OUSD Board Of Education

Good afternoon, and welcome to the April 22 Oakland Board of Education meeting. Mister Rakestar, 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 Pearlhard? Here. Warm present.

Thank you. And mister Hollis, can we have a interpretation check, please?

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 translation closed caption feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption feature on your Zoom taskbar. With that, 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 from mute and get the interpretation announcement for Cantonese.

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 mister Tarek if he can come off of mute and get the interpretation announcement for Arabic.

Mute original audio. Arabic announcement is over. Thank you.

Thank you, mister Turek. 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 language being announced, which at this time is Spanish. And I will ask mister Copenhagen if he can come off of mute and give the interpretation announcement for Spanish.

Yes. Thank you, mister Thank you, mister.

Thank you, mister Copenhagen. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Spanish interpretation. Seeing no hands, we will not start with any interpretation at this time. That concludes the first hello? That concludes the first interpretation announcement for this evening, and I'll pass it back to you, mister Rickstraw.

Madam president, the availability of translation services has been announcement of the availability has been completed.

Thank you. Tonight, in closed session, we will address the following items. Under labor matters, d one twenty five dash eighteen sixty four, conference with labor negotiators. D two, twenty six dash zero seven zero three, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D three twenty six zero seven three zero, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation.

D four twenty six dash zero eight zero zero one, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D five, '26 dash zero eight zero two, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D six twenty six dash zero nine two five, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. D seven twenty six dash zero nine two six, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D 826-0927, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation.

D nine twenty six dash zero nine four six, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. D ten twenty six dash zero nine four seven, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. D eleven, twenty six dash zero nine four eight, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. D twelve twenty six Dash zero nine five seven, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. Under public employment, item d thirteen twenty four dash one nine six seven, public employment superintendent of schools.

Under pupil matters, d fourteen twenty six dash zero seven zero five, expulsion student d TTD1526Dash0832, expulsion student u u. We will then reconvene to public session at 05:30PM. Mister Sechow, are there any public comments on closed session items?

Yes. We have 24 speakers.

I'm going to limit everyone to one minute each. We have a lot of speakers. We wanna be able to hear from everyone. 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 dais?

Yeah.

Okay. For students, we have Carter Smith, Gianni, Austin Aaron, Nova Day, John Jonathan Stewart, Chris Ramos, Maggie Bogard, Tia Johnson, and Sofia Gonzales. Those are the student speakers.

Thank you. And that would be one 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 school yard 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, 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 made me a helper, and I helped out the kindergartens. And she always know knows what what kids need. She doesn't always need Send. Send them to the office.

The She. She talks to them to help them. The thank you. Good job. Bye.

Pop down, my boy. Hi.

My name is Tia, and I go to Las Califa. I'm talking, 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 wanna wait? There you go.

My name is Latanya Lamagi Bogart, a fifth grade scholar at La Escovita 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 and kindergarten.

He knew that if he was feeling sour or if someone was bullying him, he can look for her. Miss Donna is part of the light that makes her school shine. She supports my friends and I when we went to listen and dance to music during recess. Miss Donna helps kids inside and outside. She makes sure 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 Sofia Gonzales, 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. I just wanna say miss Donna is a respectful woman. She always helps us out. She always does whatever what 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 buying things for us.

So I really appreciate that, and, yeah, thank you.

My name is Erin, and miss Donna's must stay. She helps us in a lot of ways. She bought us a lot of stuff outside, and I don't want her to I don't want her to stay because she the best. I

forgot my speech. Can I wait for it? Can I wait for now?

Alright. I believe that is all the students. Thank you.

Thank you. Excellent job, you guys.

Keep miss Donna. Thank you.

Next public speaker, please.

Next speaker, we have Tanya Kappner, Michelle Jeter, Kimberly Mayfield, Sabir Lockett, Jeremy McKent. Those are the next five speakers.

Is Tanya Kappner 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 Sojourner Truth Online Middle School here to speak, in defense of miss Donna Jackson's job at La Esqualeida and of all the excellent, teachers and SEIU and AFSM 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 Newsom 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 future, 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.

Thank you.

Next public speaker, please. Good

evening. My name is Michelle Jeter, and I'm with AFSCME. I want to say that I appreciate you guys letting miss Sadler stay and kinda 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. On the other side of that, we still have some unfinished business in food service still.

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 gonna cut the positions, that means they're not needed. So there shouldn't be anyone coming in to work in the 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, OUSD board members. I am doctor Kimberly Mayfield, and I speak to you today as a teacher educator and a education policy adviser for Black Women Organized for Political Action, otherwise known as BOWAPA. And we have nine chapters throughout the state, and definitely one in Oakland. And I'm asking you to vote to extend Superintendent Denise Sattler's contract for two years. In nine short months, she has accomplished more than some superintendents 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 doctor Sattler so she can continue the work that she started. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker.

Next five speakers are Jose Sanchez, Antoinette Blue, Dave David Padilla, Derek Broth, and Benjamin Cook Wujevic. Those are the next five speakers.

Hello. My name is Jose Sanchez. I'm a proud Oakland firefighter. Nearly 30,000 Oakland voters including city workers, firefighters, nurses, and community members placed measure e on the June 2 ballot. Measure e is specifically designed to maintain fire protection services and emergency response times, address homelessness by connecting unhoused folks with services and funding illegal dumping solutions.

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, measure e and join a wide coalition of elected officials, workers, and community organizations including mayor Barbara Lee, council members Zach Unger, Kevin Jenkins, Rowena Brown, Charlene Wong, Anjanani Ramachandran, the Stonewall Democratic Club, the Wellstone Democratic Club, Alameda County Democratic Club, Oakland Action Rising, EBACE, Alameda Labor Council, SEIU ten to one, IFPTE local twenty one, and my union, your Oakland firefighters local fifty five. Help us keep fire stations open and Oakland safe. Yes, Ani, please.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Good afternoon. My name is Antoinette 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 t ker. So just so that you know, I'm in it.

So when emergencies happen, every second counts. As a 911 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 Ponya, resident in District 6 and a parent and the husband of a teacher at Monterra Middle School. I'm just urging you all to vote today in support of the resolution to support measure e. I think that's how we build partnerships with the city and our other partners in the area. We wanna make sure that we stabilize and keep Oakland on the road to economic recovery 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. Next speaker.

Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Beshakukulaj with BCTC. We need to reverse all the layoffs, cuts in every union that is present in OASD. 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 the kids of Auckland.

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 OESD keep going. I wanna talk about BCTC. We are already in a bargaining. We have met few times.

There is no movement, minimal, even with the minimal monetary that we presented. We've supposed the extension for one year with the cost of living assessment ongoing for the year. I would like to see what's gonna happen. We present that to labor relations, and I'm hoping that's gonna be resolved pretty soon this meeting in this closed session. The safety is another thing that's happening to the district.

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 wanna support our interim superintendent, Sarah Sadler, in one way.

Yeah. She'll be 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. So far in that direction, that is where she's going. I give her my support in that beside.

I also support board in this in 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, is no departments that feel left out, that there is no cuts, that there is no student that feels left in the arc. So we can change this together, guys. Thank you so

much. Thank you.

Subir Lakin, if you can unmute yourself to speak. Subir Lockett? Alright.

Thank you. Thank you so much. I was coming off another meeting, but my name is Subir Lockett. I am a deputy director at EBACE and Espate Action. Good evening, board members, superintendents, and community.

Oakland residents have been clear. They want the city that works. A city that responds when 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 safety in our neighborhoods. Measure e is about stabilizing those systems. And for OUSD, that matters.

It really, really matters. Our schools do not exist in isolation. Every day, students 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, they show up still in our schools. It affects attendance, learning, and how overall well-being of our young people is achieved. We often talk about supporting the whole child, but supporting the whole child means investing in the whole community.

It means strong partnerships between OUSD 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 three 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 low income residents.

Supporting this resolution is not about 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. Next speaker.

Next speakers are Asolo Labala, Skyler Trent, Erin Simmons, Edrin Hogue, and Jasmine Fortis.

And I wanna remind everyone that it's a one minute limit tonight.

Alright. So my name is, Aaron Simmons, and I'm here to advocate for my son, Aaron Simmons. 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 Monterey Middle School, and we applied for him to attend Tech. That's actually the only Oakland school we would like for him to attend.

We do live in a different community, but we replaced, you know, he's like currently three seventy seven on a wait list. I thought I had the staff priority, but I am a consultant psychologist at the school. But right now, my son is doing really well. He's an honor roll student. He has friends in his community who he would like to continue to be in a similar environment as them.

And so if there's anything you guys can do to help them out so that he can attend Oakland Tech, that would be great. Thank you for your help.

Next speaker, please.

Hello. My name is Skyler Tran. I'm the STIP sub at La Esquilita. 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 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 Esqualeida. I'm also one of the alt reps, OEA reps at this school. I'm also a member of Eon Bam Caucus.

And I'm so proud to be here with La Esquelita and with miss Donna. 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.

She works with teachers to manage students that need breaks. She goes above and beyond. And what are what we are asking you for is a point three of one of the lowest paid workers in the district. Taking away her hours is not gonna balance your budget. It's not.

And we have not nobody has fought harder than this school. Nobody has fought Donner harder than 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.

Alright. Good afternoon. My name is Jasmine Fortes. I'm a fifth grade teacher here at LaSculita. I've been here for eight years, so I know the impact of miss Donna well.

Parents trust OUSD 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 it also has on learning. 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 pushed 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 in decisions that you make, and I hope that you rescind the decisions for cuts across the district and keep miss Donna at our school.

Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker please.

Yes. We're for Sala Lovalla.

Yeah.

There are several California education codes that you are in violation of. Education's code four eight two six zero states that a student missing more than thirty minutes of instruction without an excuse three times during the school year shall be classified as truant. You cannot take it upon yourself to change truant to chronic absenteeism. The other code is code 49073. Student data, which is 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. You also have the issue of measure e. Measure e is not a citizen's initiative.

Unions are not citizens considered citizens initiatives. That's individuals who live in residency in the city. Unions have a variety of residency. Oakland Police Department is 90% non Oakland resident. Fire Department is 35% nonresidents.

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, they try to call themselves a citizens initiative. You go right ahead and petition paid in this underhanded method.

Thank you. Do you need some assistance over there? Beshia, do you need assistance with the student? Okay. Alright.

Are there any other public speakers?

No. All registered speaker has been called.

Alright. Thank you. With that, we will go into closed session and reconvene at 05:30. Mister Eggstrach, 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 Pearlhard? Here. Form present and vice president Bachelor's just arrived.

And mister Hollis, can we have a interpretation check, please?

Yes, madam president. For tonight's meeting, we have three languages available for live interpretation. They are Cantonese, Arabic, Spanish. We also have a closed caption feature available on Zoom that you can use by clicking the closed caption feature on your closed 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. And I will ask, mister Yuan, if you can come off mute and give the interpretation announcement for Cantonese.

Announcement is done, mister Hollis.

Thank you, mister Yuen. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Cantonese interpretation. Seeing no hands on Zoom, 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 the 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 of mute and give the interpretation announcement for Arabic.

Arabic instruction is done.

Thank you, miss Abdi. Checking the attendees to see if there's any hands raised for Arabic interpretation. Seeing no hands on Zoom, no one in need in the room. 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 miss Walker Marquez if she can come up on mute and get the interpretation announcement for Spanish.

Yes. Of course.

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, no one approaching in the room. We will not have any interpretation at this time. That concludes the second, announcement for live interpretation, and, I will pass it back to you, madam president.

Thank you. Tonight in closed session, the board on item number d one twenty five dash one eight six four, conference with labor negotiators, the board did not take up this matter. On item d two, twenty six dash zero seven zero three, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board did not take up this matter. On item d three, twenty six dash zero seven three zero, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, the board did not take up this matter. On d four number 26 dash zero eight zero one, conference with legal counsel existing litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter.

Motion by vice president Batchelor, seconded by president Brohard, and vote of five to zero with two abstentions. On item d five, number 26 dash zero eight zero two, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by vice pen president Batchelor, seconded by president Brohard with Pat with a vote of five in favor and two abstentions. On item d six, number 26 dash zero nine two five, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, the board approved a settlement in this matter, motion by vice president Batchelor, second by president Brohard with a vote of five in favor and two abstentions. On item d seven, number 26 dash zero nine two six, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation.

The board did not take up this matter. On item d eight, number 26 dash zero nine two seven, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by vice president Batchelor, seconded by president Brohard. The vote in favor of four.

Two abstentions. On d nine, number 29 dash zero nine four six, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the board did not take up this matter. And item d 10 number 28 dash zero nine four seven, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by president Brohard, seconded by director Lotta.

Vote in favor. Five. Two abstentions. On item d 11 number 26 dash zero nine four eight, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by president Burhard, second by director Lotta.

A vote in favor, five with two abstentions. On item d 12 number 26 dash zero nine five seven, conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation. The board approved a settlement in this matter. Motion by president Burhardt, second by director Lotta. Vote of five in favor with two abstentions.

Under public employment matters on item d 13 number 24 dash one nine six seven, superintendent of schools, the board provided direction on this matter. Motion by president Brohard, second by vice president Batchelor. 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 d 14 through d 15, 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 04/22/2026 closed session report out.

President Brohard, point of clarification. I'd really like a ruling from general counsel, Lindsey on d 13. I don't think, 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 the district and a cessation of that work, which is not something that's privileged or should be discussed in closed 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 closed session.

General counsel, can you give a ruling on that?

Sure. President ProHeart and, director Hutchinson, thank you for the question. So on, the item d 13, direction was provided but no final action was taken. With regard to the the superintendent search or the public, employment of the superintendent, those matters have to be final action in open session. Thank So

general counsel Lance Lindsay, is something being stopped? I think that would be 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 Hutchinson. President Hutchinson on that.

President Brewhart, 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 pull item j two, which is our classified employees of the year, postpone that until May 13. And I would like to withdraw s two and s three until, May 13. Are there any others?

Director Hutchinson.

Yes. Thank you. And I I do wanna say under modifications, I'm extremely disappointed that there's no mention of the letter we just got from the county superintendent, 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 agendized that item. And it's really disappointing that that didn't happen in this case.

In terms of the consent report, I would like to pull o 76, o 77, o 78, o 82, and o 83. Thank you.

Do you mind saying those again?

7677, 78, 82, and 83.

Thank you. Are there any other modifications to the agenda? K. With that, is there a motion to adopt the, pupil consent? So moved.

Second. And is there public comment on the on the pupil consent?

Yes. We have Sheila Haynes and Asolo Labala.

K. Two minutes each. I'm sorry. People discipline.

January 6, a b 12:30 sponsored by, Banta went into effect. It's called the, 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 student's behavior, that led to the expulsion, reviews educational options that the students can be, 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, their behavior, and that's not me saying it. That's the law of California, a b twelve thirty. And I hope somebody has the ability to determine if this is happening and make it happen if it's not.

President Brujah, that concludes public speakers.

Can we go have a roll call and a vote, please?

On the motion to adopt the pupil discipline consent report, student directors are accused. Director Lotta?

Yes.

Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson? Abstain. Director Barry?

Yes.

Director Thompson? No. Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

President Burghardt? Yes. Motion's adopted. Okay.

By our student directors to go first. I know that they're in finals and need to study hard. Is that okay with with the board? So then we'll do k, student report, and then we'll do j, special orders of the day, 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 gonna go into ACC updates, and then we are gonna talk about some upcoming events.

So first off, we wanna give a large congratulations to OUSD's very own Shane Award 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, Shana. She's a senior, and we just hope to hear more about your achievements.

This is stuff that we wanna see. Following that, we would like to highlight Lena Nijin, who spoke at Oakland's homecoming rally for two time Olympic gold medalist, Alyssa Lu. 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 wanna say, it matters. So please speak up. Moving on to GSA day. It's a OUSD 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 wanna give a good shout out to the health and wellness team for putting together a very safe, supportive, and fun conference for the OUSD 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 gonna give you some updates on that.

So every year, we have our middle school ethnic studies conference for all middle schoolers. It was March 6 at the Northeastern University, and during this 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 wanna 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 volunteer. Yes.

Give a round of applause to yourself and your community. Here are some pictures from middle school ethnic studies conference. And lastly, 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, 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. First, my apologies to you. It was it was my ask that we went first, so I apologize for that. But I had somewhere to be. I'm so sorry.

And also, I haven't been up here in a while. I had to take a a leave for myself to get things right, so it's good to be back. But coming up, All City Council, we have our youth action summit. The youth action summit is a place where we're calling OUSD high schoolers to get together to talk about problems that's going on inside of their inside of their school sites. These we lead them through a lot of community builders, 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 district leadership and students. So we have multiple roles, president, vice president, culture and climate director, two student directors, two LCAP directors, secretary, health and wellness director, historian, 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. If you have a student, if you have a daughter, if you have a son, a niece and nephew who would like to run who you think would be good for one of these positions or you or who you like to see sit up here with 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 gonna be available to run, 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, know, experience something now. The seal of civic engagement, the deadline extension for students has been to Thursday, April 23 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 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. Is there a g there's a GPA requirement, three point o? The the GPA requirement for the seal is a three point o 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, the extension has been set to April 23. Events.

Oh, I yeah. Could talk about it. So the school district and the school board I mean, the city and the school board has a education partnership committee. 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. We had a meeting on the thirteenth, I believe.

It was it was okay. I my personal opinion, 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. 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 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 wanna urge the board to try to get more engagement going with the committee.

I know that our last meeting was, like, in September, I wanna 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. This is a camping trip, meaningful student engagement, one night summer camping trip, separate dates for middle and high school grades. It is at the Tilden Regional Park. I've never been to the Tilden Regional Park, 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, know, outside with some other kids, 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 and very necessary. So if you have a middle schooler specifically, I would urge you to 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 kinda wanna make that decision, you know what I mean. So OUSDRJ Day, April 29.

This is going on at Edna Brewer Middle School. Is oh, this is this is all schools. This is Ed I know Edna Brewer has their RJ day. I'm pretty sure Edna Brewer is this is all schools, but Edna Brewer is I'm sorry. I'm I'm Edna Brewer is my alma mater and I'm very biased.

And I know RJ a lot of stuff that comes from RJ comes out of Edna Brewer and that's including myself. So Edna Brewer definitely leads leads the RJ day. I was talking to her with their, RJ facilitator, mister Gibson. But RJ day for OUSD, I'm a real big RJ advocate. So send your send your student to school this day.

Send your student to school this day. All across the district there'll be RJ circles held in classrooms. What is RJ? Restorative justice is a practice that we practice inside OUSD. It is a practice of coming together as a practice of community.

A lot of our principles within OUSD are built off of restorative justice that's why we need to refund them. But a lot of our practices within OUSD are built off of restorative justice. If you've ever seen if you may not have ever seen a restorative justice circle, but it is a 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 could come, people can connect, people can grow, people can get together. So RJ day is real good. Please send your student to school on RJ day. You know, I think this is gonna be a real good day of community.

I I'm definitely gonna go to school on RJ day. Is there a video here? There's no video? So there is a video. Mayor Barboli's youth advisory council which I chair has an initiative called Help a Out where we're putting essential classroom supplies in there is a video.

Don't play it yet. Mayor Barboli's youth advisory council, we have an initiative called Help A Teach Out where we've been supplying OUSD teacher classrooms with essential classroom supplies all year long. We're on to our sixth school now which is Rosedale which is Rosedale continuation school. Whose district? We so this month, we're donated to Rosedale commute continuation school.

We hold fun free events every month. We do fun fundraise, 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. If you have and if you and if you're willing, then, you know, by all means, I'm gonna 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. But we do maybe two to three events a month. 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 $1,400 to Oakland International in March and $1,250 to Global Family Elementary in January. All of the schools we pick are under resourced and in low end 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 video. We're gonna move on.

But I just wanna 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 like what I just said. If you guys like what I just said and you would like to donate and you like to contribute to Help a Teach Out, 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 and I believe that that concludes our report. Thank you.

Is there a public comment on this

item? Yes. We have Sheila Haynes and Osado Labala.

Okay. Two minutes each.

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 OUSD 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 o u s d 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 asked 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 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 gotta follow-up 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 wanna 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. Miss Haynes?

I I do not see her hands raised at the moment.

Board directors? Vice president Bachelor?

Thank you. As always, really appreciate y'all's report and also the fact that you guys are at Redsdale supporting our students there as well. The flyer that was included there didn't have specifically the Redsdale campus named. So if there's a document like that that I could share with our with my community so that we can make sure that we get the resources donated, that would be really great. I also wanna highlight a couple of other events that are happening in May to celebrate our students.

The annual Arab American Swana honor roll is happening on May 2. I'm really excited about attending. Honoring our own, which is a celebration of our staff that have done amazing work, is happening on May 6. I see a former honoree in our attendance today. The OUSD STEM Fair is also on May 6, and that I believe is gonna be at the Coliseum, if I'm not mistaken.

Then Oak is gonna have a kaboom days, which is May where they're gonna be revamping the kind of playground area of that campus. Can't wait for that. The custodial and grounds fourteenth annual equity and all student scholarship award ceremony is gonna happen on May 9. The twenty fifth annual Oscar Wright African American honor roll is also gonna be happening on May 12. The Oaktown leaders youth apprenticeship program is gonna be happening on the twelfth as well.

And then I'm sorry. So gender truth graduation is on May 29 twenty eighth, and then the CCPA graduation is gonna be on the twenty ninth. 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. I also want to talk about a joint Brewer and Oakland High family night, is this Saturday night at Brewer. Again, 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. Thank you. First, director Simmons, it's good to see you back here again, and I'm available anytime if needed. Just keep that in mind. And I really wanted to check with you all.

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. 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 because that decision was just made, and that's the decision that I wanted to be announced here, but it still hasn't. And, it's ironic that it comes almost on the one year anniversary of when doctor Kyla Johnson Trammell was forced out as our superintendent. But you all should be aware. Please find the information, and please make sure the students know because it's really important that we have students included in these decisions around the superintendent and our finances, 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, as people are delaying these important decisions that should be made. So thank you.

Thank you, director Hutchinson. Next on the agenda, we continue with our student work, and I believe this is item j, special orders of the day. This is, Oakland Youth Vote Coalition, the evaluation report and lessons learned.

Hello, everyone. Thank you for your time today. Oh, perfect. Yeah. 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, 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 of Student Union, APAL, California's 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 eleventh grade, and I'm with Oakland Kids First.

My

name is Koi. I'm a junior at Oakland High School, and I'm a part of APOL.

My name is Mi. 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 twelfth grader, and I'm with Oakland Kids First.

Hi, everyone. My name is Inara. I'm an eleventh grader at Skyline, and I'm All City Council's vice president.

For an overview of our presentation, we're gonna start off with history of youth vote, moving on to introduction to report, and we'll also be sharing three key recommendation and takeaways. Lastly, sorry. And we will 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 QQ. 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, Lacey versus San Francisco, the court upheld the city's authority under home rule powers, meaning a city charter can determine how to expand their own municipal electorates, including school board elections. Congressional our constitutional language for voter eligibility is a floor rather than a ceiling. Voter rights can be expanded.

If you like to know more about the legal precedence 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 Lori Schellenberger, a voting rights and election reform strategist to interview students, teachers, city leaders, coalition members, county leaders, etcetera. This report synthesizes our reflections to make recommendations for improvements to the youth voting system in Alameda 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. In the next couple of slides, we will be sharing some of our key takeaways and recommendations for educational officials like yourself. Please note that the full report has takeaways and recommendations for various bodies such as government officials, election officials, funders, etcetera. And these are our takeaways for you all.

So on page 28, our first takeaway is in class civic engagement curriculum combined with discussions and preregistration 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 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, OUSD's superintendent didn't create a comprehensive plan to support youth voting as directed by a school board resolution, which means schools didn't have sufficient direction or accountability. We recommend the school board should direct OESD'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, embedded, 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 Oakland Unified School District and the registrar of voters to promote preregistration and voting. We recommend that school districts should work with election officials to promote voting including incorporating voter preregistration of youth voters in the school registration slash 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 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, fight fighting for the U vote helped me have an impact even though as a noncitizen, 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.

We are asking OUSDs to implement these best practices in accordance with resolution two one two two zero zero eight nine, supporting the implementations of Measure QQ in high schools. Pertaining to voter education in classes, in studying and observing how we might best go about this, our findings indicate that this can best be accomplished through teaching civic engagement in eleventh grade US history and twelfth 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 insignificant, inclusive of undocumented and illegible youth voters and their political power, information on local candidates for the OUSD school board, logistical information on where and how to vote for the first time, especially for voters who lack prior knowledge of the voting system, so mail in ballot boxes, ranked choice, etcetera. 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 semi annual professional development training for teachers and staff on Oakland Youth Vote using OIV curriculum resources and explaining how to register students.

Second is preregistration. Our finding indicate that this can be best accomplished through first, create an opt out system instead of instead of an opt in system. Student can choose not to register, but the time and resources are so devoted to every single student. IE 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 tabling during lunch.

We also find that paper registration are much more accessible to use rather than electronic registration. Each student is also gonna 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 parts from supporting nonpartisan organizations such as Leagues of Women Voters, register her, register our voters, etcetera.

And finally, for outreach, our findings indicate that this can be best accomplished through using communication channels such as ParentSquare, Minga, newsletters, social media, etcetera, to inform eligible students about voter registration, voter logistics, like where to vote and how to vote. We can also host candidate forums in specific districts that have school board seats that are up for election. They could be held at the conference 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. Are there any questions?

I actually do have a question if I could answer. So I did look at the curriculum that was on your website, and it looks really good. Is that widely known to teachers? Or I think it's already there, so it's like, why not use it? I mean, without really making your own.

So I'm just curious if you know of teachers who are actually accessing them.

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 in two different classes on my school site. And I know through some work with ACC that a a couple other school sites of bigger school sites like Fremont and Ohio did did that as well. 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 question as well. I just wanted to, first of all, thank the students for their report. I think it's excellent, and I 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, has the group been working with the NAACP, which has a special program they just did, a photo registration training with students at McClyman's last week.

So I was wondering if you're working with 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 that started last week. So I think that's a suggestion I can share with you. Thanks.

Yes. I just wanna 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. 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. 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. We did have over 30 OUSD teachers 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 get the curriculum out.

We just relaunched it like two weeks ago, and it's been distributed from us over email, but also OEA sent it out as well.

Vice President Bantle?

Yeah, I'd like to thank you for the presentation and the learnings. I think it's all Whenever you have an initiative, it's really helpful to like think about what could we have done differently next time so that you can continue to like roll it out and make it stronger. I just also wanna appreciate the candidate forums. As a candidate who who was a part of one of the forums, 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.

Also had a great time watching the other candidate forum that happened last time 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 is gonna help us keep our democracy that we have moving forward. So thank you so much for the work, and you guys are real game changers here in California.

Yeah. I don't wanna 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 policy making 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, which is chaired by director Williams or if it's the committee, the legislation policy committee that president Brohard and I sit on. But I think in one or both of those spaces, should connect to figure out how we can work plan this to make it happen.

Thank you. Oops. I'm sorry. Director Williams.

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 and, like, you know, US history, government, you know, as well, even ethnic studies.

The essence that, Oakland youth are moving on this from 2020 today is 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 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, as this next election's coming up, there's gonna be some shenanigans, some crazy stuff popping off. And so it's just really that you've already kinda 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 wanna thank you very much for the work you're doing, the the In twenty, fifty 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? Alright. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation and the reminder to teach this.

Next on the agenda, we have Pisac.

Hello. Thank you.

I'm sorry. I oh, you're I didn't. Sorry, PSEC. Is there a public comment on student, presentation? I got carried away with finding ballot boxes at high schools.

Yes. We have Sheila Haynes, Asado Bala, and Patricia Arabia.

Okay. Let's take the in person speakers first and two minutes.

So in May, I'll be 81 years old. I'm old school. And I I was in the Catholic church, and we had guidelines about going to confession, don't meet eat meat on Friday, which you had to do during certain periods. Now everybody do what the hell they wanna 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 all we don't that that don't make no difference. We're do what we wanna do. So in order to do that, you had to have a registration process. The voter 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 preregister 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 Secure which 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 the partnership meeting. But anyway, y'all carry on with this stuff. This is not gonna 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 gonna have a lot of trouble.

Next speaker, please.

Hi. I'm Patricia Arabia. I taught for twenty 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. I, as the League of Women Voters, I also put my slide decks and my notetakers on our website. They're available to anybody.

Alright. 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, 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 ID, and they get 30. We get 30 registrations. Alright. 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 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.

Alright? And give them the support. Ask them if they're doing it and support them.

Sheila Haynes. Sheila Haynes. Haynes, if you can unmute yourself to speak.

Hi. Can you hear me?

Yes. We can.

Okay. Thank you. I just wanted to, just thank you for the student report, and I like I really love seeing the, RJ circles and the ongoing violence prevention type, events that are continuing to happen along with the upcoming event for RJ Day on April 29. And I just don't want it to get lost about funding sources for, the arts and music, services to also help keep students in a joyful space along with the hate speech, because there continues to be, violence that's happening as a result of verbal altercations. I also wanted to just speak on the process of students being able to vote.

I think it's a great thing that our students be able to, 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, ask the students to continue to uplift each other. 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, 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. I believe this is the last item under Jay so we will move on to L which is the PSAC report. Come on up.

Thank you and thank you for the good timing. So, just a note that, you have a packet and you're advancing to like the sixth page of the packet which is Foster Youth Advisory Committee. They need to go first for obvious reasons.

That's okay. To page six.

Advance the thing, but

it's not advanced.

It's it's okay. I can just read it.

Oh, here we go. Oh, okay. Perfect.

I am Patty Jurgens from the Foster Youth Advisory Committee.

Oh, sorry.

I'm Patty Jurgens from the Foster Youth Advisory Committee. Our March 24 meeting was canceled because we could not secure the participants that we needed for our dialogue. We had planned to discuss with the principles of elementary schools, 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 gonna have this, happen at our April 28 meeting next week. Next page. Some things that we wanna 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 OUSD would be most instrumental in supporting schools as they implement this policy? So again, join us at our next public meeting next, next week, Tuesday, April 28. Thank you.

Hi, everybody. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm Matt Glaser, lead delegate for the PSAC, and I'm here to give a report on our last public meeting. First part of this, we'll talk about our multistakeholder engagement process to reshape our district. We have a shorter name, the multistakeholder engagement group.

We are a group of volunteers representing the various stakeholder groups of OUSD with leadership from our advisory committees. In collaboration with the OUSD community, our goal is to shape how engagement and decision making should look to inform the future of the district. We had our first public engagement on March 31. It was great. Thanks to those of you on the board who were there, and we've actually gotten some great feedback from lots and lots of folks that were there.

The goals of the meeting were to know what the four phases of OUSD's financial stabilization plan are and what the goals of each phase are, and then to begin to identify the conditions for a successful phase four engagement process in collaboration with OUSD community members, and we're very much concerned with the stage four excuse me, phase four part of the engagement process. The strongest message that we got from our participants, and I think this will sound 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 wanna 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. Wednesday, April 29, that's next week.

This will be on Zoom. Actually, both of these the up the next two upcoming engagements are on Zoom. April 29 is more or less a reinforcement of what we did on the thirty first, hopefully, to a wider audience. Encouraging a lot of people to to stay tuned for that. And then on Wednesday, May 6, we're going to have breakout meetings that are in different languages to be as language accessible as as language accessible as possible, and that'll also be there.

And then on the on June 1, 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, questions, support, anything, We do have a web domain and a email address, engage@ousd-mseg.org. We will be launching an online platform for engagement and a website very soon, hopefully within the next week. Now I'd like to move on to the highlights from the April 15 meeting that were 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 Tiered 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, etcetera. 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 doing that work as we will no longer be having a central scheduler for 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 interprets oh, excuse me. I'm skipping around.

I wanted to go to five.

We did wanna we did talk about the impact of losing both centralized family engagement specialists and CSMs when it comes to supporting schools committees and relate and related engagement activities. There was concern that we will fully lose the ability to do this work. The extent to which the intervention approach is developed by the targeted strategies team in the office of equity are passed to the m test MTSS team, which also coordinates student interventions. To view the full recording, you can see everything at ousd.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 ahead one.

Thank you. Hello. My name is Latif Ali, and I'll be presenting for the, I will 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.

One of them was the summer school academy for high school newcomers in high school. Second one was, elementary dual language summer schools, and then other OUSD summer sorry. Other OUSD and community summer programs such as extended school year for disabled students in M Play. There's a link in the slide deck for that. 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 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. Sorry. 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 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.

The focus of our April 23 meeting tomorrow. On April 23, 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 23 at 06:30PM. Help us protect language interpretation and support for school site committees. Thank you.

Sorry.

Hello. My name is J. D. Woloshan. I am the co chair of the CAC.

Our original presentation, which you'll see in the slides, was prepared in anticipation of the resolution for school stability and belonging for disabled students in OUSD being put forward for a final vote tonight. The goal of the resolution is to ban the ablest 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 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, 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 grade 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, Teragard, and Janine Lindsay 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 13 board meeting and ending this three year saga. And should I and our next our next meeting is when is our

May 11.

May 11. Thank you.

Are there any public comments on the P SEC report? Okay. Oh, I see. Are there any board comments on PSAC? I'm gonna clarify.

Are there any public speakers on the PSAT report?

Right?

If there is anyone who wants to speak from the audience on the PSAT 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, where it's located. And, I just want to encourage. I really enjoyed the report, but I want to encourage, everyone on the PSAC 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 you're moving kids from one, when they're matriculating. We growth data is very, very important.

Director Lotta?

Yeah. I wanna appreciate the LCAP committees for presenting. And, also, I think we just want to uplift again that the fact that we still haven't passed the school stability resolution is very frustrating given that it is a basic 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 wanna appreciate our general counsel, Janine, and our deputy superintendent of business and operations, Tara Gard, and JD Walloshen, as well as the whole CAC for pulling together, you know, kind of a lot of work over a couple of days. And I actually feel like the efforts that I have seen over the past couple of weeks from our senior leadership 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 wanna 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. And I will just say that I feel like we are that I have seen some really meaningful collaboration from district staff and parent leaders on behalf of our 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. Yes. I mean, it is really making a hold in our district accountable to make sure that everyone gets treated, all students get treated equitably. So I am in support of it. Thank you.

Doctor Barry? Yes.

I just wanted to say thank you. I had the rare opportunity to attend the PSAC meeting. I almost always have a conflict, and so I really appreciate it 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 agendize 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 at each meeting and each day. I especially wanna appreciate the Dell committee for highlighting 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 the information that they needed to do support their students in the language that is most common to them is I think crucial. Family engagement is also essential.

I have seen folks bring students in that were in other online school spaces or weren't coming to school because of that continued family engagement. So I think those positions for me are really important. And and I will remind us that I included language around 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 issue all of those areas. So I look forward to the governor's budget and us being able to, like, fully reinvest back into those positions because, again, those are important to our schools' communities.

And again, just the amazing work that you all do in such a short period of time in getting us this information is really helpful. Thank you.

I want to talk a minute about the meeting that we had to rework the the student stability resolution. And again, I would like to apologize to the CAC CAC committee. I rushed through that, thinking it was of the urgency to get it passed because a number of us have been working on this for three years. But I really want to appreciate the conversation that happened particularly between JD and and Terragard. 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 that you did, I think will really produce a resolution that we will vote on on May 13 and will really benefit our students, our disabled students, and families of disabled students. Again, we'll protect, you know, the students' rights, 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, but just done in an amazing thoughtful way. So I really appreciated that conversation.

Student director? Thank you. Moving on to our next agenda item is item m, is labor partners. I can see tonight we have our labor partners that are coming up. Each, 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 Besher from Building Trades there.

I guess nobody heard. Good evening again. How are we doing? I will speak again with the same thing where I spoke before, that we need to reverse layoffs, cuts in every union that is present to OESD. The whole district feels it neglected in poor condition because of you, the people not coming to work.

We we have so many that it's either outside or outside building or inside that feels it. There is the cause effect staff, but mainly who feels it's the kids of the Auckland Unified. They are the one who's suffering the more. As you already saw it before, Adona, one of the teacher, the kids came, talked about her, how much they're gonna miss her. It's just one person.

Imagine going through hundreds of them that they're gonna feel like that. And every staff in 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. With all these cuts and we 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 this back or reverse it or rehire because we have so many retirees as well that they're not gonna be replenished. Those vacancies, they're gonna be probably sitting, which that means this affects also the work and actually structure of the whole district because, yeah, you're gonna have no vacancies. And then we're losing in my unit, there is already seven people that we're lose, and it's only 70 some 72 of us.

So that means they're gonna have it's gonna affect it with the kids, with everybody else. I wanna also talk about a little bit of bargaining that we're dealing with right now. We're in the bargaining. We're trying to bargain in good faith. We proposed some stuff.

We're waiting to get it back. I I hope so. The the labor relations shared that with you guys. And we're hoping for the next bargaining day that we're gonna be something make us happy. I wanna also talk about safety that is going throughout the district.

In recent month, there is so many issues that happened being throughout the school district, Amherst, Emerson. I'm not gonna mount them. Laurel and all that stuff. We need to look deeply into the safety of these students and the staff. The staff is more exposed to these environments than anybody else.

I'm talking about from teachers, principals, special eds, B and G people, in and out of the unit. Anybody that's working for a school district should be people should worry about it deeply and work together how to make the safe district for everybody because it's all about we are all a team in this. So we need to figure out this communication, the trust, whatever it needs to be so we can make it better. I definitely wanna spoke also speak about supporting the doctor Sadler. She did take some risks to change stuff, which probably before people didn't.

Giving kudos to you board as well, but we need to do a little bit better. I think communication, getting getting more information from the district and the more transparency from the district, understanding that you need to what you need to do when it comes to decisions. Because 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 with one way or another. Because definitely I support a lot of stuff, not all of it, probably all of people behind me as well, but we need a change.

And we shouldn't be afraid of change. Change is good. Depends depends how you embrace it. But, also, with change comes lots 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 it makes everybody else's life easier.

I support board in anything that you guys do. I definitely wanna talk and keep meeting with you guys, discussing the issues that we have. Definitely something that I'm looking forward in the future with each one of you. Some of you I didn't met every person. Not in person, in meetings that we had in one on one.

I'm hoping that in the near future, we're gonna continue having that. And thank you for your time. Appreciate you.

Good evening, superintendent. Good evening, board, student directors. My name is Carrie Anderson. I'm an elementary teacher at Manzanee Community School and the OEA 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, 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 TSAs 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, 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 student 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 wanna 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, I'm Phoebe Nguyen. I am an occupational therapist with special education, and I serve as vice president of SEIU. And I'm here with my other wonderful leadership. So right now, I I think we're trying to reconcile all these eliminations and and decreases in FTEs. So I've just been thinking, okay.

So on the one hand, you know, let's decrease or eliminate some FTEs of attendance specialists here, move some over there, and then at the same time, you're talking about stability and generating revenue, right, through attendance. And then also reconciling how we care about our community and value family engagement, and then yet we're eliminating family liaisons and family communities engagement specialists and basically gutting the office of equity. There there's also trying to figure out what it means when you when when we agendize, appreciate, raise, lift, and value our students' future on one hand, and then we cut the specialists in the college and career readiness and also specialists in technology. And then also, by the way, case managers, I just wanted to highlight again that they're the ones 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 retain, to retain good I mean, to support attendance, which, again, builds revenue, which, again, supports and stabilizes schools.

I do wanna say that being part of the outsourcing committee with director Lara, there's work is slow. Right? But I see a lot of positive stuff going on, so I do wanna lift that up. So I just wanna 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. Fight back. Fight back. Fight back.

Fight

Thank you.

Hey.

You wanna go ahead? K. I believe there's a representative from UAOS.

Good evening, board. Thank you so much. There's a lot going on that I wanted to talk to you guys about, but I was gonna stick to, something that I've been planning for a while to present to the board. I know.

We need to be able to hear all speakers. Thank you.

As I was saying, there's there are a lot of things that I've been planning to say to the board. I'm gonna stick to something that, I'm planning to speak to the board for a while on. Oh, wait. No. It's okay.

If the audience could please, keep it down so we can hear all the speakers. Thank you.

We've also reset your time.

Good

evening, board. My name is Kerry Kaufman. I'm president of United Administrators of Oakland Schools. Thank you guys for the time. There are a lot of things I'd like to speak to you guys about, but I'm gonna stick to one topic tonight.

I did send you guys an email, and I'll check-in with you guys about that email later. But tonight, I did wanna speak about bargaining. If I have some time, I will little to see if I can speak to some March 15 concerns that we have as well. I actually wanna present something to you guys that I will send today. It is a joint study that the union and the district did collaboratively.

And this joint study was examining the pay of our members as well as many other things. This joint study was conducted by the school district, OUSD, as well as UAOS, and it covered multiple topics. It was a six month study. We benchmarked against multiple peers in our area, and we analyzed administrator pay, all administrators in in UAOS. We looked at principals, assistant principals, as well as managers, coordinators, directors, all positions in UAOS.

Before I talk about some of the findings, wanted to do a a quick thing update for you guys. There've been a lot of settlements of contracts in the area. Berkeley, San Francisco, and West Contra Costa all settled within the past six months, 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 administrators union.

West Contra Costa settled for 53%, an 8% raise as well, and then they also settled for a significant increase in their benefits. San Francisco settled for a a flat rate raise as well as percentage raise that turned into about 12 to 15% raise, a me too for all any other union as well as benefits increases. Los Angeles just settled. ALLA, the Association of Administrators in Los Angeles settled for a 12.15 raise, along with other monetary settlements. The other findings were that OUSD, 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 Contra Costa is gonna 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 gonna 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 site based administrators, and from seven 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 tercile, would be 14%. We have one competitive salary schedule in our whole union. One. The third key finding, was shocking to me when I saw it, 82% of our members are at the top of their pay scale.

82. Our longevity stipends are a joke. After twenty years, we get $1,300 for a stipend. We only have six steps on our pay scale, and after twenty years, we get $1,300. That hasn't been adjusted in very long.

After twenty five years, it turns into 23 or 2,500. These stipends are also noncompetitive when I'm looking at neighboring districts who do a percentage based stipend. 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.

I just picked a random middle school assistant principal with twenty three years of experience. In Oakland, if you add their base pay, their benefits, their health benefits, and their longevity stipend, it comes up to a $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, looked at elementary principals with fifteen years experience. No longevity stipend. With their pay and health benefits, they get a $170,000 including health benefits. Neighbors, one ninety, 182, 203.

And yet $3,035,000 dollars 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, is the superintendent's report.

Good evening, community, board members, staff. Thank you for this time to report out. 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 wanna acknowledge this is administration, professionals day, and I know at many of our sites, many of our, staff have celebrated for their support of the school and their support in central office as well.

Tonight,

I'd like to acknowledge Lisa Walker from Glenview Elementary. 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 is incredible in terms of how she supports teachers, all staff, and the students. She's a special person that goes above beyond on a regular basis. Next unsung hero is Arianna 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 activities outside the program, outside the school, which is what I call an outdoor classroom, and supports our early childhood in many different ways. And so we wanna acknowledge how she has extended herself beyond her regular excite assignment. And that's Ariana. Now, Humphrey Garrett, who's well known, he is a culture keeper, but he is someone who always goes above and beyond every day. And she acknowledge He acknowledges staff.

He's worked all over the district. He's worked as because spent significant time at Skyline. But he's someone who knows students, he coaches students in addition to his work at current work at Foster, and we wanna acknowledge him. Humphrey Garrett, he's also one of our classified employees who will be acknowledged at the next board meeting. Next slide.

And now, I wanna go into school highlights and I'm gonna ask our attendance speakers to come forward because we will go through this pretty quickly. But I wanna highlight our science science teachers and the schools where they're working. We really wanna focus on our academic outcomes. And we have the STEM Science Fair, which is coming up May 6. At Carl Monk, Christine Clark, I wanna 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 Picciardo de Proto, Martin Luther King Elementary, Hannah Welsh, and Marla Sato. 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 Arenal, Dexter Coleman, Julie Ward, Kimberly Wong, Maureen Som, Marini Matthews, Niziah Nesbith, Rachel Martin, Rose Fucci, Roxanna Miles, Sarah Wills, Suzuku Korova, Steven Day, Tamara Rogers, Theodus Ambers, Trent Litico.

And at Thornhill Elementary, Caitlin Dobson. Next, I'd also like to acknowledge another site. Crocker Highlands won the Blue Ribbon award this year. It's not the first time that that Crocker has received it, but I'm very excited about the acknowledgement that our state superintendent did. And Duncan Winn, who received an proclamation from our mayor recently at City Hall.

And see you see a picture of some students that joined her, the staff. Obviously, it's the students who've done the work and the staff who provided the the learning. So I would like to acknowledge that. And then moving on where we've unveiled new athletic fields at ICSTCN. We have several several competing soccer teams that meet there on a regular basis.

We also had the Oakland Ballers and Oakland Roots. They were there to celebrate with the students and just acknowledge a new field which was provided by Measure Y. And lastly, I wanted to mention board president Bruhard and myself attended the Latino honor roll. It was awesome. The it was we had a there was a student speaker that was fantastic.

I saw a student there that's received a special award from Oculus Promise and their families. And it was it meant a lot to me because I was able to sit with the founders of the Latina honor roll, Peter and Emma Russe, who I was around when we were together when that came about many years ago. And we were able to give our students the acknowledgement, actually give them their medals. They also had a section where all the seniors were sitting together, and that was real powerful to see the numbers. Please note that our student honor rolls 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 rolls, 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 within our middle schools and elementary schools to motivate our students to be able to participate in this way. At all of our honor rolls, our students receive stoles that they will the seniors will receive a a stole that they will wear at their graduations. And this is a way of acknowledging 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 Sheila White and, Dwayne Vachthagomun, affectionately known as b, to to provide this presentation. And, they're gonna give us an update on what we're doing and the strategies that we have in place regarding attendance. And let me turn

Thank you.

Over to them.

Good evening, president Brohard, vice president Batchelor, board members, interim superintendent doctor Sadler, and student director. My name is Sheila White. I am a product of Oakland Schools. I've worked here in Oakland Unified School District for twenty one 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. Born in the city, raised in Oakland, and very proud OUSD employee.

And we're gonna start with something that mister 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, 02/1011, our audit finding was $800,000. 800,000. 02/1112, our audit finding was 1,200,000. And at that time, I was asked to take on the role of supporting student attendance. And in 2012, I did just that.

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 specialist 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 they 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 to another site, whether there's substitute, everyone is doing the same process. So in 02/1214, we had a 150,000 approximate audit finding in those two years, and oh, and, 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.

Ten of the years, 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 wanna highlight the great work of our attendance team at this time.

We have a wonderful program I wanna 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. Our mentors, they apply, they're screened and selected, and they receive a $6,000 annual stipend. And what they do, they're this is amazing amazing group of group of people that are highly functioning and highly skilled.

They train other clerical one to one. They provide one to one trainings. They support Kaboom bills, the OUSD health fair. They step in and support other principals when the principals admin team is out. And just recently, they supported over 1,000 data errors so that our p two audit, would be very, clean when the report went to the state.

Last year at the end of last year, they cleared over 100 HRAs. 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 wanna talk about this great initiative under the supervision and direction of doctor Sadler. So she partners with Oakland Natives Give Back. It's a great incredible partnership.

Doctor 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, 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 wanna share some of the data.

This initiative started in January and concluded April 13. And so at the time, Castlemont was 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 Bret Hart, they started seventeen point two percent and their unverified absence rate dropped to 14.6. If you look at the very last oh, one two more data points I wanna share.

So last year, our absence rate at this time was 9.5% district wide. 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 doctor Sadler, I wanna 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 utilize to make us attentive to attendance needs. It's the training and support from our clerical staff. 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. If without the relationships built, without the trust, and the hard work of all of our attendance team members ranging from principals, community school managers, case managers, clerical staff, we wouldn't be able to do this at all. So I just really wanna, you know, just appreciate the hard work that goes in to these weekly meetings, these biweekly 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, we can utilize systems like SART and, for an intensive approach SARBs to have conversations with families to, you know, stop the cycle of the punitive attendance markers or 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. So with all that hard work, you know, we're really proud of our chronic absenteeism progress as a district.

Back in twenty eighteen, nineteen before COVID hit, our chronic absenteeism was at thirty one point six percent with about seventeen point six percent of students attending school ninety five percent of the time or greater. COVID hits hits us hard. Our chronic absenteeism skyrockets to sixty one point four percent. 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 twenty six point five. Now is one in four students chronically absent that where we wanna be?

No. But that drop is dramatic and something to be proud of. And even more so, I just really wanna key on that fifty point one percent of 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. And do we just wanna kind of close with, you know, we wouldn't be able to do this as we've kind of showcases. We do it together. Classified, certificated, 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 I look at attendance on a daily basis and I wanna acknowledge our teachers. We have over 55 of our schools have teachers who provided their attendance on time a 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 early on so that we can notify families through text, through calls, through our supports with Oakland Natives Gives Back, through our all all parts of our team, 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 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. And, yeah, I just wanna say I'm very happy about the Latino honor roll. I will be speaking at the black honor roll, so I'm very excited for that. These are the student achievements that we wanna 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 wanna learn and wanna be there every day.

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, but I think I remembered some of them. So I wanna 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 sixty two percent chronic absenteeism is just baffling. And to do more than cut that in half, 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 gonna Oakland Natives Gives Back is in the audience, and I'd like you to 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 work. We're actually gonna be at McClymonds tomorrow acknowledging the growth and a student there is gonna be receiving some funds for their increased attendance.

So thank you for coming tonight and joining us. Staff, if you could respond to director Barry's question, please. Thank you.

So

our site attendance teams are some of the most resilient and just steadfast folks that I've ever had the honor to support and work with. I I it's gonna look different in different places, like, in terms of the impact of some of the the changes that happen. Currently, attendance teams are going through self assessment 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 still the the the building process to ensure that, you know, there's no negative impacts based on the changes of much as you know, to our ability. I think as teams have developed through the years, they've learned a lot about how to be more efficient, how to build capacity as a team, and I think that's gonna be a maintained focus going forward, you know, in in the light of of, you know, the the current changes.

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 ranging from principal, community school managers, case managers, clerical staff, attendance specialists. At every attendance team at every site looks a little different depending on the personnel that they have for the site. Some sites have family liaisons that are part of that process. Some sites have African American male achievement that is part of that process.

It just depends on the site specifically and how it's structured with personnel to the folks that support with case management, support with family engagement to really hit home and and 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. My team coaches a lot of these teams to be able to, you know, utilize data to make decisions, to be able to see the trends and time periods when it's like we're gonna hit a dip in the next couple weeks because we always do right before winter break or before spring break. And what can we do to be proactive to make sure that parents know when school starts back, to make sure that parents know when school gets out, 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, we still need you there every single day because every day counts. So, it's school site personnel, central office supports for that school site personnel, and as you go through the tiers, a lot of like SARBs are being held by certain community schools personnel with SART facilitation and support through MTSS and 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, I know doctor Sadler, 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. My name is Dais Hunt. I'm the chief of programs at Oakland Natives Give Back. I am born, raised, educated on purpose. Go Bulldogs.

Oakland. Okay. But we have been doing attendance related work for eighteen years. And so, we see ourselves as an extension of the work of the teams that was just detailed out. And, we plan to partner in any way that makes sense to the unique needs of the individual campuses throughout the district.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Keisha Willard. I am the program director for Oakland Natives Give Back. Go Knights, class of '89. Proud product of OUSD 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 OUSD. 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. While we're shouting out schools, skyline 91. You know, I'm I'm I'm very disappointed again, superintendent Sadler. You know, we have some serious issues going on in the district and now this is the second superintendent's 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 ninety ninety point five to 91.2, which is an increase of seven tenths of 1%. One third of the goal that you set out there months ago. And I and before anything else, I wanna 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 30, 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 wanna know since there's been no acknowledgment 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 gives back.

Former council member DeWitt, 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's report. So are you going to comply with the county's requirements? And president Brohard, what is the status of the superintendent search?

I wanna thank our speakers. Director, Hutchinson, I am respond I sent a res 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 gonna 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?

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 30 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 Lotta? Sorry. Director Thompson, I saw your hand go up later.

Go ahead.

No. Simply want to say that thank you, doctor Sadler, for the report and then also bringing in the other individuals in order to substantiate all these wonderful things that are happening. I do wanna shout out and thank your 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 right now. 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. Secondly, mister b, I'm sorry. I don't see him.

Oh, there he is. Thank you very kindly for speaking about start and SARB and how it's more of a collaborative approach, less than a punitive approach. Because before, of course, we would look at attendance and when it escalated to either the SART or the SARB level, we would actually bring in outside individuals who would actually put mandates. And so thank you very kindly for that. Not necessarily gonna ask what exactly are you doing in order to create this collaborative approach instead of punitive.

But I just wanna say I really appreciate your 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. Doctor Sadler, again, I wanna say thank you very kindly for bringing in the disparate individuals to show how all of us have to work together in order to make change. And one of my favorite 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 Lotta.

I don't wanna repeat anything that Director Thompson just said on attendance. I'll just plus one to that. And also just wanted to take a quick minute, I know you read all of their names, Doctor. Souther, but to shout out Piedmont Ave Elementary. They have had, I think the fact that there were so many teachers named at that school is pretty incredible and I think just highlights the really great work that's happening at that school.

So congratulations to them.

Doctor Williams?

Real quick. Thank you doctor Sadler for your report and bringing the attendance 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's the facts are in the in the budget itself. Last year, we ended with 3,000 students again. So really, there has not been a real emphasis to bring that up and I'm glad that you've taken that on as a challenge and continue to use that to bring more revenue to our score. I think there are partnerships out there. It sounds like we really have done a audit but really a real assessment of how best to help our our sites and then partner with those who are also doing work on the behavior specialists.

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 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 live 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 find the resources to send to our young folks to encourage them to continue to develop themselves and continue to matriculate up because it will affect their life choices as they move on outside of high school. And if they know that we we 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?

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 think two things to be true, that doctor Sadler, you've prioritized and deepened the investment and attendance, and that we've clearly made incredible progress over many years. And I just wanna acknowledge the work that you inherited as acknowledgment and celebration of the work that you continued and deepened. I just wanted to name that.

I also wanna appreciate the work that you've done, director or sorry, president superintendent Sather. Oh my goodness. I also wanna appreciate the work that Oakland Natives gives back. I think that this is the kind of partnership that we're looking at in our As we do this, around 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. Appreciate the work of the staff as well. That was really a very good report. And again, just wanna 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 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. Public comment.

Yes. Excuse me. Yes. For public speakers, we have Tanya Kappner, Sheila Haynes, and Asalo Lobala.

Two minutes each. And I believe two of them are online. Correct?

So far, one. Tanya Kappner is online. Okay. Miss Kappner, if you can mute unmute yourself to speak.

Yes. Tanya Kappner, 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 truly deep learning experience at our schools have been laid off, 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 quality equal quality education. I think the students that spoke for the restoration of the position of Ms.

Donna Jackson at La Scolyta earlier today made it absolutely clear the things 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, the SEIU members, the AFSCME members. This is a 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 Newsom.

Let's join together to fight the attacks on public education. But this school district can reverse these layoffs and cuts, 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 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. Next speaker, missus

Saunders. President Brujada, we have two additional speakers, A. V. Ringer and Joanna Davis.

Y'all don't have no shame in your game. Do you know how insulting it is for you to celebrate fields being redone, turfs repaired, and McClymans was scheduled this summer to start their field being done, and nothing has happened. So California education code section four eight two six zero through four eight two six two addresses truancy. A part of what in is in those sections identifies two forms of truancy that you have to address. One of them is habitual truancy.

In addressing habitual truancy, you have to refer to a school attendance review board or a probation officer to create a intervention plan. As it relates to chronic tunes truancy, you have to continue to deal with the curturrencies and create referrals to the district attorney because truancy 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 truancy, but you don't have the option not to deal with it because it is law. Not only is it law, there are legal consequences when children are involved in what is called chronic truancy.

That's a part of your attendance. There's a difference between chronic absent and truance absent. Chronic truance, it means, unexcused. When you have absences that are excused, that's a different thing. You don't wanna deal with it.

I hope somebody holds you legally responsible for not dealing.

Next speaker, please.

Good evening, board. My name is Joanna Davis. I've been teaching in Oakland for twenty one years, and I've learned a lot. It's taken me a long time to learn how OUSD operates. This year, again, the district under reports 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 receivership. 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 solvency 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 OUSD bureaucracy. This is a multiyear project, but we have to stay the course in order to have stable, racially just schools.

We know that OUSD 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 wanna thank you, doctor Sadler, for asking your staff to come and give that presentation about chronic absenteeism, the work that they're doing. 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 attendant specialists, case managers, assistant principals. A lot of the people that we're talking about in those teams and next year, it's not gonna look good, I I fear.

And that has that has implications for the students that are chronically absent, for their classrooms, and for our revenue. I I can't help mention that, you know, it was Doctor Johnson Chamel who put all this in place. I wanna I wanna commend her for that and and mention that. Doctor Johnson Chamel was fired in June 2025. And it's coming up now on May 2026.

So how is it possible that we would have an interim superintendent for a year and 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.

Whatever place you come to, not everyone's gonna 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. 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 that 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

And can you tell me, vice president Bachelor, are you making a good faith effort to find a superintendent?

I'll register your name as we call.

Can you tell us that? Because I think we deserve that answer.

Now moving on to item

I guess not

then. Thank Which

is consent items. Thank you to all the public speakers that were here today. So the consent items that were pulled were o 76, o 77, o 78, o 82, and o 83. Did I get those right, folks? Okay.

So is there a motion on consent items

o? So moved.

Second.

Thank you. Board colleagues, any comments on o? Director? No. We're gonna do public board comments and then public comments.

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. 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 s two 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 parcel taxes. We don't do 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 guardrails. 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 claim 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 if people don't realize what's really going on, it makes it hard for us to change as a community. But all the signs are out there.

I've seen a lot of stuff in my time. I've never seen this kind of stuff at OUSD before, which is saying something. So please, more people get involved. And if 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? Director Williams. Director Barry.

Yes. I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to elevate the letter that ACOE delivered. And one of and I I think it's the first one 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 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 we can have the conversation about the other required actions as well.

Thank you. So I just want to lift up number item 81 which is the support of measure e. As we are grappling with budget and the uncertainty from the state, our city is also facing budget challenges but the solution for the city is really in our hands. As the speaker said earlier in this meeting, 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. I will not only be voting to support measure e and voting for it on the ballot, but I will also be canvassing alongside our community members and labor partners to make sure that our whole community understands the importance of this measure and votes to support it.

Director president Brohard, did you have any comments on consent? Right. Let's go ahead and take public comments on consent. Mister Sechow?

Yes. For public speakers, we have Osalo Labala, Rachel Kirk Cortez, Irene Breivoy, and Gabriel Khan. How many minutes would you like to allocate?

Go ahead. We will do a minute and a half.

Good evening, directors. Before I claim my time, I just wanna give a shout out to the cameras and to my attendance team at my school, miss Dina. 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.

I'm here to save us some money, so 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 that we can take back off the consent report. We're looking at o four. O four is a $300,000 increase to a consultant to do, design and architectural services for a turf replacement project at Hoover. $1,300,000 is a lot of money. Apparently, we've increased it by a hun 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 $1,300,000, no matter what the answer, is an incredible amount of money.

I think we can take it off. Six RF contractors for some flooring, dollars 50,000 talking to buildings and grounds. I think it's worth thinking about an investment into training our own building and grounds folks to do flooring. 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 in house. Moving on to 'ten.

O 10 is a $156,000 increase to $9,000,000 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. 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 Erin 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 thirty more seconds.

Thank you very We got o 12 is $80,000 for the planning, coordination, and management for an employee health fair. That's a teacher. So I think 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, etcetera. We got o eighteen, which is the the district's day of the teacher.

We probably should have a TA by then if you wanna celebrate us. And moving on to o twenty seven, a $100,000 to Robskate 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 after school skating program without a little bit more, checks and balances on what that amount goes to. And then I just have one more really quick, which is, o seventy nine, the electricity, $1,500,000 a year for Eva. We know I know we're paying, like, $900 per site to PG and 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 $3,000,000 contract.

Thank you.

Thank you

very much.

Next speaker.

One item on the agenda related to McClellan's, and it says that you're gonna connect some electrical wires, whippy. Related to o 76, it says that you're gonna abide by attendance and truancy laws. That's what you say. Then in o 77, you say, you are gonna change truancy to chronic absences. You don't have the you can't change California law.

God help us. O four and o nine have to do with Hoover turf, and at least you're doing a geological engineering service to find out if it's toxic. I hope you don't do like, McClellan's. You know it's toxic, but you're not doing anything. Then as it relates to oh, this is a good one.

O o 10, cleanup. You don't say what it is. You just give the address. 28500, that's West West Street. That's the central kitchen.

What's going on at the central quest you are being required by Alameda 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, o 11, new water filtration system at zinc's. Now this is important because you never talk about you need to put filtration systems on the zinc in the kitchens, but you're doing it. You need to do it to every school.

Old 13 I'm not gonna go with that one. Oh, here's a good one. In your personnel report, a 114 individuals are on leave. 76 have separated from the school district. My time's up?

Thank you,

mister Smith. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm find more. A find And one here's a big one.

Legal services, a 114 doll dollars, and protecting student health and education equity resolution. Are y'all crazy? You're not doing that. I have some more, but, I wanna respect that you tell me my time is up.

Thank you. We have any more public speakers, mister Ufin? Zhao?

No. That includes public speakers.

Thank you. Vote. That's right. Let's say a vote on the, o items without o 76, o 77, o 78, o 82, and o 83. 83.

Correct.

Alright. On the roll call, on the motion as stated, the student directors are absent. Director Thompson? Yes. Director Barry?

Yes.

Director Hutchinson? Abstain. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Lauter?

Yes.

Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

President Burghard?

Yes.

Alright. The motion's adopted.

Alright. We will move on to item o 76, which is the absence and excuse policy. I believe, director Hutchinson, you pulled this item. I mean, I'm sorry. Is there a motion?

Motion to adopt o 76.

A second?

Second.

Great. Director Hutchinson, you pulled this item?

Who's taking the credit for the second?

Director Thompson.

Yeah. I have the same comment for both this item and the following item. 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. I also agree with many of miss Olubala's comments, and I have no faith in anything that's going on here now.

So when a board policy has 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 director is 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, 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, genuine 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, on its own. This other way of doing business, just reinforces all the problems that we've had. Thank you.

Director Loudon? Yeah.

I just wanna make a couple of comments as the author of this board policy update. And just to clarify, this was not something that I wrote independently. It's actually the California School Board Association model policy. And the standard practice in the state is to for most items, that the CSBA model policy is the standard, and our policy had not been updated since 2004. And so, therefore, as we were reviewing attendance, I felt it a good idea to bring our policy up to the state standard.

The thing to know about CSBA, in case folks 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 Lindsay, our general counsel, as well as fiscal to review this. And so in this policy, you know, we other thing I should say in terms of which policies should be updated, we undertook a, you know, basically a policy review with CSBA a couple of years ago. They reviewed our entire board policy catalog.

I believe that was submitted for public review in the 2024 that outlined which of our policies were outdated, needed to be updated, redundant, or were not, or were a unique policy to OUSD. And so this policy and the subsequent one that we'll be discussing were noted to be outdated with current practice and CSBA model policies. So that's why these are coming in this way. And I hope that reassures folks about the level of review that they received. Thanks.

Thank you.

Any other board directors? We'll take public comment on this item. So it's item 76 if folks wanna come up and provide public comment on this item. You did not have to sign up ahead of time to provide a public comment on this item.

I spoke briefly to this. 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 truancy law. So you are you are you are legally taking responsibility, but you're not doing it. Now the other one, seventy, where you are replacing chronic absenteeism I'm sorry.

You you turn change insurance 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 it's it's not appropriate or you don't have the right to do it. Legal counsel, you got to say that this is legal, that you can substitute truancy and make it chronic absenteeism.

I'd like

to do that.

I'd like to invite any other members of the public to make a comment on o 70 '6. Anybody online that has their hand raised? No

hand on line. Okay.

General Counsel Lindsay, would you like to make a comment on this?

Sure. Thank you so much. I did wanna just reiterate. Director Lada, I think, pointed to the district's efforts to have policy review and it's in consultation with 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 the CSBA has put out and many school districts adopt as a whole.

And so we will of course, and I believe it is 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.

You. And just for folks who may not know, CSBA is the California School Board Association that we are a part of. And they have a legal team that reviews and provides feedback and then we also have general counsel that can also be a backup. Alright. Since there's no other public comment on this agenda item, can we take a roll call and a vote?

Yes. One more note. This matter was heard in the Budget and Finance Committee on April 2 and is recommended by that committee for approval by the board. On the roll call, for approval of o dot dash seventy six. Student directors are absent.

Director Lauter?

Yes.

Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Barry?

Yes.

Director Thompson? Yes. Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

And president Brohard? Yes. Motion's adopted.

Alrighty. Now moving to o 77, which is board policy a change of board policy five one one three point one. Is there a motion?

So moved. Is a second?

Second.

Thompson? Board comment starting with director Hutchinson.

Yeah. Thank you. I don't I don't wanna belabor the point, but I I just wanna state it it gets really frustrating sometimes when people on the dais 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 agendized 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, 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 agendize 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.

President Burhard. Yeah.

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

Yep. Anybody else? Alright. Any public comment on item seventy seven zero seventy seven? Anybody with their hand raised online?

Checking to see if any public comment from online. No hand raised, vice president.

Thank you. Let's take a roll call vote on this item.

Upon the recommendation of the Budget and Finance Committee, from a meeting of April 2 for approval of this item by the full board. Director 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 Brauerhard? Yes. Motion's adopted.

K. We're on a roll, everybody. Now next is o 78, which is the seven eleven committee that came out of the facilities committee meeting after two iterations and passed unanimously but has been pulled. So Director Hutchinson, believe you pulled Oh, I apologize, motion.

I motion to adopt o 78.

Great. I second it. Wonderful.

Director Hutchinson.

Yeah. Thank you. 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 seven eleven committee has a very specific purpose and a loan purpose.

By forming a seven 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 gonna 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 seven 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, 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 gonna 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. 2nd Avenue, the same thing. And for now then, to throw in Lakeview 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 gonna declare our property surplus so it can be moved to private hands.

Now the first time we had a seven eleven committee formed in OUSD was in 2014, a year after the building across the street was intentionally flooded. And at that point, interim superintendent Gary Yee formed a seven eleven committee to try to move that property to urban core developers to build a 24 story luxury housing, complex across the street. I encourage people to go watch the videos of those meetings. The second time we had a seven 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 Shands and one of the CDCs, 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 wanna have over these next nine months, I'm here for it, But you're not gonna sneak something through in the consent report.

That's for sure.

Board colleagues, any comments?

Director Barry? Yeah. Just a few things as coauthor of this resolution. First just to clarify for the benefit of the public, a seven eleven committee doesn't have any decision making authority at all. The board retains all authority over the future of OUSD properties.

The seven eleven committee functions as an advisory body and all it can do is synthesize and organize information and make a recommendation to the board. And one of the reasons why I am putting this forth is because I think it is important 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 OUSD has to do something with the vacant property that OUSD has. And so like the facilities master plan, like the feasibility study, this seven eleven 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 by providing this kind of information to the board for us to do something that does benefit the public. 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 to to do the research we need to to do to address our vacant property.

Director Burghardt?

Yeah. I want to reiterate what director Barry said that this it is not the purpose of a seven 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.

I have been around in the district for a long time. I also wanna mention that in writing this resolution, has gone through many iterations, I really deeply appreciate the work of director Barry in taking facilities department, Preston Thomas and Pernita, in working with us to really ensure that the language in this resolution speaks to what we are asking to do. Again, we have properties that are vacant. We have one right across the street. Again, 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 gonna 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 that you did to

Because a set when a seven 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 seven 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 seven eleven committee is formed. It's not advisory committee, it is for this specific option. And then if a seven 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 seven eleven committee. So if you wanted to form a body to discuss repurposing, that doesn't require a seven eleven. General committee has a specific has a specific function.

Around this seven eleven committee

resolution? Sure. So so what I heard director Hutchinson ask is if a seven 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 seven 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 seven eleven committee being formed declaring a property surplus in order for that property to be sold or leased. Isn't that the function of what a seven 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 seven 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 seven eleven committee is to advise the board on the 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 seven eleven committee make a decision about whether a property is surplus or not?

A seven eleven committee is an advisory committee. Did I answer your question? I I seven eleven committee is advisory.

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 lost in what you the last piece you said. But the gist of what you asked is whether a seven eleven committee is a decision making body or advisory. It is an advisory committee. Okay?

Thank

you. Alrighty. With that, we'll take public comment on this item which is item o 78. Are there any public comments on this item?

Yes, we have Mario Capitelli and also Doctor. DeLu.

Wonderful. It sounds like Ms. Asada's interested as well.

They here?

One minute. Yeah. Mario's behind you.

First point, you have over $3,000,000,000 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 to do a feasibility study. Now if you wanted to do a seven eleven, the seven 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 seven eleven committee recommendation. That's out of order. Then I know that you don't really care about Bunch or Lakeview. 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.

Miss Desada. Next speaker.

Good evening, superintendent and board. My name is Mario Capatelli. I'm the station manager of KDOL, a taxpayer, citizen, and parent within the district. While I fully support the creation of the seven eleven committee and the intention of using district properties to generate ongoing revenue, I must object to this unfunded mandate on my team at KDOL. 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 KDOL 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 $2,000,000 in production and communications contracts that could have funded this position, including a $140,000 tonight. Since 2019, I've identified seventeen years of salary spending on FTE doing the explicit work of KDOL 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 and none have been adopted. So now the established limits adjusted for current staffing, Six two hour 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. Doctor Duluth, you can unmute yourself to speak.

Yes. My my name is actually doctor Duluth Morris, and I am the NAACP education chair for the Oakland branch. I wanna highlight that this conversation is a prime example of why we continue to go in circles with the school board. The seven eleven 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 well versed in what these committees' functions are. And I also want to kinda 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, 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. Any we'll go ahead and take a vote on those items, mister Hollis.

Thank you.

Mister Rickstraw.

Yes. Upon the recommendation of the Facilities Committee to adopt this item. On the roll call, director Lauter?

Yes.

Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Barry?

Yes. Director Thompson? Yes. Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

President Burghard?

Yes.

Motion's adopted.

Alright. Next is o 82, which is the heat mitigation resolution. Director Za, is there anyone that is moving this item forward?

I'd like to make a motion to adopt o 82. Yes. I'll second.

Director Perry, did you wanna I'm sorry. Director Hutchinson, you pulled this item.

Yes. Thank you. I pulled this item so I could vote for this item. And I just really wanted to thank all of the the parents and community members who helped work on this, especially a lot of the families at Sequoia who really started getting a ball rolling. And amidst all the chaos, there is opportunity sometimes to take an idea from a school site and engage people all the way to make it the district wide policy.

And so, 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 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, potentially see a temperature reduction in our classrooms of five to 10 degrees is just the kind of cost effective 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, I look forward to being being able to vote for it.

Thank you.

Doctor Barry, did you wanna say?

Yeah. I just wanted to say thank you 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 for me a good experience because I got to witness in this experience what it felt like to be held accountable 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 OUSD staff who weighed in over and again on the development and design of the resolution as well.

Alright. Yes. So I just wanted to add that our schools 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, of climate change in our school spaces have grown hotter and hotter year after year. Fortunately, we've done the work to pass, the bond, which is measure y, and we as a board have readjusted to allocate $8,000,000 towards heat mitigation.

These dollars will initiate so many of the strategies that families have identified that's worked at school sites. And I wanna just iterate that this is just a this 8,000,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to the need that we have to to, tackle, 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. And I look forward to hearing staff's report around 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 quicker via an emergency resolution so we can get to work as quickly as we can into the summer. And I appreciate not only my board colleagues who are on the facilities committee, but also the the the families and students and staff that came out to let us know how important this was and how it was creating unsafe environments not only for their students but also for all the folks that are in our school sites every day.

And, again, I I appreciate 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 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. Anybody want to speak on o 82?

How these parents stood up for what they believed in, and they did a 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, they 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 McClymonds.

And then it it's insulting to say, oh, I heard you. I listened to you, but you're not listening to the McClymond needs. The parents are not coming from McClymonds. They're not coming, But you know what needs to be happening regardless whether they come or not. But I don't wanna take too much away from the outstanding job that these parents have done to deal with this issue

at their children's school.

I hope more parents will follow this example and speak up for their children as well.

Next speaker.

Jack Nelson, community volunteer Oakland resident. Miss Assata's right. We we gotta balance it if we can. But I will say this. I'll repeat what I said at the facilities meeting last last week.

I still will bet Preston $10 that I can get you about $8,800,000 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 McClymont's. It doesn't have to be 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. Mister Reichstrock, can we take a vote on this item?

Sorry. Yes. On the roll call to to the board on the recommendation of facilities committee to adopt this item. On the roll call. Director Hutchinson?

Yes. Director Barry? Yes. Director Thompson?

Yes.

Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Ladder?

Yes.

Vice President Bachelor?

Yes.

And President Brahar?

Yes.

Motion is adopted.

Okay. Now we're on to the last item that was pulled which is o 83. Is there a motion to adopt?

I move that we adopt this motion. Second.

Okay. Director Hutchinson?

And again, I pulled this item not only because I think it's inappropriate it's to do an allocation of g one buried in the consent report. I have a lot of questions about this. You know, one of the 17 questions that I've had to superintendent Sadler now for over four weeks centers on g one, 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 g one 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 g one, and questions about the carryover and what was there, 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. And I was under the impression that those electives were being paid for out of g one. And so the question becomes, if we have g one, if there's money and there was a carryover there, why are 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. Within the last month, we received an email from members of the g one, 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.

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. And I'm gonna be voting no, and I hopefully more people in the community will start really looking into this. Because g one, like everything else, is one of a number of funds that we have. 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. Originally, one of the members felt that they had to recuse themselves for this vote. And so it didn't the the Brewer's money didn't pass. So this was an effort, again, working with the superintendent to correct this situation so that Brewer would get their allocation for this year. And I believe the allocation is for computers and things like there's a list of things like that that weren't personnel related.

But this was an effort to correct 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.

Alright. Any other comments, board colleagues who haven't spoken yet? Okay. 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 Rosagillen. I'm the ethnic studies TSA. And this is something that you can all agree on, is that ethnic studies is a board supported. We adopted a curriculum in the 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, but our positions and our funding are unstable. And, 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 students and staff talked about tonight are connected. The civic engagement work, the article on students in QQ, it's in the reader. The Steelers the Steelers Civic Engagement, I support that work. So when you lose, these positions, you lose all that interconnection and network between our students, families, our teachers, 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 Aguilera, and I started teaching in OUSD in 1997.

And I'm currently the other ethnic studies TSA. I'm And here to express concern and inform you about the loss of central office leaderships for ethnic studies and its implication for OUSD'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 t k eight ethnic studies position has been eliminated through the March, reduction in force, and the ninth grade TS position is partially grant 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 assumed under history or under English. It there should be two TSA positions, a t k eight and a nine twelve to ensure alignment and appropriate support. Ethnic studies is not new in OUSD.

It is a decades 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 OUSD's mission. Without central leadership, we risk losing this.

Ethnic studies is a core commitment and it's not an add on. Sustaining central lead leadership is essential to fulfilling that promise.

Thank you. Next speaker.

Hi, everyone. My name is Tate Jaudet. I teach at Montero Middle School currently, but I'm moving to an ethnic studies position, teaching position at Skyline next year. I have had the privilege of working with Leah and Berta, both. Leah's guidance and support have been transformative in my professional life as I have taught US history and incorporated ethnic studies themes throughout.

She is a mentor who who builds genuine relationships, fosters trust, and creates the conditions necessary for self reflection and growth, which is essential for all teachers and especially ethnic studies educators. I've also had the opportunity to work with Dareto this year, and she's inspired me to up my game and to pursue my purpose. I was very concerned about hearing that these positions were grant funded and not permanent positions within the district. That is obscene. And so, Lea and Berta both bring, 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. We need this support more than ever. Ethnic studies teachers need this support more than ever. And we would risk being absorbed into disciplines that aren't ours and don't understand our work. So please, please, I implore you to preserve this.

We can't wait for the the state to do the right thing. We need to find the money here and fund these positions. Thank you.

Thank you. Next public speaker on this item, which is measure g one. I see folks standing. If folks wanna come up and speak. Okay.

G one. Yep. Anybody online?

No online speaker.

Okay. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this item. Mister Reagstrom.

Okay. Upon the recommendation of the measure g one commission, for the board to adopt item zero dash dot dash 83 on the roll call. Director, Berry?

Yes.

Director Thompson? Yes. Director Hutchinson? No. Director Williams?

Yes. Yes, sir. Okay. Director Ladder?

Yes.

Vice President Bachelor? Yes. And President Yes. Bohorn?

Yes.

Motion's adopted.

Okay. So now we're on to o one, which is many contracts with Soccer Without Borders. So director Lotta, would you like to announce?

Yes. I'm recusing myself from these items. I'm friends with a member of their board. Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Cool.

Anyways, is there a motion?

I motion to adopt o one. Is there a second?

I second.

Great. Are there any board comments? Seeing none, are there any public comments on this agenda item?

Osaru Labala.

O one, which is all the Soccer Without Borders contracts.

I just wanna 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 comp I can't remember the amount of money. That's one thing. The other thing is we gotta start having a balance. Soccer without bowlers 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, we got flag football.

We got I'm not gonna name them. But I think we have taken soccer with our bonus 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're 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 focusing on in their schools. So y'all try to at least do that.

Thank you, miss Desado. Alright. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this item.

K. 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 Burhard?

Yes.

Motion's adopted.

Alright. President Burhard 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 p which is facilities consent items. Is there any public comment?

Motion to adopt.

I will second that. Oh, thank you.

For public speaker, we have Asado Labala. Okay.

Alright. Thank you. And are there any others? Is that any board comments? K.

Mister Rickstruck, can we have a roll call and a vote, please?

On the roll call, if I don't call the director's name, that means they're absent. Director student directors are absent, that is. Director Lauder?

Yes.

Director Thompson? Yes. Director Barry? Yes. Director Williams?

Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson?

Abstain.

Alright. Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

And president Pearlhard?

Yes.

Motion's adopted.

Thank We're now moving on to item q, is public comment on 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.

K. Let's give them a minute and a half each.

A minute and a half? Noted. Thank you. We have Tanya Kappner, Sheila Haynes, Asado Lovalla, Benjamin Kuku Chewic, and Isabelle Nunez. Those are the first five speakers.

Okay.

I have come to the conscious decision, try 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 OUSD. 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, 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 b j and y, pay attention mister Williams because I'm a a talk about McClyman's, and if anything, you need to be respectfully listen. The last meeting, they identified the state or stage that McClyman'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, McClyman's is in the design stage according to the the measure b j y citizens committee. So you guys I don't know how you especially the black people up there. How can you be a black person sitting up there ignoring the needs of black children?

Next speaker is miss 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 Winchner, Jack Nelson, Joanna Davis, and Rachel Cannon. Those are the next five speakers.

If your name was called, if you would yeah. There you go.

Okay. I'm glad everybody's just about gone here because this is different. We've we've heard about money and issues tonight, but I have been working since November '24 on the John Beam, Tony Fardella 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 gotta be BEAM and Fardella. That's an important point that'll come back at the end here. A 175 people answered a website survey indicating that they wanted Fardella Beam or Beam Fardella. In October, '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 gonna be ready to be able to to do that.

I could use thirty more seconds, actually, since I waited three and a half hours. But so I understood I wasn't impatient. We went along, and we got to this year. Now 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 gonna do it alphabetically. But Preston Thomas got ahold of me and said, we'd like to do a big sign. A big sign and then just have the smaller sign for Fardella. I can't do that. I'm not gonna do that.

And I hate to say it because my time's up anyway, but you've got until May 13 to tell me if you're gonna go originally with my donation. Okay? This is this isn't costing you anything. So make a decision. Let me know or I'm I'm gonna 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 13. Thank you.

Not seeing any speakers coming to the podium. The remaining speakers saw Ariel Fletcher, Carrie Kaufman, and A. V. Ringer.

Hi. My name is Ariel Feisher, and I'm the parent of a kindergartner here in the district. I've enjoyed a lot of today's dis or 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 follow-up 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 tentative agreement, and that the situation could worsen quickly. He described a series of action that need, that must, that are required to take place by April 30, 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 just sweep it under the rug.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Thank you. Are we

doing a minute and a half?

Half. Yeah.

Minute and half. Okay. Alright. Great. Thanks.

So I I think you'll all agree that the trust between the school board and the community is of the utmost importance. Unfortunately, there are some things that have caused the fraying of that trust. I just wanna go through a couple of those things, unfortunately. The first one is how often I see school board directors looking down or looking at their screens when public commenters are making their comments just as as has just happened just now. Another thing that raised that trust, 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 and offered a private response? And then again, recently when I was questioning your your 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, yet subsequent speakers did not have their time cut off in just that

same way.

The city of Oakland has a very strong ethics commission. The school board is not under their purview formally. Perhaps we might recommend a an amendment to the to the city charter so that you would be. 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's, Carrie Kaufman, president of the United Administrators Schools. I wanna talk about two, topics right now. The first is around March 15. As you guys know, UAOS, received the largest percentage of March 15 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've 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 15 letters that do not align with the law. We also had many members receiving March 15 notices when their positions were already fully funded.

We have 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. 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 thirteen months ago. We are still waiting for a response when the statutory timeline is sixty 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.

Alright. That concludes public comment. Next item on the agenda is new business. Alright. And next item, we are withdrawing item s one, items s one and s two.

They will come back on March 13, I'm sorry, May 13 with changes. Our next item is, I'm sorry s one.

Do you mean point of clarification? Do you mean s two and s three?

S two and s three.

S one is amendment number one services agreement, Hazard Young, Attea and Associates, fiscal advisory team services, superintendent of schools. We have a presentation on this? No? We did pee.

Never mind.

I'm sorry. I thought you did say I thought you said never mind to pee. Do you wanna go ahead and speak for a minute? Mhmm. Okay.

Thank you. So item s one, is there a motion to adopt s one?

Motion to adopt item s one. I second it.

Are there board comments? Director Hutchinson.

Now I'm really disappointed there's no presentation or anything here. So the first thing about this is the memo with the fiscal impact analysis. I wanna know who did this fiscal impact analysis. It lists, AB eighteen forty as the funding, and I know we haven't received money through '18 forty 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 wanna 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 1, presumably to help the superintendent create a fiscal solvency plan.

We still don't have a fiscal solvency 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 Bee. 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 OUSD in 2026 up to nearly $1,000,000 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 wanna 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 OUSD to have financial advisers. 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 advisers 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. I was surprised and probably disappointed that the budget development process, budget stabilization process was not formally on the agenda. We never get to talk to each other. 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 in a formal way. 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 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.

And congruent with an earlier conversation, I do think it's important that in order for us 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 gonna do it? Who's gonna do what? Who's reporting to who?

When are we gonna 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 Lotta?

Yeah. I just wanna just and I think this 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. I do just also want to say that the changes to the contract to make it more transparent to everyone, the community included, but also to other, our district staff and to the board, about what were the things above and beyond a typical fiscal team's work, the capacity that they've been able to do. And I think my experience with HYA and Doctor.

Frutos and kind of their experience in other districts helping to do some really creative things, and especially their work being county superintendents themselves and state administrators, I think has been extremely useful in terms of widening our aperture for what are some creative ways we can be more responsible. So I appreciated, I'm happy to support this contract at this time with those changes. And I think that the more clarity going forward to their specific deliverables and having more updates will be an important step as well.

Thank you. Are there any other board comments? Director Batchelor from Prime Service.

Yeah, these are specifically directed to Ms. Garde, if you can come on up. So there were questions about the amount of dollars that we have in AB 1840 and would this be able to cover that or would we be dipping into the general fund to cover this type of contract? And then there's also questions around staff capacity as the new kind of person that oversees that department. Can you talk a little bit about those two questions?

Sure, yes, thank you. AB eighteen forty, actually first, director Hutchinson, asked who wrote that financial statement. That was me. AB eighteen forty, we had $7,000,000 left in AB eighteen forty at the start of the year. So, yes, AB eighteen forty can cover this contract.

And then secondly, 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. If we all step back to the beginning of the year when we were standing here thinking that we may have 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 h y a, they are providing us guidance. As, director Batchelor mentioned, they have worked at the county office themselves, been state administrators, been CBOs 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 13 to do that, and I'm open for any questions. I may see myself and this tape on social media and I'll be prepared to answer there too.

Thank you.

Thank you Ms. Garth, 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. 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. That's it for my public comment.

Thank you.

Thank you. Is there a public comment?

Yes. We have Sheila Haynes, Asolo Lobala, and Oliver Brennan.

I'm sorry. I couldn't hear the names. Wait. The the disruption.

Yes. The names are Sheila Haynes, Asalo Lubala, and Oliver Brennan.

Okay. Thank you.

Good evening, Oliver Brennan, parent of two students in OUSD. I've come here tonight to ask this board to vote against this contract extension. 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 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 April, and people are talking about budget development. There's also people talking tonight about the historical budget cycle and how there's, 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 twenty two years, the board in front of me tonight and all previous boards had guardrails 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 twenty two years we do not have those guardrails. So it's all on you. And there are two narratives going around here that one, OUSD is on the right track and everything's gonna be fine. And the other, and it seems like the county agree, things are not necessarily gonna 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 missus Sata later. She asks about it. One way or the other, we're either gonna be right or we're not gonna be right. There are two narratives going around, and it's gonna come to 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.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

About a vendor who is already under contract with this district. That vendor should be here tonight. Be here tonight because you've identified three one through three twelve 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 three one four 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 gonna 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 gonna give you an example. Can I finish my thought? I had a low down, messy situation with a council member to the point where say, I'm gonna 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've 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 say no.

That's not gonna 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 gotta start doing that too.

Thank you. Are there any other public comments?

Yeah. Miss Haynes, if you can unmute yourself and see if we can hear you. We're not able to hear miss Haynes. Miss Haynes is now coming through.

Mister Eichstark, can we have a roll call and vote please?

Yes. On the motion to adopt the amendment the amendment to the h y a contract. 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 Brewhart?

Yes.

The motion is adopted.

Thank you. The next item on the agenda is item s four, which is the facilities master plan. Is there a presentation with that or are there any board comments on this? I'm sorry. I'll move it.

I'll second. Thank you.

Are there any board, comments on the master plan? Director Hutchinson.

Thank you. Mister Thomas, I appreciated the conversation we had the other day. I I wanna throw that in at the start. You know, one of the reasons I've been highlighting how this was something that was supposed to be done last year is because as a board, 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 r's plan which included re envisioning the district footprint. And what we are supposed to do is use the data from the master's facilities plan along with the community conversations from the reenvisioning process to produce 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 seven 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 re envisioning 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 seven 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 OUSD 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. But the one good thing I do wanna highlight from this master's facilities plan is now at this point, 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 with $2,400,000 through consultants out of Texas as part of the early work with the blueprint. And it was an awful plan that really devastated, 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 seven 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 us native Oaklanders, we don't give away our scarce resources without a fight. Thank you.

I'm sorry, Vice President Batchelin.

Thank you. So, good evening, board, colleagues, and community. Tonight, we bring forward the 2026, facilities, master plan for a final vote. This has been a really been a team effort. The facilities team, the community the citizen bond oversight committee, the facilities committee, and community have reviewed, commented, shaped, rethought, scratched, added, redone the dashboards too for this plan.

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. It translates 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 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, we hope to advance it and make sure that we can go out for future bonds, and it also allows us to go out for the proposition two state bond and continue to tackle some of the issues that have been long term as well as some of the most recent challenges that we've had in our facilities. So again I look forward to taking this final step so that we can 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 comment we have Asado Labala, Rachel Kirk Cortez, and Jack Nelson.

A minute and a half each, please.

I made an error in my last comment. Doctor Thompson and, 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 all board members. And I see, I'm sorry?

Am I miss Brown?

Director Barry.

You called

her miss Brown.

What is it? You know. Barry. Miss Brown is on this the city council. And she, girl, it's time for you to

go home. It's time for home.

I'm going home. But my point is, I observe you guys very well. And miss miss Barry and Thompson, especially you, Thompson, you you will stay in your grounds, and I appreciate you for that. And all of y'all have got to start doing that. The facilities citizens LGB LGB 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're

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 item p, they haven't see 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 McClyman's. And so, 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 $3,000,000,000 coming from that we need? Is the plan covering how they're gonna deal with that? I apologize to miss Berry and mister Thompson for putting you in with everybody else, and good night.

Are there any other public comments?

Yes. Sheila Haynes. We're not, able to hear miss Haynes.

Okay.

That concludes public speakers.

Can we have a a roll call and vote,

please? Yes.

On the, upon the recommendation of the facilities committee from April 16 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 Rohar?

Yes.

Motion is adopted.

Thank you. Okay. Moving on to new business. We're gonna start with t one, which is 02/2026 annual report board policy fifty one fifteen, enrollment stabilization.

I I really

And there is no motion, but you have ten minutes.

Heard it. You heard it right.

Heard it.

Have a clicker.

Okay. Go go go away.

All right,

good evening Doctor. Sadler, Board. Thank you for the opportunity to present today. My name's Killian Betlak, 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 board policy calls for us to do once a year. It's in contrast slightly to when I was here previously in January giving just a general enrollment update after census day. This is specific to the board policy I just named. So we're gonna take you through just like a quick 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 definitely understand there's a time constraint here, so I'll try to be brief.

Here is the text or a selection of the text of the enrollment stabilization board policy adopted in April 2021. It emphasizes the importance of enrollment to our district financially and in other ways in terms of stability. And then just to quote it very briefly, the superintendent or designee shall include expenditures in the annual proposed budget starting with the proposed budget for twenty one-twenty two 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 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 declined as a state by something like 75,000 kids. It was seven times greater than the state's projections. That's two OUSDs less of children in the state is a lot. The places that are projected to decline more are 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 way of categorizing things, they've included charter schools here, even including those schools, is at a significant decline relative to private schools and home schools, etcetera. And then we continue to face enrollment pressure from competing systems. So the charter schools that are in our city, inter district transfers, which are Oakland residents seeking enrollment in other districts, and I included an advertisement from one of our neighboring school districts. It's not from last year, but they were particularly seeking our students. Antioch, San Leandro also advertised inside of our borders for Oakland residents.

And then private and homeschooling options. We'll talk more about this at a data level later on. Just to further kind of set context, the enrollment department, which I lead, has three teams. There is the preschool enrollment department, which is located both at Lakeview and at our our centers, enrolls preschool students. The student welcome center enrolls t k 12 students and and provides support to families, and the enrollment marketing team implements Board Policy 5115, it's particularly their work tonight that I'm going to present.

What I've shared with you here is the twenty six-twenty seven FTE for each of those departments, 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 lost to funding restrictions, and then a projection in twenty six-twenty seven for no FTE on that team. So just some further enrollment numbers to ground us. We are seeing enrollment increases. Our district officially increased its enrollment this year for the first time since seventeen-eighteen.

When you look at this chart and you break it by grade span, you see that the elementary band is one of our healthiest, which is good. You want to grow from the youngest kids up, that's your base. Although all of these numbers are based on census day enrollment, that's the official enrollment captured on the October. I've also included some very recent enrollment numbers from when I was preparing this presentation, because I think it's helpful to note that even after census day we've seen an increase in elementary grades, a modest two student increase in middle school, but of ongoing concern, we've actually seen a decline in high school that is very significant. It's largely driven by the absence of the newcomer population we're expected to, or we've become expected to see enroll, but not exclusive to just that population.

But we see a five year change of 1.66% to the negative, but a one year change of modestly growing. When we look at TK, which is often something we talk a lot about, our five year change in TK enrollment is 142%, that's a lot. And then a 14% growth year over year. I think it's helpful to just name in this context that we enroll more TK students than any school in Alameda County. And we enroll something on average of six or seven times more TK students than neighboring school districts like Berkeley Unified or Alameda Unified, we're not six times bigger than those schools.

We are investing in the strategy and we are responding to 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, etcetera. Okay, the enrollment marketing team, the enrollment stabilization work is driven around three big strategies. I shared these last time when I was here, so I'm updating this a little bit.

The first, when we say fostering the attitude of yes. I don't believe this was the attitude that we started with prior to my time here. Enrollment can be a gatekeeping tool that some districts deploy. 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 primary user of these services, not as someone who's taking a break from their work from home job in 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 think I need to sign my kid up for ninth grade. 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 certificate. Because not everyone's walking around with a birth certificate.

Not everyone was born in a country where those were common right. 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 how to improve it, which we've done every single year and brought improvements to that. 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. I think also just naming the amount of just cross training and communication. Thinking about who is every job class 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. 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. 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.

Those are our satellite offices which we talked about. Lakeview is not particularly great with getting to from public transportation. It's not located in a population center, and so we are in four locations. Elmhurst, Havens Court, Urban Promise, and the Marcus Foster Building to also provide additional supports to families so they can access our our services. Also point out that 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.

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, have more applications than the year before. When I presented this presentation, were four twenty two applications ahead of last year's pace, and that was eight seventy two applications ahead of the year before. An application is not enrollment, but if they're not applying they're not getting it. So we have to continue to grow those.

And we have growth not just in TK, but also in sixth grade applications in ninth grade. We had the highest percentage in enrollment recorded data of the percentage of fifth and eighth graders applying on time 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, etcetera.

This is an older data point because we haven't had updated opportunities on services to schools. But I think it's really telling and really important that the folks who use our systems, the principals, the central office folks, say that they're getting a better product and they're getting better service year over year. I wanna go to strategy two. Increased 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, OUSD 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? 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. 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 OUSD is not considered a viable option. When you make it a viable option, you fade a completely bootstrap yourself into that conversation and have folks start considering you in a different way. We talk about some schools that are like pre tour. You have to get them to a point where people are like, I'd like to learn more. We don't start there.

And so this is part of what we do. And so that's about you know broadly advertising all of our enrollment deadlines and timelines, digital advertising, print, billboards people see a lot at. It also means tabling at city events. So at Pride, at Black Joy, at the Laurel Street Fair, I'm trying to make sure we're in 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 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. 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 interviewing high school graduates and saying where are you going to college, that we have TK Tuesdays that we show off our amazing TK teachers showing Oakland goes outdoors. One of our enrollment marketing team leaders was with went to an OGO event with Bret Hart Middle School and just like got all the great experiences of kids being in the outdoors, sometimes that type of context for the first time. It's really important to tell those stories. Right?

Killian, I'm gonna remind you, you're about twenty minutes now.

I'm at twenty minutes?

Yeah. Really?

Yeah. That's insane.

I love your excitement.

Well, keep going. I'm gonna go faster.

Again, about two more minutes.

Yeah. Let's do it. This was for this was a specific this was always gonna 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. 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 against those systems. 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 trajectory moving forward, and showing pretty significant gaps. 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. I'm going to briefly touch on focal schools.

We focus on a series of focal schools every single year, and we provide 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. Provided you a list of those schools 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. Okay, appreciate the reminder on time. So just some reflections moving forward.

We are not funded for twenty sixtwenty seven. We were modestly funded for this year and made up the difference with carryover. And so the work that I've shared is not scheduled to continue, and we have no FTE allocated. So there's both the kind of hard dollars that we use to advertise and buy things for schools, that is, we don't have a plan to continue that, and the two staff members who own this work and lead it have received March 15 notices. So that means that the enrollment focal school work would be ending, the PLCs we run for sites to do their own internet and websites would be ending, social media promotion outreach would be over, our advertising would be done, and then we would have just kind of a reduced capacity to respond to schools and especially when they're trying to do thought partnership and strategic planning.

We would also, just some reflections and next steps to wrap this and I'm happy to take questions. We do believe this work was successful on key metrics, but as stated we don't have funding and that feels unfortunate. 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, there's no one, no FTE in it. Because that hampered us from the start and we were never able to bring change.

We have a pending contract for FM three to do public interest polling as we look forward, and both to support bond initiatives, our partners with OCI have asked for a question to be in there, and then continue to do kind of progress like time one, time two on how we're doing with some of with the open community. And then as we do our we do our last, we implement our revised strategic plan. The department will be reconceived as an operational department, not a strategic one, because of lack of capacity. 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. Just, and in that vein, I just wanna thank the two members of the enrollment marketing team for their work.

Jane Liao, who is an alumnus of Oakland Unified, and Bobby Jordan, who's both an OUSD parent and the partner of a long time OUSD staff member. They've done really great work. And I've given 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, an appreciation for what you've presented, and I I especially, focused in on strategy one When, 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 wanna 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 wanna 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.

Director Williams?

Director Baker? 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, we'll try to package the things that we learned. We have a playbook that we've given schools. They prefer to say can you all do it? And we usually say yes. We will then start having to say no to those things.

And I think there's just, there's things you can do for free, and then there's things that cost money. And I think I can't by myself lead an enrollment marketing team or lead this work. I don't think it's appropriate to try or to promise something that can't be delivered on. And so I think those things will just stop. There's definitely like kind of a vision that's in our district that most of this was just TK expansion.

And so we're kind of, and I don't mean this snarkily, we're kind of running that experiment. And we're testing that hypothesis. Because we won't have the ability to really do much else. And we're not gonna stop having an attitude of yes, and we're not gonna stop serving families, and we're not gonna stop caring about this stuff, but if we're not funded to do it, we can't.

Director Bensler. Oh, director Williams. I'm sorry.

Oh, sorry. Yeah. Thank you for the presentation. Appreciate it. You know, I we've always we when we talk, you know, I do appreciate the work you've done in District 3.

And in a way this, like, 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 ten year plan, really, you know, because, I mean, we have to look that far out in the future. Even the state has required the 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, we have the Oakland Coliseum that, you know, brother Ray Bobbin is working on, you know.

So there's opportunities there over this next decade. 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 in my heart I'm worried. I I think we've all on the board are really trying to reflect and really reflect on what our priorities are as a board.

How how do where are we gonna move to? 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 that we need to continue to work together to move some forward. And and thank you for the progress.

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, seventeen seconds left.

Didn't have a clock.

That was why I

saw it.

You should've put me on a clock.

Yeah. I could feel some energy coming this way from a yellow blouse over there. But but, you know, the thing about it is it actually hap this happened in tandem. Preston is really invested in d three 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 wanna thank you and and press as well. Thank you.

Oh, you wanna yeah. Lana.

Yeah. I think I just first and foremost wanna thank you, and I'll also echo that Jaynan and Bobby are amazing. And I think it's always very lovely to see my kids go to Prescott, so he's like a star, Jayden is, when he comes. So I, you know, I think just that work is really, really so important. 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. One, whether you've kind of modeled out what that means for our annual operating budget as a district. Like what does the investment in enrollment stabilization mean compared to what, you know, not investing in that work for what we actually net or bring in as revenue as a district? And my second question is there were, 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.

So like for example, the El Tipano stuff. I'm wondering if there are other things, you know, again, I think I love the magnets and the yard signs, I think. But I'm wondering what are some of the other targeted outreach that will not happen? Especially to groups that we, as you said, like often are not really clear on how they enroll in school. So those are my two questions for you.

You can answer them, thanks.

Yep. Mean I 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 you have a more aggressive projection. And you look at the difference in realized enrollment, and therefore realized ADA against those projections, enrollment stabilization funding has paid for itself at least twice over.

And so it's one of those investments that you could put, 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 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, they'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 staffing issues and things like that. And during those times, other districts were declining double digit 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. No one wants to have declining enrollment. But if you have to, going down less is better than more. I think to your other question, some of like some of what, like the El Tinpo No 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 gonna get insight or access or entree into a community that we haven't really reached yet. But when we have reduced capacity, we may not be able to maximize it in the same way, right. I do continue to think that multi lingual outreach is something that we need to grow and not shrink, Right?

It's something we think a lot about. And we also have a portion of our community that it's not a sign. It's not even a well run website. There needs to be a personal touch. And so that that's on tabling, that's on outreach, that's been we've never we've we've wanted but not been able to maximize like even like what does the enrollment street team look like and how do we target you know what I mean?

And so 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 Killian. I do wanna say to the board, I don't wanna after this wonderful report, I don't want everybody to leave on kind of like a downer in terms of where we are because 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, you know, met with the Eat Learn play 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 the whether it's the Black Joy Parade or the Chinese, you know, all these things. 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 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 are think are are very exciting. In in the past, they've been kind of, you know, medic 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, bringing back a lot of things. 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. This district has raised over a $100,000,000 annually around people who wanna help us.

But we have been 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 wanted 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 wanna go. Now we have to figure out how to fund it.

Sure. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there any public comment on this item?

Yes. We have Azala Labala.

She is not here.

That concludes public speakers.

Okay. 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, meeting time tonight to 11:45, is that what I heard? 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 Brohard?

Yes.

Motions adopted. Time is extended.

The next item on the agenda is our legislative platform and recommended legislation. I wanna preface this for just a short minute here. Oakland Unified Schools service 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 OUSD 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. AB twenty two two two five, closing the achievement gaps gap state operations and support plan introduced by assembly member Patel. AB twenty five fourteen, the state of the achievement gap introduced by assembly member Ransom.

And AB seventeen fifty, school employees absences due to illness or act accident introduced by assembly member Colosa. The ad hoc legislative committee also recommended an opposed position on s b ten sixty seven 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. I need to I will now I'll turn this over in a minute to Leilani Algonado, 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 sorry. T one and t sorry. T two and t three together.

Is there

a motion to adopt?

I'll make a motion to adopt T226Dash0991 and T326 Dash0 one zero zero six to be taken together but recorded separately.

Second. Second.

Good evening. It's 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, and both of us are here to answer any questions that anyone may have about the legislation and the recommended actions.

My goodness. Yep. Okay. Go ahead.

I just wanna make one comment on the platform related to school finance. The way that platform is structured I think is appropriately focused on like school finance, literally the L CAP, LCFF. And I think at there are other revenue 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 Medi Cal front to you know what could happen in terms of helping to ensure that our parents and caregivers can afford basic needs living here in Oakland. And so I think in future conversations when we convene as a board to track legislation and even in our meetings, think it would be helpful to have conversations about some of those other it's not school finance per se, but I think it shapes and affects our ability to do what we have to do as a school district on

the fiscal front. I agree. Are there any other questions? I can as well. Easy, guess.

Mister Rip, public comment.

For public comment, have Farzad Laba. I don't think she's

Is here.

K. Mister Reichstrek, can we have roll call?

On the roll call to consider considering t two and t three together, what we recorded separately. Student directors are absent. Director Barry. Yes. Director Lauter?

Yes.

Director Hutchinson is absent. Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Thompson?

Yes.

Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

And president Brohard?

Yes.

Motion's adopted.

Alright. Next is t four, and I'd like to make a motion to move t four and t five together 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. Board colleagues, any questions or comments about t four and t five?

Okay. Public comment on these two items. I

have Rosalu Labala.

Don't see her. Does she have her hand raised?

No. That concludes public speaker. Okay.

Alright. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this item.

Alright. Student directors are absent. Director Lauder?

Yes.

Director Thompson?

Yes.

Director Williams? Yes, sir. Director Hutchinson is absent. Director Barry?

Yes.

Vice president Bachelor?

Yes.

And president Burhart?

Yes.

Okay. Motion's adopted.

The next item on the agenda is Oh, I don't have anything. Any board Actually, I do. Just a short one. I think some of us attended the Martin Luther King Oratorical Fest at 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 young man in particular who was, you know, 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, his name was August. And he had such presence on the stay I mean, on the stage. His he just captivated this whole auditorium. So, again, I think this is really the power of when we do more than just teach writing and speaking, but we teach that power of oratory.

And you could really tell from the students again that they really, and it's a different skill than public It's it's, you know, really from the heart, it really is a motivational kind of thing. So, I I was really pleased to be able to attend that. Yeah. That's it. Board reports?

Director Thompson.

Yeah. I'll make this real quick. I had the opportunity to visit Faith in 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. A number of the city council persons were there. The director of, whatever that department is that cleans up stuff, the public works. Yeah. 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 all of these emails from parents, you know, about my some of my schools were sort of obstructed because or the path of the school was obstructed 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 wanna report. I'm just really glad that they're doing something to help all of our schools.

Yeah. I just wanna highlight a couple of events happening for district one schools. The one that's coming up very quickly is the Oakland Tech production of Radium Girls. There's three showings over the next couple of days, so if you're interested, you can buy tickets and support the student actors. And also on Monday at four p.

M. At Grand Lake is the Oakland International Film Festival. So Zach Silverman, who's the lead of the Media Academy, kind of worked with the students to produce their own films. The tickets are not very expensive. It's only $5 for students and alum and then $15 for adults.

And it's always a great way to not just see the work that's being produced by students, but also get more insight into kind of the perspective of our newcomer students.

Director Williams? Alright. 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 twenty fifth, that's this Saturday at 10AM. We can talk about the budget. We can talk about visioning for the future.

I hope to see folks there coughing on me. Hasta Muerte?

The next item is new agenda. Introduction of a new sorry. Any introduction of new legislation. Alright. With that, we are adjourned.