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          [I. Welcome and Opening Remarks]
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          HELLO, AND GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO THE FIRST SCHOOL SAFETY AND CLIMATE COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE YEAR OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF LA UNIFIED. 
          I'M TANYA ORTIZ, FRANKLIN, YOUR CHAIR. 
          AND WE ARE SO EXCITED FOR A FULL AGENDA TODAY TO GET US STARTED FOR THIS YEAR. 
          UM, BUT WE'VE GOT SOME NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS, SOME RETURNING. 
          I WANNA START WITH SOME INTRODUCTIONS, SO WE'LL JUST GO AROUND THE HORSESHOE TO SAY HELLO. 
          IF YOU COULD SHARE YOUR NAME, YOUR ORGANIZATION, OR WHAT YOU REPRESENT, UM, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE YOUR PRONOUNS OR ANY HOPES YOU MIGHT HAVE FOR THE YEAR, AND I CAN GET US STARTED. 
          I'M TANYA ORTIZ FRANKLIN, REPRESENTING BOARD DISTRICT SEVEN SOUTH LA IN THE HARBOR AREA. 
          AND I AM HOPEFUL THAT WE HAVE A SCHOOL YEAR FULL OF WEALTH, UH, WEALTH. 
          YEAH, WEALTH WOULD BE GREAT. 
          HEALTH AND WELLNESS. 
          I'M MERGING THEM TOGETHER AND SAYING WEALTH, UM, FOR STUDENTS, OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR STAFF. 
          SO WELLNESS IS MY HOPE FOR THE YEAR. 
          AND I'LL START IT, UM, OVER AT BOARD DISTRICT ONE. 
          YES, GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          I'M SHER HANDY NEWBIE AND GET THE HONOR OF SERVING IN BOARD DISTRICT ONE, CENTRAL LA AND, UM, THIS YEAR I'M JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO MO MOSTLY IS COLLABORATION. 
          UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF MY KEY THING FOR THIS YEAR IS COLLABORATION, TO BE ABLE TO SYNERGIZE AND WORK TOGETHER WITH OUR COMMUNITY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MY NAME IS SALVADOR SANABRIA. 
          I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ORGANIZATION, ELTE THE RESCUE. 
          AND WE ARE PART OF THE, WE ARE ONE CAMPAIGN, UH, OUTREACHING AND PROVIDING, UH, LEGAL ADVICE IN IMMIGRATION MATTERS TO THE FAMILIES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          SO I'M GLAD TO JOIN THE COMMITTEE, UH, DURING THIS YEAR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          JOEL CISNEROS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES HERE AT L-A-U-S-D. 
          AND MY HOPE IS FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE, UH, TO COME TOGETHER AND GROW EVEN IN MOMENTS WHERE DESPAIR FEELS PRESENT. 
          UH, GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          AND ANDREAS CHE, CHIEF OF SCHOOL OPERATIONS. 
          UH, MY HOPE AND MY CHARGE FOR THIS YEAR IS THAT WE CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE SAFEST AND MOST WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT POSSIBLE FOR OUR STUDENTS WHEN THEY'RE ON CAMPUS. 
          HI, MY NAME IS CARLA GRIEGO AND I REPRESENT BOARD DISTRICT FIVE, AND MY HOPE IS THAT THIS YEAR WE WORK TOWARD EXPANDING OUR SUPPORT OF HEALTH, UH, MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OUR COMMUNITIES. 
          HI, I AM CARLOS. 
          I AM CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CADRE COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT, REDEFINING EDUCATION, AND I'M REPRESENTING OUR SOUTH LA PARENT MEMBERS. 
          I'D SAY THEY'D SAY THE HOPE FOR, UH, FOR THIS YEAR IS FOR MORE, UH, DIGNITY AND RESPECT FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS IN ALL SPACES ACROSS THE DISTRICT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HI, MY NAME IS LENA JOHAR. 
          I AM A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE OFFICE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION AT LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AND MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE AND HER, AND MY HOPE FOR THE YEAR WOULD BE, UM, TO HAVE HEALING AND MORE PEACE. 
          I LOVE ALL THESE HOPES. 
          AND OUR, UM, FINAL COMMITTEE MEMBER WHO COULDN'T BE WITH US TODAY IS GEORGE LIPA SOCIAL WORKER, UH, PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF, UM, SOCIAL WORK FOR UCLA. 
          SO SHE'LL BE WITH US NEXT TIME. 
          YEAH, SHE'S BEEN IN A LOT OF SPACES IN THE DISTRICT. 
          UM, SO WE'RE GONNA BRING UP A FIRST, UH, INITIAL PRESENTATION IF I CAN ASK IT TO GET OUR OPENING SLIDES GOING. 
          I'M JUST GONNA SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMITTEE, WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED IN YEARS PAST, AND THEN WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO SCHOOL OPERATIONS TO SHARE SOME UPDATES FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. 
          AND A GREAT SCHOOL SITE PRESENTATION, UM, FROM PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          SO LET'S GET STARTED WITH OUR POWERPOINT. 
          UM, IF WE COULD PLEASE, AND AS IT'S COMING UP, I'LL JUST SHARE IT. 
          THIS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN IN EFFECT FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS NOW, AND WE REALLY NEED TO EXAMINE DATA AND TO LOOK AT THE DISTRICT'S POLICIES AND PRACTICES AS IT RELATES TO CLIMATE, CULTURE AND SAFETY. 
          WE'VE LOOKED AT THINGS LIKE COMMUNITY BASED SAFETY AND SAFE PASSAGES. 
          WE'VE LOOKED AT POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORTS AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. 
          WE'VE LOOKED AT STAFFING AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT, AND WE'VE REALLY LOOKED AT THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE, UM, TRYING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS FIRST AND FOREMOST, BUT OF COURSE, ALSO OUR STAFF AND OUR FAMILY MEMBERS, UM, IN YEARS PAST. 
          OH, THANKS. 
          LET'S SEE IF I CAN DO THIS. 
          YEP. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT I JUST WENT. 
          YEP. 
          UM, YEP. 
          YEARS PAST, WE LOOKED AT THE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE SURVEY. 
          WE LOOKED AT ISTAR DATA, WHICH IS THE INCIDENTS ON AND AROUND CAMPUS. 
          UM, WE LOOKED AT, UH, BSAP SCHOOLS, AND WE'RE GONNA SEE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT TODAY. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO ELEVATE BEST PRACTICES, INCLUDING WORKING WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. 
          NOW. 
          I THINK WE'LL GET A LITTLE BIT OF AN UPDATE ON THAT, UM, HOW WE PARTNER TOGETHER TO REDUCE VIOLENCE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE PARTNERSHIPS WE HAVE. 
          OOPS, THIS GOES A LITTLE FASTER THAN I THOUGHT. 
          UM, LET'S SEE. 
          WE HAVE HAD SOME RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE 
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PAST, SO LAST YEAR WE REALLY RECOMMENDED, UM, WORKING MORE CLOSELY WITH THE FOLKS TRAINED IN, UH, CULTURE AND CLIMATE, SO OUR SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT ADVISORS, UM, THINKING ABOUT INCREASING, UH, FAMILY, UH, ENGAGEMENT IN A MEANINGFUL WAY BECAUSE OUR PARENTS PLAY SUCH A LARGE ROLE IN KEEPING OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR STUDENTS SAFE. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT SAFE PASSAGES TO AND FROM CAMPUS, AND YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT TODAY AS WELL. 
          AND, UM, WE HAD A GREAT RECOMMENDATION LAST YEAR ABOUT NON-INSTRUCTIONAL MINUTES. 
          SO HOW DO WE FOCUS ON LUNCH AND NUTRITION AND RECESS TO HELP SCHOOLS BE AS WELCOMING, UH, AS POSSIBLE. 
          UM, WE ALSO LOOKED AT, UH, MENTAL HEALTH, UH, AND HEARD FROM SOME SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS ABOUT STUDENT LED, UH, CAMPAIGNS AND EVENTS ON CAMPUSES. 
          WE LOVE WHEN STUDENTS ARE LEADERS AND WE PROVIDE THOSE SPACES. 
          UM, AND WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT STAFFING LAST YEAR AS WELL. 
          AND AS WE TAKE ON THE FISCAL STABILIZATION PLAN THIS YEAR AND POTENTIAL BUDGET CUTS FOR THE FUTURE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE PRESERVING THOSE SUPPORTS THAT OUR KIDS MOST DESPERATELY NEED. 
          UM, SO THAT WILL BE A TOUGH CONVERSATION COMING UP THIS YEAR FOR THE BOARD. 
          AND THEN THE YEAR PRIOR, WE HAD SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT JUST CLARIFYING SOME OF THE TERMS WE USE. 
          AND SO YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THAT UP ON OUR WEBSITE AROUND COMMUNITY BASED SAFETY. 
          UM, WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT PUBLISHING DATA REGULARLY. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S WHAT PART OF THIS COMMITTEE DOES IS, IS SHARE THAT DATA PUBLICLY, UM, FOR FOLKS WHO ARE CURIOUS ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE GOING. 
          UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT FUNDING AND, AND THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A TOPIC OF INTEREST. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, THOSE, UH, PARTICULAR POSITIONS THAT ARE FOCUSED ON, UH, THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF OUR STUDENTS IN AND OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM. 
          SO THIS IS ALL AVAILABLE ONLINE. 
          JUST SORT OF AN INTRODUCTORY ABOUT WHERE THIS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN. 
          UM, I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHERE IT GOES THIS YEAR. 
          WE'LL GO AHEAD AND BRING UP OUR FIRST PRESENTATION. 
          YOU CAN SEE I'M VERY EFFICIENT. 
          I LIKE TO USE OUR TIME WISELY. 
          WE ARE GONNA GET 
          [II.1. Beginning of Year Efforts]
US STARTED WITH RESCHE, OUR CHIEF OF SCHOOL OPERATIONS, TO GIVE US A BIT OF A BEGINNING OF YEAR UPDATE NOW THAT WE ARE IN OUR THIRD MONTH OF SCHOOL. 
          UM, AND ONCE ANDREAS PAUSES, WE WILL INVITE THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO ASK QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS, UH, BEFORE WE INVITE UP OUR SECOND PRESENTATION. 
          SO WITH THAT, MR. TATE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I THINK WE'RE GOOD. 
          WE'RE JUST CHECKING THE MIC. 
          I THINK WE'RE GOOD. 
          NOW WE GO. 
          YEP. 
          BEAUTIFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 
          UH, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY OF COURSE TO PRESENT. 
          UH, I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT WE SPEND IN THIS COMMITTEE. 
          UH, I CAN AFFIRM THAT MANY, IF NOT ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT COME FROM THIS COMMITTEE EVERY YEAR GO RIGHT INTO OUR PRACTICE. 
          UM, WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVE FROM ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, BE IT COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS, PARENTS, OF COURSE, OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF. 
          BUT AGAIN, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WHEN YOU MAKE A RECOMMENDATION HERE, IT REALLY IS ACTIONABLE. 
          I WANT TO BEGIN BY TAKING A QUICK LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE IN TERMS OF OUR COMMUNITY COMMUNITY-BASED SAFETY PROGRAM. 
          UM, AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WAS BORN OUT OF, UH, THE BLACK STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PLAN ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO NOW. 
          THERE WAS A CALL TO ACTION THERE, UH, TO PUT INTO PLACE A COMMUNITY-BASED SAFETY PILOT WHERE WE BROUGHT IN EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS, UH, TO PROVIDE SERVICES, UH, ON OUR CAMPUSES AND NEAR OUR CAMPUSES. 
          UH, SPECIFICALLY TODAY, I'LL BE TOUCHING ON SORT OF THE THREE BIGGEST PROGRAMS IN THIS SPACE. 
          UH, THE ONE THAT GETS THE MOST ATTENTION IS SAFE PASSAGE. 
          SAFE PASSAGE IS A PROGRAM WHERE WE ESSENTIALLY ASSIST STUDENTS IN MAKING THEIR WAY TO AND FROM SCHOOL IN A SAFE FASHION. 
          UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TWO ON CAMPUS PROGRAMS, PEACE BUILDING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND REALLY WHAT THE SLIDE HIGHLIGHTS IS THE NUMBER OF PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE. 
          UH, WE HAVE AN ANNUAL BUDGET, UH, UNDER THE BSAP UMBRELLA FOR THIS PROGRAM OF, UH, A LITTLE BIT UNDER 15 MILLION. 
          AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT ALL OF THOSE DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SPENT FOR THIS YEAR. 
          AND WHEN I SAY SPENT, I DON'T MEAN ENCUMBERED. 
          I DON'T MEAN SITTING ON A FUNDING LINE. 
          I MEAN, REALLY AND TRULY, THERE ARE PROGRAMS IN PLACE. 
          UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST SORT OF TRANCHE OF DATA THERE, WHERE IT SAYS ACTIVE PROGRAMS, AGAIN, THAT GENUINELY MEANS ACTIVE. 
          WE HAVE 173 CBSP PROGRAMS THAT ARE IN PLACE THAT IF YOU GO VISIT SCHOOLS, YOU WILL SEE THEM. 
          WE HAVE 76 SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAMS. WE HAVE 58 PEACE BUILDING PROGRAMS. WE HAVE 39 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. UH, PEACE BUILDING, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW, IS, AGAIN, AN ON-CAMPUS PROGRAM THAT ASSISTS STUDENTS WITH, ESSENTIALLY WITH CONFLICT RESOLUTION. 
          WHAT WE WANT TO TEACH OUR STUDENTS IS THE ABILITY TO RESOLVE THEIR OWN CONFLICTS WITHOUT NECESSARILY ALWAYS NEEDING ADULT INTERVENTION. 
          HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS PEER-TO-PEER, BEING ABLE TO RESOLVE. 
          COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AGAIN, IS AN ON-CAMPUS PROGRAM THAT TEACHES OUR STUDENTS HOW TO BE ADVOCATES FOR THEMSELVES, NOT JUST ON CAMPUS, BUT IN THE LARGER COMMUNITY, BE IT IN A POLITICAL SPACE OR A CIVIC SPACE. 
          SO AGAIN, ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE IN PLACE. 
          WE STARTED OUT WITH A BUDGET OF ABOUT 14 MILLION. 
          UH, YOU MAY RECALL THAT THE BOARD, UH, LAST SPRING, UH, GAVE BSAP AN ADDITIONAL ALLOCATION OF DOLLARS. 
          SO WE'VE ACTUALLY EVEN TAPPED INTO THAT. 
          AND WE'VE ALREADY SPENT $19 MILLION THIS YEAR. 
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AND AGAIN, THESE ARE FOR OUR BSAP SCHOOLS. 
          SO GROUP ONE, GROUP TWO, AND GROUP THREE. 
          NOW, WE ALSO HAVE SCHOOLS THAT FALL INTO THE GROUP FOUR CATEGORY FOR BSAP. 
          AND AGAIN, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW, THE, THE GROUPINGS ARE ESSENTIALLY BASED ON CONCENTRATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS AND A NUMBER OF OTHER FACTORS. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT, UH, THE, THE GROUPINGS FOR THESE SCHOOLS. 
          SO WE HAVE SOME SCHOOLS, AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT WE HAVE ONE WELL REPRESENTED TODAY HERE THAT FALL INTO GROUP FOUR. 
          UH, AND SO WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY USE BSAP DOLLARS FOR THOSE SCHOOLS. 
          SO WE HAD AN ALLOCATION OF UNSPENT SCHOOL POLICE DOLLARS THAT WENT TOWARDS THESE SCHOOLS. 
          NOW, FOR THESE SITES, WE SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE SAFE PASSAGE, RIGHT? THAT'S THE CALL HERE. 
          THAT'S THE CHARGE HERE. 
          SO, AGAIN, I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THIS IS ANOTHER AREA WHERE WE HAVE SPENT ALL OF OUR DOLLARS, UH, IN FACT, WE WENT A SHADE OVER. 
          UM, AND WE HAVE ACTIVE PROGRAMS AT 13 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT'S BUILDING ON THE OTHER SCHOOLS THE, UH, SO-CALLED BSAP SCHOOLS THAT I ALREADY SHARED ALSO. 
          AND THE, UH, BOARD MEMBER ORTIZ FRANKLIN ALLUDED TO THIS. 
          I'M VERY HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE ACTIVE PARTNERSHIPS, UH, WITH, UH, THE CITY VIA GRID WITH THE COUNTY, THROUGH THE OFFICE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION. 
          UH, WE FINALIZED OUR MOU WITH THE COUNTY JUST ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF AGO. 
          UH, IF MEMORY SERVES, THESE ARE EXCELLENT PROGRAMS. IN FACT, ON MY WAY HERE, LITERALLY TO THIS MEETING, WE WERE IN CONTACT WITH SHAVAN AND THE TEAM OVER AT GRID TO HELP US OUT AT ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS THAT WAS HAVING SOME CONFLICT THAT WAS POTENTIALLY RELATED TO GANG ACTIVITY. 
          SO THESE ARE ACTIVE PROGRAMS THAT LEAN INTO SCHOOLS THAT MOST NEED THE ASSISTANCE. 
          THEY'RE AMAZING PARTNERS, UH, SPECIFICALLY WITH GRID. 
          THEY'VE ALSO COMMITTED TO HELPING OUT ON AN ONGOING BASIS. 
          FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE FAMILIARITY WITH THESE PROGRAMS, THEY'RE USUALLY SORT OF, IT'S A SURGE PROGRAM. 
          SO WHEN THERE'S AN ISSUE AT A SCHOOL, THEY'LL GO AND THEY'LL BE THERE FOR THREE TO FIVE DAYS, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT LONGER. 
          WITH GRID, WE HAVE A COMMITMENT FOR A SMALL BATCH OF SCHOOLS WHERE THEY'LL BE RUNNING A PILOT PROGRAM WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY THERE EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A, A QUICK LOOK AT OUR TIERED FIDELITY INVENTORY AND OUR, UH, POSITIVE BEHAVIOR PROGRAMS. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO LAURA Z. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. 
          UM, SO I'M GONNA QUICKLY JUST, UM, WALK US THROUGH THE TIERED FIDELITY INVENTORY. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO BE, UM, MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR ON IS IT'S AN INVENTORY, IT'S NOT AN ASSESSMENT. 
          SO INVENTORY MEANS WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT WHAT DO WE HAVE IN PLACE AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM THERE? SO, OH, RIGHT HERE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THE CLICKER IS RIGHT HERE. 
          SO, THE TFI IS A TOOL THAT THE DISTRICT THAT WE ARE USING TO TAKE INVENTORY, HELP HAVE SCHOOLS TAKE INVENTORY OF WHERE THEY ARE IN THE, THE, THE PROCESS OF THEIR PBIS, UH, IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S USED NATIONWIDE. 
          SO WE FEEL GOOD USING IT BECAUSE IT IS A, IT IS AN EVIDENCE-BASED TOOL THAT WE'RE USING, UH, THIS, THIS SEMESTER, SCHOOL TEAMS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THREE TASKS. 
          SO I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. 
          WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE DOING? THE FIRST ONE IS SCHOOL TEAMS ARE REQUIRED TO MEET MONTHLY, RIGHT? TO MEET MONTHLY, TO, TO REVIEW THEIR PROGRESS TOWARD WHERE THEY ARE WITH THEIR IMPLEMENTATION AND HOW THEY ARE WORKING TOWARD THEIR GOALS. 
          UM, THE, THE SECOND PIECE THAT SCHOOLS ARE DOING IS, UM, ASSESSING THEIR CURRENT LEVEL WHERE THEY ARE. 
          SO IF THEY DO IT IN OCTOBER, IT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT THAN NOVEMBER. 
          SO IT'S A SNAPSHOT IN TIME OF WHERE THEY ARE. 
          AND LOOKING AT, ARE WE ZERO, ONE OR TWO? I WANT US TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THE ZERO DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING RIGHT. 
          ZERO DOES NOT MEAN WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING. 
          TWO DOES NOT MEAN LIKE WE ARE PERFECTION AND LIKE WE CAN STOP NOW. 
          IT'S, IT'S KIND OF AN EVER-CHANGING INVENTORY BECAUSE THINGS EBB AND FLOW. 
          SO SCHOOLS ARE TO, ARE LOOKING TO ASSESS WHERE THEY ARE, OR TAKE INVENTORY, I SHOULD SAY, OF WHERE THEY ARE AT THE CURRENT MOMENT ON, ON EACH OF THOSE FEATURES. 
          AND THEN DEVELOP TWO TO THREE GOALS BASED ON WHERE THEY ARE. 
          UM, FINALLY ON, BY DECEMBER 5TH, EVERY SCHOOL SHOULD SUBMIT THEIR SCORES AND THEIR GOALS THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL'S PORTAL. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THREE TASKS THAT SCHOOLS ARE BEING ASKED TO DO FOR THE FALL SEMESTER. 
          UH, THEY WERE ASKED TO DO IT LAST SEMESTER TOO, WHEN YOU CAN SEE HERE THE OVERALL SCORES, UM, THAT WERE GIVEN. 
          AND NOW I WANT US TO REALIZE THAT WE WOULDN'T WANNA SEE 100% IN THE TWOS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD MEAN PEOPLE WERE NOT BEING FULLY HONEST, RIGHT? WE'RE, WE'RE NOT PROBABLY GONNA GET A HUNDRED PERCENT. 
          NO ONE'S GONNA GET A HUNDRED PERCENT ALL THE TIME. 
          UM, WELL, WHAT I WANT US TO DO IS, WHAT WE WANNA DO IS LOOK OVER TIME AND SEE HOW HAVE WE GROWN? WHAT ARE OUR HIGHLIGHTS? SO IF WE LOOK AT THAT, WE SEE THAT ALMOST 80% OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE SAYING THEY HAVE THEIR BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS IN PLACE. 
          AND ALMOST 7 75 ARE, HAVE A PROCESS, A CLEAR PROCESS WHERE THEY 
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ARE TEACHING THOSE EXPECTATIONS. 
          A LOT OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE TEACHING 'EM, AND MAYBE THEY DON'T HAVE THE PROCESS WRITTEN OUT YET, SO THAT MIGHT GO TO A ONE. 
          SO I WANT US TO THINK ABOUT, IT'S NOT LIKE, OH, I GOTTA SEE ALL OF THESE. 
          WE CAN SEE THAT SOME AREAS, SCHOOLS ARE FINDING MORE, UM, THAT ARE EASIER TO IMPLEMENT OTHERS WHERE THEY'RE WORKING ON STILL WITH THAT IMPLEMENTATION. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THE NEXT ONE WE HAVE BROKEN BY REGION. 
          UM, AND THE VERY SIMILAR, RIGHT? THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR TO THE DISTRICT WIDE SCORES. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT ADVISORS. 
          WE HAVE ABOUT 30 SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT ADVISORS THAT DO SUPPORT SCHOOLS. 
          AND LOOKING AT WHERE ARE YOU, RIGHT? AND HOW CAN I HELP YOU TO, TO BUILD ON YOUR ACTION PLANS. 
          UM, WITH THAT, THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS THE SCHOOLS MAKING THEIR GOALS. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT IN THE, UM, IN THE SPRING THAT THE GOALS THAT SCHOOLS MADE WERE THE MAJORITY OF SCHOOLS WERE TEAM OPERATING PROCEDURES, DEFINING THEIR PROBLEM BEHAVIORS INVOLVING FACULTY, UM, MAKING SURE THEIR BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS WERE VERY CLEAR, PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE COMPOSITION OF THEIR TEAM. 
          UM, SOMETIMES OUR TEAMS ARE DON'T HAVE A STUDENT ON 'EM. 
          AND SO THAT WOULD NOT MAKE IT A FULL TEAM IF IT WAS A HIGH SCHOOL. 
          OFTENTIMES IT'S MAYBE A PARENT OR COMMUNITY, UH, MEMBER THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO PUT ON THEIR TEAM THAT WOULD MAKE IT NOT A FULL TEAM. 
          SO THE TEAM COMPETITION, UH, COMPOSITION IS, IS, UH, WE HAVE 138 SCHOOLS THAT PUT THAT AS SOME OF THEIR GOAL. 
          SO, UM, I WANNA REMIND US THAT IT'S REALLY NOT ABOUT THE SCORE, IT'S MORE ABOUT THE, THE GOALS THAT SCHOOLS MAKE AND HELPING THEM TO, TO, UH, TO IMPLEMENT WHAT IT IS THEY'RE SAYING THEY'RE GONNA IMPLEMENT TO REACH THOSE GOALS. 
          SO THEY DO LOOK AT THE TFI BOTH IN THE FALL AND IN THE SPRING TO TAKE INVENTORY OF WHERE THEY ARE AND TO PLAN THEIR, UM, THEIR ACTION PLANS. 
          AND NOW I'M GONNA PASS IT BACK TO MR. TATE AND ASHLEY. 
          I'LL JUST ADD A COUPLE OF VERY, VERY QUICK POINTS TO WHAT LAURA JUST PRESENTED. 
          THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE PUT IN PLACE FOR THIS YEAR JUST TO CONTINUE TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE FIDELITY TO OUR PBIS PROGRAMS. ONE IS ON A MONTHLY BASIS NOW. 
          WE PUBLISH SAMPLE AGENDAS, SAMPLE SLIDE DECKS FOR OUR SCHOOLS TO USE TO HAVE THEIR MONTHLY PBIS COMMITTEE MEETINGS. 
          WE KNOW HOW IMPACTED OUR SCHOOLS ARE IN TERMS OF WORKLOAD FOR EVERYONE THERE, BE IT TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, PARENT VOLUNTEERS, AND SO ON. 
          SO, AGAIN, IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE A ONE SIZE FITS ALL, BUT AGAIN, IT'S AT LEAST GIVES OUR SCHOOLS A STARTING POINT. 
          SO THEY HAVE AN AGENDA, THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT IN OCTOBER, THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT IN NOVEMBER AND SO ON, AND THEY CAN BUILD FROM THAT. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE DOING THAT WE'RE BRINGING BACK ACTUALLY FROM THE PRIOR SYSTEM, THE RUBRIC OF IMPLEMENTATION, IS THAT WE'RE ASKING OPERATIONS COORDINATORS TO PARTICIPATE IN VALIDATION VISITS TWICE A YEAR AT SCHOOLS. 
          RIGHT UP UNTIL NOW, IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE'VE RELIED ON OUR SCHOOL TEAMS, UH, TO DO THAT VALIDATION PROCESS. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO ISSUE THERE, BUT JUST TO PROVIDE THAT ADDITIONAL LAYER OF SUPPORT COHERENCE, WE'RE ASKING OUR OPS COORDINATORS TO LEAN IN. 
          UH, THE LAST POINT THAT I'LL MAKE AROUND, UH, PBIS AND TFI IS THAT WE HAD LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF OUR SCHOOLS THAT WERE RECOGNIZED BY THE STATE, UH, FOR THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN THIS AREA. 
          SO AGAIN, OUR SCHOOLS CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS THIS. 
          LIKE LAURA SAID, THERE'S NO END GAME HERE. 
          YOU NEVER GET TO A POINT WHERE YOU SORT OF HIGH FIVE AND SAY, GREAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE EXACTLY WHERE WE NEED TO BE. 
          IT IS AN EVOLVING PROCESS, BUT THERE'S A LOT TO BE, UH, HAPPY ABOUT IN THAT SPACE. 
          UH, AS A BOARD MEMBER, ORTIZ FRANKLIN, UH, MENTIONED, OF COURSE, WE'RE BASICALLY ALMOST AT EXACTLY TWO MONTHS INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR, IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT. 
          UH, WE'RE IN OUR THIRD MONTH IF YOU LOOK AT IT THAT WAY. 
          UH, BUT I WANTED TO TAKE US BACK AND JUST SHARE SOME VERY QUICK HIGHLIGHTS FROM A VERY SUCCESSFUL OPENING. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, AGAIN, OUR, UH, AT ATTENDANCE RATE FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL, UH, ALBEIT A TRUNCATED ONE, IT WAS A THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FOR THAT FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL, UH, WAS RIGHT AT AROUND 92%. 
          UH, YOU DON'T SEE THE ENROLLMENT DATE UP THERE BECAUSE THAT'S STILL BEING VALIDATED. 
          WE JUST PASSED NORM DAY, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO. 
          UH, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE REALLY SOLID NUMBERS THERE TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          UH, IN TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION, WE HAVE 1400 ROUTES THAT ARE ACTIVELY SERVICING OUR STUDENTS. 
          AND WE HAVE 800, UH, ACTUALLY WE JUST PASSED 900, A NON-ROUTINE REQUEST. 
          AND I'LL, I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT IN AN UPCOMING SLIDE. 
          WE CONTINUE TO SERVE, UH, WELL OVER 250,000 MEALS ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          UH, YOU'LL RECALL THAT FOR MANY OF OUR STUDENTS, THEY GET THREE MEALS A DAY AT SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'LL GET BREAKFAST, THEY'LL GET LUNCH, AND THEY'LL GET SUPPER IF THEY HAPPEN TO STAY WITH US, UH, INTO THE BEYOND THE BELL PROGRAM. 
          SO THEY GET THREE GOOD MEALS PER DAY. 
          UH, IN TERMS OF DEPLOYMENT, THIS IS SOMETHING FOR THOSE OF US THAT HAVE BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT FOR A WHILE, YOU MAY HEAR IT, UH, REFERRED TO AS DAWN PATROL. 
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UM, AND IT'S BASICALLY ALL OF US, UH, GETTING OUT OF THE BUILDING, UH, WHICH I'LL TAKE ANY EXCUSE TO DO, UM, AND GOING OUT TO SCHOOLS TO HELP. 
          RIGHT? AND SO WE GO OUT FOR THE FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS, WE STAY IF SCHOOLS NEED US TO, IF THE PRINCIPAL SAYS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I'VE GOT IT FROM HERE, THEN OFF WE GO. 
          BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT WE DO. 
          AND AGAIN, I KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, ANYTIME YOU START SCHOOL IN MID-AUGUST, THE HEAT IS GOING TO BE A FACTOR. 
          SO, AGAIN, AS YOU'LL SEE, UH, WE HAD A RELATIVELY LOW PERCENTAGE OF CLASSES THAT WERE IMPACTED, AND IT WAS ACTUALLY A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE FROM LAST YEAR. 
          UH, A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS, AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE THE CALLS FOR SERVICE FROM SCHOOL POLICE AS A DATA POINT. 
          UH, I ALSO WANNA MARK, AND AGAIN, THIS KIND OF GOES BACK TO WHAT I ALREADY PRESENTED IN TERMS OF CBSP, WE HAD 111 SAFE PASSAGE ROUTES COVERED. 
          WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT TO BEGIN THE SCHOOL YEAR THROUGH A COMBINATION OF VENDOR PROVIDED SERVICES, SCHOOL, POLICE SERVICES, AND PARTNERS LIKE GRID AND OVP, WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE SAFE PASSAGE SUPPORT AT 111 DIFFERENT, UH, ROUTES TO SCHOOL ACROSS OUR SYSTEM. 
          UH, OUR ITS HELP DESK. 
          I KNOW THAT OUR, OUR STUDENTS NOW MORE THAN EVER, RELY ON TECHNOLOGY. 
          UH, I KNOW I HAVE, UH, TWO FIFTH GRADE DAUGHTERS IN THE SCHOOL IN, UH, IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, AND I KNOW THE MAJORITY OF THEIR HOMEWORK NOW SEEMS TO BE ONLINE. 
          UH, SO WE KNOW THAT THAT'S A BIG ISSUE. 
          SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THE NUMBER OF CALLS TO THE ITS HELP DESK, AND OF COURSE, OUR STAFF. 
          WE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT WE ACCOMPLISH WITH OUR STUDENTS WITHOUT OUR STAFF AT SCHOOL SITES. 
          AND I'M HAPPY TO, TO SHARE WITH YOU THE, THE FILL RATES, YOU KNOW, SORT OF THE INSIDE BASEBALL TERM. 
          IT BASICALLY MEANS THAT THE NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT ARE IN THOSE POSITIONS. 
          SO, AS YOU'LL SEE, UH, FOR OUR CERTIFICATED STAFF, WHICH OBVIOUSLY INCLUDES OUR CLASSROOM TEACHERS, WE WERE AT A 99.5% FILL RATE, WHICH MEANT WE HAD VERY, VERY FEW VACANCIES ACROSS OUR SYSTEM. 
          UH, THIS IS, AGAIN, JUST ANOTHER VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF OUR ATTENDANCE AND ENROLLMENT DATA. 
          UH, OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS. 
          AGAIN, I'LL MARK THAT THE, THE DATA FOR THIS YEAR IS NOT INCLUDED BECAUSE IT'S STILL BEING VALIDATED, UH, UH, VIS-A-VIS ENROLLMENT. 
          IN TERMS OF ATTENDANCE, I JUST SHARED THAT IT'S, UH, A SHADE UNDER 92%. 
          SO THAT'S PRETTY, UH, SUSTAINABLE OVER THE LAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS. 
          AND OF COURSE, TRANSPORTATION FOR ALL CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF OUR HALLMARK PROGRAMS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. 
          UH, IT'S NOW WE'VE MADE IT A LITTLE BIT, HOPEFULLY, UH, A LITTLE BIT EASIER FOR OUR FAMILIES TO ACCESS. 
          NOW, WHEN YOU GO INTO PARENT PORTAL, UH, AND I'VE, I'VE DONE IT MYSELF FOR MY GIRLS, UH, YOU CAN GO IN AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY CLICK ON THE, THE LITTLE YELLOW SCHOOL BUS AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT TRANSPORTATION, UH, OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE, UH, FOR YOUR KIDDOS. 
          UH, I DO WANT, AND I ALLUDED TO THIS EARLIER, BUT I DO WANNA SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME HERE. 
          UM, WE KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON ACROSS OUR COMMUNITIES WITH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF TREPIDATION IN OUR COMMUNITIES. 
          UH, I, I THINK THERE'S, THERE'S A BELIEF FROM OUR FAMILIES THAT ONCE KIDDOS ARE ON CAMPUS, THAT THE CAMPUS ITSELF IS A SAFE SPACE. 
          THE CONCERN THAT WE HEAR FROM A LOT OF FAMILIES IS, WE HAVE TO GET TO SCHOOL. 
          WE HAVE TO GET FROM SCHOOL. 
          SO, SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR, WHICH, UH, QUITE FRANKLY WE'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE, IS WE ARE NOW DOING HOME TO SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION FOR FAMILIES, UH, THAT SHARE THAT THEY HAVE CONCERNS RELATED TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. 
          SO, HOW DOES THIS WORK? UH, AND AGAIN, WE'VE DONE MESSAGING ON THIS ACROSS OUR SYSTEM. 
          I MENTIONED WE HAVE WELL OVER 900 FAMILIES, UH, THAT ARE TAKING US UP ON THIS SERVICE. 
          I BELIEVE THERE'S A PRETTY DECENT SATURATION OF INFORMATION. 
          UH, SO OUR FAMILIES CONNECT WITH OUR SCHOOLS. 
          OUR SCHOOLS CONNECT WITH OUR TRANSPORTATION UNIT. 
          AND AS YOU MAY KNOW, WE ALREADY OFFER HOME TO SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH IEPS. 
          SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE DO IS WE LOOK AT A REQUEST, WE LOOK AT AN EXISTING BUS ROUTE FOR A STUDENT WITH AN IEP, AND WE MAKE A MATCH. 
          AND SO THOSE STUDENTS GET PICKED UP, THEY GET LITERALLY HOME TO SCHOOL IN SOME INSTANCES WHERE THE FAMILY HAS GONE SO FAR AS TO TELL US THAT THEY EVEN HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT BRINGING THE YOUNGSTER OUT TO THE CURB IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME. 
          WE ACTUALLY HAVE STAFF MEMBERS WHO WILL GO AND KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND SAY, HI, GOOD MORNING. 
          YOU KNOW, I'M HERE TO PICK UP YOUR CHILD AND GET THEM ON THE BUS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE, SOME OF THE LINKS THAT WE'RE GOING TO, UH, TO SUPPORT OUR FAMILIES. 
          AND AGAIN, WE HAD A VERY, VERY COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION ABOUT THIS JUST YESTERDAY AT BOARD A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, AROUND OUR EFFORTS, UH, YOU KNOW, UNDER, WE ARE ONE. 
          AND, AND I KNOW MR. SANIA REFERRED TO THIS IN HIS OPENING REMARKS. 
          UH, THIS IS OUR, OUR KEYNOTE CAMPAIGN, UH, TO SUPPORT OUR FAMILIES DURING THIS TIME. 
          I WANNA MARK, IT'S NOT A NEW CAMPAIGN, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAD, GEEZ, ALL THE WAY BACK TO, UH, 20 16, 20 17, IF MEMORY SERVES, WHEN THERE WERE VERY SIMILAR CONCERNS. 
          UH, AND AGAIN, I JUST WANNA TAKE US BACK TO SOME OF THE, THE PIECES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE. 
          AND I, I'M NOT GONNA SPEND A LOT OF TIME HERE, OF COURSE, HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, BUT WE DID HAVE A VERY COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION YESTERDAY. 
          I MENTIONED THE TRANSPORTATION THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE. 
          WE HAVE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAMS. WE'VE ASKED EVEN WITH OUR SCHOOL POLICE OFFICERS, WE'VE ASKED THEM TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE GREATER FOCUS, UH, GREATER, UH, UH, SCRUTINY TO AREAS WHERE WE KNOW THERE HAS BEEN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, 
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UH, TO BE OUT THERE SUPPORTING OUR SCHOOLS. 
          UH, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF STAFF TRAINING. 
          WE DID STAFF TRAINING IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR. 
          IT WOULD'VE BEEN IN JANUARY, IF NOT FOR THE FIRES. 
          UH, WE DID A ROUND OF TRAINING AGAIN, WHEN THIS SCHOOL YEAR STARTED. 
          WE'RE DOING ANOTHER ROUND OF TRAINING FOR STAFF, PRIMARILY AROUND WHAT ARE THE POLICIES THAT ACTUALLY IMPACT YOUR SCHOOL WHEN YOU HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO PURPORTS TO BE FROM IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND COMES TO YOUR OFFICE, WHAT ARE THE PROTOCOLS? WHAT IS THIS SCHOOL SUPPOSED TO DO? AND OF COURSE, WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT COORDINATION, UH, WITH OUR CIVIC AGENCIES, BE IT THE CITY, THE COUNTY, LAPD, SHERIFFS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR SOME OF OUR SMALLER MUNICIPALITIES. 
          UH, WE'VE HOSTED, UH, LITERALLY, I THINK BY NOW, HUNDREDS OF KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WORKSHOPS. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAVE EVERY FRIDAY, OUR S FACE TEAM, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM HOSTS, UH, ZOOM KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WORKSHOPS, UH, BOTH IN THE MORNING AND IN THE EVENING, 6:00 PM SO THAT OUR FAMILIES CAN LOG IN, ZOOM IN, AND SEE THE CONTENT. 
          UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALSO, FOR OUR FAMILIES THAT ARE MOST IMPACTED IN THIS SPACE, WE'VE WORKED WITH SOME OF OUR LEGAL AID PARTNERS TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE RESOURCES, UH, THAT THEY MAY NEED. 
          AND I THINK I JUST HAVE A, A LAST COUPLE OF SLIDES HERE. 
          ONE AGAIN, IS OUR FOCUS CONTINUES TO BE ON ATTENDANCE. 
          UH, AS THIS SCHOOL YEAR WAS GETTING READY TO RAMP UP, UH, WE MADE A SIGNIFICANT EFFORT TO REACH OUT TO FAMILIES. 
          SO WE REACHED OUT TO TWO SORT OF CATEGORIES OF FAMILIES, IF YOU WILL. 
          AND THERE'S OBVIOUSLY SOME OVERLAP. 
          ONE WAS, WE REACHED OUT TO OUR FAMILIES WHERE THERE WAS ALREADY A HISTORY OF STUDENTS STRUGGLING WITH, WITH, UH, ATTENDANCE, WITH BEING WHAT WE CALL CHRONICALLY ABSENT, WHICH WE DEFINE USUALLY AS STUDENTS THAT MISS 16 OR MORE DAYS IN A SCHOOL YEAR OF ABOUT 180 DAYS, WE ACTUALLY HOLD OURSELVES TO A HIGHER BAR THAN THE STATE DOES. 
          SO WE REACHED OUT TO OUR CHRONICALLY ABSENT STUDENTS. 
          WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO OUR STUDENTS, AND THIS IS WHERE WE LEVERAGED OUR, OUR, OUR SCHOOL SITE TEAMS THAT WE REACHED OUT TO FAMILIES THAT HAD CONCERNS, OR WE WERE AWARE THAT THEY HAD CONCERNS AROUND IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. 
          AGAIN, JUST TO REINFORCE THAT WE HAD RESOURCES AVAILABLE THAT SCHOOLS WERE SAFE SPACES. 
          AND AS YOU'LL SEE THE NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, WE MADE ALMOST 13,500 PHONE CALLS. 
          AND AGAIN, WHEN I SAY PHONE CALLS, I WANNA BE VERY CLEAR HERE. 
          THESE ARE NOT ROBOCALLS. 
          THESE ARE NOT BBCS. 
          THIS IS ACTUAL STAFF CALLING A FAMILY, CONNECTING WITH A FAMILY, HAVING, IN SOME CASES A LONG CONVERSATION WITH THEM ABOUT THE RESOURCES THEY NEED. 
          SIMILARLY, THE HOME VISITS, WE WENT OUT, WE DID HOME VISITS, UH, ALMOST 1200 HOME VISITS JUST FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. 
          YOU MAY KNOW WE DO HOME VISITS EVERY MONTH AS PART OF, I ATTEND. 
          AND WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A SIGNIFICANT ROUND OF HOME VISITS RELATED TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IMPACT, UH, IN THE WEEKS TO COME. 
          AND I BELIEVE, THIS IS MY LAST SLIDE. 
          UH, SO THIS, THIS IS AN INTERESTING OPPORTUNITY IN A VERY INTERESTING TIME, UH, TO PUT IT MILDLY. 
          AND IT'S THE WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING, UM, I MEAN, IT, IT WAS AROUND WHEN I WAS A PRINCIPAL. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN A MINUTE. 
          UH, IT'S AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY. 
          UH, KIDDOS WALK TO SCHOOL, BIKE TO SCHOOL. 
          USUALLY WHAT SCHOOLS WILL DO IS THEY'LL DESIGNATE A STARTING POINT, MAYBE THREE OR FOUR BLOCKS OUT FROM THE SCHOOL. 
          YOU MEET THE PRINCIPAL, EVERYBODY WALKS. 
          THE PRINCIPAL MAYBE IS HUFFING AND PUFFING. 
          OR MAYBE THAT WAS JUST ME, UH, YEARS AGO. 
          BUT IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. 
          UM, SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF SCHOOLS SIGN UP. 
          NOW, THE GUIDANCE THAT WE'VE PROVIDED OUR SCHOOLS THOUGH, IS THAT WE HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF THE DAY AND AGE THAT WE LIVE IN, RIGHT? SO IF YOU, AS A SCHOOL LEADER IN, IN WORKING WITH YOUR COMMUNITY, SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE THIS IS NOT THE YEAR FOR WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S NO, UH, YOU KNOW, FOLKS ARE NOT BEING VOLUNTOLD TO DO THIS, RIGHT? SO WE WANNA BE MINDFUL OF THAT. 
          I SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU MAY SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, AND OBVIOUSLY THIS IS, THIS IS, UH, TODAY, UM, YOU, WE MAY HAVE FEWER SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING THAN WE'VE HAD IN YEARS PAST. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A FACTOR THAT WE WANT TO CALL OUT. 
          BUT AGAIN, IT'S AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY. 
          IT BUILDS COMMUNITY AT THE SCHOOL. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'LL STOP THERE SO WE CAN TAKE QUESTIONS BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO PRINCIPAL DULY AND PANORAMA. 
          AND SO YOU CAN TAKE A BREATH, WHO THERE IS A LOT HAPPENING. 
          UM, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 
          JUST A BIG OVERVIEW OF HOW LA UNIFIED IS SUPPORTING STUDENT SAFETY, UM, CAMPUS CLIMATE AND, AND ALL OF THE PIECES. 
          SO I'LL INVITE MY COLLEAGUES TO ASK ANY, YOU KNOW, CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. 
          I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF TERMS WE USE FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO MIGHT BE NEW TO THIS SPACE. 
          LIKE, WHAT IS THAT, ANDRES? THAT'S ALWAYS HELPFUL FOR US TO REGROUND. 
          UM, ANY PROBING QUESTIONS OR ANY, UH, IDEAS FROM THE GROUP? I JUST WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO ONE 86TH STREET ELEMENTARY. 
          I WAS THERE THIS MORNING FOR THEIR WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL. 
          THEY WERE ALSO GIVING OUT BOOKS FOR KIDS WHO WALKED TO SCHOOL, WHICH WAS REALLY FUN THIS MORNING. 
          UM, AND SUPER SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF OUR PBIS RECOGNITION SCHOOLS THAT YOU MENTIONED. 
          LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS ARE EARNING STATE RECOGNITION FOR THIS. 
          AND SO LOTS OF GOOD THINGS HAPPENING ACROSS THE DISTRICT. 
          UM, SO COLLEAGUES, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, UM, FOR MR. TATE, UH, THANK YOU, UH, APPRECIATE THE OVERVIEW AND, UM, ALWAYS APPRECIATIVE OF THE WORK, UM, AROUND OUR SCHOOLS INDEFINITELY WITH, UM, SAFETY QUESTION. 
          WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE, UM, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS AVAILABLE, 
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THE SAFE PASSAGE. 
          AND SO WE DO HAVE TRANSPORTATION. 
          AND SO THERE'S SOME SCHOOLS THAT HAVE SAFE PASSAGE AT THEIR SITE, BUT THEY'RE ALSO A SITE FOR BUS PICKUP. 
          IS THERE SAFE PASSAGE FOR THOSE THAT COME AFTER FOR BUS PICKUP? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SO IT, IT KIND OF LAGS BETWEEN THE SCHOOL RESIDENT AND THAT TRANSPORT BACK TO THAT SCHOOL, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          YOU MEAN LIKE FOR KIDDOS THAT STAY LATE FOR ATHLETICS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS OR, UM, NO, IT WOULD BE JUST THE TYPICAL BUS ROUTE. 
          SO THIS BUS, SAY THEY PICK UP AT SCHOOL A, THEY GO TO SCHOOL B, SCHOOL A HAS SAFE PASSAGE. 
          SO WHEN THEY RETURN BACK TO SCHOOL A FROM THEIR SCHOOL, B, WOULD SAFE PASSAGE BE THERE OR COULD IT BE EXTENDED? WHAT IS, UM, THE WORK AROUND THAT? GOTCHA. 
          SO WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAMS, OUR VENDORS AS, AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, THEY'LL WORK WITH THE SCHOOL LEADERS TO IDENTIFY THE, THE AREAS THAT MOST REQUIRE THE SERVICE. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU MIGHT HAVE A SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, WHEN I VISITED, UH, DORSEY A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO TO SEE THEIR SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM IN ACTION, THEY HAD THEIR SAFE PASSAGE VENDORS DIRECTLY, IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL, RIGHT ABOUT A ONE BLOCK OUT. 
          THERE'S LIKE A METRO PICKUP THERE, THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON. 
          A DIFFERENT SCHOOL MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, OUR IMMEDIATE VICINITY IS FINE, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, BUT TWO OR THREE BLOCKS OUT, THERE ARE SOME HOT SPOTS. 
          THERE ARE SOME AREAS WHERE WE HAVE CONCERN. 
          SO THEY'LL WORK WITH THE VENDOR AND THEY'LL ASSIGN 'EM. 
          WE, WE TRY TO KEEP IT HONESTLY, UH, BOARD MEMBER TO ABOUT THREE OR FOUR BLOCKS MAX BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE FURTHER OUT YOU GET, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES, UH, COMMUNICATION MAY BE IMPACTED. 
          UH, THE ABILITY TO RESPOND TO SITUATIONS, UH, MAY BE IMPACTED. 
          SO WE TRY TO KEEP IT WITHIN THAT FRAME. 
          GOT IT. 
          NOW THE QUESTION IS MORE SO TIMEFRAME. 
          'CAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE THERE IN THE MORNING AND THEY'RE THERE IN THE AFTERNOON. 
          SO THE QUESTION FOR ME IS, WHEN THE BUS PICKS UP, SAY DORSEY, AND THEY'RE TRANSPORTING TO A SCHOOL FURTHER WEST, SO MAYBE THEY'RE GOING TO PALMS OR TO WEBSTER, THEN THEY COME BACK, THEY RETURN TO DORSEY, THAT SAFE PASSAGE, WOULD THEY BE WORKING WITH THAT PALM SCHOOL COMMUNITY AS WELL? BECAUSE NOW THEY'RE AT THEIR BUS STOP? THEY'LL, THEY'LL WORK. 
          AND, AND, AND THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION ON THE QUESTION. 
          THE, THE SAFE PASSAGE VENDORS DO NOT DIFFERENTIATE IN TERMS OF STUDENTS, RIGHT? SO TO USE YOUR EXAMPLE, IF A BUS ARRIVES UNLOADS, L-A-U-S-D STUDENTS, THEY MAY NOT NECESSARILY GO, YOU KNOW, TO USE THAT EXAMPLE, THEY MAY NOT GO TO DORSEY, MAYBE THEY GO TO A DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOL, THEY JUST GET PICKED UP THERE OR A MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          UM, THEY WILL STILL PROVIDE SAFE PASSAGE SERVICE TO THOSE KIDDOS. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT THEY'LL DO, WHICH I THINK GOES TO THE, THE CORE OF YOUR QUESTION IS AGAIN, THE SCHOOL CAN WORK WITH A SAFE PASSAGE VENDOR AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, NORMALLY WE WOULD ASK YOU TO BE OUT TILL FOUR, BUT BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO BASICALLY GET DROPPED OFF BY BUS HERE AT FOUR 15, WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE THE SERVICE UNTIL FIVE O'CLOCK. 
          SO THAT, AGAIN, THOSE KIDDOS, WHEN THEY GET DROPPED OFF, HAVE THAT SERVICE. 
          NOW, MY ONE ASTERISK ON THAT IS THAT ALL OF THIS COMES AT A COST, RIGHT? SO THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH THE VENDOR AROUND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, HOW MANY STAFF MEMBERS, HOW MANY HOURS. 
          BUT YES, WE DO FACTOR THAT IN. 
          NOW, WOULD THAT BE A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THOSE TWO SCHOOLS? 'CAUSE THAT'S A MIDDLE SCHOOL AND A HIGH SCHOOL. 
          THE HIGH SCHOOL HAS THE CONTRACT WITH THIS SA UH, SAFE PASSAGE. 
          BUT NOW THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WANTS TO GET OR GET DROPPED OFF AT THIS PARTICULAR SITE NOW, WOULD THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT ADDITIONAL TIME? OR HOW WOULD THAT BE WORKED OUT? WELL, NO, WE, WE WOULDN'T ASK THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TO BEAR ANY OF THE COSTS IN THAT EXAMPLE. 
          BASICALLY WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE IS YOU'D HAVE COORDINATION BETWEEN TRANSPORTATION, TSB, TRANSPORTATION SERVICES BRANCH. 
          YOU'D HAVE COORDINATION BETWEEN THE REGION OPERATIONS TEAM. 
          THEY WOULD KIND OF BE THE SPOKE IN THE WHEEL, NO PUN INTENDED, TO KEEP EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, ON THE SAME PAGE AND THEN THE TWO SCHOOLS WOULD WEIGH IN. 
          SO, OKAY, GOOD TO KNOW. 
          ALRIGHT, THANKS. 
          HI. 
          THANK YOU ANDRES, FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I'M WONDERING, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS AND THEN I'M, I HAVE A COMMENT. 
          UM, HOW MANY SCHOOLS HAVE RECEIVED SERVICES THROUGH GRID AND WHAT SCHOOLS DO WE HOPE TO SUPPORT IN COLLABORATION WITH OVP FOR THE, LET, LET'S TAKE THE FIRST PART OF THE QUESTION. 
          FOR GRID, DO YOU MEAN SHORT TERM OR THE ONGOING SUPPORT FROM GRID? BOTH. 
          UM, LET ME GET YOU THE NUMBERS FOR SHORT TERM. 
          UH, OBVIOUSLY THAT, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THAT WE'RE ONLY A COUPLE OF MONTHS INTO THIS SCHOOL YEAR, I, I WOULD PROBABLY SAY IN THIS SCHOOL YEAR IT'S BEEN SOMEWHERE AROUND 10 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN SERVICED. 
          BUT IF I ACTUALLY TAKE A LOOK BACK AT LAST YEAR, IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN THAT. 
          UH, WITH OVP, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE JUST FINALIZED THE MOU WITH THE COUNTY FOR THAT ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF AGO. 
          SO WE HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE YET, BUT I'M SURE WE WILL. 
          UH, IN TERMS OF THE ONGOING SUPPORT FROM GRID, UM, WE 
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HAVE TWO SCHOOLS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED FOR ONGOING SUPPORT NOW THROUGH GRID, AND THEY'VE ALSO MADE A COMMITMENT TO ADD A THIRD SCHOOL IN JANUARY. 
          GREAT. 
          AND THEN HOW WILL SCHOOLS GET SUPPORT THROUGH OVP? SHOULD THEY, WHAT'S THE PROCESS? GOTCHA. 
          SO IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO GRID NOW. 
          AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS USUALLY WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS WE DON'T PUT THE ONUS ON THE SCHOOL NECESSARILY TO REACH OUT TO GRID DIRECTLY. 
          THEY CAN RIGHT OR TO, IN THIS CASE, TO OVP, BUT WE ASK THEM TO WORK THROUGH THE REGION OPERATIONS TEAM, RIGHT? AND THEN THE REGION OPERATIONS TEAM WILL ASSESS THE SITUATION. 
          AND AGAIN, GRID, FOR THE MOST PART, HAS A FOCUS ON GANG ACTIVITY AND, AND JUVENILES BEING INVOLVED IN GANG ACTIVITY. 
          SO THE REGION OPERATIONS TEAM WILL WORK WITH THE GRID PROVIDER, UM, AND SAY, OKAY, FOR THIS SPECIFIC SITUATION, WE NEED THIS LEVEL OF SUPPORT. 
          BECAUSE REMEMBER, THEY CAN DO ON-CAMPUS SERVICE, THEY CAN DO OFF-CAMPUS SERVICE, THEY CAN DO A DAY OR TWO, THEY CAN DO A WEEK, A WEEK AND A HALF AT A TIME. 
          SO THE REGION OPS TEAM KIND OF ASSESSES EACH SITUATION AND PROVIDES A SUPPORT. 
          I SEE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          AND THEN, UH, REGARDING THE TFI GOALS AND THE PBIS AT THE SCHOOLS, I'M WONDERING WHAT ARE SOME BARRIERS THAT SCHOOLS SHARE IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO, TO DO SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES IN THE TFI? YOU KNOW, I THINK FOR, FOR MANY IT'S TIME, IT'S HOW, HOW DO WE FIT THAT IN? MM. 
          UM, FOR SOME IT'S PERHAPS THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND OR IT'S A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AT THIS POINT. 
          SO WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD THEIR CAPACITY. 
          UM, I WOULD SAY THOSE ARE PROBABLY TWO OF THE BIGGER REASONS. 
          AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I THINK FITTING IT ALL, FIGURING OUT HOW IT ALL FITS IN ONE SYSTEM, RIGHT? SO I THINK THAT, THAT FOLKS ARE REALLY WORKING TO, TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SYSTEMATICALLY PUT IT IN BECAUSE IF WE JUST CHECK OFF AND SAY, OKAY, WE'RE DONE. 
          THEY HAVEN'T FITTED INTO THE SYSTEM SO THAT IT STAYS, RIGHT? SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT HOW DO WE CREATE THIS WHOLE SYSTEM WHERE ALL THESE PIECES FIT TOGETHER. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN MY FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO SUPPORT THESE SCHOOLS TO MEET SOME OF THE GOALS THAT THEY HAVE SET FOR THEMSELVES? AND OR WHAT ARE WE DOING OR WHAT CAN WE DO TO SUPPORT THEM? I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING, WE, WE DO HAVE THE SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT ADVISORS THAT WILL HELP SCHOOLS AS THEY, YOU KNOW, AS THEY NEED SUPPORT. 
          UM, WE ALSO HAVE THE OPERATIONS COORDINATORS THAT ARE GONNA BE DOING THE VISITS AROUND, UH, PIECES OF THE TFI THIS SEMESTER. 
          I THINK THAT WILL HELP. 
          UM, IT'S BEEN AT A PRINCIPAL'S MEETING TO SHARE WITH ALL THE PRINCIPALS. 
          SO I THINK THERE'S MANY WAYS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD IT INTO THE SYSTEM, UM, TO, TO SUPPORT THEM WITH THAT. 
          ALRIGHT, I'M JUST LOOKING AT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SO I'M WONDERING WHAT WE CAN DO IN THAT AREA TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          JUST KNOWLEDGE, GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW TO INCORPORATE IT. 
          HOW IS P-B-I-S-A PART OF EVERY DAY? AND, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE, I THANK YOU FOR THAT ONE. 
          WE HAVE TWO OF THE EVERY SCHOOL SAFE MODULES, THE WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT AND THE DEESCALATION AND RESTORATIVE PRACTICES, UH, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER, AND IT'S BUILT IN THERE. 
          SO THAT'S GOING TO EVERYBODY, STUDENT, STAFF, AND FAMILIES. 
          UM, THERE'S ALSO, UM, DIFFERENT SHORT MODULES THAT SCHOOLS CAN RUN ON THEIR OWN. 
          UM, THERE ARE THE SYSTEM OF SUPPORT ADVISORS CAN DO PDS ON TUESDAYS OR SOMETIMES IF THEY'RE DOING, DOING, YOU KNOW, LIKE A SUPERVISION, UH, PD WITH THE STAFF WHO ARE DOING SUPERVISION, THEY MIGHT DO THAT AT A, ON A DIFFERENT DAY BECAUSE THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S EASIER TO PULL FOLKS. 
          SO MM-HMM . 
          THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS THAT FOLKS ARE PROFESSIONALLY DEVELOPING WITH THAT FOLLOW UP SUPPORT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T JUST DO A PD AND THINK, OH, EVERYONE KNOWS NOW. 
          NO, IT'S GOTTA BE CONTINUOUS, RIGHT? MM-HMM . 
          AND THROUGHOUT, AND I KNOW LAST YEAR WE TALKED ABOUT TRAINING OUR, OUR INSTRUCTIONAL AIDE, OUR CAMPUS AIDE, OUR SUPERVISION AIDES AND ALL THAT. 
          THERE IS TRAINING SCHOOL CLIMATE ADVOCATES EVERY MONTH GET TRAINING ON PBIS. 
          UM, THE CAMPUS AIDS ALSO RECEIVE TRAINING AROUND PBIS STRATEGIES. 
          SO THOSE, THOSE PIECES ARE IN PLACE. 
          I DID FORGET THOSE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          AND THEN JUST CURIOUS, IS THERE A WAY WE CAN DIVIDE THIS DATA BY ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          WE CAN GET THAT TOO. 
          I'D BE CURIOUS TO SEE THAT. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU ALL DO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN THIS IS, UH, SORRY, I HAVE A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS AND I'M DONE. 
          UM, CAN YOU TELL ME THE TYPES OF CALLS, UH, FOR SERVICE MADE TO LA SCHOOL POLICE? I MEAN, I CAN GIVE YOU GENERAL EXAMPLES. 
          I'D HAVE TO TALK TO CHIEF PIZITZ, UH, TO GET MORE DATA. 
          BUT I MEAN, I, I IT'S ANYTHING FROM, YOU KNOW, WHEN UH, CALLS FOR SERVICE FOR SAFE PASSAGE, MEANING THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY, NOT, NOT NECESSARILY ON CAMPUS WHEN THERE'S INNER 
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GROUP CONFLICT, STUDENTS THAT MAY BE IN A PHYSICAL, UH, CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER. 
          UH, THERE'S ANY NUMBER OF, UH, OF EXAMPLES. 
          AND THESE ARE CALLS MADE BY THE SCHOOL? CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING YOU MENTIONED IS THAT LA SCHOOL POLICE IS ALSO DOING SAFE PASSAGES IN SOME AREAS RIGHT NOW. 
          CORRECT. 
          CAN WE GET THE LIST OF SCHOOLS? SURE. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN JUST ONE LAST THING YOU MENTIONED ABOUT, UH, GRID AND, UH, THE CITY OF LA HAVING THAT PARTNERSHIP, I JUST WANNA UPLIFT THAT WORK BECAUSE CD 13 IN MY DISTRICT REACHED OUT TO US FOR THAT, AND THEY'RE DOING SOME OF, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL BE DOING SOME OF THE WORK INSIDE THE SCHOOL. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S GREAT THAT WE'RE DOING THIS WORK WITH THE COUNTY AND WITH THE CITY, AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXPAND THAT. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANKS. 
          AND IF IT WOULD BE OF INTEREST, WE COULD INVITE THE CHIEF TO SHARE SOME OF THAT DATA. 
          WE'VE DONE THAT IN YEARS PAST WHEN WE HAD CHIEF ZIPPERMAN, HE SHARED SOME OF THE L-A-S-P-D DATA. 
          UM, AND TODAY, TO BE HONEST, THE R-F-I-T-F-I DATA CAME FROM OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO ARE ENCOURAGING US TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS AS WELL. 
          SO, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM THE COMMITTEE THE KINDS OF THINGS YOU'D LIKE TO SEE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND ANDREAS, FOR YOUR COMPREHENSIVE REPORT. 
          I HA I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE, UH, TRANSPORTATION FOR ALL SUPPORTED, SUPPORTING IMPACTED FAMILIES. 
          UH, AND YOU REPORTED US THAT SOME PARENTS NEED THE KIDS TO WALK FROM THEIR, UH, LIVING SPACE DOOR TO THE BUS. 
          AND, AND MY QUESTION IS, THOSE STAFF THAT INTERACT IN THOSE UH, OCCASIONS, HAVE THEY RECEIVED A TRAINING ABOUT, UH, ANY INSTANCES WHERE THEY MIGHT FIND THEMSELF INTERACTING WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES WHILE MOVING THE KIDS TO THE TRANSPORTATION? AND CAN YOU ELABORATE MORE ABOUT THE TRAINING? THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MR. SANIA. 
          SO THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES. 
          YOU KNOW, ALL OF OUR STAFF HAS BEEN TRAINED ON THEIR RESPONSE TO POSSIBLE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, UH, ON CAMPUS, ON THE PERIMETER OF CAMPUS. 
          AND, UH, IT'S IMPORTANT TO MARK THAT LEGALLY WE CONSIDER SCHOOL BUSES TO BASICALLY BE AN EXTENSION OF THE CAMPUS. 
          SO WHEN A STUDENT IS ON A SCHOOL BUS, IT'S THE EXACT SAME AS IF THEY WERE IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE. 
          SO THE TRAINING, AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY IS TO GET ON THE BUS, CLOSE THE DOOR OF THE BUS CALL REGION OPERATIONS, CALL SCHOOL POLICE, AND ESSENTIALLY ABSENT OF A JUDICIAL WARRANT, THAT YOUNGSTER IS GONNA GET TRANSPORTED TO SCHOOL. 
          QUESTIONS, CARLOS? YEAH. 
          UM, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON THE TFI AND APPRECIATE THE INSIGHT AND WHAT YOU'VE SHARED. 
          I LOVED HEARING ABOUT THE, THE THREE TASKS YOU HAVE SET FOR THE FALL SEMESTER. 
          I'M CURIOUS IS, IS THERE A WAY, ARE YOU FOR PARENTS TO ACCESS THE, THE MONTHLY AGENDAS? AND IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING, CAN THEY FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST MONTH AND ACROSS THE SCHOOL YEAR? THEY CAN ASK THE, THE SCHOOL. 
          IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT A STANDARD THAT EVERY SCHOOL WOULD PUT THAT OUT SOMEWHERE. 
          UM, THAT IS SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK INTO, BUT AT THIS POINT THEY WOULD HAVE TO ASK ABOUT THE TEAM MEETING. 
          UM, OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, SPECIFICALLY IN SOUTH LA AND SOUTH EAST LA SCHOOLS, WE FOUND SOME OF THE PARENTS WE WORK WITH AT CADRE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THE TEAM MEETINGS AREN'T BUILT OUT FOR PARENTS OR THAT THE TEAM MEETINGS, THEY JUST HAVEN'T BEEN SUPER ACCESSIBLE. 
          UM, IS THERE SOME SORT OF TRAINING FOR IMPROVED PARENT OUTREACH FOR, FOR MORE ROBUST PARENT PARTICIPATE, PARTICIPATION IN, IN TEAM MEETINGS BEING PUT OUT TO THE SCHOOL SITES? SO WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PLANNED TO MAKE MORE ROBUST TRAINING AT THIS POINT. 
          UM, WHAT WE DO, DO THE TRAINING IS, IS OVERALL WHAT, WHAT IS, UM, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO HAVE A FULL TEAM? SO I WANT US ALSO TO THINK ABOUT THE TEAM WOULDN'T BE 75 PEOPLE RIGHT? AT A SCHOOL. 
          SO A TEAM MIGHT HAVE ONE OR TWO REPRESENTATION FOLKS REPRESENTING, UH, DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATOR, RIGHT. 
          PARENT COMMUNITY. 
          AND THAT WOULD BE THE TEAM. 
          AND THEN IT WOULD BE, IN WHAT WAY ARE WE THEN REPORTING THAT OUT TO OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY? SO THE REPORTING OUT TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY IS ANOTHER PIECE OF THE TFI, SO WE CAN DEFINITELY THINK ABOUT HOW DO WE ADD MORE TRAINING, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT AROUND THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAD A QUESTION. 
          MOVING TO THE TFI RESULTS SPECIFICALLY FOR SPRING 2025, CAN YOU HELP US NOT DEFINING FULLY, BUT CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT THE, THE SCORING CRITERIA IS FROM A ZERO TO 
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A ONE AND A TWO? UH, I, I CAN, AND I CAN TELL YOU WHERE YOU CAN ACCESS ALL OF THAT INFORMATION SO YOU CAN SEE AND READ WHAT THOSE ARE. 
          SO THEY ARE PART OF, UM, IT IS INSIDE THE DISCIPLINE POLICY. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE CURRENT DISCIPLINE POLICY, WHICH IS AVAILABLE ON THE PBIS RP LA UNIFIED WEBSITE, AND YOU SCROLL DOWN TO THE, THE LAST ATTACHMENT, SO ATTACHMENT, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT LETTER IT IS, BUT, UM, THERE IS TIER, THERE IS TIER ONE OF THE TFI TIER TWO AND TIER THREE. 
          AND SO IT WILL GIVE YOU EACH OF THE CRITERIA AND THE SCORE, WHAT IS A ZERO, WHAT IS A ONE, AND ONE IS A TWO FOR EACH OF THOSE FEATURES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE JUST ONE MORE QUESTION. 
          TFII LOVE THE, THE BREAKDOWN BY REGION MM-HMM . 
          AND I JUST NOTED THAT THE TEAM COMPOSITION SPECIFICALLY IN, I'M ASSUMING S IS FOR SOUTH, RIGHT? S IS FOR SOUTH, CORRECT. 
          SORRY. 
          UH, UH, THE TEAM COMPOSITION WAS AT 0.0% ON THEIR UNDER ZERO. 
          SO IS THAT SAYING THAT THERE WAS PARENTS PARTICIPATION ACROSS THE BOARD OR UNDERSTAND? SO THERE'S, THERE'S ZERO, THERE'S ONE IN, THERE'S TWO. 
          YEAH. 
          SO ZERO, RIGHT? SO YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CRITERIA, AND I, I DON'T HAVE THE CRITERIA EXACTLY IN FRONT OF ME RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, SO ONE WOULD MEAN THAT THEY PROBABLY, THEY HAVE A TEAM, BUT IT'S NOT COMPLETELY, IT'S NOT, IT DOESN'T HAVE ALL THE MEMBERS OR PERHAPS THEY DON'T SHOW UP ALL THE TIME. 
          SO THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE WHAT THE ONE IS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND AGAIN, IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT, PLEASE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'RE HAPPY TO SEND YOU A COPY OF THE POLICY. 
          UH, THANKS. 
          I JUST WANTED TO SHIFT GEARS TO THE, WE ARE ONE SECTION, UH, AND YOU DID A GREAT JOB REFERENCING PROTOCOLS AND SO FORTH. 
          CAN YOU GIVE US SOME INSIGHT ON, NOT EVERYTHING, BUT WHAT IF ICE DOES SHOW UP TO A SCHOOL SITE? CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE PROTOCOLS OR STEPS FOR, FOR STUDENT SAFETY THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE? SO, UH, WE ACTUALLY HAD TWO INSTANCES IN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR, OF LAST SCHOOL YEAR WHERE WE ACTUALLY DID HAVE INDIVIDUALS SHOW UP TO OUR, OUR CAMPUS, UH, WANTING TO INTERACT WITH OUR STUDENTS, UH, UNDER THE COVER OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE REAL WORLD DATA ON THIS. 
          AND IN BOTH OF THOSE INSTANCES, OUR SCHOOLS DID EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO. 
          SO FIRST, IN TERMS OF CONTEXT, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT OUR CAMPUSES ARE CLOSED CAMPUSES, MEANING THAT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY, THERE IS ONLY ONE POINT OF INGRESS OR EGRESS, UH, FOR A SCHOOL. 
          AND THEN IT'S OBVIOUSLY THE MAIN OFFICE, RIGHT? SO WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IS INDIVIDUALS COME TO THE OFFICE JUST LIKE THEY DID IN THESE TWO INSTANCES. 
          THEY COME INTO THE OFFICE, THEY SAY, I'M SO AND SO, I NEED TO SPEAK WITH THIS, UH, STUDENT. 
          OR IT COULD BE A STAFF MEMBER, UH, MAYBE SHOW A BADGE OR WHAT HAVE YOU. 
          AND AGAIN, THE SCHOOLS DID EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. 
          WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IS IMMEDIATELY CALL DIVISION OF SCHOOL OPERATIONS. 
          SO THAT'S US. 
          AND THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO ALSO CALL SCHOOL POLICE BECAUSE WE DO DEPLOY SCHOOL POLICE TO GO OUT, RIGHT? IN THE MEANTIME, UH, THEY DO ASK THEM IF THEY HAVE ANY KIND OF A JUDICIAL WARRANT BECAUSE AS I'VE ALREADY ALLUDED TO, THAT IS THE ONE INSTANCE WHERE, UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO COMPLY BECAUSE AGAIN, THAT'S THE JUDICIAL WARRANT. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN AN ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT AS WELL. 
          UM, SO IN THE MEANTIME, THEY'RE ASKING THEM FOR THAT PAPERWORK IF THEY HAVE IT. 
          UM, AND WE ARE RESPONDING. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, IN BOTH OF THOSE CASES, WE HAD FOLKS ON SITE THERE WITHIN LITERALLY MINUTES TO SUPPORT. 
          AND OF COURSE, THERE WAS NO INTERACTION THAT ACTUALLY OCCURRED WITH STUDENTS OR STAFF OTHER THAN THE STAFF AT THE COUNTER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          JUST ONE FINAL QUESTION. 
          I THINK JUST 'CAUSE YOU HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION, SOME SPECIFICITIES, SUBMERGING UNDER SCHOOL CLIMATE SAFE PASSAGE. 
          I'M WONDERING HOW DO THE SCHOOL CLIMATE ADVOCATES, HOW DO THEY OPERATE AND, AND INTERACT WITH THE SCHOOL SAFETY TEAMS? I KNOW IT'S HAPPENING OUTSIDE TO PROTECT THE SAFE PASSAGE OF STUDENTS, BUT WHAT, CAN YOU SHARE SOME INSIGHTS ON THAT INTERACTION? SURE. 
          SO WE ASK OUR SCHOOLS THAT HAVE SAFE PASSAGE VENDORS, AND IN FACT, IT COULD BE FOR ANY OF THE THREE PROGRAMS, SAFE PASSAGE, PEACE BUILDING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO INVITE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THOSE PROGRAMS TO THE SAFETY COMMITTEE. 
          BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, WE HAVE, AND THIS IS WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU, UH, OUR DISTRICT IS, UH, HAS A LOT OF COMMITTEES AT SCHOOLS. 
          AND I SAY THAT AS A FORMER TEACHER AND AS A FORMER ADMINISTRATOR. 
          SO WE HAVE A-P-B-I-S COMMITTEE, AND WE ALSO HAVE A SAFETY COMMITTEE, RIGHT? SO WE ASK OUR SCHOOLS TO INVITE THE SAFE PASSAGE VENDOR TO THAT COMMITTEE. 
          THE SCHOOL CLIMATE ADVOCATE IS USUALLY ALMOST BY DEFAULT A MEMBER OF THAT COMMITTEE. 
          SO THAT'S THE SPACE FOR INTERACTION BETWEEN THOSE PARTIES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. 
          AWESOME. 
          LE OR JOEL, ANY FINAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALL RIGHTY, WELL, WE HAVE ASKED LOTS OF QUESTIONS OF OUR OVERALL TEAM. 
          TEAM, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          LET'S GIVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR SCHOOL OPERATIONS. 
          POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION SUPPORTS. 
          IT'S A BIG TEAM DOING THE WORK. 
          UM, SO APPRECIATE THE BIG PICTURE. 
          NOW WE'RE GONNA GO TO A SCHOOL SITE. 
          [II.2. Transportation for All/Supporting our Immigrant Families]
WE'LL INVITE UP OUR TEAM FROM PANORAMA AND YOUR POWERPOINT TO, TO GET GOING HERE. 
          WE LOVE TO HEAR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE GROUND. 
          AND SO, SO OFTEN WE'LL INVITE SCHOOLS TO COME WHERE WE'VE SEEN SOME SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN THEIR DATA. 
          AND SO KUDOS TO THE PANORAMA TEAM FOR BEING SELECTED AND INVITED. 
          THANK 
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YOU, ANDRES, FOR THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, AND SIMILARLY WE'LL INVITE YOU TO SHARE AND THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP TO OUR COLLEAGUES FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS. 
          SO, WELCOME, THANKS FOR BEING HERE TODAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'M JOE DUI. 
          I'M THE PROUD PRINCIPAL AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          I AM ALSO THE PROUD PARENT OF TWO L-A-U-S-D STUDENTS, ONE IN ELEMENTARY, FOURTH GRADE, AND ONE IN SIXTH GRADE AT A MIDDLE SCHOOL IN REGION NORTH. 
          SO IT'S A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BOARD MEMBERS, THANK YOU. 
          COMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, THIS TOPIC AND THE ITEMS COVERED BY, UH, UH, MR. CHA AND MY FORMER SUPERINTENDENT IN REGION NORTH ARE THE ITEMS THAT ARE HAPPENING AT SCHOOL SITES. 
          SO, UM, WHEN WE YOU GO THROUGH THAT POWERPOINT, I JUST KEEP SAYING YES. 
          YES. 
          UH, YES. 
          WE, WE DO THAT AND WE, WE RECEIVE THOSE TRAININGS AND EXPERIENCE. 
          I'M SURROUNDED TODAY WITH, UH, SOME OF THE FANTASTIC TEAMMATES HERE, UH, FROM PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          UH, OUR ENGLISH LEARNER COACH, MS. YOLANDA MENDOZA, SHE'S HERE, UM, A PARENT, UM, MS. CELESTE ORTIZ, UH, ONE OF OUR FANTASTIC PARENTS WHO COMES TO ALL OF OUR COFFEES WITH THE PRINCIPAL. 
          SHE'S ALSO A GREAT BAKER. 
          SHE MAKES AMAZING, UH, CAKES AND MUFFINS AND THINGS. 
          UM, I'M ALSO HERE WITH 11TH GRADE STUDENT, UH, OUR STUDENT IN 11TH GRADE, THAT'S JACKIE MENDEZ, AND SHE'S PART OF, UH, LEADERSHIP AND SHE'S GETTING READY FOR HOMECOMING THIS WEEK AND DOING ALL THE ACTIVITIES AND THINGS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HOMECOMING AND, UH, HETH, MS. LISETTE AL OUR TEACHER, AND OUR, UM, TSP COORDINATOR AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          SO I JUST WANNA, UM, ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT, UM, THEY'RE HERE AND EACH ONE COULD SAY A WORD OR TWO, UH, IF YOU SO WOULD LIKE, UH, BUT WE DO HAVE A LITTLE PRESENTATION FOR YOU TO SHARE. 
          THIS SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM. 
          DO I HAVE ACCESS HERE? SHOULD BE COMING RIGHT UP. 
          AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR JOINING. 
          IT IS REALLY HELPFUL. 
          I IMAGINE AFTER THE PRESENTATION, WE MIGHT HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOUR STUDENTS OR PARENTS OR STAFF. 
          UM, IT'S GREAT TO SEE THAT THERE, THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED IN MAKING THIS HAPPEN. 
          UM, BUT OF COURSE, APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP AND BRINGING EVERYONE SO FAR FROM THE VALLEY DOWN HERE TO DOWNTOWN . 
          AND DO WE HAVE THEIR POWERPOINT TEAM? OH, IT'S JUST THE SECOND PART OF THE, UM, OH, IS IT FROM THE FIRST? MM-HMM . 
          I THINK IT GOES RIGHT INTO IT. 
          YEAH, IT GOES RIGHT INTO IT. 
          YOU SHOULD JUST BE ABLE TO CLICK TO THE NEXT ONE. 
          OH, SORRY. 
          WE ARE GETTING THAT RIGHT UP. 
          IT'S COMING. 
          IT IS COMING. 
          AND I WAS GONNA SAY MAYBE JUST AS THEY'RE, THEY'RE PULLING IT UP HERE. 
          I KNOW YOU HAVE SOME OF THE STATS ON THERE, BUT MAYBE YOU CAN TELL US JUST GENERALLY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL. 
          SURE. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL IS A COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL SERVING GRADES NINE THROUGH 12. 
          WE'RE IN THE CENTER OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY IN PANORAMA CITY. 
          UH, THOSE THAT MIGHT REMEMBER THE COMMUNITY, UH, THERE WAS A GENERAL MOTORS PLANT ACROSS THE STREET. 
          AND, UH, WE HAVE VAN NUYS, UH, UH, THEATER HOUSE THERE ON ROSCOE. 
          AND SO WE'RE VERY, UH, CONNECTED AND VERY PROUD OF OUR PANORAMA CITY COMMUNITY AND THE SERVICES THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE HARDWORKING, UH, COMMUNITY THAT PANORAMA CITY IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. 
          UH, WE ARE, UH, IN AN AREA THAT HAS A LOT OF COMMUNITY CHALLENGE, A LOT OF NEED, A LOT OF NEED AS FAR AS HOMELESSNESS, A LOT OF NEED AS FAR AS SAFE PASSAGE TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          AND SO THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT REALLY IMPACT STUDENTS AND FAMILIES AND WHY THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM IS SO IMPORTANT. 
          AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL, WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE A DISTRICT ON SITE, SEPPA CENTER, WHICH IS A SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PLACEMENT AND ASSESSMENT CENTER. 
          UH, THERE ARE NOT TOO MANY PLACES IN THE DISTRICT WHO HAVE THAT. 
          SO WE DO SERVICE, UH, NOT ONLY PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY, BUT ALL OF THE REGION NORTH, UH, COMMUNITY AND DISTRICTWIDE CAN COME TO THAT SITE, UH, TO OUR SITE AND TO USE THE SEPPA CENTER AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THAT. 
          WE'RE ALSO A COUNTY, UH, WELLNESS CENTER. 
          WE HAVE A COUNTY WELLNESS CENTER ON SITE THAT SERVICES, UH, STUDENTS, UH, WITH REGARD TO REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES, HEALTH SERVICES, RIGHT ON SITE IN THE CONFIDENTIAL MANNER, AND REALLY DO A FANTASTIC JOB. 
          IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE THREE MAGNET PROGRAMS ON SITE. 
          WE ARE A SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP MAGNET. 
          WE ARE A SPORTS MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY MAGNET, AND WE HAVE A GIFTED STEAM MAGNET ON SITE. 
          WE'RE ABOUT 1200 TOTAL STUDENTS. 
          UH, WE ARE ABOUT 90%, UH, LATINO POPULATION OF STUDENTS, ABOUT 3% WHITE, 4% FILIPINO, UH, 2%, UH, AFRICAN AMERICAN, AND 1% ASIAN. 
          WE HAVE A LARGE ENGLISH LEARNER POPULATION. 
          UH, OVER 215 STUDENTS ARE ENGLISH LEARNERS. 
          AND OF THOSE STUDENTS, ABOUT HALF OF THEM ARE NEWCOMERS TO THE COUNTRY AND OUR NEW, UH, DESIGNATED EMERGENT BILINGUALS AND, UH, NEW TO THE COUNTRY. 
          SO WE 
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ARE, UM, VERY, UH, ACTIVE COMMUNITY. 
          YOU KNOW, WE DO KEEP THE I STARS BUSY. 
          I THINK, UH, IN THE PAST, UH, TWO YEARS, WE'VE BEEN ABOUT 600 I STARS. 
          WE AVERAGE AROUND 300 I STARS A, UH, A YEAR. 
          AND SO THAT MEANS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE DOCUMENT AS FAR AS SOCIAL EMOTIONAL NEEDS AND NEEDS FOR, UH, SUPPORT. 
          AND, UH, THE DISTRICT IS ALWAYS SO SUPPORTIVE. 
          AND SO THERE FOR US WITH REGARD TO INSTRUCTION AND IN A SPECIAL WAY WITH REGARD TO SCHOOL OPERATION AND ALL THE THINGS THAT, UH, MR. CH, UH, SPOKE ABOUT OUR, OUR ACTIVE AND OPERATING AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL AND ACROSS OUR DISTRICT. 
          AND WE REALLY CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOUR GOOD SUPPORT AND, UH, ALL THE THINGS THAT OUR DISTRICT DOES TO SUPPORT STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS. 
          OH, LOOK, HERE WE ARE. 
          AND WE'LL JUST SAY, UH, GOOD TRANSITION. 
          AND WE'RE VERY, UH, PROUD ABOUT OUR PYTHON, OUR PD, PYTHON. 
          UH, SO HERE WE ARE. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ONE. 
          UH, THANK YOU, UH, MR. SALVADOR. 
          UH, GOT REGARDING, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, INFORMATION ABOUT WE ARE ONE, WE TRULY ARE ONE. 
          AND, UH, WE HAVE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR STUDENTS TO LET THEM KNOW AND BE SURE THAT THEY FEEL SAFE IN SCHOOL, AND THAT THE PLACE THAT THEY SHOULD BE IS IN SCHOOL. 
          AND SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF SUPPORT AROUND THAT FROM THE DISTRICT. 
          SO I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE PD PYTHON. 
          HE IS OUR MASCOT. 
          AND SO WE'RE, WE'VE ENGAGED PD PYTHON IN OUR PRESENTATION TODAY. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, SO WE DO HAVE A TEAM OF SIX INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE CONTRACTED BY THE DISTRICT TO HELP US ENHANCE SAFETY TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          AND THEY'RE PLACED IN HIGH NEED PLACES AROUND THE SCHOOL, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE TO FIVE BLOCKS. 
          THE BLOCKS ARE VERY SMALL IN THAT PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE'RE IN. 
          SO, FIVE BLOCKS SOUNDS REALLY LIKE MAYBE TWO OR THREE BLOCKS AWAY. 
          UH, AND THEY PROVIDE SUPERVISION AND SUPPORT. 
          THEY'RE THERE IN THE MORNINGS FROM SEVEN 30 TO NINE 30, AND THEN AGAIN, TWO 30 TO FOUR 30. 
          THE TIMES ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE TEAM IS OUT IN ADVANCE OF STUDENTS ARRIVING, AND THEY'RE OUT IN ADVANCE OF STUDENTS BEING DISMISSED. 
          SO THEY'RE REALLY EYES AND EARS BEFORE STUDENTS REALLY HIT THOSE LOCATIONS IN THE MORNING AND AT DISMISSAL TIME. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S A FANTASTIC PIECE TO NOTE. 
          UH, THEY DO WEAR YELLOW, UH, VESTS. 
          THEY DO CARRY A SCHOOL RADIO. 
          WE'VE ISSUED TO THEM. 
          ONE OF OUR RADIOS, UH, THEY DO HAVE A PERSONAL CELL PHONE, AND THEY DO HAVE THE NUMBER DIRECTLY TO THE SCHOOL POLICE, UH, SO THAT THEY CAN REPORT IMMEDIATELY VIA RADIO AND SCHOOL, POLICE. 
          ANY EMERGENCY NEEDS THAT COME UP. 
          UH, THE BEST PART IS, IS THAT THEY PARK ON SITE. 
          UH, THEY ARE CONTRACTED EMPLOYEES. 
          THEY'RE NOT LA UNIFIED EMPLOYEES, BUT WE TREAT 'EM LIKE PART OF THE FAMILY. 
          UH, THEY HAVE A PARKING SPACE INSIDE OF OUR PARKING LOT. 
          THEY CHECK IN THE MAIN OFFICE. 
          THEY GATHER AND DO A STANDUP BEFORE THEY, UH, BREAK OUT TO THEIR AREAS. 
          AND THEY GATHER AT THE END OF THE SHIFT WHEN THEY COME BACK IN THE AFTERNOON, JUST TO TOUCH BASE AND HAVE CONNECTION TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE SCHOOL, AND TO PROVIDE ANY REPORTS THAT MIGHT BE NECESSARY. 
          UH, THIS IS WHAT THE SAFE PASSAGE TEAM LOOKS LIKE. 
          UH, THEY WEAR THESE, UH, UH, THESE GREAT SAFE PASSAGE, UH, VESTS. 
          AND, UH, HERE, THEY'RE ON CAMPUS. 
          I THINK THIS WAS A TIME WHEN WE HAD ONE OF OUR MEETINGS. 
          WE DO TOUCH BASE WITH THEM, YOU KNOW, EVERY OTHER WEEK. 
          UH, AND, UH, JUST ENSURE THAT IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED OR ANY CONCERNS OR ANY SHIFTS THAT WE NEED TO DO REGARDING AREAS THAT MIGHT NEED MORE SUPPORT OR ASSISTANCE THAT WE DO, THAT THEY DO HAVE A LEADERSHIP, UM, UH, TEAM AND A SYSTEM. 
          UH, THEY HAVE A LEADER ON CA. 
          UH, THEY HAVE A LEADER OF THE, OF THE SIX, UH, SAFE PASSAGE TEAM. 
          AND THEN THEY RESPOND TO A LEADER, UH, WITHIN THEIR, UH, UM, WITHIN THE SAFE PASSAGE, UM, ORGANIZATION. 
          UM, SO THE LOCATIONS, UH, JUST TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHERE THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, SOME ARE, UH, A LITTLE BIT AWAY FROM THE CAMPUS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE STUDENTS EXPERIENCE NEED AND CONCERN. 
          UH, AND WE'LL SAY THAT ADDITIONALLY, THE SAFE PASSAGE TEAM IS PRESENT FOR ABOUT FOUR OTHER SCHOOLS BECAUSE WE'VE PUT THEM SO FAR OUT THAT THEY COVER, UH, CAL CONTINUATION OBAMA ELEMENTARY STUDENTS GOING TO VISTA, AND OF COURSE, STUDENTS COMING TO PANORAMA. 
          SO THEIR WORK REALLY COVERS MORE THAN JUST THE ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY AND PEDESTRIAN ROUTE TO SCHOOL FOR JUST PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT, UH, PIECE TO NOTE THAT, THAT THE FUNDS IN THE PROGRAM, UM, IMPACTS NOT JUST ONE SCHOOL, BUT NUMEROUS SCHOOLS THAT ALL ARE EXPERIENCING VERY SIMILAR NEEDS. 
          SO WHAT'S THE BENEFITS? NOW? WE HAVE EYES AWAY FROM THE CAMPUS. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, YOU MAY, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, BY BOARD POLICY THAT WE DO NOT PLACE, UH, EMPLOYEES IN CAMPUS, AIDE AND SCHOOL SUPERVISION AIDES AWAY FROM THE CAMPUS. 
          THEIR JOBS ARE ON THE CAMPUS. 
          SO PRIOR TO THE EXISTENCE OF SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM, WE DIDN'T HAVE A WAY TO ASSIGN SOMEBODY TO LOCATIONS AWAY FROM THE CAMPUS BECAUSE OF THE, THE NATURE OF THE POSITIONS THAT, 
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THAT WE HAVE AND DISTRICT HAS. 
          SO WE NOW HAVE EYES AND EARS IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE PLACE THEM IN THE MOST, UM, NEEDY LOCATIONS. 
          UH, AND THERE'S ENHANCED SAFETY FOR STUDENTS AS THEY WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          UH, PARENTS, GUARDIANS, STAFF, COMMUNITY ARE SATISFIED WITH THIS, UM, PROGRAM. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIME THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS UNDER PEOPLE'S SATISFACTION, RIGHT? OH, BUT PEOPLE ARE SATISFIED WITH, AND WE, WE HAVE SOME TESTIMONY FOR YOU, UH, TODAY. 
          UH, THE IMPACT AND THE FEEDBACK AND REPORTS, UH, FROM THE COMMUNITY ARE ADDRESSED IMMEDIATELY, AND IT INCREASES STUDENT SAFETY. 
          IT ABSOLUTELY DOES. 
          AND IT, UH, REDUCES INAPPROPRIATE ACTIVITY IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          MOST, I WOULD, WELL, I CAN ONLY SPEAK DIRECTLY FOR PANORAMA, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE ACTIVITIES AND CONCERNS ARE AWAY FROM CAMPUS. 
          WHEN STUDENTS ARRIVE TO CAMPUS, THEY FEEL LOVED, THEY FEEL SECURE, THEY FEEL SAFE, UH, BUT THEY ARE CONCERNED ARRIVING TO AND FROM CAMPUS. 
          AND WE ARE ONE OF THOSE LOCATIONS THAT IS, UH, VERY ACTIVE WITH REGARD TO ICE ACTIVITY. 
          AND IN FACT, THIS MORNING, THERE WERE REPORTS, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THE STREET AT OUR HOME DEPOT AND OUR WALMART, THAT THERE WERE TWO TEAMS OF AGENTS, YOU KNOW, PRESENT. 
          AND THAT CREATES A LOT OF ANXIETY AND CONCERN FOR STUDENTS AS THEY PREPARE TO COME TO SCHOOL AND AS THEY DEPART FROM SCHOOL. 
          UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT IS, UM, A CHALLENGE AND, AND A NEED, UH, DURING THIS TIME. 
          WE LOVE DATA. 
          I JUST ATTENDED, UH, SUPERINTENDENT CARVALLO DATA DIG UPSTAIRS AND, UH, HERE NOW. 
          AND SO WE LOVE DATA DATA'S OUR FRIEND. 
          UH, DATA TELLS US A LOT, YOU KNOW, UM, ATTENDANCE DATA, CHRONIC DATA, AS SUPER AS MR. UH, CHA HAS INDICATED, UH, YOU KNOW, IS 16 OR MORE DAYS OF ABSENCE. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR, UH, LAST YEAR, OUR CHRONIC DATA DID REDUCE BY 4%. 
          SO PART OF THAT WE WOULD ATTRIBUTE TO THE FACT THAT STUDENTS FEEL SAFE COMING TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          SO THAT IS IMPORTANT. 
          UH, AND WE WOULDN'T BE A SCHOOL IF WE DON'T TALK ABOUT ACHIEVEMENT DATA, RIGHT? AND SO, HOW ARE STUDENTS DOING IN MATH AND IN, IN ELA. 
          AND SO, IN BOTH OF THOSE AREAS, UH, WITH IREADY DATA AND ALSO, UM, UH, ESPA DATA REGARDING MATH AND ELA, BOTH HAVE SHOWN, YOU KNOW, IMPROVEMENTS. 
          SO AGAIN, UH, KIDS FEEL COMFORTABLE, KIDDOS FEEL COMFORTABLE COMING TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          THEY'RE IN SCHOOL, AND THEIR PERFORMANCE, UH, IS INDICATING THAT ALSO. 
          UM, SO THANK YOU, YOU KNOW, TO SAFE PASSAGE. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED AND RESOLVED AND MADE A DIFFERENCE. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS, UM, REPORTS FROM COMMUNITIES ABOUT DRUG SALES AND POLICE ACTIVITY, UH, EVEN INDECENT EXPOSURE, UH, THAT HAD BEEN REPORTED BY THE SAFE PASSAGE TEAM MEMBERS WHILE THEY ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, BEFORE STUDENT DISMISSAL, OR BEFORE STUDENTS HAVE EVEN STARTED WALKING TO SCHOOL OR LEAVING THE CAMPUS. 
          SO THE, THE, I THINK THE ANTICIPATORY SET ON THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THEY ARE, UH, GIVING US INFORMATION AND WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS CONCERNS PRIOR TO THEM, UH, HAVING STUDENTS BEING EXPOSED TO THESE POTENTIAL THREATS OR CONCERNS. 
          UH, EVEN AT ONE POINT, SAFE PASSAGE TEAM ARRIVED AND SAID, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOST, UH, YOU KNOW, CHILD THAT WAS JUST IN NEED OF HELP. 
          AND THEY COLLECTED THE CHILD AND ESCORTED THE CHILD IN THE MAIN OFFICE. 
          AND, AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET OFFICIALS THERE AND TO RECONNECT THE CHILD THAT WAS MISSING FROM THEIR PARENT, UM, IN THAT MATTER. 
          AND THEN THERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'VE BEEN DANGEROUS GROUPS, SOMETIMES GANG ACTIVITY AND ET CETERA. 
          AND SO WHERE THOSE INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED OR BEEN PRESENT, UH, THEY HAVE REPORTED THAT. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE THEN TO CONTACT SCHOOL POLICE AND GET AUTHORITIES TO THOSE LOCATIONS AND TO ADDRESS THOSE MATTERS IN ADVANCE OF THE, OF ITEMS, UH, OCCURRING. 
          AND SO, SOMETIMES IN DATA, UH, THE DATA WE DON'T SEE, RIGHT, IS THE DATA THAT'S MOST IMPORTANT, WHICH IS THAT WE HAVE FEWER, YOU KNOW, REPORTS AND CONCERNS AND INCIDENTS OCCURRING BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE AND BEING PROACTIVE. 
          AND SO, FOR THAT REASON, UH, IT IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHAT WE DO AND THE SAFE PASSAGE OF STUDENTS TO GET TO SCHOOL SAFELY AND PREPARED TO LEARN. 
          UH, SO HERE ARE, UM, UH, JACKIE'S HERE, UH, AND SHE IS, UH, THE PEOPLE IN THE, WITH THE VESTS, YOU'LL TELL YOU, UH, NEAR MY HOUSE, ALWAYS GREET ME WITH A SMILE AND MAKE ME FEEL SAFE WHEN I'M WALKING TO SCHOOL. 
          UH, WITH REGARD TO, UH, UH, ONE OF OUR PARENTS. 
          WHEN I SEE MY DAUGHTER NEAR THE PEOPLE IN THE YELLOW, RIGHT, THE YELLOW VESTS, WHEN SHE GETS OUTTA MY CAR, I KNOW THAT SHE HAS GOOD COMPANY, RIGHT? ISN'T THAT NICE TO HAVE GOOD COMPANY IN LIFE? AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR KIDDOS, UH, AND ONE OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THAT DOESN'T HAVE A CHILD AND SEES THE SAFE PASSAGE TEAM, YOU KNOW, OUT IN THE COMMUNITY BY THE APARTMENT. 
          I APPRECIATE THE PEOPLE IN THE VEST BEING THERE. 
          UH, THEY'RE 
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WATCHING OUT FOR THE KIDS. 
          AND SO I THINK IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A FANTASTIC, UM, A FANTASTIC, UH, PROGRAM THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY UTILIZING. 
          I KNOW THAT IT COSTS MONEY, UH, AND SO WE HOPE THAT IT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO IN THESE TOUGH TIMES WITH FINANCES BEING WHAT THEY ARE. 
          BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE, UH, AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL, IN THE LIVES OF OUR STUDENTS AND, AND OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UH, UH, BOARD MEMBER FRANKLIN, IF YOU'D LIKE, I COULD INVITE A TEACHER TO SAY A FEW WORDS, A PARENT STUDENT, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PREPARED . 
          SURE. 
          YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          YOU ALL ARE HERE. 
          WE'D LOVE TO HEAR JUST A WORD OR TWO. 
          NO, NOT A WORD OR TWO. 
          A COUPLE OF SENTENCES. 
          , RIGHT? MISS BERNAL, ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          HE'S COMING UP. 
          THIS IS BERNAL IS OUR, UH, OUR TEACHER AND OUR TSP COORDINATOR. 
          HELLO EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND OUR TEAM HERE. 
          UM, JUST TO SHARE SOME QUICK POINTS ABOUT SAFE PASSAGE AND WHAT IT'S DONE FOR OUR SCHOOL. 
          UM, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, NOT ONLY HAS IT HELPED OUR STUDENTS FEEL SAFE, UM, IT KIND OF ESTABLISHES THAT WE ARE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR PARENTS, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STUDENTS, OUR STAFF. 
          SO IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE OUR COMMUNITY BE RESPECTED, TAKEN CARE OF. 
          THEY'RE GROWING. 
          UM, SOME OF US THAT ARE AT PANORAMA AS STAFF MEMBERS, UM, ALSO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO IT'S A SENSE OF PRIDE AND BELONGING AND KIND OF OWNERSHIP OVER WHAT GOES ON IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT SAFE PASSAGE HAS LENT FOR US. 
          UM, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT ALSO HELPS OUR STUDENTS ENVISION A BETTER COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF SUCCESS AND EDUCATION, UH, KNOWING WHAT THEY WANNA SEE IN OUR COMMUNITY, THAT THEY ARE MEMBERS AND PARTICIPATING IN THE SUCCESS OF IT. 
          UM, ALSO TO MAKE, UH, ANOTHER NOTE IS THAT SAFE PASSAGE, UM, AS YOU'LL HEAR FROM OUR STUDENT AND OUR PARENT, UH, DOESN'T ONLY, THEY DON'T ONLY JUST STAND THERE AND MAKE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN, THEY'RE ENGAGING WITH STUDENTS. 
          SO STUDENTS ALSO FEEL SUPER COMFY, UH, TALKING TO THEM AND MAKES THEIR TRIP FROM AND TO SCHOOL, UM, BETTER AND MORE, UM, JUST WILLING TO SHOW UP AS OUR ATTENDANCE HAS SHOWN TOO. 
          UM, OTHER THAN THAT, I DO THINK THAT WE SHOULD, AND WE HOPEFULLY WILL CONTINUE WITH SAFE PASSAGE. 
          IT'S DOING, IT'S DOING GREAT THINGS. 
          UH, AND FROM HERE FORWARD, I THINK WE CAN ONLY GET BETTER. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. 
          I'LL ASK, UH, JACKIE TO COME. 
          JACKIE MENDEZ, OUR, OUR STUDENT, AND GOOD AFTERNOON BOARDING COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 
          MY NAME IS JACKIE MENDEZ. 
          I AM AN 11TH GRADER ATTENDING PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND EVERY MORNING I WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL, AND DURING THIS 15 MINUTE WALK, I WOULD ENCOUNTER GANG ACTIVITY, ABANDONED CARS, DOGS ON THE LOOSE, HOMELESS PEOPLE, AND OTHER RELATED EVENTS. 
          BEFORE THE SCHOOL ENACTED THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM, I WORRIED FOR MY SAFETY AND FOR MY PEER SAFETY, WITHOUT ANY SUPERVISION IS NORMAL TO ASSUME THE WORST POSSIBLE OUTCOMES. 
          THE SAFETY PASSAGE PROGRAM HAS CREATED VISIBLE PRESENCE ON OUR SCHOOL ROUTES BY HAVING STAFF PRESENT, WEARING BRIGHT VEST AND CARRYING RADIOS. 
          THIS ENSURES THAT WE STUDENTS FEEL PROTECTED AS WE WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          I HAVE NOTICED AN IMPROVEMENT IN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. 
          I SEE FEWER HOMELESS, LOITERING, AND LESS GANG ACTIVITY NEAR OUR SCHOOL. 
          THIS FREE PROGRAM OFFERS STUDENTS SUPPORT, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHOSE PARENTS WORK AND CAN'T DROP THEM OFF OR PICK THEM UP FROM SCHOOL. 
          THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM IS NOT ONLY KEEPING US SAFE, BUT ALSO CREATING A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          EVERY MORNING, I'M GREETED BY FOUR PASSAGE STAFF MEMBERS WITH A BIG SMILE. 
          THIS SIMPLE, POSITIVE INTERACTION HAS REALLY INFLUENCED HOW I START MY DAY. 
          AND MANY STUDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY HAVE DIFFICULT LIVES AT HOME. 
          AND THIS POSITIVE, THIS POSITIVITY, CAN TRANSFORM THEIR DAILY THANK YOU AIDS, WHOSE DAILY EFFORTS EXTEND BEYOND SUPPORT. 
          THEIR DAILY SUPPORT NOT ONLY PROVIDES OUR SCHOOL NEEDS, BUT ALSO CREATES A COMPASSIONATE SCHOOL SPIRIT. 
          WE HOPE THIS PROGRAM CONTINUES FOR YEARS TO COME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          JOB. 
          NO ONE SAYS IT BETTER THAN THE STUDENTS, RIGHT? AND THEN WELL PARENT JUST AS GOOD . 
          UH, MS. CELESTE ORTIZ. 
          CAN YOU , UM, AN ACTIVE MEMBER? I, I'M PART OF THE SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL, AND I ATTEND ALL THURSDAY'S COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL. 
          AND BECAUSE I ENJOY, I ENJOY BEING INFORMED OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE 
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COMMUNITY AND THE SCHOOL. 
          MY EXPERIENCE WITH SAFE PASSAGES, HONESTLY, I FEEL VERY HAPPY BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER IS OLDER. 
          SHE'S IN THE 12TH GRADE, BUT I WAS ALWAYS AFRAID BECAUSE OF THE DELINQUENT OF, OF THE, OF ALL THE HARM THAT WAS AROUND THE SCHOOLS. 
          AND NOW SHE TAKES THE BUS, UM, SINCE THE, THEY BEGAN WITH THIS PROGRAM, SHE, SHE WASN'T AFRAID TO WALK TO SCHOOL. 
          NOW. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, THIS IS A COMMUNITY WITH A LOT OF NECESSITIES, UH, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE LACK OF HOUSING AND BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY ISSUE, I WOULD LIKE THIS PROGRAM TO CONTINUE IF IT'S POSSIBLE. 
          I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG IT CAN, IT CAN CONTINUE FOR, I'M VERY HAPPY. 
          AND I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PARENTS, UH, A LOT OF COMMUNITY PARENTS ARE HAPPY AS WELL. 
          AND I'M GRATEFUL TO TAKE AND BRING MY, PICK UP MY DAUGHTER FROM SCHOOL. 
          BUT A LOT OF PARENTS, UM, NEED TO ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO WALK. 
          AND SOMETIMES IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S DANGEROUS. 
          AND THIS IS A BIG HELP FOR OUR STUDENTS, ALSO FOR US AS WELL, FOR THE ADULTS, NOT JUST FOR THE STUDENTS, BUT IT, I FEEL THAT THIS IS A BIG HELP IN MY HEART FOR THE STUDENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THIS IS SO THIN. 
          THIS IS TURNING INTO AN ADVOCACY MOMENT, RIGHT? FOR ALL OF YOUR  COMMUNITY FOLKS TO, TO COME OUT. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          WE'RE GONNA, UH, ASK QUESTIONS OF THE TEAM IN JUST A MOMENT. 
          'CAUSE I WANNA INVITE YOUR PARTNER TO SHARE AS WELL THE SAY PASSAGE PART, BECAUSE THAT WAY THE TEAM CAN HEAR, YOU KNOW, BOTH FROM THE SCHOOL STAFF AND FROM OUR, UM, COMMUNITY SAFE, COMMUNITY BASED SAFETY PARTNER WHO GETS TO DO THE WORK ALONGSIDE YOU ALL. 
          SO WE'LL, WE'LL ASK AFTERWARDS, BUT WELCOME, COME ON UP. 
          PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THINGS FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          HOW'S EVERYBODY DOING TODAY? HOPE EVERYONE'S DOING WELL. 
          MY NAME IS FATIMA FONTANO. 
          I'M A PART OF THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM. 
          I LEAD TWO OF OUR VALLEY SCHOOLS, PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL AND GRANT HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND I'M GONNA HAVE MY CEO INTRODUCE HIMSELF REALLY QUICKLY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. 
          MY NAME IS DAMON JOHNSON. 
          I'M THE CEO AND FOUNDER OF THE ACHIEVEMENT INITIATIVE FOUNDATION. 
          BRILLIANCE COLLECTIVE IS THE, UH, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WITHIN OUR, UH, FOUNDATION. 
          AND, UH, PANORAMA WAS OUR, I THINK OUR THIRD OR FOURTH SCHOOL, BUT WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 18 NOW BETWEEN THE, UH, VALLEY AND, UH, LOS ANGELES. 
          SO, UM, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO SOME GREAT WORK. 
          I'M A CURRENT, UH, ADMINISTRATOR MYSELF, BUT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, I'M AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, SO I UNDERSTAND HOW SCHOOLS SHOULD ACTUALLY OPERATE, WHAT THEY NEED AND WHAT THEY DON'T NEED, AND BE AN EX-MILITARY AS WELL. 
          JUST, JUST KIND OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT COMMUNITY IS AND HOW IMPORTANT THE COMMUNITY IS TO SCHOOLS RATHER THAN JUST HAVING RANDOM FOLKS WORKING FOR IT. 
          UM, FATIMA ACTUALLY WORKS ON THE CAMPUS, SO SHE'S BOOTS ON THE GROUND, SO I WILL ALLOW HER TO GIVE THE SPILL FROM OUR, UH, SLIDESHOW THERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO, WITH CONTINUING THE SLIDESHOW, UM, SO WE HAVE MS. LINDA ANEZ. 
          SHE'S A MOTHER OF ONE OF THE CHILDREN AT SCHOOL. 
          SHE WALKS DAILY WITH HER DAUGHTER AND HER NIECE, AND SHE GREETS US EVERY MORNING BECAUSE ONE OF OUR POSTERS AT, UH, THE MCDONALD'S NEAR THE PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND SHE JUST APPRECIATES US EVERY TIME SHE SEES US. 
          SHE SAYS, THANK YOU. 
          WE'RE SO HAPPY THAT YOU'RE THERE. 
          WE HAVE MR. MANNY, HE'S THE ART TEACHER THERE. 
          HE COMES IN EVERY SINGLE MORNING BEFORE HE CLOCKS IN AND DOES HIS BUSINESS, AND LIKES TO LET US KNOW HOW HE APPRECIATES JUST OUR MERE PRESENCE THERE. 
          IT GIVES THEM A POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE HELP EVERYBODY. 
          MR. DEONE MILLER, HE'S ONE OF OUR ASSOCIATES THERE AT PANAMA HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL. 
          HE ALSO TELLS US HOW THIS PROGRAM HAS IMPACTED HIM POSITIVELY AND LETS US KNOW THAT EVERY DAY THAT HE WORKS, HE FEELS FULFILLED, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, HE'S HELPING THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT HE'S BEEN DOING FOR QUITE SOME TIME BEFORE THIS PROGRAM HAS ASSISTED HIM. 
          OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES AND CHILDREN. 
          SO WE'RE HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY FEELS SAFE. 
          THIS IS A BRING TOGETHER COMMUNITY AND TYPE OF POSITION. 
          BEING HERE AT SAFE PASSAGE, THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR, UM, WORKING WITH PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL, AND I CAN JUST SEE THE POSITIVE IMPACT. 
          IT'S ALREADY DONE ALREADY. 
          EVERYBODY JUST SEEMS MORE TALKATIVE WHEN YOU, WHEN I FIRST GOT THERE, A LOT OF THE STUDENTS AND SOME, SOME TEACHERS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE JUST MORE PASSIVE. 
          THEY'RE JUST KIND OF GETTING TO KNOW THE IDEA OF WHO WE ARE, THE VESTS AND WHAT WE PROVIDE. 
          AND THEN AFTER THAT FIRST SCHOOL YEAR, THEY SAW WHAT THE IMPACT WAS AND THEY JUST APPRECIATED US MORE AND MORE. 
          THEY SAW THAT EVERYBODY WAS JUST HAPPY, SMILING FOR THE MOST PART, BECAUSE IN THAT COMMUNITY AT PANORAMA, I ALSO GREW UP OVER THERE. 
          A LOT OF TIMES, UM, PARENTS 
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AND, UM, CHILDREN ARE MORE OFFSET, YOU KNOW, VERY TIMID. 
          THEY DON'T WANT TO BE GREETING OR HAVING THAT POSITIVE ENERGY. 
          BUT WITH US THERE, I FEEL LIKE THAT HAS GROWN MUCH MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. 
          IT'S GONNA CONTINUE TO DO SO WITH THE IMPACT OF US THERE. 
          SO HAPPY TO BE THERE. 
          SO WE HAVE A PARTNERS, CCLA TECHNOLOGY PREP, CLEVELAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, A BUNCH OF SCHOOLS IN THE VALLEY. 
          SO PANORAMA KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL WAS A NEWCOMER. 
          THIS YEAR WE HAVE GRANT HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH WAS ALSO A NEWCOMER. 
          WE'RE LOOKING TO GET POLY HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL TO GO AHEAD AND SUPPORT US. 
          OUR DAILY SCHEDULE, WHICH MR. DUI, 7 39 32 30 TO FOUR 30. 
          SO A FOUR HOUR PROGRAM IN WHICH WE'RE ABLE TO BE THERE FOR THE STUDENTS AND HELP THEM OUT BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL. 
          AND WITH THE EXTENSION OF ANY OTHER TIMES THAT ARE NEEDED, DEPENDS ON THE SCHOOL. 
          AGAIN, JUST TO BRUSH UP, THAT'S MY TEAM AT PANAMA HIGH SCHOOL. 
          THAT'S ME IN THE MIDDLE, RIGHT THERE AT THE VEST, . 
          AND JUST APPRECIATING THE DAY-TO-DAY OPPORTUNITY THAT WE GET TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY AND BE THERE FOR EVERYBODY. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          SO GREAT TO HEAR FROM EVERYONE. 
          YES. 
          STUDENTS, PARENTS, PARTNERS, STAFF. 
          SO, AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO I'LL OPEN IT UP TO MY COLLEAGUES QUESTIONS FOR PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL AND ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          IT CAN BE DIRECTED TO AN INDIVIDUAL, INCLUDING OUR PARTNERS, UM, OR, OR BROADLY TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY. 
          SO ANYBODY WANTS, YEP. 
          LENA, WE'LL START WITH YOU. 
          HI. 
          UM, I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. 
          ONE OF THEM IS ABOUT THE FEEDBACK. 
          SO WHAT DOES THE PROCESS LOOK LIKE FOR PE FOR LIKE COMMUNITY OR FAMILY TO SUBMIT THE FEEDBACK? AND THEN ALSO WHAT DOES THAT TYPICAL LIKE RESPONSE TIME LOOK LIKE? I GUESS THIS IS, YEAH, RIGHT. 
          SO THE QUESTIONS AROUND FEEDBACK, THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. 
          SO THE FEEDBACK IS PROVIDED TO US THROUGH COFFEES WITH THE PRINCIPAL. 
          WE HAVE EIGHT COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL MEETINGS A MONTH AT PANORAMA HIGH SCHOOL EVERY THURSDAY AT 9:00 AM AND IN PERSON AND EVERY THURSDAY AT 5:00 PM OVER ZOOM. 
          AND SO THERE'S ALWAYS A PORTION OF TIME WHERE, UH, PARENTS HAVE A, A PHYSICAL PLACE TO COME, AND THEY ALSO HAVE AN ELECTRONIC PLACE TO COME, AND THEY CAN ALWAYS CONTACT THE MAIN OFFICE. 
          AND WE MAKE THAT PART OF OUR AGENDA TO TALK ABOUT ATTENDANCE AND TALK ABOUT SAFE, UH, SAFETY TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          AND SO THAT'S ALWAYS PART OF OUR AGENDA TO ENSURE, ENSURE THAT THOSE ITEMS ARE ADDRESSED, UH, AS WELL AS, OF COURSE, ANY PHONE CALL OR NECESSARY, YOU KNOW, UH, CALL TO THE OFFICE, UM, WE CAN ALWAYS ADDRESS THOSE ITEMS IMMEDIATELY. 
          MOST OF THE ITEMS THAT COME TO OUR ATTENTION ARE ADDRESSED FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE AROUND THE COMMUNITY AND INFORMING US OF A CONCERN OR SAFETY PROBLEM. 
          SO THOSE THINGS ARE ADDRESSED IMMEDIATELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, CAN I, I'M GONNA ASK THIS A GOOD QUESTION. 
          IT'S ABOUT THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SLIDE WITH THE DATA. 
          UM, THIS IS COMING PURELY FROM LIKE AN EVALUATION PERSPECTIVE AND MORE JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW, UM, THE DATA GETS, UM, LIKE, UNDERSTOOD. 
          SO IN TERMS OF, UM, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT'S DONE AT THE SCHOOL AND LIKE A LOT OF THIS, LIKE INITIATIVES THAT ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED TO IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. 
          SO I WONDER HOW CAN, UM, THERE BE LIKE A DIFFERENTIATION OF LIKE, RESPONSIBILITY OF, ITS, ITS DUE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SAFE PASSAGES VERSUS LIKE MAYBE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS VERSUS LIKE OTHER INITIATIVES THAT I'M SURE YOUR SCHOOL AND LIKE COMMUNITY ARE APPLYING WITHIN. 
          SO KIND OF JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THAT SHARED RESPONSIBILITY OF STUDENT IMPROVEMENT IS KIND OF UNDERSTOOD OR LIKE DIVVIED. 
          SURE. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WITH REGARD TO IMPROVEMENT, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL IS A FAMILY AND A COMMUNITY, SO ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO TO A SCHOOL ARE PART OF THE SCHOOL, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY. 
          SO YES, UH, IMPROVEMENT IS NEVER, COULD BE, UH, ASSOCIATED JUST TO ONE ITEM, BUT ALL OF THOSE ITEMS WORKING TOGETHER HELP US TO, TO CONTINUE TO MAKE IMPROVEMENT. 
          THAT QUESTION'S COME UP A LOT FOR VARIOUS BOARD, UM, OR DISTRICT INITIATIVES. 
          AND, AND IT IS REALLY HARD TO PINPOINT. 
          UM, AND, UH, THIS YEAR WILL BE HARD AS WE TALK ABOUT WHICH PROGRAMS TO MAINTAIN AND WHICH MIGHT NEED TO BE TRIMMED, UM, BECAUSE THEN WE MIGHT SEE SOME OF THE REDUCTIONS IN THINGS THAT HAVE PROGRESSED SO FAR. 
          SO THIS WILL BE, YOU KNOW, HARD CONVERSATIONS FOR US, BUT MAYBE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THIS TEAM ABOUT LIKE WHAT TO, UM, MAINTAIN HEARD LOSS OF ADVOCACY FROM YOUR TEAM ABOUT KEEPING THE SAFE PASSAGE PARTNERS. 
          I'LL OPEN IT UP TO MORE COLLEAGUES. 
          UM, APPRECIATE YOU COMING OUT AND SHARING WITH US. 
          UM, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUR SPACE. 
          QUESTION ABOUT THE CHECK-INS WITH THE PARTNERS. 
          DO THEY CHECK IN WITH YOU DAILY OR IS THAT JUST WITH THEM ON CAMPUS OR OFF CAMPUS FOR THAT MATTER? RIGHT, SO THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. 
          SO YES, THE TEAM GETS TOGETHER. 
          UH, THEY MEET IN THE, IN THE LOBBY THERE. 
          UM, AFTER THEY ALL CHECK IN AND GET THEIR RADIOS, ET CETERA, THEY MEET, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LITTLE CHECK-IN. 
          AND THEN USUALLY EVERY OTHER MONTH WE'LL HAVE A SIT DOWN MEETING, UH, WITH THE WHOLE TEAM AND TALK ABOUT, HEY, 
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WHAT'S GOING ON? SOMETIMES MEMBERS HAVE CHANGED FROM THEIR TEAM, ET CETERA, AND WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO BRING ANYTHING UP THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. 
          BUT I THINK THE COMMUNICATION PIECE IS IMPORTANT. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE A POSITIVE BEHAVIOR COUNSELOR AND A, A, A POSITIVE BEHAVIOR TEACHER THAT KIND OF OPERATE LIKE COUNSELOR AND DEAN. 
          AND SO THEY ARE INVOLVED ALSO WITH THE SCHEDULING AND THE LOCATION OF WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE MOVEMENT AND ET CETERA. 
          SO THE COMMUNICATION PART IS, IS FANTASTIC. 
          AND, AND DAMIEN IS THE CEO OF THE, UH, OF THE AGENCY AND IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE AND IS A GREAT PARTNER, UH, FOR OUR SCHOOL AND, AND FOR THIS PROGRAM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN SELECTING THEM FOR YOUR SCHOOL, WHAT WAS THE CHECKBOX TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHAT, THIS IS A GREAT FIT FOR US. 
          'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MANY OUT THERE, UH, DIFFERENT SAFE PASSAGE ORGANIZATIONS. 
          WHAT WAS IT ABOUT THIS ORGANIZATION THAT WAS A GOOD FIT FOR YOUR SCHOOL AND THE NEIGHBORING SCHOOLS AS WELL? DAMIEN, UH, HE, WE INTERVIEWED I THINK THREE, YOU KNOW, AGENCIES AND WE THOUGHT HE WAS THE ONE THAT SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE THAT I SPEAK AND THE SAME LOVE THAT I SPEAK. 
          AND, UM, HE WAS AVAILABLE AND HE COULD DELIVER, UH, A GREAT TEAM. 
          AND, UH, I WAS CONCERNED, YOU KNOW, IS IS THE TEAM GONNA FIT IN? ARE THEY GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE FAMILY? AND, AND, AND THE TEAM DOES FIT IN. 
          AND EVEN WHEN SOMEONE LEAVES OR SOMEONE HAS CHANGED IN THE PROGRAM, UH, THE, THE NEW ARRIVAL THAT'S ADDED TO THE TEAM HAS FIT IN WONDERFULLY AND CONTINUE THE WORK. 
          SO IT'S JUST BEEN A GREAT, UM, A GREAT RELATIONSHIP, A GREAT PARTNERSHIP, AND I JUST CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT IT. 
          GREAT. 
          FANTASTIC. 
          NOW, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NEIGHBORING SCHOOLS, 'CAUSE YOU MENTIONED, UH, SEVERAL OTHER SCHOOLS AND WHAT IS THAT COMMUNICATION AND CONNECTION LIKE? SO WE ARE, WE'RE JUST ALL GREAT FRIENDS. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, SUPERINTENDENT , MR. CHA WAS MY FORMER SUPERINTENDENT AT REGION NORTH, AND HE REALLY INSTILLED UPON US THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE FAMILY AND, UH, WE ARE FAMILY. 
          UH, MY, MY REGION SUPERINTENDENT IS DR. 
          BACA, AND WE, WE ARE, WE'RE ONE FAMILY. 
          WE HAVE A TEXT THREAD, WE ARE TOGETHER THE MINUTE ANYTHING HAPPENS AT ONE PLACE, WE COMMUNICATE. 
          THIS MORNING AT 6 45, I WAS ALREADY AWARE THAT THERE WAS A, YOU KNOW, ICE ACTIVITY ACROSS THE STREET AT HOME DEPOT. 
          AND THAT CAME FROM THE, THE, THE CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AT 6 45 IN THE MORNING. 
          SO, UM, THAT, THAT'S HOW WE COMMUNICATE WHEN SOMETHING IS HAPPENING, WE HAVE A TEXT THREAD, UH, THAT RIGHT AWAY WE ARE IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH EACH OTHER BECAUSE WHATEVER HAPPENS TO ONE HAPPENS TO ALL BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY IS VERY TIGHT KNIT AND OF SERVICE TO EACH OTHER. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD HAVE A STUDENT IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS WELL AS ONE AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND THEN MAYBE ONE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL , AND MAYBE ANOTHER ONE AT THE CON, YOU KNOW, AT THE, UM, AT MY, AT MY SCHOOL OR THE CONTINUATION ADJACENT TO US. 
          SO WE ARE VERY, UH, TIGHT-KNIT COMMUNITY AND IT'S A GREAT COMMUNITY, UH, FULL OF LOVE, BUT ALSO THERE'S A LOT OF NEED. 
          AWESOME. 
          I GUESS THIS IS A QUESTION MORE SO FOR THE, UM, PARTNER AS TO HOW DO YOU SELECT YOUR EMPLOYEES TO WORK WITH YOUR AGENCY, AND WHAT IS THE BACKGROUND ON HOW YOU SELECT INDIVIDUALS? SO HOW WE SELECT THEM INDIVIDUALS, WE DO A BACKGROUND CHECK. 
          SO WE DEFINITELY DO A BACKGROUND CHECK TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE ABLE TO WORK UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF US AND TO BE NEAR THE CHILDREN, OF COURSE. 
          SO AFTER WE DO THE BACKGROUND CHECK, WE, UM, DO AN INTERVIEW, MAKE SURE WE SEE THAT THEY'RE FIT FOR SAFE PASSAGE, WE LET THEM KNOW WHAT WE'RE ABOUT AND HOW WE WANT OUR PEOPLE TO BE ON THE TEAM, MAKE SURE THEY'RE ABLE TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY, MAKE SURE THEY HAVE, UM, AVAILABLE TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO AND FROM, UM, GIVEN THE SCHEDULE THAT WE HAVE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE AVAILABLE FOR THE SCHEDULE AS WELL. 
          AND IF THEY DON'T, THEN THEY CAN ALWAYS GIVE US A HEADS UP PRIOR TO THE SHIFT OF WHAT, WHEN THEY'RE GONNA COME TO LET US KNOW IF THEY'RE ABLE TO MAKE IT. 
          FOR THE MOST PART THOUGH, THEY UNDERSTAND THE SCHEDULE AND WE JUST AGREE UPON IT DURING THE PROCESS OF HIRING. 
          PERFECT. 
          AND THEN WITH THAT PROCESS, BECAUSE I MEAN, IT'S A, IT'S A SMALL WORK SCHEDULE, RIGHT? IT IS. 
          SO WHO'S AN IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR THIS PARTICULAR TYPE OF WORK? BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING, IT'S LIKE A SPLIT SHIFT, RIGHT? SO YOU COME IN THE MORNING, THEN YOU HAVE THIS TIME OFF, AND THEN YOU'RE BACK IN THE AFTERNOON, TWO HOURS ON, TWO HOURS IN THE AFTERNOON. 
          SO I FEEL MOST OF OUR, SORRY. 
          NO, I'M JUST ASKING WHO WAS A GOOD FIT FOR THAT. 
          MY MOST IDEAL CANDIDATES NOWADAYS HAVE BEEN, UM, RANGES 18 TO POSSIBLY IN THEIR MID TWENTIES. 
          USUALLY, UM, PEOPLE FROM ABOVE THOSE AGES EITHER HAVE A FULL-TIME JOB, HAVE FULL-TIME RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THEY CAN'T ACQUIRE THOSE JOBS. 
          BUT I'VE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AT THOSE AGES WHO ARE, SAY A STAY AT HOME MOTHER AND UM, THEIR KID GOES TO POSSIBLY DAYCARE DURING CERTAIN TIMES OR THEIR SCHOOL, THEY'RE ABLE TO FIT THAT SCHEDULE IN BECAUSE IT'S SCHOOL HOURS. 
          SO THEY FIT IT IN TO WHERE SOMEONE'S EITHER PICKING THEIR CHILD UP OR THEY HAVE THAT AVAILABILITY TO WHERE THEY'RE ABLE TO WORK AND STILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR DAY-TO-DAY LIFE. 
          I THINK THAT, UM, MIDDLE SCHEDULE BALANCE WHERE THEY HAVE THAT FOUR HOUR BREAK 
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IS VERY HELPFUL. 
          GOT IT. 
          AND THEN LAST QUESTION, WITH THE TRAINING FOR THE ONBOARDING, WHEN THEY GET ON BOARD, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AND HOW INTENSE IS THAT? OR LIKE THEREOF, WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE DAY TO DAY? AND THEN ONGOING TRAINING FROM THAT POINT? DO THEY DO, UM, UPCOMING TRAINING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR OR WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? SO WE DO HAVE MEETINGS, UM, ABOUT TWICE A YEAR. 
          SO WE CAN HAVE LIKE A LITTLE POWWOW BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE'S SOME TURNOVER. 
          AND WE JUST RELAY THE MESSAGE AGAIN ABOUT WHAT SAFE PASSAGE IS. 
          FOR AS OF TRAINING, WHEN THEY FIRST START, THEY GET THE TRAINING FROM THEIR LEAD WHO'S ALSO HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF SAFE PASSAGE. 
          SO THE TRAINING INVOLVES YOU SEE SOMETHING, YOU SAY SOMETHING. 
          SO WE'RE NOT PEOPLE THAT PHYSICALLY GO AND HAVE A NEGATIVE ALTERCATION WITH ANY SITUATION, WITH A PARENT, WITH A STUDENT, WITH AN OUTSIDE PERSON OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          WE JUST ARE THERE TO EVALUATE AND SEE THE SITUATION BEFORE IT ESCALATES ANY FURTHER. 
          AND THEN THAT'S WHY WE HAVE OUR CONTACT, MR. DULY, AS HE WAS SAYING. 
          WE ALSO HAVE A GROUP CHAT. 
          SO WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE, WE HAVE GROUP CHATS FOR OUR CHECK-INS AND CHECKOUTS, ASIDE FROM JUST THE SAFE PASSAGE TEAM HAVING A CHECK-IN, I CHECK IN WITH ANY SCHOOL, I HAVE A GROUP CHAT WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OR THE PERSON IN CHARGE SAY THE SECURITY ON CHARGE, AND WE'RE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM FAST BEFORE I CALL SCHOOL POLICE. 
          IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S NOT SCHOOL POLICE NECESSARY, BUT IT'S NECESSARY FOR THEM TO HAVE THAT UNDERSTANDING, THEN I CONTACT THE POINT OF CONTACT FIRST AND SO FORTH. 
          THEN WE ESCALATE IT FROM THERE. 
          GOT IT. 
          AND LAST QUESTION, YOU JUST MENTIONED SCHOOL POLICE. 
          WHAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO CONTACT SCHOOL POLICE FOR? SO, SCHOOL POLICE, I WOULD CONTACT THEM FOR LEWD ACTS. 
          I CONTACT SCHOOL POLICE, SAY IF A STUDENT IS OUTSIDE WITH, UM, MARIJUANA AND UM, SAY IF THE SCHOOL FIGHT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, I CALL SCHOOL POLICE. 
          SO THEY'RE CALLED. 
          AND THEN I RELAY THE MESSAGE TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND LET THEM KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, WHO I SPOKE TO, THE DISPATCH NUMBER. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT ALL OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS ARE TRAINED TO DO AS WELL, JUST IN CASE SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS. 
          THEY'RE AWARE OF THE PROTOCOL. 
          IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU'RE VERY WELCOME. 
          AWESOME. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MY COLLEAGUES? YEP. 
          SALVADOR, UH, FOR PRINCIPAL ULLI. 
          OH, OKAY. 
           FIRST, FIRST TO COMMEND YOUR AMAZING JOB, UH, AT AS A PRINCIPAL, UH, GIVEN THE FACT THAT THE SAFETY PROGRAM DEPENDS ON THE BUDGET ALLOCATED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD. 
          HAVE YOU ENTERTAINED THE IDEA OF BRINGING SUSTAINABILITY TO THE PROGRAM BEYOND THAT BUDGET, MAYBE WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS OR SPONSORS THAT ARE CONCERNS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE KIDS GOING TO SCHOOL AND THEIR FAMILIES? YES. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, FOR SURE BUDGETS ARE THIN. 
          UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE THIN FOR THE DISTRICT AND THIN FOR SCHOOL SITES. 
          SO IF WE WERE UNABLE TO FUND MOVING FORWARD, THEN WE WOULD NEED TO WORK WITH SOME TYPE OF CO YOU KNOW, COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY PARTNER GROUP THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE WOULD BE VERIFIED AND HAVE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION AND FINGERPRINT AND ET CETERA. 
          BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, SAFETY IS OUR FIRST JOB, RIGHT? I LEAVE TWO CHILDREN AT TWO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS EVERY MORNING. 
          I ENSURE THAT THEIR SCHOOLS ARE DOING WHAT'S SAFE AND WE DO THE SAME THING FOR OUR, FOR ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS. 
          SO WE JUST HAVE TO ENSURE THAT IF THERE IS A, A PARTNERSHIP THAT WE COULD WORK WITH, UM, THAT THEY WOULD MEET ALL THOSE CRITERIA. 
          YEP. 
          CARLA? YES. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND TO THE PARENT AND STUDENT WHO SHARED FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM, I'M WONDERING AT YOUR SCHOOL, UM, PRINCIPAL, DID YOU, WHEN YOU GOT THEM TO COME TO CAMPUS, DID YOU DO ANY MEETINGS WITH PARENTS, WITH STAFF, WITH STUDENTS TO LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THIS PROGRAM COMING IN AND FOR ANYBODY TO ASK QUESTIONS OF THEM TO ANYTHING, ANY SORT OF, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH WITHIN YOUR SCHOOL? ALL OF THE, ALL OF THE ABOVE. 
          UH, IT'S BEEN PART OF OUR, IT'S PART OF OUR TRAINING WITH FACULTY, WITH PARENTS. 
          REMEMBER WE HAVE EIGHT COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL MEETINGS A MONTH. 
          UH, SO EVERY MEETING THAT IS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WE DO COVER. 
          UH, AND SO, AND ALSO COVERED WITH STUDENTS, WE MEET WITH STUDENTS EVERY MONTH AROUND, UH, SAFE, UH, SAFE BEHAVIORS AND EXPECTATIONS. 
          AND SO, UH, ALL OF THOSE, UH, AREAS ARE COVERED AND, UH, WE MEET WITH, UM, WITH THE STAFF AND PARENTS AND STUDENTS, UH, REGULARLY. 
          AND, UM, SO WITH THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM, YOU GOT, YOU MET WITH THEM AS WELL AND YOUR STAFF? YES. 
          LIKE THEY ALL CAME TOGETHER. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN I'M WONDERING JUST A LITTLE BIT, I'D LIKE TO MORE KNOW MORE DETAILS ABOUT, UM, DO ALL THE FOLKS WHO ALL ARE HIRED BY THE SAFE PASSAGE, UH, CONTRACTOR, DO THEY ALL 
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GO THROUGH THE SAME TRAINING? AND I, BECAUSE I SEE HERE THAT YOU HAVE, I DON'T KNOW IF THESE SCHOOLS ARE THE ONES THAT ARE PART OF YOUR SO ONE OF MY SCHOOLS IS IN THERE BERNSTEIN. 
          YES. 
          ARE YOU AT BERNSTEIN? YES, YES, YES. 
          WE ARE AT BERNSTEIN. 
          SO JUST WONDERING, DO THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME PRO UH, TRAINING ALL THE FOLKS WHO WORK FOR YOU? YES, MA'AM. 
          THEY ACTUALLY DO. 
          SO, UM, WE HAVE AT LEAST THREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 
          UH, WE HAVE IT AT THE BEGINNING, BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS. 
          WE HAVE IT RIGHT AFTER, UH, THE, UH, FIRST SEMESTER AROUND CHRISTMAS BREAK. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE ONE AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL, SCHOOL YEAR AS WELL JUST TO KIND OF CATCH UP AND SEE WHAT DID WE MISS. 
          I WILL REACH OUT TO PRINCIPALS AND ASK THEM, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO BETTER OR WHAT WE DIDN'T DO, UH, ASK FOR BERNSTEIN. 
          MY PROJECT LEAD IN LA IS ALSO PART OF GRID. 
          SO, UM, I WORKED FOR ANOTHER ORGANIZATION SOME YEARS AGO AND I WORKED ALONGSIDE GRID, SO I KNOW THE TYPE OF WORK THAT THEY DO. 
          AND SO WHENEVER WE WERE GETTING MORE LA SCHOOLS AND IN CERTAIN AREAS, WHAT I DID WAS I REACHED OUT TO HIM AND SAID, HEY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE MY PROJECT LEAD TO WHERE YOU CAN OVERSEE? AND I TRY TO LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND HIRE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE COMMUNITIES. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I NEVER TRY TO BRING 'EM FROM OUTSIDE OF COMMUNITIES BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT'S, THAT'S NOT A GOOD MIX. 
          SO, UH, HE, WE TALK, I SAID, WHO DO YOU HAVE IN THIS AREA? I HAVE THIS SCHOOL. 
          HE SAID, OKAY, I HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT USED TO BE IN GRID, THEY UNDERSTAND AND THAT'S HOW WE HIRE 'EM. 
          WE RUN THROUGH THE, UH, BACKGROUND CHECK. 
          OF COURSE WE RUN EVERYTHING THROUGH AND ONCE THEY CHECK OUT, THEN WE HIRE THEM AND THEY KNOW THE TIMES, UH, TIMES CAN ACTUALLY CHANGE. 
          I LIKE TO GO FROM SEVEN 30 TO NINE 30 AND TWO 30 TO 4, 4 30. 
          AND THAT'S FROM MY ADMINISTRATIVE BACKGROUND BEING THERE BEFORE AND BEING THERE AFTER. 
          SO WE CAN SEE EVERYTHING BEFORE IT HAPPENS. 
          AND AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL DAY, OF COURSE, ONCE THE UH, CAMPUS IS CLEAR, THERE STILL MAY BE SOME STRAGGLERS OR THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING AROUND. 
          SO WE TRY TO CONNECT WITH THAT AS WELL. 
          UH, BUT HAVING THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN THAT WORKS FOR GRID HERE, IT'S HELPED US A LOT ON CERTAIN SCHOOLS LIKE RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, BERNSTEIN, JOHN LIGHTY, IF I'M PRONOUNCING IT CORRECT, LEE? YES, LEE LEE, IF I'M PRONOUNCING CORRECT, UM, ELIZABETH LEARNING CENTER. 
          SO, UH, HE'S OVER ALL THOSE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. 
          SO WE INCORPORATE THAT GRID. 
          'CAUSE I HEARD THE QUESTION ASKED EARLIER ABOUT GRID, THEY HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUS HELP FOR US. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          TREMENDOUS HELPS. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          AND THEN, UM, WHAT ARE SOME THINGS, WE TALKED ABOUT BUDGET AND YOU TALKED ABOUT, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKING THIS SUSTAINABLE. 
          ACTUALLY THE PARENTS WERE SAYING, HOW CAN WE KEEP THIS PROGRAM? SO WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU WOULD ASK OF THE BOARD TO DO TO, TO HELP WITH THIS? WELL, I THINK, YOU KNOW, A CONSIDERATION ITEM IS IF IT CAN BE FUNDED, THAT'S THE PLACE TO BE. 
          IF IT CAN'T BE FUNDED, THEN MIGHT THERE BE PARTNERS THAT ARE WILLING TO SUPPORT THIS TYPE OF WORK? KNOWING THAT IT'S NOT EASY WORK, KNOWING THAT ONCE YOU START, YOU HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT. 
          BECAUSE IF WE'VE IDENTIFIED A LOCATION OF CONCERN, IT CAN'T BE, WELL, IT'S A CONCERN ONE DAY AND THEN NOT ANOTHER DAY. 
          SO WE HAVE TO PROVIDE CONSISTENCY. 
          SO IF WE ARE UNABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH CONTINUED FUNDING, THEN WHAT PARTNERSHIPS COULD WE INVITE THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO DO CONSISTENT WORK? AND THAT'S A, THAT'S DIFFICULT BECAUSE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT VOLUNTEER, WELL, A VOLUNTEER IS JUST THAT A VOLUNTEER AND, UH, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN WHEN YOU HAVE A PAID ASSIGNMENT. 
          SO I THINK A LITTLE BIT, WE HAVE TO PRIORITIZE WHAT'S IMPORTANT AND SAFETY IS MOST IMPORTANT. 
          STUDENTS CANNOT COME AND LEARN AND HAVE ACHIEVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS IF THEY CAN'T GET TO SCHOOL SAFELY. 
          SO WE DO THINGS THAT WERE MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION EARLIER BY MR. SHADE ABOUT TRANSPORTATION AND WHAT'S NEEDED. 
          SO WE CAN GET STUDENTS TO SCHOOL. 
          SUPERINTENDENT CARVALLO IS VERY FOCUSED WITH HIS PRINCIPALS  ABOUT WHAT WE DO, EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET THOSE STUDENTS INSIDE THE DOOR. 
          AND, UH, WHATEVER IT TAKES, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          SO PART OF THAT IN SOME COMMUNITIES AND IN SCHOOLS AND NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE OURS, THIS MAKES A DIFFERENCE. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN YOU, DID YOU SAY SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE DAILY CHECK-INS WITH THE PARTNERS? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS? SO THEY DO IS THEY MEET WITH THE LEAD IN THE ENTRANCE THERE BEFORE THEY ALL GO OUT. 
          THEY COME IN, THEY PARK ON CAMPUS IN OUR PARKING LOT. 
          THEY COME INTO THE SCHOOL, THEY CHECK IN AND SIGN IN, THEY TAKE A RADIO AND THEY ALL CIRCLE UP AND DO KIND OF A STANDUP. 
          AND THEY WOULD DO ANY KIND OF UPDATES OR ANYTHING THAT THEY HAVE FOR EACH 
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OTHER, UM, AND ENSURE EVERYONE IS THERE AND, AND ET CETERA. 
          IF SOMEBODY'S ABSENT OR SICK, THEN THEY'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT TO MAKE AS FAR AS AN ADJUSTMENT. 
          AND THEN BEFORE THEY DEPART, THEY ALSO CIRCLE UP AND AND LEAVE. 
          SO I THINK IT'S A REALLY, UH, IT'S QUITE AN AMAZING, UH, PROCESS, UH, THAT THEY DO. 
          UH, AND THEN WE HAVE CHECK-INS WITH THEM, UM, EVERY OTHER MONTH. 
          AND WE'VE EVEN INCLUDED SCHOOL POLICE IN THOSE. 
          UH, SCHOOL POLICE ARE GREAT PARTNERS TO OUR DISTRICT IN ALWAYS. 
          AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO. 
          UH, OUR SCHOOL POLICE SERGEANTS AND SCHOOL POLICE OFFICERS IN OUR REGION, UM, KNOW THE SAFE PASSAGE TEAM AND THEY KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND THEY, UH, MAKE CONTACT WITH THEM WHILE THEY'RE IN PATROL OR WHILE THEY'RE MOVING AROUND AND NOT ON A CALL, WHICH I THINK THEY ALWAYS ARE. 
          BUT, UM, THEY HAVE SO MUCH NEED, UH, OUR OUR SCHOOL POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT THEY ARE ALSO IN SUPPORT AND CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE LOCATIONS AND PLACES AND, AND THE TEAM THAT'S THERE. 
          AND SO IT REALLY, UM, IT, IT JUST REALLY WORKS VERY WELL. 
          UM, ARE THERE ANY OTHER TRAININGS THAT YOU WOULD RECOMMEND THAT ANY SAFE PASSAGE, NOT JUST THEM, BUT ANY SAFE PASSAGE ORGANIZATION SHOULD HAVE? YOU KNOW, I THINK WHAT WE DO WITH, UH, SCHOOL OPERATIONS REGARDING CAMPUS AID TRAINING, WE HAVE A GREAT ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAM THAT, UM, OUR, OUR OUR, OUR ON CAMPUS CAMPUS AIDES, DO I THINK THAT THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE, UH, BENEFICIAL TO THEM AND IT'S ALREADY KIND OF BUILT IN AND WE COULD POTENTIALLY OFFER IT TO THEM OR FIGURE OUT HOW WE COULD OFFER IT. 
          MAYBE. 
          UH, I THINK YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SINGLE SIGN ON AND BE A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE AND ALL THOSE THINGS, BUT I THINK WE COULD DO IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE COULD SHARE THAT, UM, THAT TRAINING THAT CAMPUS AIDS GET, UM, BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO, TO THEM ALSO. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, I THINK THAT'S IT. 
          I'LL JUST SAY ON THAT PIECE, YEAH, WE'VE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT, UM, SHARING ACROSS ROLES WITHIN LA UNIFIED AND OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, BUT ALSO OUR CITY AND OUR COUNTY. 
          SO FOR THE FOLKS WHO ARE DOING GRID, YOU KNOW, ARE WE USING SIMILAR STRATEGIES OR, UH, VOCABULARY, YOU KNOW, SO WE CAN ALL BE ON THE SAME PAGE. 
          SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT BEING, YOU KNOW, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MAYBE A NEXT STEP COMING OUT OF THIS COMMITTEE. 
          UM, IF THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS FROM MY COLLEAGUES, UM, LOOKING AROUND. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST, UH, ONE FROM ME. 
          I MEAN, KUDOS AND THANK YOU. 
          I'M REALLY EXCITED, UH, FOR THE WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING, AND SOME OF THOSE ARE MY SCHOOLS AS WELL. 
          UM, WHO DECIDES WHERE TO PLACE THE PEOPLE AND DOES THAT CHANGE AT ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR? SO IF YOU HAVE SIX COMMUNITY PASSAGE MEMBERS, UM, OUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, LIKE HOW IS THAT DECIDED AND AND WOULD SOMETHING EVER CAUSE IT TO, YOU KNOW, ADJUST? YES, GREAT QUESTION. 
          COLLABORATIVELY, I MEAN, DAMIEN MIGHT SHARE SOME OTHER, BUT IT HAPPENS COLLABORATIVELY. 
          FIRST. 
          WE KNOW WHERE THE CONCERNS ARE BASED ON REPORTS OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS AS THEY WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          AND AS THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, UH, ARE DOING THEIR SERVICE, THEY SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS AREA USED TO BE A HOTSPOT. 
          IT'S REALLY NOT ANYMORE. 
          I SEE IT SHIFTING THERE. 
          SO IT'S REALLY KIND OF A, A FLUID PROCESS AND NOTHING, UM, WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE SAME PLACE FOREVER, UH, FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, DAMON, IS THAT HOW YOU KINDA SAY THAT? SO WHAT I LIKE TO DO IS MEET WITH THE, UH, PRINCIPAL OR THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OR WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE. 
          UH, CASE IN POINT, THIS, THIS YEAR WE PICKED UP, UH, KENNEDY AND WE PICKED UP GRANT. 
          SO I WENT TO THE SCHOOL, WE SAT, WE LOOKED AT A SCHOOL MAP OF THE, UH, SURROUNDINGS AND WHERE WERE THE HOTSPOTS AND WE GOT IN A GOLF CART AND WE JUST STRATEGIZED. 
          SO, AND, AND THAT WAS DEPENDENT UPON HOW MANY, UH, SAFE PASSAGE WORKERS THAT WE NEEDED. 
          SOME, SOME OF 'EM YOU MAY NEED FOUR, SOME YOU MAY NEED EIGHT DEPENDING ON WHERE THE HOTSPOTS ARE. 
          SO WE LIKE TO GO HAVE A SIT, SIT DOWN, TALK ABOUT IT, WHERE HAVE YOU HEARD YOUR HOTSPOTS ARE THEN, THEN WE ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY WALK IT OR IN, IN THAT CASE WE ROLL THE, UH, GOLF CART AND THAT'S HOW WE DECIDE WHERE WE, UH, PLACE INDIVIDUALS FOR THE SAFETY. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          I APPRECIATE THE FLEXIBILITY. 
          'CAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          UM, FOR A COMMUNITY AND, YOU KNOW, FOR REAL PEOPLE HAVING REALLY EXPERIENCES. 
          AND I WAS SO, YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO HEAR THE STUDENT AND PARENT PERSPECTIVE ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU EXPERIENCED BEFORE SAFE PASSAGE AND THEN WHAT THINGS FEEL LIKE NOW. 
          SO I HOPE THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE AS WELL. 
          AND I THINK YOUR BOARD MEMBERS HAVE HEARD YOU LOUD AND CLEAR THAT THIS IS SOMETHING WE WANNA HANG ON TO. 
          UM, WELL, IF THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUES, I'LL JUST THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. 
          UM, WELL EVERYBODY, THE WHOLE TEAM FOR PANORAMA, THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH. 
          AND WE ARE GONNA TRANSITION TO PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          YOU ALL ARE WELCOME TO, TO STICK AROUND, TO HEAR FROM FOLKS. 
          UM, BUT I KNOW SOME PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE TO HEAD OUT. 
          I JUST WANNA INVITE EVERYONE TO OUR NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING, WHICH WILL BE NOVEMBER 20TH, RIGHT HERE AT 1:00 PM. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO GIVE A LITTLE SNEAK PEEK. 
          THE, UH, BOARD MEMBERS ON THIS COMMITTEE. 
          WE HAVE COLLABORATED ON A RESOLUTION THAT WILL BE AT NEXT TUESDAY'S BOARD MEETING. 
          UM, IT IS A SAFETY ISSUE, AND SO WE'LL INVITE YOU TO TUNE INTO NEXT TUESDAY'S BOARD MEETING ON THE 14TH, RIGHT BACK HERE AS WELL. 
          SO WITH THAT, 
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MR. MCLEAN, WE ARE READY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I WILL CALL ON THE FOLKS WHO ARE LISTED AS SPEAKING IN PERSON, AND 
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THEN WE WILL CALL ON THOSE WHO LISTED THEMSELVES AS SPEAKING REMOTELY. 
          UH, THE FIRST SPEAKER IS NATHAN CRUZ, RIGHT HERE. 
          NATHAN CRUZ. 
          ARE YOU HERE, MR. CRUZ? OKAY. 
          I'M GONNA CHECK ONLINE TO SEE IF MR. CRUZ IS THERE. 
          NO, UM, I'M SORRY. 
          THERE HE IS. 
          AND THEN AFTER MR. CRUZ WILL BE, UH, CAROL VERDE AND THEN ISEL GONZALEZ. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON WHEN I START THIS. 
          UH, MY NAME IS NATHAN CRUZ, PARENT OF CALI CRUZ AND PARENT VOLUNTEER, AND ALSO PARENT MEMBER OF OF OUR LOCAL SCHOOL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL. 
          I WANNA ADDRESS A SERIOUS PUBLIC SAFETY RISK, THE TUNNEL UNDERNEATH THE FIVE FREEWAY ON PIER STREET, RIGHT ACROSS OUR SHARP AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 
          JUST TO GIVE YOU ONE OF MANY EXAMPLES THAT DUE TO BROKEN LIGHTS OF THE TUNNEL, IT ATTRACTS HOMELESSNESS, ENCAMPMENTS, AND OPEN AIR DRUG CONSUMPTION. 
          THIS PAST SUMMER, ONE OF OUR YOUNG MOMS ENROLLED HER SON IN SUMMER SCHOOL BECAUSE THE GROUP WAS SO SMALL, SHE RARELY SAW OTHER FAMILIES WALKING THROUGH THE TUNNEL. 
          AND WITH THE LESS FOOT TRAFFIC, IT CAME IN INFESTED WITH HOMELESSNESS AND BULKY ITEMS THAT MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT TO WALK THROUGH THE TUNNEL. 
          ONE EVENING WHEN SHE WENT TO GO PICK UP GABRIEL, A HOMELESS MAN FOLLOWED HER TOWARDS THE TUNNEL. 
          SHE WISELY STOPPED TO LET HIM GO FIRST, BUT SHE PAUSED, MISS, EXCUSE ME, PAUSED MIDWAY TURNED, EXCUSE ME, HE FOLLOWED HER TO THE TUNNEL. 
          SHE WISELY STOPPED TO LET HIM GO FIRST, BUT SHE PAUSED MIDWAY. 
          EXCUSE, I'M SORRY. 
          SO SHE DECIDED IT, IT WASN'T SAFE FOR HER TO WALK THROUGH THE, THE TUNNEL BECAUSE OF THE HOMELESS MAN, THE FEAR OF BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. 
          AND INSTEAD SHE WALKED AROUND, AROUND THROUGH THE TUNNEL, THROUGH TER BELLA TO GET A CHILD, WHICH TURNED A FIVE MINUTE WALK INTO A 30 MINUTE WALK. 
          FAST FORWARD TO ORIENTATION BEFORE THE THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. 
          I WALKED THE TUNNEL MYSELF WITH MY FAMILY AND IT WAS FILLED WITH TRASH, 30 MATTRESSES AND BROKEN GLASS. 
          AFTER A FULL YEAR WALKING THROUGH UNSAFE CONDITIONS, MY WIFE AND I REACHED OUT TO COUNCILWOMAN MONICA RODRIGUEZ OFFICE. 
          THANKFULLY, THEY RESPONDED QUICKLY WITH OPERATION BRIGHT SPOT AND THE TUNNEL WAS CLEAN BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. 
          THE PROBLEM DIDN'T STOP THERE. 
          ON BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT, WE WALKED THE TUNNEL AGAIN AND HAD TO LITERALLY JUMP OVER FRESH PUDDLES OF URINE TO GET THIS, UM, JUST TO GET TO SCHOOL. 
          WE REACHED OUT AGAIN. 
          AND WHILE THE PART OF THE TUNNEL WAS POWER WASHED, THESE HAVE ONLY BEEN BANDAID SOLUTIONS. 
          WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO LAPD. 
          PLEASE FINISH YOUR THOUGHT AND, AND THEN, AND THEN UP. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I, I THANK YOU. 
          UH, WE REACHED OUT TO LAPD BE, UM, BUT BECAUSE IT'S NOT EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, THEY, THEY DON'T EVEN COME. 
          BUT WHAT THEY DO COMES, IS ABOUT TWO HOURS AFTER WE REACH OUT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          UM, CAN I JUST, JUST ONE LAST THING. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          WE CAN ONLY DO ABOUT A LITTLE BIT OVER TWO MINUTES. 
          WE, WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU FOR TIME. 
          IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEND A COPY OF THAT TO THE BOARD SECRETARIAT, I CAN CIRCULATE THAT. 
          MR. CRUZ, I'M ALSO GONNA HAVE A TEAM MEMBER MEET WITH YOU TO GET YOUR CONCERN. 
          OKAY, THE NEXT IN-PERSON SPEAKER IS CAROL VERDE. 
          WE MAKE ENOUGH, SHE WON'T BE SPEAKING SPANISH. 
          IF YOU LIKE TO HEAR IN ENGLISH, VERDE IS GONNA SPEAK IN SPANISH. 
          SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT SHE'S SAYING IN ENGLISH AS SHE'S SPEAKING SPANISH, PLEASE PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND WE'LL GET YOU THESE HEADSET FOR TRANSLATION. 
          OKAY? GOOD DAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME, MY SON AND MYSELF, ALL THIS, UH, GROUP HERE TODAY. 
          WELL, TO BEGIN, I WANNA SAY THANK GOODNESS AND TO YOU ALL, I'M HERE FOR SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT, MS. CARLA GGO. 
          I KNOW YOU HAVE A COMMITTEE OF, UH, SPECIAL EDUCATION CHILDREN AND I HAVE KNOCKED ON DOORS AND I HAVE YET TO HEAR, UH, BACK FOR OVER A MONTH. 
          THE PRINCIPAL IN BRANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL WHERE MY SON WAS GOING INTO SIXTH GRADE WITH AN IEP. 
          UH, WE HAVE SUBMITTED AN AMENDMENT AND THEY HAVE NOT WANTED TO PROCESS IT WITH THE DOCUMENTATION, WITH ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          I HAVEN'T EVEN RESERVED AN ANSWER. 
          THEY SENT ME A LETTER TELLING ME THAT THEY NEED THE THREE YEAR EVALUATION, BUT WHY WOULD I JUMP TO SOMETHING ELSE IF WE HAVEN'T EVEN RESOLVED ONE THING? SO THERE'S DISORDER HERE. 
          THE PRINCIPAL FOCUSED ON, WHEN I STARTED DOING THESE LETTERS, I HAD WRITTEN A LETTER AND I SENT IT TO MR. CARVALLO TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE THROUGH EMAIL ABOUT A PRETENTIOUS 
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ATTITUDE TOWARDS ME. 
          I DID NOT DO A FORMAL COMPLAINT BECAUSE I'M FOCUSED ON MY CHILD. 
          HE IS THE, MY DETERMINATION. 
          WHAT HE DID WAS CREATE A MEETING WITH BLANC, WHICH IS A ALSO, UM, A DISRESPECTFUL WHEN MS. GUI WAS THERE AND SHE WAS SCREAMING AT ME AS IF SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF MY CHILD. 
          AND IF YOU HAVE THIS BEHAVIOR, THEN I DON'T NEED TO BE IN THIS MEETING. 
          MR. BRAND, THE, THE CHIEF OF THE OPERATIONS. 
          AND UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN WITH A EGO TRIP THAT HAVE THESE POSITIONS FOR MONEY AND IT'S WRONG. 
          THESE WE'RE PARENTS AND THE ONES THAT ARE MOST AFFECTED ARE THE STUDENTS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION. 
          I'M ASKING YOU, MS. GREGO, TO PLEASE HELP ME. 
          DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PRINCIPAL DID? HE SENT ME A LETTER THAT WAS DISRUPTIVE, BUT LIKE SAYING THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT ME TO PRE PROCEED. 
          YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SHUT ME UP BECAUSE MY SON IS SPECIAL NEEDS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, I SEE MARIA LOUISA PALMER OUT THERE. 
          COME ON DOWN. 
          YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN. 
          OKAY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MY NAME IS MARZA ALMA. 
          I AM HERE, UH, REPRESENTING ADA AND ALSO SUPPORTING RE WHO HAS BROUGHT YOU OVER 5,000 PARENT AND COMMUNITY SIGNATURES TO BRING BACK SCHOOL POLICE. 
          AND I'M ALSO HERE TO REMIND YOU ABOUT EDUCATION CODE SECTION 3 5 1 4 5 0.5 AND BOARD RULE. 
          THIS BOARD OF EDUCATION'S RULES NUMBER 1 32. 
          THE LAW SAYS IT IS THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC BE ABLE TO PLACE MATTERS DIRECTLY RELATED TO SCHOOL DISTRICT BUSINESS ON THE AGENDA OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD MEETINGS. 
          BUT HOW EXACTLY WOULD WE GO ABOUT THAT? BECAUSE WE HAVE SENT YOU THIS RESOLUTION HERE ENTITLED, ENSURING LOCAL SCHOOL SITE AND COMMUNITY CONTROL, AUTHORITY, AUTONOMY AND CHOICE REGARDING SAFE CAMPUSES AND THE PROTECTION OF OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF. 
          WE SENT YOU THIS BACK IN MAY OF THIS YEAR. 
          I HAVE NO RESPONSE ON IF OR WHEN THAT MAY BE PLACED ON THIS COMMITTEE OR ON THE FULL BOARD'S, UH, AGENDA FOR REVIEW. 
          AND WE WOULD LIKE THAT TO BE PUT UP FOR A VOTE. 
          YOU CAN MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO IT. 
          YOU CAN, YOU CAN CHANGE SOME OF THIS, BUT HOW CAN WE ACCOMPLISH AS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THE LEGISLATURE'S INTENT? IF YOU ARE BLOCKING THIS, HOW CAN WE GET YOU TO UPLIFT MATTERS THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST? YOU ALL LIKE TO USE THAT WORD, YOU USE IT CONSTANTLY. 
          SO IN THE EDUCATION CODE, IT DOESN'T SAY THAT THE MATTERS THAT YOU SHOULD CONSIDER HERE ARE ONLY RESOLUTIONS THAT YOU ALL BOARD MEMBERS AGREE ON OR THAT YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH OR THAT ARE CONVENIENT FOR YOUR POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS AND REELECTIONS SO ARE YOU ALL ABOVE THE LAW? DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THIS SECTION OF LAW? I'VE GIVEN YOU HERE THIS FOR EVERYONE TO REVIEW ON THIS COMMITTEE. 
          SO HOW CAN SCHOOLS IN YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY, MS. TANYA ORTIZ SAYS THAT YOU WILL ENSURE RESOURCES ARE ALLOCATED BASED ON THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF EACH SCHOOL COMMUNITY. 
          HOW WHEN SCHOOLS LACK DISCRETION TO SELECT SCHOOL POLICE, HOW CAN WE ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES WILL BE HEARD AND CONSIDERED IF YOU DON'T COMPLY WITH THE LAW? THIS IS AT BEST A SHAM, WHICH IS A SHORT STEP AWAY FROM CORRUPTION. 
          PLEASE REVIEW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          UH, MY OFFICE WILL REACH OUT TO YOU DIRECTLY TODAY AND LET YOU KNOW WHEN THAT WILL BE ON AN AGENDA. 
          OKAY. 
          THE NEXT PERSON WHO IS HERE IS ISABEL GONZALEZ. 
          ISABEL GONZALEZ. 
          OKAY. 
          MS. GONZALEZ IS GONNA SPEAK IN SPANISH, SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT SHE'S SAYING IN ENGLISH, NO WORRIES. 
          THIS KIND OF WORDS YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND. 
          MELANIE RAMOS, AGE 15, DIED OF A FENTANYL OVERDOSE IN A BATHROOM AT HELEN BERNSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL IN HOLLYWOOD ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2022. 
          SHE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE ABOUT EIGHT HOURS AFTER THE SCHOOL STAFF NOTICED HER ABSENCE AND FAILED TO LOCATE HER MORE QUICKLY. 
          SEVERAL FAMILIES WERE DESTROYED. 
          HER, HER FRIENDS, HER COMMUNITY, AND MANY MORE. 
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LIFE WERE CUT. 
          SHORT AND UNN. 
          STUDENTS FO FOUND DEATH IN A SCHOOL POOL. 
          HIS BODY WAS DISCOVERED ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2024 AT MIGUEL CONTRERAS LEARNING COMPLEX. 
          IN WESLEY, THE STUDENTS IDENTITY AND COWS OF DEATH ARE NOT RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. 
          SO HE WAS BULLIED. 
          WE DON'T KNOW. 
          THE POOL WAS CLOSED. 
          PENDING FURTHER INVESTIGATION, THE SAME CASE FAMILIES DESTROYED HIS LIFE WERE CUT SHORT. 
          SHALENE MEJIA EIGHT 16 DIED FROM COMPLICATION AFTER SUFFERING HEAD TRAUMA DURING A VIOLENT FIGHT AT MAN ARTS HIGH SCHOOL. 
          THE INCIDENT OCCUR ON MARCH FI FIFTH, 2024, AND SHE PASSED AWAY 10 DAYS LATER ON MARCH 5TH. 
          MARCH 15TH. 
          FROM BRAIN HEMORRHAGE. 
          L-U-S-D-L LA USD HAD DISMISSED IT EARLIER, BULLYING REPORT AND FAILED TO PROTECT HER SAFETY AND HER LIFE. 
          MANY FAMILIES WERE DESTROYED BY THIS TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. 
          AND HOW MANY MORE STUDENTS LIVES COULD SHORT DO YOU NEED BEFORE YOU TAKE ACTION AND BRING BACK SCHOOL POLICE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD?  SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, A STUDENT WAS SHOT OUTSIDE CAMPUS JUNE, 2022 LATER REFER AS FAT DEAD. 
          THIS LEADS TO BE CONTINUED. 
          THERE ARE MORE STUDENTS DIE AFTER YOU TAKE ACTION. 
          WHEN DO YOU GOING TO TAKE ACTION? MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 
          HI. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          OKAY, THE NEXT IN-PERSON SPEAKER IS GIL GMES. 
          COME ON DOWN. 
          YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MY NAME IS GIL GMES. 
          I'M THE LA SCHOOL POLICE UNION PRESIDENT. 
          I'M GREAT PRESIDENT. 
          UM, GREAT PRESENTATION IN, IN REGARDS TO THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM. 
          THAT THAT IS, THAT IS THE MODEL THAT YOU SHOULD GO AFTER. 
          THE PROBLEM IS IT'S NOT STANDARDIZED. 
          SOME SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM LIKE THE ONE PUT ON BY BIG U IS USING DISTRICT FUNDS, UM, TO, TO FUND THEIR ENTERPRISES. 
          OTHER SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAMS ARE HIRING, UM, FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS OF 20 YEARS. 
          OR LIKE THE, THE PROGRAM WE SAW ON TV, THE INDIVIDUAL PUNCHED A PARENT IN THE FACE AND SHE'S GETTING SENTENCED THIS WEEK. 
          THE PROBLEM IS STANDARDIZATION. 
          I WOULD LOVE IT FOR THEM ALL TO BE DISTRICT EMPLOYEES, BUT THAT WOULDN'T, THAT, THAT WOULD REQUIRE A LOT MORE THINGS LIKE, UM, BENEFITS, HEALTH BENEFITS SYSTEM, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          I KNOW I ONLY HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          UM, SAFE PASSAGE. 
          OUR OFFICERS PROVIDE SAFE PASSAGE. 
          WE CREATED SAFE PASSAGE AT 24 7. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE DO. 
          THE PROBLEM IS WE WERE SPREAD SO THIN, IT TAKES 20 TO 30 MINUTES AT TIMES TO GET TO, UM, AN EMERGENCY. 
          ONE OF OUR OFFICERS WAS PULLED OUTTA THE FIELD FOR 10 MONTHS BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO RIDE DRIVE CODE THREE IN HIS POLICE VEHICLE, UM, TO A SCHOOL DISTRICT EMERGENCY. 
          HE WAS INSUBORDINATE, BUT THE REASON WHY HE WAS INSUBORDINATE IS 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE OFFICERS TO PROVIDE SAFETY FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          THAT WAS A, THIS DECISION WAS MADE A LONG TIME AGO. 
          ONCE AGAIN, THIS BOARD, THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES GREAT THINGS, BUT IN, IN REGARDS TO THE DEFUND AND THE SCHOOL POLICE DEPARTMENT, THAT WAS A HORRIBLE THING THAT NEEDS TO BE READDRESSED. 
          WE HAD, AS FAR AS SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH OF STUDENTS, WE HAD TWO PROFESSORS. 
          ONE FROM I BELIEVE MOUNT ST. 
          MARY'S, THE OTHER ONE FROM UCLA. 
          SHE DID A STUDY. 
          SHE WROTE, I THINK SIX TO EIGHT DIFFERENT RIDEALONGS WITH OUR, WITH OUR POLICE OFFICERS. 
          AND SHE CONFIRMED, AND THERE'S A PAPER WRITTEN ON IT. 
          YOU CAN GOOGLE IT. 
          UM, THAT, THAT SCHOOL POLICE OFFICERS ARE BIG BROTHERS, BIG SISTERS MENTORS. 
          THEY ARE, THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH OF STUDENTS. 
          PERIOD. 
          WE NEED TO REVISIT THIS. 
          AT THE VERY LEAST, YOU TELL THAT THE, THE, THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SCHOOLS THAT THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO OPT IN TO HAVE A SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER ON CAMPUS. 
          IF, IF, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS, I'VE BEEN DOING LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR THREE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS FOR MANY YEARS SINCE 97. 
          IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MY NAME'S GOAM, SCHOOL POLICE, JUNIOR PRESIDENT CALL ME. 
          WE'LL TALK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, MR. DAVID TOSKI. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN. 
          AND THEN AFTER MR. TOSKI IS MARIA DAISY ORTIZ. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER DAVID SIKOWSKI SPEAKING IN THIS LIMITED TWO MINUTE, UH, QUASI FASCIST MODE THAT THE BOARD HAS ADOPTED BY ONLY HAVING TWO MINUTES. 
          LET ME JUST SAY THAT THIS IS NOT GONNA BE ON C-SPAN. 
          UH, IF YOU WATCH ANY COMMITTEE 
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HEARING OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, YOU'D HAVE MUCH MORE OF AN OVERSIGHT ROLE TO FIND OUT THINGS. 
          ONE, WHERE'S THE POLICE CHIEF SPEAKING TODAY? WHY DOESN'T HE GIVE THE DATA? NUMBER TWO, WE HAVE A SECOND POLICE CHIEF NOW ON IMMIGRATION ISSUES TO COORDINATE THINGS. 
          HE SHOULD BE GIVING A REPORT. 
          NUMBER THREE, WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT CONTENT. 
          AND THE BIGGEST CONTENT RIGHT NOW IS THE INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT IS FLOWING INTO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. 
          A NOVEMBER 15TH, WHILE PRINCIPALS ALL OVER THIS DISTRICT ARE BEING ASKED TO SLICE THEIR BUDGET, SLICE THINGS OUT OF THEIR, THE STATE REVENUE IS POURING IN. 
          IT IS NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          THE SUPERINTENDENT HAD US DISTRACTED ABOUT TRUMP IS TAKING OUR MONEY. 
          GOVERNOR NEWSOM HAS HELD BACK $2 BILLION OF EDUCATION MONEY, WHICH HE WILL RELEASE IN JANUARY. 
          UNDER PRESSURE NUMBER TWO, THE AI BOOM HAS CAUSED AN INCREASE OF THIS YEAR'S STATE REVENUE OF $4 BILLION, WHICH WOULD MEAN 400 MILLION COMPOUNDED EACH AND EVERY YEAR UNDER PROPOSITION 98. 
          IN ADDITION, ANOTHER $4 BILLION HAS COME IN UNDER TAX REVENUE FROM THE SUPER RICH IN CALIFORNIA UNDER THE AI GROWTH. 
          IT IS ABOUT TIME WE START LOOKING AT NOT CUTTING PEOPLE LIKE PASADENA UNDER THEIR PREVIOUS BUDGET DIRECTOR, BUT INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR REVENUE, PURSUING THAT REVENUE FOR ALL OF THE PROGRAMS YOU GUYS HAVE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT. 
          THAT MONEY IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN HEALTH SERVICES UNDER THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT. 
          DON'T JUST LOOK AT THIS NARROW PIECE OF EDUCATION, BUT ALSO KNOW THAT PROPOSITION 98 VOTER APPROVED GIVES 40% OF THE MONEY GUARANTEED. 
          TK TO 14 SOMETHING THAT YOU SEE IN CAL STATE DOES NOT HAVE, UNFORTUNATELY. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          ALL RIGHT, MARIA DAISY ORTIZ, PLEASE COME ON UP. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN. 
          MS. ORTIZ IS GONNA SPEAK IN SPANISH, SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT SHE'S SAYING IN ENGLISH, PLEASE USE THOSE HEADSETS THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED OUT. 
          AND THEN AFTER, UH, MS. ORTIZ WILL BE DEION GUILLEN. 
          WHEN I STARTED GOOD AFTERNOON, HONESTLY, I SEE TWO PEOPLE FROM AN ORGANIZATION IN WHICH I RESPECTED A LOT BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE HONESTLY HERE TO BETTER THE EDUCATION. 
          BUT IT DOES BOTHER ME WITH SOMEONE THAT ARE SELLING SAFETY SOLO. 
          THERE'S THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN. 
          SAFETY SHOULD BE A PRIORITY. 
          HONESTLY. 
          YOU HERE, YOU, THEY TALK TO YOU REALLY NICE, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS AT THE SCHOOLS. 
          EVERY YEAR I RECEIVE FIGHTS, OTHER CHILDREN HITTING OTHER CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          WHERE'S SAFE PASSAGES? WHERE ARE ALL THE PERSONNELS THAT SAY THAT THEY HAVE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, JUSTICE AND ALL THAT WE NEED FOR SAFETY TO BE REINFORCED WITH SCHOOL, WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING BOMBARDED WITH DRUGS, DRUG SELLERS, GANG RECRUITMENT, AND ALSO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE EVIL AND THE PEOPLE THAT, THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE, THERE ARE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT ARE DISAPPEARING, BOYS AND GIRLS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          WHY? BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS NO POLICE. 
          THAT IT TAKES 20 MINUTES FOR AN EMERGENCY CALL SO THAT WE CAN OBTAIN AN OFFICER. 
          BUT YOU SAY THAT YOU HAVE A SAFETY PLAN. 
          NO, AND THERE IS NO SAFETY PLAN. 
          THE POLICE CAN ALSO WORK TO MAKE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY, BUILDING COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS WITH THE COMMUNITY AND WITH STUDENTS TO CREATING FORUMS ON HOW TO PREVENT DRUGS AND GANGS AND ALL THAT. 
          AND ALSO TO PROMOTE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ALL THE STUDENTS THAT PARTICIPATE. 
          BUT A UNIFORMED MEANS RESPECT. 
          EVEN FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT THREAT THE SAFETY OF OUR STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOLS. 
          THEY THREATEN THAT AND THEY CAN TREAT SAFETY IN A NEGLIGENCE WAYS. 
          AND IT'S AN INCOMPETENT WAY THE WAY YOU'VE BEEN CARRYING IT THIS WAY. 
          BUT YOU ARE SITTING HERE LOOKING PRETTY WHEN IN REALITY IT IS NOT YOUR CHILDREN WHO ARE AT RISK. 
          THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT DAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          DEANNA GUILLEN, COME ON DOWN. 
          YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN. 
          MS. GUILLEN'S GONNA SPEAK IN SPANISH, SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT SHE'S SAYING IN ENGLISH, PLEASE PUT ON THE TRANSLATION HEADSETS. 
          OKAY, CIA. 
          WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 
          MY NAME IS DIANA GUILLEN AND I AM HERE TO REPRESENT THE PARENT, THE PARENTS, BECAUSE OF SAFETY, WE BROUGHT 6,400 SIGNATURES AND MORE THAN 300 SCHOOLS WHERE PARENTS ARE ASKING THE SCHOOL POLICE FOR SCHOOL POLICE AND HOW BEAUTIFUL IT LOOKS. 
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UH, THEY SAY THAT SAFETY PASSAGE IS HERE, BUT HONESTLY, I'VE HEARD THE TESTIMONY OF A MOTHER, UH, THAT WAS BROUGHT FROM THAT SCHOOL. 
          SHE DIDN'T SAY SHE FELT SAFE. 
          SHE SAID, I TAKE MY CHILD EVERY DAY. 
          IF I FELT SAFE, I WOULD SEND MY 16, 17-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER TO SCHOOL ON HER OWN. 
          BUT SHE DOESN'T FEEL SAFE. 
          SOMETIMES PARENTS, WE COME HERE TO CREATE MAKING A FAVOR FOR YOU ALSO, THAT YOU CAN LOOK GOOD, BUT OUR CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING. 
          THERE'S A SCHOOL WHERE SCHOOL WAS BROUGHT THREE DAYS, AND THOSE THREE DAYS THERE WERE NO FIGHTS. 
          OH, BUT BECAUSE TEACHERS DON'T LIKE POLICE, THEY CAME TO SPEAK AND ASKED FOR THEM TO BE REMOVED. 
          AND BECAUSE YOU HAVE YOUR GREAT FRIENDS HERE, RIGHT? MS. CARGO, MS. ORTIZ AND EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T WANT SCHOOL POLICE, THEY SAID, WELL, LET'S REMOVE IT. 
          AND THE FOURTH DAY, 6, 5, 6 CONSECUTIVE FIGHTS IN THE SAME DAY. 
          IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE PROMOTING? LIKE MAKES MY COLLEAGUE SAID, THE UNIFORM REPRESENTS WHAT IT IS, WHAT'S VALUE, WHAT IS SOMETHING? IT'S DISCIPLINE, BUT PEOPLE THAT HAVE TATTOOS COME, THEY COME WITH THEIR PHONE IN THEIR HAND, AND SOME EVEN THEY HAVE, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THE BACKGROUND CHECK BECAUSE, AND THIS IS THE MODEL THAT YOU WANNA GIVE OUR CHILDREN. 
          MISS GRIEGO, MS. ORTIZ, A MODEL OF GANGSTERS BECAUSE YOU CAME HERE, YOU'VE, YOU'VE SPOKEN TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN GANG MAN AND THEY SAID, STUDENTS RESPECT ME. 
          YES, BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE CAPABLE OF DOING. 
          I WILL ALSO RESPECT A PERSON THAT KNOWS THAT THEY LIKE TO USE GUNS, BUT, BUT WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE RESPECTED LIKE SCHOOL POLICE, FOR THEM TO HAVE A BACKGROUND CHECK. 
          THEY PASS A GROUND CHECK, THEY SIX MONTHS OR MORE TO BE POLICE OFFICERS. 
          HOW IS IT THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WITH THIS NEGLIGENCE WITH OUR STUDENTS AND FOR THEM TO CONTINUE HAVING THE SCHOOLS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL WHEN THERE'S A LOT OF NECESSITY? HONESTLY, YOU DON'T REPRESENT THEIR COMMUNITY AND THE VOTES THAT YOU GET ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HOW THEY WORK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU, MS. HALL. 
          MS. HALL, YOU'RE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK IN PERSON. 
          PLEASE COME ON DOWN. 
          MS. HALL. 
          HELLO. 
          CAN ANYBODY, CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? HI, MY NAME IS LATONYA HALL. 
          I'M A SENIOR CORPS MEMBER OF CADRE AND I WANT TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU ALL. 
          I CARE ABOUT SCHOOL SAFETY. 
          I'VE BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST BULLYING FOR YEARS, BUT MY EXPERIENCE IS ALSO ABOUT THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE AND THE NEED FOR REAL PBIS ACCOUNTABLE IN SCHOOLS. 
          MY BEGINNING STORY BEGAN ON A REGULAR MORNING WHEN I RECEIVED TWO LETTERS IN THE MAIL, ONE FROM DIAMOND LEE HIGH SCHOOL AND ANOTHER FROM THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. 
          THE LETTER FROM DIAMOND LEE SAID THAT CARL HAS BEEN OUTTA SCHOOL FOR OVER 10 DAYS. 
          THE LETTER FROM THE CITY WAS A WARNING STATING I WOULD BE FINED A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND FACING SIX MONTHS IN JAIL. 
          THIS IS WHAT CRIMINALIZING PARENTS LOOKS LIKE. 
          I FOUGHT HARD TO CHANGE THE RECORD AND PROVE THAT CARL WAS A HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENT. 
          ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE WAS WHEN MY, THE POLICE OFFICER LEE WOULD HARASS MY SON IN A COMMUNITY AND PUT HIM ON GANG INJUNCTION AND HARASS HARASSING CONTINUED THE LAPD OFFICER BECAME A SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER. 
          MY SON, DANTE, NEVER RECOVERED. 
          WHEN SCHOOL DON'T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, THEY ASSUME US TO BE BAD PARENTS. 
          THEY STEREOTYPE US AND CRIMINALIZED PARENTS AND OUR CHILDREN. 
          DIVISION IS A TOOL TO USE AND DIVIDE COMMUNITIES AND PUT BLACK VERSUS BROWN. 
          WHEN I FOUGHT AGAINST BULLYING AT BREAD HEART, MY RECOMMENDATION AND PRACTICES, INCLUDING LISTENING TO PARENTS' STORIES AND VOICES AND BRING AWARENESS TO SUICIDE, WE CREATE A HERO DAY WHERE WE EMPHASIZE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN SCHOOL BUILT RELATIONSHIPS. 
          THIS IS RE-IMAGINING SCHOOL SAFETY. 
          THIS IS PBIS IN PRACTICE. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          OKAY, THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LETICIA GUINO, ARE YOU IN THE ROOM? I HAVE YOU SIGNED UP TO SPEAK REMOTELY, BUT I'M CHECKING TO SEE IF YOU ARE IN THE ROOM. 
          YOU ARE NOT. 
          AND THE LAST SPEAKER IS MARCELLA GARCIA. 
          SHE IS ONLINE MARCELLA GARCIA. 
          PLEASE PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE 
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YOURSELF AND YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ONCE YOU BEGIN. 
          MARCELLA GARCIA. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 
          MY NAME IS MARELA GARCIA AND I AM HERE ONCE AGAIN ASKING FOR SAFETY FOR OUR SCHOOLS. 
          BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT SAFETY FOR STUDENTS. 
          YOU, YOU SAY THEY WALK CLOSE TO THE CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL. 
          THERE'S A PATROL CAR, BUT WHAT SAFETY DO YOU GUARANTEE INSIDE THE SCHOOL? NOT IN THE CLASSROOMS. INSIDE THE SCHOOLS, IN THE HALLS, EVERY DAY THERE ARE FIGHTS AGAINST CHILDREN. 
          AGAINST CHILDREN. 
          AND WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS, YES, PEOPLE THAT WATCH OVER THEM AND THAT FIND OR THAT THEY FIND OUT ABOUT THE ISSUE AFTER THE, UH, THE FIGHT HAS BEEN CAUSED. 
          THEY CALL ALL THE CHILDREN THAT HAVE RECORDED AND THEY TELL THEM TO ERASE THAT VIDEO. 
          YOU NEED TO ERASE THAT VIDEO. 
          WHY DON'T YOU ALLOW THIS TO COME OUT TO LIGHT? WHY DON'T YOU ALLOW PAR FOR US PARENTS TO KNOW WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING AT THE SCHOOLS? WHY IS IT THAT SOMETIMES WE NEED TO FIND OUT THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA? WHY IS IT THAT CHILDREN, YES, THEY LIVE SCARED BECAUSE NOT ALL, NOT ALL WHILE TAKEN CARE OF DURING, IN THE HALLS. 
          WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE CHILDREN? THERE ARE VULNERABLE STUDENTS. 
          THEY CAN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES. 
          THEY'RE ALSO BEATEN STUDENTS, VERY BEATEN. 
          THEREFORE, WE NEED SAFETY INSIDE THE SCHOOL AS WELL. 
          HOW WILL YOU AT THIS MEASURE OF SAFETY, ONLY YOU, YOU HAVE THE PLAN. 
          YOU FORM A PLAN. 
          FIND SEARCH FOR A PLAN TO HOW WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OUR STUDENTS INSIDE THE SCHOOLS, IN THE HALLS. 
          AND SOMETIMES INSTEAD OF CHECKING OR TAKING CARE OF THEM OR WHAT'S HAPPENING AT EVERY SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS, CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL ON NOVEMBER 20TH. 
          HAVE A GREAT EVENING OR AFTERNOON, . 
          IT'S.
* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.