city charter can determine how to expand their own municipal electorates, including schoolboard elections. Congressional or constitutional language for voter eligibility is a floor rather than a ceiling. Voter rights can be expanded. If you'd like to know more about the legal precedents set forth for this ruling, please reference page 15 from the report. We would like to tell you more about the evaluation process. We worked with Lorie Shelonburgger, a voting rights and election reform strategist to interview students, teachers, city leaders,

coalition members, county leaders, etc. This report synthesizes our reflections to make recommendations for improvements to the youth voting system in Alama County. We will be leaving you all with a copy of the full evaluation report. We hope you'll be able to read through it and follow up with us. Um, in the next couple of slides, we will be sharing some of our key takeaways and recommendations for educational educational officials like yourself. Please note that the full report has takeaways and recommendations for various bodies such as government officials, election officials, funders, etc. And these are our takeaways for you all. Um, so on page 28, our first takeaway is in-class civic engagement curriculum combined with discussions and pre-registration were the most effective way to engage youth voters. We recommend that school districts should formalize a curriculum that pairs civic education with voter registration activities across grade levels. Schools should designate administrative and/or department leads responsible for curriculum implementation. Should invest in and compensate teacher professional development around civic engagement and education and ex and should explore ways to teach students practical investigative skills for learning more about candidates on their ballot. For a second takeaway, on page 30 of the report, OSD's superintendent didn't create a comprehensive plan to support youth voting as directed by a schoolboard resolution, which means schools didn't have sufficient direction or accountability. We recommend the school board should direct OED's communications department as well as district and school administrators to outreach to students and families about voter registration and via voting via parent square and

other targeted means. The school board should also ensure targeted civic engagement curriculum is developed and vetted and that school administrators ensure it is implemented at scale at each high school. On page 31, our third takeaway is that there was not an effective partnership with Oakings Unified School District and the register of voters to promote pre-registration and voting. We recommend that school districts should work with election officials to promote voting, including incorporating voter pre-registration of youth voters in the school registration/enrollment process and ensuring that every high school has a ballot where youth voters can drop in their ballots or register or and vote in person in the days leading up to and on election day.

Thank you. Now we will be highlighting some quotes from students and teachers. Keep in mind that the quotes are anonymous. The pictures aside from the quote um from the wait, you will see pictures aside from the quote, but they are not the students that said that. First, an Oakland youth leader said, "I fought for youth voting because it's just fair for youth to have a say in decisions that directly impact them. I'm excited to vote when I turn 16 and I have three younger brothers who will now be able to vote in the future too. Another you another youth leader said fighting for the youth vote helped me have an impact even though as a non-citizen I'm not eligible to vote and it has motivated me to move to pursue citizenship. Lastly, an Oakland teacher champion said, "This curriculum was fantastic. It pulls the curtain of mystery back on." Voting. Voting is one of our strongest powers as citizens, and this helps support making sure every student who will eventually go into polls has some idea of how and what to expect. I highly recommend this curriculum for all students. Um, we are asking OSD um to implement these best practices in accordance with resolution 21220089 supporting the implementations of measure QQ in high schools. um pertaining to voter education in classes um in studying and observing how we might best go about this. Our findings in indicate that this can best be accomplished through teaching civic engagement in 11th grade US history and

12th grade government classes. designating time during voter education weeks in September or April. Delivering at least one day of civic engagement curriculum that is culturally relevant and includes the following Oakland youth votes campaign's history and significant inclusive of undocumented and illegible youth voters and their political power. information on local candidates for the OSD school board, logistical information on where and how to vote for the first time, um especially for voters who lack prior knowledge of the voting system, so mailin, ballot boxes, rank choice, etc. Um Oakland Youth Vote Coalition provides a free week-long curriculum on their website that can be modified and adapted for any Oakland teacher to use or teachers are welcome to create their own. And this should be distributed to students. Annual or semianual professional development training for teachers and staff on Oakland Youth Vote. Um using o ov curriculum resources and explaining how to register students. Second is pre-registration. Our finding indicate that this can be best accomplished through first creating an opt out system instead instead of an opt-in system. Student can choose not to register but the time and resources are still devoted to every single student i.e. it is not left up to the student to find out where and how to register on their own. Second in class time designated to registration with support from teachers instead of tableabling during lunch. We also find that paper registration are much more accessible to use rather than electronic registration. Each student is also going to be given a registration form in class with the option to leave it blank rather than having to request a form. Student will also have to be given multiple advanced warning and reminder to bring their social security number or

driver license in order to complete the paper registration. Lastly, volunteers are also available to come in and support teachers with the voter registration upon request from part from supporting nonpartisan organizations such as leagues of women's voters, register her, register our voters, etc. And finally for outreach, our findings indicate that this can be best accomplished through using communication channels such as parent square, minga, newsletters, social media, etc. to inform eligible students about voter registration, voter logistics like where to vote and how to vote. We can also host candidates forums in specific districts that have schoolboard seats that are up for election. They could be held at the comprehens comprehensive high schools during assemblies. The Oakland Youth Vote Coalition can support with a candidate forum toolkit of resources for how to organize and facilitate a student led forum. Is there any questions? I actually do have a question if I could answer the I did look at the curriculum that was on your um website um and it looks really good. Is that widely known to teachers or um I think it's already there so it's like why not use it? I mean they're making your own. So I'm just curious if you know of teachers who are actually um accessing that. Um, I know that at my school site in Skyline, our we've had a couple different teachers have an understanding of the curriculum and kind of modify it and give a brief overview of it. And I've received their curriculum um, in two different classes on my school site. And I know through some work with ACC that a couple other school sites of

bigger school sites like Fremont and Ohio do did that as well. Um, yeah. So, I think that's something that's as of right now widely known, but can always be diffused further.

And I have a a a question as well. I just wanted to first of all thank the students for the report. I think it's excellent and I um appreciate the research that's been done and I made a note of the proposals and recommendations that you've made. I also wanted to ask um has the group been working with the NAACP which has a special program. They just did a photo registration training with students at Mccclimman's last week. So I was wondering if you're working with um that organization as well and their student group. I think that's a suggestion in terms of working together because that's one of our high schools that's already initiated a program um that started last week. So I think that's a suggestion I can share with you. Thanks.

Yes. I just want to thank you all for your report. Not only was it aesthetically pleasing, but it was really just super nice to hear about why this movement is such a big deal for our students and just the legality behind it, all the legal works, everything that you guys are putting on behind the scenes. Um, I definitely wanted to echo the teacher curriculum. This is my first time hearing about it, but it sounds really, really nice and I want teachers to hop on that. I was just wondering, I might have missed it, but I was just wondering what the outreach for that was looking like. How are you getting this out to teachers? How are you guys telling them about this? I can respond to that. Um, so last election we had two months to launch this and you know we and starting in August when teachers were coming back to school. So we did email blast it out and we offered three different professional development trainings so that teachers could have paid time to really digest and learn the curriculum. Uh we did have 30 over 30 OSD teachers um attend those professional development trainings and we recommend that moving forward again to just really carve out the time to train and educate teachers and we hope to get far more for 2026 with more opportunity and time to um to get the curriculum out. We just relaunched it like two weeks ago um and it's been distributed from us um over email but also OEA sent it out as well. Vice President Bachel.

Yeah, I'd like to thank you for the presentation and the learnings. I think it's als whenever you have an initiative, it's really helpful to like think about what could we have done differently next time so that we you can continue to like roll it out and make it stronger. Um I just also want to appreciate the candidate forums. As a candidate who was a part of one of the forums, um it was my favorite because it was like real questions because you all are literally in those classrooms every day. So, I appreciated the those questions and the conversations that we had there. I also uh had a great time watching the other candidate forum that happened last time uh and look forward to those types of activities. Whatever we can do to kind of get that muscle going of like voting is super super important. I remember growing up I always went with my parents to vote. So, it was super easy for me. I remember it was at my former high school. you know, I don't live there anymore, but it was my former high school and all of the staff knew me that they were like, "Oh, you're one of the bachelors. Okay." So, they just already checked me off and would give me my ballot. So, whatever we can do to support our students and having that kind of mindset um is going to help us keep our democracy um that we have moving forward. So, thank you so much for the work and you guys are real uh game changers here in California. Yeah, I don't want to repeat what everyone has already said, but I plus one to all of that and just want to commend you because a lot of times when people do policym or they pass a measure, they pat themselves on the back and they don't really follow through all the way through implementation. This is a forever thing, not just a yesterday thing. So, thank you so much for doing the real work. And on that note, I'm trying to think right now how we can operationalize like make this work happen. Every single recommendation that you all have lifted up makes sense. A lot of them don't even require additional resources. It just requires us to think about how we can integrate new practices and develop new routines.

And so I don't know if it's teaching and learning committee uh which is chaired by director Williams or if it's the committee the legislation uh policy committee that President Brohard and I sit on. But I think in one or both of those spaces we should connect to figure out how we can work plan this to make it happen.

Thank you. Oops. Sorry, Director Williams. Um, yeah, thank you very much for the presentation. Really, really like it. I I'm a teacher myself, a high school history teacher. So, I was thinking, you know, how this goes in like, you know, US history, government, you know, as well. Um, even ethnic studies. Um, the essence that, uh, Oakland youth are moving on this from 2020 today, it's epic. But it also is a continuation of how progress has happened in our country. Progress always starts with young folks. Always starts. And young folks are always deep in the game when it comes to civil rights and really challenging the old structures and the old ways of doing business. So what I see of you today is that you are challenging the status quo. you are moving forward on uh a civil right that everyone should be able to vote and have that opportunity starting at 16 because as we know our federal government is trying to take rights away voting rights and for sure uh as this next election's coming up there's going to be some shenanigans some crazy stuff popping off and so it's just really that you've already kind of started this process to be alert and to be able to really educate young folks like yourself to say, "Hey, we need to be in this particular fight. This is about our civil rights and this is about our future." So, I just want to thank you very much for the work you're doing. The in 20 50 years they look back and say it started at this time, which is really great. So, thank you again. Really appreciate it.

Thank you. Are there any other board comments? All right. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation and the reminder to teach this. Next on the agenda, we have PAC. Hello. Um, thank you.

Oh, I'm sorry. I Oh, you're I didn't Sorry, PC. Um, is there public comment on student um presentation? I got carried away with finding ballot boxes at high schools. Yes, we have Sheila Haynes, Assal Bala, and Patricia Arabia. Okay, let's take the in-person speakers first and two minutes.

In May, I'll be 81 years old. I'm old school. And I w I was in the Catholic church and we had guidelines about going to confession, don't meet eat meat on Friday, what you had to do during certain periods. Nah, everybody do what the hell they want to do. They go to communion, they don't go to confession, whatever. And I'm saying that to say this is the culture now. We don't necessarily follow guidelines or laws. We change it whenever we feel like it. This is a part of how this happened. That is the law, the Constitution of the United States, the laws of California related to voting that says you have to be 18 and says you have to be a citizen. So we decide we are we don't that that don't make no difference. We going to do what we want to do. So in order to do that, you had to have a registration process. the voter of register had to come up with a registration form. He didn't do that. He took the form that allows a child 16 or 17 to apply for a driver's license to also pre-register to vote. In order to do that and to get your driver's license, you have to have proof of identity, proof of of residency. In order to vote, y'all don't have to have no proof of anything except your social security for registration. That's how y'all did it. Now, y'all applauding this. I cannot allow you to give these children the ability to say what they did has credibility when you didn't follow a correct legal process. And as long as you do that, you are

morally and ethically incorrect. These young people believe they did the right thing. You have to follow law. You have to do that. And then and if you engage in this, and I challenge y'all at that meeting at at the partnership meeting, but anyway, y'all carry on with this stuff. This is not going to help them. If they feel they can walk out of here and obey and disobey laws, processes, mandates whenever the hell they feel like it, they're going to have a lot of trouble. Uh, next speaker, please.

Hi, I'm Patricia Arabia. I taught for 20 years at Fremont High. I was the director of the Mandela Law and Public Service Academy. Currently, I am the co-chair of Youth Decide, which is a committee of the League of Women Voters, and I've worked very closely with the entire Youth Vote Coalition. They've done an excellent job, and I have to tell you that curriculum is fantastic. They have already added the unit on the Save Act and the proposal to suppress votes further. They they stay right on top of it. So, they have offered this to the teachers. It's on the website. I when I requested it, I got it within minutes. Uh I as the League of Women Voters, I also put my slide decks and my notetakers on our website. They're available to anybody. All right. So when I tell you we do two things, right? We go into the classroom and we teach and register there. We also table if that's the only time that a teacher or school can give us. If we table at lunch and we table after school, we're lucky if we get six to seven people to register. That's a really good day. If we go into a classroom where we're allowed to listen to students, answer their questions, work with them, the teacher in many cases even does work ahead of time so that they come, they in fact do have to have their social security number, they do have to have their state vote ID and they get 30, we get 30 registrations. All right? So when I teach voter ed, I ask students for their leadership and getting their communities to speak up and they tell me that they do not feel comfortable asking questions. They tell me they don't have time to talk to each other. They tell me they need this. The times that I've seen a very different experience was at Oakland High last October, Coliseum College Prep, Oakland Tech in the fall of 2024. In all those situations, there was a coordination where the teachers brought their classrooms either into the library or I went into their classrooms.

We worked together and we took out completed registrations and students knew they could ask us questions. Please direct the teachers to support two full days. All right? And give them the support. Ask them if they're doing it and support them. Um Sheila Haynes, Sheila Haynes, if you can unmute yourself to speak. Hi, can you hear me? Yes, we can.

Okay, thank you. Um, I just wanted to um just thank you for the student report and I like I really love seeing the um RJ circles and the ongoing violence prevention type um events that are continuing to happen along with the upcoming event for R.J. day on April 29th. And I just don't want it to get lost about funding sources for um the arts and music um services to also help keep students in a joyful space along with the hate speech um because there continues to be uh violence that's happening as a result of verbal altercations. Um I also wanted to just um speak on um the process of students being able to vote. I think it's a great thing that our students be able to um have power in their voices and vote on things that affect them and their education and programs that they have that voice to be able to do that. So I just um ask the students to continue to uplift each other. um we have to get back to a culture of respect. And so I believe that if we continue on with the restorative practices that hopefully um also with learning how to speak to each other that we can get to a point where students can be respectful of themselves and each other and be able to uplift the community. So thank you. That concludes public speak for this current item.

Thank you. Um I believe this is the last item under J. So we will move on to L which is the PAC report. Come on up. Thank you and thank you for the good timing. Um so u just a note that um you have a packet and you're advancing to like the sixth page of the packet which is foster youth advisory committee. She they need to go first for obvious reasons. Oh yeah.

Advance to page six.

It's It's okay. I can just read. Oh, here we go. Hi, I'm Patty Jurgens from the Foster Youth Advisory Committee. Oh, sorry. I'm Patty Jurgens from the Foster Youth Advisory Committee. Our March 24th meeting was cancelled because we could not secure the participants that we needed for our dialogue. We had planned to discuss with the principles of elementary schools um discipline practices involving foster youth and suspension in our elementary schools. Our goal was and still is to is to bring together leaders from sites where foster youth have experienced suspensions to discuss discipline practices, review the foster youth discipline policy, and share perspectives and experiences. We deeply value direct and collaborative engagement. We are hopefully going to have this um happen at our April 28th meeting next week. Next page. Some things that we want to ask. What do you find most beneficial about the policy? What questions do you have? How can the foster youth advisory committee partner with you to successfully implement the policy? who in OSD would be most instrumental in supporting schools as they implement this policy. So again, join us at our next public meeting next uh next week, Tuesday, April 28th. Thank you.

Hi everybody. Thank you for the uh opportunity to speak tonight. Uh I'm Matt Glazer, lead delegate for the PAC and I'm here to give a report on our last public meeting. First part of this uh we'll talk about our ma multistakeholder engagement process to reshape our district. Uh we have a shorter name, the multistakeholder engagement group. We are a group of volunteers representing the various stakeholder groups of OSD with leadership from our advisory committees in collaboration with the OSD community. Our goal is to shape how engagement and dis and decision-making should look to inform the future of the district. We had our first public engagement on March 31st. It was great. Thanks to those of you on the board who were there and uh we've actually gotten some great feedback from uh lots and lots of folks that were there. Uh the goals of the meeting uh were to know what the four phases of OSD's financial stabilization plan are and what the goals of each phase are. Uh and then to begin to identify the conditions for a successful phase four in phase 4 engagement process in collaboration with OD community members uh and we're very much concerned with the stage four uh excuse me phase 4 uh part of the engagement process. The strongest message that we got from our participants uh and I think this will sound um very familiar is that trust requires a feedback loop. The community needs to see what they've said reflected back to the participants in these engagements and they want to know what's been done with the suggestions that have been shared with decision makers and they need evidence of that. We do have a couple of upcoming engagements. Uh Wednesday, April 29th, that's next week. This will be on Zoom. Actually, both of these uh the upcom the next two up andcoming engagements are on Zoom. April 29th is more or less a reinforcement of what we did on the

31st, hopefully to a wider audience. I'm encouraging a lot of people to to stay tuned for that. And then on Wednesday, May 6, we're going to have uh breakout meetings that are in different languages to uh be as language accessible as as language accessible as possible. And that'll uh also be there. And then on the on June 1st, we will have a very important in-person community meeting and that will be at a place to be determined. If you'd like to communicate with us, uh questions, support, anything, uh we do have uh a web domain and a email address engage usd-MSg.org. We will be launching an online uh platform for engagement uh and a website very soon, hopefully within the next week. Now, I'd like to move on to the highlights from the April 15th meeting that were uh in addition to this. We continued our discussion of the changes taking place in the academic division for the 2627 school year. And we had a focus on community schools and student services, attendance and safety. and then the office of equity targeted strategies interpretation and engagement. In discussing these reductions and other changes, we aim to understand them in the context of things that have not changed, understand the history of how that staffing evolved in the past, and consider both the immediate impact and the opportunity to do things differently. The questions and comments focused on the reasons for moving MTSS, that's the multi-tered systems of support into the department of community schools and student services and what that impact would be. There are questions about what the actual work of the MTSS team would be given their focus on many areas of student support including academic, social, emotional and attendance etc. and also what their relationship with other central teams including safety and discipline would be.

We also we also talked about how centralized interpretation could be scheduled and coordinated with the loss of employee during that work as we uh will no longer be having a central um scheduler for uh interpreters. How scheduling would be prioritized when centralized interpreters are managed across departments and the use of contracted interpretation services and other staff. Staff explained that the interpretation resources other than centralized interpret Oh, excuse me. Um I'm skipping around. I wanted to go to five. Um, we did want to uh we did talk about the impact of losing both centralized family engagement specialists and CSMS when it comes to supporting schools committees and rel and related engagement activities. There was concern that we will fully lose the ability to do this work. The extent to which the intervention approaches developed by the targeted strategies team in the office of equity are passed to the MTS MTSS team which also coordinates student interventions. view the full recording. You can see everything at oddd.orglcap and please join us at our May meeting where we will be draft re-review or we will be reviewing draft changes for the LCAP.

Hi. It's okay. For the next presenter, we're requesting that she be off camera. So that's for our KDOL folks. Just give me the go-ahad one. Thank you. Hello, my name is Latif Ali and I'll be presenting for the um I'll do the report back for the district English language learner subcommittee. Our highlights from our March meeting. At our March meeting, we learned about summer school for English language learners. Um one of them was the summer school academy for high school newcomers in high school. Second one was uh elementary dual language summer schools and then other OSD summer sorry other OSD and community summer programs such as extended school year for disabled students in play. There's a link in the slide deck for that. Um in March we also learned about the schools that need the most support because they have the lowest language reclassification rates. Our February meeting had already highlighted the schools that had met their reclassification goals. We were asked to consider some important context when reviewing the data and okay it takes five to seven years for a student to reach prof proficiency in another language. When we consider reclassification rates we must also consider the percentage of newcomer students. Newcomers are English learners who have been in the US in US schools

for fewer than three years. A school with a higher percentage of newcomers will have a lower reclassification rate. This is because it takes longer for newcomers to reclassify. Staff wants us to understand that it is different to show performance data instead of growth data. These are some findings from our discussion. In many of the schools, the fact that students with IEPs were not reclassifying at all or 0% contributed to the low reclassification rates. Six of the 20 schools discussed did not follow this trend. Those schools deserve rec recognition. Some of the schools with low rates had large numbers of students who speak a language other than English or Spanish. We must increase our focus on disabled English learners and on English learners who speak languages other than Spanish. Next slide. Uh the focus of our April 23rd meeting tomorrow. Um, on April 23rd, we will focus on two of our three priority areas, access to language interpretation and family engagement in school communities. We are very concerned about reductions of central staff in these areas. We are concerned that these services will completely end or that they will be seriously interrupted. We want clear answers about who will coordinate interpretation. The central position for that work has been eliminated. and who will make sure that they that there are legally compliant and effective site English learner subcommittees at schools. All district family engagement specialists have been laid off. Join us on Thursday, April 23rd at 6:30 p.m. Help us protect language interpretation and support for school site committees. Thank you. Sorry.

Hello. Um my name is Jatie Washen. I am the co-chair of the CAC. Um our original presentation um which you'll see in the slides um was prepared in anticipation of um the resolution for school stability and belonging for disabled students in OSD being put forward for a final vote tonight. The goal of the resolution is to ban the abbleist practice of removing disabled students from their school communities by closing or moving their special education classrooms because children and youth experience these removals as outright exclusion and expulsion. It's traumatic. This is a practice currently allowed for disabled students but not allowed for non-disabled students. It is a basic non-discrimination policy that we have been calling for since May of 2023. But what went up on the agenda for tonight is not the resolution we've been calling for. What went up is a watered down version that won't necessarily protect disabled students. It got rewritten after a fiscal impact statement that was done based on a misinterpretation of the original resolution. The original would mean that a special education program could not be moved from a school, redesigned or closed in such a way that bars students currently enrolled in the program from the choice of attending that school for the entirety of its grades span. In other words, anything that would cause the removal of students from their school community. The resolution does not prohibit, as the fiscal impact statement assumed wrongly, reducing the number of classrooms for a particular type of program at a school as long as the current students can continue to attend the school. Changing the grade configuration of a program, for example, looping, redesigning a program, for example, going from a program that serves only students with moderate needs

to one that can serve students with both moderate and extensive needs. as long as the IEPs and curriculum access of the students can be fulfilled. And it doesn't prohibit changes from whole schools being closed. The new resolution allows loopholes for students to still be ripped from their communities and removes the safeguards of informing the CAC of proposed changes and calling for the board to vote on such changes. But the CAC had a meeting with director Brewhard, Terraard, and Janine Lindseay this Monday, which was very productive in moving towards a resolution that will both protect students from discrimination and eliminate misunderstandings. And we look forward to having a vote on that at the May 13th board meeting and ending this three-year saga. Um, and should I And our next our next meeting is when is

May 11th. May 11th. Thank you. There are there any public comments on the PC report? Okay. Oh, I see. Are there any board comments on PAC? I'm going to clarify. Are there any public speakers on the PAC report? Right. If there is anyone who wants to speak from the audience on the PAC report. I understand there was a an issue with the cards. Are there any board comments? Yes, I do have one and I was trying to find the exact page um where it's located and um I just want to encourage I really enjoyed the report but I want to encourage um everyone on the PAC to make certain you do not allow growth data to be minimized. Many times growth data will will actually help us understand how kids are moving successively. And even

though performance data might be hard to to get, please allow yourself to utilize growth data also because it's extremely important especially as we're moving kids from one uh when they're metriculating. We growth data is very very important. Director Lada.

Yeah. Yeah, I want to um appreciate um the LCAP committees for presenting and um also I think just want to uplift again that the fact that we still haven't passed the school stability resolution um is very um frustrating given that it is a basic um civil rights issue and an equity issue that we treat our special education students the same way that we would treat our general education students. That being said, I also just want to appreciate um our general counsel, Janine, and um our deputy superintendent of business and operations, Tara Guard, and JD Wosian um as well as um the whole CAC for pulling together, you know, kind of a lot of work over a couple of days. Um, and I actually feel like the efforts that I have seen over the past couple of weeks um, from our senior leadership um, have actually made me feel like there is a real good faith effort to pass this resolution and to ensure that we're protecting our disabled students. And so I just want to say that I think that there are a lot of people who've been following this resolution and wondering why it has taken so long. Um, and I will just say that I feel like we are um that I have seen some really meaningful collaboration from district staff and parent leaders um on behalf of our um you know some of our most vulnerable students being our disabled students.

Thank you, Director Williams. Thank you for the work that you're doing. Um yes, I mean it is um really making holding our district accountable uh to make sure that everyone gets treated all students uh get treated uh equitably. So I am in support of it. Thank you Dr. Barry.

Yes. I just wanted to say thank you. I had the rare opportunity to attend a PAC meeting. I almost always have a conflict and so I really appreciated being a part of the space. The conversation that you all were facilitating is a conversation that I think the entire board needs to have. And so I left being curious and committed to figuring out how we agendaize that that conversation and make sure that staff are having that conversation so that there's a plan in place that answers all of the questions that you all were raising. and that times 25, you know, given all the all the other bodies of work that we need to apply those same questions to. So, I will be returning as soon as possible and engaging with you all directly to to figure out how we can have that conversation more in more spaces.

Bachelor,

thank you. I'd like to just thank the whole committee for all of the report and the the work that they do each um at each meeting and each day. I especially want to um appreciate the uh Dell committee uh for highlighting um the issues around language justice and family engagement. I think though those are so you know when coming to Oakland those I think were such values that I like super appreciated and loved. Making sure that like everybody was able to access um the information that they needed to to support their students in the language that is most common to them is I think crucial. Um family engagement is also essential. I have seen folks bring students in that were in other uh online school spaces or weren't coming to school because of that continued comm family engagement. So I think those positions for me are really important. Um and and I uh will remind us that I included language around um in the reductions if there is additional dollars to bring back some of those positions that do impact attendance, enrollment, safety, and academics. And to me, those are positions that are crucial and key to all of those issu all of those areas. Uh, so I look forward to the governor's budget um and um us being able to like fully reinvest back into those positions um because again those are important to our school communities um and again just the amazing work that you all do in such a short period of time and getting us this information is really helpful. Thank you. I want to talk a minute about the meeting that we had um to rework the the um student stability uh resolution and again I would like to apologize to the CE CAC committee. I rushed through that um thinking it was of the urgence to get it passed because a number of us have been working on this for three years. Um, but I really want to appreciate the

conversation that happened particularly between JD and and Terra Guard. I thought that it was both sharp and to the point and I felt like the way both of you thought about the answers. I was, you know, kind of jumping ahead to different things and I I felt like the thought that both of you put into this and working through some of these issues in the way that um that you did, I think will really produce a resolution that we will vote on on May 13th and will really um benefit um our students, our disabled students and families of disabled students. um it again will protect you know the students rights uh disabled students rights to remain in their school that they enroll in initially and I thought again thinking through some of the challenges of it um but just done in an amazing thoughtful way so I really appreciated that conversation uh student director thank you uh moving on to our next agenda item is item M which is labor labor partners. I can see tonight we have our labor partners that are coming up. Um each uh union will have five minutes to speak. So if there are any speakers who would like to come up at this time. I was just asked which union wanted to go first and I see Basher from building trades there. I guess nobody heard. Good evening again. How are we doing? I will speak again. But the same thing where I spoke before that we need to reverse layoffs cuts in every union that is present OSD. The whole district feels that neglected

and poor condition because the due of people not coming to work. We we have so many that it's a either outside or outside building or inside that feels it. There is the kaza effect staff but mainly who feels it is the kids of the Oakland unified. They are the one who suffering the more as you already saw it before Adona one of the teacher the kids came talked about her how much they're going to miss her. It's just one person. Imagine going through hundreds of them that they're going to feel like that. um and every staff and the district and the student. It's a pillar that holds OSD keep going. That's something that we need to look deeply in it. Uh with all these cuts and we need to figure out how to reverse them, how to bring them back more. There is the money. It's coming up from somewhere. Whatever it is, every day there's something coming up new. We need to use that and fund these back or reverse it or rehire because we have so many retirees as well that they're not going to be replenished. Uh those vacancies they're going to be probably sitting which that means is affects also the uh board can actually structure of the whole district because uh yeah you're going to have no vacancies uh and then we're losing in my unit there is already seven people that we're going to lose and it's only 70 some 72 of us. So that means going every school is going to affect it with the kids with everybody else. I want to also talk about a little bit of bargaining that we dealing with right now. We in the bargaining we're trying to bargain in good faith. Um we proposed some stuff. We're waiting to get it back. I I hope so that the labor relations share that with you guys. Um and we hoping for the next bargaining day that we going to be something make us happy. Uh I want to also talk about safety that is going through the district. uh in recent month there is a so many issues that happen being throughout the school district

uh Emerson I'm not going to mount um Laurel and all that stuff we need to look deeply into the safety of these students and the staff the stuff is more exposed to these environments than anybody else I'm talking about from teachers principles uh special eds BNG people in and out of the unit anybody that's working for to school district should be people should worry about it deeply and work together how to make the safe district for everybody because uh it's all about we are all a team in this so we need to figure out this communication the trust whatever there needs to be so we can make it better uh I definitely want to spoke also speak about supporting the Dr. Saddler she did take some risks to change stuff uh which probably before people didn't uh giving kudos to you board as well but we need to do a little bit better I think communication getting uh uh getting more information from the district on the more transparency from the district uh understanding that you need to what you need to do when it comes to decisions uh because uh if lack of information doesn't give you that You need to ask the labor, you need to ask around how can we achieve that one way or another. Uh because definitely I support a lot of stuff, not all of it. Probably all of people behind me as well. But uh uh uh we need a change and we shouldn't be afraid of change. Change is good. Depends depends how you embrace it. Uh but also uh with change comes lots of a lot of responsibility. account accountability as well. We need to make sure that everybody's accountable for the their actions from the leadership on the top to the bottom including you guys sitting there. Your decisions are what

makes our life easier and maybe makes everybody else life easier. Um I support board in anything that you guys do. I definitely want to talk and keep meeting with you guys discussing the issues that we have. uh definitely something that uh looking forward in the future which each one of you some of you I didn't met every person not in person in meetings that we had in oneonone I'm hoping that that near future we're going to continue having that and uh thank you for your time appreciate you

good evening Evening uh superintendent, good evening board, student directors. My name is Carrie Anderson. I'm an elementary teacher at Mansini Community School and the OA first vice president. I'd like to start first by thanking all of you, superintendent, board, and district staff for all of the work that you're continuing to do um to get us towards a truly student- centered budget. I know that that work is not easy. At the same time, I would like you to please continue thinking about our students and what they need. continue thinking about the individuals, the humans who day in and day out at our school sites serve those students. The visual and performing arts teachers, some of whom their positions have been cut, the TSA is who support the excellent VAPA learning that our students thrive on. the home and hospital team, office of ethnic studies, excuse me, the ethnic studies, uh, people who support our ethnic studies program, as well as many of the other people who work in the office of equity, our counselors, our stip subs, and other studentf facing positions. I do understand that cuts are hard, but they're hardest when they have a direct impact on our students, and our students are losing out on learning and on the caring adults who serve them. I also just want to draw to your attention the disproportionate impact on our workers of color and particularly black workers in this district and ask you to keep a very close eye on that at this time and as we move forward. Thank you. Hi. Um, I'm Phoebe Wen. I am an occupational therapist with special education and I serve as vice president of SEIU and I'm here with um my other

other wonderful leadership. Um so right now I I think we're trying to um reconcile um all these eliminations and and decreases in FTEES. So, I've just been thinking, okay, so on the one hand, you know, let's decrease or eliminate some FTEs of um attendance specialists here, move some over there, and then at the same time, um you're talking about stability and generating revenue, right, through attendance. And then also reconciling um how we care about our community and value family engagement. And then yet we're eliminating familyons and family communities um engagement specialists and basically gutting the office of equity. Um there there's also um trying to figure out what it means when you when when we agendaize appreciate raise lift and value our students future on one hand and then we um cut the specialists in the college and career readiness and also specialists in technology. And then also by the way um case managers um I just wanted to highlight again that they're the ones that doing that's doing the work student by student and family by family that impacts attendance at tier one and tier two that you've highlighted yourself is where the focus of attendance um retain to retain um good I mean to support attendance which again builds revenue which again supports and stabilizes schools Um I do want to say that um being part of the um outsourcing

committee with director Lada there's it the work is slow right but it I see a lot of positive stuff going on so I do want to lift that up. Um so I just want to say that these are the exact positions that keep schools functional and connected to families. So these are filled fully functional schools. It's not about a lack of work and it's not about a lack of money. It's really a lack about a will and really putting your the money where your priorities are. Are there any other labor partners that wish to speak?

They say cut back. WE SAY FIGHT BACK. CUT BACK. FIGHT BACK. Cut back. Fight back. Thank you. Nice.

Uh, you want to go ahead? I believe there's a representative from UAOS. Uh good evening board. Thank you so much. Um there's a lot going on that I wanted to talk to you guys about, but I was going to stick to uh something that I've been planning for a while to present to the board. I know uh we need to be able to hear all speakers. Thank you. Um, as I was saying, uh, there's

there are a lot of things that I've been planning to say to the board. I'm going to stick to something that, um, I'm planning to speak to the board for a while on. Oh, wait. If the audience could please uh, keep it down so we can hear all the speakers. Thank you. We've also reset your time and

Good evening board. My name is Carrie Kaufman. I'm president of United Administrators of Oakland Schools. Thank you guys for the time. Um there are a lot of things I'd like to speak to you guys about, but I'm going to stick to one uh topic tonight. I did uh send you guys an email, and I'll check in with you guys about that email later. Um, but tonight I did want to speak about bargaining and if I have some time I will little see if I can speak to some March 15th concerns that we have as well. Um, I actually want to present something to you guys that I will send today. Um, it is a joint study that the union and the district did collaboratively. Uh, and this joint study was examining the pay of our members as well as many other things. Um, this joint study was conducted by the school district OSD as well as UAOS. Um, and it covered multiple topics. Uh, it was a six-month study. It, uh, we benchmarked against multiple peers in our area and, uh, we analyzed administrator pay, all administrators in in UAOS. Um, we looked at principles, assistant principles, as well as managers, coordinators, directors, all positions in UAOS. Um, before I talk about some of the findings, I wanted to do a a quick thing uh update for you guys. There have been a lot of settlements of contracts in the area. Uh, Berkeley, San Francisco, and West Contraosta all settled within the past six months. Um, and LA just settled last week. Berkeley settled for an 8% increase in their pay, an increase in their benefits from 55% to 80%, and additionally two steps added to their pay scale at 3% each. And I'm speaking to the administrator's union. West Contraosta settled for uh 5% and 3% and 8% raise as well. And then they also settled for a significant increase in

their benefits. uh San Francisco settled for a a flat rate raise as well as percentage raise that turned into about 12 to 15% raise a meto for all any other union as well as benefits increases. Los Angeles just settled the Allah the association of administrators in Los Angeles settled for a 12.15% raise along with other monetary uh settlements. The other findings were that OD we have loved to say that we have the best benefits for our members and that's how we recruit we recruit employees is that we have the best benefits. That's still true but it's competitive. San Francisco has been matching this. West Contracasta is going to be matching this. Berkeley is pushing their benefits up. We can no longer continue to say we the district can no longer continue to say to us that we're going to pay you less because your benefits are better. The the average the average raise just to get our members to the average of 10 to 12 districts that we compared to would be from 10 to 30% for sitebased administrators and from 7 to 20% for central administrators. The average raise that our members would need just to be in the average, not to be the top quartile, the top tersile would be 14%. We have one competitive salary schedule in our whole union. One. The third key finding which was shocking to me when I saw it, 82% of our members are at the top of their pay scale. 82. Our longevity stipens are a joke. After 20 years, we get $1,300 for a stipend. We only have six steps on our pay scale and after 20 years we got $1,300. That hasn't been adjusted in very long. After

25 years, it turns into 23 or 2500. These stipens are also non-competitive. When I'm looking at neighboring districts who do a percentage-based stipend, um, not only do we get paid the lowest in the area, we work more days contractually than all of our neighboring unions. On average, our members are working 2% more days, four to six more days a year than our neighbors, and they're still getting paid less on a yearly basis. I wanted to do a couple of case studies with you guys. Um, I just picked a random middle school assistant principal with 23 years of experience in Oakland. If you add their base pay, their benefits, their health benefits, and their longevity stipen, it comes up to $147,000. You do this in our three neighbors, you get 176,000, 168,000, and $194,000. Members can go right next door and get a $50,000 increase in their pay. I did another case study. After I did the second one, the district said, "You don't need to do anymore." The second one I looked at elementary principles with 15 years experience, no longevity stipend with their pay and health benefits. They get $170,000 including health benefits. Neighbors 1901 182 203 and get 30 $35,000 more going next door. We need to settle our contract. We need to get fair pay for our members. The the pay is is offensive. Thank you guys so much for your time.

Thank you.

Moving on to item N which is the superintendence report. Good evening, um, community, board members, staff. Um, thank you for this time to report out. Uh, I'd like to start off just going over some items that I'll be discussing tonight, specific unsung heroes, school highlights, and a focus on student attendance strategies. Today I want to acknowledge this is administration um professionals day and I know at many of our sites uh many of our um staff have were celebrated for their support of the school and their support in central office as well. Tonight I'd like to acknowledge um Lisa Walker from Glen View Elementary. Um she is an admin assistant but she covers so much more in in terms of what she brings regarding culture, spirit and success and her knowledge is um is incredible in terms of how she supports teachers all staff and the students. Um she's a special person that goes above beyond on a regular basis. Next unsung hero is Ariana Bostik is a speech and language pathologist at Burbank Early Learning Center and she is not only a skilled speech pathologist but again she goes above and beyond in supporting the community working on several uh activities outside the program outside the school which is what I call the outdoor classroom uh and supports our early childhood in many different ways. And so we want to

acknowledge how she has extended herself beyond her regular uh assignment and that's Ariana. Now Humphrey Garrett uh who is well known he is a culture keeper but he is someone who always goes above and beyond every day and she acknowledges uh staff. Uh he's worked all over the district. He's worked at spent a significant time at Skyline but he's someone who knows students. He coaches students in addition to his work um at f current work at Foster and we want to acknowledge him um Humphrey Garrett. He's also one of our classified employees who will be acknowledged uh at the next board meeting. Next slide. And now I want to go into school highlights and I'm going to ask our attendance speakers to come forward because we will go through this pretty quickly. But I want to highlight um our science science teachers and the schools where they're working. We really want to u focus on our academic outcomes. And we have the STEM science fair which is coming up May 6 at Carl Monk, Christine Clark. I want to say their names out loud because they have done so much around advancing science at their sites. Highland Community School, Tracy Dordell at Laurel, Melissa Cox, Lockwood Steam, Pablo Pitcher Deproto, U Martin Luther King Elementary, Hannah Welsh, and Mara Sto who they are all participating in the STEM fair. And at Piedmont Avenue Elementary, you'll see a long list of people who have been advocating for science at the site. Conceptual uh Arnell uh Dexter Coleman, Julie Ward, Kimberly Wong, Maren S, Marini Matthews,

Nisiah Nesbbit, uh Rachel Martin, Rose Fucci, Roxanna Miles, Sarah Wills, Suzuku, Corova, uh Stephen Day, Tamara Rogers, Leotas Ambers, Trent Litico, and at Thornhill Elementary, Caitlyn Dodson, Next, I I'd also like to acknowledge um another site. Um Crocker Highlands um won the um Blue Ribbon Award this year. It's not the first time that um that Crocker has received it. Um, but I'm very excited about um the acknowledgement that our state superintendent did and um Ken Wyn who u received a proclamation from our mayor uh recently uh at city hall and see you see a picture of um some students that joined her the staff obviously it's the students who've done the work and the staff who u provided the the learning um so I would like to acknowledge that and then moving on um where we've unveiled build um new athletic fields at ICSTCN. We have several several competing soccer teams that meet there on a regular basis. Um we also had the Oakland Ballers and Oakland Roots that were there to celebrate with the students and just acknowledge um a new field which was provided by measure one. And lastly, um I wanted to mention um board president uh Bruhard and myself attended the Latino honor role. It was awesome. The it was uh we had a there was a student speaker that was fantastic. Um, I saw a student there that received a special award from Oklahoma Promise and their families. And it was it meant a lot to me because I

was um able to sit with the founders of the Latina honor role um Peter and um Emma Roose who I was around when we were together when that came about many years ago. And um we were able to um give our students the acknowledgement um actually give them their medals. They also had a section where all the seniors were sitting together and that was a real powerful to see the numbers. Please noted our student honorals um are honoring students who are receiving a 3.75 or higher and we had lots of students who were in that category and I was just so proud. I go to all the honor roles and it's it's really what this is about is making sure that we are acknowledging students but but also taking the information from these events and using it with in our middle schools and elementary schools to motivate our students to be able to participate in this way. At all of our honor roles, our students receive stole that they will wear, the seniors will receive a stole that they will wear at their graduations. And this is a way of acknowledging um their hard work, the teachers hard work, and the families that support them. Now, we'll go right into our student attendance strategies report. And I've asked um uh Shilia White and um Dwayne Bakthalamune uh affectionately known as Be uh to to provide this presentation and um they're going to give us an update on what we're doing and the strategies that we have in place regarding attendance. And let me turn over to them. Good evening, President Brohart, Vice President Bachelor, board members, interim superintendent, Dr. Sadler,

and student director. My name is Sheilia White. I am a product of Oakland schools. I've worked here in Oakland Unified School District for 21 and a half years. My current role is senior director strategic projects. And like I said, I'm a product of Oakland schools. Go Wildcats. Thank you so much for your time. My name is Dwayne Bartholomew. I'm the director of MTSS for Oakland Unified. Uh born in the city, raised in Oakland, and very proud OD employee.

And we're going to start with something that Mr. Oscar Wright would always say. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's about the kids. So let's talk about and look at some of the data in terms of student attendance as it relates to our attendance audits. So some historical data 201011 our audit finding was $800,000 800,000 20112 our audit finding was $1.2 2 million. And at that time, I was asked to take on the role of supporting student attendance. And in 2012, I did just that. Um, I began reviewing all of the attendance audits, board policy, state and federal guidelines as it related to attendance and what the process processes should be. I went to all of the school sites, met with the attendance specialists to see what were they doing in the schools, what processes were they following. And so things were kind of they had some really great systems in place, but there were some things that were being done that we really didn't need to do. So I took some of their great strategies and just put them in writing and we there were became our processes, streamlined the processes, be began having trainings. This is when we had in-person trainings a lot. We had a lot of in-person trainings. And right now today, if you go into any school, the process is the same at every school. So whether a specialist is bumped um to another site, whether there's a substitute, everyone is doing the same process. So in 20124, we had 150,000 approximate um audit

finding in those two years. And oh, and um the auditors came back and they said, "Okay, wait a minute. What's happening here?" Our district did file an appeal to have those audits lowered from 2010 to 2012. And they did lower those audits, okay, to about 200,000 for those two years. So, we had a lot more funding for student services. 10 of the years um under my leadership has been zero financial impact. But I'm just leading the work. There are a lot of people doing the work in the field. They're doing excellent work. So I want to highlight uh the great work of our attendance team at this time. We have a wonderful program. I want to let you know about our clerical mentorship program. It's been in place for the last four years and we have 10 of our site clerical team members, five attendance specialists, five admin assistants, and it's a partnership that we have with our one of the unions at CIU. Um, our mentors, they apply, they're screened and selected, and they receive a $6,000 annual stipen. and what they do. They're this is amazing amazing group of group of people that are highly functioning and um highly skilled. They train other clerical onetoone. They provide one-to-one trainings. They support um Kaboom bills, the OSD health fair. They step in and support other principles when the principal's admin team is out. And just recently, they supported over 1,000 data errors so that our P2 audit um would be very very clean when the report went to the state. Last year, at the end of last year, they

cleared over 100 HAS after school was closed and some of the other clerical left. There was still some work that needed to be done and they stepped in and supported that work. And so lastly, I want to talk about this great initiative under the supervision and direction of Dr. Sadler. So she partners with Oakland Natives Give Back. It's a great, incredible partnership. Dr. Sadler was looking at our attendance data and there were 10 sites that she identified with a high unverified percentage rate at these schools. So Oakland natives um provided everyday counts initiative to our district. They began calling all the families of the students that were absent for an enormous amount of time and partnered with the families to get the students back in school. And go to the next slide, please. And so I just want to share some of the data. This initiative started in January and concluded April 13. And so at the time, Castlemont was our our highest unverified absences with students at 74.3%. And with the partnership with Oakland natives, they're dropped to 59.8%. A huge, huge variance. And if you look at Bread Hart, they started at 17.2% and their unverified absence rate dropped to 14.6. If you look at the very last oh two more data points I want to share. So um last year our absence rate at this time was 9.5% districtwide. Right now we're at 8.8. So that's a drop which is fantastic. Also we were at 27.3 district-wide unverified absence rate and now we're at

23.6%. Which is a almost a 4% variance. So, Dr. Syler, I want to thank you for this initiative with Oakland Natives Give Back. It has really proven to support our students and help them. Thank you.

And what you can see too is just based off of the partnerships that we um utilize uh to make us um uh attentive to attendance needs. Uh it's the training and support from our clerical staff. Um it's all part of our MTSS attendance strategy. It's really grounded in universal supports with every single school having an attendance team. That's one job. It's just how do we get our kids back to school and attending as frequently as possible. It without the relationships built, without the trust um and the hard work of all of our attendance team members ranging from principles, uh community school managers, case managers, clerical staff, um we wouldn't be able to do this um at all. So, I just really want to, you know, just appreciate the hard work that goes in uh to these weekly meetings, these bi-weekly meetings at these school sites to take ownership of attendance and improve the access that our children have. And even for our students that, you know, might need a more targeted approach. uh we can utilize systems like SART and uh for an intensive approach SARBS to have conversations with families to you know stop the cycle of the punitive attendance markers or um doing to families but rather changing that that mindset and actually doing with families and trying to build strategies to support families to access school every single day. Um so with all that hard work um you know we're really proud of our chronic absenteeism um progress as a district. Um back in 201819 before COVID hit uh our chronic absenteeism was at 31.6% with about 17.6% of students attending school 95% of the time or greater. COVID hits hits us hard. Our chronic absenteeism skyrockets to 61.4%. Um, and you know, it's not until just I

mean, this is the current data that we're at for 2526 in terms of chronic absenteeism, and we've dropped that chronic absenteeism rate to 26.5. Now, is one in four students chronically absent, the where we want to be? No. But that drop is dramatic and something to be proud of. And even more so, I just really want to key on that 50.1% of satis satisfactory attending students. Those are students that are coming 95% of the of the school year or more. That is a huge leap from where we've been. And the more we get that maximum amount of attendance, the more it will help the district, but most of all, our children will get access to an education. Thank you so much. Uh, and do we just want to kind of close with, you know, we wouldn't be able to do this as we've kind of showcased is we do it together. um classified, certificated, uh all leadership, all focused on one goal and that's how we make our strides. So, thank you so much for the support.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. And I also wanted to acknowledge um I look at attendance on a daily basis and I want to acknowledge our teachers. We have over 55 of our schools have teachers who provided their attendance on time 100% of the time starting with the from the beginning of the school year to today. We have 55 schools where teachers are getting that attendance in early on so that we can notify families through texts, through calls, through um our supports with Oakland natives gives back through um our all all parts of our team, the our community school managers. There's a whole group of people who have been focusing on attendance. So, thank you very much for that report. Are there any questions?

Are there any questions from the board? Okay, there we go. I got it. Oh, okay. Sorry about that, you guys. But no questions. I just wanted to say how refreshing it was to hear about the new field on Think College. Now, if you pass by, just drive by or just anything, you'll see how much they love their field. They're it's always in use whenever I see it. It's just a community spot for a lot of people. So, it's very nice to see how useful it is to our students and our community. Um, and yeah, I just want to say I'm very happy about the Latino honor role. I will be speaking at the black honor role. So, I'm very excited for that. These are the student um achievements that we want to make sure that we're acknowledging. And again with the attendance thing, yes, I hope that our attendance team continues to flourish and get continue to have our students in our schools to make them want to learn and want to be there every day.

Uh, Director Barry,

yes, I had the privilege, I think it must have been budget and finance committee of hearing a preview of today's presentation on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And I had a few questions then and I wish I brought my notes um but I think I remembered some of them so I want to ask them tonight since we have the folks who know the answers here with us tonight. So my first question is a response to the incredible progress we've made. I mean almost 62% chronic absenteeism is just baffling and to do more than cut that in half um I think is incredible. My question is, especially in light of all the changes that we've experienced this past March with layoffs, I first want to know who is the team of people who does the work at each of those levels, at each of those tiers, tier one, tier two, tier three. Who's doing that? And then how is that team changing in light of the layoffs that we just experienced this year? And then what's the vision and the plan going into next year with the big question being how do you maintain that progress? I'm going to Oakland Natives Gives Back is in the audience and I'd like you to just come up so people can see you. they have wrote a grant and have been providing these services at no cost to the district. And so let's acknowledge Oakland Natives gives back in terms of their uh work. Um we're actually going to be at Mccclimman's tomorrow um acknowledging the growth and a student there is going to be receiving some funds for their increased attendance. So thank you for coming tonight and joining

us. Um staff, if you could respond to um Director Barry's question, please. Thank you.

Um so, uh our uh site attendance teams are um some of the most resilient and just um steadfast folks that I've ever had the honor to support and work with. Um I I it's going to look different in different places like in terms of the impact of some of the the changes that happen. Um currently, uh attendance teams are going through self- assessment, um to be able to see some of the potential gaps for next year and we are working with teams to build attendance plans that can support them going into next year. So we're kind of in that in that um still the the the building process to ensure that um you know there's no negative impacts based on uh the changes much as to our ability. Um, I think as teams have developed through the years, they've learned a lot about how to be more efficient, um, how to build capacity as a team and I think that's going to be a maintained focus going forward. Um, you know, in in the light of of um, you know, the the current changes. Um, so you know, I I hope that answers your question or

part of it. So the but the first part of the question is who is the team?

Yes. So the teams, the attendance teams themselves are site personnel um ranging from um principal, community school managers, case managers, clerical staff, um attendance specialists. Um every attendance team at every site looks a little different depending on the personnel that they have for the site. Some sites have family liaison that are part of that process. Some sites have um African-American male achievement that is part of that process. It just depends on the site specifically and how it's structured with personnel. uh to the folks that support with case management, support with family engagement um to really hit home and and um ground in who are the people being affected by attendance at your at at your site and how do we approach them to take away the barriers that they might be facing. Um, my team coaches a lot of these teams to be able to, you know, utilize data to make decisions. Um, to be able to see the trends and time periods when it's like we're going to hit a dip in the next couple weeks because we always do right before winter break or before spring break. Um, and what can we do to be proactive to make sure that parents know when school starts back to make sure that parents know uh when school gets out. Um, and that they come every single day, even those last days at the end of the year when it seems like, hey, all the testing and stuff is in. um we still need you there every single day because every day counts. Um so it's school site personnel, central office supports for that school site personnel and as you go through the tiers a lot of um like SARBs are being are held by uh certain uh community schools personnel um with um SART facilitation and support through MTSS and uh community schools as well. I also like to add to that list. At the top of the list is the classroom teacher calling home and talking with the parents around just saying, "We missed your child today. We missed you. Can we support in any way?" And so there actually is dedicated time in the

contract for teachers to be able to do that. So there's a huge amount of people who are responsible for making this communicating the need for students to be in school and the supports and sharing the supports that are available.

And I I'd like to also add um I know Dr. Salor um in one of our meetings you mentioned that Oakland natives will continue to support our schools next school year. So the launch that they did with phone banking will continue as well next school year. Not your girl. Um, my name is Dis Hunt. I'm the chief of programs at Oakland Natives Give Back. I am born, raised, educated on purpose. Go Bulldogs. Oakland Tech. Um, but we have been doing attendance related work for 18 years. And so we see ourselves as an extension of the work of the teams that was just detailed out. and um we plan to partner in any way that makes sense to the unique needs of the individual campuses throughout the district. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Kesha Willard. I am the program director for Oakland Natives Gift Back. Go Knights class of 89. Um proud product of um Od and native of Oakland. And I also oversee our behavioral health work which in all of our programs we have integrated social emotional support which has been very helpful with us building relationships with families that has given them the support to help remove barriers in order for their children to attend school and we are definitely looking forward to continue this work with OD. Thank you for having us. Thank you for working with our district. Appreciate that. Are there any other board comments, Director Hutchinson?

Yes. Thank you. Uh while we're shouting out schools, Skyline 91, um you know, I'm I'm I'm very disappointed again, Superintendent Sadler. Um, you know, we have some serious issues going on in the district. And now this is the second superintendence report in a row that has no mention of our finances at all. And if we remember back to scenario three, which now people consider a plan for us going forward, it was promised that we would see a increase in attendance this year of 2% and another increase of 2% next year. And listening to these numbers, we've gone from 90 uh 90.5 to 91.2, which is an increase of 7/10 of 1%. Onethird of the goal that you set out there months ago. Um, and I and before anything else, I want to again put on the public record that I am publicly asking President Brohard, what is the status of our search for a permanent superintendent? Because we've had no answer of that. Now, I was very disappointed in the letters I received from you this week, Superintendent Sadler. We are not on the right track. And I thought you sending your community supporter briefing to the board yesterday to advocate for you to get a contract going forward was extremely inappropriate, especially since you used district email to do it. I've still had no answer to the questions that I sent you over four weeks ago. Again, tonight, there's no budget update anywhere on the agenda. The OEA contract still hasn't been costed out. We don't even know who's doing the fiscal analysis anymore in the district. A number of the items on the consent report don't have a fiscal impact analysis done. But most disturbing is the fact that we received a notice of going in concern from the county superintendent within

the last week. There's been no announcement made from you or by the district announcing to the community that that's happened. There's no discussion of it tonight. And in that letter, Elise Castro demands that the district provide certain information by April 30th, which is before our next meeting. This is information that the district should already have on hand. projections if we encumber all of our contracts and a cash flow analysis both without the OEA contract and with it. So I want to know since there's been no acknowledgement of that tonight. Nobody has said anything publicly about that going on. Are you going to comply with the county's letter? When is that going to happen? And when are we going to address the financial crisis that we all know we're facing? With all due respect to the staff who came and presented, it's great that we're doing work. I love Oakland natives uh gives back. Former council member Dwit been around for a long time, but that's not what we should be talking about right now and definitely not what I expect in the superintendent report. So, are you going to comply with the county's requirements? And President Brohard, what is the status of the superintendent search? I want to thank our speakers. Um, director uh Hutchinson, I am respond I sent a uh I am responding to the superintendent. I sent her a response which I sent a copy to all board members. I sent I'm I'm not going to have a debate with you this evening, but I am going to respond. I have responded to the superintendent. I am working closely with her.

Thank you. Are there any other board comments? Um, so point of clarification, I did not receive that. The email that you sent was addressed to the board and the county superintendent has made it very clear that April 30th is the deadline. So, if you have responded, can you please make that available to both me and the community since you say that you've already done it. That should be easy and I should be able to receive that on my email in the next few minutes. Otherwise, otherwise I don't believe it at this point. Thank you, Director Hutchinson. Are there any other speakers? Director Lada, sorry, Director Thompson, I saw your hand go up later. Go ahead.

No, simply want to say that thank you uh Dr. Sabler for the report and then also bringing in the other individuals in order to substantiate all these wonderful things that are happening. Um I do want to shout out and thank um you're mentioning that Crocker Highland received a blue ribbon award and that's really important because that addresses the academic excellence of the school and also closing the achievement gap. So that's doing two things necessarily and I don't want an answer to this. This is just basically something I'm putting out in the ether right now. Um, I I think it's really important for us to establish vertical articulation, especially when we see a school that's doing well. We can mimic some of the procedures and some of the things that they're doing in order to facilitate that growth in the new school or new schools. Um, secondly, Mr. B, I'm sorry I don't see him. Oh, there he is. Thank you very kindly for speaking about SART and SARB and how it's more of a collaborative approach uh less than a punitive approach because before of course we would look at attendance and when it escalated to either the SAR or the SARB level we would actually bring in outside individuals who would actually put mandates and so thank you very kindly for that. um not necessarily going to ask what exactly are you doing in order to create this collaborative approach instead of punitive but I just want to say I really appreciate you're being able to do that and facilitating another way of actually addressing the attendance needs of that all of our students should should take advantage of um Dr. Sadler again I want to say thank

you very Connie for bringing in the desperate individuals to show how all of us have to work together in order to make change and one of my favorite um quotes is from an individual her name is Margaret Wheatley and it's out of chaos comes change and so I'm I'm eyeing that right now. Thank you very much. Thank you Director Thompson. That's our our motto there like that. Director L.

Um I um well I I don't want to repeat anything that Director Thompson just said on attendance. I'll just plus one to that. Um and also just wanted to take a quick minute and I know you read all of their names um Dr. Sadler, but to shout out Pedmont A Elementary. they have had um uh I think the fact that there were so many uh teachers named at that school is pretty incredible and I think um just highlights the really great work that's happening at that school. So congratulations to them. Director Williams,

um real quick, uh thank you Dr. Sadler for um your report and bringing the attendance uh team up. I think that is in my five years that's like a first really. There just really hasn't been an emphasis on attendance. We know that we've had over 3,000 students that were chronically absent when I first started in 2021. We it it's the facts are in the in the budget itself and last year we ended with 3,000 students again. So really there has not been a real emphasis to bring that uh up and I'm glad that you've taken that on as a challenge and continuing to use that to bring more revenue to our school. I think there are partnerships out there. Um it sounds like we really have done a audit but really a real assessment how best to help our our sites and then partner with those who are also doing work on the behavior specialist. So I think that's a really great team. What we should be doing as a district is partnering with our communities. We should be talking about how not only just uh chronic chronic absenteeism, but what are the causes of that? I don't think we're talking enough about what are these causes that's driving that. Sometimes just having a phone call home that's you just need some one-on-one conversation to try to figure out what those solutions look like and some life development. Some of our young folks are living a different they living different than we grew up. Let me just say that. And they're providers in their homes a lot of times and they're working a lot of times. They're doing a lot more than we did as young folks. So, I'm just really glad that you are making that connection and you're prioritizing that to really uh find the resources to send to our young folks to encourage them to

continue to develop themselves and continue to metriculate up because it will affect their life choices as they move on outside of high school. And if they know that we we've put systems in place to have check-ins, that's a win. That is a win. So, I see your vision coming to fruition and I appreciate all the work that you're doing to move us forward. Thank you. Director Barry, Vice,

I already went because you called my name. I just wanted to say I do think it's important because I do a little bit of narrative change in my day job and I think narratives are important and so I think it is important that we can hold space for thing two things to be true that Dr. Satler, you've prioritized and deepened the investment in attendance and that we've clearly made incredible progress over many years. And I just want to acknowledge the work that you inherited uh as acknowledgement and celebration of the work that you continued and deepened. I just wanted to name that. I also want to appreciate the work that you've done. Uh, director, sorry, President Superintendent Sler. Oh my goodness. Um, I also want to appreciate the work that Oakland Natives gives back. I think that this is the kind of partnership that we're looking at in our um, as we do the just particularly around uh, our attendance work. I think again people coming from our communities, reaching out to families in our communities makes a huge difference in families feeling acknowledged and having a place to talk to and talk about, you know, their issues with attendance. So, I really appreciate that work. Um, appreciate the work of the staff as well. That was really a very um good report. Um, and again, just want to appreciate that as our attendance comes up, first thing is our students are learning. We're closing that achievement gap. we're meeting our, you know, one of our goals is for students to graduate career college and and um community ready and the best way they do that, the only way they do that really is by coming to school. So, I appreciate the work and of everyone involved in our our attendance work. Thank you.

Uh public comment. Yes. Excuse me. Yes. For poly speakers, we have Tanya Kapner, Sheila Haynes, and Asalo Labala. Uh, two minutes each and I believe two of them are online. Correct. Um, so far one Tanya Kaplan is online. Okay. Mr. Kapner, if you can unmute yourself to speak.

Yes. Um, Tanya Kapner, uh, Ian Bam, caucus and Oakland Education Association site rep. And I think it's pretty obvious that the elephant in the room here in terms of attendance is that hundreds and hundreds of school workers and employees who support and make it possible for students to attend and to want to attend and to have a joyous and a truly deep learning experience at our schools have been laid off, have been cut, are not going to be here to help make that happen. And if this district actually wants students to student attendance to improve and to continue to improve, it needs to staff fully staff our schools and provide our students with a with a with a quality equal quality education. I think the students that spoke uh for the restoration of the position of Miss Donna Jackson at Lasalita earlier today made it absolutely clear the things that make them want to that that make them want to stay at school. The kinds of programs that give them mental health supports, deescalate crises, all these things are at stake for next year. That's the people that make this happen. Every school should have the people to make those calls home. should have the teachers be able to stay at the school and work with the students. Should have the mental health supports, the conflict resolution, should not be firing and laying off and consolidating classified or certificated workers. Should not be getting rid of so many of the OEA members, SEIU members, the ASME members. This is an complete outrage and Oakland judges people on what they do. And so we are demanding the reversal of these layoffs. We are demanding, we know there is money here for these positions to be put back. And our students deserve and

need it. And we need to fight for more money for our schools. Yes. Then let's join in a campaign to fight for the money from Newsome. Let's join together to fight the attacks on public education. But this this school district can res can reverse these layoffs and cuts. And it must do that for our students for our students to have the bright future they deserve. For our students to have the people there to help them next year that they need to stay in school, to want to attend daily, to have that joyous experience that they absolutely deserve. So, I just want to make clear that we're going to continue to build this movement to fight against the cuts and layoffs and that you need to be doing that now. And this should not be a meeting of of self accolades. It should be a meeting of reversing those cuts so our students can joyfully attend our schools next year and for the future. So, I'm making that demand on you and we are going to continue to judge people on what they do. No cuts, no layoffs to our students. That's what being student centered means.

Thank you. Uh, next speaker. This is Yes, President Bruha. We have two additional speakers. AV Ringer and Joanna Davis.

Uh, y'all don't have no shame in your game. Do you know how insulting it is for you to celebrate fields being redone, turpps repaired, and Mlimmans was scheduled this summer to start their field being done and nothing has happened. So, California Education Code section 48260 through 48262 addresses truency. A part of what in is in those sections identifies two forms of truency that you have to address. One of them is habitable truency. In addressing habit truency, you have to refer to a school attendance review board or a probation officer to create a intervention plan. As it relates to chronic tun truency, you have to continue to deal with the truencies and create referrals to the district attorney because truency can evolve into legal actions and in those legal actions parents can be held accountable by being charged and given fines. Now you you don't deal with truency, but you don't have the option not to deal with it because it is law. Not only is it law, they are legal consequences when children are involved in what is called chronic truency. That's a part of your attendance. There's a difference between chronic absent and truent absence. Chronic

truency means uh unexcused. When you have absences that are excused, that's a different thing. You don't want to deal with it. I hope somebody holds you legally responsible. Next speaker, please.

Good evening, board. Uh my name is Joanna Davis. I've been teaching in Oakland for 21 years and I've learned a lot. It's taken me a long time to learn how OSD operates this year. Again, the district under reportports their revenues during the budget review process, manufacturing a deficit crisis. Again, the county superintendent corroborates this deficit narrative. Again, this year, the media are enlisted to stoke fears of bankruptcy and state receiverhip. Again, workers are issued pink slips destabilizing lives and schools unnecessarily. The current revenue projection does not even factor in early retirement savings or the savings from the elimination of vacant positions. An irony of ironies, Mike Hutchinson sounds the alarm the loudest, pretending to champion budget solveny when he didn't pay the workers who got him elected. The four school board members who have fought for budget transparency and to reduce spending on our bloated central office and contractors have been publicly blamed for this deficit. But they are the ones who have finally done the work to wrangle with central office to get accurate information about the budget rather than rubber stamping. Thank you to the board members who are supporting increasing wages and benefits in order to reduce outside contracting. Thank you for addressing the highly paid OSD bureaucracy. This is a multi-year project, but we have to stay the course in order to have stable, racially just schools. We know that OSD can afford to keep all the pink slipped positions. We know about the 2.4% COLA increase. We know that the budget will increase significantly for 2627. So, please stay the course. Thank you.

I want to thank you uh Dr. Sadler for asking your staff to come and give that presentation about chronic absenteeism, the work that they're doing. Uh I think everyone can agree it's a it's a big problem not only for the students who are chronically absent but for the way that it ripples through classrooms. So, I think that that's money very well spent and the team is very impressive in the way that they're able to work, you know, together amongst a lot of different types of staff members. I am concerned that a lot of those layoffs are coming from attendance specialists, case managers, assistant principles, a lot of the people that we're talking about in those teams and next year it's not going to look good. Uh I I fear um and that has that has implications for the students that are chronically absent for their classrooms and for our revenue. Um I I can't help mention that, you know, it was do Dr. Johnson Chaml who put all this in place. Uh I want to uh I want to commend her for that and and mention that um Dr. Johnson Chaml was fired in June 2025. Um, and it's coming up now on May 2026. So, how is it possible that we would have an interimm superintendent for a year and uh not even have started the search for a permanent superintendent? It just doesn't seem like a good faith effort. What would a good faith effort to find a superintendent look like? Maybe during one of these board meetings, we would have a conversation about what the priorities and principles you'd be looking for in a superintendent, what trade-offs you'd accept, and then go out and find someone who'd fit that bill. Uh, whatever place you come to, not everyone's going to agree with it, but whatever can get the support of four members, people would support. That's how it's supposed to work. But none of that's been happening. Uh, you know, the loss of the previous superintendent wasn't some sudden event. It was something engineered by this board. So,

you know, of course you point an interim superintendent, but then you have her in place for an entire year without even starting the search. That's not right. Now, we hear you're pausing the superintendent search in order to create a truly open process that fully involves the whole community. How can you pause something that hasn't started yet? And thank you. Do we have another public? Can you tell me, Vice President Bachelor, are you making a good faith effort to find a superintendent? Registered name has been called. Can you can you tell us that because I think we deserve that answer? Um, now moving on to item I guess not then. Thank you.

Which is uh consent items. Thank you to all the public speakers that were here today. So the consent items that were pulled were 076, 077, 078, 082, and 083. Did I get those right? folks. Okay. So, is there a motion on consent items? O, so moved. Second. Thank you. Board colleagues, any um comments on O. Director, no, we're going to do board comments and then public comments. Uh, Director Hutchinson,

thank you. So again, I pulled a number of items so they can be addressed specifically, and I'm going to continue the practice that I started a year ago of not voting for this consent report. As we can see, there's just a number of contracts in here, and the spending has just continued unchecked. Um, I know that we don't have the district staff internally to even do a fiscal analysis of items. I know the reason why President Brohard pulled S2 off the agenda today is that it didn't have a fiscal impact analysis attached to it at all. So, it should have never been brought forward. And now at this meeting, we have a number of items thrown in the consent report. That has never been our tradition to do. We don't put board policies in a consent report. We don't do allocations from our our bonds and partial taxes. We don't do uh political advocacy statements of what we are going to endorse as a board going forward in a consent report. Those have never been things that have been used in a consent report. But as you can see, we've lost all semblance of practice. We have no guard rails. There's nobody doing a fiscal impact analysis. I haven't heard a legal opinion from the general counsel in a very long time to advise against anything. And it's this bizarro world where, you know, I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against those cuts in staffing because I cited at the time that they hadn't been costed out and it didn't make sense and we hadn't seen them ahead of time. And now the directors that did vote for the cuts of the very unions they claimed to work with are sitting up here continuing their practice. we have on this superintendent's watch overspending money just flowing out the window and we're not even bothering to search for another superintendent. So, um if people don't realize what's really going on, um it makes it hard for

us to change as a community, but all the signs are out there. Uh I've seen a lot of stuff in my time. I've never seen this kind of stuff at OD before, which is saying something. So, please more people get involved and if uh our elected officials and if senior staff are not doing what they should do to do a good job, then we should hold them all accountable. That's the way this is supposed to work. Thank you, Director Thompson. Uh Director Williams, Director Barry.

Yes. I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to elevate the letter that ACOE uh delivered. Uh and one of and I I think it's the first one uh of the required actions is to encumber all contracts and I do suspect and anticipate that that would lead to our gym consent, you know, agenda looking materially different until the end of the school year. And so I just wanted to invite the public to see the letter and that yes, this would be the item um as far as board regular board meeting engagement when it would be relevant that I think would be impacted and we would see that shift and hopefully um we can have the conversation about the other required actions as well.

Thank you. Um so I just want to lift up number uh item 81 which is the support of measure E. Um, as we are grappling with our budget and the uncertainty from the state, um, our city is also facing budget challenges. Um, but the solution for the city is really in our hands. Um, as the speaker said earlier in this meeting, um, we need to vote yes on measure E to ensure youth employment programs stay funded, violence prevention strategies like MACRO can continue their work and make sure that first responders have the resources that they need to in order to support us, our students, and our whole school, our whole community. Um, I will not only be voting to support Measure E, um, and voting for it on the ballot, but I will also be canvasing alongside our community members and labor partners to make sure their whole community understands the importance of this measure and votes to support it. Um, director President Brohard, did you have any comments on consent? Right. Um, let's go ahead and take public comments on consent, Mr. Secha.

Yes. For police speakers, we have Assalo Labala, Rachel Kurt Cortez, Irrene Brevoid, and Gabriel Khan. Minutes. Would you like to allocate? Go ahead. We will do a minute and a half.

Good evening, directors. Um, before I claim my time, I just want to give a shout out to the cameras and to my attendance team at my school. Miss Dena, Miss Nicole, we love you. Thank you for all the attendance work that you do. And for those watching at home, we know how much that work means. Um, I'm here to save us some money. So, um, I'll know that we're ready when our eyeballs are on me and we got a pencil in our hand to take care of some of these O agenda items we can take back off the consent report. Um, we're looking at 04.04 is a $300,000 increase to a consultant to do um design and architectural services for a turf replacement project at Hoover. Um, $1.3 million is a lot of money. Apparently, we've increased it by by 300,000 and also increased their date by three months. So, they are behind and more expensive than originally planned. And when I talk to buildings and ground, they don't have a turf at Hoover. So, the question is, what's being replaced? Is this the construction or is this just the design element? And 1.3 million, no matter what the answer, is an incredible amount of money. I think we can take it off. 06 uh RF contractors for some flooring, $50,000 talking to buildings and grounds. I think it's worth thinking about an investment into uh training our own building and ground folks to do flooring. Um it would require hiring more people, but I think an assessment is required to determine how much we're paying on flooring across the district and whether or not we should bring that inhouse. Moving on to 010. 010 is $156,000 increase to $9 million to do a cleanup work plan at the center. And if you've been to the center, you know how many kids are at the center these days? Zero. So, I think we can skip that for now. Uh, we're talking about a million dollars in work plan and for cleanup. That sounds like a crazy amount of money. There should be one other slip in there for an Aaron Branvold, and I was hoping to also take her time. Is that cool if she defers her time to me?

We don't see time, but I can give you 30 more seconds.

Thank you very much. Um, we got 012 is $80,000 for the planning, coordination, and management for an employee health fair. That's a teacher. So I think uh human services, HR and talent should be responsible for planning, coordinating and managing the health fair like we are in charge of planning, coordinating and on site managing our promotions, our graduations, our field trips, etc. Um we got 08 which is the district's day of the teacher. We probably should have a TA by then if you want to celebrate us. And moving on to 027, $100,000 to uh Rob Skate for an extra competition in skating, which works out to $800 per hour. I love skating, but that seems like a lot of money to be spending on an afterchool skating program without a little bit more uh checks and balances on what that amount goes to. And then I just have one more really quick, which is 079, the electricity, $1.5 million a year for Ava. We know I know we're paying like $900 per site to PG&E right now. So, I think we should do a little more analysis on how much we're spending on energy across the district before we put through a $3 million contract. Thank you very much.

Next speaker,

one item on the agenda related to McLimman's and it says that you're going to connect some electrical wires. Whippy uh related to 076 it says that you're going to abide by attendance and truency laws. That's what you say. Then in 077 you say you are going to change truency to chronic absences. You don't have them. You can't change California law. God help us. Uh uh 04 and 09 have to do with uh Hoover turf. And at least you're doing a geological engineering service to find out if it toxic. I hope you don't do like uh mlemans. You know it's toxic, but you're not doing anything. Then as it relates to Oh, this is a good one. Uh 010 cleanup. You don't say what it is. You just give the address. 2850. That's West West Street. That's the central kitchen. What's going on at the central quest? You are being required by Alama County Environmental Health Department to do some remediation of problems at the central kitchen. You know that's sneaky when you don't say it's the central kitchen, but you just put 2850 West Street. Then you have uh 01 new water filtration system at at Zincs. Now, this is important because you never talk about you need to put filtration systems on the zincs in the kitchens, but you're doing it. You need to do it to every school. Uh oh. 13. I'm not going to go with that one. Oh, here's a good one. In your personnel report, 114 individuals are on leave. 76 have separated from the school district. My time's up.

Thank you, Mr. Okay. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Would you like the rest of these people? I'm going find one more. And uh here's a big one. Legal services $114 uh dollars. Uh and protecting student health and education equity resolution. Are y'all crazy? You're not doing that. I have some more, but uh I want to respect that you tell me my time is up. Thank you. Um we have any more public speakers? Mr. Uffin? No, that includes public speakers.

Thank you. Um, vote. That's right. Um, let's say a vote on the uh O items without 076, 077, 078, 0 82, and 083. 83. Correct. All right. On the roll call uh on the motion as stated, student directors are absent. Director Thompson, yes. Director Barry, yes. Director Hutchinson, abstain. Director Williams.

Yes, sir. Director Lauder. Yes. Vice President Bachelor. Yes, President Brohart. Yes. The motion's adopted. All right, we will move on to item 076, uh, which is the absence and excuse policy, I believe. Um, Director Hutchinson, you pulled this item. I mean, I'm sorry. Is there a motion? Motion to adopt 076. A second. Second. Great. Director Hutchinson, you pulled the second. Who's taking the credit for the second?

Director Thompson. Yeah, I have the same comment for both this item and the following item. Um, I'm philosophically opposed to board policy being put in the consent report. That was never the way that we used to do business as a board. Um, I also agree with many of Miss Olala's comments. Um, and I have no faith in anything that's going on here now. So when a board policy is changed in this sort of way, I don't trust that it's been vetted by legal or by anyone else to make sure that it's legitimate. And the way we used to update board policy, if there's been a change in the state law, is that review effort is supposed to be led by the general counsel. It's an automatic review across the board of all of our board policies to bring them up to date with current laws. this individual directors throwing something at the committee that they control and then bringing it forward here thinking they're changing things when there's established policy and established law is very dangerous and again it's very hard to have any faith in anything going on here when we see how uh how we've failed in the big picture how can I trust that directors who are putting their energy into this instead of the big picture actually know what they're doing and the the more uh genuine One way to do this would be to list each individual change in board policy as a separate business item on the agenda so the community knows so it can be discussed by the board and it could be approved um on its own. This other way of doing business um just reinforces all the problems that we've had. Thank you.

Uh Director Lada.

Yeah, I just want to make a couple of comments as the um author of this board policy update. Um, and just to clarify, this was not something that I wrote independently. It's actually the California Schoolboard Association model policy. And the standard practice in the state is to in for most items that the CSBA model policy is the standard and our policy had not been updated since 2004. And so therefore, um, as we were reviewing attendance, I felt it a good idea to bring our policy up to the state standard. Um, the thing to know about CSBA, in case folks um, don't know, because why would you? It's a very boring thing to think about board policy if you're not up here, I suppose, is that those all go through their own independent legal review through CSBA. I did also work with Janine Lindseay, our general counsel, um, as well as fiscal to review this. And so and this policy um you know we uh the other thing I should say in terms of which policies should be updated we undertook a a you know basically a policy review with CSBA a couple of years ago. They reviewed our entire board policy catalog. um I believe that was submitted um for public review in two in the fall of 2024 that outlined which of our policies were outdated, needed to be updated, redundant um or were not or were a unique policy to OSD. And so these this policy and the subsequent one that we'll be discussing were noted to be outdated with current um practice and CSBA model policy. So that's why um these are coming in this way. Um and I hope that reassures folks about the level of review that they um received. Thanks. Thank you. Um any other board directors? Uh we will take public comment on this item. So it's item 76. If folks want to come up provide public comment on this item. You did not have to sign up ahead of time to provide public comment on this item.

I I spoke briefly to this. Uh it's absolutely absurd that a policy that doesn't include the opportunity for input from teachers, from parents, from the community. You just decide to have a policy change. I've I've looked at policy changes that go on at the city of Oakland and the way that they do it is to have that input more than one time. So when one person, you said you decided, it wasn't like a committee, it was one person decided we needed to do this. But anyway, but in that policy changed, you still have you will abide by truency law. So you are you are you are legally taking responsibility but you're not doing it. Now the other one 70 uh where you are replacing chronic absenteeism. I'm sorry. You changing chroy into chronic absenteeism. I don't know where that insanity come from. Those are two separate things. Two separate things. One has to do when you have a legal excuse and one is a unexcused absence. I'm I'm sorry. I don't know how you can do this. I I don't understand how the legal counsel allows you to do this, but I've seen it happen before where y'all doing things that legally is it's not appropriate or you don't have the right to do it. Legal counsel, you you got to say that this is legal that you can substitute truency and make it chronic absenteeism. You

can't do that. I'd like to invite any other members of the public to make a comment on 076. Anybody online that has their hand raised? No hand online. Okay. Um, general counsel Lindsay, would you like to make a comment on this?

Sure. Thank you so much. I did want to just uh reiterate uh director LA I think pointed to the district's efforts to have policy review and it's in consultation with um the CSBA which is a common very common practice for school districts. So, in addition to my legal review of the board policies, we're also taking into consideration the common language from sample board policies that uh the CSBA has put out and many school districts adopt um a as a whole. And so, uh, we will, of course, and I believe it is, uh, noted in both board policy revisions that of course the ED code will continue to be followed in all instances and I believe it highlights that there.

Thank you. And just for folks who may not know, CSBA is the California Schoolboard Association that we are a part of. Um, and uh, they have a legal team that reviews and provides feedback. And then we also have general counsel that can also uh be a backup. Um all right, since there's no other public comment on this agenda item, uh can we take a roll call on a vote? Yes. One more note. This matter was heard in the budget and finance committee on April 2nd and is recommended by that committee for approval by the board. on the roll call uh for approval of O-76. Uh student directors are absent. Director Lauder,

yes. Director Williams, yes, sir. Director Hutchinson, no. Director Barry, yes. Director Thompson, yes. Vice President Bachelor, yes. And President Bhard, yes. Motion's adopted. All righty. I am moving to 077 which is board policy a change of board policy 5113.1. Is there a motion? So moved. A second. Second. Thompson. Uh board comment starting with director Hutchinson.

Yeah. Thank you. I don't I don't want to belver to the point, but I I just want to state it gets really frustrating sometimes when people on the dis um restate the history of what's happened and I know they weren't involved during that time period. And so if there was going to be a systematic review of all of our policy to make sure that they're up to date, then what I would expect to come forward is that comprehensive review that everyone's looked at and they come together as a package and then that's something that would be agendaized as its own separate item. there'd be time along the process for there to be community engagement and for the board to discuss it. But let's be real, the board hasn't had any conversation about any of these board policy changes. They came through this unilateral track, then they're buried in the consent report, and now they're going to be adopted with no conversation and really no uh engagement with the community at all. So, it doesn't really matter how big or how small the board policy might be. This is very far away from the way we're supposed to be doing business as the democratically elected community representatives. And for people to bend themselves and do these mental gymnastics to try to prove to everyone how it's not really that is really sad because all you have to do is agendaize it the right way, include it in the normal conversation. And these aren't things that even should be coming through the budget and finance committee, which just by the way, their last meeting this month didn't have one item actually dealing with the budget or finances at all on the agenda. So this is what people are doing now instead of our real job. And it's just very frustrating. But I can't people let people restate history when they're wrong. And I know they weren't even here to witness it themselves. Thank you.

Uh President Brohard. Yeah, I do want to um remind all of us that I believe it was about a year ago that we did have a chart of all the policies that uh the CSBA did review for us and I believe there were quite a few of them that were um we needed to update. So um I appreciate the work director lot of taking these two and um updating those those positions, but we do have I think there are quite a few of them we do need to update. So thank you.

Yep. Anybody else? Right. Um, any public comment on item 77077? Anybody with their hand raised online? Checking to see if any public comment from online. No hand raised. Vice President, thank you. Uh, let's take a roll call vote on this item. Upon the recommendation of the budget and finance committee uh from a meeting of April 2nd for approval of this item by the full board. Uh director student directors are absent. Director Lau

yes. Director Williams. Yes sir. Director Hutchinson. No. Director Barry. Yes. Director Thompson. Yes. Vice President Basher. Yes. and President Bhart. Yes. Motion's adopted. Okay, we're on a roll, everybody. Um, now next is uh 078 uh which is the 7-Eleven committee that came out of the facilities committee meeting um after two iterations and uh passed unanimously uh but has been pulled. Um so, Director Hutchinson, I believe you pulled it. Oh, I apologize. Motion. I motion to adopt 078.

Great. I second it. Wonderful, Director. Hutchinson.

Yeah, thank you. Um, it's really shocking to see that this is coming forward and that this again was buried in the consent report. So, there was a time not that long ago in Oakland that everyone collectively fought together at any effort to sell our public property out from under us. And the forming of a 7-Eleven committee has a very specific purpose and a loan purpose. By forming a 7-Eleven committee and having that committee declare our property surplus, that is the only thing that legally allows the district to sell or lease our public property. And so the fact that this is coming forward now from the same board that tanked our finances and people think they're going to declare our property surplus and be able to sell it is amazing to me. You know, I actually happen to be the only one left around who's even attended a 7-Eleven committee that happened in the past. This happened two times before in the past. And both times those committees were shut down and any of the leases the board tried to make afterwards um have now all come back to the district because of the way they were done. So, the fact that this board now before we do a community conversation or have any engagement think they're going to put three specific properties on a list so they can be sold or leased to private hands is extremely objectionable. the fact that one of those properties is Ralph Bunch, which just five years ago, six years ago, was still housing students and because of the decisions made by this board, now they want to move it to private hands. Second Avenue, the same thing. And for now, then to throw in Lake View into the mix. So again, the same board that has mismanaged our finances think that now

in a lame duck session with nine months left that they're going to declare our property surplus so it can be moved to private hands. Now the first time we had a 7-Eleven committee formed in OSD was in 2014, a year after the building across the street was intentionally flooded. And at that point, interim superintendent Gary Ye formed a 7-Eleven committee to try to move that property to urban core developers to build a 24story luxury housing uh complex across the street. I encourage people to go watch the videos of those meetings. The second time we had a 7-Eleven committee because the board and the superintendent at the time wanted to parcel off five parcels of five campuses that we have. Two of them they even made long-term leases for. We now just got those properties back, Edward Shans and one of the CDC's because the firm that we contracted with didn't make one lease payment in five years. So why would we trust the same people that won't address our finances that have led us to this ruin to actually sell our public property out from under us? Thankfully, there's laws that apply, just like there's laws over our public dollars. And the one thing I find most offensive is people who have not put blood, sweat, and tears into this district who aren't even here think they can sell away our birthright. So if this is the fight people want to have over these next nine months, I'm here for it. But you're not going to sneak something through in the consent report. That's for sure.

Colleagues, any comments? Director Barry.

Yeah, just a few things as co-author of this resolution. First, just to clarify for the benefit of the public, a 711 committee doesn't have any decision-making authority at all. The board retains all authority over the future of OD properties. The 7-Eleven committee functions as an advisory body and all it can do is synthesize and organize information and make a recommendation to the board. Uh and one of the reasons why I am putting this forth is because I think it is important that while we do the very necessary work of managing the emergencies that are right in front of us, we don't lose sight of the seeds we need to plant for the future. And a lot of these processes take a long time. and we don't want to wait until we're quote unquote ready to do anything with the vacant property that OD has to do something with the vacant property that OD has. And so like the um facilities master plan, like the feasibility study, this 711 committee is an opportunity to empower the board with information that they can use in my opinion to unlock opportunity. Right now, we're spending money managing property that no one benefits from. And the idea here is that we create a path uh by providing this kind of information to the board for us to do something that does benefit the public. Um, a lot of the conversation happening in the community about what is possible at these properties, none of it, as far as I'm aware, has anything to do with selling it to any private entity. And

I'm excited about what could be possible when we take seriously the opportunity um to to do the research we need to to do to address our vacant property.

Director Brohart. Yeah, I want to reiterate what Director Barry said that this um it is not the purpose of a 7-Eleven committee to sell the land, but it's an advisory committee to how to use that land and repurpose it. And I can't tell you how many times this week I've been asked by the media whether or not when we're selling this land. And that is just erroneous. And it is not the sole intent. It's not the intent of the committee to talk about selling land. And yes, I I was around when this happened. Um I have been around in the district for a long time. Um I also want to mention that in writing this resolution, which has gone through many iterations, I really deeply appreciate the work of director Barry and taking this on and in our facilities department, uh Preston Thomas and Prenita in working with us to really ensure that the language in this resolution speaks to what we are asking to do. Um, again, we have properties that are vacant. We have one right across the street. Again, um, having taught at this school, I know that we looked out at that property for a long time. Just we used to watch and say, "When are the windows going to fall out over there? It was that decrepit." So, again, moving forward with how we can use our community, our our our school property in ways that benefit our community and that we're not adding to the blight of our community. But again, I appreciate the work, Director Barry, in um that you did to construct this um resolution. Thank you.

Can Can we please get a point a point of clarification, excuse me, a point of clarification, can we please get a ruling from General Counsel Lindsay about some clear definitions? Because a se when a 7-Eleven committee is formed, they have a choice of whether to surplus a property or not. And there is a specific legal requirement of a 7-Eleven committee must be formed and declare a property surplus in order for that property to be sold or leased. And that is the sole reason why a 7-Eleven committee is formed. It's not advisory committee. It is for this specific option. And then if a 7-Eleven committee declares a property surplus, it is only then that a school board has the option to sell or lease the property. Is that correct, General Counsel? Lindsay,

I would like to add that it also says repurposing. I'm talking about the definition of a 7-Eleven committee. So, if you wanted to form a body to discuss repurposing, that doesn't require a 7-Eleven. A 7-Eleven committee has a specific has a specific function around this 7-Eleven committee resolution. Sure. Uh, so, so what I heard Director Hutchinson ask is if a 7-Eleven committee is a precursor to selling or leasing property.

No, that's not what that's not what I said. I asked very specifically is a 7-Eleven committee needs to be formed and they have one choice whether or not to surplus a designated building. and it requires the trigger of a 7-Eleven committee being formed and declaring a property surplus in order for that property to be sold or leased. Isn't that the function of what a 7-Eleven committee does to decide if something is surplus? And if it is, that is the trigger that then allows the board to sell that property.

If the district is considering selling or leasing property, a 7-Eleven committee is required for that purpose. Thank you. Point of clarification since this is how we clarify a point that I've already made right here. The purpose of a 7-Eleven committee is to advise the board on a decision. And I think it's an important general counsel that we use the language to clarify the question that he's asking. And so I'll ask it in a different way. Does a seven 711 committee make a decision about whether a property is surplus or not? A 7-Eleven committee is an advisory committee.

Did I answer your question? I 7-Eleven committing for a yes or no so that the language I'm using to ask the question can be used to clarify Director Hutchinson's point. It it your I don't think your question was a yes or no question, but I may have gotten uh lost in what you the last piece you said, but the gist of what you asked is whether a 71 committee is a decision-making body or advisory. It is an advisory committee. Okay, thank you.

Righty with that, we'll take public comment on this item, which is item SE 078. Are there any public comments on this item? Yes, we have Mario Capitelli and also Dr. Doo. Wonderful. It sounds like Mrs. Sada's interested as well. They here.

One minute. Yeah, Mario's behind you. Um, first point, you have over $3 billion of needs related to the maintenance and repairs of buildings already in existence. That should be a priority. You are talking about if you already spent $700,000 dollars to do a feasibility study. Now, if you wanted to do a 711, the 7-Eleven would make recommendations on how to use the buildings. Then the feasibility study would confirm whether that would be possible. But you do the feasibility study first and then the 71 committee recommendation. That's out of order. Then I know that you don't really care about Bunch or Lake View. You just threw them in there because you already had people come here to say they want that building across the street for transitional housing. So you have found a way to make that happen.

Next speaker.

Good evening, superintendent and board. My name is Mario Capatelli. I'm the station manager of KDUL, a taxpayer, citizen, and parent within the district. Uh while I fully support the creation of the 711 committee and the intention of using district properties to generate ongoing revenue, I must object to this unfunded mandate on my team at KDO. Limits were put in place on the number of public legislative meetings my team covers monthly before 2020 when we lost our fourth member to budget cuts. The KDA team has worked for the last six years to do the work of four with only three. And on top of that, I have worked to organize and strengthen the communications department with the hopes of having a full service communications department and restore our lost position. Since 2023, I have identified $2 million in production and communications contracts that could have funded this position, including $140,000 tonight. Since 2019, I've identified 17 years of salary spending on FTE doing the explicit work of KDO outside of their job descriptions and outside of the communications department that could have funded that position. Since 2020, we have pointed out we have three tax measures and a citizens bond fund that require our services for their mandated public meetings that could but do not contribute to our staffing. We have offered many many many ways to solve this problem and now and none have been adopted. So now the established limits adjusted for current staffing, six twohour committee meetings and two great room meetings a month will protect us without exception until our staffing is increased.

Thank you. We have one more speaker online. Yes, Dr. Douche, if you can unmute yourself to speak.

Yes, my my name is actually Dr. Da Morris and I am the NAACP education chair for the Oakland branch. Um, I want to highlight that to this conversation is a prime example of why we continue to go in circles with the school board. The 71 committee is an advisory committee only. It is not a governing body. That's information that's easily accessible and should not take a long time to discuss. You all should be wellversed in what these committees functions are. And I also want to kind of go into what I've observed tonight, which continues to happen every board meeting, is that when it comes to transparency, community input and conversation, you guys quickly go to defending yourself. But when teachers and parents and students come up to address some of the hard questions, you guys are radio silent. That's a problem. And it's a it's a problem that needs to be resolved collectively. You ignore questions that come to you about what is happening with the superintendent search. What is the response to uh superintendent Castro? This is public information. You guys cannot continue to ignore the audience that's present in the room and the folks that are on Zoom. This is why you're getting the negative press and the negative calls. You not you need to pull it together.

Thank you. Um any we will go ahead and take a vote on those items. Mr. No, Mr. Rickstro. Yes. Upon the recommendation of the facilities committee to adopt this item on the roll call. Director Lauder. Yes. Director Williams. Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson. No. Director Barry? Yes. Director Thompson? Yes. Vice President Bachelor? Yes. President Bhard? Yes. Motion's adopted.

All right. Next is 0 um 82, which is the heat mitigation uh resolution. Director Z, is there anyone that is moving this item forward? I'd like to make a motion to adopt 082. Yes, I'll second. Um, Director Perry, did you want to I'm sorry, Director Hutchinson, you pulled this item.

Yes, thank you. Uh, I pulled this item so I could vote for this item. And I just really wanted to um thank all of the the parents and community members who helped work on this, especially uh a lot of the families at Sequoia who really started getting the ball rolling. And um amidst all the chaos, there is opportunity sometimes to take an idea from a school site and engaged people all the way to make it the district-wide policy. And so, um, hopefully everyone that helped make this happen will continue to stay on board in this effort. We need to make sure that certain timelines are met, that this work starts this summer, and then for some of the ongoing work that we still need to do in terms of heat mitigation, hopefully we can work on having that as uh a comprehensive plan that is part of our next facilities bond when that goes out. So, I just really wanted to be able to vote for this and and really highlight the idea of using film on the windows that shows that we could uh potentially see uh a temperature reduction in our classrooms of 5 to 10° is just the kind of costeffective widespread ideas that we really need to incorporate especially with our facilities and we know we won't be able to build our way out of it. So, just a a real sincere thank you to a lot of the families who worked on this and uh I look forward to be a being able to vote for it. Thank you.

Director Barry, did you want to say?

Yeah. I just wanted to say thank you uh to all of the community members who elevated this as an issue and who would not let it go. I think this is it. It it for me a good experience um because I got to witness um in this experience what it felt like to be held accountable um about an issue that wasn't right in front of me front and center. And so I appreciate you for elevating it to our attention and for showing up again and again and for the partnership of the OD staff who weighed in over and over again on the development and design of the resolution as well.

All right. Um yeah, so I just wanted to add that uh our schools um are need to be safe places for our students to learn and safe places for our staff to work. due to the acceleration of the climate change um of climate change in our school spaces have grown hotter and hotter year after year. Uh fortunately, we've done the work to pass um the bond which is measure Y and we as a board have readjusted to allocate $8 million towards heat mitigation. Uh these dollars will initiate so many of the strategies that families have identified that's worked at school sites. Um, and I want to just iterate that this is just a this eight million is a drop in the bucket compared to the need that we have to uh to u tackle uh heat. And so I agree with Director Hutchinson that our next bond must have the dollars allocated to tackle heat across the district at all of our school sites. Um and I look forward to hearing staff's report around um what are some considerations when going out for the bond? what are some of the things that we might need if we wanted to use these dollars uh quicker via an emergency resolution so we can get to work as quickly as we can into the summer. Um, and I appreciate um, not only my board colleagues who are on the facilities committee, but also the the the families and students um, and staff that came out to uh, let us know how important this was and how it was um, creating unsafe environments not only for their students but also for um, all the folks that are in our school sites every day. Um, and again, I appreciate um, Director Barry for taking the initiative and and and doing this work. I think it was a great tag team effort at the end where I was just like I will join you um and so we could have this coming out of the facilities committee. So I look forward to continuing to partner with other school board directors in getting the work done.

Now we'll take public comment on this item. Um anybody want to speak on uh 082? how these parents stood up for what they believed in and they did an outstanding job of representing what they thought needed to happen not just for their children but for the entire district. But you have to remember there have strong voices but there's people that are not speaking and you have a responsibility to not just wait for somebody to come to you and make a demand. You have to seek out those needs and do it. So I've been coming for years talking about Mccclimman. And then it it's insulting to say, "Oh, I heard you. I listen to you, but you're not listening to the mccleimman needs. The parents are not coming from Mccclimman's. They're not coming. But you know what needs to be happening regardless whether they come or not. But I don't want to take too much away from the outstanding job that these parents have done to deal with this issue at their children's schools. I hope more parents will follow this example and speak up for their children as well. Next speaker,

Jack Nelson, community volunteer, Oakland resident. Um, Miss's right. Got to balance it if we can. But I will say this, I'll repeat what I said at the facilities meeting last last week. Uh, I still will bet rest in 10 bucks that I can get you about $8.8 million worth of heating and air service because that's I sell ladders and I'm with all these companies. Superior Mechanical, Atlas Heating and Air and they're down by Mclimates. It doesn't have to be uh somebody that buys from me. I could I could care. We We need to put it out for bid because these guys are dying for work. So, let's let's look at that.

Any public speakers online? No public speaker online. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this item.

Mr. Rickstra, can we take a vote on this item? Sorry. Yes. Uh on the roll call uh to to the board uh on a recommendation of facilities committee to adopt this item. On the roll call. Uh director Hutchinson. Yes. Director Barry. Yes. Director Thompson. Yes. Uh Director Williams. Yes sir. Director Ladder. Yes. Vice President Bachelor. Yes. And President uh Brahar. Yes. Motion's adopted. Okay. Now we're on to the last item that was pulled, which is uh 083. Is there a motion to um adopt?

I move that we adopt this second motion. Second. Okay. Uh Dr. Hutchinson.

And again, I pulled this item not only because uh I think it's inappropriate to do an allocation of G1 buried in the consent report. Um I have a lot of questions about this. You know, one of the 17 questions that I've had to uh Superintendent Sadler now for over four weeks centers on G1 centers on the message that our middle schools were told they're losing half of their electives. I asked the question of where is the funding for this? I asked the question of does that produce savings for us? I asked the question of our measure G1 dollars being rolled up to address some other deficit. And now to see this buried in here and see that it mentions this year and last year's allocation from G1 and questions about the carryover and what was there. Um, I think there's real questions about this and the fact that I've seen no documents really explaining anything. And again, I haven't been able to get my question answered about the message being told to middle schools that they're losing half of their electives for next year. Um, and I was under the impression that those electives were being paid for out of G1. And so the question becomes, if we have G1, if there's money and there was a carryover there, why are our middle schools being told they're losing programs for next year? And why hasn't the community been told that our middle schools are losing programs for next year? So again, I don't know what's happening. These are public dollars. uh within the last month we received an email from members of the G1 uh commission. One of the members spoke at the last meeting citing his concerns and we've heard nothing about it and here this is buried on here. Um and so again it just highlights the many problems we have going on and I'm of the strong opinion that things are being put on the consent report in an effort to

hide them because nobody can really explain what's going on. Um, and uh, I'm going to be voting no, and I hopefully more people in the community will start really looking into this because G1, like everything else, is one of a number of funds that we have. Um, all of the documents and numbers were listed on the second interim. And I have real questions about who's in charge of the district's finances, who's making decisions, and if I can't get my questions answered, and nobody can tell me who to even send a resolution to to get a fiscal impact analysis, that means things are entirely off the rails, and this is not what's ever happened in this district before. Thank you,

President Brohard. Sorry, there actually is an answer to this question. Um originally one of the members felt that they had to recuse themselves for this vote and so it didn't the the uh Brewer's money didn't pass. So this was an effort again working with the superintendent um to correct this situation so that Brewer would get their allocation for this year. And I believe the allocation is for uh computers and things like there's a list of things like that that weren't personnel related, but this was an effort to correct um an honest mistake by one of the board members who also quickly called me to say how do we how do we fix this? So again, working together, we were able to get Brewers money back to them.

All right. Um any other comments, board colleagues who haven't spoken yet? Okay. Uh we'll take public comments on this agenda item. So if there's any members of the public who are here or on Zoom who would like to make a comment on this item, they can come up to speak now. They can all come up to speak and get one minute each. Get the timer going. Okay.

Good evening. My name is Berta Rosien. from the ethnic studies TSA. Um, and this is something that you can all agree on is that ethnic studies is a boardup supported, we adopted a curriculum in the spring of 2025. It's something that could actually unite our school district. We don't have to be caught flat-footed about who we are as a school and as a district and what we value. And so, um, but our positions and our funding are unstable. And u my colleague is losing her position this year and I'm on my last year of a grant following next year. But you should know what you approved and it's the reader. It's the ninth grade course and if you haven't already seen it, you should read it because a lot of the things that we students and staff talked about tonight are connected. The civic engagement work, the article on students in QQQ, it's in the reader. The steel the seal of civic engagement, I support that work. So when you lose um these positions, you lose all that interconnection and network between our students, families, our teachers um and y'all. So I'm gonna leave these with you.

Thank you. Next speaker. Yes.

Sure. Hi. Good evening. I am Berta's counterpart. I'm Leah Gera and I started teaching in Od in 1997 and I'm currently the other ethnic studies TSA and I'm here to express concern and inform you about the loss of central office leaderships for ethnic studies and its implication for OSD's ability to meet its commitment and legal obligations. Currently, there are only two central office TSA positions supporting ethnic studies across the entire district. The TK8 ethnic studies position has been eliminated through the March um reduction in force and the ninth grade TS position is partially grant-f funded and we will lose that support next year and this puts the district on track to having no dedicated central office leadership for ethnic studies creating an immediate and critical gap in sustaining current implementation. So we'll see if they have an extra.

I urge the creation of a central office coordinator. Ethnic studies is its own academic discipline. It is not to be subsumed under history or under English. It there should be two TSA positions, a TK8 and a 912 to ensure alignment and appropriate support. Ethnic studies is not new in OSD. It is a decadesl long-standing priority grounded in board policy. We have frameworks, standards, pedagogical principles. It's reinforced by the George Floyd resolution, the community schools framework, and the fair act. Together, these commitments center equity, identity, community engagement, culturally responsive instruction, making clear that ethnic studies is central to OD's mission. Without central leadership, we risk losing this. Ethnic studies is a core commitment and it's not an add-on. Sustaining central leadership is essential to fulfilling that promise.

Thank you. Next speaker.

Hi everyone. Uh my name is Tate Jat. I teach at Monta Middle School currently, but I'm moving to an ethnic studies position uh teaching position at Skyline next year. Um I have had the privilege of working with Leah uh and Berta uh both um Leah's guidance and support have been transformative in my professional life as I have taught uh US history and incorporated ethnic studies themes throughout. Um, she's a mentor who who builds genuine relationships, fosters trust, and creates uh the conditions necessary for self-reflection and growth, which is essential for all teachers and especially ethnic studies educators. Um, I've also had the opportunity to work with their this year, and she's inspired me to up my game and to pursue my purpose. Um, I was very concerned about uh hearing that these positions um were grant-f funded and not permanent positions within the district. that is obscene. Um and so uh Le and Berto both bring um deep expertise, institutional knowledge, vision, and empathetic leadership that cannot be replaced. These people are solid. They're amazing, and losing them would be ridiculous. Uh we need this support more than ever. Ethnic studies teachers need this support more than ever. Um, and we would risk being absorbed into disciplines that aren't ours and don't understand our work. So, please, please, I implore you uh to preserve this. We can't wait for this the state to do the right thing. We need to find the money here and fund these positions and make them permanent. Thank you.

Thank you. Next public speaker on this item, which is measure G1. I see folks standing. if folks want to come up and speak. Okay. G1. Yep. Uh, anybody online? No online speaker. Okay. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this item, Mr. Rickstrong. Okay. The recommendation is the measure G1 commission uh for the board to adopt item zero- dot- 83. on the roll call. Director uh Barry, yes. Director Thompson, yes.

Director Hutchinson, no. Director Williams, yes. Yes, sir. Okay. Director Ladder, yes. Vice President Bachelor and President Bhart. Yes. Motion's adopted. Okay. So, now we're on to 01, uh, which is many contracts with Soccer Without Borders. So, Director Lada, would you like to announce? Yes, I'm recusing from these items. I'm friends with a member of their board. Thank you. Thank you for that. So, um, anyways, uh, is there a motion? Motion to adopt 01. Is there a second?

I second. Great. Um are there any uh board comments? Seeing none, um are there any public comments on this agenda item? Assad

01, which is all the soccer without borders contracts. Um, I just want to remind you that yes, Tuesday, yesterday, a part of the mayor's youth summer employment program has soccer without borders being able to employ youth in some I can't remember the amount of money. That's one thing. Uh, the other thing is we got to start having a balance Soccer without borders is great, but I think we need to have some other forms of how we support the opportunity for young people to engage in athletics. And uh we got flag football, we got viol, but I think we have taken soccer with our voters up to the hill and let's start moving on to some other stuff that can be embraced by young people. I know black boys love basketball. And when I go to schools like I passed this school, nobody was participating in basketball. They playing soccer. They don't even try to offer it as an opportunity. But anyway, good thing for soccer without borders, but y'all need to look into the mayor's youth employment program and you should have had a voice because this is what I told him about it. You should try to find jobs that correlate with the career pathway that these children are involved in so they can continue a sequence of what they've already been focused on in their schools. So y'all try to at least do that.

Thank you, Mr. Sado. All right, let's go ahead and take a vote on this item. Okay. on the roll call to adopt general consent report number two with director ladder recused. Director Williams, yes, sir. Director Hutchinson, abstain. Director Barry, yes. Director Thompson, yes. Vice President Bachelor, yes. And President Bhard, yes.

Motion's adopted. All right, President Bhard will now chair the rest of the meeting. We are now on to item P, consent item P and nothing is pulled. So, we'll be taking public comment on um P, which is facilities consent items. Is there any public comment? Motion to adopt. I will second that. Thank you. Yes. For public speaker, we have Assalo Labala. Okay.

All right. Thank you. And are there any others? Is that uh any board comments? Okay, Mr. Rickstar, can we have a roll call on the vote, please? On the roll call, if I don't call a director's name, that means they're absent. Uh director, uh student directors are absent. That is uh director Lauder. Yes. Director Thompson. Yes. Director Barry, yes. Director Williams, yes, sir. Director Hutchinson, abstain. All right. Vice President Bachelor,

yes. And President Prohark, yes. Motion's adopted. We are now moving on to item Q, which is um public comment on um items under the board's jurisdiction. Are there any public comments? Yes, we have at the moment 16 speakers. So, I'll call the first five speakers. Okay, let's give them a minute and a half each.

A minute and a half. Noted. Thank you. We have Tanya Kapner, Sheila Haynes, Assad Lavala, Benjin Cuku Chik, and Isabel Nunes. Those are first five speakers. Okay. I have come to the conscious decision, tried to hold on to it, that you could be convinced that you need to serve the best interests of African-American students as well as all students, but you have no interest in that. You you you do not weigh in on the necessities of our African-American students. I would recommend to any black parent, don't send your kids to OD. They don't give the attention. You give attention to newcomers. You you you weigh in on your special ed students. You weigh in on uh issues have to do with English language learners sufficiently that people who have those children should be comfortable. when you have at the last meeting of the measure BJ and Y pay attention Mr. Williams because I'm going to talk about Mccclimman's and if anything you need to be respectfully listen the last meeting they identified the state or stage that Mccclimman's rebuilding program was in and you know what they said it's in the design stage this started in 2021 a remodeling plan and at that meeting is in the design stage according to the the measure BJY citizens committee. So you guys I I I

don't know how you especially black people up there. How can you be a black person sitting up there ignoring the needs of black children? Next will be Sheila Haynes. If you can unmute yourself. Miss Haynes. No, we're not able to hear you, Miss Haynes. Still can't hear you. Move on to next speaker. Next speakers are Renee Cole, Liam Winner, Jack Nelson, Joanna Davis, and Rachel Cannon. Those are the next five speakers.

If your name was called, if you would.

Okay. I'm glad everybody's just about gone here because this is different. Um, we've we've heard about money and issues tonight, but uh I have been working since November of 24 on the John Beam and Tony Farardella um sign renaming of the skyline field. I said yes, but I I I I was asked by Casey Adams, the athletic director, to do it. I said yes, but I it's got to be Beam and Fardella. That's an important point that'll come back at the end here. 175 people answered a website survey indicating that they wanted Fardella Beam or Beam Fardella. Uh, in October of last year, 25, I worked on this for a while and and and by October 25, Mike Hutchinson came here and told me that it wasn't going to be ready to be able to to do that. Could use 30 more seconds actually since I waited three and a half hours. But, um, so I understood, I wasn't impatient. Um, we went along and we got to this year. Now, um, I've got a great sign. For $10,000, you can get an LED sign with Fardella Beam on it. Beam Fardella. Actually, we're going to do it alphabetically. But, um, uh, Preston Thomas got a hold of me and said, "We'd like to do a big sign." Uh, big sign. and then just have the smaller sign for Fardella. I can't do that. I'm not going to do that. And I hate to say it because my time's up anyway, but

you've got until May 13th to tell me if you're going to go originally with my donation. Okay? This is this isn't costing you anything. So, make a decision. Let me know or I I'm going to withdraw because I've worked on a year and a half and that's enough. and the team that may help me sponsor it, they need to know by May 13th. Thank you. Not see any speakers coming to the podium. The remaining speakers are Ariel Flesher, Carrie Kaufman, and AV Ringer.

Hi. Um, my name is Ariel Fisher and I'm the parent of a kindergartenner here in the district. I've enjoyed a lot of today's tonight's discussion around the attendance and the importance of planting seeds for the future, but I find myself very concerned about what has not been discussed tonight. I read the letter from Elise Castro and the followup from the interim superintendent and I am very concerned. I'm concerned by the interim's response and the lack of attention to this Elise Castro's very stern letter at this meeting. The county superintendent of education made it very clear that our plan is not working and that Oakland could be on the right track if we create a complete, credible, and implementable plan. She said there is no clear picture of our district finances right now, including the fiscal impact of the tenative agreement and that the situation could worsen quickly. She described a series of actions that need that must that are required to take place by April 30th, none of which has been discussed tonight. The lack of urgency and focus is extremely concerning. 34,000 Oakland students need you to confront this with leadership and resolve and not to sweep it under the rock. Thank you.

Thanks, speaker.

Thank you. Are we doing a minute and a half? Half. Yeah.

Minute and a half. Okay. Right. Great. Thanks. So, I I think you'll all agree that the trust between the school board community is of the utmost importance. Um, unfortunately, there are some things that have caused the fraying of that trust. I just want to go through a couple of those things. Um, unfortunately, the first one is how often I see schoolboard directors looking down or looking at their screens when public commenters are making their comments just as as has just happened just now. Um, another thing that raised that trust, um, a couple times I've given public comment and President Brohard, you've offered to give a private response to that public comment. First, it was asking you to explain why it was that you had fired the superintendent, an answer we've still not received. You stopped me in the hall and offered a private response. And then again recently when I was questioning your your um ability to to trust your current superintendent, how can you give a private response to a public comment? Now lastly, the idea that you would be selectively enforcing rules based upon the political content of a commenter's speech just today when I was cut off just as my time was ended as I was criticizing the school board. that subsequent speakers did not have their time cut off just that same way.

Um the city of Oakland has a very strong ethics commission. The school board is not um under their purview formally. Perhaps we might recommend a um an amendment to the to the city charter so that you would be uh you guys are still city officials so you could call on them to come in to help give you guidance in this regard to help rebuild that trust. Thanks so much.

Next speaker please. Hello again. My name is uh Carrie Kaufman, uh president of the United Administrator of Oakland Schools. I want to talk about two uh topics right now. The first is around March 15th. Um as you guys know, UIOS uh received the largest percentage of March 15th letters. There are a number of our members who we believe were inappropriately and illegally noticed. We have brought this to the attention of the district, labor, legal, and HR. We have still yet to get that resolved. We provided a lot of information around this, and we are still waiting for a resolution as to the fact that many of our members received inappropriate March 15th letters that do not uh align with the law. We also had many members receiving March 15th notices when their positions were already fully funded. We've been told that it requires board decision to resolve this and our members are really upset and stressed and waiting for a resolution around that. The last thing I wanted to speak to is something that we have brought up before. Um, UAOS has always tried to work collaboratively with the district and we try not to file complaints regularly. There is a level one a set of level one complaints that have been sitting at the desk of the district for a long time now and it was filed 13 months ago. We are still waiting for a response when the statutory timeline is 60 days. We have been told that the investigation is complete and the report is ready but we were told that in February. It is almost May. We would like to see that. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker please.

Next speaker. Let's go back to Sheila Haynes. If you can try again, please. Miss Haynes. No, we're not able to hear Miss Haynes. Right. That concludes public comment. Next item on the agenda is new business. Sorry. Um and the next item we are um withdrawing item uh S1 items S1 and S2. They will come back on March 13th. I mean sorry May 13th with um changes. Um our next item is I'm sorry S.

Do you mean point of clarifi? Do you mean S2 and S3?

S2 and S3. Um S1 is um amendment number one services agreement Hazard Young ATA and Associates fiscal advisory team services superintendent of schools. Do we have a presentation on this? We did P. Never mind. I'm sorry. I thought you did say no. I thought you said never mind to P. Do you want to go ahead and speak for a minute?

Mhm. Okay. Thank you. So, item S1. Is there a motion to adopt S1?

Motion to adopt item S1. I second it. Okay. Are there board comments? Director Hutchinson. Um, now I'm really disappointed there's no presentation or anything here. Um, so the first thing about this is the memo with the fiscal impact analysis. I want to know who did this fiscal impact analysis. It lists uh AB1840 as the funding and I know we haven't received money through 1840 for the last two years and we will be receiving no money from them going forward. So how can they how can that fund be paying for this increased contract? Now HYA the district or the school board originally contracted with them in November to do a superintendent search for over $100,000. There's been no superintendent search at all. Not one thing has happened and I want to know who told HYA not to do any work on the superintendent search because we've seen none. Then surprisingly in January when we came back after winter break, HYA was again put before the board to vote for them to be our financial advisors for $400,000 a year or for $400,000 until May 1st, presumably to help the superintendent create a fiscal solveny plan. We still don't have a fiscal solveny plan. The consultants with HYA have a very bad reputation. I encourage everyone to do a Google search or to read the recent articles in the Sacramento B. They've also given very poor advice to the board as many of us have witnessed right here before us.

And now with this new amendment, it'll bring their contract for the year from OD in 2026 up to nearly a million dollars. or roughly three times what it would have cost to have a chief business officer. They also recently tried to go to Sacramento City to get Sacramento City to give the same consultants the same contract. So obviously they're not working very hard for us if they want to go contract with another district. And lastly, and maybe most egregiously, as I've said directly to the superintendent and to our new senior staff in charge of this position, when Elise Castro sent us her report on the second interim in the notice of going concern, the county superintendent offered to pay for OSD to have financial advisors. So, why are we spending more money that we don't have from a fund that we're not getting funded anymore when the county superintendent has offered to give us these services and they'll pay for it? Why are we choosing to dip into money that we don't have for consultants who have not done a good job when again the county is now offering to pay for it? And not one person has been able to answer these questions. Not one person has spoken about how we don't have the internal capacity anymore because we've contracted out. For people who love to talk about contracts, they sure don't seem to mention this one in any ad hoc committees. And again, why are we going to encumber the district with another $400,000 when the county has offered to pay for it for free? I would like an answer to that. Nobody has been able to give me

that answer. And I brought this up specifically to senior staff and it's our way out of this situation to bring in real advisors on the county's dime. So again, why is this contract here? And why is this board willing to spend another over $400,000 to this firm to provide these services when to date they have not delivered on their previous two contracts? Thank you. you. Are there any other board? Director Barry, did you

Yeah. Um I was surprised and probably disappointed that the budget development process, budget stabilization process was not formally on the agenda. Um we never get to talk to each other. Um there are lots of restrictions about how we can engage and when we can engage and when we can hear from the public and without us putting it on the agenda it removes an opportunity for us to literally think about these things with each other. So I would have liked to confront the decision around this extension within the context of that conversation and think it would have been perfectly appropriate for HYA to deliver some sort of presentation that presents an update on the prior scope of work uh in a formal way. Uh, I also know that where we are right now, I mean, all the signs and clues suggest that we do need the assistance. I do think there was an incredible amount of work that was done when they first started and even more work to do now because of the unanticipated uh expenses that we did not account for before we entered this agreement with them. And so I do think the help is needed. I also appreciate the responsiveness to the feedback we shared the last time this was on the agenda about wanting to see a scope of work that was responsive to the work ahead so that we knew what we were extending a contract for. Um and congruent with an earlier conversation,

I do think it's important that in order for us uh to hold anyone accountable, but particular H particularly HYA, it is important for us to see the actual plan. So scope of work is nice. This is the body of work that they'll be responsible for, but how are they going to do it? Who's going to do what? Who's reporting to who? when are we going to see it? And we do need to see that. It's not part of this contract and not part of this vote, but I think very quickly hereafter, we do need to see that so that we know what we're managing toward.

Any other board comments? Director Lada.

Yeah, I just want to um just and I think this is gets to director Barry's last point. just, you know, when this first came on the agenda, the extension, again, I anticipated us extending their contract to just again based on budget development. Um, I do just also want to say that the changes to the contract to make it more transparent to everyone, the community and included um, but also to other, you know, our district staff and to the board about what were the things above and beyond a typical um, you know, fiscal team's work that the the capacity that they've been able to do. And I think my um experience with HYA and Dr. Frutos and um and kind of their experience in other districts helping to do some really creative things and especially their work um being county superintendents themselves and state administrators I think has been extremely useful in terms of widening our aperture for what are what are some creative ways we can be more responsible. So, I appreciated um I'm, you know, happy to support this contract at this time with those changes. Um and I think that the more clarity going forward to their um specific deliverables and having more updates is um uh will be an important step as well.

Thank you. Are there any of the board comments? Director Bart. Yeah, these are specifically directed to Miss Guard. if you can come on up. Um, so there were questions about um the amount of dollars that we have in AB uh 1840. Um, and would this be able to cover that or would be be dipping into the general fund to cover this type of contract? And then um there was also questions around staff capacity uh as the new kind of person that oversees that department. Can you talk a little bit about those two questions?

Sure. Yes. Thank you. AB1840. Um, actually, first, Director Hutchinson, you asked who wrote that financial statement. That was me. AB1840, we had $7 million left in AB1840 at the start of the year. So, yes, uh, AB1840 can cover this contract. And then secondly, um I I'm hearing and it I'm concerned about the amount of negativity that's thrown at HYA, but I have not heard anyone ask how they are working with our team. So they have been working very well with our team. Um, if we all step back to the beginning of the year when we were standing here thinking that we may have um to take a state loan again when we were standing here in the beginning of the year saying that we may have a negative certification. We have had a qualified certification first interim that the county agreed with. We had a qualified certification second interim that the county agreed with. And yes, the county superintendent said going concern and we will address that. And who knows at this point what our third interim exactly will look like, but that's what a qualified second interim is saying. When we work with HYA, they are providing us guidance. As uh Director Bachelor mentioned, they have worked at the county office themselves, been state administrators, been CVOs at districts. I'm not going to stand and defend the work. All I can say is that as we are working with them, our team, our CFO, myself and other people in the budget office have enjoyed and are learning

some things that we need to about our current budget and what we need to do going forward. So, I ask that you do approve this contract so that we can continue the work. I will come back and I agree we need to communicate more about our budget. I'll come back if there's time May 13th to do that and I'm open for any questions may see myself and this tape on social media and I'll be prepared to answer there too. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Gard. That was really helpful. And I've also had conversations with folks in Sacramento and they're very concerned about the financial challenges that they're facing with the current CBO that they have as well. um and are looking to see if there's other if there's other ways that they could be supported just like we have been as well. Um that's it for my public comment. Thank you. Thank you. Is there public comment? Yes, we have Sheila Haynes, Labala, and Oliver Brennan. I'm sorry, I couldn't hear the names. Wait, the disruption.

Yes. Um, the names are Sheila Haynes, Asalo Labala, and Oliver Brennan. Okay. Thank you.

Good evening, Oliver Brennan, parent of two students in OSD. I've come here tonight to ask this board to vote against this contract extension. Um, we were moving from a CBO model to a CFO model and we landed there, but now appears we're moving back to a CBO model again. and the person's sitting behind me and you're trying to bring in contra uh consultants to spend almost a million dollars and have them around for the rest of the year. I mean, you're supposed to have people in the roles who are qualified to do those roles. They are well handsomely paid to do those roles. And here we are in the middle of April and people are talking about budget development. There's also people talking tonight about the historical budget cycle and how there's a, you know, the the finances look one way at the first interim and then by the end of the year everything comes back together. The last 22 years, the board in front of me tonight and all previous boards had guard rails on the county who were always making sure we got to the end of that year that that school year still solvent. This is the first time in 22 years we do not have those guardrails. So it's all on you. And there are two narratives going around here that one OD is on the right track and everything's going to be fine. And the other and it seems like the county agree things are not necessarily going to be fine. I have a copy of the letter here tonight that should be on that table but nobody else has it in their person tonight. I will give it to Mrs. Sada later. She asks about it. One way or the other, we're either going to be right or we're not going to be right. There are two narratives going around and it's going to come to ha come to pass within the next six to eight

weeks. There will be consequences for everybody in front of us if it isn't on the right path. Thank you very much.

You next speaker, please. talking about um a vendor who is already under contract with this district. That vendor should be here tonight. Be here tonight because you've identified 31 through 312 as the areas for which they will have competency to deal with. If I was sitting up there, I would call up the vendor and all of the areas that are important to me, not necessarily all of them, but the ones that I feel have to be crucially addressed. I would ask them, how are you planning to address 314 revenue generation? You can't just rubber stamp. You have to verify that these people have the competency to do the work that you are saying that you're going to give them extra money to do and you're not doing that. But here's the problem. The problem is you don't have the capacity at some point to collaborate with each other and you're making the one mistake that you have to walk away from. Mike Hutchinson knows what he's talking about. You might not agree with him all the time, but he has the fiscal capacity to generate a conversation with credibility. And so, I'm just going to give you an example. Can I finish my thought? I had a low down messy situation with a council member to the point say I'm going to never speak to you again. Then that council member

did something that was really good. I had to drop my pride and say that was excellent. I hope that you continue to do that. I could have stayed mad. Y'all don't have the ability to do that. No matter what he's doing or anybody else is doing, your number one responsibility is to work to get this done. But what y'all do is no matter what he says, you're going to say no. That's not going to work. If I have the capacity to do this, swallow my pride, and admit that somebody that I don't like very much is doing something that's good for the city of Oakland. You got to start doing that, too.

Thank you. Are there any other public comments? Yeah, Miss Hayne, if you can unmute yourself and see if we can hear you. We're not able to hear you. Miss Haynes saying he's not coming through. All right. U Mr. Rickstar, can we have a roll call on the vote, please? Yes. On the motion to adopt the amend uh the amendment to the hya contract. Uh student directors are absent. Director Thompson. Yes. Director Barry, yes. Director Hutchinson,

no. Director Williams, yes, sir. Director Ladder, yes. Vice President Bachelor, yes. President Brohart, yes. The motion is adopted. The next item on the agenda is item S4, which is the facilities master plan. Is there a presentation with that or uh are there any board comments on this? I'm sorry. I'll move it. I'll second. Thank you. Are there any board uh comments on the master plan? Director Hutchinson.

Thank you.

Um Mr. Thomas, I appreciated the conversation we had the other day. I I want to throw that in at the start. Um you know, one of the reasons I've been highlighting how this was something that was supposed to be done last year is because um as a board uh before this current board, we did have a plan in place, a timeline, and a way to work through these issues. And what we had established as a board is we were waiting for the master's facilities plan last year. We had also approved the three Rs plan which included reinvisioning the district footprint. And what we were supposed to do is use the data from the master's facilities plan along with the community conversations from the reinvisioning process to produce um a a list of solutions or options that we were going to pursue as a district. And we were supposed to do all of that. And then at the end of that process, if the community determined that we had a couple of properties that were surplus, then we would start a 7-Eleven committee from there at the back end. But instead, what this board has done is thrown out all of the work and is doing things backwards. And we've had no community conversation around reinvisioning our footprint. The master's facilities plan is a year late and is no longer in a position to inform that process. And now we have school board directors who from the comments I heard today don't even understand the function of a 7-Eleven committee and the trigger that it actually is unleashing that committee when we haven't done the other work before it. Now, some of us who have been here a long time have seen a number of attempts by a number of people to try to steal our public property away. And I view our public property as my

birthright. But not just my birthright, everyone in Oakland's birthright. There's literally blood, sweat, and tears in every facility that OD has. Each facility has a unique story. A lot of them are not very happy stories over recent years for how they wound up in that situation. But to see now that we're in a point when we finally get the master's facilities plan that we can't even really use it to inform decisions going forward like we wanted to is really frustrating. Um, but the one good thing I do want to highlight from this master's facilities plan is now at this point, um, I've completed work that I set out to do when I first got on the board, which was to rewrite and erase some of the foundational documents that were being used. And back then, we had the Jacobs plan that was done, but $2.4 million through consultants out of Texas as part of the early work with the blueprint. and it was an awful plan that really devastated uh us in a lot of ways. With this new master's facilities plan, this is the final step in scrubbing any legacy of Jacobs away. So, I'm very happy about that. But, as we can see with the vote tonight before the master's facilities list even comes forward on a 7-Eleven committee that this board has it all backwards and wrong. And one of the other things is since they are new to this, they don't realize the fights that really start to happen when our public property is threatened. And so I hope everyone's prepared for what's coming next because uh us native Oaklanders, we don't give away our scarce resources without a fight. Thank you.

I'm sorry, Vice President Bachelor.

Thank you. Um um so uh good evening uh board colleagues and community. Tonight we bring forward the 2026 uh facilities uh master plan for a final vote. This has been really been a team effort. Uh the facilities team, the community, the citizen bond oversight committee, the facilities committee and community have reviewed, commented, shaped, rethought, scratched, added, um redone the dashboards to for this plan. Um and I'm really proud of it. I want to recognize again the depth of collaboration that it took and also that the best way to understand this plan is really a bridge between our vision and the actions that we take. Uh it translates um our shared priorities into a consistent framework to guide future decisions on operational planning, capital investments, partnerships, and long-term stewardship of our facilities. Importantly, it is not a list of specific projects uh or school decisions such as school closures. It's intended to establish the data, the criteria, and strategic approach that will help the school district make transparent informed choices over time. By bringing this work forward, uh we hope to advance it uh and make sure that we can um go out for future bonds. And it also allows us to go out for the Proposition 2 state bond um and continue to tackle some of the issues that have been long-term as well as um some of the most recent challenges that we've had in our facilities. Um so again, I look uh forward to taking this final step so that we can uh start utilizing this tool to have conversations about our school sites.

Thank you. Are there any other board comments and are there public comments? Yes. For public um comment, we have Assad Labala, Rachel Kurt Cortez, and Jack Nelson. A minute and a half each, please. I I made an error in my last comment. Uh do M Dr. Thompson and uh Miss Brown, I see evidence of you trying to work with everybody and being fair about how you do what you do. And I shouldn't have said it all board members. And I see uh I'm sorry.

Am I director Barry? You called her Miss Brown. What is it? Oh, you know that Miss Brown is on the city council and she girl, it's time for you to go home. It's time to go to a lot of meetings.

I'm going home. Uh but my point is I observe you guys very well and Miss B um Miss Barry and Thompson especially you Thompson you you will stand your grounds and I appreciate you for that and all of y'all have got to start doing that. uh the facilities uh citizens uh LGB LJB committee met and they voted for approval of the facilities plan. I said, 'But this already had the first reading approved by the board and you just getting it right now and I'm concerned about the plan when you have the that citizens group and everything on measure P on uh item P. They haven't se they didn't never saw none of this. Okay. Lastly, I can't believe in the facilities department's ability to be fair and equitable related to McClimman's. And so, uh, I've heard things that I'm very disappointed with, but when I heard him say that the plan is one year late, who else is addressing that and holding people accountable? The facilities plan should have an accountability component. Where is the $3 billion coming from that we need? Is the plan covering? How they going to deal with that? I apologize uh to Miss Barry and Mr. Thompson for putting you in with everybody else. And good night.

Are there any other public comments? Yes. Um, Sheila Hayes,

we're not um able to hear Miss Haynes. That conclude public speakers. Can we have a roll call on the vote, please? Yes. on the uh upon the recommendation of the facilities committee uh from April 16th to the board recommending approval of the facilities plan upon the roll call. Student directors are absent. Director Hutchinson is absent. Director Lada, yes. Director Thompson, yes. Director Barry, yes. Director Williams. Yes, sir. Vice President Bachelor, yes.

And President Rohard, yes. Motion is adopted. Thank you.

Okay, moving on to new business. We're going to start with T1, which is 2025 2026 annual report board policy. Uh 5115 enrollment stabilization. Really? And there is no motion, but you have 10 minutes. Heard. You heard it right. Heard it. Have a clicker.

Okay. Go. Go. Go ahead. All right. Good evening, Dr. Sadler. Board, thank you for the opportunity to present today. Uh, my name is Killian Betlac. I'm the executive director of enrollment for our fair district. To do some context setting, what we are here today is the annual report on board policy 5115, enrollment stabilization. It's one of the things that that um that that board policy calls for us to do once a year. It's in contrast slightly to when I was here previously in January giving a just a general enrollment update after census day. This is specific to uh the board policy I just named. So, we're going to take you through just like a quick uh overview of where we are, our three main strategies, and then kind of where things stand as we move forward into the future. And I and I and I definitely understand there's a time constraint here, so I'll try to be brief. Um here is the text or a selection of the text of the enrollment stabilization board policy um adopted in April 2021. It emphasizes the importance of enrollment to our district financially and in other ways in terms of stability. Um, and then just to quote it very briefly, the superintendent or designation shall include expenditures in the annual proposed budget starting with the proposed budget for 2122 to help each school to stabilize and grow as appropriate with both universal and targeted supports. So, I want to talk about those investments that have been made to date and the universal and targeted supports that we do. This is just some further context before we get in and I think it's things that folks are very aware of but um across our state enrollment is both projected to decline and is declining. There was a news article kind of passed around

education circles this week that California uh declined as as a state by something like 75,000 kids. It was seven times greater than the state's projections. That's two OSDs le less of children in the state is a lot. Um the places that are uh projected to decline more are uh population centers right urban areas. This is largely driven by birth rate declines but other factors as well. And then by sector the public school sector and this is from the state's uh way of categorizing things. They've included charter schools here even including those schools um is at a significant decline relative to private schools and home schools etc. Um and then we continue to face enrollment pressure from competing systems. So the charter schools that are in um in our city uh interd district transfers which are Oakland residents seeking enrollment in other in other districts and I included an advertisement from um one of our neighboring school districts. It was it's it's not from last year, but they were particularly seeking our students. Uh Antioch, San Leandro, also advertise inside of our borders for Oakland residents. Um and then private and homeschooling options. We'll talk more about this at a data level later on. Um just to further kind of set context, the enrollment department, which I lead, has three teams. There is the preschool enrollment department, which is uh located both at Lake View and at uh our our centers. Uh enrolls preschool students. The student welcome center enrolls TK12 students and and provides support to families and the enrollment marketing team uh implements board policy 5115 and it's particularly their work tonight that that I'm going to present. What I've shared with you here is the 2627 FTE for each of those departments um the change in that FTE over three years as well. So for the enrollment marketing team, the three-year change has been four and a half positions um lost to funding

restrictions and then a projection in 2627 for no FTE on that team. So just some further enrollment numbers to ground us. Um we are seeing enrollment increases. We are district officially increased its enrollment this year for the first time since 1718. When you look at this chart and you break it by grades span, you see that the elementary um band is one of our healthiest, which is good. You want to grow from the youngest kids up. That's your base. Um although all of these numbers are based on census day enrollment. That's the official enrollment captured on the first week of October. I've also included some very recent enrollment numbers from when I was preparing this pro presentation because I think it's helpful to note that even after census day we've seen an increase in elementary grades um a modest two student increase in middle school but to be but um of ongoing concern we've actually seen a decline in high school that is very significant it's largely driven by um the absence of the newcomer population we're expected to or we've become expected to see enroll, but not exclusive to just those that population. Um, but we see a 5-year change of 1.66% to the negative, but a one-year change of of modestly growing. When we look at TK, which is often something we talk a lot about, um, our five-year change in TK enrollment is 142%. That's a lot. Um, and then a 14% growth uh, year-over-year. Um, I think it's helpful to just name in this context that we enroll more TK students than any school in Alama County. Um, and we enroll something on average of six or seven times more TK students than neighboring school districts like uh Berkeley Unified or Alama Unified. We're not six times bigger than those schools. We are investing in the strategy and we are responding to uh what families are

saying they want and we continue to need to address appropriate TK facilities and spaces aligned with family choice if we want to not stagnate and that's hub models early childhood centers etc. Okay, the enrollment stabiliz the enrollment marketing team, the enrollment stabilization work is driven around three big strategies. I shared these last uh time when I was here. So, I'm updating this a little bit. The first uh we say fostering an attitude of yes. Um I don't believe this was the attitude that we started with prior to uh my time here. Enrollment can be a gatekeeping tool that some districts deploy. Um, enrollment can have arbitrary barriers and enrollment could also be driven around white, middle class, tech literate, English dominant values. And for us to really serve our community, we have to challenge ourselves to center a different type of family in our decision-making, our policies, and the way we implement those policies. So when we talk about an attitude of yes, we think about our um primary user of these services, not as someone who's taking a break from their work from home job and their nicely appointed den to hop on their fancy fast laptop and get going, but rather someone who's like, I don't know what to do and but I need but I think I need to sign my kid up for nth grade, right? Right? And so, how do we reach those families and how do we organize ourselves around those? And how do we do things like take other documentation that's valid and appropriate besides a birth certificate because not everyone's walking around with a birth certificate. Not everyone was born in a country where those were common, right? Um, and so a lot of that is our enrollment tool and continuing to make it better and continuing to take feedback from users, from the community on h on how to improve it, which we've done every single year and brought improvements to that. Um the big headline this year has been the after-school program application inclusions. Families are getting after

school program offers now, right? That used to happen, not now, like July, June, maybe May, maybe August, right? And it's happening now. And that's a huge growth, right? It's not perfect. It was year one. I've gotten, I assure you, I've gotten feedback from the community that we're thinking about for next year. We'll continue to do that because that's just how we're trying to orient ourselves. Um, I think also just just naming the amount of just crossraining and communication, thinking about who is every job class that's that might encounter a family who says, "Help me enroll." And making sure they both have access to that information, access to me, and access to ways to get their questions answered. Because in our district, that's not just the community school manager. In some places, it's also the school counselor, but it's not just the school counselor. in other places it's the community relations assistant bilingual too who's in the office who's helping someone enroll right and so we have to make sure that all those folks have access to the system know how to use it and don't send a parent somewhere else when they're getting that one moment of facetime saying I need to sign my kid up right so that's been a big investment in my time and our team's time to make sure we're there for folks in that way um those are our satellite offices which we talked about Lake View is not particularly great with getting to from public transportation. It's not located in a in a population center. And so we're in four locations, uh, Elmherst, Havens Court, Urban Promise, and, uh, the Marcus Foster building to also provide additional supports to families so they can access our our services. I also point out that th those areas were also places where we've seen charter school families based on geography coming back into our district. And if we have a satellite office in those places, we're facilitating that move and making it easier for folks. Um, one of our big data points on the success of this is that our applications continue to go up. That every year for

the last four years, we have more applications than the year before. Um, when I presented this presentations, we are 422 applications ahead of last year's pace and that was 872 applications ahead of the year before. An application is not enrollment, but if they're not applying, they're not getting in. So we have to continue to grow those. Um and we have growth not just in TK but also in sixth grade applications. In nth grade we had the highest percentage in moment recorded data of the of the percentage of fifth and eighth graders applying on time um in our system this year. And that also is an equity data point, right? Because it means that a greater representative proportion of our district is applying on time and is having access to all of the schools in the district, right? not just those that have space in June, August, etc. Um, this is an older uh uh data point because we haven't had updated opportunities on the on the services to schools, but I think it's really telling and really important that the folks who use our systems, the principles, the central office folks say that they're getting a better product and they're getting better service year-over-year. Um, I want to go to strategy two, increase visibility and brand awareness. This is about positioning this school district in the forefront of the consciousness of our city and of our parents and not shrinking or backing away or feeling bad because we had a bad thing happen, but unapologetically saying OD should be the first thought for education for every parent in this district because because we've earned it and because families will be well served, right? Um we do things better than everyone else and we need to tell those stories. We can't wait for the media to to find us and say, "Oh, that was really nice." Because it won't happen. Um, they will. That's not how media works and that's not how the negativity bias in our brains work. We know that families are also making choices based on the types of schools that are talked about in their social group and we can affect what's talked

about, right? And there are some communities where OSD is not considered a viable option. when you make it a viable option, you fade accomply bootstrap yourself into that conversation and have folks start considering you in a different way. We talk about some schools that are like pre-our. You have to get them to a point where people are like, I'd like to learn more. That does, we don't start there, right? And so this is part of what we do. And so that's about um you know, broadly advertising all of our enrollment deadlines and timelines, digital advertising, print, billboards people see a lot at. It also means tableabling at city events. So, at at Pride, at Black Joy, at the Laurel Street Fair, um we're trying to make sure we're in um the event that the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce puts on this coming year, right? So that we're there and people are seeing our district and they're seeing um our logos and they're like, "Yes, Oakland Unified is part of the fabric of when people are out and about in the city, right? Out and about in the town." Um there's also social media. That's where people live their lives. our three social media brands, Town Sprouts for Elementary, Oak in the Middle and the Link, telling the stories of schools in really simple and compelling ways, whether that's, you know, interviewing high school graduates and saying, "Where you going to college?" That's we have TK Tuesdays that we show off um our amazing TK teachers showing Oakland um goes outdoors. one of our um enrollment marketing team leaders was with went to an OGO event with a with a um Bret Hart Middle School and just like got all the great experiences of kids being in the outdoors sometimes, you know, that type of context for the first time. It's really important to tell those stories, right? Um

Killian, I'm going to remind you you're about 20 minutes now. I'm at 20 minutes. Yeah. Really? Yeah. That's insane. I love your excitement. All right. Well, let's keep going. I'm going to go faster. Um

you got about two more minutes. Yeah, let's do it. Um, this was for this was a specific this was always going to be part of this presentation, but it was a specific request for director Hutchinson from Director Hutchinson showing how we're doing relative to other groups, other systems. Um, and so I think just what I want to highlight is even though the total number of school age children in Oakland by enrollment has shrunk by 4,000 kids, we've picked up market share, right? We've picked up um against those systems. Um, I'm not going to belabor this because I don't have time, but I just want to we did a brief analysis of what was the trajectory of our district's enrollment from the point of investment in enrollment stabilization and then where have we been now and then what is the what is the trajectory moving forward and showing pretty significant gaps um that there could be a difference of as much as 3,000 kids based on where we're heading and where we're now heading. if we, you know, understanding that TK expansion is part of that, if we excluded TK from that conversation, that gap is still big. Um, I'm going to briefly touch on focal schools. We focus on um a series of focus schools every single uh year and we provide uh enrollment assets to them, technical support on the back end, and adaptive support to leaders who are trying to think about how better to position their schools. um provided you a list of those schools um and a brief overview of just some of the assets that we provide. Building new flyers for teams, lawn signs to promote schools inside of their neighborhood attendance boundaries, magnets that get sent to families when they accept school offers at our focal schools. Um okay, appreciate the reminder on time. So, just some reflections moving forward. Um we are not funded for 2627. um we were modestly funded for this year and made up the difference with carryover and so the work that I've shared um is not

scheduled to continue and uh and we have no FTE allocated. So there's both the the kind of hard dollars that we use to advertise and buy things for schools that is there that is uh we don't have a plan to continue that and the two staff members who own this work and lead it um have received March 15th notices. Um so that means that the enrollment focal school work would be ending. The PLC's we run for sites to do their own internet and websites would be ending. Social media promotion outreach would be over. uh our advertising would be done and then we would have a just kind of a reduced capacity to respond to schools and and especially when they're trying to do thought partnership and strategic planning. Um we would also um just just some reflections and next steps to wrap this and I'm happy to take questions. Um we do believe this work was was successful on key metrics but as stated we don't have funding and that's uh that feels unfortunate. Um, we also had a challenge where our overall impact continued to be lessened because we couldn't get the right job descriptions brought online for what was essentially new work. And so when this board in the future authorizes new work, I would just really urge you to ensure that that is coming with the necessary job descriptions to do that work and not reusing what was available or convenient or not. Uh there was no no FT in it um because that would hampered us from the start and we were never able to bring change. Um, we have a pending contract for FM3 to do public interest polling as we just as we look forward and uh both both to support bond initiatives. Our partners with OCI would have asked for a question to be in there and then continue to do kind of progress um like time one time two on how we're doing with some of with uh the Oakland community. Um and then as we do our we do our last we implement our revised strategic plan. uh the department will

be reconceived as an operational department not a strategic one because of lack of capacity. Uh we need to communicate those changes to school teams and leaders and then provide them with as much of a DIY kit as we can give them because we can't we won't be able to carry that. Um just and then that vein I just want to thank the two members of the enrollment marketing team for their work. uh Jane Liao who is a uh alumnest of of Oakan Unified and and Bobby Jordan who's both an OD parent uh and the partner of a longtime OD staff member done really great work and I've gave you lots of great stuff in the appendix so feel free to check it out as your time goes and I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. Are there any board comments?

Go ahead, Director Tom.

I'll make it real quick. It's not a question. It's just uh an appreciation for what you've presented and I espe I especially um focused in on strategy one when um when I see we facilitate things and make it easier for parents to have access and then I I'm thinking about my own school now and I'm thinking about how when kids enroll in school or parents enroll their kids in school they want many parents want to have a summer school placement for their kids. And so seeing that, you know, your vision pushed it so far to actually say, "Okay, when when when a person does this, this happens." So I just want to appreciate that because it really I mean, it really meant a lot to me to hear that because I see it every single day. I mean, parents want to put their kids in summer school and can't because it's all full and you're you're having both things happen at the same time. So that's wonderful. Thank you.

I just wanted to point out what you mentioned at the end, reflections and next steps. I already told my colleague here when I was looking at the report that I was concerned about the lack of investment. We all know what happened there, but I think it's concerning and I'm just wondering what the plan will be in the absence of that. I mean, I we'll try to package the things that we learned. Um we we have a a playbook that we've given schools. They prefer to say, "Can y'all do it?" And we usually say yes. Um we will then start having to say no to those things. And I I think there's just there's there's things you can do for free and then there's things that cost money. And I think um I can't I can't by myself lead an enrollment marketing team or lead this work. I I don't think it's appropriate to try or to promise something that can't be delivered on. Um and so I think those things will just stop. Um there's definitely like kind of a vision that's in our district um that that most of this was just TK expansion. And so we're kind of, and I don't mean this snarkly, we're kind of running that experiment and we're testing that hypothesis because we won't have the ability to do any to really do much else. Um, and it we're not going to stop having an attitude of yes and we're not going to stop serving families and we're not going to stop like caring about this stuff. But if but if we're not funded to do it, we we can't.

Dr. B. Oh, Director Williams, I'm sorry.

Sorry. Uh, yeah. Thank you for the presentation. Appreciate it. U you know I we've always we when we talk you know I do appreciate the work you've done in district three. Um and uh in a way this like u momentum builds it takes a moment before it really starts to get the fuel in the action and the action starts to move everything. So, I really would hate to see to say that we just ran out of gas so quickly, right? This is this enrollment project is a 10-year plan really, you know, because I mean, we have to look that far out in the future. Even the state has required city of Oakland to build another 20,000 units, right? So they're like everyone's positioning. Oh, we may have Costco in West Oakland. Oh, we may have Costco people flock over there,

you know. But there's, you know, the Mandela. Uh we have the Oakland Coliseum that, you know, uh, Brother Ray Bobin is working on, you know. So there's opportunities there over this next decade. Um, and it would just be so sad to see that we started and stopped because to start up again takes another three to five, six years, right? So, um, in my heart I'm worried. I I I think we've all on the board are really trying to reflect and uh really reflect on what our priorities are as a board. how how do where are we going to move to and where do we lift over these rocks to find whatever funds are there to really make some stuff happen right so I I thank you for taking the time out to talk to us to give us that energy uh that we need to continue to work together and move some forward and and thank you for the progress uh you know our schools I I can only speak for district three you know each school has increased their enrollment and I think sometimes the community looks for the negative stuff but these are positive things that are happening and it doesn't get like you said it doesn't get put out enough to our community to say hey look at your school in your neighborhood we got some fabulous things going on over here to just get them to consider

and basically okay oh 17 seconds left u

I didn't have a clock that was why I saw you should be on a clock Uh uh I can feel some energy coming this way from a yellow blouse over there. But uh but you know the thing about it is it actually h is happened in tandem. Preston is really invested in D3 and how the schools look nice. So parents are coming just to hang out, just to be in front of the school. So this draw that we're doing on multiple fronts is really showing itself. So I just want to thank you and and Preston as well. Thank you. Oh, you

um yeah, I um I think I just first and foremost want to thank you and I'll also echo um that Jane and Bobby are amazing and I you know I think it's always um very lovely to see like my kids my kids go to Prescott and so um he's like a star Jayen is when becomes um so I um you know I think just that work is really really so important um and I wonder you know I think when you know you kept things quite high level which I think is important and I have two questions for you I think the first question is you know if you think about like let's just say you know kind of that delta of 3,000 students or you know the difference in projections um one whether you've kind of cost sort of modeled out what that means for our annual operating budget as a district. Like what what does the investment in enrollment stabilization mean compared to what you know not investing in that work for what we actually net um or bring in as um revenue as a district. And my second question is there was you know the last time you came to the board you spoke specifically about some of the outreach into communities that don't normally get targeted. Like for example, the Eltempo stuff. I'm wondering if there are other things, you know, again, I think I love the magnets and the yard signs. Um I think but I'm wondering what are some of the other targeted outreach that will not happen. Um especially to groups that we um uh as you said like often are not really clear on how they enroll in school. So those are my two questions for you if you could answer them. Thanks.

Yep. I mean I think the very short answer to your first question is that if you take all of the money invested in enrollment stabilization and you use as a metric how did we do against the mathematical projections right which are it's math it's not someone's feelings and if anything they get pushed up by sentiment not down right so so you have a more aggressive projection and you look at the difference in in realized enrollment and therefore realized ADA today against those projections, enrollment stabilization funding has paid for itself at least twice over. Um, and so it's one of those investments that you could put you I mean it's very hard to put like a dollar ROI on like how did a reading intervention work because you're measuring learning. And here we're measuring to a certain extent butts and seats which turns into ADA. And and we can look at in the years immediately prior to enrollment stabilization those two years we missed our mathematical projections by 1,800 kids. And that means that at census day we're scrambling for dollars because you're saying I don't we didn't get enough kids. Since then we've exceeded it every single year by many hundreds of students.

And I would just add collapsing classrooms and making combo classes

that too, right? I mean there there's all these and then you have um staffing issues and things like that and during those times other districts were declining doubledigit percents in enrollment and we were like a percent and that also gave us a measure of stability relative to other districts that's really important right no one wants to have declining enrollment but if you have to going down less is better than more um I think to your other question some of like some of what like the eltempon is just an example I talked about last time I was here That partnership came about in part because we had the ability to respond to the opportunity, right? And so some of what I would say to you is like we don't always know where that next opportunity is going to come from, right? And we don't always know when we're going to get insight or or access or entree into a community that we haven't really reached yet. Um but when we have reduced capacity, we may not be able to maximize it in the same way, right? Um, I do continue to think that multilingual outreach is something that we need to grow and not shrink, right? It's something we think a lot about. Um, and we also have a portion of our community that it's not a sign. It's not even a wellrun well-run website. There needs to be a personal touch. And so that that's on tableabling, that's on outreach, that's being we've never we we've wanted but not been able to maximize like even like what is the enrollment street team look like and how do we target, you know what I mean? And so um those are all things that then just kind of get taken off the table

as always. Thank you.

One last comment. I just wanted to thank uh Killian. I do want to say to the board, I don't want to um after this wonderful report, I don't want everybody to leave on kind of like a downer in terms of where we are because um I feel that there's a lot of work we can do with the data, with the information, and with the strategies that Killian has. So, as we go out and talk to funders, like just this week, I you know, met with the Eatler Play group. We I'm meeting with a lot of different people who have seen what we've been able to do with facilities with the kind of structure that you've brought with enrollment stabilization. So having a strategy and recognizing the kinds of things that are going on in the community you mentioned all these these places all over the close you know as whether it's the black joy parade or the Chinese you know all these things uh places are places where people gather and connect and they share. So, I think understanding where we've been successful, where we've made a difference. I've even noticed and I have witnessed at the foster um leadership center enrollment happening where parents have come in and felt very comfortable because it was right in their neighborhood and there was somebody there that could do it right on the spot. I have observed that didn't take a lot in time. I've even seen people bring other people back after they were there with some friends. I've observed all of that. So all of the strategies that you've documented I think are are very exciting and in the past they've been kind of you knowtic all over the place but you there's a strategy and there's a focus. So even with our deficit even with the challenges there's a plan to implement so that when we talk to people we can say this is how you can help us here this is how you can help us there. this is how so I don't want people to leave

feeling like okay we're done no we are clear about what's working and how we can discuss with other people who want to support us um bring back a lot of thing and I've seen over the years I've seen people do things so I've I know what you're talking about I've seen I mean I'm driving around the city all the time I'm talking to lots of people so I just want our board to know that we have to stay focused as we develop the budget, as we think about ways that we can implement different aspects of this. Maybe not in the same way, but we're we're we can target exactly what the needs are with people who say, "How can I help?" And that happens a lot. Um, this district has raised over hund00 million dollars annually around people who want to help us, but being clear about what we need and what we want and when it's needed is really helpful. So having this structure in place around what actually works is powerful. So I just want to kind of leave with that, you know, leaving on an up note that you've brought the clarity around what's working and what the right direction is that we want to go. Now we have to figure out how to fund it.

Thank you. Thank you. Is there any public comment on this item? Yes. With Aalo Loala. She is not here. That conclude public speakers. Great. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to extend time to 11:45 if need be. Second. Roll call on the vote.

Okay. On the roll call to extend the um meeting time tonight to 11:45. Is that what I heard? Uh student directors are absent. Director Lauder. Yes. Director Williams, yes, sir. Director Hutchinson, absent. Director Barry, yes. Director Thompson, yes. Vice President Bachelor, yes. And President Brohart, yes. Motion's adopted, time is extended.

The next item on the agenda is our legislative platform and um recommended legislation. Um I want to preface this for just a short minute here. Um, Oakland Unified Schools uh serve as centers of learning, joy, and community for our students, staff, and family. In all our work, including legislative advocacy, our goal remains clear to ensure that all 34,000 OSD students graduate ready for college, career, and community. Our legislative platform is guided by our four key priorities. Ensuring strong readers by third grade, supporting empowered graduates, creating safe and joyful schools, and growing a diverse and stable workforce. The legislative bills we will discuss tonight are aligned with these priorities. Three of these bills reviewed by the ad hoc legislative committee, including Director Barry and myself, were moved to the teaching and learning committee for further consideration. The teaching and learning committee met last night and is recommending a watch position on all three of these bills. AB20 2225 closing the achievement gaps gap state operations and support plan introduced by Assembly Member Patel. AB 2514, the state of the achievement gap, introduced by Assembly Member Ransom, and AB1750, school employees absences due to illness or AC accident, introduced by Assembly Member Colossa. The ad hoc legislative committee also recommended an opposed position on SB 1067, pupil instruction math, introduced by state senator Weber Pearson. This recommendation is based on concerns that there are currently no reliable vetted math screening tools capable of accurately identifying math disabilities. We look forward to discussing these bills and determining how they align with our priorities and support the success of our students and staff. Um I need to we'll now I'll turn this over in a minute to Leilani um Auanado. I hope I pronounced it correctly and Megan Byer from school services. Is there a motion to adopt the

legislative I'd like to take the um sorry uh T1 and T sorry T2 and T3 together. Um is there a motion to adopt? I'll make a motion to adopt T26-0991 and T326-106 um to be taken together but uh recorded separately. Second. Second.

Good evening, Leilani on behalf of School Services of California here to support the work of the board and to answer any questions. I think you have the list of bills in front of you. Thank you for that summary. And Megan is available via Zoom. Um, and both of us are here to answer any questions that anyone may have about the legislation and the recommended actions. My goodness. Okay, go ahead.

I just want to make one comment on the platform related to school finance. the uh way that the platform is structured I think is appropriately focused on like um school finance literally the LCAP LCFF and I think at there are other uh revenue uh legislation actions being explored and running through the legislature that I think shape our ability to serve students and families ranging from like what's happening on the medical front to you know what could happen in terms of helping to ensure that our parents and caregivers can afford um basic needs living here in Oakland. And so I think um in future conversations when we convene as a board to track legislation and even in our meetings I think it would be um helpful to have conversations about some of those other it's not school finance per se but I think it shapes um and affects our ability to do what we have to do as a school district on the fiscal front.

I agree. There any other questions? My goodness. Well, easy. I guess Mr. Oh, public comment for public we have Labala. I don't think she's is here. Okay. Uh Mr. Rickstar, can we have a roll call? On the roll call uh to consider uh considering T2 and T3 together uh will be recorded separately. Uh student directors are absent. Director uh Barry. Yes. Director Lauder. Yes.

Director Hutchinson is absent. Director Williams. Yes, sir. Um Director Thompson. Yes. Vice President Bachelor. Yes. And President Brohart? Yes. Motions adopted. All right. Uh, next is uh T4 and I'd like to make a motion to move T4 and T5 together um but recorded separately. Is there a second to that motion? Second. Wonderful. Is there any staff presentation or discussion from staff around this superintendent? No.

No. Okay. Um board colleagues, any questions or comments about T4 and T5? Okay. Public comment on these two items? I have Loala. Don't see her. Does she have her hand raised? No. That concludes public speaker. Okay. All right. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this item. All right. Uh directors are absent. Uh Director Lauder. Yes. Director Thompson. Yes. Director Williams. Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson is absent. Director Barry, yes. Vice President Bachelor, yes. and President Bhard.

Yes. Okay. Motion's adopted. Um the next item on the agenda is

Oh, I don't have anything board. Actually, I do. Um just a short one. I think um some of us attended the Martin Luther King oral fest at um speakers at Skyline and it was very moving and they had a picture thing at the end where all the kids were taking pictures. But there was one um young man in particular who was you like third grade or fourth grade I think who just gave a speech that stopped all of us. I mean it was he this student had his name was August and um he had such presence on the sta I mean on the stage his he just captivated this whole auditorium. So again, I think this is really the power of um when we do more than just teach writing and speaking, but we teach that power of of oratory. And um you could really tell from the students again that they really and it's a different skill than public speaking. It's it's you know really from the heart and it it really is a motivational kind of thing. So um I I was really pleased to be able to attend that. Um, yeah, that's it. Uh, board reports.

Director Thompson.

Yeah, I'll make this real quick. Um, I had the opportunity to visit Faith and Action illegal dumping and I immediately thought about how the illegal dumping sort of affects our school. Every single one of us, you know, we sort of have a problem there. And just seeing the work that they did, they incorporated individuals from the city. The mayor was there. Uh, a number of the city council persons were there. The director of um, whatever that department is that cleans up stuff, the public works. Yeah. Yeah. They were all there and and I I really thought about all of us and I said, "Wow, this is great that they're investing so much money and time into making this work because it's helping to facilitate easy access to the schools for our kids because I'm not sure if you guys have received it, but I received um all of these emails from parents, you know, about my some of my schools were sort of obstructed because or the path to the school was obstructed. it because there was garbage out there and people living out there and we know the kinds of things that happened. So that's all I want to report. I'm just really glad that they're doing something to help all of our schools.

Yeah, I just want to highlight a couple of events happening um for District One schools. The um one that's coming up very quickly is the um Oakland Tech production of Radium Girls. There's um uh three showings that um over the next couple of days. So, if you're interested, you can buy tickets and support um the student um actors. And also on Monday at 4 PM at Grand Lake is the Oakland International Film Festival. So, the um uh Zach Silverman, who's the lead of the media academy, um kind of worked with the students to pres produce their own films. Um the tickets are not very expensive. It's only $5 for students and alum and then 15 for adults. Um, and it's always a great um a great way to not just see the work that's being produced by students, but also get um you know more in insight into kind of what um kind of the perspective of our newcomer students.

Williams. All right. Director Barry,

just want to one formal request to have budget be on the agenda for the next budget and finance meeting and the next regular board meeting. Budget all the time. And my next office hours is on the 25th. That's this Saturday at 10:00 a.m. We can talk about the budget. We can talk about visioning for the future. I hope to see folks there. coffee on me. A morte. Um the next item is new agenda. Uh introduction of any new sorry any introduction of new legislation. All right with that we are adjourned.