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BHUSD Regular Board Meeting 10-23-17

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this meeting so the Board of Education of the Beverly Hills Unified School District is called to order is Ed really good do she present will you kindly lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance thank you and I look at these rice please rise and put your right hand over your heart writing begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Andrea the first item on our agenda item 5 is a spotlight on students after Brady and I'll turn this over to Security who will lead us into something new that we're starting at 8 or Borden's thing and we're so happy for the second board meeting to be presenting Spotlight on students and this evening we're going to be hearing from the members of the student body from Beverly Hills High School so let's bring them up good morning everyone my name is a droga do she and the junior class representative an asp and I'll let everyone introduce themselves while get started with the power my name is Sean to be I'm also Junior and the junior vice president is being also The Deco president Hi Mera Tera Bean I'm in service-learning and I work with a bunch of committees I am truly mattered on the freshman and just doing Service Learning Iowa senior I'm sure and I am the commissioner with ASB and I'll sit and get them out of the recessive Jessup I'm here Samantha the song Miss Lucy came to me with a project on how we can tell the school board what we're doing an SBR clubs are various programs service-learning interact everything all those good stuff that we can Beverly has to offer and I know we got so many new clubs every year that's hard for anyone to keep track even students teachers so I hope this is going to be kind of like a spark notes of what Beverly has to offer so we have various clubs on campus and one of the most prominent ones are Deca interact and I brought the president's here today to help explain more about their clothes so again for those are you do not know what Deca is that cat is basically a business organization that helps repair emerging leaders in business finance marketing and Hospitality yes that's probably the hundredth time so that sentence by now but what we do on a day-to-day basis is number one prepare kids for competition and these competitions it's probably the most valuable aspect I have gotten out in many of our members get out of deca every single year and what we do is drop the year we help kids and I they like for example I compete in marketing management someone else my computer and restaurant Food Services marketing over 100 different categories kids can compete in as just amazing to see what they can do those when they go to competition they could basically show what they have to offer and basically win Awards in those respective categories and also within the areas that people compete in we also teach them real world applications so it's not just learning the material it's how they can use it as you can see one thing we do is have you have now working nights twice every single year and concordance with the Chamber of Commerce and basically it's what we do is when kids compete they practice presenting to a judge and interaction right there helps we help kids turn that into an actual experience with there any how to interact with professionals brother that's getting an internship just talking with someone say they're not working just like that and the second thing we do it's called chapter campaigns so when kids learn the different materials within their respective categories we take that and turn that into real-world projects so for example something we're doing this month is DECA are called basically runs as a business and we have our own account in the SP we have I'm about every single you're the amount changes in our account but as a business you always want growth so it that comes how do we increase the profit every single year so with that we take the finance kids and concordance for example the marketing kids I worked on a project together on the way to increase our profit that's just one of the examples we work with our students and real real world applications and that's just an essence of what Becca is at thank you guys so much Pinterest Rotary International but so if I just basically like Junior Rotary International sore like a community service organization and recently we've made with heal the bay and picked up over 50 cigarette Buds and 45 pieces of Styrofoam Among Us things it was really great because not only were meeting other and track clubs that happened to take on the same event but we also got to meet a bunch of real incredible people that's one of the great things about in track is we get to interact with all sorts of people can I recently on October 15th we had a conference so we went to and we got to meet more interact clubs within our district Tour in District 5 tomato and it's also worth mentioning that this next coming Saturday we're going to Camp Pendleton I don't think I've ever heard of Camp Pendleton yes we are going to Camp Pendleton to volunteer with their Halloween Carnival it's we just got a really incredible things as a group and it's really fun short and sweet that's kind of what we get to do on a daily basis semi-monthly okay thank you we have a couple more clubs that I wanted to talk about it tonight well I'm the president of the accountable Club out of know if some of you hurting we host local lawmakers and federal lawmakers create a Nexus between the two cuz you a seesaw separate especially during this political climate how are some people want to preach this idea that someone else wants to preach another we never come together to discuss ideas and I think that's especially important for young adults in high school that we come together we are better differences and put the best for all of us forward in these meetings we've hosted representative Karen bass of West Los Angeles to Beverly Hills City Council and we're scheduled Senator Ben Allen and Senator Diane Weinstein but fingers crossed hopefully she comes I know she has a very busy schedule and one more United Nations we have the wonderful mr. art all who's the president of that do you want to go into some more detail about that Somalia United Nations is I guess I'm a bit biased but it's one of my favorite Clips on campus and what we do is we allow students to served as mock delegates to the Nation students are assigned a country whether that's the us or Japan Iran Afghanistan and they have the opportunity to discuss issues that are prevalent on the world stage as if the delegates from these countries on Instagram the opportunity to not only practice their writing in their speech making in their discussion skills but they have the opportunity to think critically and solve issues around the globe for example of conferences I've attended I've discussed climate change Isis nuclear proliferation women's rights in sub-Saharan Africa and so not only does it allow members of the club to become more aware of international relations and some of the more pressing issues in the world but it I think it's a great actor building in skill building experience I just make a small suggestion next time you write Senator Ben Allen you should put States under thank you I know he wants to be a senator one day and it's aspirational but we want to give a special shout-out to miss schools me backbone of ASC last week was our homecoming and I don't know she gets paid overtime but she should she was here from before. The sunset so you really owe her a lot of gratitude for that was happening to ask you thank you so what is ASP up to Star homecoming was very successful this time will you utilize Snapchat filters with God over 5000 fuse with throughout all the school and out of that it was 28000 fuse in the whole city of Los Angeles so we really got the word out of Wii connect to the businesses for sponsorships at starting to think Deca as a more of a business ASP so we don't only want to break even but sometimes have a little bit more money so we can increase our programs and make sure that everyone is accessible for everyone who can come in we have some more pics homecoming it's a nice videos and I want to speak about the Make-A-Wish donation week last year we raised a little over $10,000 I believe through a whole week during basketball games we bought these giant trash cans rush to the middle of the court and people just do all their change and dollars and we raised hundreds of dollars from that and it's all for a great cause I wish kid was Lily best she was 13 years she's 13 years old and she's battling. Kidney disease and you are help with wish week she was able to go to Disneyland and not all made it really had an impact on everyone ASB to see how this $1 from one person during a basketball game Concentra on her wish and this year we're going to be hotel 2nd and I wish week and we'll have more details to come in the following board meetings and Norman updates are something you were trying it's kind of like ABC 7 KCAL knife for the school once a week every Monday it's your house look a little bit of weather nice stuff produced by wonderful K bad on the give students an outline of the upcoming schedules big events clubs so we're all one big family to these videos and does it click to play or where you got everything okay you guys are okay perfect pictures of homecoming one big happy energy flowing even though you might have lost the game it's not as important just coming together and being one Beverly Hills High School I think was the most important thing and we're stressing that theme throughout this whole year we have this Sunday ASB has a couple more things up its sleeve on we want to improve soon teachers relations us something we started last year and folding lawn chair Fridays so this is the time forever can get out of the classroom take the stress of academics off and just got to know your teacher I might only see Miss Riley my math teacher is the percent you just need precalculus when I understand it but whenever I go to lunch or Fridays I can ask her weekend was not only academics but the truly make a friend so if I have any personal issues or something I want to talk to her I have a deeper connection with her that I feel comfortable speak to her and that ties into the programs are we starting to we want to another place outside of Normandy that you can really talk to someone really feel comfortable and getting to know them and school spirit is the one thing we've been discussing to release trout asp Sasha to the construction is out of our control but we really want to developing ways to connect more of the students together because that's a big obstacle for us my freshman year I've only seen your butt kids before I can tell you that the front lawn was place to be on the Freshman had their own section the sophomores have their own section the Juniors have their own section set their own section and now that we don't really have a front lawn is no place for everyone to me and come together as one for all separated some people go home some people are there's no way for us to come together have a nice pep rally everyone scattered around but through the more experience we get with this with having the construction the more we talk the more we have better way for the next time and a couple more pictures and videos student teacher relationship Becca and I'll give the podium to Service Learning alright hi guys my name is Mira again and I this is my second year in service-learning and this year were actually starting something brand-new which is each student in the class can pick a subject or topic that they feel connected to okay also I'm sorry I can All My Contacts & Eyeglasses so I'll pass it on to Joey nope me and peanut it's working hard I'm so sorry to service-learning we have a suit project where each student couldn't connect a topic that they like or they feel passionate about to the school in some way shape or form so one thing we have coming up this month and it's actually my project I'm really passionate about is Children Are Not Invisible and it has to do with Refugee kids and we're trying to like combine it with the curriculum for teachers if they want to do it and then on November we'll be having an assembly to fundraise to send two children to go to school on Turkish campgrounds and that's like something I'm really excited for we also just attended to pay which is a tough tobacco prevention tobacco use prevention education yes and it was really informative and we're working on Hurricane Harvey with all the other school districts and a lot of exciting so we're starting fun right Travian insert that service learning and that should be the end of our solar system projects. Counseling we have some more information about Service Learning couple pictures and link crew is one more organization we have on campus that connects freshman and you students to the district and acclimates them to school culture and classes are just the main thing that we want kids to get out of it just have a friend it's hard for a lot of new students so kind of reorient reorient besides coming to New School District so we we want them to have a new friend and feel comfortable around the school and that's our presentation is there any questions or comments I can answer thank you so much thank you thank you for the Memories comments I don't know it's just don't leave yet just curious how many clubs you have on campus this year we have bar tonight it is that a good thing I can tell you we have over 100 clubs on 290 fully functioning which is like other colors are kind of in not as often but they still have projects that they're planning but yeah it was very very excited and thrilled student body like we love clubs that's great great opportunities for the students so thank you for sure Matt and I particularly of enjoyed the pep rallies on Fridays yeah my son has played in the band so it's it's been an added treat as a parent to watch it but it's something that I know the students enjoy and the fact that comment was made about construction the fact that in the old days probably an even mr. Margo's day the seniors were in one area and the Juniors another it's good to see that I can strap and if it's Corbett Ops day I'm sure my wife stay they did the same and it's good to hear that construction is kind force you to mingle and get to know each other that I think that's a positive yeah you know yeah I can see that I can see that smile yeah but keep up the good work I have a suggestion for a place and I'm sure dr. Brady would not oppose I think the district office quadrant be a great place for you guys too Denver everybody is welcome directions to Paris and Fulton what's a chair everybody give me a doctor pregnant I would just like to say that it's such a vibrant atmosphere I just don't recall all what's going on when I was in high school I was on this is just I don't know no at your couple years younger than me this is just so much going on so positive exciting you guys are so busy you must be vibrating I mean just like I mean yeah I can tell and it's very interesting about the kind of life you have and I pray it's long and full and exciting and meaningful is that with social media and Technology you're very you're far more engaged in efficient but you're a lot more busy than we were to get on have quite as much leisure time which is good and bad which is going to bed we really kind of Alicia Lee died in high school that you know but I mean yeah we had like 3 classes and about the rest of the world Drive was not exciting when we were growing up there was one yogurt place I was not allowed to do and you guys we were not as interested in the world the world was really big and kind of interesting that you guys are so much more connected and so much more interesting and interested so I think you are just on the precipice of of great things and you're doing them right there full of construction. Handful of craziness but you're getting it done at mr. goldstein's point I can tell you truthfully that the seniors never talked to anyone like below 11th grade so you guys are mingling when we were there no they were really mean to us like if you are freshmen never talk to us right now for sure tightness you guys are making friends with unlikely people very proud of this presentation I just can't believe what is offered what is going on there it's just fantastic and I'm really pleased to see Spotlight on student Spotlight on what they're doing I don't know how you keep track of that all I mean thank God you have a let me think I should have a smart phone cuz this is a whole lot to keep track of hours I was just going to abandon oil well that you can do the pep rally will call it love you should do them Castle Colorado pep rallies thank you for sharing so much it's really good thank you I want to say that you make the high school experience so much more important and meaningful I just want to you guys rock also a special shout-out to the staff because you're mr. Mead Miss Regan taking all of the Sun for specially this is cool with me as mentioned you know I'm get out about as much as I can add in our buildings but the school is your everywhere running I never get a chance to ever have a conversation with you because you are literally running everywhere so I want to thank you at a time where we keep asking take on more and more and in your doing this on top of all of those other things are asking so thank you very much for your dedication to our students Candia NH seems to me with students like that you got to get out of there thank you so can I make a motion to approve the agenda are the Second That Emotion by Mr Margo II by message hacker all in favor posed motion carries and now report on closed-session action doctor bragi I do not carry over from the August 22nd meeting where in closed session the board took action to enter into a waiver and release agreement with 2H Construction Incorporated in order to resolve claims regarding the additional during work for the Horace Mann school building a modernization project in that was a unanimous 5S vote thank you dr. Peggy that brings us to the agenda hearing. For public comment I have no request is there anybody hear that wishes to address the board if not the public comment period is closed may I have a motion to adopt a consent calendar y'all make a motion to approve a consent calendar - item 9 B1 9 B1 okay is there a sec I will second that ocean by mr. Margo II by Mrs hacker all in favor I supposed okay I had a question regarding 491 Personnel report 91 motion by Margo II II by this is accurate weather comment as I had a question regarding the certificate a report and I'd ask multiple questions regarding gate and I spoke briefly with mr. seems about the same questions I did have a guys going forward if when there's multiple at teachers listed in the certificate of report and then their sites and then their specific job titles or job projects that they're working on and some of them might not be necessarily tied to their own site where they they work from so going forward and be helpful for me to see for if I think it was line item number 93 or I could be off maybe was 53 where they we just tell me for example you know this teacher would be doing gay at this site and that way I could keep track of cuz it's very difficult for me sometimes I see at the same school reappeared more reappearing more than once sometimes even as much as sweet and so my initial thinking would be why why are we having three teachers for that site but that would help clarify that that teachers being assigned assigned if so two different schools does that make sense okay great so that would be and I think at some point I'm still trying to understand I know the gate very much can only take place activities can only start to initiate fourth grade and above right so so again the same question why it why so the Staffing not at those grade levels why is so much of it so it's below it's below it's not even at the fourth grade level 5th grade I would say anything but 4th and up so she'll be on to be on fourth grade so I like to understand how these teachers connect to those students that we are trying to identify and write a program or have been identified and I know we had a presentation just very recently but I I'm still I don't know if anybody else in the world share these sentiments but I'd like to see you know how many state Science Olympiad programs are we actually going to have this year given the board direction that would take place if you want to go how many is math counts part of the gate program if it's not I think it should be a conversation to be had for the future just want to see you know how how consistent are we across the board with for the four schools and what is being replicated at once I over it against the others thank you I did have a question dr. Berg answer most of it but we often see on the certificate and personal reports and I know people there reading some of the fashion it's it's like the next John Grisham novel right there cracking One open we are voting for a lot of these are factories extra payments almost in arrears to when the job is performed the start date is back in the beginning of school I'm on here there are there are several transmittal items on this report that are line items excuse me that the actual the assignment goes till next Friday that's the end of the assignment and we're in this is the last either bored me that we can actually approve it and I don't buy before any of you were here this has been an issue in the past and I'm just wondering is this a common practice among school districts is this something that we need to tighten up between his is there miscommunication between from either Athletics to human resources to the business office that wherever it is that we don't get in the habit of approving these things at the last possible Barbie and they can be approved I just don't think it's a good practice I know believe I'm not you know what I know I don't have a payroll of employees at work for me so I'm not speaking from experience what I would do to it just seemed to me that it might be indicative of other areas that need Improvement and that this is just a kind of tip of the iceberg that we can see so I would just call Shannon and and I had asked this to dr. Barry over the weekend but there were some here that either began at the beginning of the school year which was over 2 months ago or ending next week so it just seems a little strange so I bet I want to give mr. pavonian an opportunity to answer if that publicly Sleeping Sun are some of the staff that you have the stipends are I paid once during the air minutes you know at the end of the term but with only speaking from what I've been dealing with right now you know nhr on is that we get the does he have to let him director submits them to us so until I actually get the paf in my hand I immediately process that and then I sent it off to the business department for processing as well and then that's fine that we could tighten up that we can come and take a look at the us we can try to get that information but we also have had some issues with keeping coaches and Tom that doesn't have full as well what song of our pas thank you very much any further discussion on favor by post motion carries and that brings us to report superintendent 7 quick update for you on our future Focus schools team another one, is there another it's on 2222 yeah I'll I'll talk about that in just a second so I wanted to just update you as I said that we would be giving you several updates as this process went along and so I'm going to answer some of the questions about some of the first things that we've done in the first two meetings is always start out with every present it's really important I'm there is a lot of work to look at in a very short amount of time and so each of our meetings with our new team that were working with is a team that is is is looking at our mission and our vision we don't want to get lost in some of the operational pieces the financial pieces from the educational pieces as we talked about the future we want to make sure that we don't do that at the expense of our kids that are currently in the system so this is our True North in so that's why we always start off I'm all of our presentations with that collaborating for a future this is a slide you've seen before and it's really pertinent to the work that we're doing on either side you have a path that is Lily's path in our finance path and then our most important path is the one in the center in a perfect world we want these three paths to come together and I think that the team that we have in place along with the cabinet and help from the entirely team that we're really going to get there but it's really important to get a visual of how Dynamic all of this work is and how it all needs to come together in the end so I wanted to just update you and this is a familiar patient to you but I wanted to make sure that we're looking at the same type of information so the charge is not changed that at the end of our meetings with our group that we want to be able to provide two viable options for an type of reconfiguration that will not only lead us with our educational programming but also I will also ensure long-term Financial sustainability for the district so that's ongoing we had said in the beginning approximately we weren't sure we wanted to make sure that we are picking a diverse group so approximately 22 US Mint it could have been a little bit under or could move it over we did add a a person from the city Terry Angel to run the city because of are jpa and the long-term partnership that we have we have added Terry to our team and she's been a great addition we also added a high school teacher we have several people that have high school experience but this was a position that we that we didn't have before and we didn't want to get too deep into the work we had several conversations with people that wanted to have somebody that was currently with the high school Somali Peterson has just taking that role for us and she is a teacher and has special education experience so she has joined our group as well as Sports in the cabinet that's just I'm going throughout this entire process we completed the before work and that was showing you what the team would look like the process for the team and we are providing ongoing information when it comes to historical information that's a lot of information that's going to be shared I'm at work continuing to answer questions in our job is to build very deep understanding of of the work that we have in front of us the development most of this is ongoing we're committed to the mission and Division and I still believe that everybody on our team is this is demonstrating signs of that providing a departmental eyes to overview of the work to date that's still coming up soon the member 1st is our next meeting where we're going to be starting to show some of that data and which completed is our that we have taken with the team we visited all five of our schools so the work this is ongoing as well we're starting to movie sharing our next meeting the data behind the facilities in the the Staffing in some of the programming of everybody will be participating will be carrying out the committee work and we would like to in the future instead of me providing updates to you to some people from our team to come in front of the board in the system with some of our updates to the board so that they can get a better understanding of how the work is being developed and how it's being presented as well we're also doing some things with communication will bring our minutes on our website and adding many of the meetings that we go to with their pta's PTSA is this progress as we go forward as well. A lot of checks and balances in place with the cabinet there they're so this is not going to be a a big process where people in the district are going to wake up one day and feel like you know what just happened to our school district it's a very authentic process and we'll be updating all the steps Eagle Loan we've really been focusing on to things in our meetings and is when is the Readiness this is there's a lot of things to talk about but before you can have the conversation you have to be ready until we've spent a lot of time creating a Readiness environment so that we can have these ongoing conversations and in another really important part of that and I thought so great was when ASP pointed this out as well as it they indicated as well that not only are they teachers but they wanted to improve increase that relationship that's everything that we do and so that is also what's included in our work as well as the relationships that we have on this team throughout a lot of these conversations so our first two meetings have really been centered around preparing this team in this group to be ready to have these conversations but also in the same time build and strengthen relationships with people on the team in order to have those conversations these are just some pictures that we've taken over the course of the first couple of days with our team here we are in the bus that we took and that was an unintended outcome of that was everybody sharing same type of experience on a bus visiting our schools we were quickly looking at the school's eat some of our new construction areas as well as even some of their portable that we have you tell us where that is for the public knows so this is at El Rodeo you can tell by the tower on the set then we went into this is Horace Mann and I believe this was it first man to it's hard to tell from the but I believe that this was Horace Mann and in Beverly Vista of course it was important to show Kenwood a standard classroom is in an Oliver buildings we did get some homework and we were to make sure that when we start our meetings that all of our conversations are centered around opportunities and access and equity for kids so we've really been pushing that is is kind of a baseline the conversation because there's so much to talk about and it's emotional and and people have ideas and thoughts and Innovation and we really want to stay centered around the reason why we've all come together the last meeting we also created some Norm so that we could again strengthen and build that relationship with each other when we speak about new ideas or past experiences and then we spend some time doing a gallery walk so that we wanted to get some information from people like when you're teaching you you want to make sure that you know where your students are at and we didn't want to make any assumptions as a team that people were in a place where we thought they were at we wanted to know some questions about what they thought about reconfiguration I'm more positive effects negative effects and these pictures just show that we had people in teams up and moving and looking at other people's ideas and thoughts as they walked around the room and is very coordinated way to be able to I get an idea of where other people are at but then fruit also for people in small groups to put their own ideas up as well and it was a really good exercise to show that people are in different places when it comes to a lot of the questions but people really benefited from hearing ideas from each other here's a couple more of those pictures people up and moving about in our future work now that we've established this Readiness we have now looked at the relationship peace and I like the team is in a really good place in a short amount of time that we're going to be looking at the data and it isn't that it's driven by the data but if there's an important distinction to be influenced by data and so we want to look at where we are now so will be providing our team with where we are now with our with our enrollment we want to look at what programs are ready to building and really just do a state of the district with our team in in this next meeting and really explain and show where we at where are we at what programs are what what buildings we want to start sharing with them what is the capacity at certain buildings square footage number of classrooms that will then enter into our discussion as well also at our next meeting we're going to have in an overview of our finances and our facilities as well ended so that people can get a better understanding of where we are as a district right now all of these things play into the conversation you know it's being led by instruction those other two paths we're still not in One path right now so the financing facility path we really need to sure they're going has an understanding of where are we right now with those two areas her anticipated time line has not changed where are still hoping to present some viable options to the Board of Education December that change in the next month and we will certainly let you know but there is November that is missing out of there but you don't November is is going to be a time when we worked on the Readiness the relationship will really to get into the work in November and that's where at any questions thank you soup and turn it any questions or comments just had a question it occurred to me the other day when you talk about people even people in the group being in different places dr. Becky I was at an event a few weeks ago and a parent ask me about the reconfiguration ffsc now. ask me when the next meeting was and I said oh I think there was a an email with all the dates but like 5 people around us had no idea we were talking about and these were parents and so I said so I said mother is there's been communication and there's been why we don't go to the PTA meetings and it just occurred to me there might be different parents who might not be in a Lupe might not be paying attention to the PACE emails that come and it goes beyond the PTA average person that shows up to those meet when we specifically talked about the parent group's so you know it just it just started to it just prompted me to start thinking that perhaps I don't know how you inform those the vigils but I would say there's probably more so than we think and you know this it when this all starts to happen all the options start to come and be shared I thought that this might be a little bit of a surprise to many of our parents and that would not be an ideal situation I think so I am not sure what can be done in the interim to start providing more information about the information that I did nothing the same concrete and nothing's been I understand that no decisions have been made but people know I understand this concept that all so what we'll do is there we will do a better job of alerting people to where they can find information meetings were taking minutes at our meetings and so we could lead people to that man and I understand the people are not going to a lot of the the PTA meetings and then we are going to all of those as many as we can so we are always open to suggestions on how to get the word out to people so that they can see that this is a very authentic process of putting the minutes up from the meetings that's certainly something that we wanted to do from the very beginning your prep sending out the the pace email or the well through Mary's now we could we could send out that information so that people know where to go and where to look for that they're just up until this point hasn't been really anything other to report because it's really been that Readiness and relationship so there hasn't been anything of substance in significance yeah but but I think that's a point well taken that we want to make sure that because it is an authentic process we want to be able to share that with others in the end not Captivate their attention at the end any other comment dr. Brady died I'd like to suggest that you consider press releases I think at this point with what you've accomplished so far you've got a tremendous amount of information or they could go into a very very helpful press release that goes to the local presses I think that would be very helpful and and then give give the give the give the newspapers a chance to publish this stuff and then maybe send those releases out in your blast parents and so forth the two grenadiers are they I think press releases are important any further comments thank you dr. Brickey thank you excellent presentation thank you I miss you have a student board member report I did oh yeah thank you so this past week at the high school ASB finish it's homecoming event we've been working towards for the past couple months and in the wake of that event as we're looking to transition to events like the blood drive color Wars in our wish we were we raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation I've really come true fact about how far ASP has come since I first joined the program and how far I think my involvement in it has helped me grow as you know Audrey L and the rest of the presenters here I think really it's our presentation about what a speed does and how hard everyone in the class works I couldn't be prouder of everyone and I think all of us in the class are in deep deep gratitude to our advisers so for the past 2 years misco speakers been incredible and even before that it was mr. Mead who was the SV advisor for a few years and members of the administration like mr. Regan have been more than supportive of the program and so wanted to give a shout out to all of those students because they truly do work very very hard and even though most people in the class weren't given the opportunity to be recognized state today we could only eat we only had room for a few students I think every single one of them yes we praise for everything they've been doing IQ the comment our next two we are now at the item 11 in the agenda listen Finance 11a I we are going to say is to approve an extension to the Joint Powers agreement between the city of Beverly Hills in the Beverly Hills Unified School District I would like to see best that the members of the negotiating team who are are jpa liaison members recommend the amount of time that they would like to have purposes of negotiating hand and perhaps make a motion to approve an extension to the Joint Powers agreement between the city of Beverly Hills and the Beverly Hills Unified School District to know number 30th 2017 and I will second that motion mr. Goldstein Corbett of any discussion board colleagues honest Corbett off and I had the privilege of representing the district along with Reggie and his staff the district and City jpa latest science Committee in negotiating teams met this past Friday afternoon I want to thank the city's negotiating team coming to the district office is we had numerous homecoming events to attend so I want to express our gratitude for that I'm also pleased to report that the parties of hammered out the final final terms to the four corners of the jpa contract City staff and our bhusd staff should be commended for the hours they put in cumulative late and they work very hard and solidifying a contract at the request of the sea back on October teen the bhusd provided the city with documentation reports and material quantifying the reasons for the dish request for an increase to the base jpa amount the city has had the materials for over 60 days and indicated at Friday's lace onto meeting that they will be in a position to respond to the materials and it within approximately two weeks the only issue left is a base the jpa base amount the district has made its increased demand in August 2017 it awaits the cities offer in that regard I proposed the extension the operative Japan till November 30th 2017 that would have given the city over 100 days to make their best final offer to the school district thank you how to negotiating team in thank you mr. Spitz for framing this conversation as you did tonight I don't see a problem giving them the extension I looked at our calendar and the city's calendar and there are phone number of meetings already scheduled throughout November that we can work out the final details of the agreement certainly wouldn't time for November 30th. Perhaps even at halfway through the month you should be you should be sufficient so I will support this recommendation from the negotiation Liaisons any further comment all in favor I supposed motion carried item 11b is alternate over the superintendent Lego review audit actual support that submitted to Lake o the review that is already been conducted and it's already complete Okay so we've seen the like a letter any comment this is not good tonight I may come in alright we'll move on two planning and Facilities item 12a I have a motion Robin LLC motion the score of the Tigers are in a second well for per discussion yeah for purposes of discussion all second alright second by Justin Goldstein discussion yeah I like looking at the transmittal from staff could someone on South explain the necessity for doing this type of audit I know it's not a lot of money but what's the Practical purpose of doing this Miss Rosie I had a question that might I just had a question before they answer your question it would be helpful to me if that's okay of course it was clear to me that this come from this recommendation from the audit that we do concluded through Moss Adams or did this request come from the COC Mount Adams is not recommending this no no no no but I think the question is where is it is this is this proposed work by Moss Adams required is it mandatory yeah I do not know they were ever to have to ask what does hard to answer the question so maybe about 10 cuz I don't I don't it doesn't seem like this is that time-sensitive that this has to be because I cannot answer that question then I suggest we table the promotion and we can I withdraw my second and if we can get the table to table the item 12a 12a the new motion by mr. Goldstein house a second the motion II by Margo all in favor Bose the most The Hideout Elsa table 12C how to make a motion for the acceptance of the High School athletic Turf replacement hand file a notice of completion in released retention motion by discussion can we roll it up and take a picture Patrick Brady I see there's no one here from facilities so okay so I saw I've seen the pictures of the turf and I seen the turf from various windows at the district office building I also got reports that the turf company drove very heavy equipment in cars and all kinds of stuff on the track and crack the track Thomas corporate office inside run the track I can tell you it was cracked long before they stir company showed up if there are additional like considerably worse they drove very heavy equipment they left heavy equipment they put lots of trucks there I mean like gratuitous so it can anyone please look into this I'm not aware of that happening so fast. I've heard of any additional Cuts pictures this before and after an apparently the track is about 10 years old and it was not perfect but it's considerably worse now now I'm sure I know it wasn't perfect but it's much worse than Pandora any positions are claims I would think so I mean at this point I think that that's a pretty important question to be answered if somebody has turned some some information about what does occurred or some damage at that that we of course have to investigate then I'm going to draw the motion can we just say could maybe mr. Blake walk over there and take a look and and see okay so the motion is withdrawn and the second this item is tabled the item so I move to table items I'd motion by mr. Marco II by with mr. Spitz all in favor this item is tabled so roll up the field good thing they play weight care about let them take to fix it to make a motion for the ward of the audio visual campus Communication System project Four Horsemen building a two digital networks group motion by mr. Margo II by I'll second that have any questions our discussion motion carries communication for board members I just real quick this past weekend was the Beverly Hills art show and as I was cruising the different displays I thought they had a great idea that made and something that possibly doctor brought you to look into it to mr. me than our art Department are opportunity I think would be great for the students to maybe have a boot there are going to Claire's in various areas like entertainment Arts science and they go ahead and they do so many you know they have photography of Ceramics a lot of the things we do here so well with her students and the product that they and derive that maybe there's some opportunity went to highlight that at an annual City Art Show so the community community can see what we're doing here and what are we doing here and possibly if they make enough items in a while let me just take home or it just kind of gets tossed and fortunately maybe some of the items I can actually sell as a fundraiser for their program cuz I know photography let's say it's a Briggs out of his own pot kill as many teachers do in this district and spend money on Supply maybe this is way to recoup some of those dollars to help the arts department fundraiser and it I think it's just a great opportunity to get our students out again into the community just like we do Career Technical education program to get a booth annually for the two days I will be happy to look into that I was there all this afternoon on Saturday and it was the second time I've been to the show so you know I thought of the same things better for students are doing the same types of things from jury to hear the different parts of the United States that very unique ways to put things together at Asbury Great Clips what we're doing in our school so be happy to find out and then I'll let you know I'm just going to pay you back on that cuz I had thought about it before but I know that I'm walking to an art show it's it's you have younger kids and then you have his gap between the younger kids in the millennials attending and there's not much there for our Junior High and high school students in the city does post near Municipal Gallery the K-8 art show every year so we are almost there I think has it isn't it I'll be great more of those students involved in that I did want to say while while Howard also did that I ran into him over at we had a reality party with you probably knew about that run on Sunday this was an eye-opening experience it was. an organization called I think I'm straight-up reality night they work through our accounting department and the drama department and they put on vignettes about high school partying and alcohol drug abuse and sexual misconduct all dad and that was very unique experience and I think the message I can get in too much about it is that parents parents have to communicate with each other about what their children are doing that's the takeaway that there's not enough of that because when you get to that age the parents separate that communication in do not speak to their students at but we have to keep our open new lines of communication and make sure children know their parents are speaking to each other about what's going on outside of school and now this Thursday is he stop bullying play this Thursday October 26th 7 in the stall out there it's the drama that's presentation stop bullying it's a play that they're putting on once here and they hope to take to all four any further comment this is happening this Saturday I had the pleasure of going to a local synagogue for celebration and behold web I won't be invited former president of University and head of Georgetown law and now his job his National president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society travels the country in the world very interesting man gave a really arousing speech about free speech on campuses and how its really hate speech free speech in you notes Constitution and spoke to you about the Phi Beta Kappa society and how exciting that is for him and he wanted to know what we were doing to get kids into great University so they would become fiber what happen if you wanted to know where they are and what they're doing says really interesting answer that was kind of interesting how this lawyer became a university president and head of law school and how we ended up becoming a 5-bedroom Kappa you know the running the Phi Beta Kappa society and I thought it was just National apparently it's International I didn't know that did you guys notice International corrected me when I said nashley said oh it's International apparently Phi Beta Kappa International I didn't know that anyway so it was quite an interesting encounter so we're on his radar so he's traveling the world and the country so he will be back in La again but I'm sure he won't be coming to a high school near us he does go to universities but oh well try to go to synagogue in here speech maybe he'll show up I was just told Ken. call Mike

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