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January 29, 2022 Special Board Meeting

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thank you I'd like to read a comment from my ex Angelo the thing to do it seems to me is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's Cloud somebody who may not look like you may not call God the same name you call God if they call God at all I may not dance your dances or speak your language but be a blessing to somebody that's what I think Maya Angelou alright Rihanna would you please follow I'm sorry I'm sorry good morning my  minor on piano trustee presidents at Leslie Statler thirsty Jason Smith present and work Martinez President we have a quorum thank you will you please stand for the flag salute place your right hand over your heart ready yet for the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God thank you okay item 1.3 adopt the agenda are there any changes to the agenda may I have a motion as to adopt agenda and it has posted i s I have a motion by me math and a second by mistreatment please cast your vote all those in favor Terri Nunn I don't want part 3 passes 1.4 capturing for Community, we have do we didn't receive any Community comments via email can I have three requests address the board of education so how it's going to work this morning is that when I call your name you'll go over with balance she'll be at work so I first comment comes from Mary Hamlin morning you want to read that what you want to read at this time the future follow up Gianni bini what is dedicated to serve come to you today with a proposal and that is a partnership family with a substitute teacher sorry where is a band and I'm trying but we would like to serve students in their hand I didn't hear that I have the volume Amazon can you hear me can you hear me now okay alright I'll I'll get close to here and sort of repeat myself I'm with Faith and Action it's a nonprofit that is dedicated to helping the low in come and the homeless and we would like to partner with the school district to provide a resource center and services to assist serving the students and their families could be as simple as providing a pair of shoes for a student or a jacket or helping one of their parents find a job rental assistance we would be able to connect them with the services that they need the issue for us is we need a place and we have seen the place at 210 North San Gorgonio which used to be a furniture store it's right by Central Elementary and we would like to start a discussion to see how we can work together to serve the students their families and the community we could we would like to establish the thrift store high class thrift store that would bring in the income needed we could have Unemployment Center we would have connections to resources I didn't mention this but I used to work for DPSS lacounty DP and I know how frustrating it can be to deal with the with the county where we would be able to assist people to get prepared to deal with the county we help with replacing IDs all sorts of services I mention that the Teamster's Union is interested in starting some training programs in the area we could have a training center there the possibilities are endless but I proposing this so that we can start a discussion and see how we can work together to support the students their families in the community and then I asked if there were any questions yes okay yes 501 c 3 in good standing a few years we we just recently in the past year became pretty active but it's been it's been here for a while any other questions set it okay thank you for your attention thank you Miss Hamlin and I speaker Nathan Patterson first of all thank you for having me here I want to thank dr. Baker for having me come on a Saturday morning I'm so grateful I got a parent complained to me said that one of their kids called and said that the school would punish him for something to happen. If they were really upset so they ran over to the school and they found out he hadn't done his homework that joke alright so let's move on this morning I talked I'm here to talk about school security school resource officers and our philosophy and how we're going to implement that I know we approve that just a few months ago I know you guys are the School Board of Trustees approved that and then the city council approved it a lot of people who may not understand the hiring of a police officer the training of one the higher an officer and a train and takes more than a year that's a long time and you know years ago Banning Police Department was known as what they called Second Chance Police Department we don't do that what that meant was that officer didn't do so well somewhere else and he gets a second chance. We don't do that. Our philosophy if they're not high-quality we don't take them so those days are over so to find high-quality individuals you want to do this job was a challenge Nationwide we had departments all across the United States that are hundreds and hundreds of Oscar short but having said that we've created an environment and a culture that the banner where we're getting good in fact I was just teased by a large Municipal Police Department talk about how we just stole two of their officers and and we get that's absolutely true and I will just tell you my phone play about how we're going to operate just this past week in fact I have an email printed off I didn't bring it so I I brought it up on my phone and it says greetings Chief and it's got a bunch of a thank-you Post-it notes we had a great day yesterday we appreciate the will always receive from your team Lieutenant Derek Badger detective Jack aware of the tatted up then Sable Corporal hideagate detective him and his officers Timothy an hour that's a lot of boxes to be working on something outside of normal duties that we're able to do that this week for the school so which I'm very proud of we work very closely together I want to know how much I appreciate Doctor Baker we have a very we have the same philosophy we're here about helping young people see the life that's that's our goal so one of the things and we and we have a plan to put a school resource officer at the school in very short order our first one of the three so I'm very excited to announce that I want you to understand our philosophy together is when there's a problem with the school and we get a call from an administrator the Oscar goes directly to that administrator says hey what is our best course of action what would you like to see how they went where do we need to go cuz I think that is crucial in determining the plan of action to make sure that that young person is is treated at the processes fault ensure the safety of everyone but also to make we're helping that young person to see whoever they are I think that's crucial nobody's operating in a vacuum here there's things that school administrators know we're not aware of it they've known this young child of this you that young man young woman for you. all the years of schooling many times they have a lot more background and that young person's life and so they share that and then that Oster that administrator works as a team and doing what's best for the school district for the other kids that young person and so we work together at night or Silas and we all know what happened to me if you don't operate that way thanks typically aren't done what's best for that young person and that's why I want you to understand that that's our fault and I was just reading by one of your staff members who said that no don't hear a lot of people talk and yeah we all do how many trainings and meetings do we go to the other you just at some point you like okay waiting until I get to get something out of and they said a story that I related really touched her heart and I wish you understand that that's my philosophy and policing is and I've been doing this for 32 years I work in a city that was larger than San Francisco in 2013 which is when I left the City NE Apolis Indiana 23 years there and then I went to an island in Washington state which was pretty much the antithesis of Indianapolis no crime are very wealthy and and so the different demographic and then coming back to Banning which I have I love it here I'm the happiest are I will say that the course we spent 23 years of the 12th largest city in America that you can get tired but I tell you the story that my mother in Tennessee when I was in first grade I remember my first grade teacher I love her to this day her name is Rebecca Griffin we get stopped back then cars had to be inspected I don't know how you and I might be on the same page open the bottom left-hand side of the windshield and if you couldn't pass inspection you get a license plate but you to past texts are going to be operate we never get my cards never passed we were missing mufflers and bald tires and my mom had that gave birth to 15 children by 15 kids so we're packing to a 1964 Plymouth Valiant and a sheriff's deputies pulled us over and I'm sitting on my brother's lap real back then car seats and seat belts are not a thing and I asked the deputy walked up to my mom's side and I'm sure my brother's lap right behind my mother the course what do I get out then you know big mouth I got to tell Mom and I remember the sheriff's deputy in the ceiling. They looked at all those kids my mom dressed in a muumuu and flip-flops she said son I'm not writing your mama ticket why do I remember that why do we all think about that he realized it right in her taking them to her and she wouldn't pay that ticket still waiting to get new tires or Muffler and so I've never forgotten that so I teach my options the same thing have a little compassion forget about that. Don't be condescending treat that person like it's a family member think of something your family that you love and adore your mom your dad and uncle and brother sister and nephew and niece and just thing that was that person when you're when you're interacting with unless that's our fault now I need to go to jail the good Lord is going to go to jail but we can do it with kindness we can do it with with proper attitude is so that's that's our philosophy here and in Banning and that's what I I hire officers exactly what I tell her that's it if you don't like that this isn't apartment for you cuz that's how we're going to operate so I hope you know that that's our philosophy that that I I work and dr. Baker came to the city council and talk about after I was with also have an attorney from the District Attorney's office has said that 82% of all prison inmates 82% don't have a high school degree so if we can get some of the graduate from high school we've given them a leg up going to give them the opportunity to succeed and lead a successful life and be good I do the things that make them happy so that's our goal to and you know I remember the days when when people thought that my mom and dad were not in the right mind with each other and every single one stop it you do a doctorate a master's and at least a bachelor's degree and there was a time in my oldest brother left high school and don't get me wrong I have great Educators I'm in it I teach at Mount San Jacinto and call out to the desert Club in here keep classes but he wrote on his college application in 1974 that this young man was not College material and then if he was to be accepted he would be a blow average student that was my oldest brother and a lot of people thought that cuz they look at my mom and everybody won't have 15 kids are not going to go well and my brother graduate summa c** laude it's undergrad and graduate law school magnacumlaude I order a toy review and now has authored 4 books on search and seizure and now sitting judge but it wasn't College material so at my point is I tell every young person I mean you can do anything that is my mom used to say the secret everyone success is being told you can't be stopped so I was told my mom said we should all go back and talk to that guy 13 kids. My mom had friends that passed away before I was born all 13 the kids and show them how successful is now you need to go thank you because by and say what he did to your oldest brother pushed everybody to see so I guess that's the proper attitude mom always did do the right thing so I share that with you and tell you that that's our philosophy and if you see that that's not what we're doing call me doctor Baker's not afraid to call me when she calls and says jump I asked her how high so but truthfully we want to work together served on the school board by the way to Indianapolis for 4 years and when I realized I could accomplish by the one of the copies I ran for the state legislation that I lost cuz I wasn't the powerful politician but I understand I've got on a snowboard for 4 years our district when my kids were growing up in the Annapolis and I know your child's I thank you for your service each and everyone of you it's not an easy job and I know you're criticized and emailed and told you should have done something differently many times and now you just got to do the right thing I think we all believe in that so you got any questions for me I'm more than happy to answer anything you want to ask me you got a lively on a Saturday morning well thank you then we've accomplished at least one of our many goals and that is to make sure that we provide a secure environment for that you guys put your staff and all your members can do their job and without fear or without feeling unsafe because it's it's hard to learning environment or you don't for sure we know that one last thing I want to tell you when I asked my mom she's 92 by the way and I asked Mom I said that Mom how you doing she was mad and you remember all those women that told me have a 15 kids and I would young age yeah I remember that just guess what they're saying that I go watch it all dad so my mom's a tough bird and I love her to death but I I want to make sure that that we're doing what we can to help you so like I say if there are concerns or complaints or you think we can do something better you know they say a great leader not only accept correction. so I'm trying to be that I'm trying to see if there's something we can do better I tell doc make and let me know it will be better so thank you for your time thank you so much cheese hammer okay the next speaker is Mason Patterson who are the members of the community has been doing and keeping our schools and putting students first I know that there's a bit of concerns around substitute teachers and everyone's having substitute teachers yesterday I'm in my own job I was a first grade teacher for the day I know that no matter what in all the districts are having we're having these issues I know that either standing up and sending their stuff out to help and great on them for supporting our school the teachers have been working really really hard put kids first in this area and I'm just thankful thankful for that also the rest of the district support staff it's amazing because of course it's not just here and sometimes we just hear this story but whether it's the police department the fire department's the staff at the local grocery store what is struggling through this is hard this sickness is just continue to spread and it's sometimes it's hard to put the needs of ourselves behind to support these kids and support our students are really appreciate the work that's been done this is that all so long I want to say thank you to the school board many times you guys come under I think some unfair scrutiny as if being a member and I said this before is it be a member of the school board somehow was going to help you be thinking about I'm if you were going to get me because because you know you're on the school board said how you get great things like I don't know maybe that the best tea to Gianni Russo the truth is you just work really really hard you go to meetings on Saturday morning when you want to be out doing things your family you're up late on on on regular be tonight you're busy schools you're doing all the things that we really appreciate it sometimes and I've heard this a little bit sometimes the members of the community forget we all grew up together and that we probably shouldn't be making personal attacks on anybody as we work together to support kids and so I just really want to say thank you for the work that you guys do I know that that sometimes you get grieving and sometimes we disagree and that's okay but we need to continue to put students first time I seen the work that you guys have done on whether it be working with with Doctor Baker and the staff will there be working through that make things better for our classified staff making it so that we had were able to recruit new teachers more years with her and streamlining the process isn't working on the customer service center at our school office has all those things I really appreciate and I can see in addition to that once again I just want to say you know thank you to everybody who's working to support since recently I've heard I'm hearing more and more some preoccupation with the challenges with adults now course we got to work on those things too but please become preoccupied with the challenges that adults have we need to focus on kids what that's for kids every month every one of these meetings I want to see I want to hear more about what we're doing for kids because even with the the good things that we've done and the fee I would never step forward on we still have issues with her skin performance keeping our students engaged especially during this time whenever you know there's lots of sickness of things going on making sure that we remain focused on extracurricular activities Sports and most things making our school successful to help our kids and to help families more families want to move to Banning as always the truth is if you do some the rumor I was going to get along but the kids need to weigh every single time so I appreciate your service thank you so much I appreciate the work that the school and that everyone in the school district and I appreciate my fellow parents who are working double shifts because someone can come in and understand I understand and appreciate just as much how hard it is when we don't have substitute teachers but they need to send their kids to school number one to get their indication but also because they have to go to work and provide for their families sometimes we lose sight of that when we get a little bit focused on the me but we need to be but we need to stay more focused and we need to be like I said more occupied with how are we going to come out of this next step and continued their service in bed as a kid but thank you very much thank you very much mr. Mason our next speaker is Kenneth. good morning bored talking to Patterson I might seem like a lightning rod so I am appreciative of everything but one of my concerns for coming in for the community comments here this morning is what just recently happened with shutting down all of our sports that's one of the things I've also got question nothing about academics to something to help with academics my daughter don't bring up the sports being shut down totally over here at the high school it affected a lot of kids a lot of these kids some of their access to college and some of them are through Greg all right but the course the guy was supposed to got to do the grades and the sport by doing what was just done to these kids you expect of their opportunities take the opportunity to go forth and as a parent also I mean my kid is already graduated from you and and got a scholarship to college he's in college and playing basketball in college graduating from here from back I don't think that the parents were note well enough to know that this was going to happen it was just all of a sudden and then whenever I try to seek answers I went down to the district to get answers I left a message there from the bush about the bush that was 2 weeks ago never got a I never got anything and I've heard that oh you know you know maybe the message got lost I was six feet away from the door I'll six feet away from her door I gave the lady that the message standing right there so watch her ride the whole 9 yd so to me that's not it that's not a good excuse if it was my kid I would let him get away with that skew I don't think that's a good excuse okay so and I just ate all my wife sleep make sure you stay calm when you're saying cuz I pretty upset but the fact that we couldn't get a word of what was happening and who made the call to shut down everything and we were not given a chance to say anything was ridiculous right because I was too then that it was the cause of transportation that you couldn't get transportation that people with six okay well the past will okay well there's legal issues with that okay or before we partnered with him and so you can do that so did anybody look to call him I don't know it was wasn't notified okay if that's a problem also we Charter I've got friends that have called the charter people that we normally use and they said oh yeah we ready to go no problem so to us as parents a bunch of people want to talk that's going on around town and around people that are the kids in sports and know it if it wasn't a good decision that was a good decision at all it affect the kids also specially whenever you go to everything in our league Desert Hot Springs Indio you know Yucca 29 Palms all of them guess what they were doing they were all planned Sports to the fullest I went straight next door here to Tacoma really, upset me I was out of elementary school over there everything was going just as normal and Kids come out of there just as happy they were functional I mean I understand that. But I guess that's how you believe I've got a background in metal I understand that you got to look out for everyone but if the parents are given a choice to choose maybe the parents house and knowledge that you don't necessarily have and they're not afraid of certain things I can see given the choice okay if you afraid of something then you got a choice to choose not to go to that or not to do that but that doesn't mean that the kid that wants to go and the parent that wants their kid to go don't have a choice to also let them go I don't think that's it that's a good choice or what so I will however you can Rectify that it communicating with the parents would be good I just I didn't like the communication with that and I understand that is trying to get back it's a little tough now because the season actually ends this coming week so you don't make makeup look up for that my second thing before I run out of time was I just found out here last week my daughter is an honor student but it is in the honor classes here and when I want a English honors classes she's given and that book was called Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart she began to tell me some of the things about this book but that I'm not comfortable reading this book I said well alright with you I emailed the teacher and told her to ask her you know what they do with this particular assignment and would it be okay that you can you can you get my daughter a different assignment give her a different choices book 3 I don't want to read this particular book you know I think it's inappropriate she was great it was great when Gabe sent my daughter home with something the next day but what disturbs me was one of her I asked her that if she could give me something different she said no she says this is what I was giving what I'm being told that we got out of present this is the curriculum that's being, so we'll wait a minute I just had a cake right now I don't want to just go on what do you mean this is your only choice you don't have another choice because in case someone don't like this particular thing and she says no this is this is what we're giving this year so I've got bigger concerned with that because this particular book seems to me maybe some of you have heard this term I avoided using it in my email McCord other watch but it's called critical race Theory that's what this that's what this is headed for and I and I do not condone it and I'm a black male so anybody that wants to go out with me with that that's fine that's okay you know it's alright I don't I don't condone it and some of the things in the the book and the way that it was praying it is strictly for race race race race and I'm just not a I'm not a believer in okay I'm a black man and I have succeeded in doing what I've done in medicine and so forth being black and it's not a not a black white green yellow brown thing if you put the work in to get the results I got a son it done the same thing and my daughter is doing the same thing so you know I don't buy it rub on the farms of South Georgia and you know I don't that accept excuses just work and get it done okay so I would ask that the board or I would like to ask a question I know you probably can't discuss with you but as a parent would like to know why was okay just change why was it changed at the kids graduating doing fine and we got kids and all kinds of schools from all the elites who is Berkeley from here why did it needed to be changed and why wasn't there giving another alternative for them to be able to the reader do they report them work with me well but what made this that this was the choice this particular book in that curriculum and I would like to know what the curriculum so as of that I would also like to request that so you can send the email out to the parents let us know okay what are the correct being chosen for the school I know they got another name for inclusion and equity and inclusion and Equity what about the top of my head but I don't condone it and I watching out for my daughter's only here for a couple more years but that doesn't mean that the kids coming behind them that that they won't need to be necessary to protect it from from them being told you can't do something because of your rest you can only go so far because of your race and that you know everything done here everything fine if you was all done in slavery and it's open so long not true not true I'm also a better all right I serve serve in the military I definitely don't get along with any of that stuff what appreciate your time and I look forward to seeing you all respond have it is if you have a sponsor okay thank you now the books called yet thank you mr. Scott and I did take notes on what you had to say and will do my best so I'm not going to speak for the board but I I remember asking because critical race theory is something I personally wanted to avoid all together because of the height that follows it so I will personally look into this and and see what is going on cuz I personally for me I don't like critical race Theory either so I'm going to see what's going on with my name is Laura Laura Troutman I agree I agree thank you so now in person are there any is there any one address wishing to address the board regarding this agenda mr. Nicholson yes I would I would like to talk to the facility's programs and projects that we have been working on over the course of time since May of 2020 but before I start talking about facilities I just like to reflect for a moment on some comments that the chief of police made regarding the school security which is top of the list of items we have been working on the comments from the store Patterson about keeping schools open Student performance and Mister Scott's comments about the sports facilities being closed because all of those comments are interrelated and perhaps have some direct relationship to your school district's facility programs so from from my perspective than from the time that I have been working with your district and may of 2020 we are we are now 20 months into a program that was initiated on the Fly literally because at the time that we came to Banning and we became part of your community and part of the fiber. is working towards improvements we've been under the leadership of dr. Baker the entire time and while all of these things were happening and going on there was this thing called a pan gimmick that was overlaying everything that was happening and as time went on during these 20 months things got worse and worse and worse and all of a sudden we were facing other challenges including loss of staff due to all of these medical situations including workers comp and other instances that put us short-staffed at one point in time I looked around and it was Doctor Baker and Bob and we were staring at each other wondering how in the world are we going to address all of the things that are happening and the crumbling of our facilities and and I want you to really focus on that word crumbling because from my perspective things were happening that are going to influence the things that the chief of police are going to need to address things that Miss Patterson and his influence are going to need to address thanks that mister Scott and his comments are going to need to address because literally your facilities are RC I think that were neglected for probably 30 years or more and the only facility in the district that was really getting the focus was the high school and it continues to receive a lot of focus but in the mix of all of this there are things that are going on that are going to have a direct influence over this district and where it goes Rancho San Gorgonio is going to build homes and homes are going to produce students and the need for facilities is going to exist when those students look around and the closest school to them is the high school when we think about schools is neighborhood schools and within walking distance we should reflect on these things because the entire facilities program has been derived and they're driven towards addressing the neighborhood School issues and challenges and ensuring that your students the students that the people who addressed the board this morning gave testimony about that are going to need to be understood because those facilities have no voice the voice of facilities are the members of your community not just the board not just the superintendent and her staff not just the people who come and give testimony the entire Community is going be looking around and saying she might my neighborhood school and it is not looking exactly the same as our neighboring District things are happening that we're not addressing what happens when a cool becomes so dilapidated that the division of the state architect visit your campus and puts a red tag on the building and you can't use the building anymore what happens if some things that we've we've negotiated a settlement for the construction defects at the tennis courts at the high school we've negotiated with the Riverside County Flood Control District for improvements to the Gilman home flood Chan alongside Banning High School athletic fields that's part of the development project and part of the master planning that every District in the state of California has to engage in to ensure that it has added facilities but also facilities that aren't falling into a ditch and when I came on board and the first conversation that we had with dr. Baker and with the Riverside County Flood Control District we learned that the erosion at the high school so this is a project that really needs attention so the so the Flood Control District offered a couple of solutions and we offered a couple of solutions and part of that was a previous boards subject a building a school at Rancho San Gorgonio the conversations about facilities are are going to be surrounded by how do we do this where does the money come from which which direction do you go first and the reality is we don't go first anywhere we go first everywhere we have to pay attention to all of the schools that belong to us and we have to pay attention to the need to have students in the news developments that are occurring Loma Linda is going to have some homes built some students are going to come out of that development they need a place to go to school that is as good as if not better than any new construction and it might be done territory transfer has been a big part of the dialogue and the board has been directly involved and the at-will development is continuing to grow and it's in the city of banning some of those students may very well elect to go into batting schools they have that choice so it's something to consider The Negotiator with the Rancho San Gorgonio development are ongoing to find a mechanism and a source and a way of building a new school and finding sources were funding that that are not necessarily coming out of the general fund better coming from some other location whether that's a local Bond or a community facility District or school facility improvement district or some other creative mechanism that we put in place to build new school so that maybe we don't have to go out to the community and put a tax burden in the community we put the the effort towards building in within the community that's develop and paying for it with those those new homes they're coming from those particular location we've been the owner's representation for your district for the pack and the CTE facility so in the middle of a construction program where some changes to the approved plans were occurring we stepped in and started having lots of conversations we stopped you talkin about how are we going to pay for this we were in we were informed that there was over a two million-dollar deficit for the project and that there wasn't a source of fun to complete the project which meant that we would be going to contractors and Architects and inspectors and other people on the project and saying sorry we're going to have to stop construction because we don't have enough money to complete the construction we can't get her into a contract unless we have the funding to support entering into that contract so the conversations that Doctor Baker and and I and others who were coming onto the team had with that team were very challenging and we had to find ways and we did find ways we found we found ways of funding the rest of the construction while we waited for the state to provide the last three million dollar G that was part of nine million dollars that were received from the state to build that facility that is a 36 million-dollar diamond and banning and is going to bring a lot of that too glad you think about the activity from the pack and for the CPE and from what we are philosophically saying is going to occur within our student population and the dentist at the distance is going to have to that student population it has to have the linkage to how do we expand the high school to add other programs and where would we put those on a campus that is close to being over overpopulated if Edition it's come from development and the answer to that is Gillman home Channel needs to be a a box situation where we can have access over the top of that flood control channel so that we expand high school programs but also so that we can look at having a school that serves the population when it at the k6a K-8 or whatever we do with that in terms of it being a specialized school has to be linked to all of the things that we're trying to do with the Gillman home Channel as well as with the high school as well as with the Career Technical education Pathways that were exploring and building a pond help have additional successes for the graduation rate at Banning Unified School District facilities have no voice and at the end of the day it's about keeping the schools open and keeping them safe and keeping students engaged Studies have shown that new facilities are going to improve academic performance and new facilities are going to draw new students into the district in fact we might be drawing students from the Atwell development if we have the improvements that were talking about at the high school because Nation for the district-wide modernization program resulted in conversations with the board about world-class facilities and those words were not taken lightly and the development of that program was not taken lightly at all was a comprehensive program that was surrounded by the fact that we have some money coming in to the district that we didn't anticipate having prior to the covid and all of the things that the state federal government were doing to help districts to continue the process of engaging students and being successful with the students emphasis on the students because it's not about the adults it's all about the students that the students are the people who we are serving Within These facilities just picture for a moment the collapse of a roof in a classroom just picture that because we didn't maintain a picture what happens if the HV AC units who are Way Beyond their there age limitations their lifecycle aren't replaced the quality of air in the classrooms is affected but more importantly those units have stopped operating several times we had to put people on projects on the spot to ensure that the health of the students and the staff that were in those facilities was protected because it gets hot and it gets hot in inside those classrooms biking that too when people take their dog to the to the store with them and they close the windows and the commercials that we've all heard and seen where the the inside temperature is 120 130 degrees very quickly in 5 minutes will a classroom gets really hot very quickly and if we don't have operable windows and we don't have doors that are functional then that classroom is going to be unusable and we're going to have to take it outside what what happens if it's raining cats and dogs out so so all of those things are imprecise in the program that we implemented under the world-class facility and we have made a lot of significant improvements to the these throughout the district for example we're still working on the relocation of the admin office at the high school and that has stalled because there are some structural situations that have to take this through to the division of the state archives I work for approval but we're still looking at options and Ways and Means of addressing that in a way to be able to have a single point of entry from the front of the campus and have it stamped so doing some things with furniture that may very well address that as a temporary resolution to the overall solution that were looking to in in regard to that which is have the library converted to admin and have the admin could headed to the library lots of lots of work that needs to be done on that particular process and it's a very large number for that Improvement we purchase roofing material and we purchased that truancy Maps the the you know I just forgot what female Smith I haven't written down but but we've been over that a couple of times in the past in the point is that we purchased materials that are poor of the construction project that a company is doing to improve all of the roofs throughout the district now we've had some setbacks because we had some supply chain issues we had some labor issues we had some challenges but we still approaching it and still working on it and it is an in-progress process of getting those roofs repaired the school buses air conditioning is in progress furniture and equipment for all of the school site is in progress Asbestos and lead paint abatement surveys and activities are in progress heating ventilation and air conditioning is in progress window replacement is in progress painting is in progress has been in progress and we've completed a significant amount of flooring for the district paging for paging speech speakers and clocks at all site improvements to the rubber surface plague is in progress and there are several places that still need a lot of work to make them better for the students that use those can't have those facilities and reduce injuries because of the wood chips and the processes that we have there air purification systems are in place furniture and equipment for the for the CTE and pack are in place installation of LED signs throughout the district is ongoing playground repairs are ongoing kitchen upgrades are ongoing Athletic Field improvements are ongoing removal of the Portable Buildings at the district main office is a work-in-progress replacement the track at Nicolet Middle School is is a work-in-progress purchase of LED signs and cellular service signs are in progress HVAC analysis was completed we didn't get enough information from that so we had to go back to them and request some additional information so that we can make good decisions about replacing our HP AC unit office space for the District staff been accomplished HV AC unit replacement at Nicollet is in progress L and athletic field inspections for improvement is in progress athletic field work is being done the purchase of the bottle filling hand wash stations was completed but is still a work-in-progress because we discovered that we need some additional items shade shelters awnings over serving areas are working progress radios for security staff we completed uniforms for security we completed transportation management system is a work-in-progress bus communication systems is a work in progress tree removal and tree trimming is a work-in-progress just imagine if the trees don't get trimmed and branches start falling in somebody gets injured the CNG compressor repair is a on the books in progress process that has been delayed because there were a couple of instances that created some additional cost for that that we didn't have the funding for the gym floor at Nicolet was was fixed the bottle filling stations everywhere being being addressed I hope to page six sorry the elevator elevator repairs at the high school the stuff didn't happen by Magic the repairs that were necessary were identified we continued to address things in a master planning mode we've done things with the districts such as capacity closest throughout the district to see where is our where are our seats that are underutilized and how could we take advantage of that and where are we not having enough students eating that we need address and what are the conditions within each and every single classroom which we've gone over and over again we prepared demographic studies we prepared enrollment projections we prepared facility condition assessment we have created a document that is that is circulating through the district that was I personally went to every principal in the district and had conversation with them about what's happening on their sites and what are they saying and I promised dr. Baker I wouldn't talk for two full hours but I could we've accomplished the solar installation and it is in working order which will reduce the district's consumption of energy by some Factor will that factor is at the moment unknown and we're addressing that by going back to Angie the contractor that in sold it to reanalyze where we were before solar where we are with solar and where we're going to be at after the solar is fully producing and is offsetting our billing there are there are significant other areas that I could go on and on about but I just I just wanted to share with you that these things wouldn't have happened without without very strong leadership because of the time that we entered this process things were not going well things were falling apart there was nobody taking care of many of the things that needed to be accomplished because there was nobody to do the work folks that were out ill and without I think I'm going to stop here and entertain any questions that you might have while there's some great comments in the chat all right thank you mr. Nicholson I think we have one in person, and that would be mr. Ron Duncan this is scary having to you the audio and video follow me around thank you for forgetting the Yen I was on my phone over to Community Center we were doing the food distribution over there today and I saw what's happening on I was afraid all the sudden that I wasn't going to be able to communicate Auto audibly so I thought while I run over here real quick so they're they're waiting for me to get back over there so I won't make this too long but I didn't want to comment on a couple of things one is that I I recognize the fact it did this Administration as well as others throughout the state and I talked to a lot of people as you know I'm on the reorganization school district for our pride Riverside County and a lot of these these people that are in Natasha seat I talk to them on a regular basis and they're all facing the same challenges and same problems it's not any different anywhere else some some clothes down all their schools open recently I know what my wife school is Central she came home and tell me we close down mate schools today and then the next day it was 13 and then they were down 28 is open and now there backup and and and running a little bit again but these are challenging times they were in this covid thing has taken a toll on everyone and I think it's for us is ask District it's critical that we weather the storm that we move through this you just usually and and make things happen the way they should I appreciate the school board I know that your green your brand-new you've only been in 3 years other than Jason your learning everything you can learn and I I appreciate that I also appreciate the fact that that you're you're beginning to understand what it means to be a school board member Master challenge I know when I was first on the state water you know I went in for the interview to to be actually appointed to the board because it was an electric wasn't election-year but they asked me you know why I wanted to be a board member and I said well I'm I'm not really sure some ask me to do this and I said okay I'll do it you know and I didn't need the money obviously and so one of the questions that one of the board members asked me is what do you know about water and I said I know how to drink it and I know how to swim in it and that's all I know and I guess it was funny enough that they appointed me to the board so and I've been on their last 12 years since then I've learned a little bit more about what water is and where it comes from and how difficult it is to get I want to make some comments basically on my sister bar dr. baker specifically we we've worked really close on this reorganization thing for the county and I want you to know that should I it's extremely close going your direction I don't I know this is on everybody can see this but but it is extremely close that doesn't mean it's a guarantee but it looks good we have a brand new chairman who is passionate about making things right and and and doing a good job and Debbie Rex is she's a bulldog much worse than and when when we had the show meeting I don't know that I really swayed a lot of this but committee members to want to vote our way but then we had to close it because we lost our Quorum when we had the second one I had I don't have a butt my phone number I have so many texts coming in. My phone was just blowing up I had to actually turn it off because it was just getting to be ridiculous but I know that both people from Beaumont and banning or passionate about this I know that there are a lot of people from Beaumont they were texting me saying we'd like to see this click back over you because there's no room at the high school kids are just overloaded and classes there's no room in other schools and there's people from Banning who just want Banning have a fair Shake meeting with Doctor Baker in with staff and people that we worked with you know we formulated a game plan went in strong and the second boat was literally 5 to 3 and your favor then some things happened which many of you saw when I went back to 4 to 4 and we recessed again and and now we have a meeting next week just with the committee to actually go over the rules because obviously what we were told in the beginning was not true and so now we're going to go in with the bylaws with State of California is recommendations so we'll know a lot more about what to do so I think what it'll help do to with the committee members that are kind of on the fence and some of the never showed up it'll help them to see that this project is worse moving this forward you have a lot of steps after this one and I hope you leave Natasha and place to to be able to do this because she knows what's going on she's got a great staff of people that are working for her I enjoy working with them you know I was on the other side play for the for the the construction of the Performing Arts Center in the engineering building she saw that through to the end definitely made sure that we were on budget and didn't have to you know come up with any money to be able to pay for it which I thought was also thanks to superintendent Robert Gann you know as far as getting the grant money to help help with that project to but you know Robert and I are not friends but and we were on the oversight committee together but but but you know and I appreciated the fact that he was judicious and going in and getting that that money nobody gets three ground side of the state of California it doesn't happen and then he he made it happen so that was great as far as the staff is concerned the other people that have been hired by dr. Baker all of them to to be great people I like working with Bob and half the time I don't understand what he's talking about but I love working with them to the school language as far as being in the administration side of it but but I I love working with him and I know that he makes a lot of sense a lot of things that I was thinking about saying he had mentioned so I'm going to leave you with that but I wanted you to know just came from that because I just feel strongly that that I needed to be here and I love Danny when my wife and I moved your little lesson 20 years ago we're looking for a place we call home and and grow with people men even though I told you that I asked over 10 years and that was a great experience I let him watch the kids grow and progressing. I firmly believe that Sports really are the education of high school they make better students out of kids because they learn discipline they get to the point where they understand that grades are important and I've seen is go from D students to a student send in 14 years and it does make a difference is my all you know my wife teaches I she's at Central now loving it there likes working working over there they're great people she's teaching 3rd grade she hates teaching remote and I ain't having her home too but that's okay she's not listen to this I'm okay but she doesn't like just like being home and not being able to get a classroom and that's a week to 10 days if she was out just recently cuz one of her students and covid-19 and she was so excited and she is now she's glad I guess there's been some some temporary change has made that that even as a student gets go with her house go over there if they can fleas stay in session which really helps the kids they really struggled a lot with that I know she was so disappointed in the way things were last year the last school year because she just felt like her students really weren't learning online and a lot of times too frustrated her because the kid was signed in 45 minutes and they disappear and she wouldn't see him again you know I'm in the next day to do the same and you know it's hard when you're testing and then I'll send you find out they don't even know the material so I hope that you can use a school board can find a way to keep the kids in class you know no matter what it takes I think that really critically important and I know their doctor Baker's passion about the same thing she likes keep everybody in class and I I really thank you for your time so I got a little emotional but I love this place you know what I love I love being high school and watching watching the girls in Banning I have to tell you Suzanne has been teaching here for about 13 years 14 years and so she's seen a lot of kids to go through the program and we will be we were just recently vacation one of our timeshares and a young lady that was in the office it was the ops manager there was in charge and she was one of Susannah students years ago and she has gone through and got her bachelor's degree and was management and it just turned out great another student she's cheat on others one of her students she's teaching with over at Central the young lady came up to us a few years back that we were over at the Florida Street thing checking our granddaughter into the the kk12 are there over there anyway and Central now walked us and said are you mrs. Duncan and she said I am did you remember me Stash's This Tall now you know Susannah had her when she was like that big and she said I'm sorry I don't know if she told her name she can I get my bachelor's degree and going to be a teacher and now they're teaching together so great things come out of this for any other school district to say that banning is failing is is a lie I totally kids are doing great here the only thing that we need is more of and more money and you have the transfer take place that means a huge and come to this District to help with the education of these kids they say we won't have we don't have enough area for students we definitely we have places to put kids that they won't be overcrowded it'll work we can also build two new schools I'm out of the project over there they don't seem to understand it that project is a 25-year project you're not going to have all the kids jump on board and in one year not going to happen it's going to be over the course of time slow and easy so you'll be able to do new bonding and things of that nature to make this happen I really know what else I can say to saying in your guys support as well as the superintendent Staffing herself but thank you for your time any of you have any questions about anything with respect to the the reorganization I also found out you know Lake greatest showman it was handling it which all of you saw how he handled the vote in the end is I no longer with them and neither is the attorney so you know that so they they took the gag order off of me so I can actually talk to to Doctor Baker and and you know help her with with the preparation for it Debbie Rex came through our opening of the Performing Arts Center New chairman she went back to her school board and said you know what we need to go see this because it's fantastic and we need one so you're doing great thanks keep them going keep them going in the right direction is the one thing that I've always not liked about school board is that you don't give a note you guys because you're all brand new relatively High think I think Jason seen maybe one or two superintendent's besides you don't give the superintendent enough time and and chance to make things work and that's critical you know they got a couple of years to 3 years 4 years sometimes there's not enough to get to the point where they're actually reaching the peak and leveling out and it making things happen the way they should you've got to give them that opportunity we feel the same way on the water board and we get somebody new on and there's personality clashes you know is she blond aboard that I don't like that's the way it is you know but you learn to work together you learn to live together and learn to love each other and that's the key you know making things happen together so I encourage you to keep your your your your nucleus together and work hard together and make it happen I wouldn't be back for Jason have another guy on the board somewhere down the road so he's not the lone man in that Lone Ranger anymore but I know he would appreciate that but I also know that he loves working with all you women do you know he probably won't meet that in person but that's okay but anyway thank you for your time I wish you all the good day and I'm going to head back to park thank you mr. I Believe Miss Montoya is at the end of our public comment so this is the end of our public comment the board will now go into closed session the time is 1020 timer returning from a break we never start a closed session it is now 10:31 ask her resolution 2122 05 section 9 member anguiano is not allowed to participate in the evaluation of dr. Natasha Baker this means that an we're doing our closed-session evaluation of Doctor Baker that member anguiano will not be included if she persists in trying to be in closed session we will have to call the authorities at this time we're time is on Rihanna that she is I'm about to be in closed session anybody have anything they want to say that I cannot attend I am a part of this board and I am allowed to be in clothes Russian you may silence my input from the evaluation but I have a right to sit during closed session because it's not clearly stated in the resolution therefore you're doing it illegally all right so don't for clarification the reason that Miss anguiano has been centered and not allowed to be part of the evaluation of dr. Baker is because she has shared have caused action several times she has been reported to the district attorney and in public comments she has reported out things that have occurred in closed session therefore we do not trust her to be in clothes fashion during the evaluation and therefore we have entered her and she will not be involved at this time we will now go again go to closed session the time is 10:33 alright we're back from closed session and the time is 2:49 please let the record reflect that all the board members are present are named those limits Okay so can you please take roll President Tyler thank you is there motion and a second to adjourn this meeting i s can I have a motion from clerk Martinez Laura and 2nd from all those in favor say aye hearing and the meeting is adjourned at 2:50

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