Fremont Unified School District

Board Meeting Highlights

July 27, 2022 (Regular)

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Meeting note: Trustee Yajing Zhang was not present for this meeting. SURFBoardE Representative Mehreen Rosmon stood in for Student Member Sissi Zhang, who was absent. 

2.1 Facility Tour to include: RIX-Glankler Early Learning Center, Hopkins, Centerville and Thornton Junior High Schools

Trustees and District staff toured Rix-Glankler Early Learning Center, Hopkins Junior High, Centerville Junior High and Thornton Junior High before resuming the Regular Meeting.

8.1 Report on Action taken in Closed Session

Trustees unanimously approved the appointment of the following individuals to management/contract positions:

• Associate Superintendent Business Services: Mr. Daniel Hillman
• Chief Technology Officer: Mr. Melvin Easley
• Principal (interim) Steven Millard Elementary: Dr. Jorge Gonzalez
• Principal William Hopkins Junior High School: Ms. Nancy Kuei
• Assistant Principal (interim) American High School & Thornton Junior High: Ms. Hillary Marine
• Assistant Principal Irvington High School: Mr. Jason Aucoin
• Assistant Principal Forest Park Elementary & Warwick Elementary: Ms. Michelle Guerrero
• Assistant Principal Irvington High School: Ms. Jennifer Tutass
• Assistant Principal (interim) John F. Kennedy High School: Mr. Joshua Hunter

17.1 Update on the Opening of the 2022-2023 School Year

Superintendent CJ Cammack provided an update on recent announcements from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Alameda County Public Health (ACPH) in connection to COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools to Support Safe In-Person Learning for the 2022-2023 school year. The key areas of the updated guidance include mask protocols, continuity of testing and notifications, and revised flowcharts.

This was a non-action item.

17.6 Approve Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) Plan

Assistant Superintendent Leticia Salinas and Director of Federal and State Programs Christie Rocha presented information on FUSD’s 2022 Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) Plan.

ELO-P provides funding for after school, summer, or intersession learning enrichment programs for transitional kindergarten through fifth or transitional kindergarten through sixth grade elementary campuses. It will provide an extension to the school day for a total of 9 hours. Additionally, 30 non-schooldays (during winter, spring and/or summer breaks), which will consist of no less than 9 hours of in-person expanded learning opportunities per day.

2022-23 is a planning year for California local educational agencies (LEAs). We are still receiving guidelines as this is a newly established, mandated program. LEAs must operate the ELO-P pursuant to the requirements in California Education Code Section 46120.

FUSD is looking to establish a strong foundation before expanding the program to additional campuses in future years. For the fall of 2022, nine elementary schools will offer ELO-P which will provide after school expanded learning opportunities free of charge for unduplicated students.  Per California Education Code 42238.02, a student enrolled in a school district who is either classified as an English learner, homeless, eligible for free or reduced meals, or foster youth are defined as unduplicated.

Schools participating in ELO-P for 2022-23:

• Brier, Cabrillo, Grimmer elementary schools: These schools currently operate After School Education and Safety (ASES) programs. The existing program will be part of meeting the ELO-P requirements in serving unduplicated students and will merge into one single comprehensive program.
• Glenmoor, Maloney, Vallejo Mill elementary schools: FUSD is working in partnership with a child care provider, Adventure Time, to provide a blended program.
• Blacow, Green, Hirsch elementary schools: FUSD is working in partnership with a child care provider, Right At School, to provide a blended program.

Invitations to participate in these programs have been sent to families of unduplicated students at these schools.

The goal is to establish a foundation where FUSD will continue to evaluate and expand the program in the future to other elementary sites.

The Board unanimously approved the Plan.

17.7 Renewal of Firewall Services and Purchase of Palo Alto Networks PA-5450 Devices

Our firewall also provides our primary district content filtering services necessary to meet legal requirements for student safety. The firewall purpose is to establish a barrier between an internal network and incoming traffic from external sources (such as the internet) in order to block malicious traffic like viruses and hackers.

FUSD’s current firewall support is set to expire on 7/28/2022, after having already been extended and is for a now outdated single device with no failover or redundancy, which recently has already had a critical hardware failure that completely disrupted network services. Another renewal/extension is not in our current budget owing to an expectation of purchase of a replacement product that will come with support. If support lapses on the existing firewall before new services are in place, the district will be at significantly increased risk to viruses and malware, legally mandated student safety from content filtering will be compromised, and any device failure will not be covered for troubleshooting support or critical hardware replacement.

FUSD’s Technology Department is requesting to update our firewall to the most current device as well as purchase a fail-over device to ensure redundancy for the district's network.

The Board unanimously authorized renewal of firewall services and the purchase of updated devices.

17.8 Compensation Proposals between Fremont Unified School District (FUSD), Fremont Unified District Teachers Association (FUDTA), and Fremont Schools Management Association (FSMA)

The District and the Fremont Unified District Teachers Association (FUDTA/CTA-NEA), and the District and the Fremont School Management Association (FSMA), agree to the following as outlined on the attached agreements: FUDTA and FSMA.

Agreement on the proposals would result in a closed contract for the 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 school years with FUDTA and a closed agreement with FSMA.

• 2021-2022: Ongoing salary increase of 4.25% and a 3.25% one-time payment, after the 4.25% increase, effective July 1, 2021.
• 2022-2023: Ongoing salary increase of 6.00%, effective July 1, 2022.
• 2023-2024: Ongoing salary increase will be increased by the enacted state COLA percentage as funded and actually received by the District in and for the 2023-2024 school year, less 1.00%.

New salary schedules will be developed upon approval of recommended agreements.

The Board unanimously approved the proposals.