Clear Creek School District: January 2023

The Clear Creek board of trustees has five members: Karen Wallace, Bart Riebe, Patsy Hannebrink, Jerily McCormick, and Nancy Messier. Nancy Messier was absent. The board met on January 10, 2023 for their first meeting of the year. Here is a summary of their votes in that meeting. You can read the full account in the minutes online. All trustees present voted yes on all of the items in this meeting that required a vote. 

Approve Consent Agenda

The consent agenda included the December bills as well as the Williams Uniform Complaint Summary. Districts are supposed to review complaints that are filed in writing. 

According to the California Department of Education, a “Williams Complaint … regards instructional materials, emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of pupils, and teacher vacancy or misassignment and may be filed anonymously.” Williams Complaints are filed with the principal. A Williams complaint is a type of “UCP” (Uniform Complaint Procedures) complaint, which is a written and signed statement alleging a violation of federal or state laws or regulations, which may include an allegation of unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying. 

Approve Revision of BP and AR 8060

This was a motion to approve Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Procedures. 

You will commonly see the acronyms “BP” and “AR” in board agendas. BP stands for board policy while AR stands for administrative regulation. An administrative regulation describes how exactly a board policy will be enforced. 

Approve AR/E 1312.5

This was a motion to approve a new administrative regulation that would include a law requiring schools to install a menstrual products machine in at least one boy’s bathroom. Prior to the votes in this meeting, two community members gave public comment. The PTC chairperson shared that multiple families are upset by this law and requested that the school send an email to parents explaining why this was happening. The second public comment was in opposition to the motion to approve the new administrative regulation. 

California Assembly Bill 367, sponsored by 12 democrats, rewrote an existing law that “requires a public school maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, that meets a 40% pupil poverty threshold specified in federal law, to stock 50% of the school's restrooms with feminine hygiene products, and prohibits a public school from charging for any menstrual products provided to pupils.” AB 367 passed the Assembly and Senate and became law in October 2021, enacting the Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021. This requires public schools “maintaining any combination of classes from grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to stock the school's restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women's restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men's restroom, at all times, and to post a designated notice, on or before the start of the 2022–23 school year, as prescribed.” 

This vote to approve the administrative regulation is simply an acknowledgement that the school district will follow the mandate that has been set forth in law. School districts can seek reimbursement: “if the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made…”; in other words, school districts may want to try requesting reimbursement for the costs it incurs to make the changes on their campuses to follow said mandate.

Approve Resolution 22-23-07

This resolution approved the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Procedures.

The purpose of this vote is to increase the formal bid process for work needed from $15,000 to $60,000 per job. It also allows the district to “create a list of companies that are prequalified to complete work at school, which simplifies the process.” This makes it easier for the district to hire a pre-qualified company quickly rather than put out multiple bids  This resolution authorizes  the district to potentially choose to spend more money on a contract in comparison to other prospective proposals which the district could have reviewed.

Approve Surplus List (Student Computers)

The district has a set of chromebooks whose hardware is too old. These older computers no longer support secure browsing or newer licenses. This vote moves those computers to the surplus list. When materials and items are approved to be moved to the surplus list, the district can get rid of them (sell them).