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School Board Meeting - December 11, 2019 Part 2 of 2

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classes for academic classes now this is an excuse to drop something at this semester and take something new and so I'm not sure how I Association feels about this is a practice in a precedent-setting it makes me a little uncomfortable I don't like a 5 start time because I think kids who do a sport or drama or anything that's then I can be able to go I love the topic I think criminal justice words I called you out too tanning topic are students to take I'm just I'm just not comfortable with paying a private university to teach our kids a class when they can go to Community College for free and it is just a weird it's just we are precedent why would we do that if if if I if a student wants to go learn Arabic they can just go do that and they pay for themselves and they can get credit for at a college or high-school level it just seems like a weird president I don't want to pick on Mary Mount Ida I'm just I'm just not comfortable with this as a precedent for us going forward as much as I think the topic is something that a lot of students are would be interested in and and want to study in college so that's kind of where I am with it I think that we need to work hard at developing relationships with other institutions more than just Marymount College actually you know I've been pvnet they do a lot of things for our kids there too and Sterling to community colleges we need to work on those relationships also so I see this as an opportunity for our kids today to class that they wouldn't only take I mean Peninsula have a class this semester coming up in Spring Harbor college professor that comes to pain and teaches up I think on Monday nights 2 it is difficult for a lot of our kids to get to Harbor City or get to talk Encino on that's why I like the snow. I can't get there all the time so unfortunately so we'll see I think it's worth trying 7 favor so any other all right so I would suggest a phone wants to make a motion that they make a motion and say that maybe the mou with the change that requirement is 15 or 20 students whatever the person wants to do on a motion just read it in an ad 15 kids at the end services for students Emerald I was in favor of those against everything will be okay so I don't have to go into visual no Office cast Jan is on top of it she's got it okay thanks Jana okay long to T 8 approved Consulting Services contract what is a general obligation Bond financial advisor do you want to explain meaning that we take this contract to legal counsel just for review and so the significant changes in their one was just being sure they were not charged multiple times if there are multiple issuances within a short time. It's just something personal. as we got that we also got in that there is 180 day termination Clause typically financial advisors don't do that you typically sign up for them for a five-year contract in virtually every District that I seen but that was important and then legal help us get in place and then how we are incorporating their original proposal as Exhibit C proposal for John Isom in assos Tyson Associates Isom advisors tease me mister Isom John Isom sent me a letter today that he asked for me to read to the board and into the record so dear doctor turn this is a pop to my prior letter dated October 3rd first which was basically qualifications type letter I specifically wanted to respond to a question that was raised during the interviews for financial advisors regarding a website article on the firm in short the article which was dated April 1st 2017 was a poor attempt at an April Fool's joke that implied that me our company a bond counsel firm and hundreds of board members and superintendents were involved in some wrongdoing the contents therein are both false and defamatory and there's no corroborating so sista back up any of the claims of helping his correspondence answers the question and helps to avoid someone missing deal comes ill-conceived jug I wanted to write you thinks I wanted to write you to clarify things looking forward to our continued work in relation with you in the district excuse me this is response to bogus online thing that was written about him and so we wanted to just have him a dress that make sure that the boards clear on that so John did address the that dreamy interviews in the selection process so we were aware at the time that we selected him and that it was a bad April Fool's Day got one done by him done by somebody else. Just pulled his name into stuff for a we don't know why so I mean it once again I think it's just like with the Ares agreement I think this agreement is better for the district that we've done this since I'm glad we we did this and I appreciate John's cooperation and getting to a mutually agreeable I appreciate the staff getting work done in all right so all in favor of services agreement contract with Isom advisors be approved as presented all right all in favor I thought you okay our board policies are that if somebody votes nowhere stains we usually keep when we think that's inappropriate did they say why violins of wood in the lawn Fahrenheit it is just my dealings with him was John rice motorcycle that's why I just was going to say no and then let it be I just I don't think he fully understands Art District and and what I say it is just my interactions with him have not been favorable to the extent where I think that he is fat I have a trust issues with well I'll talk to you offline as long as I can as long as you're not brown act buddy with anybody on it on top of my gas and would have you know discussion before I think about it more. feeling towards it bring it up and I was trying to keep it clean if I sat interviews of all six of the seven firms that applied there certainly was one firm that I didn't choose because of that and in our internal discussions and I don't have the same issues with John that you have in actually John's been pretty responsive to the request that I've made through Alex and Keith about the issues in been straightforward and I ate and I also think it's important I think this is where your kids touched on is that some of these firms have two sides to their operations one being Financial advisory and another side being political advice John's from is one that has both sides to his operation but to my knowledge the bond campaign, I don't really know what they've done to my knowledge I know that the district is only hired him for the financial advisory position in any as far as the financial advisor to date has been straightforward and his proposal so I can clarify then show this letter he's speaking of October 31st is a letter I called him and saying I've seen this would you be willing to write something to the extent that you are it was a joke that this was something that you know is and it took me 30 minutes of discussion with him before he finally agreed to do so and I felt that this was important enough for our district to our district they scrutinize everything that it was important enough so that I should not have had to essentially say hey either get this or or else you know I won't vote for you and it is important that we can trust who were going to work with that we feel that they have our best interests in mind and his lack of understanding towards our district and towards a reasonable request I felt was detrimental to a potential relationship when I was cspa and I was talking to some of the other Bond people he would come up and say oh yeah he's from Palace versus we're working with them right so he was interrupting conversations and assert himself before we even vote on the contract those are the issues I had with him and that is why I voted no point out to think you should be happy about in the contract then we didn't search the termination Clause so if it doesn't work out we have the right to terminate into we didn't start a clause that explicitly says that he has to act as a fiduciary which was not in the original context of both of those are moves to make sure that were aligned awesome thanks solicit a request for proposals for copiers function printers so the RFP is there and it's time for us to go out because our existing contract with Xerox has expired we're on a month-to-month with them we want to get a bid on new equipment and you see Dr. questions about it happy to answer those but we would like to go forward issue that are fee and then hopefully bring you back in a successful proposal run it from here so I'm sure she wants to answer at least a single question did stay here the whole time is going so well have another reorganization let me let me cut off a vacation in January, couple of questions perhaps that we've already discussed it and you won't have to again which is weird include in the RFP what we had in a previous one for the financial advisor a statement that they do need to disclose specifically any and all relationships with current District employees and reward members that could be determined to be a conflict of interest in this RFP will do that on all RFP is going forward and then also disclosure we're going to be a little clearer than what was written in the RFP cuz I agree is Rick and I read through yesterday we're going to say please also a disclosure of all litigation involving your firm for Last 5 Years very straightforward and then also the termination for convenience or default right where to clear that up so the this is on page Pages aren't numbered but under the section one of the of the The Proposal requirements at the very end of the project schedule those should be their own separate headings those two things and in and out of the conflict of interest one so that will have three and honestly going forward I'd like to do those three items in all of our proposals with assert page and then we just you know like you did in the financial advisor one and we have here in the non collusion certain maybe we have a separate pvpusd search record get out of here you hadn't mentioned yesterday so I'll make sure I get it so the where you're just looking for on the pages where it where are you again underneath project schedules which section Section 1 all right so there this this two things like I just want them highlight is the wrong thing so it's clear that they need to be each of those and then just make clear all the way so they have you ever been terminated so you want that as well fall and I'm okay with the last five years or something yeah they think that those are important disclosures are we in a sweet spot for this for this RFP I know some of them are tiny play Stripes over it when we get more responses pain pain when we send them out it's a big contract it's very complicated because we like to see more than enough three we're in The Sweet Spot and Eli's having to go out and do their own purchases dresses and total of eight lease contracts and to this one I would do have one that's kind of an outlier which expires in 2021 but perhaps we can get a buyout on it I don't know key to this RFP and when we will insist on going for the last contract had no ability to change modify as soon as we signed it we owed every penny that will not be the case in this one so we will have the ability and then the cost associated with adding deleting changing mod fine so that would make changes like to see improvements great there's a lot more flexibility and what we're requesting districts RFP give her one with his brevity yes was in so do you know how many litters that other District got when they put out this they got six of six or more agree with Matt I hate it when we get any other comments about to make a staff to advertise RFP never p0221 21119 for copiers multi-function actors and Doc McMahon system as a mended correct okay but we didn't mind it was it was 101 to specific items in lighting the third soap and new post motion carry all right it's kind of amazing we are down to T10 she can't wait, so I'm sure haha I hope those are short okay appointment of 2028 Ford Representatives somehow I don't know how that is funny okay so you've heard me say already that I will not be able to continue on to Scroggins not because he should want somebody who has a two-year you no commitment to that Fort Lee that eliminates me as well what it might not we don't know I would love to do and that isn't even the first one on here I can't figure out how I guess I would say it's the most important one in terms of time and it's super important arguing role and your role on the committee not an observer you're an active participant so it's fair it's very important to learn about be on a different board and how that different for operates in it it has been useful so that's good if that Jenna can you write this down I know you have that list nominate nominate we just going to walk around and now so let's start at the top it's two years you wanted it to years I mean if you want to come watch it's going to be a Whopper California ledge rap who's that now I don't have that paper okay and did you find that to be useful Steph Curry it's a magazine nothing I can prove this year I mean so we we could rotate people around and we don't have to all do the same thing whatever I mean does anybody else want to do now you want to do it again LA County committee on special on School District organization representative was that you met the one I did go to both public hearings on cure for the territory transfer we have that in front of them if somebody wants it they can take it okay with doing it for another year I nominate okay wreck it moving right along okay then school trustee Association it's one of those where I think our cost is $100 a year to have to be a member and it's not anything that you have to Faithfully attend right if you show up and they usually have a good speaker whose child trafficking was the topics last year so I think it should be nice to have somebody do it somebody who you know lights going out to Montebello more than I do I'm at nobody else will do it what again how often how many times a year does it meet quarterly meaning I know we haven't done this with the first two but instantly would we talked about in the past at least with their internal ones that it's kind of does that mean you're texting the best thing is you get to interact with other board members Community College District members are as well which is it's nice to talk to them okay so then we have Hotel Roc that is I'm not really on the brink of survival and it's a long Saga I can turn it down for about 15 minutes when you have a few minutes I will give you the words just a wealth of History and I'm is also as passionate as you are about this when she gets spoken about a meeting till his wife alright then citizens oversight for measuring a z I thought we did that last year with a couple but I didn't think we did that previously cuz I was the rap once I came on the board until the reward I did one this year actually I think there's some value to having consistency on that committee fat for the other members of the committee also I did it once I don't want this year Linda I'm going to think there's three okay okay alright then we have Tech advisory and then we also have budget advisory so who's Tech advisory this year need to stay on have some continuity on that one okay and then let's go to budget advisory one or two for that though I don't have any. I mean we have so many things to do can anybody can go to you just can't speak I mean I know I went to what is the BAC that I went to when I wasn't a member picture of a case of budget advisory not should not be on this list because I think when we reauthorized it we appointed Linda and me for the whole week yeah so you're going to be on there anyway rap memes when did before me but I do that as I said at the time when I took over from when I think it's important to rotate these kinds of decisions I think everybody on the porch I'd like the opportunity to do that one it's a it's a daytime meeting like it noon or something yeah perfect and then you can go to Capitol Convoy and if you don't decide to go and then you can let traditionally also went to the chambers ledge committee meetings which are on once a month on Tuesdays as a package cuz you're doing the legislation stuff I will I will do a package deal okay we are just checking boxes all over the place so then we have the non-voting board rap to High School site Council and no way to do that now is that we put the list and we all like I like that for and we we we we we we didn't even have this list three or so years ago not like this is a much longer Listen to Never Had I guess again I think that there actually is some utility to continuity at those meeting several of those means work through the example of walking in you don't have that context depends on what time of year it is I think in the spring it's fine to switch people around I agree in the fall when they're working on these documents those two meanings are are good for the same time stand-alone meeting to is totally fine that I was there they were talking about different things weren't preparing documents one of the places that if you do get to interact with students in Houston was in I don't know Megan with which of these would be easier for you to attend yeah yeah yeah 8 a.m. or 3 p.m. so TV on Mondays is it in the morning yeah yeah no no no it says till 12 I know it's not really though if you got to go to work on to it I had to do one I would do one but I Okay so okay well we can do it like we've been doing now sounds about potential and Evie and then I'm going to have to tend his email us and then when we can put something when they do if it is the seps apart right so maybe those are back to back okay which that yeah that London has been going to be doing that way and every time I attend I didn't ever get the agendas in advance they call me up to speak so I so I've asked him three times to please send the agendas in advance so if you would Jen dies me I know that I'm supposed to speak the whole group average price of Elections I'm happy to do it but if someone else finds it interesting go for it in the future because it's going to have very different personalities in the room so it's important to keep it Susan Brooks push the longest time is one of the other things that they're looking at doing was an emergency preparedness and then they were going to make PVP one of the members of that committee I think Linda would be great to catch euonymus mighty good because everybody else will be changing so maybe you can provide continuity there palisaded can give you a certificate cuz you likes to see you there in okay the transit authority I'm that was a very easy meeting actually enjoy doing it if it's not a frequent meeting that's one of those. believe some continuity as good as your you're watching but if somebody else had a a burning desire to to talk about buses and trouble I am not a little in PB trans at all honey bees are got to keep on trying to further their biggest customer and it's helpful for us to share with them what's coming down our pipe so they can look at the future what's a chance to to meet with the actual payers of the system which are the cities sounds like perfect okay in the chamber he was on that to math our meetings this year our love our cat thinks so Matthew I feel like you're taking on a lot and it's not going to do it we're all grateful for your service but don't feel like you have to do that cuz this one is a lot of work is the biggest opportunity to positive things for the district right because we're taking in but the states telling us and we're saying hey this is really matter what we want to do and then I'll just bring this to the boards if they decide to Papa can we bring it to the bar I'll continue doing it but don't feel obligated but I I think we worked well together on it with only got half the time it was awesome Columbia what to do at be good I think that would be good because like I said I think it's good to rotate so I can do that opportunity I'm fine with that I totally fine with that whatever you guys want I'm okay with okay well you're going to have to decide so Linda did you want to not Megan Duality Megan you do really want to do it so I'm just wondering that what you want to do I mean this isn't for you I'm fine I'm fine doing it to I'm just looking at your list of you know what everyone else is doing so it might balance out if I take that on not to care I need you to do a lot of work on that one but I'm sorry we disbanded it when a cat watches or certificate. I think it's I think it met its time well so we'll see what we do I don't know actually I don't know if we didn't get to spend it because one of the things with the committee was we felt it was important we were selecting members those who would then be able to communicate their needs to the fac out of community so it's met met it's charged but turn can you looked at before January so we can add back on if we need to, so they discontinued they continued actually at the border Point Representatives nothing. Emotion right reports of bored and members it is 11:15 again perhaps this wasn't my best night feel free to move me right on Malachi Richardson great job tonight Suzanne yeah that's it just started just one real collecting thinking about committees in the future to potentially we could in the spring or at some point next year maybe talk about having a sustainability advisory committee I just want to throw up out there now that we're talkin about committees so I don't know how that could work or who's interested but throwing that out there as a potential there might be a school district thing that's it okay I went to a lot of parties had a great time the last month and Linda thank you so much for all your work as our president I really appreciate it and I'm good thing I had your phone number so a couple things first off on Sophie who spoke on climate change I think it's great that we have a steam group and a student of the year today and so maybe RPV students could win Time person of the year for a cause in the future I think it's great that she's stepping up to that also I wish I wish we did all always get the newspaper and there was a letter to the editor or an iPad in there that basically talk about late start if it actually they would like to look at 9:30 as a late start as opposed to the 8:30 and so want to throw that into the hopper flip at least there's at least one finding out there and then easy to implement and makes a ton of sense which is that they ask for the night before Halloween or Halloween night night out trick-or-treating hopefully play fun stuff we can make that no homework night the process I think that would be good and then finally Lindsay did a bunch of work on a UC admissions they showing how good are kids have to be to get into the various UC campuses and we met live Elmer Sushi to go through that he's asked us to to come up and come up with a potential task for the state auditor to look at in terms of UC Admissions and I've had it often to Jenna or Alex vasectomy distribute to the board the presentation that Lindsay gave him put together was really a good thing and finally thank you to CC for inviting me to the to the aspects ETA dinner I think that was great and I enjoyed it and learned a lot about different points of view and how other districts do you think something and it was a fun event till thank you for inviting me I just have two short things one to follow our practice of consent items being talked about afterwards if I just had a comet I'm an artist that visits to the residential treatment centers which are now mandated by the state that sickening that Eric fine example of our legislature of providing unfunded mandates that are the an art we have to pay for that no one really notices it's going to be not an insignificant cost and the last thing is just to let all of you know that the items that were people have talked about over the past few months about we should have Jen dies this can we have Jen dies that I have an email TWP ready to go to sentences and to pass along all of the for her her and Alex to work 3 so I don't want anyone to think that so also if I miss something if you know you let me know how are you let all of us know rather as far as topics going forward like Megan question about the standells just let you know that that's it it is 11:20 meeting is picture

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