Jacquelyn Rodriguez Navar

The board approved five-year goals focused on student outcomes, specifically targeting improvements in reading and writing for all students, math outcomes for Black students, college readiness for students with disabilities, and social-emotional readiness. Additionally, the board approved guardrails to protect community values and discussed the redistricting plan that incorporated community input regarding population shifts.

The Board discussed various governance topics, including progress monitoring for student interim goals and revisions to the instructional calendar. The Board ratified the charter for an ad hoc committee regarding a superintendent search firm and established additional ad hoc committees for Theory of Action and a New Way Forward initiative. Other business included presentations on the Voter Approval Tax Rate Election, district bonding capacity, and updates on the Blue Ribbon Task Force. Consent items involved performance contract metrics, instructional materials certification, student travel, memoranda of understanding with local partners, attendance waivers, property sales, various construction project contracts, and budgetary reports. In closed session, the board addressed employee contract terminations and approved a voluntary retirement agreement for the Superintendent.

The board meeting included an update on the social emotional readiness of students related to board goal four. The board approved instructional calendars and established three ad hoc committees dedicated to an updated theory of action, the recruitment of a search firm for superintendent selection, and master planning. Presentations were conducted regarding the district's bond capacity and the potential for a voter approval tax rate election, alongside an update provided by the bond task force.

The board convened in a closed session to hear and deliberate on a Level III grievance. Following the session, the board voted to deny the grievance remedies, with the specific exceptions that the DAEP placement be overturned and the Superintendent be directed to address procedural questions identified during the grievance process.

The Board of Trustees held a workshop to review the District's Theory of Action and to develop a strategic plan for creating a profile for the new superintendent. The discussion involved brainstorming potential community values, strategic goals, and high-level framework strategies to align District inputs and outputs. Next steps include the formation of an Ad Hoc Committee to draft the Theory of Action for future Board review and approval.