October 27, 2021 — Meeting Transcript

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All right. Hello, everybody. It's October 27th, and we are going to have a short business meeting tonight and then move on to our community engagement forum. So it's good to see everybody, and let's get started with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Okay, great. All right, so I think we are going to jump right into our first action item, which is our COVID resolution. And I am going to ask Stacy to read the motion, please. I move that the Board of Education approve the COVID-19 staff vaccination procedures resolution.

Second. Great. It's been moved and seconded. Are there any questions or comments?

Yes, Steve. So was there any feedback from the teachers or reports of comments? Yes. So we did, when we initially were investigating this idea, we did speak to, it came up in part of our PRC group.

And from that, our staff was actually anticipating this, you know, and they were looking to this, they were looking for this to be our next layer of protection that we're adding in. So as far as that, I have not gotten any feedback specifically about it, but overall, we feel that our staff was anticipating this to be our next step. Should we just for the people that are listening should we back up and just kind of read what the resolution is or give a synopsis of what it is Absolutely And Heather and Chris I don know if you want to come up here and add anything to what I going to be saying But basically in order to make sure that we have a community that safe and we taking all the precautions necessary we put together a resolution that gives our staff the option of either showing proof of vaccination and or they could, if they were not vaccinated, they could be given a weekly test. Spervantage of Education, Proposition O, levy, agenda, motion carried.

We did a second survey where we actually asked them to fill out more details, like when was the first vaccine taken, when was the second vaccine taken, and then to show the proof of vaccination. And right now we're about roughly 95%. So, and Heather, I don't know, I think we have about 20 to 30 maybe staff members that are not vaccinated at this point. Yeah.

Yeah. And so we're going to be working with those individuals, you know, in terms of weekly testing. Any other questions or thoughts? And I didn't know, Heather, if you wanted to add anything else in there.

I am setting up booster clinics because that's another thing that I've been asked about. So right now, Sync Pharmacy is who did all of our clinics last year. And our date tentatively is December 3rd, and they'll be able to offer the Pfizer and Moderna as well. So, yeah.

Heather, do you think that, you know how we did the clinics for the kids, did we do for 12 and up, will we be able to do that for the 5 to 12 year olds too? So today that was the other question I touched base with her about, because the date I originally had was November 6th. We moved it to the 13th because she doesn think that they have the supply out by the 6th so we moved it to the following Saturday Okay So we very hopeful that we can do it on the 13th Yep. We're just not communicating or advertising it yet as much because we don't know for sure.

But the minute we find out, we will be. We'll be sending out a questionnaire soon just to get the interest and so that we can staff it and that kind of thing too. That's great. Thanks for all your hard work with that.

Does anybody else have questions on the resolution? Yes. One more question. So just to be clear, we're not in any way talking about the requirement for children?

Correct. This is only for staff. And by staff, do we mean every employee of the district? Correct.

Not just ones who interact with students? Correct. Every employee of the district. So that includes even our coaches and any part-time employees.

Employees, workers. Yes, maintenance, facilities, everyone. And at Special School District and Chartwells are also working very closely with us to support this, to let them so that they're, because SSD teachers are technically employees of Special School District, our food service employees are technically employees of Chartwells, but they're working with us to make sure that their staff who are working here are following the same guidance and program. I do have a question.

What about the bus drivers? I know we're doing some routes, but what about the VIC bus drivers? We're working with them too? We have not had that conversation with VIC yet.

That's a good question. I think we should be working with them also. Yes. Sorry, separate but related, not for staff, but a follow-up to Steve's question.

Now that the vaccines are almost available for younger students, I have had community members ask if we are anticipating that we would help to coordinate vaccine clinics at school the same way that we did for the middle schoolers and the high schoolers. Yes, we are working on that. We're just waiting for confirmation to get that. But we're hoping by mid-November we could have a clinic.

I mean it won be at school just because we be looking to have one clinic for all of our eligible 5 through 11 So at this point we looking at Stupor Gymnasium on a Saturday Perfect I think community members are just hoping at least the ones that have talked to me that there would be an option to do that. So that's great news. Yeah. Gary.

Just would say, I think this is a really, represents a lot of really good work and appreciate this effort in putting this together. I certainly support this. I actually also think that it's worth making a point that I think it's been a strength of our board and our district that throughout this, the board has not micromanaged the specific details of how we've addressed COVID protocols. I think that's, I think that's, that's been been good.

I think this is falls well within procedure and process that the administration is certainly more expert in Thank you. I think that's a great point. I think it's a great point to come up with and defining. I do think on this particular issue, it also is good for us to lend our support to it.

So I'll just make that point. I think this is great to do, and it's good for us to support it without necessarily having to get into the job of defining all of these detailed procedures the way we've avoided so far. So I think that's good. Thank you.

Anyone else? Okay. All in favor? Okay, all in favor?

Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Then I believe the only other thing we have is the consent agenda.

I move that the Board approve consent agenda items 3.02 to 3.06. Second. Second. MS.

Been moved and seconded. Questions or comments? All in favor? Aye.

MS. Any opposed? Motion passes. And then I think we can adjourn.

Well, yeah, I think we can adjourn, Stacey. MS. I move to adjourn the business portion of the meeting and move to the community engagement meeting. Second.

MS. All in favor? Aye. MS.

All in favor? Aye. MS. All in favor?

Aye. MS. All in favor? Aye.

MS. All in favor? Aye. All right, good.