The Prevention Services in particular qualified as essential services under health quarters. It was really an effort to clarify and provide clear guidance to the c. B. O. And other prevention providers in particular around how to provide services safely and develop resources for home testing, for example, options for people to minimize clinic visits and looking at low barrier approaches to delivering some of the services. Zoom doesnt work for everyone, but are there other ways to continue to provide services in a safeway. Next slide. And then off on policies side, there has been, when the shelter in place occurred, all the clinics closed due to activation many of the people were activated for covid response. And also in response to ensuring that staff are safely in these clinical settings. But as a shelter in place has been lifted, there is a need, in particular because of the Prevention Services that have been declining, to reopen and provide care for young people particularly and so
We said that from beginning and i stand behind that and people ultimately have to understand the risk that what is implied in asking them to come back and right now we need emphasis. And families that have the privilege to safely work from home. I understand all the guides, but this is definitely safety first, safety number one. And the School District has gone above and beyond in enhancing our crisis learning plan during this time. We are working on making it better and hearing families and including them that is to empower families and reach out to them and make the learning at home as seamless as possible given the fact that we are in a pandemic. There is no way around that and no way even know and for me to trust the dfl department of Public Health during the time that we have been tegs communities and seeing the results and seeing the lack of support once they are tested positive. All those things are realities and i also have a really big problem with putting our students who are
President sanchez so were missing miss norton clerk moliga. President sanchez welcome to our staff and our families and our students particularly with us. Staff leaders and everybody and to my colleagues on the board. This is going to be quite a long meeting. Most likely quite emotional at times and im going to just make the case to the quorum that we need to treat each other with respect. Were not going to tolerate folks talking over other people, particularly our student delegates which happened last week, and so, again, we expect a quorum though we are discussing issues, theres a lot of emotion in this. And i may have to make that plea more than once, but, again, welcome, everybody. Section a is general information. And b is our opening items approval of the board minutes for october 6, 2020. And we need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections . All right. Roll call. Clerk thank you. [roll call] okay thats five ayes. President sanchez thank you. Two is th
So it looks like were all here. So welcome, everybody, for being here today for our school Board Meeting. Welcome, everybody, and superintendent matthews. I think you have an announcement regarding todays agenda. Yes, thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, Board Members and members of the public. Being withdrawn from the agenda today in section g is item 1. Its board policy 6142. 7, physical education and activity. That is being withdrawn, and in section h, items 3, Second Amendment to the Instructional Calendar 20202021. Both items will be heard at a future meeting of the board. Thank you, dr. Matthews. We are going to vote on the approval of the board minutes for september 8. We need a motion and a second. So moved. One one moment. Could everybody whos a panelist please mute your screen while youre not speaking at the meeting, please . Thank you. Motion and a second, please, for the board minutes. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections . Okay. Seeing none, roll call vote
Additional resources, and Additional Information to supplement what is in the learning continuity plan. The next slide is one other point that i wanted to make sure to address. There was a question about this at the public hearing and in the and in the previous draft of the learning continuity plan and we had highlighted that we were pending clarification from the c. D. E. About the actions and expenditures. So i just wanted to take a moment to clarify, to explain that clarification, and the response that we have received. So we wanted to confirm that the actions and the expenditures that are at the bottom of each major section of the plan, we wanted to make sure that we were approaching that process correctly. And so the clarification that we received is that we should be considering both learning loss mitigation funds and lcff funds in our plan. But we do not need to include all of both of those sources. It is up to our discretion, the extent to which we include those funds. But thos